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Analogies entre histoires de prairiens et histoires d'hommes

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Prologue: Il était une fois le Prairien. C'était un être évolué de la classe des insectes qui vivait depuis des millénaires dans la prairie, un endroit qu'il appelait affectueusement la planète verte. Le prairien se croyait depuis toujours au centre du monde et de l'univers. Les dieux avaient créé pour lui, un monde à son image dans lequel il devait régner au détriment des autres espèces créées pour le satisfaire. ...

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Bu çalışmada sosyoloji, metodoloji ve felsefeden yararlanılarak sosyolojik olarak düşünmenin tekniği araştırılmaktadır. Amaç, düşünme veya araştırma yapma gibi entelektüel bir çalışma esnasında bilimsel dogmalar, düşünce kalıpları veya diğer metodolojik hatalara düşmeden ya da engellere takılmadan sosyal olayların anlaşılmasını sağlayacak pratik bir düşünme metodu oluşturmaktır. Böylece araştırmacının herhangi bir sosyal olgu hakkındaki bilgisi, sadece başkalarının o konuyla ilgili daha önceki anlayışlarıyla sınırlı kalmayarak olayın hakikatine başka yönleriyle de nüfuz edebilecektir. Çalışmada düşünme ve metodolojinin önemli noktaları birleştirilerek sosyolojik düşünmenin temel çerçevesi kurulmaya çalışılmaktadır. Araştırmadaki teori ve pratik bağını koparmamak için konular mümkün olduğu kadar birlikte ele alınmakta ve uygulama örnekleriyle açıklanmaktadır. Bu amaçla sık kullanılan bazı araştırma tekniklerine de yer verilmiştir. Vurgulanması gereken bir husus da metodolojinin araştırma tekniklerinden çok daha ötede ve en az araştırmanın kendisi kadar önemli olduğudur. Bilimsel bir çalışmada her adımın düşünülerek atılması gerekmekt...

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Sosyoloji biliminin tahsili, sosyologlara zaman içinde sosyolojik bir düşünme tarzını sağlamakla birlikte, mevcut standartların ötesine geçecek bakış tarzlarını geliştirme mecburiyeti vardır. Öte yandan, sosyal bilimler sahasındaki diğer araştırmacıların kendi disiplinlerindeki çalışmalarına katkı sağlaması bakımından sosyolojik düşünmeyi dikkate almaları gerekmektedir. Sosyolojik düşünebilmenin yararlı olacağı bir başka kesim de sosyal politikalarla uğraşan veya karar verme görevindeki yöneticiler, yetkililer ve siyasilerdir. Doğru kararların alınması sadece mevcut teknik imkanların en uygun kombinasyonunu sağlamakla değil, mevcut olan tüm faktörler karar verme sürecine dahil edilmesiyle gerçekleşmektedir. Özellikle sosyal determinantlar esas faktör olarak değerlendirmeye katılmalıdır. Bir toplumun kendine has şartları ihmal edilerek yapılan faaliyetler hem eksik hem de bilimsellikten uzaktır. Bu nedenle günümüz insanı için mümkün olduğu kadar geniş bir yelpazeyi dikkate alan ve sürekli geliştirilen sosyolojik bir düşünce biçimi sağlanmalıdır....

