Education: The Key to Africa’s Future

Africa, a continent full of abundance and potential, is ironically hindered in desolation, deprivation, and chaos. The growth, future, and potential success of Africa is solely dependent on the education of its children. After identifying a number of educational barriers, defining the need for educational improvement, and documenting the efficiency of Western aid, this paper concludes that the West needs to recognize that it is the Africans who must ultimately save their own countries. However, Western programs and aid can help restore Africa when used thoughtfully and effectively. National programs and foreign funding must promote education that places value on the African “way of life,” assists the ‘people’ of Africa, and gives African children a sense of worth, hope, and acceptance in Christ

Distinct molecular interactions mediate neuronal process outgrowth on non-neuronal cell surfaces and extracellular matrices.

We have compared neurite outgrowth on extracellular matrix (ECM) constituents to outgrowth on glial and muscle cell surfaces. Embryonic chick ciliary ganglion (CG) neurons regenerate neurites rapidly on surfaces coated with laminin (LN), fibronectin (FN), conditioned media (CM) from several non-neuronal cell types that secrete LN, and on intact extracellular matrices. Neurite outgrowth on all of these substrates is blocked by two monoclonal antibodies, CSAT and JG22, that prevent the adhesion of many cells, including neurons, to the ECM constituents LN, FN, and collagen. Neurite outgrowth is inhibited even on mixed LN/poly-D-lysine substrates where neuronal attachment is independent of LN. Therefore, neuronal process outgrowth on extracellular matrices requires the function of neuronal cell surface molecules recognized by these antibodies. The surfaces of cultured astrocytes, Schwann cells, and skeletal myotubes also promote rapid process outgrowth from CG neurons. Neurite outgrowth on these surfaces, though, is not prevented by CSAT or JG22 antibodies. In addition, antibodies to a LN/proteoglycan complex that block neurite outgrowth on several LN-containing CM factors and on an ECM extract failed to inhibit cell surface-stimulated neurite outgrowth. After extraction with a nonionic detergent, Schwann cells and myotubes continue to support rapid neurite outgrowth. However, the activity associated with the detergent insoluble residue is blocked by CSAT and JG22 antibodies. Detergent extraction of astrocytes, in contrast, removes all neurite-promoting activity. These results provide evidence for at least two types of neuronal interactions with cells that promote neurite outgrowth. One involves adhesive proteins present in the ECM and ECM receptors on neurons. The second is mediated through detergent-extractable macromolecules present on non-neuronal cell surfaces and different, uncharacterized receptor(s) on neurons. Schwann cells and skeletal myotubes appear to promote neurite outgrowth by both mechanisms

The effectiveness of paired study versus individual study in social studies

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

The treatment of Africa in eight sixth-grade geography textbooks

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1946. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Conflicted tourism : heritage narratives, sectarian schism, and economic growth in Northern Ireland.

This thesis examines tourism as a politically charged facet of the economic process in Northern Ireland. While violence has abated in the region, sectarian conflict continues to affect Northern Irish society. Tourism has helped develop the economy by opening the market to visitors through the marketing of the region as unique and different. As conflict in the region is ongoing, the rise of tourism as a viable economic strategy raises the question: how does the Northern Irish tourist industry reconcile the past and ongoing conflict in order to present the region as a desirable tourist destination? The answer lies in the creation and appropriation of conflict sites. Conflict sites involve heritage. By focusing on these types of tourist attractions, attention is brought to the hidden – and continual – process of historical (re)formulation. The analytical categories of local-folk and official are instrumental in examining this process. They capture differing perspectives. The local-folk and official perspectives are not completely distinct. Instead they are intertwined and influence one another. They also vary across time and space. The concept of conflict tourism helps generate and address specific questions about such variation. How did the tourism industry develop within the socio-economic and political spheres? How has it affected these spheres? Most specifically, why and how have sites connected with the events of the Troubles been appropriated and reimagined as tourist spaces? Answering such questions requires attention to the socio-political framework of the Northern Irish economy, the creation and marketing of the tourism industry, the impact conflict has upon tourist activities, and the impact tourism has upon conflict

Workmen\u27s Compensation and Vocational Rehabilitation in California

The State of California, industry, and insurance Carriers financially preclude the majority of permanently disabled workmen from rehabilitating themselves. Ironically, unrehabilitated workmen are supported as public charges by both the state and federal taxpayer. This paradox exists nothwithstanding the fact that the economic costs incurred by the state for rehabilitation services are reimbursed by rehabilitants within a three year period. Unrealistic and inadequate laws, perennially tight budgets, ignorance and the system-created reluctance of the working man to accept rehabilitation services are the chief factors preventing these workmen from reentering the labor force. This Article critically explores the California law of workmen\u27s compensation as it relates to vocational rehabilitation and proffers the recommended legislation which would remedy this sad state of affairs