Mohammed Dib and America: “America is something else”

Throughout his life, Mohammed Dib was in contact with American culture, engaging closely with its literature. This interest prevailed for a long time: the article he published in 1948 in an Algerian magazine already showed Dib’s great knowledge of the writers across the Atlantic. Over time his knowledge became deeper and more intimate, particularly since his stay in California in the summer of 1974. This direct experience of the reality of the United States nourished Dib’s later works and allowed him to renew his poetics and his conception of writing. This article explains the connections between Dib's work and his unique representations of American referents.

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A Saint of Our Own

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649474.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Catholic Church ◽

American Culture ◽

The United States ◽

Panoramic View ◽

Pope Francis ◽

Heaven And Earth ◽

The Church ◽

The U.S ◽

Over Time

Canonization, the process by which the Catholic Church names saints, may be fundamentally about holiness, but it is never only about holiness. In the United States, it was often about the ways in which Catholics defined, defended, and celebrated their identities as Americans. This book traces saint-seeking in the United States from the 1880s, the decade in which U.S. Catholics nominated their first candidates for canonization, to 2015, the year Pope Francis named the twelfth American saint in the first such ceremony held on U.S. soil. It argues that U.S. Catholics’ search for a saint of their own sprung from a desire to persuade the Vatican to recognize their country’s holy heroes. But Rome was not U.S. saint-seekers only audience. For the U.S. Catholic faithful, saints served not only as mediators between heaven and earth, but also between the faith they professed and the American culture in which they lived. This panoramic view of American sanctity, focused on figures at the nexus of holiness and U.S. history, this book explores U.S. Catholics’ understanding of themselves both as members of the church and as citizens of the nation—and reveals how those identities converged, diverged, and changed over time.

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The Inflexible Nature of Federalism

Federalism-E ◽

10.24908/fede.v5i1.13679 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 59-63

Author(s):

Geoff Nelson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Political Culture ◽

Liberal Democracy ◽

The United States ◽

Long Time ◽

Over Time

The twentieth century has generally been a time of prosperity and it has brought to light the strength and dominance of liberal democracy into our political culture. In particular, it has lead to the success of the engine of liberal democracy, federalism. However, like all engines there are inherent weaknesses within the structure that exist from conception and perpetuate over time. Australia, Canada and the United States are federations who share a common weakness: inflexibility. The weaknesses of an engine can sometimes be invisible for a long time, and it usually requires a catalyst to be seen. In these three federations, one such catalyst has been the federal system’s relationship with Aboriginals. A fundamental weakness of federalism is that it is inflexible. Nowhere is this clearer than in federal-aboriginal relationships in Canada, Australia and the United States.[...]

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Thwarting family values: American culture vs. Cambodian refugee families in the United States

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e596792011-009 ◽

1994 ◽

Author(s):

MaryCarol Hopkins

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

American Culture ◽

The United States ◽

Family Values ◽

Refugee Families ◽

Cambodian Refugee

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An Analysis of Fraudulent Qui Tam Actions Over Time in the United States

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.992988 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Karen A. Fitzner ◽

Charlie Bennett ◽

June McKoy ◽

Cara Tigue

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Over Time

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The New Economic Populism and the Future of Inequality in the United States

10.1093/oso/9780190671013.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

William W. Franko ◽

Christopher Witko

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Federal Government ◽

Labor Unions ◽

Republican Party ◽

The United States ◽

The Public ◽

Empirical Results ◽

Income Disparities ◽

The Face ◽

Over Time

The authors conclude the book by recapping their arguments and empirical results, and discussing the possibilities for the “new economic populism” to promote egalitarian economic outcomes in the face of continuing gridlock and the dominance of Washington, DC’s policymaking institutions by business and the wealthy, and a conservative Republican Party. Many states are actually addressing inequality now, and these policies are working. Admittedly, many states also continue to embrace the policies that have contributed to growing inequality, such as tax cuts for the wealthy or attempting to weaken labor unions. But as the public grows more concerned about inequality, the authors argue, policies that help to address these income disparities will become more popular, and policies that exacerbate inequality will become less so. Over time, if history is a guide, more egalitarian policies will spread across the states, and ultimately to the federal government.

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Core Elements Affecting Sharing: Evidence from the United States

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13073943 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 3943

Author(s):

Aurelija Burinskienė ◽

Edita Leonavičienė ◽

Virginija Grybaitė ◽

Olga Lingaitienė ◽

Juozas Merkevičius

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Collaborative Consumption ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Use Of Resources ◽

Personal Consumption ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

Core Elements ◽

Long Time ◽

Number Of Visits

The new phenomenon called sharing or collaborative consumption emerged a decade ago and is continuously growing. It creates new possibilities for society, and especially for business, is beneficial for the environment, makes more efficient use of resources, and presents a new competitive business model. The scientific literature lacks a more in-depth analysis of the factors influencing sharing activity growth; therefore, the paper’s authors attempt to fill this gap. The authors aim to identify the factors affecting the use of sharing platforms. To reach the goal, the authors developed a regression model and constructed a list of 71 variables. The study used monthly United States data from January 2017 to June 2020 from the publicly available Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)and Google trends databases. The comparison to other indexes proves that the proposed index, representing the number of visits to sharing platforms (SEP), is a unique one. The first index allowed us to revise the sharing activity monthly. The authors identified that variables such as wage level, social network users, import level, and personal consumption are critical in affecting the number of visits to sharing platforms. The presented framework could be helpful for practitioners and policymakers analysing the stimulation of sharing or collaborative consumption. It includes indicators representing different areas, such as society, technology, and country, and allows for monthly investigations. Such activity was evident for a long time when online platforms contributed to its wider accessibility. The results help to forecast the number of visits monthly. Sharing is still an emerging area for research; thus, the authors tried to explore the phenomenon of sharing to expand the conceptual level of knowledge.

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Thirty-Day Laboratory-Based Surveillance for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ◽

10.1086/675602 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 423-425 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Edwin C. Pereira ◽

Kristin M. Shaw ◽

Paula M. Snippes Vagnone ◽

Jane E. Harper ◽

Alexander J. Kallen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

The United States ◽

Carbapenem Resistant ◽

Over Time ◽

Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a growing problem in the United States. We explored the feasibility of active laboratory-based surveillance of CRE in a metropolitan area not previously considered to be an area of CRE endemicity. We provide a framework to address CRE surveillance and to monitor changes in the incidence of CRE infection over time.

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Revealing the spatial shifting pattern of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-87902-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Di Zhu ◽

Xinyue Ye ◽

Steven Manson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Long Range ◽

Network Optimization ◽

Network Modeling ◽

The United States ◽

Standard Series ◽

Time And Space ◽

Long Range Interactions ◽

Dynamic Relationships ◽

Over Time

AbstractWe describe the use of network modeling to capture the shifting spatiotemporal nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most common approach to tracking COVID-19 cases over time and space is to examine a series of maps that provide snapshots of the pandemic. A series of snapshots can convey the spatial nature of cases but often rely on subjective interpretation to assess how the pandemic is shifting in severity through time and space. We present a novel application of network optimization to a standard series of snapshots to better reveal how the spatial centres of the pandemic shifted spatially over time in the mainland United States under a mix of interventions. We find a global spatial shifting pattern with stable pandemic centres and both local and long-range interactions. Metrics derived from the daily nature of spatial shifts are introduced to help evaluate the pandemic situation at regional scales. We also highlight the value of reviewing pandemics through local spatial shifts to uncover dynamic relationships among and within regions, such as spillover and concentration among states. This new way of examining the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of network-based spatial shifts offers new story lines in understanding how the pandemic spread in geography.

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