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Ethnicity And Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine's Immigrant Community, Jacob M. Nash
Ethnicity And Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine's Immigrant Community, Jacob M. Nash
Honors Theses
I examine the college attendance patterns of second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Maine in the early 20th century relative to other ethnic groups using individual-level Census records. I employ the Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (ABE) algorithm to track second-generation Jewish, Italian, French Canadian, English Canadian and European immigrants from the 1910 Census to the 1940 Census. My logistic regression analysis indicates that second-generation Jewish immigrants in Maine attended college at significantly higher rates than their peers of similar background in every other ethnic group. While I cannot evaluate them, I also discuss potential explanations for the disparity in college attendance …
Give Me A Choice: Perceptions Of Freedom And The Anti-Vax Movement In Maine, Louisa Goldman
Give Me A Choice: Perceptions Of Freedom And The Anti-Vax Movement In Maine, Louisa Goldman
Honors Theses
While vaccination has proven to be an incredibly effective method of disease prevention, the growing ‘anti-vax’ movement threatens the population-level benefits conferred by widespread immunization. Recent findings indicate that anti-vax beliefs are not, as had been previously assumed, necessarily the result of scientific illiteracy but rather, are likely produced by intertwining social and situational contexts. With these considerations in mind, the goal of this study was to identify potential motivations underlying anti-vax behavior by performing a deep examination of anti-vax rhetoric, coupled with demographic and situational analyses. I focused specifically on the anti-vax community in Maine, with a special interest …
I Remember It Like This: Essays, Robin C. Lewis
I Remember It Like This: Essays, Robin C. Lewis
Honors Theses
This thesis is composed of eleven personal essays. As an Environmental Policy senior, I wanted to write down some of my formative stories—not just any stories, but those that may reveal the environmental thread in my life, which, I believe, was somehow instilled in me by my parents. This thread has followed me from Texas to Maine, from childhood to almost twenty-three. It has been supported and tested by various characters along the way, sometimes growing faint, other times stronger. As I prepare for something new, I’ve found it valuable to look back on the people and landscapes and stories …
A Cosmic Connection: For Anthropologist Catherine Besteman, Reunion With Somali Bantu In Maine Was Life Changing., Gerry Boyle
A Cosmic Connection: For Anthropologist Catherine Besteman, Reunion With Somali Bantu In Maine Was Life Changing., Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Reunited with Somali Bantu families after decades, anthropologist Catherine Besteman chronicles their lives.
Short History Of Waterville, Maine, Stephen Plocher
Short History Of Waterville, Maine, Stephen Plocher
Honors Theses
If we were to simplify the story of Waterville to the lightest exploration possible, a good strategy might be to look at the city’s names. True, a good number of important events might be overlooked, but examining the names and name changes in the city’s history offers a unique view into the essence of its identity. Waterville has a rich history when it comes to names. The city itself went through a number of them in its early days, and these changes reflect the city’s continual reinvention of itself. The first people we know about who lived here, the Canibas …
Demon Rum, Devious Politics: The Lessons Of Neal Dow’S Crusade For The Maine Prohibition Law, Andrew J. Herrmann
Demon Rum, Devious Politics: The Lessons Of Neal Dow’S Crusade For The Maine Prohibition Law, Andrew J. Herrmann
Honors Theses
One of the fundamental conflicts in American political history is the one that pits the need to guarantee personal liberty against the desire for the government to pass legislation that will benefit the overall good. Dating back to the very founding of our nation and the deliberations over the ratification of the Constitution, this debate has played itself out over and over again through the course of American history as politicians decide how to balance each of these important considerations. One such manifestation of this debate was the campaign for alcohol prohibition1 in the mid-nineteenth century, a battle which raged …
House Burning And Other Poems, Julie D'Amico
House Burning And Other Poems, Julie D'Amico
Senior Scholar Papers
No abstract provided.
Dancing With Mr. Penrose And Other Stories, Geoffrey Becker
Dancing With Mr. Penrose And Other Stories, Geoffrey Becker
Senior Scholar Papers
Stories:
Fallen Angel
The Inheritance
Schlog's Dance
The New World
Dancing With Mr. Penrose
Maine And The Hartford Convention: The Impact Of The War Of 1812 On The Politics Of Maine And Massachusetts, Alan S. Taylor
Maine And The Hartford Convention: The Impact Of The War Of 1812 On The Politics Of Maine And Massachusetts, Alan S. Taylor
Senior Scholar Papers
The question of why the New England Federalists failed to force a confrontation with the national government has been a continuing historical controversy. I feel that the vigorous stance of the New England Democratic-Republicans particularly in Maine (then a part of Massachusetts), to radical Federalist schemes acted to restrain their
opponents. In the final analysis my argument is that New England could not act without Maine. To paraphrase Federalist George Herbert of Ellsworth, on such a slender thread do the destinies of nations hang.
Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass
Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass
Senior Scholar Papers
The thirty poems collected here were written durin 1972-197. They begin as rather imagistic pieces, but the imagist tendencies are tempered with a preoccupation with the process of emotion. The poems progress through a middle period of finding a poetic voice by combining elements of other styles with the stylistic tendencies that rise out of myself. The subject matter is deliberately varied. The poems emerge, in the last few pieces, as the beginnings of a voice which combines a preoccupation with man in the unity of the world, the state of natural world and the nature of its retaliation for …
Remembered Maine, Ernest Cummings Marriner
Kennebec Yesterdays, Ernest Cummings Marriner
Kennebec Yesterdays, Ernest Cummings Marriner
Colby Books
A “social history of the Pine Tree State…especially…the Kennebec Valley” inspired by Marriner’s long-running Sunday evening radio program “Little Talks on Common Things,” broadcast by Waterville’s WTVL beginning in 1948.
From the foreword:
To my amazement I found hundreds of people interested in the social history of the Pine Tree State. Material has always poured in faster than I could use it. Out of trunks and boxes stored away in attics, came letters and diaries, account books and legal documents. Scrap books prepared by patient hands many decades ago were opened for my inspection. Yellowed newspapers, tied in neat bundles …
To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Arthur R. Gledhill - August 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Arthur R. Gledhill - August 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - August 19, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - August 19, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - June 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - June 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - June 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - June 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.