Analysis Of King Research Articles

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

Retracing Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales in Stephen King’s Short Fiction

Abstract In his study “Stephen King’s Fiction and the Heritage of Poe,” Burton R. Pollin argues that, despite the fact that the American best-selling writer Stephen King has often acknowledged the important influence that Edgar Allan Poe has exerted on his fiction, the analysis of King’s use of Poe’s writings in his own work has often been overlooked by Poe scholars. King’s references to Poe are so pervasive, especially in interviews, critical essays, and even books on creative writing, that Pollin claims, in his study, that no writer “enters into the substratum of a whole long work” as Poe does in King’s writings. Drawing on Pollin’s statement about the need to approach King’s fiction with respect to Poe’s tales, this article aims to analyze some of King’s stories included in his collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes in order to attest Poe’s legacy through displays of Gérard Genette’s concept of transtextuality. The imagery, motifs, characters, and plots of some of King’s stories in this collection, particularly those of narratives like “It Grows on You,” “Chattery Teeth,” “Dedication,” and “You Know They Got a Hell of Band,” will be analyzed through a comparative approach with regard to some of Poe’s texts, such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Berenice,” “Morella,” and “The Masque of the Red Death,” with the aim to identify King’s contribution to transforming and updating different features in Poe’s classic tales.

Currency depreciation and the monetary adjustment process: reconsidering Lord King’s contributions

© Oxford University Press 2018, All rights reserved. This paper investigates Lord King's contributions in light of the renewed debate on international monetary policy coordination. We argue that King's work contains refined bullionist insights concerning currency depreciation, exchange rate determination, and balance of payments adjustment. We show how King's analysis of the monetary process under different currency regimes can help elucidate the effects of unconventional monetary policy on a global scale, concerning monetary spillovers, currency wars, business cycles, and the distribution of wealth.

Rawlsian Public Reason and the Theological Framework of Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”

AbstractThe ideal of public reason, made prominent by John Rawls, has become a mainstay of discussions about the proper role of religious arguments in a politically liberal society. In particular, Rawls's theory of public reason requires citizens and public officials to refrain from appealing to comprehensive religious and philosophical doctrines in public deliberation on matters of basic justice and constitutional essentials. In this essay, we review the ways in which the public life of Martin Luther King, Jr. — with its frequent appeals to a comprehensive doctrine to justify disobedience to the law — represents a challenge to the ideal of public reason, and we consider several Rawlsian rejoinders. What is missing from the existing body of scholarship on public reason is a thorough analysis of King's philosophical and theological arguments, including the examples of legal injustice he offered in his celebrated “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” As we note, King's specific examples of unjust laws rely on a theological framework that bedevils the attempt to reconcile his Letter with the constructivist underpinnings of Rawls's theory of public reason. Indeed, Rawls is in something of a bind: either King's argument is not acceptable under the terms of public reason or public reason simply cannot limit contemporary public discourse in the way Rawls has in mind. We consider several possible Rawlsian arguments for the accommodation of King's theological rhetoric, but conclude that the Rawlsian idea of public reason remains deeply problematic.

Mrs Hanan Farraj & Mr Bassem Farraj vs. 1. King's Healthcare NHS Trust & 2. Cytogenic DNA Services Limited

Mrs Farraj, a patient of a Jordanian hospital, was concerned that her pregnancy might be affected by beta thalassaemia major (BTM). Her obstetrician sent a small, blood-stained and poor quality tissue sample to King's Healthcare NHS Trust to test. King's sent it to Cytogenetic DNA Services Ltd., a private laboratory, with instructions to ‘culture only’. King's analysed the cultured sample and reported that all was well. When the child was born that reassurance proved wrong. He had BTM, with the lifetime consequences for treatment and care which that condition entails. King's analysis had been carried out on maternal not fetal tissue. The parents sued the hospital and the laboratory, and succeeded against both at a High Court trial on liability and jurisdiction. The judge found there had been a fundamental failure of communication between the hospital and the laboratory. King's appealed against the judgment. The Claimants cross-appealed, relying on the judgment but also arguing that King's had a non-delegable duty of care. The Court of Appeal found in favour of King's on the appeal and cross-appeal. The laboratory is liable for the parents' damages and for the legal costs of the parents and of King's. The case has implications for legal advisers and risk managers when services are contracted out to private providers, though the outcome of the argument on non-delegable duty of care may have been different if Mrs Farraj had been directly under King's care as a patient.

