scholarly journals What Do Israeli University Students Know About Canada?

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Glass
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Questionnaire ◽  
American Students ◽  
Hebrew University

Between March 1996 and October 2000, six groups of students in a second- and third-year, optional, semester course in the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, were asked to complete a general knowledge questionnaire about Canada. The questions examine the respondents’ knowledge of Canadian geography, culture and society, population, and economic indicators. Analysis of the questionnaires found that compared with American students living “next door” to Canada, the level of Israeli university students’ knowledge about that country is quite high. Israelis know more about Canadian geography, sports, and economics, and about the flag of Canada than about other aspects of life there. They are familiar with Canadian pop culture figures, although they may not recognize them as Canadian. Israeli students’ awareness of Canada is eclipsed by their knowledge of the United States, which occupies a central role in the Israeli consciousness.

Sentence structure and formality

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Levin ◽  
Peter Garrett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
American Students ◽  
The One

ABSTRACTThe evidence is practically unequivocal that left-branching (LB) sentences are more difficult to process than right-branching (RB) sentences. In this study, the hypothesis was tested that LB sentences are judged to be more formal than RB ones and that center-branching (CB) sentences would behave like LB ones. Three groups of subjects, university students in England, Wales, and the United States, ordered three versions of 18 sentences in terms of their formality. LB and CB sentences were considered more formal than RB ones by all three groups of students. LB and CB types did not differ from each other. In a second study, American students choose from the group of three sentences the one they would say to a formal listener (professer/employer) or to an informal listener (brother/sister or close friend). RB sentences were attributed to informal listeners and LB and CB sentences, to formal listeners. (Grammar, formality, sociolinguistics)

Student Opposition in the United States

1966 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seymour Martin Lipset
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
American University ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Students ◽  
Opposition Movement

The emergence of a student opposition movement in the United States in the past few years has received world-wide attention. During the last year, American students have made headlines for their organized opposition to the Vietnam war, and for the now celebrated Berkeley Student Revolt. For perhaps the fist time in American history, the politics of university students has become a major topic of national political discussion. Many articles have been written in newspapers and magazines discussing the nature and sigmlicance of this movement.Any analysis of the American student movement must attempt to answer the question why student politics in the mid-1960s should be so much more noteworthy than any preceding set of such activities. Before turning to a discussion of this issue, I would like to summarize briefly some of the earlier radical activities of American university students.

The World of the Bible—Always Strange, Forever New

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Joseph D. Small
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
University Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Productive Author ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Reflections

Abstract Although Markus Barth was a productive author and is known widely through his published written work, he was also, for many decades, a teacher of formative importance for generations of seminary and university students in both the United States and Switzerland. This essay shares personal reflections on Markus Barth’s profile as a biblical and theological educator and thereby introduces readers to something of his influential personal and theological style.

scholarly journals United States and China: One evidence of the changing global geopolitical environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
Ruth Ortiz ◽  
Eusebio Ortiz Zarco ◽  
Gerardo Suárez Barrera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
The World

This research paper examines the commercial and monetary interdependence that has been built during the period 1990 - 2018 between two main economies of the world; this is an empirical analysis, based on a statistical scrutiny of economic indicators and Granger causalty tests. The result is a contribution to the understanding of the 21st century bundled international system, characterized by a changing global geopolitical environment, where the United States and China are the main actors.  

A Historical and Global Perspective on Liberal Arts Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara A. Godwin ◽  
Philip G. Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Liberal Arts Education

Debates about higher education’s purpose have long been polarized between specialized preparation for specific vocations and a broad, general knowledge foundation known as liberal education. Excluding the United States, specialized curricula have been the dominant global norm. Yet, quite surprisingly given this enduring trend, liberal education has new salience in higher education worldwide. This discussion presents liberal education’s non-Western, Western, and u.s. historical roots as a backdrop for discussing its contemporary global resurgence. Analysis from the Global Liberal Education Inventory provides an overview of liberal education’s renewed presence in each of the regions and speculation about its future development.

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