Beginnings, West Point, and Early Assignments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Laslie
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
West Point ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Aerial Observation

The first chapter functions as an introduction and early biography to Kuter. It begins by focusing on his early life, his decision to attend West Point, his time at the Academy and his graduation and marriage. Following this, it shows how a young artillery officer found an interest in airplanes and their use as aerial observation platforms. Finally, it follows the Kuter family arriving at and attending flying training in the wastelands of Texas at Brooks Field. An interesting aspect of this is how Kuter and family move from the very plush Presidio in California to the “hardly palatial” San Antonio. This chapter also introduces Mrs. Ethel Kuter, whose diaries, scrapbooks, and passion for documenting Larry’s exploits provided a rich historical record to pull from.

ACCOUNTING FOR LABOR IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY: THE U.S. ARMS MAKING EXPERIENCE

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
West Point ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Piece Rate ◽  
Minor Determinant ◽  
The U.S

The national armory at Springfield was the largest prototype of the modern factory establishment and its accounting controls were described by Alfred Chandler [1977] as the most sophisticated in use before the early 1840s. In spite of that, armory management did not integrate piece-rate accounting and a clock-regulated workday to produce prespecified norms of output. Hoskin & Macve [1988] have recently suggested that the armory's accounting controls were unable to attain disciplinary power over labor and increase labor productivity until a West Point trained managerial component had been established at the armory after 1840. They called for a reexamination of the historical record from a disciplinary rather than economic perspective to validate this doctrine. The paper presents the findings of this reexamination and indicates that West Point management training was a relatively minor determinant in the evolving nature of accounting. Several economic and social factors are found to better explain why integration did not occur any sooner than it did at the Springfield armory.

An Orphan’s Life: 1809-1831

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
James M. Hutchisson
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
Early Life ◽  
West Point

Poe’s early life and early verse were intertwined, his chief subjects being trauma, grief, mourning, and the desire to establish a concrete identity that would enable him to move beyond his own uncertain upbringing. An orphan, Poe was raised in Richmond by the Allan family, but bitter quarrels with his adoptive father led him to rebel and eventually wander far away. During this time Poe completed three volumes of poetry, but he gained little recognition for his work. After a brief stint as an enlisted soldier in the Army and then at West Point, Poe eventually formed an alliance with the Clemm family in Baltimore, relatives on his father’s side, and in Baltimore he began to write short fiction.

Colonel Thomas Blood and the Restoration Political Scene

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-582
Author(s):  
Alan Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Political Scene

Thomas Blood was born in Sarney, county Meath in Ireland around the year 1618. The circumstances surrounding his early life are obscure but his father was said to have been a blacksmith and ironworker of ‘no inferior credit’. Blood's first real appearance in the historical record occurs during the survey taken in Ireland in the period 1654–6. In this he is listed as a protestant who had owned some 220 acres of land at Sarney since at least 1640. In between these dates, however, Blood had evidently undertaken some sort of military service. The evidence concerning this military service is both slight and contradictory and there is at least the possibility that his later claims about an army career were partly bogus, or certainly inflated to suit his particular company.

“A Three-Year Vacation”

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-40
Author(s):  
Brad Edmondson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Early Life ◽  
New York State ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Salvage Logging ◽  
York State ◽  
Regional Director ◽  
Aerial Observation ◽  
Roadless Areas ◽  
Forest Preserve

This chapter recounts the Big Blowdown of 1950 in Adirondack, New York. It introduces Clarence Petty, a New York State Forest Ranger who was asked to go up and look at the damage that had happened in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. The chapter outlines the appeal of foresters to the state legislature to start a salvage logging program in the forest preserve. It then turns to narrate the early life of Clarence, from being a park ranger to pilot, as well as the story of his brother's life Bill Petty, a regional director of the Conservation Department. Clarence became the undisputed authority on the forest preserve. He combined his years of aerial observation with three major surveying assignments that took him to every acre of state-owned land in the Adirondacks. He called his first assignment “a three-year vacation.” The chapter examines the statewide version of the disagreement between the Petty brothers, in which Clarence and other Forever Wild advocates were horrified by salvage logging in the forest preserve, while Bill and other scientific foresters replied that the friends of the Forever Wild clause were silly and sentimental. Ultimately, the chapter reviews the work of Neil Stout and Clarence Petty to make detailed maps and gather as much useful data as possible on the large roadless areas in the forest preserve.