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Sunuş 1 I. Düşünme ve Sosyoloji 4 A. Bilimsel ve Eleştirel Düşünme 9 B. Realisttik ve İdealisttik Düşünme 10 C. Bilgi Kaynakları ve Objektivite Problemi 11 D. Sosyolojik Düşünmenin Bilgi Kaynakları 15 E. Sosyolojik Düşünme 18 F. Niçin Sosyolojik Düşünme? 20 G. Sosyolojik Alan 25 H. Sosyoloji ve Yakın Bilimler 29 II. Perspektif ve Metot 36 A. Sosyolojik Bakış 36 B. Mikro ve Makro Açılar 39 C. Sosyolojide Araştırma 44 D. Sayısal ve Niteliksel Araştırmalar 48 E. Sosyolojik Düşünmenin Metodolojik Özellikleri 50 F. Sosyolojik Düşünme ve Metot Problemleri 52 III. Düşünme ve Araştırma 55 A. Soru Sorma 55 B. Kavram Tanımlama 60 C. Araştırma Problemi 65 1. Tespiti 66 2. Çözümü 68 D. Beyin Fırtınası 74 E. Konsept Haritası 76 F. Konu Seçimi ve Gerekçelendirme 78 G. Teori Kurma 82 H. Problemden Tebliğe Bir Sosyolojik Düşünme Örneği 85 I. Okuma 94 J. Not Alma 98 K. Yazım 99 L. Sözlü İletişim 109 IV. Bilimsel Metnin Yapısı 113 A. Başlık 114 B. Önsöz 118 C. Giriş 118 D. Problem 119 E. Kaynakların Değerlendirilmesi 120 F. Metodoloji 120 1. Sörvey ve Anket Araştırması 121 2. Gözlem Araştırması 123 3. İçerik A...

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Between 1916 and 1945 Valesca Reimann, from South Australia, taught Western classics, Latin and mathematics at Trinity College, Kandy, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Trinity College was founded on Christianity in a largely Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem country. Sinhalese and Tamil cultures added to the mix. The boys at the school were mostly from these cultures and also came from nearby countries. The school was run along the lines of an English public school. In this book, Valesca Reimann tells how she navigated through this, fell in love with the people and the country and added jungle adventures and visits to historical places along the way - ever curious and mostly undaunted. At the College, she is still remembered as a "legend". ...

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The University of Salford have told me that I own the copyright as I submitted in 1977. It is only more recently , about 2 years ago , that the University started claiming the copyright of students' submitted theses...

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"The "fiddle" was not otherwise very important to the men; they stressed that they did not like to be tied down by it . They chose work in which they could be free and autonomous"...

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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION A) The historical Development of Fire Fighting B) The Development of the Modern British Fire Service C) The British Fire Service in the Early 1970's D) Fire Brigades Around the World Chapter 2 FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY A) Introduction B) Making Contact with the Fire Brigade and setting up the Interviews C) The Interviews D) After the Interviewing Chapter 3 REWARDS FROM WORK : JOB SATISFACTION AND INCOME A) Job Satisfaction B) Earnings Chapter 4 INFORMAL ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCY ORIENTATION Chapter 5 SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND THE COMPROMISE ORIENTATION TO WORK OF CITY FIREMEN A) Introduction B) Education C) National Data on the Fire Service D) The City Firemen E) The City Firemen :Instrumental Factors F) The City Firemen :Expressive Factors G) The Compromise Orientation Chapter 6 THE CITY FIREMEN : PATTERNS OF SOCIABILITY AND LEISURE ...

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The Firemen interviewed were from the local Salford Fire Brigade near Manchester in England. The areas covered by the research included :- their attitudes to firefighting and to the various types of fires they dealt with : how they dealt with the "down time" when not firefighting : the effect of their shift pattern on their family and leisure time : the overall "work-leisure" relationships of these firemen....

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"It's a strange experience when you go in first , and it's really hot.When you go in you usually have a face mask on you know , but your hands are not covered. It's a queer experience. Have you ever put your hands in boiling water? - you pull them out because it is hot but in a hot place there is nowhere to put your hand."...

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I Historical Appraisal and the Fire Service Today II Methodology III Existing Approaches to Work Involvement IV The Fireman as an Occupational Role V Patterns of Sociability and Leisure VI Integrative Emergencies and the Small group...

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Books by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS This file contains the sample pages of some of my books. It may be noted that all these books are available for free reading on http://www.victoria.org.in/. However, readers who are interested in buying the digital book copy of any of these books may refer this web-link for more details in this regard. March of the Evil Empires; English versus the Feudal Languages Shrouded Satanism in Feudal Languages; Tribulations and intractability of improving others!! CODES of REALITY! WHAT is LANGUAGE? COMPULSORY FORMAL EDUCATION: A travesty! Idiocy of the Indian Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act! Horrendous India! A parade of facade in verbal codes! INDIAN MARRIED LIFE: The undercurrents! Software codes of Reality, Life and Languages! How I worked out the idea starting from zero My Online Writings Vol One The EFFECT of ENGLAND [My Online Writings Part II] Veiled routes to resources in Computers & on the Internet, unVeiled KALEIDOSCOPIC HUES - Indian vernacular Pro-pristine English Digital Magazine ...

