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Review: Rough Living By Tokuda Shusei, Translated By Richard Torrance, Susanna Fessler Phd
Review: Rough Living By Tokuda Shusei, Translated By Richard Torrance, Susanna Fessler Phd
East Asian Studies Faculty Scholarship
Review of the book "Rough Living" by Tokuda Shusei, translated by Richard Torrance.
Gabrielle Roy: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide To Studies About The Author And Her Works, Marjorie Benedict
Gabrielle Roy: An Annotated Bibliography And Guide To Studies About The Author And Her Works, Marjorie Benedict
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983) is one of Canada's most important 20th century women writers of fiction. Born in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, a French-speaking community across the Red River from Winnipeg, Gabrielle was the youngest child in a large family. In 1929, after two years of training at the Winnipeg Normal Institute, she began a teaching career in Manitoba. Eight years later, she traveled to Europe to study dramatic art. There she began to develop her talent as a writer and wrote her first published articles. The outbreak of World War II in 1939 hastened her return to Canada where she settled in …
Reliability On The Crowded Net: Finding The Truth In A Web Of Deceit, P.D. Magnus
Reliability On The Crowded Net: Finding The Truth In A Web Of Deceit, P.D. Magnus
Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
On-line, just as off-line, there are ways of assessing the credibility of information sources. The Internet, although it arguably makes for nothing wholly new in this regard, complicates the ordinary task of assessing credibility. In the first section, I consider a specific example and argue that Internet contentproviders have no clear interest in resolving these comlications. In the second, I consider four general ways that we might assess credibility and explore how they apply to life online. Finally, I argue that even careful information gathering may pose subtle pitfalls but that some of these may be mitigated on-line.
Mobilizing Legal Talent For A Cause: The National Woman's Party And The Campaign To Make Jury Service For Women A Federal Right, Richard Hamm
History Faculty Scholarship
This Essay explores how the National Woman’s Party mobilized legal talent during its campaign in the 1930s to make jury service for women a Federal right. First, I will begin with a brief overview of the National Woman’s Party, its nature, its programs, and its key legal personnel. Second, I will describe the state of the law concerning jury service for women after the Nineteenth Amendment, and will explore the strategy that the party followed in trying to gain women the equal right to serve on juries. Third, I will describe the three cases in which the party involved itself …