Heading Out

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Parks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Appalachian Trail ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? This book would claim: all of the above. Camping is one of the United States' most popular pastimes. Campers have been enjoying themselves for well over a century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and evolved. This book takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States. The book shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. It humanizes camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Ethnic Density ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

The introduction lays out what we know about the social context of schizophrenia from the epidemiological literature: that risk of schizophrenia is particularly high for immigrants from predominantly dark-skinned countries to Europe; that risk increases with lower socioeconomic status at birth and even at parent’s birth; that risk increases with urban dwelling and seems to increase the longer time is spent in cities; that risk increases as ethnic density in the neighborhood declines. The chapter presents a history of the way schizophrenia has been understood in the United States, and the diagnostic complexities of serious psychotic disorder. It then discusses what ethnographers have observed so far about the social conditions which may shape the experience of psychosis: the local cultural interpretation of mental illness; the role and presence of the family; the structure of work; and the basic social environment. This becomes the ground for our case studies.

New Opportunities, the Brain Drain, and the Guptas

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Jennifer B. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
The Brain

This chapter provides information about the significant contexts of the Hindu American community’s narrative performances. Reviewing reasons behind why people immigrate, it begins with general theories of immigration and then concentrates on the specific reasons why Indians left India during the period after 1947. The chapter then shifts its focus to the context in the United States as a receiving site for immigrants from India with particular attention to race and religion, two dominant themes in American immigration that have contributed to the Guptas’ experiences and the dynamics of their community-making activities. This leads to a discussion of the significance of religion for migrants in the United States before introducing the more specific religious context of the Guptas’ community. Finally, the chapter expands its lens to their transnational extended family with family trees, a description of their social community, and a specific history of key players in the family.

The Fissioning of the Modern Family in Utopia- The Real- World Consequences of Political Illusions

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Bryce Christensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Family

Since the mid-20th century, the United States-, like many Europeancountries, -has witnessed dramatic changes in family life, resulting inremarkably low rates for marriage and fertility, remarkably high rates fordivorce, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock births. To understand these changes the article presents, on the example of literature, ideologies, philosophical trends, and intellectual opinions, which in a particularly destructive way influenced the contemporary condition of the family.

Tularemia Pneumonia in Urban Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-662
Author(s):  
Crystie C. Halsted ◽  
Hareen P. Kulasinghe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Oral Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
Baltimore City ◽  
Hospital Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Pulmonary Manifestations ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

Tularemia pneumonia occurred simultaneously in five children in urban Baltimore. The features of this outbreak are reported to document the mild nature of the pneumonic illness and thus to emphasize the variability of the pulmonary manifestations of Francisella tulareusis infection. These cases also serve as a reminder to physicians that tulareniia, an infrequently encountered illness, is endemic in the United States. CASE REPORT Three previously healthy brothers, T.W., J.W., and R.W., 8, 10, and 14 years of age, were seen at the Baltimore City Hospital Outpatient Clinic with a history of fever of ten days' duration. The temperatures, compulsively documented by their mother, ranged from 37.8 to 40.0 C (100 to 104 F) daily and did not abate with antipyretics or the oral administration of penicillin prescribed by the family physician at the onset of fever.

How Well Do Housing Vouchers Work for Black Families Experiencing Homelessness? Evidence from the Family Options Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 693 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Claudia D. Solari ◽  
Douglas Walton ◽  
Jill Khadduri
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Housing Choice ◽  
Housing Vouchers ◽  
White Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

We investigate whether racial disparities exist among homeless families with priority access to the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. The families we studied moved from emergency shelter into subsidized housing and sometimes left the HCV program, and our results suggest that the HCV program works as well for Black families as it does for White families. The rates at which families used the vouchers to lease a housing unit are similarly high for each group. The rate at which families exit from the HCV program does not differ between White and Black families, but the factors that predict exit do differ by race. For all families, access to a voucher reduces returns to homelessness, doubling up, and moving. These results confirm that in the United States—a country with a history of racial disparities in housing—the HCV program can help alleviate the effects of severe poverty and provide housing opportunities that advantage both White and Black families.

Walter Sydney Adams, 1876-1956

1956 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dartmouth College ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Foreign Missions ◽  
Classical Text ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village

Walter Sydney Adams was born on 20 December 1876, in the village of Kessab near Antioch in Northern Syria, then a province of the Turkish Empire. His father and mother, Lucien and Nancy Adams, were missionaries under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions with headquarters in Boston. They were both college graduates—Lucien of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary, Nancy of Mount Holyoke College. Walter was the youngest of the family. In the village in which he lived there were no schools except one for Mohammedan children and one for Armenians, so he received his earliest training in the elements of arithmetic, grammar and geography from his mother. For books he had his father’s library which, apart from theological books, consisted largely of histories and classical text books and treatises. At the age of six he knew more of the history of Athens and Rome, and of the campaigns of Alexander the Great and Hannibal than of the rise and development of the United States. In 1885, when Adams was eight years old, he moved with the family to the United States and settled in the village of Derry, New Hampshire, his father’s old home.

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