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Boyd Briefs - Nov. 30, 2017, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

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Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Irish Enough?, Jordan Marie Abbruzzese

English Student Capstone Projects - Creative Writing

"Irish Enough?" is an essay collection that primarily describes my travels to Ireland. Before leaving America, I was overwhelmed with the prospect that I would be touring the country for eleven days, exploring where my great-grandparents came from, and essentially journeying to “the homeland” (as my family referred to it at a wedding, months later). Through the collection I explore not only what it is like to travel through Ireland as an outsider, but also the expectations and realities of being an American with Irish heritage “returning” to Ireland. The collection tackles questions, such as “Why does our society romanticize …

Changes In Latitudes Call For Changes In Attitudes: Towards Recognition Of A Global Imperative For Stewardship, Not Exploitation, In The Arctic, Taylor Simpson-Wood

Seattle University Law Review

For more than two centuries, the imagination of mariners has been captured by visions of a trade route across the Arctic Sea allowing vessels to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Northwest Passage, this fabled route is a time- and money-saving sea lane running from the Atlantic Ocean Arctic Circle to the Pacific Ocean Arctic Circle. Now, the thinning of the ice in the Arctic may transform what was once only a dream into a reality. New shipping lanes linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are likely to open between 2040 and 2059. If loss …

Unsettling: Transgression And Travel In The Literature Of The Medieval North Atlantic, Jeremy P. Deangelo

Doctoral Dissertations

This project examines the significance of travel, both as practice and metaphor, in Anglo-Saxon literature, placed in the context of the neighboring traditions of the Irish and the Icelanders. It identifies in early Irish, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse literature a metaphor wherein one’s literal movement (“conduct”) in the story represents their behavior (“conduct”) in life. Using the poem The Whale as its test case, it describes the Christian concept of discretio spirituum (“the Discernment of Spirits”) as a tool for distinguishing good conduct from bad. With these terms established, the project examines actual travelers in Anglo-Saxon literature for lessons in conduct. …

"The River Duddon" And William Wordsworth's Evolving Poetics Of Collection, Shannon Melee Stimpson

Theses and Dissertations

Despite its impact in generating a more positive reception toward Wordsworth's work among his contemporaries, The River Duddon volume has received comparatively little critical attention in recent scholarship. On some level, this is unsurprising given the relative unpopularity of Wordsworth's later work among modern readers, but I believe that the relative shortage of critical scholarship on The River Duddon is due, at least in part, to a symptomatic failure to read the volume in its entirety. This essay takes up the challenge of following Wordsworth's directive to read The River Duddon volume as a unified whole. While I cannot account …

Interview With Sharon Sudbay By Mike Hastings, Sharon A. Sudbay

George J. Mitchell Oral History Project

Biographical Note
Sharon Sudbay was born on October 10, 1958, in Portland, Maine, to Rita Madonna Joyce and Charles Clifford Sudbay, Jr. She grew up on Munjoy Hill in Portland and graduated from Portland High School. She attended the University of New Hampshire and worked as a telephone operator throughout her college years; she was graduated with a degree in political science in 1980. She volunteered on Harold Pachios’s 1980 congressional campaign and learned FEC reporting. She worked on Joe Brennan’s 1982 gubernatorial campaign and organized fund raisers. She was hired to work for Mitchell’s 1982 campaign and stayed on …

Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest For Souls And Sacred Sites In The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville, Robert Patterson

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

As the first medieval text to combine the matter of the East with the matter of the Holy Land, The Travels circulated widely in over 300 manuscripts, making it an important text when studying medieval Christian attitudes toward non-Christians. Although many scholars point to The Travels as a tolerant text ahead of its time, a historicized approach reveals that Mandeville's project is better understood in terms of his intolerant universalism. I argue that in casting non-Christians as proto-Christians who stand as evidence of Christianity's global spiritual hegemony, the author appropriates and consumes them in service of his universalist agenda. I …

Jackson, Bessie Interview 1, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Bessie Jackson is the President of the Bronx branch of the Society for the Association for the study of African American Life and History, founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915. Jackson came to the Bronx without any family relations in 1946 and finished High School. Jacksonthen returned to her home state ofAlabamato attend Alabama State College, but by 1949, she had returned to and settled in theBronx.

