18 research outputs found
Propaganda or persuasion: The Communist Party and its campaign to integrate baseball
This thesis discusses whether propaganda, persuasion or a mix of both was used in the American Communist Party\u27s (CPUSA) campaign to integrate professional baseball. Representative articles published in the Daily and Sunday Worker sports sections from 1936 through 1947 were chosen for examination and analysis. Specifically, the use of god, devil, and charismatic terms are identified and discussed how the terms were used to educate, motivate, and activate members to participate. The use of charismatic terms is also examined in relationship to Aesopian language. The author concludes that a mix of propaganda and persuasion was used because intent of the campaign to secure new African American members was hidden from the audience. At the same time, the CPUSA also actively supported integration and consistently argued in support of this belief. In regard to Aesopian language, with the exception of name changes and one article from an Editorial Board member, little evidence suggests this form of propaganda was used during this particular campaign
Changes in Conflict Framing in the News Coverage of an Environmental Conflict
This article examines the role of media and conflict framing in four major turning points of an environmental controversy. In particular, it focuses on the media\u27s role in defining the dispute and altering the naming and blaming among constituents during these turning points. It also examines how these changes relate to escalation and de-escalation of the conflict
Managing Tensions In A Globalizing Environment
Globalizing processes often place the social cohesion of organizations at risk
when multinational people experience and exhibit tensions from their diverse cultural
and language norms. This study uses discourse analysis and dialectical theory to
understand the intersection of organizational tensions and multinationalism as they
appear at a bilingual Swiss higher education institution. I define multinationalism as the
intersection of communities who self identify with a national heritage and perpetuate
that identity through daily communication and interaction.
This case study is approached from a social constructionist perspective. I use
grounded theory and dialectical analysis to analyze the fifty-nine interviews in order to
identify the tensions that intersect with multinationalism and how they are managed. The
tensions identified include: choosing a language where two are privileged, providing an
intercultural environment as described by the mission statement, and managing
pedagogy/co-teaching practices. Choosing a language is often described in a dual
dimension between choosing French/choosing English where language groups are
sometimes seen as oppositional and vying for privileged status even though the organization privileges both languages. Providing an intercultural environment is
described as a global endeavor and yet sometimes becomes dialectical when balancing
how the organizational environment is actually managed/not managed based on national
and organizational cultural perspectives. Practicing pedagogy/co-teaching activities are
often framed as oppositional and dialectical when trying to reconcile French
pedagogy/Anglo-Saxon pedagogy and co-teaching practices, especially in regard to
American influence. Multinationalism emerges when participants use group identity
descriptors and intersects in a variety of ways depending on the intensity of the tensions.
Managing tensions result in ambiguity because of undefined language fluency
and competency. While ambiguity allows for social cohesion and time for interpreting
messages, it sometimes is used strategically to deny messages and retain privileged
positions. Disorienting interactions for some employees result in paradoxical situations,
and in some extreme cases, participants reported schizophrenic behavior when paranoid
statements are made which reflect their paralysis, uncertainty and loss of power.
This study advances dialectical theory by redefining totality as including
regional, national, and global contexts that also influence organizational agency and
discourse. In addition this study adds to the understanding of knots of contradictions by
illustrating how tensions evolve in their own right and also spin off simultaneous and
interconnected tensions. Finally, results from this study suggest that using ambiguity
could be seen as another management option as well as a result when dealing with
dialectical and paradoxical tensions
Nurses\u27 Alumnae Association Bulletin - Volume 6 Number 9
Remember the Relief Fund
Welcome! Miss Childs
Financial Report
Calendar of Coming Events
Lest You Forget!
Attention
Review of the Alumnae Association Meetings
Institutional Staff Nurses\u27 Section
Report of Staff Activities - 1947-1948
Private Duty Section
The White Haven Division
Barton Memorial Division
Remember the Relief Fund
Student Nurses\u27 Activities
Jefferson Scores Again
The Clara Melville Scholarship Fund
Interesting Activities of the Nurses\u27 Home Committee of the Women\u27s Board
Exclusive for Nurses
Changes in the Maternity Division
Gray Lady Musical Therapy Service
Memorial Service Honoring Mrs. Bessie Dobson Altemus
The Blood Donor Center
The Hospital Pharmacy
Medical College News
Remember the Relief Fund
Administrative Staff and Faculty of the School of Nursing
Streptomycin
Changes in the Staff at Jefferson Hospital
Care of the Thoracic Surgical Patient
Miscellaneous Items
Marriages
New Arrivals
Deaths
The Bulletin Committee
Attention, Alumnae
New Addresse
Pennsylvania Folklife Special 1960 Festival Issue
• Plain Dutch and Gay Dutch: Two Worlds in the Dutch Country • Pennsylvania Dutch • Displaced Dutchmen Crave Shoo-flies • Hex Signs: A Myth • Lebanon Valley Date Stones • Antiques in Dutchland • Antique or Folk Art: Which? • Folk Festival Program • Religious Patterns of the Dutch Country • The Costumes of the Plain Dutch • Love Feasts • Horse-and-Buggy Mennonites • The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amishhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/1008/thumbnail.jp
The Dutchman Vol. 6, No. 1
â—Ź Editorial â—Ź Somerset County Decorated Barns â—Ź Butter Molds â—Ź Restaurants, too, Go Dutch â—Ź The Hostetter Fractur Collection â—Ź Bindnagle\u27s Church â—Ź The Harry S. High Folk Art Collection â—Ź Lebanon Valley Date Stones â—Ź Of Bells and Bell Towers â—Ź John Durang, the First Native American Dancer â—Ź Stoffel Rilbps\u27 Epistle â—Ź The First Singing of Our National Anthem â—Ź Pennsylvania Dutch Pioneershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/dutchmanmag/1000/thumbnail.jp
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 4
• Dry Houses • Harvest Home • Golden Fields in the Golden Years • Illuminators, Scribes and Printers • John Drissel and His Boxes • Tick-Tock Time in Old Pennsylvania • About the Authors • Present Day Food Habits of the Pennsylvania Dutch • The Attitude of the Early Reformed Church Fathers Toward Worldly Amusementshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/1003/thumbnail.jp
The global burden of injury: Incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the global burden of disease study 2013
Background The Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors study used the disabilityadjusted life year (DALY) to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. This paper provides an overview of injury estimates from the 2013 update of GBD, with detailed information on incidence, mortality, DALYs and rates of change from 1990 to 2013 for 26 causes of injury, globally, by region and by country. Methods Injury mortality was estimated using the extensive GBD mortality database, corrections for illdefined cause of death and the cause of death ensemble modelling tool. Morbidity estimation was based on inpatient and outpatient data sets, 26 cause-of-injury and 47 nature-of-injury categories, and seven follow-up studies with patient-reported long-term outcome measures. Results In 2013, 973 million (uncertainty interval (UI) 942 to 993) people sustained injuries that warranted some type of healthcare and 4.8 million (UI 4.5 to 5.1) people died from injuries. Between 1990 and 2013 the global age-standardised injury DALY rate decreased by 31% (UI 26% to 35%). The rate of decline in DALY rates was significant for 22 cause-of-injury categories, including all the major injuries. Conclusions Injuries continue to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed and developing world. The decline in rates for almost all injuries is so prominent that it warrants a general statement that the world is becoming a safer place to live in. However, the patterns vary widely by cause, age, sex, region and time and there are still large improvements that need to be made