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6 charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America. Editor’s note: We’ve all heard of the great divide between life in rural and urban America.

6 charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America

But what are the factors that contribute to these differences? We asked sociologists, economists, geographers and historians to describe the divide from different angles. The data paint a richer and sometimes surprising picture of the U.S. today. 1. Poverty is higher in rural areas Discussions of poverty in the United States often mistakenly focus on urban areas. ED556045. EJ974684. Physiological and Behavioral Differences in Sensory Processing: A Comparison of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Sensory Modulation Disorder. Problem Behavior In The Classroom. Public Health teen sex education program expanding nationally, making difficult conversations easier. “We have been doing this for so long now that kids in King County just call their sex ed FLASH.”

Public Health teen sex education program expanding nationally, making difficult conversations easier

Andrea Gerber says this matter-of-factly. She has good reason to be proud of both the longevity and the quality of the FLASH curriculum. Along with her colleague Kari Kesler, the two led a three-day training in May that attracted 35 leaders and health educators from 14 states across the U.S. to become experts on FLASH, showcasing the success of the curriculum and its far-reaching impact. Joycelyn Elders: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America. - Free Online Library. Up From Arkansas Jocelyn Elders, M.D. grew up in a 1930s Arkansas African- American sharecropper family so desperately poor that few would expect such a child - whose skin color legally marginalized her - to surmount the formidable barriers in front of her.

Joycelyn Elders: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America. - Free Online Library

It would have been a major achievement if Elders had just survived, worked as the store clerk she originally aspired to be, married, raised a family, and lived a God-loving decent life. Elders did a lot more than that, however, and not just for herself. Her most significant accomplishment was her victorious battle to expand health care for Arkansas's poor while state director of health services in the late 1980s. Changing the Face of Medicine. Joycelyn Elders, the first person in the state of Arkansas to become board certified in pediatric endocrinology, was the sixteenth Surgeon General of the United States, the first African American and only the second woman to head the U.S.

Changing the Face of Medicine

Public Health Service. Long an outspoken advocate of public health, Elders was appointed Surgeon General by President Clinton in 1993. Born to poor farming parents in 1933, Joycelyn Elders grew up in a rural, segregated, poverty-stricken pocket of Arkansas. Lesson Resources Overview for BLMPHLed Week of Action. Untitled. How to Address Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. This how-to article accompanies the feature "Elementary School Kids Show Their Multiple Intelligences.

How to Address Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

" Photo c Multiple-intelligences theory can provide a flexible approach to good teaching, say teachers and administrators at the Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy in Gainesville, Georgia. Tailoring classroom activities to individual students' needs, interests, and strengths makes sense -- and, at this school, it has proved extremely effective. Multiple Intelligences: What Does the Research Say? Many educators have had the experience of not being able to reach some students until presenting the information in a completely different way or providing new options for student expression.

Perhaps it was a student who struggled with writing until the teacher provided the option to create a graphic story, which blossomed into a beautiful and complex narrative. Multiple Intelligences. In Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind, he proposes that there are seven main areas in which all people have special skills; he calls them intelligences.

Multiple Intelligences

His research at Harvard University was in response to the work that Alfred Binet had done in France around 1900. Binet’s work led to the formation of an intelligence test; we are all familiar with the “intelligence quotient,” or “IQ,” the way that intelligence is measured on his test. This type of IQ test was used as the basis of another one with which most of us are familiar: the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is taken my most college-bound high school students. Multiple Intelligences by  Dr. Thomas Armstrong. The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr.

Multiple Intelligences by  Dr. Thomas Armstrong

Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. These intelligences are: Linguistic intelligence (“word smart”)Logical-mathematical intelligence (“number/reasoning smart”)Spatial intelligence (“picture smart”)Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence (“body smart”)Musical intelligence (“music smart”)Interpersonal intelligence (“people smart”)Intrapersonal intelligence (“self smart”)Naturalist intelligence (“nature smart”)

Files - Queer Theory Book Group! (Oakland, CA) Sexual Attraction to Corpses: A Psychiatric Review of Necrophilia. Gabler. Inequality and the Modern Culture of Celebrity. THE Roaring ’20s was the decade when modern celebrity was invented in America.

Inequality and the Modern Culture of Celebrity

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby” is full of magazine spreads of tennis players and socialites, popular song lyrics, movie stars, paparazzi, gangsters and sports scandals — machine-made by technology, advertising and public relations. Sociology in the Age of Celebrity on JSTOR. Media and the Rise of Celebrity Culture on JSTOR. Lse.ac.uk storage LIBRARY Secondary libfile shared repository Content Driessens,%20O Celebritization%20of%20society%20culture Driessens Celebritization%20society%20culture 2014. Celebrities: Who They Are How They Gain Popularity and Why Soci. Fashion and Celebrity Culture: EBSCOhost. Ebrary: Server Message. Seeing Stars : Spectacle, Society, and Celebrity Culture: EBSCOhost. Celebrity and Society. The Culture of Celebrity. Celebrity Culture and the Need to be Envied: Redefining Fame with help from Naomi Shihab Nye and Alfred North Whitehead - Process Philosophy for Everyone. Pure, Strong and Sexless : The Peasant Woman's Body and Gleb Uspensky: EBSCOhost.

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Review on JSTOR

Register Already have an account? Login. The Morning After : Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War: EBSCOhost. Russian Women, 1698-1917 : Experience and Expression, an Anthology of Sourc...: EBSCOhost. Why Russia is hung up on homosexuality. Let's start with a touch of perspective.

