The Dalkey Archive Essays

2.4 Public life The final stories of the collection, consisting of “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “A Mother” and “Grace” each depict a condition of Irish society – politics, culture and religion. They view the drabness of Irish society. “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” displays Joyce’s attitude towards politics, with the main character of having autobiographical features and indirectly representing Joyce’s loss of political ideals. He views the characters in these stories to only have one desire

INTRODUCTION The three articles covered in this paper discuss how an archivist (and indeed the archives field in general) should deal with the challenges surrounding records of human rights violations and social justice issues. LITERATURE REVIEW Wood et al.'s article, “Mobilizing records: re-framing archival description to support human rights”, focuses on how archives can (and should) modify their item descriptions in order to best serve human rights efforts and those who have been involved

In the journal by Bernard R. Boxill, "Frederick Douglass's Patriotism," Boxill guides readers through the transformation of Frederick Douglass from a man possessing no patriotism or country, to a man staking his position as a patriot within a country. Throughout the text, he presents the internal and external conflicts Frederick Douglass faces, "from claiming that he had no country... and gone on to claim that he had a country... claiming that he was not a patriot... to claim that he was a patriot

Alka Pal Intro to Ethics Instructor- Dr. Mark Journal- 2 (Moral Relativism) February 19, 2018 Ethical Relativism, what is right and wrong in overall opinion among the morality? It differs from religion, cultures, tradition, and societies viewpoint. relativist means belief, idea, proposition, claim, etc. and it’s never good, or bad, true, or false, or right or wrong. At whatever rate, moral relativism might imply that our morals have reformed, that they have changed over time, and that they are

4. My collection development teacher keeps talking about the journal “RQ”, but the library doesn’t have a current subscription. Where can I find it? (3) I assumed the question referred to the physical copy subscription to this publication, but just to be sure I wanted to verify that there was not, in fact, a physical copy in the catalog. I searched the UT OPAC to find that it had been moved into storage, and that we do not have a current copy or subscription. Our online subscription ends in 1997

At Grinnell College, in the basement of the four-story Burling Library, lies the Special Collections and Archives. Within this cold room, many interesting books, pictures, and objects are found, but what makes them so ‘special’? There are requirements that the objects must meet in order to be considered part of the archives, but sometimes there is much more to them than just a checklist. A particularly special book to many is the 1896 collection of Geoffrey Chaucer’s poems called, The Works of Geoffrey

ionship are clearly those ideas which no doubt emerged from the very soil of American land but now transcend international boundaries. Although many critics have brought forth gender specific responses to the play, the theme that may transcend all social, political and economic boundaries is one of empowerment of an individual to take control of her own destiny. Jessie’s new found power, confidence and determination is evident in a particularly revealing scene when she responds to Thelma’s appeal

This included taking classes with subjects such as archives and records management, research methods, digital curation, cataloging, and metadata. I also enrolled in a grant writing class where I interacted with community institutions to create a mock grant aimed at promoting library services. In addition

04/13/2023 MLIS 688 Professor Colin Post Preservation Policy Analysis. The University of Washington is home to 14 different academic libraries and various other special collections and archives. The University presents a singular preservation policy that applies to all of the libraries and special collections and archives. This policy is succinct and is fairly effective in its efforts, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. The University of Washington's Preservation Policy aligns well

The primary source that can be accessed from the link above is the Procedural History of the 1940 Census of Population and Housing, written by Robert Jenkins. It is a lengthy and thorough depiction of the development and history of the U.S. Census Bureau, starting with the 1930s. IT talks about many things, but one of the most prevalent things that it covers is the information that was to be collected from the American people for each census. Since there was so much material in this book, it was

The Maine State Archives is a very interesting and intriguing database. It has around 95 million records of state documents that are kept because of their value to the history of the state. The archives is a bureau within the Department of the Secretary of State and includes mostly government paperwork and records. These records include bills introduced the the Legislature, election results, military records dating back to World War I, census records, as well as many other informative pieces of information

Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, many cultural groups flourished but among the most popular were the French Jesuits, French traders, and the Native American tribe know as the Savages. They all started off doing their own thing on their own land but when curiosity arose and it was time to move, bumping into other groups was inevitable. There were both friendly and hostile relationships between these groups. It was all based on the time, place, and how the groups met. Even groups of the same

Forensics Speech Outline. 242 years ago on July the 4th the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to declare the United States of America’s independence. The declaration proudly declared that “all men are created equal” and have the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” But what is America? With the exception of natives, it’s a nation where everyone isn’t from. It’s a nation of nations. To people in the darkest and most oppressed corners of this planet, it is a nation

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, then a professor of psychology at Stanford University, devised one of the most famous psychological experiments of the twentieth century. In what is known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, he assigned twenty-four young men roles as prisoners and guards, and observed the group dynamics that ensued. To his horror, the study had to be shut down after just six days because the guards were psychologically abusing the prisoners. When the Abu Ghraib story broke in 2004, Zimbardo

Culture is a belief system commonly shared in the society. Every human in a society share a common value and behavior distinct from other people, depending on where one was raised. That being said, I like to compare and contrast three divergent characteristics and describe which one I hail from. Individualist versus collectivist Individualistic culture is a culture where people cherish liberty and privacy and often trust their personal ability to emerge victorious and successful in their endeavors

Annotated Bibliography Vint, Sherryl. Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. May 04 04, 2015. Print. The first chapter stresses the difficulty of defining sf in terms that are more specific than the “sense of wonder” it provokes in its readers and consumers. Through the specific analysis of notable examples from literature and film, the subsequent chapters outline the dominant and competing theories and interpretations of the genre (such as Darko Suvin’s “cognitive