Brazil under Dutra.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityAlthough Brazil was settled by the Portuguese in the first years of the sixteenth century, Brazilians have long since lost much of their Ibero or Hispanic cast, largely as a result of cohabitation between the settlers and the aborigines during the early period of colonization and later as a result of intermingling with Negro slaves. The latter were brought into the country to work the sugar plantations and mills which formed the base of Brazil's economy until the close of the seventeenth century. Inefficient methods of production and West Indian competition ended this, the first of three major exploitive, monocultural cycles which have punctuated Brazil's economic development down to the present. Gold mining, which held sway as Brazil's main revenue producing activity during most of the eighteenth century was second; while coffee production, the third and still extent mainstay of the economy came to the fore in the early decades of the nineteenth century. [TRUNCATED

Alien Registration- Perry, James A. (Gorham, Cumberland County)

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Critique [of Institutional Racism]

For those who see institutional racism as a problem which can be solved, the points of focus by Deloria are these: An institution is a person with a personality shaped by western-culture; and institutional racism is a phenomenon created by western culture. The idea that an institution is a “person” with a personality of its own is not new; the legal profession has held that a corporation, and therefore, an institution, is a “person” protected by the fourth amendment of the Constitution

Restrictions on Student Voting: An Unconstitutional Anachronism?

Using Michigan as a vehicle for analysis because it has a student voting process representative of many states, this note seeks to accomplish four purposes: (1) an examination of the case law often underlying the presumption against student registrability; (2) an analysis of recent constitutional developments in the due process and equal protection areas as they relate to the particular problems posed by the student voter; (3) a survey of the competing local and student interests in the student vote issue; and (4) a conclusion regarding the likelihood that thwarted student voters can follow the paths of other disfranchised groups such as black citizens who have successfully achieved the unqualified right to vote

Home Instruction: An Analysis of the Statutes and Case Law

Contents: Introduction, statutory analysis, case law analysis (“no-exception” statutes, “equivalency” statutes, “explicit” statutes), summary and conclusions

INCORPORATING GOVERNMENT PROGRAM PROVISIONS INTO A MEAN-VARIANCE FRAMEWORK

E-V studies traditionally have relied on historical data to calculate returns and variance. Historical data may not fully reflect current conditions, particularly when decisions involve government-supported crops. This paper presents a method for calculating mean and variance using subjectively-estimated data. The method is developed for both government-supported and non-program crops. Comparisons to alternative methods suggest the approach provides reasonable accuracy.Agricultural and Food Policy,

Thinking aloud: an exploration of cognitions in professional snooker

Objectives: Presently, there is no exploration into the cognitive processes of super-elite and elite professional snooker players during real-time performance. Therefore, this study explored the cognitions of seven professional snooker players during real-time solo practice performance. Design: A Think Aloud (TA) protocol analysis. Method: This involved players verbalizing and explaining their thoughts within naturalistic practice environments. Player’s verbalizations were recorded during each solo practice performance, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed via protocol analysis. Results: Analyses revealed an array of continuous reactive-adaptive cognitions relat-ing to stressors and coping strategies during performance, as well as general snooker-specific related thoughts. Specifically, the results highlighted key stressor themes which were coded as: Table Conditions, Distractions, and Mistakes. Our main finding was: Shot Preparation being essential to problem-focused coping, with Rationalizing integral to emotion-focused coping. Further results highlighted the visualperceptual and cognitive expertise of players, with regards to identification of problem balls and cueball spatial awareness, insofar as unearthing the delib-erate structure to practice routines. Conclusions: The study’s original and novel findings lend further support to the transactional process of coping. Whilst accordingly, the utilization of TA significantly contributed to our limited understanding of super-elite and elite real-time cogni-tions in professional snooker and self-paced sports generally. Future research should continue to dissect the sport-specific nuances that underpin real-time performance, not only during prac-tices, but within competitive play. TA is an appropriate methodology to use in the domain-specific sport of snooker