Picturing the State of the Nation’s Environment: Early Aerial Photography in the United States from the 1930s to the late 1960s

For many families across Pennsylvania, child care is an ever-present concern. Since the 1970s, when Richard Nixon vetoed a national childcare program, child care has received little time in the policy spotlight. Instead, funding for child care in the United States now comes from a mixture of federal, state, and local programs that do not help all families. This article explores childcare options available to families in the state of Pennsylvania and highlights gaps in the current system. Specifically, we examine the state of child care available to families in the Commonwealth in terms of quality, accessibility, flexibility, and affordability. We also incorporate survey data from a nonrepresentative sample of registered Pennsylvania voters conducted by the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. As these results support the need for improvements in the current childcare system, we discuss recommendations for the future.

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Development of the Concepts for Providing Close Air Support

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION ◽

10.2478/kbo-2020-0010 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 64-74

Author(s):

Hristov Manush

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Air Force ◽

The United States ◽

Second World War ◽

The State ◽

World War ◽

Present Stage ◽

Combat Experience ◽

Second World

AbstractThe main objective of the study is to trace the perceptions of the task of an aviation component to provide direct aviation support to both ground and naval forces. Part of the study is devoted to tracing the combat experience gained during the assignment by the Bulgarian Air Force in the final combat operations against the Wehrmacht during the Second World War 1944-1945. The state of the conceptions at the present stage regarding the accomplishment of the task in conducting defensive and offensive battles and operations is also considered. Emphasis is also placed on the development of the perceptions of the task in the armies of the United States and Russia.

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Les illustres inconnues ou identité, patrimoine et tourisme dans les capitales d'Etat aux Etats-Unis / The perfect nobodies or identity, heritage and tourism in the state capitals of the United States

Géocarrefour ◽

10.3406/geoca.2001.2537 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 76 (2) ◽

pp. 115-121

Author(s):

Christian Montès

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

The State

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Studies of Islam, Economics, and Governance

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v11i1.2454 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 38-70

Author(s):

Florence Eid

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ford Foundation ◽

The United States ◽

The State ◽

Edward Said ◽

The Subject ◽

State Of Research ◽

Traditional Approaches ◽

Islamic Values

IntroductionThis paper is a report on the state of research in two areas of Islamicstudies: Islam and economics and Islam and governance. I researched andwrote it as part of my internship at the Ford Foundation during the summerof 1992. On Discourse. The study of Islam in the United States has moved far beyondthe traditional historical and philological methods. This is perhapsbest explained by the development of analytically rigorous social sciencemethods that have contributed to a better balance between the humanisticconcerns of the more traditional approaches and efforts at systematizingthe study of Islam and classifying it across boundaries of communities,religions, even epochs. This is said to have s t a d with the developmentof irenic attitudes towards Islam, which changed the direction of westemorientalist writings from indifference (at best) and often open hostility toand contempt of Islamic values (however they were understood) to phenomenologicalworks by scholars who saw the study of Islam as somethingto be taken seriously and for its own sake, which is best exemplifiedby Clifford Geertz's Islam Observed.The work of Edward Said contested this evolution, and the publicationof his Orientalism has been described as "a stick of dynamite"' that,despite its impact in mobilizing a reevaluation of the field, was unwarrantedin its pessimism. In any case, the field has continued to evolve,with the most powerful force moving it being the subject itself. Thephenomenological/orientalist approach, if we can point to one today, ...

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