Upstairs, Downstairs: Doctrine and Decorum in Two Sermons by John Donne

Published as David Colclough, Upstairs, Downstairs: Doctrine and Decorum in Two Sermons by John Donne, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 2 (June 2010), pp. 163-191. © 2010 by University of California Press/Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Copying and permissions notice: Authorization to copy this content beyond fair use (as specified in Sections 107 and 108 of the U. S. Copyright Law) for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by University of California Press/Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for libraries and other users, provided that they are registered with and pay the specified fee via Rightslink® on JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/r/ucal) or directly with the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com

“Software agents and haunted media : the twitter bot as political actor"

This report examines the rhetorical construction of Twitter bots as nonhuman political agents in press coverage of the 2016 U.S. election. It takes the rhetorical framing of “the Twitter bot” as a case study to argue that Twitter bots are a contemporary example of what media historian Jeffrey Sconce calls “haunted media” -- a communication technology that has been culturally ascribed an “uncanny” “agency.” First, this report provides a comparative close reading of two pieces from The Atlantic and The New York Times as examples of mainstream press coverage of bots shortly before and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Second, drawing on Sconce’s analysis of nineteenth and twentieth century media ecologies, it argues that “the Twitter bot” has been rhetorically constructed as haunted media through discourses that are inseparable from larger political narratives. The third and final section speculates on possible theoretical frameworks to expand this project in further inquiries. This report aims to demonstrate that haunted media narratives predate and persist beyond a specific election cycle or medium, and to argue that the construction of “haunted media” occurs alongside constructed concepts of democracy in our technologically mediated society. In doing so, this report contributes to the field of rhetoric of digital technology by bringing it further into conversation with political rhetoric.Englis

Does Education Abroad Help to Alleviate Poverty at Home? An Assessment

Flows of students abroad are increasing rapidly, encouraged by globalisation pressures, by declining quality of university provision in some of the poorest states and by the income needs of northern universities. Students from developing countries are increasingly self-financed, from middle-income countries and from richer families across all countries. The paper argues that both the direct and indirect impacts of these trends on poverty in sending states are likely to be negative. Some increased influence on home policy-formation by the overseas Indian and Chinese diaspora, and increased flows of return migrants to high-growth states in response to targeted recruitment incentives, provide evidence for countervailing tendencies. But for most developing countries, where economic growth is less dynamic, net benefits of international education for poverty alleviation remain unrealised.

The labor market and economic stabilization inZambia

This report examines trends in the Zambian labor market over the period since independence. It focuses particularly on two phenomena - skill shortages and wage rigidities - which have made it more difficult for the economy to recover from the fall in price of its main export commodity : copper, in the mid 1970s. Real wages did fall somewhat over the following decade, but insufficiently so to promote economic diversification and recovery. The rigidities also help to explain the failure of more recent stabilization efforts, including the IMF program of 1985 - 1987.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Inequality

THE ROLE OF MENTORSHIP IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES

Literature has suggested that mentorship is one of the most influential components of career advancement. However, for Black women in higher education administrative roles, mentorship also serves to garner community and support. This research study focuses on the lived experiences of Black women administrators in higher education institutions, the obstacles they face in pursuit of support and career advancement, and how they benefited from a relationship with a mentor. This descriptive phenomenological qualitative study was implemented by conducting in-depth interviews with a small sample of (6) six African American women administrators from various higher education institutions located in the Northeast, West Coast, and Midwest regions of the United States. This phenomenological qualitative study was conducted to understand and describe the lived experiences mentorship for a select group of Black women leaders in higher education, using Black feminist thought as the theoretical framework. A purposive sample of six Black women leaders in higher education participated in in-depth interviews that were video recorded through Cisco Webex. The collected data were transcribed and used to construct seven major themes and through the processes of using initial coding, in vivo coding, and descriptive coding. The major themes included the mentor’s contributions, organic connections, relational experiences, and dual role. The findings from this study indicate that for this select group of Black women mentorship played a pivotal role in the advancement of their professional and leadership development, but not without challenges

Gender equality in education - increasing the momentum for change

All nations are committed, via their espousal of the Millennium Development Goals, to eliminate gender disparities in education over the next few years. This policy brief examines the major causes of existing inequalities in education, based upon an assessment of recent research results, and sets out lessons for policy change. Although the causes of inequality are complex, policy reforms to improve women's rights in the household and the market place, to reduce the direct costs of schooling to households, and to improve school quality in gender-aware ways can do much to encourage and sustain increased enrolments amongst both girls and boys. Although the 2005 target of achieving gender parity at primary and secondary levels has been missed, that for 2015 can be reached if carefully focussed reforms are employed

Pocket Books and Portable Writing:The Pocket Memorandum Book in Eighteenth-Century England and Wales

From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the pocket �memorandum book� was a particularly common object, found amongst the stock of almost all small stationer-booksellers in Britain. This essay begins with an investigation of the development of the memorandum book as a genre that was marketed at distinct audiences divided by gender. It argues that these books became steady sellers because they provided their purchasers with important (easily retrievable) information about modern life, combined with blank pages on which financial accounts and other personal information could be recorded, the whole packaged in a form that allowed the book to function as a kind of wallet in which manuscript texts and personal items could be stored. Picking up on recent work by Jennie Batchelor and Sandro Jung on how such books were consumed, this essay concludes with an examination of the marks left within surviving copies. These marks suggests that memorandum books were of particular significance to the expansion of print culture after 1750 because they were not so much read as remade in the image of their owners who used them as tools in the organization of new forms of sociability