Sanitation and Externalities: Evidence from Early Childhood Health in Rural India

This paper estimates two sources of benefits, one direct and the other external, related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. Using a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India, it finds evidence of positive and significant direct and concave positive external effects

A study of the predictive value of intelligence and aptitude tests to reading achievement in grade one

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1949. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Alien Registration- Murchison, Bertha A. (Mapleton, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Stanley, Bertha A. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Grant, Bertha A. (Presque Isle, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Riley, Bertha A. (Calais, Washington County)

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Alien Registration- Trask, Bertha A. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Alien Registration- Nickerson, Bertha A. (Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County)

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Suffering and Soul-Making in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out

John Hick (1922-2012) was an extremely influential philosopher of religion who wrote ground-breaking essays in the areas of religious epistemology, religious pluralism, and the problem of evil. With specific reference to the latter, in his book Evil and the God of Love(1966), Hick devised what has come to be known as the “soul-making theodicy” – in essence, Hick argues that one of the reasons God allows so much apparently pointless suffering in the world is because it is an essential aspect of advancing our moral and spiritual education. Although perhaps an unlikely venue, I will argue that Disney/Pixar’s 2015 animated film Inside Out can help us see how suffering serves the role Hick attributes to it. One of the film’s many messages is that suffering not only forms the foundation for the cultivation of compassion and human intimacy, but is an indispensable aspect of attaining a healthy moral, spiritual, intellectual, and mental maturity. While there is little to suggest that Inside Out \u27s director Peter Docter had theodicies specifically in mind while making the film (though he has admitted that his Christian views have infused his films in the past), the fact that we can appeal to philosophy and theology to further our understanding of the film\u27s themes illustrates the connection these fields of study can have to (secular) popular culture, and that theists and non-theists can find common language to talk about the perennial philosophical issues that permeate human existence