“Following Krill”

1 sheet broadside 15 x 22 cmThe collection includes thirty-one poetry broadsides from Frank Tierney's Spring 2008 Typography 3381.301 and 3381.302 taught at Texas Tech University. The project represents the cumulative final project which incorporated typography, graphic design, and poetry. Students chose one of four poems to produce their broadsides. They are as follows: "Following Krill" (Concho River Review, Fall 2003, vol. 18.2, 101), "After the Tornado" (Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 2006, vol. 26, 50), "Dreaming After the Tornado" (Isotope, Fall/Winter 2007, vol. 5.2, 49), and "Witnessing," (Amarillo Bay, Spring, vol. 7.1, e-journal). The poems' versions in the broadside collection do not represent the poems as they first appeared in the journals noted above.Tierney, Fran

A political economy analysis of liquid fuel production incentives in South Africa

The purpose of this study is to analyse the development of South Africa's liquid fuels industry from 1930s to the present and the various ways in which the state has extended subsidies and other measures of support to liquid fuels producers. The nature and extent of government support to the South African liquid fuels industry has remained hidden for many years, due to the veil of secrecy surrounding the industry prior to the country's transition to democracy. The study expands past analyses to identify and estimate the magnitude of subsidies to liquid fuels production in South Africa in the present. Using the historical institutional approach, the study then places these measures of support in the South African political economy environment so as to understand the institutional barriers to their reform. In doing so, the study sheds light on the drivers informing the endurance of the liquid fuels subsidy regime and state support to the liquid fuels industry following the transition to democracy

An integrated approach to writing: Using writer\u27s workshop, Step up to writing and six traits of writing to teach the California State Standards

This project researcher designed, implemented and collected data on an integrated approach to writing instruction for her third grade students in the Etiwanda School District. The literature review showed the importance of teaching students the purpose for writing, the traits of writing and the process of writing. Research showed the effectiveness of teaching students the six traits of writing and the writing process as indicated by student writing achievement scores

Idealized, Inspirational, and Intellectual Leaders in the Social Sector: Transformational Leadership and the Kravis Prize

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the importance of transformational leadership in the social sector. Transformational leadership is a theory of behaviors and attributes focused on the relationship between leaders and followers of a group or organization (Avolio, 1999; Bass & Avolio, 1990a). It involves four factors: idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. In order to gain more insight into leadership in some of the most high-impact and innovative social sector organizations, the research consists of interviews and case studies on five of the ten recipients of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. Having been internationally recognized for bold, visionary leadership, the recipients of the Kravis Prize in Leadership demonstrate the skills and practices deemed integral to the individual, team, and organizational success. The research focused on the behaviors, quotes, and publications that alluded to the inherent factors of transformational leadership within the organizations and their leaders from Landesa, INJAZ, Right To Play, Escuela Nueva, and mothers2mothers. The findings revealed a great deal of transformational leadership weaved throughout the behaviors and principles of the organization’s leaders and followers alike. Organizations like INJAZ and its Executive Director, Soraya Salti, personified transformational leadership, displaying numerous examples of behaviors from each of the four components (idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation). Each individual studied personified several, if not all components of transformational leadership. In conclusion of the research and case studies of some of the worlds most high impact organizations, it can be summarized that transformational leadership is an effective strategy to employ in the social sector and is one of the most prevalent common threads amongst high impact nonprofit organizations

Turning the Lights Out in Three Dimensions

Tiger electronics now has an entire Lights Out series. The original version, solved by means of Linear Algebra by Feil and Anderson in October 1998 is a five by five grid of lights. Pressing a button results in a change of parity of that button and a change in parity of the north, south, east, and west neighbors of that light (if such neighbors exist). The object of the game is to get all of the lights turned off. Later, Tiger released its next version of the mind puzzle, Lights Out Cube, a cube in which the sides are three by three grids of lights. The parity-changing rule still applies, except this time if a light lies on the border of a face, pressing it will change all of its neighbors, including those on adjacent faces. Thus, in Lights Out Cube, pressing any button will always result in the change of parity of five buttons, itself and its four neighbors. Again, the game presents the user with a configuration of lights, some off and some on, and the objective is to turn all the lights out. We will present a complete solution to Lights Out Cube in a style similar to that used by Feil and Anderson; however, a lack in certain mathematical conveniences of matrices present in the original Lights Out solution will complicate the process for the cube of lights

