Future Trends in Iowa Crop Prodcution

Current trends indicate corn and soybean acreage in Iowa may increase moderately in the coming decade, but the state isn\u27t likely to attain it\u27s maximum production potential. Population, consumption rates and exports are the real keys to future demand for Iowa\u27s agricultural output

A review of Rural Crime Prevention: Theory, Tactics and Techniques by Alistair Harkness (ed.)

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Farm Family Living Expenses in 1961

An analysis of the spending patterns of 225 Iowa farm families shows us some trends in farm family living expenditures that occured last year and also furnishes guides you can use in budgeting your own expenditures

Please Don’t Use NAEP Scores to Rank Order the 50 States

Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and other large scale tests are often reported as rank ordered lists showing mean values for each of the 50 states. Using data from the 2003 State NAEP Assessment, this paper examines the standard errors associated with State NAEP scores and explains why the use of rank order statistics is inappropriate. An alternate approach anchored to a given state is offered. Accessed 24,072 times on https://pareonline.net from August 22, 2005 to December 31, 2019. For downloads from January 1, 2020 forward, please click on the PlumX Metrics link to the right

Going Hard, Going Easy, Going Home: Death and Dying in 20th Century African American Literature

This dissertation answers the question: How can art represent the essential human experience of death, particularly when the creative context is one of extreme violence? And, what can be learned about the risks and rewards of the living\u27s relationship with the dead by way of these artistic representations? Further, how do these aesthetic renderings of death construct the ethics of life for survivors? In the case of African America, discussion of, and responses to, these questions have been primarily explored in novelist and creative writing. This dissertation examines these novelistic treatments of death-tropes, or thanatropes in eight novels written by African American writers in the 20th century. These authors explore through the use of thanatropes the potential for reconciliation after atrocity. A central concern of the literature analyzed here is: What kind of ritual, art, or aesthetic is restorative of wellness and health after catastrophic violence? African American morbidity in the psychosocial context of captivity, enslavement, forced labor, incarceration, segregation, and apartheid, has influenced African American aesthetic, especially death ritual. Hence, the artistic representation of death, ritual and funerary rites in 20th Century African American literary works offers commentary on a universal human condition, mortality, experienced under conditions of continuing adversity and inequality