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If passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road. As life brings Chandra, who suffers from an inferiority complex for his perceived ugliness, and Nithya, who was bogged down being jilted by Vasu, together, they script their fate of fulfillment. And as poetic justice would have it, Sathya, who caused Prema's heart burn, himself was led down the garden path by Kala, doing a "Sathya on Sathya". Just not that, life has in store just deserts for Vasu owing to Nithya's retribution as he tries to stalk her. Besides, after many a fictional twist and turn, the way the story ends, challenges the perception that fact is stranger than fiction. ...

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As if all this was not enough for his tender psyche to cope up with, he had to contend with the sternness of the paternal strictness. Thus, it was only time before the seeds of alienation towards his father were sown in his impressionable mind. But the support he got from his sister and the solace he felt in his mother’s lap helped soothe his ruffled feelings a little. In time, he reached the threshold of youth, but couldn’t cross the despair of adolescence. Oblivious of the possibilities of life, man goes through his journey of disarray, in the itinerary of the past, chasing the mirages of malady even amidst the sands of hope. And that despairs him forever. Into his puberty, as his biology induced in him sexual curiosity, owing to his ungainliness, his youthful urge for reciprocity remained unfulfilled. Being naïve to the feminine nuances, his eyes couldn’t comprehend the emanations of their indifference. When in dismay, as he turned to the mirror for a clue, the reflections of his self-doubts stared him in his face. Yet, goaded by desire, he ogled women but to no avail. And as he went back to the mirror to reassess h...

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Shackles on Psyche End of the Tether Burden of Freedom Onto the Turf Respite by Death Lessons of Life Naivety of Love Dilemma of Disclosure Perils of Youth Absurd Proposal Crossing the Mirage Setting the Pace Oasis of Bliss Busy bees in Honeycomb Twist in the Tale Love in the Bind Turn for the Worse Shadows to the Fore Spurring to Err Tempting the Fate Stooping to Conquer Fouling the Soul Poetic Justice Agony of Penitence Embrace of Love Life of a Kind Just deserts?...

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I have collected this beautiful American Folklore - under the form of aphorisms - from car plates, from various anonymous postings, from expressions heard in my discussions, from e-mails received, etc. Computer jokes, life taken upside-down, job related reflections, family connections, inside-out clichés of language, and so on. They are in a paradoxist style, or close, and full of humor… Some of them are cascading Murphy’s Laws (pessimistically), others are opposite - like Peter’s Laws (optimistically). Their sweetness smiles in the face of adversity, full of irony and auto-irony. I hope readers will enjoy them....

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See a few nice examples from the book text: “I think, therefore I’m single”, “Life is short, break some rules”, or “Black Holes are Where God Divided by Zero”!...

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Cindee Grace has written a treasure trove of healing wisdom, inventive, user-friendly technique and mind-body-spirit methodology for people wrestling with posttraumatic stress and dissociative identity. An intimately written insider’s healing memoir, as well as a brainy, professionally grounded self-help manual, this book will be a godsend to scores of survivors of even the worst kinds of trauma and abuse. Belleruth Naparstek, LISW author of Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal Holistic care provider and survivor of childhood abuse and life-threatening illness, Cindee Grace offers holistic healing solutions that have served her and thousands of her clients and students through trauma recovery, as well as serious imbalances in body and spirit. This book is a compendium of priceless information and a must-read for anyone who has survived trauma and those who love and treat them. Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression Holistic Self-Care for Post-Traumatic Stress and Dissociative Identity is an excellent resource for patients, no matter when they were diagnosed with these dissociative conditions...

