Pottery Production and Cultural Process: Prehistoric Ceramics from the Morgan Site

Bert Salwen was a pioneer in the study of prehistoric ceramics. In this paper, we use Bert\u27s procedures of classification and interpretation to analyze the pottery assemblage from the Morgan site, a Late Woodland horticultural community located in the lower Connecticut drainage at Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The analysis provides insight into Native American cultural development in southern New England during the 12th and 14th centuries A.D. especially in the realm of social interaction and inter-regional exchange with Hudson valley groups

“I learned a lot about me as a person”: University students’ development as non-formal education professionals

IntroductionThe role of non-formal educational professionals has implications for the growth and development of the children they interact with. This group of professionals includes university students who volunteer their time in educational and youth-service organizations.MethodsIn this collective case study, we utilized Cultural-Historical Activity Theory to (a) understand how undergraduate and graduate students negotiated their development as a non-formal educational professional within an afterschool program and (b) consider how contradictions influenced their growth as educators, if at all. Three forms of data were collected from 10 graduate and undergraduate students as they volunteered their time as an educator in a 10-week afterschool program in partnership with two rural middle schools.ResultsResults highlighted shared contradictions among university students, such as lack of content knowledge and being viewed as friend versus being viewed as an educator, as they individually and collectively reflected upon their development and growth as non-formal educators within the afterschool program. Results also underscored how being a part of the afterschool program and reflecting on practice supported only some of the university students’ initial goal(s) for volunteering their time.DiscussionWe conclude with implications of this study for universities to consider in supporting the professional growth and development of their students as active learners and future educational professionals

Studies of the biosynthesis of protein and ribonucleic acid in HeLa cells infected with poliovirus

The amounts of protein, RNA (ribonucleic acid), virus, and the rate of incorporation of P32 into RNA were determined in various subcellular fractions of HeLa cells at various times during a single sequence of infection with poliovirus. From these data interpretations are drawn concerning the biosynthesis at the cellular level of protein and RNA which are induced by virus infection. Within 1 hour after the initiation of infection, there is a detectable accumulation in the cellular cytoplasm of newly synthesized protein and RNA. The synthesis of protein continues at a constant rate until the seventh hour of infection. RNA in the cytoplasm increases at a constant rate until the fourth hour, at which time the rate is markedly enhanced, and the first virus, as infectious activity, appears in the cytoplasmic fraction. The synthesis of RNA stops by the sixth hour. Virus accumulates at an increasing rate in the cytoplasm between the fourth and seventh hours. At the seventh hour, 99% of the virus formed is present in the intracellular state. From the amounts of nucleic acid and protein produced, their distribution relative to virus among the various subcellular fractions, and from the nucleotide composition of the RNA, it was concluded that the major portion of the newly formed materials was not virus.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/32465/1/0000550.pd

<i>Getting the Left Right: The Transformation, Decline, and Reformation of American Liberalism</i>. By Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. 304p. $34.95.

Why have American liberals been losing most political contests in recent decades? Theorist Thomas A. Spragens argues that the core of liberalism's problems lies in an ill-conceived transformation in public philosophy. In a “political treatise informed by scholarly resources” (p. ix), he defends an older liberalism, which he describes as populist and progressive, and decries a new one that he associates with the social justice approach of John Rawls. Shifting his attention back and forth from theory to practice, Spragens constructs an argument that liberalism will not recoup its political fortunes until it rediscovers its “populist heart” (p. xvii). Bearing some resemblance to previous treatises by Richard Rorty and Michael Sandel (along with important differences that Spragens notes), Getting the Left Right is provocative and powerful as theoretical critique and advocacy, but is less effective in providing a historical explanation for contemporary liberalism's troubled state.</jats:p

Excess and Control

The aim of the thesis is to identify and investigate central themes in two video artworks, Poliisi and Pink Ball, by Swedish artist Annika Larsson. Moreover it is an investigation of the configurations of violence, and an enquiring whether these works have a social-minded intention. Elements in scenery, framing and narration are analysed with the term “crystalline regime” (régim cristallin), described by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, which defines the artificial as opposed to the purely representational. Processes within the narrations of the two works are analysed as rituals, which leads to an investigation of an internal sign-system and to the question whether the rituals in these works have a function. Theory by French philosopher Georges Bataille is used to analyse the ritual with no external purpose, which aims at an intense experience of life. Bataille’s concept “intensity” is used to describe violent as much as erotic themes in the narration as well as in the way the characters are presented, regarding music, camera-angles, etc. Furthermore, the thesis refutes interpretations in which Annika Larssons works are viewed as comments on political matters, such as gender-issues

From Friends to Foes

This chapter looks at how antagonism between different traditions of social reform can defeat their agenda. Far from being a coherent movement, postwar liberalism has been divided by class, generation, and philosophy. In the 1970s, the Democratic Party was torn apart by a conflict between New Dealers and their union allies on the one hand, and New Politics people and their identity politics allies on the other. Their tragic failure to reconcile their differences led to a landslide defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon in 1972. Drawing allusions to contemporary politics, the chapter shows how personal conflicts can reflect significant disagreements between reform traditions.</p