Jacksonwas born and raised on her family’s farm inDallas County,Alabama. She did not begin school until she was six years old, but illness also held her back in first grade. However,Jacksonalways …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 43, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, Hilda Adam Kring, Regina Bendix, Mindy Brandt, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., Patricia Irvin Cooper, John I. Schwarz Jr., Willard Wetzel

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The America's Industrial Heritage Project: A Model for Cultural Tourism
• The Harmonists are Waiting for You
• The Quest for Authenticity in Tourism and Folklife Studies
• Tourism and the Old Order Amish
• The Log Cabin: Notes on its Structure and Dissemination
• On the Making of Die Union Choral Harmonie (1833): Evidence from Henry C. Eyer's Working Papers
• In Memoriam: Paul R. Wieand, a True Artist

Interstate Preemption: The Right To Travel, The Right To Life, And The Right To Die, Lea Brilmayer

Michigan Law Review

State laws differ, and they differ on issues of tremendous importance to the ways that we conduct our lives. Abortion and the right to die are two issues on which state law intersects with deeply held moral convictions, and on which state laws vary. With so much hanging in the balance, it is not surprising that those who find themselves outvoted or outmaneuvered in local political processes sometimes seek a legal climate more compatible with their beliefs about human decency and dignity. The right to "vote with one's feet" - to travel or move to another state and trade a …

Taylor University Magazine (Winter 1969), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Winter 1969 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Pioneering Adventures Of Johan Edvard Lilljeholm In America, 1846-1850, Arthur Wald

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Excerpt from Foreword:

In the impressive collection of newspapers, letters and documents in the Augustana College Archives pertaining to Swedish pioneer history is found a considerable number of immigrant stories and biographies, which aside from their importance to scholars as research sources, have extraordinary human interest. In years past, the Bulletin of the Augustana Swedish Institute has published a number of these pioneer stories, but it remained for a Swedish clergyman, Kyrkoherde Gosta Soderberg from L. P. Esbjorn's parish of Ostervala, while engaged in research in the Archives, to come upon and recognize the value of one such document previously …

Irish Travel, Vol 27 (1951-52), Irish Travel Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Irish Travel, Vol 18 (1942-43), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Irish Travel, Vol. 12 (1936-37), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Irish Travel, Vol. 11 (1935-36), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Irish Travel, Vol. 09 (1933-34), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Irish Travel, Vol. 06 (1930-31), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Tourist Guidebook Of Ontario 1930, J. D. Mcalpine

SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications

Official tourist guidebook of Ontario; published for the Essex County Automobile Club.

Irish Travel, Vol. 03 (1927-28), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Stickeen, John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986)

Stickeen By JOHN MUIR N THE summer of 1880 I set out from Fort Wrangel in a canoe to continue the exploration of the icy region of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of 1879. After the necessary provisions, blankets, etc., had been collected and stowed away, and my Indian crew were in their places ready to start, while a crowd of their relatives and friends on the wharf were bidding them good-by and good-luck, my companion, the Rev. S. H. Young, for whom we were waiting, at last came aboard, followed by a little black dog, that immediately made …

Taylor University Echo: February 14, 1925, Taylor University

1924-1925 (Volume 12)

The Lyceum Program — New York Students Meet — The 1925 Gem — Chronicles — Local News — In Chapel — Birthday Surprise — At The Dean’s — Work in China — The Joys of a “Ford: Christmas — Mnanka Debating Club — Soangetahas — Eureka Debating Club — Eulogonian Debating Club — The Volunteer Band — Prayer Band — Holiness League — The Youth Movement and The Ministerial Association of Taylor University — Editorial — Colds — Athletic — Simplicissimus — Taylor University

Taylor University Echo: January 30, 1923, Taylor University

1922-1923 (Volume 10)

