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Modern Irish-American Fiction
Reflected in these writings from twenty-one Irish Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors’ own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms the underlying structure in the stories by O’Hara, Curran, and McCarthy; and the changing values the New World imposes on the individual are seen in Edwin O’Connor’s Grand Day for Mr. Garvey. Irish wit and black humor pepper all the stories, as represented by Dunn’s bartender-philosopher, Dooley, and Donleavy’s Fairy Tale of New York. Catholicism is omnipresent and is often characterized by the priest, as in Fitzgerald’s Benediction, Power’s Bill, and Flaherty’s Fogarty. Themes that have...
This Ungodly Crew
Will, after twenty years in the Navy, returns home to the bedside of his mother, who has suffered a severe stroke. Using Navy savings, he enrolls in college, aspiring to run for Congress. He and Brother Art, who find no reality in God, prepare their father, Joe, to accept their mothers death without the traditional references to heaven. Joe is weary and ready to retire. Art, also a teacher, takes over Joes private school. Will and Art found a society for the Common Good, based on love of mankind and a life of service, with none of the features usual in a religion. On the campus Will finds a life companion, whom he marries, but their homemaking is interrupted when Will gets called back into the Navy to serve in Vietnam.
Simulation of a Bench Scale Experiment with an Empirical Creep Law
A priori predictions of the creep behavior of a planned bench scale experiment are presented. The experiment involves uniaxial loading of a large block of natural salt with a centrally located borehole. Primary measurements will include the borehole deformation. Sixteen material characterizations including four sets of elastic constants and four empirical creep power laws are developed from one standard deviation of the laboratory derived material properties and are used in the finite element simulation. Consideration is given to plane stress and plane strain solutions and to time-hardening and strain-hardening forms of the creep law. The results show that the deformations are relatively insensitive to variations in the elastic properties and very sensitive to the power on time in the empirical creep law. Differences in the results for the time-hardening and strain-hardening creep formations are small relative to the differences associated with varying the material parameters.
The Suitability of Palestine Salt Dome, Anderson Co., Texas for Disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste
The suitability of Palestine salt dome, in Anderson County, Texas, is in serious doubt for a repository to isolate high-level nuclear waste because of abandoned salt brining operations. The random geographic and spatial occurrence of 15 collapse sinks over the dome may prevent safe construction of the necessary surface installations for a repository. The dissolution of salt between the caprock and dome, from at least 15 brine wells up to 500 feet deep, may permit increased rates of salt dissolution long into future geologic time. The subsurface dissolution is occurring at a rate difficult, if not impossible, to assess or to calculate. It cannot be shown that this dissolution rate is insignificant to the integrity of a future repository or to ancillary features. The most recent significant collapse was 36 feet in diameter and took place in 1972. The other collapses ranged from 27 to 105 feet in diameter and from 1.5 to more than 15 feet in depth. ONWI recommends that this dome be removed from consideration as a candidate site.
Billboard
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Reviewing Sex
Thompson (English, Kingston U., England) examines some 100 19th- century reviews of four novels published between 1847 and 1857: Charles Reade's It Is Never Too Late To Mend; Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights; Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers; and Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe. She observes that some male Victorian authors suffered from the gender hierarchies of Victorian literary criticism, and that some women writers benefitted from gendered evaluations. Includes bandw illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Learning Beyond the Classroom
Education has become one of our major concerns, at the heart of any strategy for prosperity and social cohesion. But young people are having more difficulty than ever before in adapting to the world they will enter as adults. Tom Bentley argues that if education is to meet the emerging challenges of the twenty-first century, we must recognise that learning takes place far beyond the formal education sector. We cannot rely solely on dedicated teachers to deliver the understanding and personal qualities young people will need. Instead we must connect what happens in schools to wider opportunities for learning. Drawing on a wide-ranging review of educational innovation and on contemporary analy...
The Art of Record Production
The playback of recordings is the primary means of experiencing music in contemporary society, and in recent years 'classical' musicologists and popular music theorists have begun to examine the ways in which the production of recordings affects not just the sound of the final product but also musical aesthetics more generally. Record production can, indeed, be treated as part of the creative process of composition. At the same time, training in the use of these forms of technology has moved from an apprentice-based system into university education. Musical education and music research are thus intersecting to produce a new academic field: the history and analysis of the production of record...