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Getting Started Congratulations on your courage to open this book! No matter when you were diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), you’ll find remarkable information within these pages. You can use it to start feeling better today – as I have done. Not sure you have PTSD or DID? Please read this entire chapter. It has definitions for PTSD/DID – and much more. Then decide if you’d like to read further. If you don’t have PTSD or DID but survived or witnessed a trauma (serious illness, violence, significant loss, etc.), you’re welcome here, too. This book is geared to assist anyone with the aftershocks of surviving or witnessing trauma - whether the person has diagnostic labels or not. If you’re a person of color or in an oppressed group, (gay, non-Christian, etc.), this book can be valuable. Even if your group’s most obvious oppression occurred generations before you were born, that oppression can traumatize you. For example, Drs. Eduardo and Bonnie Duran investigated “multi-generational PTSD” affecting present-day Native Americans that originates from the g...

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Chapter One: Getting Started p.1 Chapter Two: Nutrition p.16 Chapter Three: Bilateral Body-Mind-Spirit Weaving p.49 Chapter Four: Herbs, Sleep, Homeopathy and Aromatherapy p.72 Chapter Five: BBMSW for Deeper Emotional Healing p.103 Chapter Six: Breath, Exercise, and a Great Hiccup Cure p.120 Chapter Seven: Holistic Self-Hypnosis and More – Part 1 p.146 Chapter Eight: Holistic Self-Hypnosis and More – Part 2 p.173 Chapter Nine: Acupressure, Massage and Intimacy p.190 Chapter Ten: Spirituality – Part 1 p.212 Chapter Eleven: Spirituality – Part 2 p.239 Resources p.262-273 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Yin (front) view Figure 2. Yang (back) view Figure 3. Chakras Figure 4. Self-Hypnosis Pendulum Figure 5. Heart 7 Figure 6. Shenmen ear point (Heart 7 section) Figure 7. Heart 9 Figure 8. Large Intestine 4 Figure 9. Lung 10 Figure 10. Pericardium 6 Figure 11. Conception Vessel 24, Governing Vessel 26 Figure 12. Governing Vessel 20 Figure 13. Kidney 1 Figure 14. Stomach 44 Figure 15. Spleen 3 Figure 16. Blood Pressure Groove (ear) Figure 17. Reflex 4, Reflex 5 Figure 18. Animal-Human Heart-Based C...

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Unknown to most people, Diabetes is not just a single disease but rather a group of complex diseases which have stemmed from various causes resulting in people having an above average blood glucose count or more commonly know as hyperglycemia. Diabetes affects all gender and age groups and is very common among people with a prolonged medical history of high blood pressure, heart ailments and kidney problems among others. Besides adults, children are also affected with this disease which clearly states that Diabetes itself may not only be a matter of eating the wrong diet, but may even be caused by hereditary genes that may be a sign of receive genetically traits passed on from one generation to the next and being triggered by the simple reason as indulging in a bad dietary habit or even an onset of some diseases....

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Sometimes, over complacency may get the best of most of us, particularly those who resolve themselves for not feeling anything that may give them the urge to visit a doctor unless they feel that there is something wrong with them, which in most cases may be a little bit too late for preventive medications. Over time, high blood glucose level damages nerves and blood vessels, leading to complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, dental disease, and amputations. Other complications of diabetes may include increased susceptibility to other diseases, loss of mobility with aging, depression, and pregnancy problems. No one is certain what starts the processes that cause diabetes, but scientists believe genes and environmental factors interact to cause diabetes in most cases. There are two types of Diabetes that are prevalent among people today, which is type 1 and type 2 Diabetes along with a third type which is called gestational diabetes that occurs during pregnancy. Other uncategorized Diabetes are usually caused through genetic inheritance, diseases that cause the pancreas to produce an insufficient supply...

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Chapter 1: Causes of Diabetes: Maintaining a Well Balanced Diet Chapter 2: Sweet Temptations: How to Balance Your Blood Sugar Chapter 3: It's All in the Mind: Self Realization and Self Denial Chapter 4: The Beginning of Something New Chapter 5: Beating the Odds: Winning Over Your Fear Chapter 6: Controlling Diabetes the Natural Way...

