A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American
life, not least due to his ancestry. Yet despite his prolific
writing in ...the years between 1877 and 1891, when he lived in
Washington, D.C., Adams has somehow slipped into the gap between
history and literature. In Henry Adams in Washington,
Ormond Seavey integrates the diverse aspects of Adams's writing,
arguing for his placement among the major American writers of the
nineteenth century.
Examining Adams's nine-volume History, which Seavey
argues demands renewed literary attention, as well as his two
novels, Democracy and Esther, and his biographies
of Albert Gallatin and John Randolph of Roanoke, Seavey shows how
Adams reveals his own character and personality in his writings,
particularly his fondness for the personal rather than the public
sphere. As a historian writing in Washington, D.C., Adams surely
encountered the expectation that public life takes precedence over
the personal; in the execution of both his historical writing and
his novels, however, he dwells instead on the personal costs of
public life and the diminishment of public figures who lack a
fulfilling personal life. Revealing Adams to be a missing link
between the essential American writers in the time of Emerson and
the modernist writers of the early twentieth century, Seavey shows
his novels to be considerations of contemporary political issues
while also recognizing the novelistic dimensions in his history and
biographies.
America’s rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel’s provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect ...of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War–era nation of Lincoln.
Present work was mainly focused on to adopt a mixed metal oxide adsorbent for efficient fluoride treatment in drinking water with parametric optimization of the adsorption process. Mixed Al/Fe/Ca ...metallic oxide adsorbent was synthesized using co-precipitation technique of Al (III), Fe (III) and Ca(OH)2 salt solutions at molar proportion of 1:1:1. Fluoride adsorption process was optimized using Box-Bhekhen methodology by planning design of experiments with respect to various process parameters, such as, initial fluoride concentration, adsorbent dose, pH and contact time. Maximum fluoride removal of 91.1% was observed at an optimum operating condition of 7 mg L−1 initial fluoride concentration, 3 g L−1 adsorbent dosage, pH of 7 and 3 h of contact time. Freundlich isotherm model described the present adsorption experimental data with best fitting, which demonstrate the mechanism of multilayer adsorption with a pseudo second order reaction kinetics. Continuous column adsorption study was dissected utilizing Thomas model, Adams-Bohart model and Yoon Nelson model. Column breakthrough performance was best described by Thomas model. Likewise, an attempt was made to examine the synthesized adsorbent reusability. It was discovered to be minute loss in adsorption capability after 5 recycle; 92.1% fluoride removal for fresh adsorbent and 90.6% removal after 5 time use. The treated water was analysed for remaining aluminium at optimum condition and noted to have < 0.2 mg L−1 which is within the desirable limits set by WHO standards. Finally, the synthesized adsorbent was tested for ground water samples of Nagaur district of Rajasthan, India containing high fluoride content.
The Lotka‐Volterra (LV) system is an interesting mathematical model because of its significant and wide applications in biological sciences and ecology. A fractional LV model in the Caputo sense is ...investigated in this paper. Namely, we provide a comparative study of the considered model using Haar wavelet and Adams‐Bashforth‐Moulton methods. For the first method, the Haar wavelet operational matrix of the fractional order integration is derived and used to solve the fractional LV model. The main characteristic of the operational method is to convert the considered model into an algebraic equation which is easy to solve. To demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed methods, some numerical tests are provided.
The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce ...Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution-notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington-Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains.By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor-such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans-Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.
