Repairing Tales from Japan: Changes Over Time in Personal Narratives

At two different times, Time 1 and Time 2, 13 participants in Japan (8 Japanese and 5 Americans) were asked to spontaneously respond in English to this prompt: "Tell me about one of the most exciting or dangerous moments in your life." The Japanese responded during their first and fourth years of college, which involved an interval of 42 months. The Americans were native speakers of English and responded earlier and later in their one year study abroad program in Japanese language and culture. Three questions addressed by this paper were the following: (a) What types of topics and narrative structures characterize these 26 stories? (b) What types of speaker-initiated repairs appear, and are the repairs the same or different at Time 1 and Time 2? (c) How are the repairs related to different listener (American, Japanese, Filipino, and Taiwanese) assessments of the intelligibility of the narratives

Peak pressures in thick targets generated by reduced density projectiles

Method for calculating peak pressures in thick targets impacted by hypervelocity projectiles in meteoroid damage studie

Theoretical prediction of crater size for hypervelocity impact by reduced-density particles, 18 May 1966 - 17 August 1967

Theoretical prediction of crater size in Al alloy for hypervelocity impact by reduced density particle

Farm Youth and Progressive Agricultural Reform: Dexter D. Mayne and the Farm Boy Cavaliers of America

In the early years of the twentieth century, rural America faced a population crisis as young people increasingly left farms for cities. Progressive reformers responded to this crisis with various suggestions meant to more firmly attach youngsters to their rural roots. Among the many solutions advocated were rural youth organizations. The Farm Boy Cavaliers of America, which also enrolled girls, pursued a more innovative path than most, emphasizing not only entertainment and instruction, but also a high degree of economic education and independence for farm children. The program offered an alternative to the Boy Scouts, which Dexter D. Mayne, the organization\u27s founder, believed to be unsatisfactory and inappropriate for farm youth. Ultimately, the organization may have promoted too much freedom for the rural youth, advocating behavior that parents could not approve of or afford in the cash-strapped early days of the century

Building Historical Imagination with Three Potato, Two Carrots, and One Onion

Cultivating historical imagination in undergraduate students is often a difficult task. The distance between their lives, generally lived in the last quarter century, and the ways in which people lived i the pre-World War II period can be enormous. The task becomes even more difficult when students think that certain elements of their lives in the present are much more similar to those of previous eras than they actually are. Case in point is the Great Depression. Given the current economic downturn, many students are convinced that, in some ways, they are living in a situation akin to that of the 1930s

Family Farming in the Midwest in the Early Twentieth Century: A Review Essay

Review of: "A Good Day\u27s Work: an Iowa Farm Family in the Great Depression," by Dwight Hoover; "Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Depression", by Mildred Armstrong Kalish; and "Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age through the Great Depression," by Carrie A. Meyer