The Trial Begins in Mwanza

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
Peter H. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Defense Attorneys ◽  
American Agriculture ◽  
Kennedy Family

“The Judge entered the court wearing a red robe and with a white wig on his head.” Major players, not already described, are examined at this point, especially Judge Harold Platt and the two assessors, one an American agriculture expert who has lived in Tanzania for six months, the other, a Tanzanian who has recently returned to Tanzania from graduate school in America as part of the famous Airlift to America, which was supported by the Kennedy family before Jack Kennedy became president and which was the vehicle by which Barack Obama’s father came to America for college. Defense attorneys Byron Georgiadis and Carroll Brewster have worked diligently before the trial to ensure that Dr. McHugh will be allowed to remain in court prior to his testimony.

THE SOCIAL COSTS OF OBESITY: A NON-REACTIVE FIELD STUDY

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter L. Benson ◽  
Drew Severs ◽  
John Tatgenhorst ◽  
Nancy Loddengaard
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cover Letter ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reactive Field ◽  
Health Administrators ◽  
Field Setting

The major purposes of this study were to investigate whether devaluation of obese persons, a phenomenon demonstrated exclusively in laboratory settings using reactive measures, generalizes to a nonreactive field setting. Seventy public health administrators were asked, via the mail, to help a college junior assess her chances of getting into graduate school and finding employment in this field. Subjects received a cover letter, a standard résumé∼, and a questionnaire. A picture of the student was affixed to some of the résumés. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three picture conditions: obese, normal, or no picture. Forty-six percent of the questionnaires were returned. Significantly fewer forms were returned in the obese condition than in the normal and no picture conditions. On both the graduate school and employment questionnaire items, forecasts were considerably more pessimistic than in the other two picture conditions. Implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals CHAINS OF CONNECTION: RETHINKING THE BOURGEOISIE

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-301
Author(s):  
THEODORE KODITSCHEK
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Year ◽  
Material World ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Since his first year in graduate school, Jerrold Seigel has puzzled over the relationship between modernity and the bourgeoisie. Willing to acknowledge the salience of this class in the making of the modern, he grew increasingly troubled by the failure of every effort to give a clear account of its distinctive historical role. To define the bourgeoisie as simply the group(s) in the middle, “all those who are neither peasants nor workers on the one side, nor aristocrats by birth on the other,” might be empirically accurate, he reasoned, but this provided no analytical insight into the processes of history. The Marxist alternative avoids this vacuity, but only by creating a mythology of the ascendant bourgeoisie—a class that by mere dint of its privileged relation to capital is deemed to be capable of entirely transforming the realms of culture, politics, and the material world. Dissatisfied with these conventional approaches, Seigel introduced a fundamentally new way of thinking in his seminal synthesisModernity and Bourgeois Life, which sought to replace the “traditional nominative formulation [of the bourgeoisie's role] with ones that are more adjectival and historical.” Considering “‘bourgeois’, not in terms of the rise of a class,” he has reconceptualized this term to denote “the emergence and elaboration of a certain ‘form of life’.” It is in connection with this project that Seigel developed the two key concepts that will be considered in this essay, “chains of connection” and “networks of means” (MBL, ix, 6, 25).

The Precarious plight of American WorkingClass Faculty: Causes and Consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-115
Author(s):  
George Towers
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The Other ◽  
School Career ◽  
Risky Investment ◽  
High Workload ◽  
American Working Class

For working-class Americans, the path of the professor is precarious. The neo-liberalization of higher education and the hegemony of academic elitism have made working-class faculty an endangered, disadvantaged, and invisible minority within the professoriate. On one hand, financing a graduate school career from humble origins is an increasingly risky investment. On the other, working-class Americans who secure a faculty job are often under-matched to low salary, high workload positions and endure classist ostracism and micro-aggressions. This essay is intended to not only trace the tragic trajectory of American working-class faculty but, more importantly, to invite conversations and identify suggestions that lead to our colleges and universities becoming more personally supportive workplaces and professionally empowering platforms for working-class professors.