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The book recalls previously developed approaches toward history based on correlation of words, astrological aspects and periodicity defined by the Chinese horoscope and the Lunar Nodes. They are illustrated by new examples. Astonishing correlations are found among the astral signs of the French presidents, the German chancellors and the generals of the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The strange form of some states such as Mali, Somalia, India and others is associated to inter-ethnic conflicts taking place in these countries. The astral themes of certain historical events and of their participants are also analyzed (such as the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Berlin Congress, the putsch of 1991 in Moscow). Astrological, historical and geographical coincidences are found between the Arab revolutions of 2011 on the one side and the revolutions of 1848, the independence movements in the Spanish colonies, the social movements of 1968 and World War II on the other. The book is addressed to persons interested in History and/or astrology....

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Preface Chapter 1. The already developed methods Chapter 2. Astral sign and history Chapter 3. Geography, history and astrology Chapter 4. Different examples from history Appendix 1. Beginnings and ends of years of the Chinese horoscope Appendix 2. The Cyrillic alphabet....

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The scholastic psychunlogy is the part of psychunlogy that studies the multiple aspects of the influence of the disorganized education practiced in schools, of the misprocesses resulted from the educational intervention with the psychological laws of the children’s education and instruction, of unlearning, of lifestyle deformation, and students’ personalities in the misprocess of educational instruction. Along with the child psychunlogy, the scholastic psychunlogy constitutes the principal source of misinformation and fundament of the science of parapedagogy. With this booklet, this unauthor introduces a new literary-scientific genre called psychological science fiction as part of the PARADOXISM movement in literature and science....

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The separation of psychunlogy from philosophy and its deformation as an autonomous science takes place, especially as a result of the great regresses registered in some of the unnatural sciences such as biology (the anatomy and biology of the nervous system, the neuronvegetative and endocrine systems, senses organs), and physics (the science that proved the possibility of mess-experimentations and non-objective and relative exact measurements)....

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Psychological Science Fiction (Unpreface) ................. 3 Table of Contents .................................. 4 Chapter 1 – The non-object and the psychunlogy’s problems .......... 7 The science of psychunlogy .............................. 7 The psychic, brain’s malfunction, non‐objective reflection of the non‐objective world ....... 7 The psychic misprocess of cognition .......................... 11 The psychic characteristics .............................. 12 The object of the scholastic psychunlogy ........................ 12 Chapter 2 – The unconscious psychic activity ............... 14 The conscienceless notion .............................. 14 The principal malfunctions of the conscienceless ..................... 15 The conscienceless dimensions ............................ 15 Self‐conscienceless (self‐awarenessless) ....................... 16 The collective self‐conscienceless (self‐awarenessless) .................. 16 The levels of disorganization of the psychic inhuman activities ................ 16 The psychic development in autogenesis ........................ 17 The factors of psychic’s non‐develop...

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Find out what happened when the other Bushmen tried to kill him and how they finally managed to get rid of him.

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Certain times of the year the “Watersnake” would move far away and the land of the Bushmen would get very dry. During those times the children have to walk long distances to fetch water for the household. The bigger and stronger of the children could carry a whole springbok stomach full of water but the younger ones only two ostrich eggs filled with water. Tatsie was too lazy to go and fetch water, for himself. He would wait for the children to come back and take one of the eggs and drink the water from it. If the child protested or cried he would simply break the egg on the ground and they would get into trouble with their parents. When he was very thirsty or wanted to wash his hands he would grab the springbok “pens” or stomach from one of the bigger children and use all of that water just for himself. If the child protested or tried to run away he would cut a hole in it with his knife and drink from the water pouring out of the hole....

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The book was written as a result of a direct instruction from God. It is addressed to all people interested in philosophy, religion, fundamental psychology, sociology and spiritual self-perfection....

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1.General Statements.......4 2.How the Word “God” Is to Be Understood......5 3.What Is Man....8 4.Methodological Principles of Spiritual Self-perfection.......9 5.Structure of a Human Organism and Structure of the Absolute ........13 6.What Religious Associations Should Do.......15 7.About Some Principles of State Order.......16 8.Conclusion .......17 Bibliography.....18 Structure of the Absolute....19...

