Colonialism’s Past and Present: Performing History at a Gold Rush Theme Park

The urge to seize, to claim the past in order to experience the truth of history is a powerful impulse - one full of desire for a time apart from the here and now. Conceiving and sustaining an experience of the past is today very big business. The ongoing development of the heritage, tourism and re-enactment industries inter-link with popular historical perception in ways that raise multiple questions about the relationship between popular and academic accounts of the past and the many other ways of performing history (Dening 1996). This paper takes as its starting point a gold rush theme park, Old Mogo Town in NSW Australia, and in particular, its erasure of all evidence of the Indigenous past. From here, it is my aim to develop a revised performance of that past- one that interrogates the catastrophe of colonialism and the fate of history currently expunged from the gold rush theme park of Old Mogo Town

Governing Indigenous Alterity: Towards A Sociology of Australian Indigenous Issues

In this paper I explore some of the ways in which the notion of liberal governmentality – the idea of governing through freedom – might usefully generate a specifically sociological insight into some of the ways in which Indigenous peoples are currently governed in the Australian context. It will be my argument that although much current research takes the development of Indigenous rights premised on the recognition of Indigenous difference as foundational to liberal governmentality there is a tendency, nonetheless, to continue to regard this mode of governing as continuous with earlier coercive, colonial forms of power. Drawing on some fieldwork I hope to show some of the (small ways) in which rights and freedoms rather than opposing power can in fact be said to be constitutive of new fields of (liberal governmental) power

A Qualitative Exploration of Formation and Change in Attachment to God

This study consisted of a phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of individuals who identify as Christians, examined within the context of attachment to God. Eleven Ph.D. students enrolled in an online program at an evangelical institution in the southeastern United States were interviewed. The interviews were conducted online, recorded (audio and video), and transcribed within the MS Teams app. Data was analyzed, codes were established, and themes were identified. Analysis revealed that while one’s relationship with God was meaningful and secure, all indicated the presence of seeking (greater connection to God) language. Second, attachment terms were often used to describe one’s relationship with God. Third, spiritual mentors and life crises were identified as significant in helping individuals move closer to God. Finally, changes in attachment were associated with the practice of spiritual disciplines. These findings emphasize spirituality\u27s essential and complex nature and the need for further exploration using qualitative measures. Implications for the church include the need for creating awareness of the attachment relationship available to all who desire a connection to God, the importance of educating individuals on the ways in which their human attachment relationships may influence attachment to God and the possibility that emerging adulthood may be a sensitive period for spiritual development. A finding that should be considered for future research is the importance of life crises in forming one’s attachment to God

The Spanish sources of Le Diable Boiteux

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1915. ; Includes bibliographical references

Teacher-Pupil Relationships

Do teacher personalities affect the behavior of pupils? The problem of this investigation is twofold. (1) To study the teaching procedures in the elementary grades of the South Kitsap Schools. (2) To determine the effect of teacher personalities upon the behavior of pupils

Adolescent mothers['] perception[s] of their infants and quality of mother-infant interaction

The major purpose of the study was to assess the value of a mother-infant acquaintance program for adolescent mothers. Adolescent mothers' perception of their own infants was compared with their perception of the average infant at one to two days postpartum and one-month postpartum. Quality of care was assessed at one-month postpartum. The subjects were 47 first-time adolescent mothers who had normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries and their infants who were free of physical defects. The adolescent mothers were randomly assigned to one of three groups for comparison; a control group, a telephone group and an experimental group. The data were collected using the Neonatal Perception Inventories and Degree of Bother Inventory (Broussard, 1964). The scores were analyzed using Analysis or Variance. The significance level was set at the .05 critical value level for a two tailed test

Fostering Local Health Department and Health System Collaboration Through Case Conferences for At-Risk and Vulnerable Population

In case conferences, health care providers work together to identify and address patients' complex social and medical needs. Public health nurses from the local health department joined case conference teams at federally qualified health center primary care sites to foster cross-sector collaboration, integration, and mutual learning. Public health nurse participation resulted in frequent referrals to local health department services, greater awareness of public health capabilities, and potential policy interventions to address social determinants of health

Policy options for the world’s primary forests in multilateral environmental agreements

We identify policies that would provide a solid foundation in key international negotiations to ensure that primary forests persist into the 21st Century. A novel compilation of primary forest cover and other data revealed that protection of primary forests is a matter of global concern being equally distributed between developed and developing countries. Almost all (98%) of primary forest is found within 25 countries with around half in five developed ones (USA, Canada, Russia, Australia, and NZ). Only approximate to 22% of primary forest is found in IUCN Protected Areas Categories I-VI, which is approximately 5% of preagriculture natural forest cover. Rates of deforestation and forest degradation are rapid and extensive, and the long-term integrity of primary forest cannot be assumed. We recommend four new actions that could be included in climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable development negotiations: (1) recognize primary forests as a matter of global concern within international negotiations; (2) incorporate primary forests into environmental accounting; (3) prioritize the principle of avoided loss; and (4) universally accept the important role of indigenous and community conserved areas. In the absence of specific policies for primary forest protection, their unique biodiversity values and ecosystem services will continue to erode