North American drug policy: American and Canadian developments from the early twentieth century to today

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Katharine Neill Harris
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Global Communication versus Ethno-Chauvinism

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 141-176
Author(s):  
Galen Amstutz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
North American Society ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Shin Buddhism ◽  
American Society

Globalization intensifies the range, intensity, and diversity of interactions among world societies, but along with phenomena of hybridization, glocalization, or creolization it is just as likely to produce counter-reactive phenomena of resistance or conservative radicalization. In the case of the major Japanese Buddhist tradition of Shin Buddhism, the interactive possibilities that could have been theoretically imagined for its modern encounter with North American society were overwhelmed by the ethno-chauvinism which became embedded in the nikkei population particularly in the context of early twentieth-century competition between the Japanese and American empires. The chauvinism took form, in Shin Buddhism as in certain other domains of nikkei life, as a pervasive, persistent pressure for an “equal but separate” structuring of nikkei relations with White society. The analysis suggests that in at least some instances—although North America is a quite major instance—issues of race consciousness and racial formation need to be given more attention in globalization studies.

scholarly journals On the Causes and Dynamics of the Early Twentieth-Century North American Pluvial

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (19) ◽  
pp. 5043-5060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin I. Cook ◽  
Richard Seager ◽  
Ron L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
North American ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Boreal Winter ◽  
Cool Temperature ◽  
Reanalysis Dataset ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

The early twentieth-century North American pluvial (1905–17) was one of the most extreme wet periods of the last 500 yr and directly led to overly generous water allotments in the water-limited American west. Here, the causes and dynamics of the pluvial event are examined using a combination of observation-based datasets and general circulation model (GCM) experiments. The character of the moisture surpluses during the pluvial differed by region, alternately driven by increased precipitation (the Southwest), low evaporation from cool temperatures (the central plains), or a combination of the two (the Pacific Northwest). Cool temperature anomalies covered much of the West and persisted through most months, part of a globally extensive period of cooler land and sea surface temperatures (SST). Circulation during boreal winter favored increased moisture import and precipitation in the Southwest, while other regions and seasons were characterized by near-normal or reduced precipitation. Anomalies in the mean circulation, precipitation, and SST fields are partially consistent with the relatively weak El Niño forcing during the pluvial and, also, reflect the impacts of positive departures in the Arctic Oscillation that occurred in 10 of the 13 pluvial winters. Differences between the reanalysis dataset, an independent statistical drought model, and GCM simulations highlight some of the remaining uncertainties in understanding the full extent of SST forcing of North American hydroclimatic variability.

scholarly journals "The World is Wide Enough for Us Both”: The Manitoba School for the Deaf at the Onset of the Oralist Age, 1889-1920

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Sandy Barron
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Deaf Education ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
School For The Deaf ◽  
Communication Methods

Historical research on the oralist era in North American deaf education has typically been undertaken through a national lens. This study asserts that a more localized and regional view of the communication methods practiced at deaf schools will aid in the creation of a more complex picture of how oralism spread in Canadian and North American deaf schools. Based on an analysis of the papers of the Manitoba Ministry of Public Works; the archives of Silent Echo, the Manitoba School’s newspaper; and published works by the school’s principals, this paper contends that strict oralism faced fierce resistance in Manitoba from both Deaf citizens and teachers, as well as the school’s hearing principal, before 1920. Principal Duncan McDermid and deaf teacher J.R. Cook published and republished arguments in the Echo against oralism and in favour of moderation in the sign debate. In consideration of all three characteristics of strictly oralist schools in the early twentieth century – a ban on sign language, separation of deaf students from Deaf communities, and the expulsion of deaf teaching staff – the Manitoba School for the Deaf emerges as an exception to the trend of encroaching oralism in Canadian deaf schools during the early twentieth-century. 

Blackface Transformations I

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-101
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
North American ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Drama Theory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Effect ◽  
Josephine Baker

This chapter investigates movement vocabularies associated with early-twentieth-century North American African American dance, particularly as specific performers adapted these exceptionally influential vocabularies in order to employ them for expressive and political purposes beyond the street: in the vaudeville theater, the Hollywood soundstage, and the mixed-race nightclub. This chapter suggests that these performers--Bill Robinson, Josephine Baker, and the Marx Brothers--possessed a sophisticated understanding of the transgressive power of African American street dance and deployed those movement vocabularies with intentional political effect in new, mass-market media. Methodology is drawn especially from film and drama theory, kinesics, and iconography.

North American School Ensembles

2012 ◽  
pp. 806-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lee ◽  
Michael D. Worthy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Secondary Curriculum ◽  
American School ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Early School ◽  
Local Leaders ◽  
Successes And Failures

This article, which addresses the development of Canadian and US school ensembles from the early twentieth century to the present, identifies patterns of historical growth and speculates about larger successes and failures. In both countries, early school ensembles were regarded as a necessary part of an expanding secondary curriculum, emerging as they did in the midst of a reformist ethos positively disposed toward music. US and Canadian ensemble culture produced strong local leaders and administrators, who saw value in school ensembles in the education of children, and who worked with persistence and evangelical fervor to establish them in schools.

Publication as Preservation at a Remote Maya Site in the Early Twentieth Century*

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Yates
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central America ◽  
North American ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Maya Site

This chapter concerns the concept of ‘remoteness’ in early Mesoamerican archaeology as a factor in site preservation. Throughout the nineteenth century, Maya sites were academically and popularly conceived of as beyond ‘preservation’ in any realistic sense. However, the late nineteenth-century emergence of archaeology as a science and the growth of North American academic interest in Central America forced a situation where ‘preservation’ was incorporated into professional archaeological identity. Using the Guatemalan site of Holmul as a case study, the chapter presents publication as a form of preservation for logistically challenging archaeological sites in the early twentieth century. Publication is conceived of as an obligatory process that not only produced a textual ‘preserved site’, but served as an homage to advances in the development of North American-style archaeology as a scientific enquiry.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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