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Locating representation: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Brown, and the manifestation of biography
… 1838 address "History" with the life of John Brown. In his address Emerson declares that "there is no history; only biography," and from this statement the foundation for Representative Men is put in place. Although nearly 21 years separate Emerson's lecture from Brown's work in "bloody …
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Minister of the Gospel at Haddington The Life and Work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787)
… fresh look at the life and work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787), minister of the First Secession Church in Haddington and Professor of Divinity in the Associate (Burgher) Synod, who is best known as the author of The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778). Brown was born in humble circumstances in …
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The rhetoric of martyrdom: A case study analyzing the rhetorical situations of Joan of Arc, John Brown and Jim Jones
… breaks into three case studies: Joan of Arc, John Brown, and Jim Jones The examples of Joan of Arc and John Brown illustrate the positive role rhetoric played in their eventual classification as martyrs. The example of Jim Jones displays the negative effects rhetoric had on his failure to …
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To whom the glory
… a two-act play set in the Virginia jail cell of John Brown after his failed raid on the Harpers Ferry armoury in 1859. Brown shared his cell with one of the other raiders, Aaron Stevens. Brown was 59, and Stevens was 28. This play suggests what could have happened in that cell. The theme of the …
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Border Disputes in Southeast Kansas, 1856-1858
… region in the northwestern part of the state. John Brown is the most recognized figure from Kansas, due mainly to the Pottawatomie Massacre. He often overshadows other significant individuals, such as James Montgomery. This is surprising because Brown's activities in Kansas were limited, …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… Hildreth, Jabez Delano Hammond, Gerrit Smith, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Parsons, Sutton E. Griggs, Thomas Dixon, and Pauline Hopkins. A comparative approach to these texts reveals that, far from representing a stable or straightforward …
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Black ethos: the northern urban negro, 1890 -1930
… the ordinary black American, with just plain John Brown. Fewer still have centered upon the John Browns of t he urban North and the development of a sense of community in the black districts of northern cities as America became an urban nation. Modern black America came into being between 1890 …
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The business and technology of the Sheffield Armaments industry 1900-1930
… focuses on four in-depth case studies of John Brown, Cammell-Laird, Thomas Firth and Hadfields to examine the business and technology of the industry. It builds on the work of Tweedale and Trebilcock on Sheffield and armaments, and advances the argument that during the period of study from …
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The Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913
… and his ally Theodore Roosevelt were hailing John Brown of violent Pottawatomie fame as a political model. But the Kansas version of emancipationist memory erased from the story the extinction of Native American landholdings and destruction of peoples that was the actual first chapter of …
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Clay Mineral Composition of Till in Northeastern Ohio
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VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY
… of October 18th, 1859, it had become clear that John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia had not only fallen short of expectations—the beginning of a slave insurrection eventually leading to collapse of the institution entirely—but had dismally failed. The raid had …
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VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY
… of October 18th, 1859, it had become clear that John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia had not only fallen short of expectations—the beginning of a slave insurrection eventually leading to collapse of the institution entirely—but had dismally failed. The raid had …
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An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy
… "Life Without Principle"; "A Plea for Captain John Brown"; excerpts from "Walden", et cetera. The Chapter on Friendship and Love could not have been written with such a full understanding of some periods in Thoreau's life without the aid of Mr. Canby 's recent erudite biography. His research …
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Ecology of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentitomidae): Oviposition on Different Trees, Nymphal Development on Various Vegetable Hosts, and Assessment of a Bacterial Pathogen
The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is an invasive species that has spread throughout the United States and become a serious agricultural pest. Studies were conducted in Virginia on the survival of H. halys nymphs on different vegetable hosts and on the oviposition preference …