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Learn about various types of airplanes from cargo planes to military planes, as well as how they move. Includes full-color photographs and illustrations, table of contents, diagram, glossary, research sources, author profile and index. Chapter Book: 9 chapters.

Feeling Real: Emotion in the Novels of William Dean Howells and Henry James argues that emotion is an important aspect of American literary realism, revising received wisdom in American literary studies that locates emotion in sentimentalism. As canonical examples of American literary realism, William Dean Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Hazard of New Fortunes and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors offer compelling evidence of how realist authors deployed emotion in their narrative progressions. This project demonstrates—through rhetorical narrative readings of these novels—that the emotional dimension of their narratives has remained under-examined and under-theorized. The long-established scholarly view that American literary realism emerged in large part as a reaction to sentimentalism has nevertheless obscured realism’s own significant investment in the representation and evocation of emotion. This dissertation adds to recent work on emotion in American literary realism, complicating the conventional narrative that realism is anti-emotional or unconcerned with emotion, by suggesting that emotion in these novels is portrayed as complex, uncertain, and difficult and by arguing that character emotion affects the authorial audience in ways that can lead to ambivalence and frustration but also pleasure. This project contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the emotions represented and provoked by American realist novels by demonstrating the importance of emotion as a crucial component of the rhetorical narrative experience. The novels of Howells and James offer particularly rich examples of the complications of portraying and evoking emotion as a part of their respective projects to create narrative realism. Close narrative readings demonstrate that James’s and Howells’s well-known disdain for sentimentalism offers a paradoxical clue to their own commitment to examining and evoking emotion in the novel, albeit in a variety of unsentimental ways.

History of the Cedar Grove School in Madison Township, Middlesex County, N.J., which existed as early as 1821, its building being moved in 1885, and in 1969 became the Thomas Warne Historical Museum & Library of the Madison Township Historical Society.

'Demoting Vishnu' examines how the same public ritual that once placed kings at the privileged apex of Nepal's government have now, in the 21st-century, stopped serving the king, turning instead to authorise party-based politicians.

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In the past 10 years, the number of American adults with visual impairments has increased from 1 million to 4 million and is expected to double to 8 million people by the year 2050 (The Eye Diseases Prevalence Research Group, 2004; National Eye Institute, 2013). Therapies to treat retinal diseases causing visual impairment, such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (Massof, 2002; Mogk, 2011), have evolved in the past two decades (Gupta et al., 2013; Hooper & Guymer, 2003), but little research has examined recent population and difficulties with performing daily activities. Different types of professionals, including ophthalmologists, optometrists, occupational therapists, orientation and mobility specialists, vision rehabilitation therapists, and low vision therapists, work to assist adults with visual impairments remain independent with daily tasks, and an understanding of population characteristics is critical to providing successful treatment (Court, McLean, Guthrie, Mercer, & Smith, 2014; Johnson & Romanello, 2005; Salive, 2013). The studies in this three-paper dissertation examine difficulties with daily tasks, factors contributing to these difficulties, and similarities and differences over time in adults with visual impairments. This research indicated that adults with even mild visual impairment report difficulty with their daily tasks. The first and second dissertation studies examined similarities and differences over time in two different populations of adults with visual impairments. The first study compared characteristics of adults receiving services from a Midwest hospital-based vision rehabilitation center from 1997-2003 with 2007-2012, and the second study compared National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) participants from years 1999/2000 versus 2007/2008. Both studies revealed a greater percentage of subjects with less severe vision impairment in the later time periods; however, overall, approximately 30% of people with less severe vision impairment reported difficulty with daily tasks, such as reading and driving. Results from the third study indicated as multimorbidity increased, the number of adults with visual impairment who reported difficulty increased, and this was accentuated with more severe visual impairment. These studies provide a better understanding of similarities and differences over time in visual function, and in the associations between visual impairment, multimorbidity status, and self-reported performance in daily activities in visually impaired adults. Vision rehabilitation professionals need to understand the population in order to manage the treatment of adults with mild to severe visual impairments, but also in 54% of the cases complicated by multimorbidity.