Revolutionary bodies: William Blake and the struggle for transcendence

Throughout the course of his work, William Blake used bodies in order to express a desire for a transcendent revolution. This paper examines the different ways that Blake employs bodies to enact revolutionary change. In doing so, the paper discusses how bodies are written, write, and labor. Moreover, the paper refers to the societal constraints placed on the body, be they limits regarding gender, sex, race, or class. By engaging in a discussion of the body\u27s limitations and capabilities coupled with Blake\u27s relationship with the body, it becomes clear that Blake chooses to depict bodies struggle against the normative structure of the finite and limited world in order to reach transcendence

Tikettin yat familia/Once upon a Family: Family Origins and Slave Histories in Southern Morocco

Dr. Thomson received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Boston University in 2005. Her dissertation, entitled The Historical Present: Modernization, Slavery, and the Transformation of Social Hierarchy in Southwestern Morocco, 1912-1956, addressed aspects of modernization and social change in twentieth-century Morocco through the lens of slavery. Her dissertation argues that the actions of slaves encouraged changes in the institution of slavery that, when combined with the forces of economic modernization, reshaped earlier social configurations. Patron-client relations in Moroccan society mirrored the power structures of the institution of slavery; changes in the institution therefore reflected changes in the political economy of Morocco. Using Arabic, Berber, and French sources, the study first examined life in Berber-speaking Tazerwalt (southwestern Morocco) where the saint Sidi Ahmed ou Moussa established a zawiya, religious center, in the sixteenth century. As elsewhere during this period, the region consisted of social groups with varying social power: shorfa, the Prophet Muhammed\u27s descendants; igourramen, saints\u27 descendants; imazighen, white Berbers; issouqin, black Berbers; isemgan, black slaves; udain, Jews. The religious heritage attributed to the shorfa and igourramen assured high social standing. Lacking similar standing, imazighen, isemgan, and issouqin defined themselves in terms of economic function, family origins, and physiognomy; differences of religion distinguished them from udain. Using this social organization as a baseline, the dissertation shows how a combination of government policies and human agency under the Protectorate promoted both domestic and international migration amongst non-elites, eliminating slavery and giving Moroccan society its current fluid, increasingly urban social configuration. The following paper, derived from that larger study, presents an analysis of identity formation among the descendants of formerly enslaved individuals in Morocco

Environmental Assessment of Road Brining and Injection Wells for Disposal of Oil and Gas Liquid Waste

The dramatic increase in oil and gas drilling operations in Pennsylvania over the last decade has presented a challenge for their wastewater disposal (e.g., flowback, produced water). Currently, these fluids are treated in permitted brine treatment plants or exported out of state to deep injection well facilities. In Pennsylvania, road brining for dust control is permitted for conventional well brines, and permits for three injection wells for unconventional brines are pending. This study focused on water quality impacts due to road brining in Farmington Township (45 samples) and ground and surface water in Grant Township (41 samples) prior to the operation of the injection well. Analysis of 2016 brine application data suggested non-compliance due to replicative application of the same road by multiple companies. Testing detected elevated chloride levels in a roadside stream. The Grant Township samples revealed high quality in general, however 19 groundwater samples had pH below 6.5

Alien Registration- Madia, Filamena (Rumford, Oxford County)

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A study of business relations between Raytheon-Wayland and its suppliers

Thesis (M.B.A)--Boston Universit

Direction of arrival estimation using a cluster of beams in a cone-shaped digital array radar'

In this paper some potential system and processing advantages of conformal cone shaped digital array radar have been investigated, in particular in relation to potential alternative approaches for angle estimation with respect to the traditional monopulse. First of all potential benefit in terms of reduction of the number of radiating elements is shown when a conical array is considered with respect to a traditional system formed by four planar arrays, if a coverage of 360° must be assured. Secondly, having in mind an innovative digital array system where the received signals are analog to digital converted at element level and the corresponding data are possibly transferred to a central elaboration unit, an alternative approach is investigated for angular estimation. In this paper we derive the theoretical expression of the Cramer Rao Lower Bound for elevation angle estimation using a cluster of beams; we compare the limit performance of the traditional approach for angle estimation based on Sum and Difference beams with the approach based on a crowded cluster of RX beams properly spaced. The approaches show approximately equivalent performance, making the second particularly interesting for those situations where monopulse is known to experience performance degradation, as low elevation angle estimation; in this particular case an example of cluster design is shown, where the direct signal from a low altitude target must compete with a specular multipath