On the other, there’s no question about how Lowell would have responded to the white supremacists who, at the direction of the president, stormed the Capitol. The senators have a momentous decision before them. On the one hand, although written in the trenchant tones of abolitionist Christianity, the sentiments seem unexceptional enough. Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,Īnd the choice goes by forever ‘twixt that darkness and that light. Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In his opening prayer, Senate Chaplain Barry Black quoted the well-known lines from James Russell Lowell’s “The Present Crisis.” Furnishing the words to a once popular hymn, it impressed me as a member of the Otey Parish children’s choir–as in, “Wow, the church really means business.” Here’s the stanza from which Black quoted, with the lines he used bolded: It will be argued that this system actually expanded on the basic concepts of Mediterranean moulding-a non-graphic design system of geometric fairing that was in use in European shipbuilding for centuries prior to La Belle's construction-in the process of adapting them to the methods of orthographic drawing.Poetry began and ended the first day of Donald Trump’s Senate trial, and it may be significant that both poems were written during a time of factionalism reminiscent of the present day-which is to say, in the years leading up to the Civil War. Section II examines whether La Belle's design system was a completely new invention or whether it was developed from existing concepts of ship design. It also discusses how and which specific measurements were applied to the reconstructed design procedures to regenerate La Belle's archaeologically documented hull shape. ![]() Section I of this essay presents the archaeological and documentary evidence that supports the conclusion that a graphic design system of "geometric fairing with diagonals" was used in La Belle's construction. The distinguishing features of the distribution, number, and placement of La Belle's surmarks associate it with a graphic design system of "geometric fairing with diagonals," which was in use in French shipbuilding in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. La Belle (1684) has the most extensive and complete set of such marks documented to date. Occasionally the archaeological ship reconstructor is fortunate enough to encounter the remains of a vessel on which shipwrights' design marks have been preserved. Material culture and structural features of the wreck provide the most definitive archaeological evidence for the vessel’s origin, function, and role at the time of its wrecking event. To compliment historical research of both the colonial systemic context and historical documents on shape, form, and function for the wrecked vessel, a survey of 25 historic European shipwrecks dating from the 16th and 17th centuries provides the archaeological context for Wreck CKB0022. Alongside historical research on trade and settlement patterns by the leading colonial powers of the 17th century, research into 16th- and 17th-century ship construction treatises sought to elucidate contemporary historical sources that may reveal information regarding structurally specific cultural information locked in the mega-artifact that is the shipwreck. ![]() This required a survey of these nations’ collective commercial and territorial expansion into North America in the 17th century. ![]() Identifying the ship is impossible, structural features and material culture, however, suggest three possible candidates for nations of origin: English, Dutch, or French. Research questions seek to reveal the philosophical construction origin, function, and role of the ship these wreck remains represent, as well as what part the vessel played in the system of European-Atlantic commercial and territorial expansion (the systemic context). Unaware of the extent or provenience of recovered material culture, the author set about utilizing the most relevant (mega) artifact at hand: the structural remains. Because of the unexpected and spontaneous discovery of the Corolla Wreck in 2008, its relocation in 2009, and its dynamic six-month jaunt up and down the coast, all research questions posed by this thesis were formed in reaction to the wreck and what little information was available in the summer of 2010.
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