Revival at Oak Grove — Taylor Given Boost By Haynes of Kokomo — Great Artist Recital — You Will Want to Know — Extracts from Rev. J. C. Long’s Chapel Talks — Fuzzy Tarantula’s Adventure — Alumni and Former Students — Night Trains Don’t Stop at Upland Any More — Dr. Paul’s Former Secretary Now Working Under a Taylor Alumnus in India — A Message From India — Glimpses of Peasant Life France (Continued) — One Little Maid — Local Echoes — Dr. Paul’s Trip — A Taylor Student Honored — Another Chance — Lift Up Your Eyes and Look …

The True Story Of The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of Texas: Where Crops Never Fail [Booklet], Jay M. Jackson

Lower Rio Grande Valley Curated Material

Promotional booklet compiled by Jackson Vreeland Land Company to encourage Americans to acquire land in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The booklet provides information on climate, agriculture, and regional amenities, and also features letters written by previous and current investors.

The author writes, "The of this booklet is to set forth the true conditions and facts existing in the Lower Rio Grande district--a district that is now attracting a larger immigration and is being settled more rapidly by the people of the North, including people from northern and central Texas, than any other district on the American continent..."

Letter From Mary Rosa, Wellesley, Massachusetts, To Her Mother, 1911 November 28, Mary Rosa, Wellesley College Archives

Mary Rosa letters (6C1914)

Letter to mother describing a busy day with friends, working on forensic theme about Ireland, attending lectures, discussing music grades, her roommate's economics class, clothing needs, travel plans home for Thanksgiving, and news that her Composition teacher is getting married and will be replaced next term by a male teacher.

An Adventure With A Dog And A Glacier., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986)

AN ADVENTURE WITH A DOG AND A GLACIER. BY THE AUTHOR OP THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA,)) ETC. N the summer of 1880 I set out from Fort Wran- gel in a canoe, with the Rev. S. H. Young, my former companion, and a crew of Indians, to continue the exploration of the icy region of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of 1879. After the necessary provisions, blankets, etc., had been collected and stowed away, and the Indians were in their places ready to dip their paddles, while a crowd of their friends were looking down from the wharf to …

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jan 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan 7, 1897

My dear Johnson

Thanks for New Year's best wishes & for news of Sargents sad blows of fortune But Sargent will not down, He will soon be on his firm Mastodonic legs again strong & available as ever. I am trying to get the Sierra club to take plain open ground on the Yosemite question as to the advisability of recognizing it as a natural part of the Yosemite National Park, which it really is & sooner or later must become in fact.
I am also trying to write the confounded syndicate forest letters you & …

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Feb. 24, 1894

My dear Mr Johnson

In my haste yesterday to get off the Alaska M. S. I forgot the maps. I have no good map of the territory, Glacier Bay, or the Muir Glacier, but you can get all those through Miss S[cud?]more. A general sketch map of Alaska may easily be found, but the only maps for Glacier Bay & the Muir Glacier are those of Prof. Harry Fielding Reid. He worked two summers with good instruments borrowed from the Coast Survey in making them. I think they were published by the Appletons. You can easily …

Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Mackenzie To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1893 Feb 13., George G. Mackenzie

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Raymond, Cal., Feb. 13.

1893

Dear Mr. Johnson:

Yours of the 13[th?] rec’d yesterday. I am now in communication with Robinson from whom I rec’d a letter on Saturday, asking me to come to San Francisco, with the prospect of getting work on the Call in the Yosemite business and perhaps permanently. The request struck me when “dead broke”, or I would have been in the city by this time, although I have been preparing, and am all ready, to publish a little country paper here, the first number to appear either this or next week. I would have …

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson , 1890 Nov 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Nov. 12, 1890

Dear Mr Johnson,

I am at home & have not made the King's River trip at all. After trying to get Keith & others to go with me I made up my mind to go alone & set the day for starting but my father-in-laws health was evidently failing so fast I had to give up the excursion. And it is well I did for in less than a week from the date of my intended start he died. He left us on the last day of October passing on to the better land calmly and …