Making the Bible Argument: John H. Noyes’ Mission Statement for the Oneida Community

In February of 1848, the man about to found one of America’s most successful utopias composed a plan to bring Christ and social reform to upstate New York entitled Bible Argument: Defining the Relations of the Sexes in the Kingdom of Heaven. The communitarian venture envisioned by John Humphrey Noyes aimed to duplicate life in Christ’s kingdom—a place of communal ownership and group marriage—in order to bring that kingdom to earth. At the same time, the community’s unconventional sexual practices would transform society and correct its ills. As a prospectus for an intentional community, the Bible Argument contains “almost every important idea for the revision of relations between the sexes that Noyes would implement during the subsequent thirty years at Oneida.” It explains why the Oneida Community (1848-1880) was to come into being and what it is meant to accomplish

Oneida Community Gender Relations—in Context and over Time

The Oneida Community was controversial in its day, especially on the subjects of gender relations, sex, and the standing of women. Those topics continue to attract scholarly interest today. While this essay travels much the same ground, it reconsiders gender relations at Oneida in a different light. Mine is an interpretive framework embracing not only Noyes’ doctrine and Community members’ views, but also the material setting of Community life—some basic economic and physical circumstances of their existence—and how their lives changed over the course of three decades. Two eras of work organization are distinguished here because each involved different relations of production and gender. In effect, there was an age of Bees, followed by a time of Hirelings

Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida Perfectionists, 1863-1875

The Oneida Community (1848-1880) of central New York was notable for its intellectual garrulity—a curiosity about other utopians coupled with eagerness to make first-hand acquaintance with idealists of every stripe. Founded and led by Vermonter John H. Noyes, Oneida Perfectionists considered themselves members of one extended family sharing equally in all relations of labor, love, and property. They felt especially close to their fellow Christian communists, the Shakers, and, for a time, developed neighborly ties with one particular community of the Millennial Church. Watervliet, just north of Albany and about one hundred miles east of Oneida, was among the largest Shaker settlements with some 235 members (about the same as the Oneida Community) divided among four families

Timing and spatial distribution of deformation in the Newfoundland Appalachians: a "multi-stage collision" history

The Newfoundland Appalachians have been interpreted as an area where Lower Paleozoic plate convergence culminated in collision between an Ordovician volcanic chain and the North American craton hi Middle Ordovician times. Closure of the intervening proto-Atlantic (Iapetus) ocean was considered incomplete. Subsequent deformation gave rise to regional folding and faulting.Recent studies in the Newfoundland Dunnage zone have revealed that the deformation history is far more complex than previously recognized. Large-scale thrusting, folding and faulting occurred in Silurian-Devonian times. Furthermore, it has been suggested that the Dunnage zone is an allochthonous terrane underlain by dominantly continental crust rather than representing remnants of a "rooted" ocean basin.In view of these results a revision of tectonic scenarios and zonal subdivision is warranted and a "multi-stage collision" history will be discussed, with emphasis on the spatial distribution and significance of Silurian-Devonian deformation in central Newfoundland.Subduction in Lower Paleozoic times gave rise to the formation of a volcanic terrane; concurrently, to the southeast a marginal sea was formed (Mariana-type subduction). In Middle Ordovician times the volcanic terrane collided with the North American craton ("first-stage collision") and back-arc spreading terminated. Continued crustal shortening resulted in the formation of a Silurian accretionary terrane (telescoped marginal sea), and its subsequent deformation ("second-stage collision"). Devonian (-Carboniferous?) strike-slip faulting represents the third stage in the collision history.The model is applicable to large tracts of the Caledonian-Appalachian chain. Its main characteristics are: 1. (a) the revised zonal subdivision of the area is based on characteristics of Silurian and older rocks, rather than Middle Ordovician and older rocks only;2. (b) the central part of the orogen represents a telescoped marginal sea that formed to the southeast of the Ordovician volcanic chain, rather than a remnant of the incompletely closed Iapetus ocean;3. (c) the earliest deformation is progressively younger toward the southeast;4. (d) the Appalachian collision history is a result of the activity of a single deformation regime over a long period of at least 75 Ma.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/26738/1/0000289.pd

Movie Pop and Candy Lips: A Look at Childhood and Culture

I wrote my honors project proposal at the end of fall semester, January 2009, but I started working on the project months before. After two semesters of studio work, I have learned things that all artists learn; things I was told I would learn in the studio. I learned that creativity is not always fun and that it is not -often - the product of serendipity. There was a time when I thought that inspiration would strike, the muse would speak, and art would be made with little effort on my part, but being an art major has taught me otherwise. I have learned that art is the product of days, months and years of thinking and making. What I have accomplished this semester is a beginning; the beginning of a lifelong creative process, the beginning of my life as an artist

Das Bibliothekswesen in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands (Book Review)

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Decision support for wireless environments with applications to radar systems

This thesis introduces a framework for providing decision support for systems in wireless environments. The decision support framework utilizes game-theoretic principles to produce a metric, known as utility, that quantifies the expected benefit of executing an action for given environmental variables. From a set of utility values, a set of corresponding actions can be ranked from most to least advisable, providing an objective means to determine the optimal action under the given constraints. In the first section, the decision support framework and its major components are introduced and their purpose explained. In the second section, an adapted version of the framework is applied to the problem of electronic warfare (EW). This section highlights the design choices that were made to implement the framework so that, under various simplifying assumptions, decision support could be provided to a radar jammer. The third section introduces a simulated non-cooperative game between two players – an emitter and a jammer – in which each player attempts to maximize its own utility. Each player makes decisions using a MATLAB implementation of the decision support framework as it was adapted for electronic warfare. The game is simulated for multiple initial conditions with the actions of the players being recorded, and those results are used to show that the players behave in a rational manner. This work concludes with an analysis of the results obtained in the simulations and a brief discussion of how future work could improve the framework’s design.M.S

Schelmuffsky

Rendered into English for the first time by Wayne Wonderley and provided with a critical introduction, this rollicking tale of baroque satire by Christian Reuter not only illuminates the mores and mentality of the time but forms a noteworthy link in the development of the European novel

Schelmuffsky

Rendered into English for the first time by Wayne Wonderley and provided with a critical introduction, this rollicking tale of baroque satire by Christian Reuter not only illuminates the mores and mentality of the time but forms a noteworthy link in the development of the European novel