Tawney and the third way

From the 1920s to the 1950s R. H. Tawney was the most influential socialist thinker in Britain. He articulated an ethical socialism at odds with powerful statist and mechanistic traditions in British socialist thinking. Tawney's work is thus an important antecedent to third way thinking. Tawney's religiously-based critique of the morality of capitalism was combined with a concern for detailed institutional reform, challenging simple dichotomies between public and private ownership. He began a debate about democratizing the enterprise and corporate governance though his efforts fell on stony ground. Conversely, Tawney's moralism informed a whole-hearted condemnation of market forces in tension with both his concern with institutional reform and modern third way thought. Unfortunately, he refused to engage seriously with emergent welfare economics which for many social democrats promised a more nuanced understanding of the limits of market forces. Tawney's legacy is a complex one, whose various elements form a vital part of the intellectual background to current third way thinking

A Family's Trials in Civil War Era Missouri: Unionism, Displacement, and Not-so-radical Reconstruction

Much has been written about the vast and violent conflict that was the American Civil War, exploring every social, political, and economic aspect. And this body of literature continues to grow. Scholarship focused on the war in Missouri has appeared more often in recent decades, but much of it concerns the role of Missourians in the Bleeding Kansas conflict prior to the war or on the activities of Confederate-sympathizing guerillas that roamed the state’s countryside for much of the Civil War. While civilians enter into some of these more recent narratives as victims, participants, and supporters of guerilla violence, there is something of a historiographical gap in examining the experiences of those who remained loyal to the Union in Missouri. A collection of letters known as the John A. Mack Collection offer a valuable and seemingly rare look into the lives of a large, Unionist family in the Ozarks region of Missouri. The letters span from 1861 to 1869 and detail the experiences of various Mack family members in the Union military, as refugees following the early victories of secessionist forces in Missouri and as Radical Republicans in the postwar period. These documents provide valuable resources to analyze how a family of seemingly loyal Unionists became incredibly embittered toward Confederate sympathizers in their home state. The Mack family fought on the Union side during the war and became involved in postwar politics in order to make sure that those who were disloyal to the nation and destructive to their state, were harshly punished. In contrast to their hardline stance on former southern sympathizers, the Macks were not of the same mind that many Radical Republican politicians were with respect to civil rights, as revealed by the obvious racism toward African-Americans in their letters.Honors Collegemonographi

Evaluating the Impact of a Wetland Plant and Rhizosphere Microorganisms on the Fate of a Model Chlorinated Solvent in a Wetland Plant Bioreactor

The ability of wetland plants to impact the removal of cis-1,2-dichloroethene (DCE), an intermediate formed during reductive dehalogenation of tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE), either via phytoremediation or rhizosphere oxidation, which enhances aerobic microbial activity, was investigated. To accomplish this goal, a bench-scale bioreactor system was designed to model wetland conditions and evaluate DCE biodegradation. The bioreactor was operated as a continuous-flow, completely-mixed biofilm reactor containing a single Phragmites australis individual and root associated microorganisms. Significant removal of DCE in the bioreactor was observed. To elucidate the removal mechanisms, the fate of 14[C]-DCE was determined. The predominant removal mechanism was microbially-mediated oxidation, presumably facilitated by plant-supplied oxygen and growth substrates, followed by phytovolatilization, and incorporation into, and/or sorption to, plant and microbial biomass. Based on these results, wetland plants and their associated microorganisms are expected to contribute to DCE removal in the rhizosphere