Ring out freedom!: the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than civil rights movement's most visible figure, he was its voice. This book describes what went into creation of that voice. It explores how King used words to define a movement. From a place situated between two cultures of American society, King shaped language that gave movement its identity and meaning. Fredrik Sunnemark shows how materialistic, idealistic, and religious ways of explaining world coexisted in King's speeches and writings. He points out roles of God, Jesus, church, and the Beloved Community in King's rhetoric. Sunnemark examines King's use of allusions, his strategy of employing different meanings of key ideas to speak to different members of his audience, and way he put into play international ideas and events to achieve certain rhetorical goals. The book concludes with an analysis of King's development after 1965, examining roots, content, and consequences of his so-called radicalization. Fredrik Sunnemark is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at University Trollhattan-Uddevalla, Sweden.

Comment on GSE Debt and the Decline in the Treasury Debt Market

Comment on GSE Debt and the Decline in the Treasury Debt Market Toni Gravelle (bio) Let me start by providing some general comments that will prove useful later on in my discussion. As the authors note, reductions in the size of the U.S. Treasury debt stock and of other sovereign debt stocks is an important issue because government debt is central to the implementation of monetary policy and to the allocative efficiency (in the welfare sense) of fixed income markets more broadly. What do people mean when they attribute benchmark status to a fixed income security? This, of course, depends on who you ask, since benchmark status has several context-sensitive dimensions. First, U.S. Treasury securities and, more generally, government securities in most developed economies are perceived as being free of default risk and thus allow the yields on these government securities to proxy for nominal risk-free interest rates. Second, the large borrowing needs of governments and their essentially risk-free status allows them to offer a broader range of maturities than is the case for most any other class of debt issuer. Third, the fungibility of various bond issues and the typically large size of each issue makes the government securities market the most liquid segment of the fixed income market. This factor supports the existence of well-developed repo and derivative markets for government securities that in turn serve to enhance the liquidity of the government securities market. These affiliated markets enable market participants to take on short and long positions that reflect their views of future interest rate movements. Fourth, government securities also serve as reference securities for pricing other debt instruments and as hedging vehicles for other debt securities.1 A less-liquid government securities market has a negative impact on its status as a benchmark market. Moreover, there is a self-fulfilling aspect to liquidity, which could quickly cause the benchmark status of U.S. Treasury securities to degenerate. As such, to the extent that a reduction in the outstanding stock of government securities has a negative impact on this market's benchmark status, then policymakers are rightly concerned about the declining allocative efficiency of fixed income markets [End Page 840] that may result. In the end, if capital markets become less efficient, due to the lack of a benchmark debt security, economic growth and investor welfare is likely to be negatively affected. The majority of my discussion will focus directly on the analysis contained in the Ambrose and King paper. However, I will also provide brief comments on issues that I suspect lie outside the scope of this paper. Paper Summary Ambrose and King carry out an empirical study whose main goal is to examine whether or not government-sponsored enterprise securities—also known as agency securities—are increasingly being used as a substitute for U.S. Treasury securities by investors seeking benchmark debt securities. They do so by examining the relationship between the outstanding stock of U.S. Treasury (TSY) and government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) securities, and the (market) liquidity of these GSE bonds. In analyzing GSE bond yield characteristics, they use monthly observations of duration-matched yield spreads under the assumption that, after controlling for other factors, declines in the yield spread proxy for a smaller liquidity premium (and thus improved liquidity) for GSE securities. Ambrose and King's analysis can be broken into three parts centered on three specific regressions. First, Ambrose and King regress the change in these spreads on a set of variables that includes the change in the stock of TSY and GSE securities. The authors control for other factors that might explain yield spreads and include variables that control for changes in the interest rate environment and issue specific characteristics. Ambrose and King show that GSE yield spreads are significantly positively related to the stock of TSY securities, but that there is no statistical relation to the level of GSE debt. In order to check that GSE securities are, in fact, increasingly replacing TSY securities as the investors' choice of benchmark debt instrument, they carry out the same regression analysis with duration-matched yield spreads between corporate and TSY debt securities instead. The authors...

