Alien Registration- Smith, Jessie (Southwest Harbor, Hancock County)

https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/19548/thumbnail.jp

A Child\u27s Book of Old Verses

ix, 124 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illus. (some color). Illustrated lining-papers. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wetherell. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_illustration/1029/thumbnail.jp

The Construction of Quebec's Green Economy

The green economy is a new economic paradigm, which has become increasingly popular in light of recent UN publications and the 2012 Rio + 20 summit. But what are the implications of this development? In order to answer this question one must re-think "the economy" as social construction rather than the self-evident object (Mitchell, 2006). While economic experts and the state perform the economy they simultaneously define what is considered "non-economic": a status that makes life precarious for those human and nonhuman factors that are valued in this way (e.g. the environment) (Mitchell, 2010). Since 2008 the Quebec government has been developing their own green economy. The major result of this initiative has been the creation of an organization called "Ecotech Quebec" (otherwise known as Quebec's clean-tech cluster), which is responsible for defining and promoting Quebec's green economy. Through twenty five semi-structured interviews, a document review, and visual analysis this in-depth case study examines the process by which Quebec's green economy is being constructed. More specifically, this research sheds light on the ways in which Quebec politics and economics are performing the green economy; exposes the socio-technical mechanisms that have contributed to this project; and reveals what has been excluded from this representation. This research will therefore contribute to the debate about whether or not the green economy initiative will center on the appropriate transformations necessary to ameliorate the contradiction of capital and ecology, or if it will result in technological fixes and business as usual

A Picture of Health: Art and Medicine in the Lives of Late 19th-Century Artists Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh

For this thesis, I wanted to explore a topic that I found interesting and that I could really enjoy researching. After a study abroad course in southern France in August 2015 during which we explored the locations that inspired artworks by Vincent van Gogh, I found my topic: health and art. After more research, I discovered that this topic could develop into a thesis. Specifically, this project investigates the ways in which the medical conditions of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh affected their perspectives and relationships, and in turn, their artwork. In it, I explore the biographies of both of these artists and ways in which their health affected them from childhood to choosing a career and onward in the context of late 19th century France. I address the diagnoses that they received at the time they were living and the ways in which the treatments for and knowledge of those conditions have changed since that time. Then, I will analyze works of art through the lens of the artists’ biographies and medical histories and will study the intersection of those two. While this topic has been addressed before, I propose that Lautrec’s and van Gogh’s medical conditions affected their lives, relationships, and careers in different ways but resulted in unique perspectives from each to view in their artworks

Discrimination in Medical Settings and Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Role of Distrust in Conventional Providers

This study examines the relationship between racial/ethnic discrimination in medical settings, distrust in conventional medicine, and attitudes toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among a racially/ethnically diverse sample. We also investigate how this relationship differs by nativity. Data are from a 2008 statewide stratified sample of publicly insured adults in Minnesota (N=2,194). Discrimination was measured as self-reported unfair treatment in medical settings due to race, ethnicity, and/or nationality. Outcomes are trust in conventional providers/medicine and attitudes toward CAM modalities. Discrimination in medical settings was positively associated with 1) distrust in conventional providers and 2) favorable attitudes toward CAM. Foreign-born status was associated with more distrust in conventional providers/medicine and more positive attitudes toward CAM. Our findings show that for publicly insured, and especially minority and foreign-born individuals, CAM may represent a response to disenfranchisement in conventional medical settings and resulting distrust

What You Need to Know About Sex

Writings and artwork examining messages about sex and contraception in the media, intimate partner violence, sexuality and gender in popular music, and sexuality.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/feminist_zines/1025/thumbnail.jp