[Review of] Ira A. Glazier and Luigi De Rosa, eds. Migration Across Time and Nations: Population Mobility in Historical Contexts

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at the 1982 Eighth International Economic History Conference held in Budapest. As the title suggests, the volume incorporates a wide range of geographical areas and historical time periods. This multidisciplinary study represents a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives and thus highlights issues and concerns from various disciplinary perspectives. The twenty-two essays in the volume include macro and micro case studies on several continents with authors from several countries. It makes information from many languages available to the English reader. In a sense there is almost an encyclopedic treatment of various migrating groups and methods of analyzing their migrating experience

Canadian Multiculturalism Ideology: Mere Tolerance or Full Acceptance

September 11, 2001 will forever be etched in the memory of Canadians who were deeply affected by the events of that day. This cataclysmic occurrence had a pivotal place not only upon the private troubles of those directly related but also upon the public issues and the consequent public policies of all of us who may not have been as directly touched. Such a life-changing experience will impinge upon the politics of our entire nation. The terrorist act was a political statement at one level which must be addressed politically as well It is noteworthy, given this context of the terrorist attack in the nation to the South, that October 8, 2001 represented the thirtieth anniversary of the political declaration of multiculturalism as a public state policy within Canada What difference does the official policy discourse and ideology of multiculturalism make in the political response to the ethnocultural and racial diversity within and without its national borders

Dramatistic Language in Public Discourse About Water: A Case Study of the Red River Valley of the Upper Midwest

This study explored the use of dramatistic and repetitive language in public discussion about water within the bioregion of the Red River Valley of the Upper Midwest. With the benefit of Ernest Bormann’s communication theory of symbolic convergence, theme and linguistic content analysis was applied to focus group narrative to explore the existence of a unified rhetorical vision within the region and to specifically identify possible language used in the understanding of that vision. The study is intended to complement our understanding of messaging language used in framing regional water resource communications and management issues. The research includes an examination of the academic literature on community and resource definition, theories of hegemony, rhetorical vision and language priming, as well as ideas of hydraulic empires and community engagement in public policy. Applied research included the collection of narrative data from seven community focus groups and a triangulation process of theme and word count analysis. Manual coding identified primary themes in the discussions while content analysis of repetitive word use confirmed those themes and provided repetitive word comparison with keywords from local media articles, NGO/NFP web sites and government news releases. The study concluded with an analysis of select and key repetitive words by theme and individual session. The results of this case study identify definite common themes and consistent dramatistic and repetitive language used when discussing water in the Red River Valley ...an area historically impacted by a natural water resource. While participants found the river to be synonymous with thoughts of water, they also saw water as abundant and manageable that is either alive and in motion (flowing, melting, flooding) or dead and polluted (quality, nonrenewable, scarce). The research suggests that a gap may exist between the language used by the public in discourse about water and that used by the media, interest groups and government. This study also provides a functional and efficient mechanism for testing hot button language use in other environmental and resource issues. The findings will be of benefit in understanding and selecting messaging language for use in framing public resource policy issues to encourage public awareness and engagement in an increasingly cluttered media environment of sound bites and flash images

Serving God and King: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's patronage networks and early Tudor government, 1514-1529, with special reference to the Archdiocese of York.

During the years of his political ascendancy, 1513 to 1529, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey constructed a service-based affinity composed of senior ecclesiastical officials and the most prominent county gentlemen and lawyers with the intention of establishing a kingdom-wide network of administrators to govern the provinces on the crown's behalf Assembled by the leading crown minister, this affinity was an integral part of the greater royal affinity, assisting in the establishment of a more centralised government under increased crown authority and a domestic church increasingly subservient to the power of the monarch, foreshadowing the religious and political events of the 1530s

Paul\u27s Turning from the Jews to the Gentiles in Luke-Acts

Luke-Acts is consistently optimistic regarding the triumph of God\u27s purposes through Israel. Yet three times at critical points in his narrative (Acts 13, 18, 28), Luke describes Paul\u27s formal turning from Jews to gentiles. While it is impossible to ignore such a major transition, it is quite unsatisfactory to mediate that discontinuity by redefining the People of God as the Church (or gentiles). This dissertation offers a resolution of the Jew-gentile relationship in keeping with Luke\u27s theological framework. It proposes a synthesis of the theme of continuity of the People of God with the theme of hospitality as an integral aspect of true discipleship. Chapter One elaborates on the problem and demonstrates from Luke-Acts that there were substantial numbers of positive and negative responses on the part of both Jews and gentiles prior to Paul\u27s rejection of the Jews. Thus the rejection episodes appear either unfair (to the believing Jews) or redundant (to the gentiles). Passages which may be invoked as precursors to the formal rejections are shown to be only marginally suggestive of a displacement of Israel. Only the three passages in Acts could not be readily justified. Chapter Two provides a detailed analysis of the three Pauline rejections. Evidence supports interpreting the move from Jews to gentiles as a shift in the support base for the proclamation of the gospel. The synagogue is regularly allowed the first opportunity to believe in Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah and to sponsor the proclamation in its area. Whenever the synagogue reneged on its covenant obligation to support the ministry, the opportunity was presented to the gentiles in that region. The final chapter assesses the significance of mediating the shift from Jews to gentiles by the theme of discipleship. It concludes that Luke described a sensitive transition in the early Christian Church when sponsorship by those outside the synagogue became advisable. Part of Luke\u27s intention in instructing his reader(s) was to justify appealing for gentile resources in the continuing need for sponsors of the Messianic mission

The impact of teachers' instructional practices, attitudes and self-efficacy in predicting students' math achievement

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