Miller Analogies Test Performance as Related to Age, Sex, and Academic Field

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred J. Thumin ◽  
Carol Boernke
Keyword(s):  
Factorial Design ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Middle Group ◽  
General Competence ◽  
Miller Analogies Test

A factorial design was used to relate MAT scores to the age, sex, and academic field of 192 applicants to graduate school in psychology and education. The results showed significant differences ( P < .01) in test performance as a function of age and field, but not of sex. The education students scored significantly lower than the psychology students (means of 48.2 and 58.4, respectively), and the youngest and oldest groups (median ages of 23 and 41) performed equally well, whereas the middle group (median age of 30) scored significantly lower than the other two. It was suggested that the surprisingly good performance of the oldest group may be due to selectivity in terms of intelligence and general competence, i.e., that only especially effective and self-confident individuals are willing to embark on a graduate career near or after the age of 40.

Comparison, ranking, rating, and lists

Ranking ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 7-41
Author(s):  
Péter Érdi
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Office ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Chess Players

In this chapter, four basic concepts—comparison, ranking, rating, and lists—are introduced, and a number of questions are discussed. Why do we compare ourselves with others? Is comparison the “thief of joy” or the driving force toward future successes? Are we born with the desire to compare ourselves with others, or do we learn in childhood that we should demonstrate that we are better or stronger than others? Is it true that “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”? How are ratings of graduate school applicants prepared? How do we rate our pain in a medical office? Why do we have the top-10 mania, and why do we love listicles? Ranking of mathematicians and the rating of chess players are used to illustrate the main concepts.

scholarly journals American courtroom discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-317
Author(s):  
Margaryta Zaitseva ◽  
Yurii Zatsnyi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Defense Attorneys ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
The One

Since the twentieth century, information has become a particularly powerful tool of influence in all realms of human activities. The sender of the speech seeks to influence their recipients by all available means, both lingual and non-lingual. For this reason, we have placed special emphasis on psychological phenomena that help the speech author to succeed in court. One of such seminal psychological phenomena is transgression. Notwithstanding a thorough study of this issue, we have not come across any studies of courtroom discourse dealing with this phenomenon. While exploring the texts of the prosecutors` and defense attorneys` speeches we applied contextual and linguo-stylistic analyses as well as intent and discourse analysis methods.Based on such findings, transgression in courtroom discourse is used simultaneously to erase bounds, on the one hand, and to create hype and epatage, on the other. It is created with the help of lexical means mostly which can be either invective directly or become invective in the context.

scholarly journals Hungarians in the New World: A Grandchild’s Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Patricia Valdata
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
New World ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Hungarian Literature ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Literary Heritage

During graduate school, I spent a semester studying Hungarian literature; I realized then that a European literature was not my own literary heritage. My literature was that of the American experience. Thus, I began to research Hungarian immigrants in central New Jersey. This research resulted in The Other Sister, published in November 2008. This paper details the research process, and more importantly, the process of discovery that led me to better understand the stories of Hungarian immigrants, and how the forces that shaped the lives of these travelers in their new country shaped my own heritage—culinary and literary.

Stromatoporoids from the Famennian (Devonian) Wabamun Formation, Normandville oilfield, north–central Alberta, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin W. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
Patch Reef ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Biotic Crisis

Stromatoporoids are the principal framebuilding organisms in the patch reef that is part of the reservoir of the Normandville field. The reef is 10 m thick and 1.5 km2in area and demonstrates that stromatoporoids retained their ability to build reefal edifices into Famennian time despite the biotic crisis at the close of Frasnian time. The fauna is dominated by labechiids but includes three non-labechiid species. The most abundant species isStylostroma sinense(Dong) butLabechia palliseriStearn is also common. Both these species are highly variable and are described in terms of multiple phases that occur in a single skeleton. The other species described areClathrostromacf.C. jukkenseYavorsky,Gerronostromasp. (a columnar species), andStromatoporasp. The fauna belongs in Famennian/Strunian assemblage 2 as defined by Stearn et al. (1988).

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