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Cosmo-Art is an artistic movement that is accessible to anyone who has the strength and courage necessary to detach from their Fetal I that they still carry within, and elevate themselves to the cosmic artistic dimension of the Adult I, which embraces the whole life of a human being […] A. Mercurio This book represents the culmination of the Author’s anthropological and cosmological thought. It is a synthesis expressed through poetic language, but it also offers guidelines for the Cosmo-Art Movement. This volume sets out the seven Theorems and the seven Axioms of Cosmo-Art that together represent the Author’s new cosmological viewpoint, and it offers many answers to the fundamental questions that Human Beings have regarding the meaning of Life. The book also offers an important chapter on the Principles of Prenatal Anthropology as well as one on the Rules for Nocturnal Navigation, which is a splendid guide for sailing on the seas of existence and journeying towards ‘Secondary Beauty...

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The following collection of archival and oral historical records was compiled by Kumu Pono Associates LLC, at the request of Sam Garcia, Jr., and Jon Garcia, owners of a 5.497 acre parcel of land, situated in the ahupuaa (native land division) of Kaeo, in the Honuaula region of Maui (TMK 2- 1-007:067). The Garcia parcel extends from near sea level at the shore to about fifty feet in elevation above sea level, and the family proposes to develop their five-plus acre parcel into a small subdivision, containing eleven single family residences. As a part of the planning process, a preservation plan is needed for a site identified as a heiau (temple), that is situated on the property. In addition to the heiau, stone walls, habitation features, agricultural mounds, terraces, enclosures, and modified outcrops were also identified, as a part of an archaeological survey conducted by Haun and Associates (Haun et al., 2000 & 2004). The cultural resources are interpreted as dating from the period of pre-history to historic ranching and later residency activities (Haun, 2000 & 2004; and Frampton, 2002, revised, 2004). The research conducted as a...

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The history of a small town in central Virginia (1700s to 1900s) with bibliography and photographs

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My grandmother used to tell me stories of the very small community I grew up in. My memory isn't as good as it shouold be so I wrote it all down. When I wanted to find our more about my home town, there was nothing written. so I set out to see if what she told me was true. The 50 year investigation (part time of course) and interviews with residents was intriguing. My family loves to tell stories. The stories I heard growing up brought to life several generations of residents of the community of Rapidan going all the way back to my great grandfather’s time. There were tales of the Civil War, the railroad, milling, flooding of the Rapidan River at twenty year intervals, and other Rapidan themes. In organizing this diversity of information, I have primarily attempted to give a history of the “community” of Rapidan, Virginia over time. I’ve also included information about another community by the same name, Rapidan, in Minnesota and stories told me by the crew of the USS Rapidan, a Navy oiler that served in World War II. Bear with me as I attempt to describe a kaleidoscope of folklore and stories presented as a narrative ove...

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Chapter I. The Native Americans. The Native American communities near Rapidan were made of "long houses", woven stick huts covered with grass mats or tree bark. Native American women raised corn, squash and pumpkins and gathered several hundred varieties of nuts, berries and roots. The men hunted deer, wild turkeys, birds and woodland buffalo and got fish using trap lines and plant poisons. Local folklore says that the nearby community of Buena had a population of Native Americans who may have come from Wolftown. [Emma (Beeler) Strother by Pat Hurst 11,60] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5. Chapter II. The Settlers. In 1772 at the area known as Alexander Waugh's Ford, wagons camped along the river carrying goods between the Shenandoah valley and Fredericksburg. A miller, and land grantee, "Gentleman Billy" Willis, petitioned the English King, George III, to grant a tract of land on which to build a grist mill to grind feed for oxen and horses and to grind flour for the settlers. [The Orange Review centennial Edition, 1936 88] . . page 8. Chapter III. The Civ...