The effects of viscoelasticity on the transient motion of a sphere in a shear-thinning fluid

We present the first quantitative experimental measurements of the transient motion of a sphere as it accelerates from rest along the centerline of a tube containing a highly elastic, shear-thinning, aqueous polyacrylamide solution. For all shear-rate-dependent Deborah numbers (1.6⩽De(γ̇)⩽4.2) and sphere-to-tube ratios (0.089⩽a/R⩽0.387) investigated, transient oscillations in the velocity of the sphere are observed, often causing the sphere to “rebound,” or reverse directions during the first oscillation. These measurements are in qualitative agreement with the analysis of King and Waters (1972) who presented an analytic solution for the transient motion of a sphere through an unbounded domain of fluid described by the linear Jeffreys model. We also show a similar response in one-dimensional creep experiments which are described quantitatively by a multimode formulation of the upper-convected Maxwell model including a solvent retardation term. Such experiments isolate the shear kinematics from the combined shear and extensional flow around a sphere and indicate that because of the slow quadratic growth of the elastic normal stresses in the fluid at short times and small fluid strains, the initial transient motion of the sphere is governed primarily by a balance of linear viscoelastic stresses and the inertia of the sphere.

Gregory King's analysis of clerical livings for John Chamberlayne and the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty

This paper places before the reader a document by Gregory King. The document is an analysis of the value of clerical livings in England and Wales and is dated I 5 November I 7 I 0. King prepared the document for the secretary to the governors of the bounty of Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy. The document is of considerable value for the light that it throws upon the affairs of the bounty in i 71O. The document is also of value as a late example of King's political arithmetic. For these reasons the document deserves to be more widely known by historians. King's work on clerical livings is a piece of political arithmetic. The phrase 'political arithmetic' was in general use in Britain by the early eighteenth century.' The phrase was of seventeenth-century origin, but the idea that statesmen should make wise use of arithmetic was a very old commonplace. The seventeenth-century phrase 'political arithmetic' denoted a conduct of policy by statesmen who took care to know the numbers of people and of wealth.2 The phrase meant the policy itself, the work of statesmen, and not the collection of data. That last was the work of lesser hands. The distinction between policy, on the one hand, and the collection of data, on the other, was important to Gregory King and was reflected in his remark in the present document that policy is not his province, but the distinction is seldom made by later writers. Twentieth-century writers do not usually retain the distinction between policy and discourse. 'Political arithmetic' names now the writing or discourse produced by those who collected data on wealth and population. In this later sense, Gregory King was one of the most important British practitioners of political arithmetic. King was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, in i648 and died in London in I 7I 2. He was a herald and government servant. He assisted Robert Harley in a number of capacities in the early I 6gos, and in I 696 King produced for Harley the now famous Natural and political observations on the state and condition of England. This document was an attempt at a comprehensive estimate of the numbers of people and of wealth in England in i 688. King did not publish his work. Some of King's data were

Anna, Irma und Dora – der Schlüssel zu den Müttern im Schöpfungsprozeß der Psychoanalyse

As a science caught up between the mythical and the rational, psychoanalysis is subject to the pulls of two opposing currents, a creative enlightened one concerned with the investigation of the unconscious, and a conservative counter-current observable in the psychoanalytic theory of femininity. In her analysis of these warning elements the author goes back to the genesis of psychoanalysis and its creator and takes a close look at the primal myth (the legend of Breuer and Anna O.), the primal dream (Irma), and finally the primal analysis (the case of Dora). King's analysis demonstrates that Freud unconsciously appropriated female psychic features and--in unconscious identification with the mother of the Urszene, bound up with adolescent regression and attendant bi-sexual grandeur fantasies--imagined himself as ideal woman and "conceiver". By appropriating female potency for himself and thus making the opposite sex superfluous, Freud's theory of femininity leaves the place of women vacant, relegating them to the role of a defective entity, a castrated man, rather than acknowledging their otherness. In King's view, this phallic monism is inextricably interwoven with adolescent bisexual identifications and fantasies of grandeur about Freud's own gender, while denying gender-difference genuine recognition and integration.

