"There Is a Lot That I Want to Do": Reflections on the Relief Efforts in Haiti

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-343
Author(s):  
Maryse Desgrottes
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Harvard Educational Review ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
New School ◽  
School Superintendent ◽  
Review Editor ◽  
The Face ◽  
Relief Efforts

In October 2010, Harvard Educational Review editor Raygine DiAquoi interviewed Maryse Desgrottes, the mother of a close friend and a visible presence in the relief efforts in Petit Goave, Haiti. Desgrottes, a former physician's assistant turned educator and school superintendent, shares the story of her involvement in Haiti's relief efforts since the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Her story takes us from the initial terror and trauma of the first tremors to the present condition of the Haitian people. In her role as founder of the Henri Gerard Desgranges Foundation, which provides education and medical care to the town's people, Desgrottes reflects on the importance of education in the midst of disaster and the role that her school has played in the lives of Petit Goave's children and families. She also discusses the importance of partnerships with foreign organizations and the delicate balance between helping and hurting after a disaster. Desgrottes travels to Haiti every few months to monitor the rebuilding of the École Village Lucina. Currently, this school serves two hundred children, including a number of students who were orphaned by the earthquake. As the final touches are added to the new school building, Desgrottes looks ahead to the future of the students. Her story reveals themes of the importance of culture, sovereignty,and strength in the face of disaster.

“The Greatest Thrill I Get is When I Hear a Criminal Say, ‘Yes, I Did it’”: Race and the Third Degree in New Orleans, 1920–1945

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S. Adler
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Face ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Short Time

On May 11, 1938, two New Orleans policemen entered the Astoria Restaurant, marched to the kitchen, and approached Loyd D. T. Washington, a 41-year-old African American cook. They informed Washington that they would be taking him to the First Precinct station for questioning, although they assured the cook that he need not change his clothes and “should be right back” to the “Negro restaurant,” where he had worked for 3 years. Immediately after arriving at the station house, police officers “surrounded” Washington, showed him a photograph of a man, and announced that he had killed a white man in Yazoo City, Mississippi, 20 years earlier. When Washington insisted that he did not know the man in the photograph, that he had never been to (or even heard of) Yazoo City, and that he had been in the army at the time of the murder, the law enforcers confined him in a cell, although they had no warrant for his arrest and did not charge him with any crime. The following day, a detective brought him to the “show-up room” in the precinct house, where he continued the interrogation and, according to Washington, “tried to make me sign papers stating that I had killed a white man” in Mississippi. As every African American New Orleanian knew, the show-up (or line-up) room was the setting where detectives tortured suspects and extracted confessions. “You know you killed him, Nigger,” the detective roared. Washington, however, refused to confess, and the detective began punching him in the face, knocking out five of his teeth. After Washington crumbled to the floor, the detective repeatedly kicked him and broke one of his ribs. The beating continued for an hour, until other policemen restrained the detective, saying “give him a chance to confess and if he doesn't you may start again.” But Washington did not confess, and the violent interrogation began anew. A short time later, another police officer interrupted the detective, telling him “do not kill this man in here, after all he is wanted in Yazoo City.” Bloodied and writhing in pain, Washington asked to contact his family, but the request was ignored. Because he had not been formally charged with a crime, New Orleans law enforcers believed that Washington had no constitutional protection again self-incrimination or coercive interrogation and no right to an arraignment or bail, and they had no obligation to contact his relatives or to provide medical care for him.

CHANCE, PROVIDENCE, AND IMPERIAL ENNUI IN ALFRED DOMETT’S RANOLF AND AMOHIA: A SOUTH-SEA DAY-DREAM

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-341
Author(s):  
Hugh Roberts
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Robert Browning ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
South Sea ◽  
Partial Retirement

“I have read your poems – you can do anything” wrote Robert Browning to his close friend Alfred Domett on May 22, 1842, shortly after the latter had emigrated to New Zealand (Browning, Domett and Arnould 35). If this was in part friendly overpraise of Domett's verse, it was also a prognostication as to the effect of emigration. The idea (which also underlies Browning's poetic treatment of Domett's departure in the figure of Waring who “gave us all the slip”) was that “partial retirement and stopping the ears against the noise outside” would open up the possibility of something startlingly new: the little I, or anybody, can do as it is, comes of them going to New Zealand. . . . What I meant to say was – that only in your present condition of life, so far as I can see, is there any chance of your being able to find out . . . (sic) what is wanted, and how to supply the want when you precisely find it (35).

scholarly journals A IMPORTÂNCIA DO PSICOPEDAGOGO INSTITUCIONAL FRENTE A DIFICULDADE DE APRENDIZADO

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (Especial 2) ◽  
pp. 70-74
Author(s):  
Mariana Aparecida Grillo ◽  
Joel Augusto Oliveira Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
New School ◽  
The Face ◽  
Experience Difficulty

The research developed aims to present the school as a place of promotion to knowledge, where the educating will have the opportunity to take ownership of the necessary contents to develop and to have a social life. However, the student may experience difficulty in learning because of the lack of school inclusion, or for family and personal problems. In this sense comes the action of the Psychoeducator in the search for answers for each particularity. With investigative work, it is possible to create working methods with this student so that their difficulty is remedied. In the face of the new school paradigms, the work of the psychoeducator is essential as an intermediator in the educational process. In this context this professional gains the role of renewing the concepts of teaching and of adapting the methodologies and practices, so that in this computerized era where the information is transmitted in real time, the student is achieved in its difficulties, yearnings and fears. Thus, this work presents within the analytical, bibliographic and exploratory research a reflection on such facts, consolidating the role of the Psychoeducator, and concluding through this study the purpose of this professional that will develop its Work favoring and guiding the process of teaching and learning and human development.

