Assumptions about later life travel and their implications: pushing people around?

Taking four assumptions in turn, this review article considers some of the lenses through which researchers might look at later life leisure travel and the implications of adopting each of them. First, we consider the ‘active ageing’ agenda and what this means for how leisure travel may be thought about in academia and beyond. Second, we turn to studies underpinned by worries about the appetite for significant consumption thought to typify the ‘baby boomer’ generation and question whether these studies could inadvertently be promoting the very future they hope to avoid. Third, we explore how research on the benefits of everyday ‘mobility’ in later life may have morphed into a more general belief about the value of travel in older age. Finally, we reflect on how relevant studies of tourism are often underpinned by an argument about the financial rewards that now await those ready to target the older traveller. Our overall contention is that, though for different reasons, all four could be serving to encourage more later life travel. Whilst for some this prospect is not at all troubling, the spectre of adverse energy demand consequences leads us to explore a more critical view

State Highlights 6/4/1957

This is the student newspaper from Western State High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called State Highlights, in 1957

Motivation and Performance, Blog 7

Student blog posts from the Great VCU Bike Race Book

Poland\u27s new trade unions

With the declaration of martial law in December 1981 and the formal banning of Solidarity in October 1982, the Polish regime created for itself a dilemma: how to provide a channel for participation by the workers without reactivating Solidarity and without allowing that participation to assume political dimensions. The Jaruzelski leadership professed a desire to achieve reconciliation and understanding in the aftermath of the heady days of Solidarity and the depressing denouement of martial law. One of the principal means to do this was through the creation of new institutions, allegedly independent, which would absorb some of the creative and participatory energy of Solidarity, without allowing a return to what the regime claimed had been political activities by the union

Pedestrian, Crowd, and Evacuation Dynamics

This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion. Moreover, this article focusses on the dynamics of crowds in panic or evacuation situations, methods to optimize building designs for egress, and factors potentially causing the breakdown of orderly motion.Comment: This is a review paper. For related work see http://www.soms.ethz.c

The Cowl - v.33 - n.16 - Mar 17, 1971

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 33, Number 16 - March 17, 1971. 8 pages

Spartan Daily, September 22, 1978

Volume 71, Issue 14https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6373/thumbnail.jp

Clean Air Copyright and Government in Interesting Times , MCA PAC

Clean Air Copyright and Government in Interesting Times , MCA PA

Aspects of Professional Philosophy

My theme today is to approach professional responsibility from a more philosophic point of view. We all know what a professional person is expected to do in the execution of his responsibilities towards the public and his professional brethren. I wish to deal with a more fundamental approach to the whole matter which can be styled as the basis on which our behaviour depends. Every mortal must be puzzled and amazed by the vastness of the universe. We all know that in our solar system there are nine planets, the nearest to the sun being Mercury, Venus, our Earth and Mars. Next comes the Asteroid belt which is about 150 million miles across and then come Jupiter with its strange 'eye', Saturn with its halo, Uranus, Neptune and the furthest, Pluto. These planets make man look rather small, in fact the distances emphasize man's insignificance. On the other hand, we know about the smallest constituent of matter, the atom, which consists of a nucleus and electrons which determine all the functions of the atom and the molecules. The electrons are very important to science but the nucleus still retains its status as basic ingredient. If one were able to put together the nuclei of hydrogen to form the size of a thumb, it might well weigh 300 000 million tons. I am using the background of the greatness of the universe purely for comparative purposes, and I am fully aware of the fact that such infra-structure, if scientifically analysed, might present assailable technical problems, viewed through the critical eye of the pure scientist