Civics for Junior High SchoolsCommunity Civics: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the United States. Grace A. TurkingtonThe American Community: An Elementary Text in Community Civics. James Albert Woodburn , Thomas Francis Moran

1924 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 713-714
Author(s):  
W. G. Kimmel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Junior High ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness

scholarly journals Race and Politics in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-179
Author(s):  
Howard A. Palley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Race And Politics ◽  
Inalienable Rights

Abstract The Declaration of Independence asserts that “All men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Nevertheless, the United States, at its foundation has been faced with the contradiction of initially supporting chattel slavery --- a form of slavery that treated black slaves from Africa purely as a commercial commodity. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom had some discomfort with slavery, were slaveholders who both utilized slaves as a commodity. Article 1 of our Constitution initially treated black slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of apportioning representation in order to increase Southern representation in Congress. So initially the Constitution’s commitment to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” did not include the enslaved black population. This essay contends that the residue of this initial dilemma still affects our politics --- in a significant manner.

Review: Life in the Fast Lane

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Peggy A. House
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Age ◽  
Mathematics Students ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Symposium Series ◽  
Fast Lane

Since its official beginning on 1 September 1971, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University has received considerable attention as a model for the education of extremely talented young mathematics students, usually of junior high school age. Articles and books have been written about the project as it evolved and as it was replicated elsewhere in the United States. So it was appropriate that in November 1980 a symposium at Johns Hopkins was devoted to discovering what had been learned during the first decade of the SMPY. Academic Precocity, Volume 10 in the Hyman Blumberg Symposium series, reports the findings and conclusions of that symposium.

Dinosaur Studies in the Pre-K Through Junior High Curriculum

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
M. Dinah Zike
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Human Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Human Growth And Development ◽  
Pass Through

I have always loved dinosaurs, and I feel fortunate to be able to teach teachers and students about dinosaurs as part of my profession; and yes, my name is really Dinah. Every year for the past 10 years, I have worked with thousands of teachers and students across the United States. During this time, I have made a startling discovery not mentioned in any of the classic human growth and development textbooks. I have found that most Americans pass through the following developmental stages, based upon dinosaurs:

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Graham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
Individual Choices ◽  
Distribution Of Income

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book considers the extent to which the American Dream—and the right to the pursuit of happiness—is equally available to all citizens today. Building on the author's research on well-being and on mobility and opportunity in countries around the world, the book explore the linkages between the distribution of income, attitudes about inequality and future mobility, and well-being in the United States, and also provides some comparisons with other countries and regions. This scholarship is distinct from existing work on inequality in its focus on the well-being–beliefs channel and its implications for individual choices about the future.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
David A. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Family ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Capitalist Democracies

The United States is a nation of diverse peoples, formed not through a common genealogy, as were its European counterparts among capitalist democracies. Instead, its people have been bound together through allegiance to a constitution, outlining the framework for the making of law and for governance, and a loosely defined, ever-contested creed. Americans are moved to love their country not by membership in an “American family,” but rather by the powerful rhetorical formulations of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence that establish the promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” What this inspiring language means in practice is an ongoing argument that holds Americans together....

scholarly journals From Liberal Democracy to the Cosmopolitan Canopy

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Jon Van Til
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
The Welfare State

Liberalism is that ideology, that worldview, which values, in an ever-evolving set of intelligently intermingled thoughts:  democracy, freedom (liberty), equality (justice), fraternity (solidarity), the pursuit of happiness, pluralism (diversity), and human rights--and explores the ever-open ever-possible futures of their rediscovery and advance. The study of ways in which social movements relate to Third sector/nonprofit or voluntary organizations can be structured, if we choose, as a liberal endeavor.  That is the message I receive from Antonin Wagner’s (2012) telling of the emergence of a field that focuses its study and developmental energies on place of intermediate associational life in modern society, from Adalbert Evers’ efforts to sustain the welfare state in an era of untrammeled capitalism (2013), and from Roger Lohmann’s (1992) comprehensive vision of a social commons capable of assuring the values of liberal society.This paper sets the theory of liberal democracy in a contemporary cosmopolitan context, drawing on case material from Hungary, Northern Ireland,  and the United States. 

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