Tejano Music in the Urbanizing Midwest: The Musical Story of Conjunto Master Jesse Ponce

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID HARNISH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Early Life ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Musical Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Master Musician ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences ◽  
Latino Communities

AbstractThis article explores the story and agency of conjunto master musician Jesse Ponce from his early life in San Antonio to his migration to northwest Ohio as an “authentic” Tejano (Texas-Mexican) musician. Although Ponce used this status as a form of cultural capital to construct his identity, integrate into local Latino communities, and interface with Latino cultural institutions, three outside agents, including the author, worked to publicize his expertise in Ohio, which, in turn, led to new acknowledgment and self-identification. The recent history of the “traditional” conjunto style is revealed as paralleling Ponce's career and aesthetic preferences. Both are in slight decline: Ponce, because of his failing health and resulting fewer performance opportunities; traditional conjunto, because of the rise of a more virtuosic “progressive” styleBourdieu's notion of cultural capital and Loza's concept of enculturation are utilized to explicate Ponce's experience and self-construction in urbanizing northwest Ohio. The author's experiences with Ponce (as promoter and musician) are included to demonstrate the constant negotiations between Ponce, his musical identity and authority, and the outside world

Chemically Contaminated Eel Fed to Pregnant and Lactating Mouse Dams Causes Hyperactivity in Their Offspring

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 36-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imen Dridi ◽  
Nidhal Soualeh ◽  
Torsten Bohn ◽  
Rachid Soulimani ◽  
Jaouad Bouayed
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Home Cage ◽  
Anguilla Anguilla ◽  
Acetylcholinesterase Activity ◽  
Female Offspring ◽  
Significant Inhibition ◽  
Standard Diet ◽  
Early Life Exposure ◽  
Cage Test

Abstract.This study examined whether perinatal exposure to polluted eels (Anguilla anguilla L.) induces changes in the locomotor activity of offspring mice across lifespan (post-natal days (PNDs) 47 – 329), using the open field and the home cage activity tests. Dams were exposed during gestation and lactation, through diets enriched in eels naturally contaminated with pollutants including PCBs. Analysis of the eel muscle focused on the six non-dioxin-like (NDL) indicator PCBs (Σ6 NDL-PCBs: 28, 52, 101, 138, 153 and 180). Four groups of dams (n = 10 per group) received either a standard diet without eels or eels (0.8 mg/kg/day) containing 85, 216, or 400 ng/kg/day of ϵ6 NDL-PCBs. The open field test showed that early-life exposure to polluted eels increased locomotion in female offspring of exposed dams but not in males, compared to controls. This hyperlocomotion appeared later in life, at PNDs 195 and 329 (up to 32 % increase, p < 0.05). In addition, overactivity was observed in the home cage test at PND 305: exposed offspring females showed a faster overall locomotion speed (3.6 – 4.2 cm/s) than controls (2.9 cm/s, p <0.05); again, males remained unaffected. Covered distances in the home cage test were only elevated significantly in offspring females exposed to highest PCB concentrations (3411 ± 590 cm vs. 1377 ± 114 cm, p < 0.001). These results suggest that early-life exposure to polluted eels containing dietary contaminants including PCBs caused late, persistent and gender-dependent neurobehavioral hyperactive effects in offspring mice. Furthermore, female hyperactivity was associated with a significant inhibition of acetylcholinesterase activity in the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex.

Early life nutritional stress affects song learning but not underlying neural circuitry in zebra finches.

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Khulganaa Buyannemekh ◽  
Jessica B. Zito ◽  
Michelle L. Tomaszycki
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Nutritional Stress ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Zebra Finches
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