The Third Century of Non-English Language Maintenance and Non-Anglo Ethnic Maintenance in the United States of America

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Fishman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third

Dimensions of Public Sector Pay Policies in the United States and Sweden

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Recascino Wise
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Dimension

Three dimensions for analyzing public sector pay administration are used to examine central government pay administration in Sweden and the United States of America. On the first dimension, market posture, both countries are found to fall short of their espoused policy, comparability. Greater consistency is found on the second dimension, social orientation, where both countries have pursued the goal of social equality. The equilization of salary levels across society is far greater in Sweden in keeping with the socialist objectives of wage solidarity. The third dimension, reward structure, shows the greatest distance between the two countries with the struggle to implement performance-contingent pay underway in the U.S. while Swedes continue to rely on longevity for pay increases.

Durable Ethnicity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Telles ◽  
Christina A. Sue
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
The Third ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
The Common

Despite the common perception that most persons of Mexican origin in the United States are undocumented immigrants or the young children of immigrants, the majority are citizens and have been living in the United States for three or more generations. On many dimensions of integration, this group initially makes strides on education, English language use, socioeconomic status, intermarriage, residential segregation, and political participation, but progress on some dimensions halts at the second generation as poverty rates remain high and educational attainment declines for the third and fourth generations, although ethnic identity remains generally strong. In these ways, the experience of Mexican Americans differs considerably from that of previous waves of European immigrants who were incorporated and assimilated fully into the mainstream within two or three generations. This book examines what ethnicity means and how it is negotiated in the lives of multiple generations of Mexican Americans.

What is mental health consultation?

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Luntz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Mental Health Consultation ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Health Consultation ◽  
The Third

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in consultation at the close of the third decade of its existence as a major form of delivering mental health services in the United States of America, and its somewhat later introduction in Victoria, Australia. Gallessich’s framework for consultation (1983, 1985), amongst others, is compared with the Victorian model. Issues raised include the need for consultants to understand the boundaries of consultation, its limitations, the state of its knowledge base and the uniquely Victorian contribution of a framework of several levels which enables an integration of the knowledge borrowed from a range of sources to assist in the improvement of its practice. A later paper to be published in ‘Children Australia’ looks at the steps in the consultation process.

scholarly journals Análisis de indicadores de ventajas comparativas reveladas: competitividad de las exportaciones de fresa (Fragaria spp.) mexicana

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Quintero-Ramírez ◽  
José Miguel Omaña-Silvestre ◽  
Laura Cecilia Ramírez-Padrón
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Entire Volume ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World

China and the main United States of America producing strawberry countries in 2016, contributed as a whole more than forty per cent of the entire volume of strawberry produced in the world. Spain, the United States of America, Mexico and Netherlands are the main exporting countries, while the main importer countries were the United States of America, Germany, Canada, France and the United Kingdom; the same year, Mexico occupied the third place like producing and third place between the exporting countries. In the previous context, this one investigation raises the analysis of the competitiveness of the strawberry produced in Mexico as regards Spain and the United States of America those who are the biggest exporters of the product on a global scale; by means of the calculation of the index of revealed comparative advantage of Vollrath (IVCR) for the period 1994-2016, the analysis of the indicator recounts that the competitiveness was increasing and that Mexico is provided with a comparative advantage revealed in the strawberry exportation

What can Thomas Jefferson’s accounting records tell us about plantation management, slavery, and Enlightenment philosophy in colonial America?

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Richard Baker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Plantation Management ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Principal Author ◽  
Enlightenment Philosophy

Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States of America and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence of the American Colonies from Great Britain. Less well known is that he was a meticulous record keeper. He kept daily records of every receipt and expenditure that he made, no matter how small, for a period of over 60 years. Most of these records have survived and are located in various libraries throughout the United States. Two questions are raised in this article: first, what can Jefferson’s accounting records tell us about plantation management in colonial America? Second, what do these accounting records reveal about Jefferson’s perspectives on eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy? This article investigates original archives in an effort to answer these questions.

Can We Expect More than Symbolic Support?

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Bereket Habte Selassie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Values ◽  
American Presidency ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

When I think about the extraordinary writing and speaking phenomenon by the name of Barack Obama, who also happens to be the President of the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world, I can't help asking myself, what can he do for Africa? I ask this not only because he is a son of Africa, but also because I hear in his speeches the words of a man deeply committed to human values, and therefore concerned with the predicament of Africa's people in this age of globalization.As the first African American elected to the American presidency, Obama represents an extraordinary symbolic change in American politics. No one can underestimate the symbolic significance of his election. Nor should it be considered purely a matter of symbolism; a changing of the guard at the top necessarily involves—or should involve—implications of substantive change. There is the rub—can we expect substantive change of any significance from his election, given the nature and structure of American politics and society?In connection with that question it is fair to ask: what does the Age of Obama portend for Africa? Two related questions arise concerning this: first, what should Obama do for Africa, and second, what can he do for Africa? As to the first question, what Obama should do for Africa is linked to Africa's need; and we can spend a whole day talking about that and not exhaust it. On the basis of Obama's speeches, including especially his Accra speech of July 11, 2009, and our own sense of Africa's needs, I offer three primary talking points that embrace a set of values or goals upon which all government systems should be based. The first is peace and stability, the second is sustainable economic development and social justice, and the third is democracy and good governance—not necessarily in that order.

scholarly journals Editorial

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range

This is the first issue in the third year of publication of the Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics. As usual the articles included cover a wide range of topics and come from a spread of different countries; in this case Belgium, the United States of America, Australia and Malaysia.

scholarly journals The Contributions in Education through Literature (A Narrative Inquiry Study of Prof. Toni Morrison in The United States of America)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Andina Ichsani ◽  
Zainal Rafli ◽  
Nuruddin Nuruddin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Women ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
English Language ◽  
Black People ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The United States ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Look

Abstract: Biography consists of life’s story in a unique record form, a narrative impulse, establishes the importance of stories, and provides an open illustrative example of the analysis of an adult learner's story. This paper provides a step-by-step account of how a researcher conducted a narrative research study analysis and developed an organizational structure useful for other qualitative researchers. Prof.Toni Morrison as purposeful sampling is widely recognized as a first lady of literature in American’s prominent novelist, who magnificently explores the minority life of the black people identity to the surface in The United States of America, especially that of black women story. Her Nobel Prize Lecture, in which she consistence tells a story of a black woman, history of slavery, racism, post colonialism, and education rights for all. Her life story and contributions in education through literature space can be regarded as a shaper of Prof. Morrison’s today and the look of education equality. In her 85th she is still teaching, being mother, and continue writing as her passions. Several interviews dialogue between the journalists through her novels and the young people is full of inspirational stories, wisdom and profoundness. Her life story is indeed worth to learn as a study material especially in English Language and Literature proficiency.   

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