The electromagnetic field of a vertical electric dipole over the Earth or sea

The analysis of King (1990) of the electromagnetic field of a vertical electric dipole over an imperfectly conducting half-space is applied to obtain the far field when the dipole is at a specified height d. The contributions by the space wave with its 1/r dependence and the lateral surface wave with its 1/r/sup 2/ dependence are separated and studied in detail when the dipole is over a wide range of media such as sea water, wet and dry Earth, lake water and dry sand. Graphs of the far-field patterns are shown.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Letter: The medical library.

To the Editor.— As one trained in the field of administration who now finds himself working in a community hospital medical library, I read with interest Dr. King's analysis of a medical library in the university environment (231:833, 1975). Many of his comments are equally applicable to the medical library in a hospital setting. I do question one of his observations, namely that a library cannot be all things to all men. Here at Roanoke Memorial Hospitals Library we serve a varied range of interests and specialities. With seven separate training schools, 30 residents in four different programs, departments that range alphabetically from Administration to Volunteer Services, and very active users in the house and attending staffs, we do try to be all things to all men (and women, too). Although some departments and schools maintain individual book collections for ready reference, we feel that a centralized library, performing a

A New Sense of Direction

A few months before his assassination in Memphis, April 4, 1968, Dr. King spoke to the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference meeting in retreat at Frogmore, South Carolina, He was preparing them for the Poor People's Campaign scheduled for the spring of 1968. This is Dr. King's last thorough evaluation of “the movement” its prospects and problems, in our possession.While the description of urban violence may seem dated, Dr. King's analysis of the causes and cures of urban injustice remains disturbingly relevant. His understanding of what was happening among youth as well as his understanding of American militarism is, for better or worse, equally pertinent. Especially important, in view of current claims that Dr. King was undergoing a fundamental change of political philosophy toward the end of his life, is his concluding affirmation of non-violence.

Communication to the Editor—The Use of Subjective Probability Estimates in Assessing Project Completion Times

The conclusion from this analysis supports King's [King, W. R., T. A. Wilson. 1967. Subjective time estimates in critical path planning—A preliminary analysis. Management Sci. 13(5, January) 307–320.] main point that there is little evidence of learning (i.e. improvement in the accuracy of estimates) in the period before work starts. There are, however, some differences. In this situation, more changes in estimates are made before work starts than reported by King. This is perhaps not surprising since King's analysis refers to new construction, which can perhaps be specified more clearly in advance, rather than the maintenance work which we are concerned.

Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Underlying Industrial Reconstruction, by W. L. Mackenzie King

Industry and Humanity was first published in 1918. In it William Lyon Mackenzie King, then a prominent public servant who had forged a respectable reputation among business leaders as an expert in labour affairs, discussed the process of national and industrial reconstruction then about to begin. The book reviewed several momentous crises in North American labour-management relations, revealed the background to various important pieces of Canadian legislation in the field of social welfare, and provided a broad rationale for the establishment of a new programme of democracy in industry. Industry and Humanity is not only a history of King's career as industrial relations expert and consultant for the Canadian government and several giant American corporations. It also contains illustrations and analogies from his urban industrial and educational experiences. He did settlement work, examined working conditions and trade unionism in his graduate studies at university, and pioneered in the federal department of labour in examining at close hand some of the most undesirable effects of industrialization. The portions of the book which were derived from King's experiences in investigation and arbitration work present an invaluable picture of deplorable working conditions and wasting away of human lives. King's analysis of strikes - their causes and social consequences - is the book's central theme and is an accurate and telling assessment of the effects of social strife on the well-being of the community. Moreover, King put flesh on the dry statistics of industrial accidents and illnesses and the testimony of countless inquiries and royal commissions with vivid descriptions of the dehumanizing effects of the modern factory system.