Activities for Students: A S(t)imulating Study of Map Projections: An Exploration Integrating Mathematics and Social Studies

2001 ◽  
Vol 94 (8) ◽  
pp. 660-671
Author(s):  
Jesse L. M. Wilkins ◽  
David Hicks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geography Education ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Map Projections ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
Entire World

As technological advances continue to help more people make connections with the entire world, students must understand how to use and interpret information shown in different maps of the world (Geography Education Standards Project 1994; Freese 1997). However, mental-mapping research suggests that students in the United States have major misconceptions about proportions, locations, and perspective when they work with maps (Dulli and Goodman 1994; Stoltman 1991).

See It/Shoot It

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Counterterrorism Policy

This book is an illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. The book uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: the armed drone. It reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the CIA's covert drone program is not a product of 9/11. Rather, it is the result of U.S. counterterrorism practices extending back to an influential group of policy makers in the Reagan administration. Tracing the evolution of counterterrorism policy and drone technology from the fallout of Iran-Contra and the CIA's “Eagle Program” prototype in the mid-1980s to the emergence of al-Qaeda, the book shows how George W. Bush and Barack Obama built upon or discarded strategies from the Reagan and Clinton eras as they responded to changes in the partisan environment, the perceived level of threat, and technological advances. Examining a range of counterterrorism strategies, the book reveals why the CIA's drones became the United States' preferred tool for pursuing the decades-old goal of preemptively targeting anti-American terrorists around the world.

Migration and Class Struggle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Immanuel Ness
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Neoliberal Reforms ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World ◽  
Benefit Corporations ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Business As Usual

This chapter examines the new neoliberal phase of corporate restructuring, which is producing a new foreign workforce that will have even less power than undocumented workers today. The rise of guest worker programs is an integral component of a dramatic shift in the global division of labor, perpetuated through technological advances, which permits corporations to deskill many professional jobs and reduce the number of workers necessary to perform tasks, and relies increasingly on low-skilled labor. In this hostile environment, the working class and organized labor in the United States and throughout the world must search for a means to counter neoliberal reforms that only benefit corporations at the expense of workers everywhere. But unions must reject business as usual and new forms of labor organizations rooted in nonhierarchical structures must emerge to mobilize workers in the United States and throughout the world.

scholarly journals Drifting Towards Bordeaux? The Evolving Varietal Emphasis of U.S. Wine Regions

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian M. Alston ◽  
Kym Anderson ◽  
Olena Sambucci
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Partial Adjustment ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Partial Adjustment Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Demand Patterns

AbstractIn an ever-more-competitive global market, vignerons compete for the attention of consumers by trying to differentiate their product while also responding to technological advances, climate changes and evolving demand patterns. In doing so, they highlight their regional and varietal distinctiveness. This paper examines the extent to which the winegrape varietal mix varies within and among states of the United States and relative to the rest of the world, and how that picture has been evolving. It reports varietal intensity indexes for different regions, indexes of similarity of varietal mix between regions and over time, and price-based quality indexes across regions and varieties within and among the three west-coast States. Broadly speaking, the mix of winegrape varieties in the United States is not very different from that in the rest of the world and, since 2000, it has become even less differentiated and closer to that of France and the world as a whole. But individual U.S. regions vary considerably in the mix of varieties in which they specialize and in the quality of grapes they produce of a given variety; and region-by-variety interactions have complex influences on the pattern of quality and production. We use measures of regional varietal comparative advantage and a Nerlovian partial adjustment model to account for some of the shifting varietal patterns in the U.S. vineyard and in winegrape production. (JEL Classification: D24, L66, Q13)

Divergent Paths of Historical Progress

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motoe Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women Missionaries ◽  
New Women ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, American New Women became more aware of the widening psychological gap between them and their Chinese counterparts. This chapter explores the transformation that occurred among these women regarding their understanding of historical progress, perceptions of their country, and ideas about their own role in China. It was also during this same period, one of national revolution, that the Great Depression exposed the failure of the capitalist economic system (strongly associated with the United States) to the entire world and triggered a change in American New Women missionaries' views toward the place their country occupied in the historical progress of the world. As a result, Chinese xin nüxing began turning their interest away from becoming like American New Women missionaries—urban middle-class professionals. Instead, they became increasingly sympathetic to the plight of the poor, especially those in the countryside, and to the idea of socialism.

Using Mathematics to Build an Understanding of the United States

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Ellen L. Clay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The World ◽  
Integrative Study ◽  
Mathematics Class

Mathematics is frequently separated from the rest of the educational experience to such an extent that even in the literature of whole language, with its comprehensive belief systems about integrative study, mathematics is often left out (Armbruster 1992). As a mathematician, I naturally see mathematics abound in the world around us. Therefore, after hearing comments from elementary school teachers that children read and write in every class but do mathematics only in mathematics class, I decided to design a social studies unit that would incorporate the use of mathematics. The resulting unit emphasizes the study of the United States as a whole rather than as fifty individual states.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

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