Why Russia is hung up on homosexuality

It's not only Russia where sexual minorities suffer discrimination. In the United States, that beacon of tolerance, there's still a huge amount of bigotry. Some U.S. states still refuse to recognize same-sex marriage. And hate crimes and violence towards LGBT individuals remain a significant problem. Russia does not have a monopoly on intolerance. Austin Peay State University /All Locations. The Fear of Being Gay in Russia. Moscow’s first gay pride parade was held in May 2006, thirteen years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia. It was supposed to be a joyous occasion, the beginning of a new era of openness for the LGBT community. It didn’t quite work out that way.

LGBT marchers that day clashed with riot police, who tried to stop the event. “We disturbed something very deeply rooted in Russian society, some very evil power of intolerance and violence,” says Nikolai Baev, a prominent LGBT rights activist who attended the march. Story Continued Below Only a few months later, Russia saw its first regional anti-gay law passed in Ryazan, 200 miles east of Moscow. That violence hit Dmitry Chizhevsky in November 2013 when he attended a weekly meeting for the LGBT community and friends called the Rainbow Tea Party in Saint Petersburg. Works of Alexandra Kollontai 1921. Works of Alexandra Kollontai 1921 Source: Alexandra Kollontai, Selected Writings, Allison & Busby, 1977;Translated: by Alix Holt, 1972;First published: Kommunistka, No.s 12-12, 1921; Family and marriage are historical categories. phenomena which develop in accordance with the economic relations that exist at the given level of production.

The form of marriage and of the family is thus determined by the economic system of the given epoch, and it changes as the economic base of society changes. There is Sex in Russia-and Always Was: Some Recent Contributions to Russian Erotica on JSTOR. There is Sex in Russia-and Always Was: Some Recent Contributions to Russian Erotica on JSTOR. The Politics of Sex and Marriage in the Soviet Union. Sex in the Soviet Union - Peter Myers, October 3, 2001; update July 24, 2009.

My comments are shown {thus}. Write to me at contact.html. You are at For the last 30 years, the West has been experimenting with the abolition of marriage, as was done in the Soviet Union until Stalin reversed it. Sex in the Soviet Union on JSTOR. The Russian Review Description:The Russian Review is a multi-disciplinary academic journal devoted to the history, literature, culture, fine arts, cinema, society, and politics of the peoples of the former Russian Empire and former Soviet Union.

The Traditional Women Of Russia - Is There Sex in Russia? CCIES at The Kinsey Institute: Russia. Contents* Russian/Soviet Screened Sexuality: An Introduction. There Was No Sex in USSR Indeed. There Was No Sex in USSR Indeed. Lawsuit: UT football players assaulted Drae Bowles for helping rape victim. University Of Tennessee Condoned Football Rape Culture, Lawsuit Alleges.

55 Colleges Face Sexual Assault Investigations. Facing mounting pressure from lawmakers, sexual assault survivors and activists, the U.S. Sweeping sexual assault suit filed against UT. Sweeping sex assault suit filed against University of Tennessee. Top 5 Mental Health Challenges Facing College Students. This guide helps to identify the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues for college students and where and when to seek help. Mental Health Issues and the University Student: EBSCOhost. The College Student Mental Health Crisis. College Students Speak A Survey Report on Mental Health NAMI 2012. The Feminist Porn Book : The Politics of Producing Pleasure. Ebrary: Server Message. Gay Love Letters through the Centuries. Holocaust Mothers and Daughters : Family, History, and Trauma. Ebrary: Server Message. The Memory of Pain : Women's Testimonies of the Holocaust: EBSCOhost. Granddaughters of the Holocaust : Never Forgetting What They Didn't Experience.

Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust: EBSCOhost. Happy BDSM (benjmhart: Girl in rope: Killjoy - Photo: tangle) BDSM Correlated With Better Mental Health, Says Study. BDSM, Personality and Mental Health. Basic Bondage Safety. Dominant or Submissive? The Paradox of Power in Sexual Relationships. Americans Are More Into BDSM Than The Rest of the World. 21 Books From The Last 5 Years That Every Woman Should Read. - Album on Imgur. Captain America ruined Superman for me. Johann Hari & Naomi Klein: Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction? Camp. 50993_ch_8.pdf. Teamsite/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Section-C-Background-Articles.pdf. Documents Released in the Ferguson Case. Www.nafsa.org/_/file/_/theory_connections_crosscultural.pdf. Culture, Health & Sexuality, Vol. 15, No. 1/2 (January—February 2013), pp. 175-190. A Guide To Talking Dirty Throughout History.

Women. The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Internet Harassment - SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON THE INTERNET. Eyes unclouded, Fucking amazing. These are recent comments on the... Cheer up buttercup. Watch the Alleged UCSB Shooter's Horrifying YouTube Confession. Chicago Magazine November 2005. "You should have your tongue ripped out": the reality of sexist abuse online. Anita Sarkeesian. 72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users. Social Media Usage Up 800% For U.S. Online Adults In Just 8 Years. How Sexually Violent Language Perpetuates Rape Culture and What You Can Do About It. Www.gwashingtonhs.org/ourpages/auto/2013/10/23/68598699/sci-am-2011.pdf. Www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/resources/publications/en/guidelines_chap2.pdf. Www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/data/files/Report_New_Technology_Same_Old_Problems.pdf.

Presentation: Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites. Rape Means Rape. FeministsSA.com. Teen Slang: Why The Word 'Rape' Should Never Be Used Casually. #NotBuyingIt: Walmart’s Sexist “Cool Story Babe” T-Shirt. Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. Kings and vagabonds.