“Light is the normal course of events, darkness is only a temporary interruption”: Lessons from Lucy Thompson

Che-Na-Wah Weitch-Ah-Wah Lucy Thompson (1856–1932), a Yurok medicine woman, was born in Pecwan on the Klamath River in California. She is one of the first Native American women authors known for her book To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman (1916). Written in Wiyot territory, in what is now Myrtletown, just outside the city limits of the City of Eureka. Her purpose was to preserve her people’s stories, and to tell the truth about the historical genocidal targeting Indigenous Californians. She also expressed concern for the continued stewardship of Klamath River. Lucy used her skills as a storyteller and writer to counter the false histories created by settler histories, to reclaim narratives, and portray resiliency through difficult times

Continuity of Culture: A Reenactor’s Goal

This paper examines the maintenance of cultural continuity through historical reenactment. It is the reenactor\u27s goal, in this case, to portray and maintain the culture of Ireland and Scotland. They are holding on to this culture and presenting it to others by maintaining the dress, crafts, and lifestyles of sixteenth-century Scotland and Ireland. The methods of data collection for this study were ethnographic in nature. Interviews with key informants were conducted. In addition, there was a questionnaire distributed to members of the group This method of data collection provided the insight to see how a member of this group achieved a sense of belonging to this particular cultural group

Down Creek A Screenplay

Growing up, the story was told to me this way: one day, a little boy’s foot washed up on a beach in Charleston. An investigation found that the foot belonged to a patient of Dr. Reed, an orthopedic surgeon who had removed the boy’s foot some three years prior. The doctor had stored the boy’s foot in his freezer at home. When one day the freezer broke down. Dr. Reed disposed of the body part by substituting it for raw chicken in his crab trap. Somehow the foot escaped the bait compartmentmuch to the leathery beachgoers’ horror. Even as a girl, I always hated that light-hearted ending. What if this stoiy\u27 had taken a dark turn? The image of a hand in a crab trap haunted me. A hand is more complex than a foot—any artist can tell you that. A hand also seems more delicate, more intimate. So I had my opening image all along. But the setting, Beaufort, provided me with a place and a people. And more problems. Of course there are racial tensions between black and white residents of Beaufort County. There’s a long history here, as we all know. But as deep-rooted as those conflicts can be, attitudes and perceptions are always changing. In many households there is a generational divide—with parents caring more about racial differences than their children

Study of the marking systems of selected junior high schools in New England

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1944. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

The Turning Point for the Teaching Profession - Growing Expertise and Evaluative Thinking : Field Richards, John Hattie and Catherine Reid New York, NY: Routledge (2021) 175pp., paperback ISBN 978-0-367-531850

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The 'Hunger Games' : emotions of student teachers on school placements

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Plasmodium falciparum malaria in pregnancy and fetal, newborn, and maternal outcomes among a cohort of pregnant women in coastal Kenya, 2006 - 2009

Plasmodium falciparum malaria in pregnancy causes adverse pregnancy outcomes, most notably reduced birth weight and maternal anemia. Preventive treatment that is safe during pregnancy has been shown to effectively reduce rates of malaria in pregnancy, yet in malaria-endemic regions rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes remain high. We sought to explore the association of malaria in pregnancy and other risk factors with poor outcomes, among a cohort of pregnant women who received the recommended preventative treatment for malaria at antenatal care. The prevalence of malaria at the first antenatal care visit was 11%, and malaria infection was associated with lower measures of fetal growth, as measured by ultrasound. Among live, term births, the mean birth weight was not significantly different for malaria-positive vs. malaria-negative women. However, among women with under-nutrition, as measured by low body-mass-index, malaria exposure was associated with significantly decreased birth weight (mean difference -370 grams, 95% CI -728, -12 g). The rates of maternal anemia (hemoglobin <11.0 g/dL) and moderate/severe anemia (hemoglobin < 9.0 g/dL) at antenatal care were 70% and 27%, respectively. Moderate/severe maternal anemia at first antenatal care was associated with malaria as diagnosed by microscopy (aRR 2.06, 95% CI 1.24, 3.44) as was high-intensity hookworm infection in multivariate regression (aRR 2.37, 95% CI 1.44, 3.91). Our findings suggest the importance of good preventative treatment for malaria in pregnancy to minimize the impact of exposure to malaria on fetal and newborn growth. However, under-nutrition has an important role and research and programs to improve maternal nutritional health may be important to important to further improving birth outcomes in low-resource settings. Furthermore, given the high prevalence of anemia seen in our study, also associated with under-nutrition, as well as hookworm, and malaria, further research is needed to optimize interventions around pregnancy to improve maternal and newborn health in malaria-endemic regions.Doctor of Philosoph

Improving pregnancy outcomes in low- and middle-income countries

This paper reviews the very large discrepancies in pregnancy outcomes between high, low and middle-income countries and then presents the medical causes of maternal mortality, stillbirth and neonatal mortality in low-and middle-income countries. Next, we explore the medical interventions that were associated with the very rapid and very large declines in maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality rates in the last eight decades in high-income countries. The medical interventions likely to achieve similar declines in pregnancy-related mortality in low-income countries are considered. Finally, the quality of providers and the data to be collected necessary to achieve these reductions are discussed. It is emphasized that single interventions are unlikely to achieve important reductions in pregnancy-related mortality. Instead, improving the overall quality of pregnancy-related care across the health-care system will be necessary. The conditions that cause maternal mortality also cause stillbirths and neonatal deaths. Focusing on all three mortalities together is likely to have a larger impact than focusing on one of the mortalities alone

The Ethics of Materiality: Sensation, Pain, and Sympathy in Victorian Literature

Taking as my point of departure the generally accepted version of Victorian sympathy predicated on distance, imagination, and vision, I identify within Victorian literature an alternative, far more corporeal, version of sympathy predicated on immediacy, sensation, and touch. In discussing representations of bodily sensation and the ways in which such sensation functions within Victorian literature, my dissertation addresses the connections between sensation, particularly pain, and moral development by examining how psychological and emotional experience is represented in physiological terms. As a supplement to recent studies concerning vision, my dissertation focuses on touch in order to address the fundamental problems of sensory perception, materiality, and psychological experience in the Victorian period. This connection between physiological sensation and ethical development suggests a fundamental connection between corporeality and morality, an alignment that resists the totalizing equation of spirituality with morality and of materiality with sin present either implicitly or explicitly within much of Christian orthodoxy during the nineteenth century. My first chapter explores the connections and points of resistance between and among scientific and theological explanations of human existence both physical and emotional. My second chapter reinterprets Charlotte Brontë's Villette as a novel not about vision and surveillance but about touch and materiality, one which presents writing as the ideal, even sacramental, form of embodiment. My third chapter, on George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil," considers Latimer's mind-reading in relation to the vivid representations of his experiences of his own body as well as of the bodies of his companions, suggesting that clairvoyance for Latimer consists more accurately of acute sensitivity to his own bodily experience. My fourth chapter explores the consequences of symbolic and realistic representations of bodies in poetry by A. C. Swinburne and D. G. Rossetti in connection to both Christian orthodoxy and alternative moral systems. My final chapter, on H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Gerard Manley Hopkins's terrible sonnets, argues that these texts insist upon material embodiment as a necessary precondition for morality, and equate the non-materiality of a purely spiritual existence with amorality