User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What's Health Got to Do With It?)

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Evans ◽  
Morris L. Barer ◽  
Greg L. Stoddart
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Health Care Costs ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
User Fees ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Face ◽  
Care Costs

ABSTRACTCalls for user fees in Canadian health care go back as far as the debate leading up to the establishment of Canada's national hospital insurance program in the late 1950s. Although the rationales have shifted around somewhat, some of the more consistent claims have been that user fees are necessary as a source of additional revenue for a badly underfunded system, that they are necessary to control runaway health care costs, and that they will deter unnecessary use (read abuse) of the system. But the real reasons that user fees have been such hardy survivors of the health policy wars, bear little relation to the claims commonly made for them. Their introduction in the financing of hospital or medical care in Canada would be to the benefit of a number of groups, and not just those one usually thinks of. We show that those who are healthy, and wealthy, would join health care providers (and possibly insurers) as net beneficiaries of a reintroduction of user fees for hospital and medical care in Canada. The flip side of this is that those who are indigent and ill will bear the brunt of the redistribution (for that is really what user fees are all about), and seniors feature prominently in those latter groups. Claims of other positive effects of user fees, such as reducing total health care costs, or improving appropriateness or accessibility, simply do not stand up in the face of the available evidence. In the final analysis, therefore, whether one is for or against user fees reduces to whether one is for or against the resulting income redistribution.

Search, Rescue, and Care of the Injured following the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 475-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Movahedi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Kerman City ◽  
Relief Efforts

Relief efforts started soon after the earthquake, but organized search and rescue missions were absent during the first 24 hours after the disaster. Once on their way, these missions were paralyzed by the chaos that ruled the first few days of the event, the harsh terrain, and the cold weather. Rubble removal and rescue of the trapped became secondary to transfer of the injured to hospitals. Most of the injured people were originally taken to Kerman city for stabilization before they were flown to other cities in Iran for further medical care. The hospitals in Kerman city were greatly burdened by this task. However, they performed heroically given scarce resources and staff, especially during the initial days of the disaster. By the second week of the disaster, field hospitals were operational in Bam and were able to provide care for people, relieving the pressure on Kerman city.

scholarly journals Społeczne inicjatywy na rzecz organizacji opieki socjalnej nad ludźmi starymi w Królestwie Polskim na przełomie XIX i XX wieku. Zarys problematyki

1970 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Aneta Bołdyrew
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Pension System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Old People ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Face ◽  
Old People's Homes

Lack of a universal pension system in the Kingdom of Poland in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries was one of the factors contributing to the difficult situation of the elderly from non-elite social strata, particularly in the face of insufficient support of the families. The homeless, who often also suffered from diseases, were crippled and begged, found themselves in a particularly difficult situation, men and women alike. Organising institutional social protection and medical care for this group required instant action. The priority was to establish homes for old people and various types of residential homes. This was primarily handled by charities for which medical care and welfare of the elderly were among the most important areas of activity. Old people’s homes were also established by religious communities and individualsas well as institutions operating on a self-help basis.

scholarly journals Opportunities and challenges for statistics education in South Africa

Pythagoras ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Temesgen Zewotir ◽  
Delia North
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
New School ◽  
Fundamental Building Block ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The Face ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
The Government

The South African educational system is in a state of transformation as the Government embarks on a process of grappling with legacies of the past, whilst balancing risks and opportunities for the future. Accordingly, a new school curriculum with outcomes-based education as the fundamental building block was introduced along a sliding scale, starting in 1997. This curriculum, with a vast statistics content, has the potential to change the face of statistics education in South Africa, as statistics had previously been virtually absent from the school syllabus. This article highlights the challenges to and opportunities for optimising the teaching of statistics across all education levels in South Africa.

A Silver Merchant’s Daughter

Beyond Bach ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Talle
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Professional Careers

Chapter three uses the musical life of Christiane Sibÿlla Bose, a young woman who lived near the Bach family in Leipzig, as a means of exploring the lives of women of her time and place. Ms. Bose played the keyboard recreationally and was a close friend of J. S. Bach’s wife, Anna Magdalena. Women typically spent time managing the acquisition of food, clothing, and medical care for their households. Playing the keyboard was a means by which they could make themselves more attractive to potential suitors. Pursuing professional careers as musicians, however, was generally discouraged. Ms. Bose likely viewed Anna Magdalena Bach as a role model, not only as a wife and mother, but also as a woman who had transcended cultural prejudices to pursue a successful career as a musician.

The psychological impact of life-limiting conditions on the child

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Jan Aldridge ◽  
Barbara M. Sourkes
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
The Face ◽  
Psychological Expertise

The children and families who speak in this chapter articulate concerns that are shared by many who are living with potentially life-shortening illnesses or conditions. They have all had to negotiate the changing, and often narrowing, of their world that the progressive losses that illness can bring and find ways to live with these changes and the ongoing uncertainty. The chapter explores how the availability of sensitive emotional support and psychological expertise throughout the course of the child’s and family`s journey can bring much comfort, ease suffering and distress, and even aspire to enable growth in the face of enormous challenge.

A New Century: Leadership in the Face of Change

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
New School ◽  
School Year ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Engaging Instruction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Effective Use

Welcome to a new century of Mathematics Teacher. As we begin volume 101, we celebrate our past accomplishments and look forward to our futures?both in terms of the successes we anticipate and the challenges we shall face. As you take your first steps forward in a new school year, we invite you to embark on a journey with us toward more engaging instruction; a more coherent articulation of curriculum; a more effective use of technology; and, most important, a deeper understanding and appreciation of mathematics on the part of our students.

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