Inequality in the Promised Land

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sharif Uddin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Suburban Area ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Land Race ◽  
The Relationship

Inequality in the promised land: Race, resources, and suburban schooling is a well-written book by L’ Heureux Lewis-McCoy. The book is based on Lewis-McCoy’s doctoral dissertation, that included an ethnographic study in a suburban area named Rolling Acres in the Midwestern United States. Lewis-McCoy studied the relationship between families and those families’ relationships with schools. Through this study, the author explored how invisible inequality and racism in an affluent suburban area became the barrier for racial and economically minority students to grow up academically. Lewis-McCoy also discovered the hope of the minority community for raising their children for a better future.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF THE AMOUNT OF SLEEP AND THE EFFECTS IT HAS ON ATHLETIC CAPABILITIES AND ROUTINE TASKS IN COLLEGE ATHLETES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Simonian ◽  
Kira Sheahan ◽  
Kylie Christensen ◽  
Darice Haywood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
College Student ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Student Athlete ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Routine Tasks ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
College Student Athletes

College student athletes are under a lot of pressure to accomplish all that is expected of them which may lead to other areas of their lives being neglected, including sleep. The amount of sleep a student athlete gets is crucial in their accomplishments both off and on the field. The researchers chose to investigate how the amount of sleep an athlete gets affects their day to day life. Specifically, the researchers explored the correlation between the amount of sleep an athlete got and how positively they rated their day through an online daily survey throughout a two week span of 10 days. Participants of the study hailed from a Lutheran, faith-based institution of higher education in an urban area of the Midwestern United States. The research showed that it did not matter the amount of sleep the athlete got the night prior that determined their performance the following day. The study thoroughly addressed the relationship between stresses on athletes that impaired their sleep schedules and the aftereffects in both their academic and athletic performances in school and on the field.

scholarly journals Influence of Thrips on Bronzing of Strawberry Fruit

HortScience ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1343-1345
Author(s):  
Bethzayda Matos ◽  
John J. Obrycki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Strawberry Fruit ◽  
Mature Fruit ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
Flower Thrips ◽  
Thrips Species ◽  
Frankliniella Fusca ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

Thrips are presumed to be the major cause of bronzed strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne) fruit in the Midwestern United States. The objectives of this study were to 1) identify thrips species present in Iowa strawberry fields and 2) determine the relationship between the numbers of thrips collected from flowers and fruit and the percentage of mature fruit exhibiting bronzing damage. Thrips were collected from flowers and fruit for three growing seasons at three sites in central Iowa. Approximately 82% of these thrips were eastern flower thrips, Frankliniella tritici (Fitch) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae); the remaining 18% were primarily Frankliniella fusca (Hinds) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Mean number of adult and immature thrips per flower or fruit ranged from 0 to 7 in 2000, from 0 to 22 in 2001, and 0 to 16 in 2002. In 2001 and 2002, the incidence of thrips on both flowers and fruit was common; the mean number of thrips on flowers was 2 to 16 times greater than on fruit. However, in both years <1% of damage to fruit was attributed to thrips. Based on our results, we conclude that thrips infestations do not necessarily cause bronzed fruit in Iowa strawberry fields.

scholarly journals MIGRATION, WAR, AND THE MAKING OF A TRANSNATIONAL LEBANESE SHIʿI COMMUNITY IN SENEGAL

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 290a-290a
Author(s):  
Mara A. Leichtman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates links between religious and political transnationalisms through analyzing responses to the 2006 Lebanon war from the diaspora. I examine the role of a shaykh in bringing Lebanese Shiʿa in Senegal “back to Islam” as well as (spiritually if not physically) back to Lebanon. I explore his efforts to institute formal religious education through a Friday sermon, encourage public expressions of piety, and introduce new religious rituals in commemorations of ʿAshuraʾ and Ramadan. This ethnographic study adds a diaspora component to debates about Lebanese nationalism and suggests that the ideology of the umma does not hold for a marginalized Muslim minority community in a Muslim majority country, which instead defines itself along reformulated ethnic, religious, and national boundaries. The paper contributes to newly emerging scholarship on transnational Shiʿi linkages by demonstrating how the African example adds another dimension to our understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East.

scholarly journals The Interplay of International Students’ Acculturative Stress, Social Support, and Acculturation Modes

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Christopher Sullivan ◽  
Susan Kashubeck-West
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Support ◽  
International Students ◽  
Acculturative Stress ◽  
Public University ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Integration Approach ◽  
Effective Counseling ◽  
Graduate International Students ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between acculturation modes (assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization), social support, and acculturative stress in undergraduate and graduate international students (N=104) at a medium-sized public university in the Midwestern United States. The study found that international students with broad-based social support and an Integration approach to acculturation experienced lower levels of acculturative stress. Implications for more effective counseling with international students are addressed.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Sports Talk Radio’s Effect On Social Issues

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehana Power ◽  
Elham Mohamud ◽  
Brandon McRoy ◽  
Cleandre Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Professional Athletes ◽  
Talk Radio ◽  
Midwestern United States ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sports Talk

Professional athletes are becoming more vocal about their stances on different social issues like Black Lives Matter, MeToo and more. The researchers chose to investigate the effects that sports talk radio has on listeners perceptions of different social issues. Participants of the study hailed from a Lutheran, faith-based institution of higher education in an urban area of the Midwestern United States. The study thoroughly addressed the relationship between consumers of sports talk radio and their opinions on professional athletes addressing social issues.

Abusive Men's Use of Children to Control Their Partners and Ex-Partners

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa L. Beeble ◽  
Deborah Bybee ◽  
Cris M. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
The Relationship

While research has found that millions of children in the United States are exposed to their mothers being battered, and that many are themselves abused as well, little is known about the ways in which children are used by abusers to manipulate or harm their mothers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that perpetrators use children in a variety of ways to control and harm women; however, no studies to date have empirically examined the extent of this occurring. Therefore, the current study examined the extent to which survivors of abuse experienced this, as well as the conditions under which it occurred. Interviews were conducted with 156 women who had experienced recent intimate partner violence. Each of these women had at least one child between the ages of 5 and 12. Most women (88%) reported that their assailants had used their children against them in varying ways. Multiple variables were found to be related to this occurring, including the relationship between the assailant and the children, the extent of physical and emotional abuse used by the abuser against the woman, and the assailant's court-ordered visitation status. Findings point toward the complex situational conditions by which assailants use the children of their partners or ex-partners to continue the abuse, and the need for a great deal more research in this area.

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