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The Kumulipo (“Beginning-in-deep-darkness”) is the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its two thousand lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family’s divine origin and tracing the family history from the begging of the world. This chant remains as an authentic work or primitive literature. Moreover, it is one of the principal sources of information on Hawaiian mythology, early culture, political structure, and way of life. The original text of the Kumulipo was first printed in Honolulu in 1889 from a manuscript copy in the possession of King Kalakaua. Several translations were made later, including one by Queen Liliuokalani, published in 1897. However, none was available in English when Martha Beckwith completed her own translation and detailed study, first published in 1951 by the University of Chicago Press. “Not only does Beckwith’s book provide students of pre-European Hawaii with the most authoritative text and translation of the Kumulipo, it also brings to anyone interested in Polynesia a profound glimpse into the creative dep...

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Twenty years have passed since the publication of Martha Warren Beckwith?s translation and extended annotation of the Kumulipo, a Hawaiian cosmogonic and genealogical chant. When it appeared in 1951 she was celebrating her eightieth birthday. Except for one or two brief notes published during the remaining eight years of her life, the book about the Kumulipo was her last publication. It was the crown of over forty-five years of intensive research in the folklore of many parts of the world, but particularly of the Hawaiian Islands where she had grown up. The preparation of the book occupied most of her time after her retirement from Vassar College in 1938. There she had spent eighteen years as research professor in the Folklore Foundation established for her by her childhood friend, Annie M. Alexander, to whom the translation of the Kumulipo is dedicated. However, she had begun research on the chant before 1938. She was perhaps already studying it twenty years earlier when she began planning another major work, Hawaiian Mythology, which was published in 1940 (reissued in 1970 by the University of Hawaii Press). In that book she r...

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I.The Prose Note. 7 --Ii. Rank In Hawaii. 11 -- Iii. The First-Born Son And The Taboo. 15 -- Iv. Lono Of The Makahiki. 18 --V. Captain Cook As Lono. 22 --Vi. Two Dynasties. 25vii. The Master Of Song. 35 -- Viii. Prologue To The Night World. 42 -- Ix. The Refrain Of Generation. 50 --X. Birth Of Sea And Land Life. 55 -- Xi. The World Of Infancy. 61 --Xii. Winged Life. 68 --. Xiii. The Crawlers. 75 --. Xiv. The Night-Digger. 80 --Xv. The Nibblers. . 85 --. Xvi. The Dog Child 89 -- Xvii. The Dawn Of Day. . 94 --Xviii. The Woman Who Sat Sideways99 --Xix. The Flood . 107 -- Xx. The Woman Who Bore Children Through The Brain. 110 --Xxi. Papa And Wakea. 117 --Xxii. Maui The Usurper128 -- Xxiii. The Dedication. 137 -- Xxiv. The Genealogies 140 Xxv. Hawaiian Accounts Of Creation. 153 --Xxvi. Other Polynesian Accounts Of Creation. 160 -- Xxvii. Ceremonial Birth Chants In Polynesia. 175 -- Conclusion. 181 --...

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MANY THEMES of modern Hawaiian history have their antecedents in a single historic episode—the mahele. In the 1840s, Kauikeaouli, or Kamehameha III, abandoned traditional Hawaiian land tenure in favor of the Western concept of private owner-ship of property, an event second only to the arrival of the Europeans in its impact on Hawai‘i. In the matter of a few years, Hawai‘i changed from a society in which the ali‘i ai?moku, or king, served as stew-ard of the land that belonged to the gods, to one in which he, the ali‘i, or nobility, and the maka?ainana, or com-moners, acquired outright ownership of land. Surveying the Mahele is the second volume in the series Palapala‘aina, the first of which, The Early Mapping of Hawai‘i, was recognized as the outstanding book of 1985–1993 by Ka Palapala Po‘okela, the association of Hawaiian publishers, who honored it with the first Samuel Kamakau Award. Surveying the Mahele examines the work of many im-portant figures, including the few professional surveryors, such as William Webster, whose work in Hawai‘i was as fine as any in the world. It describes the efforts of many missionaries, including...

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El fracaso escolar obedece inexorablemente a todo un cúmulo de deficiencias del sistema educativo que se debe ocupar de ayudar al individuo a comprender y manejar asertivamente sus estados emocionales. La necesidad de prevención de conductas antisociales desde la escuela, no ha generado una política criminológica adecuada, a lo sumo, sólo se aplican paliativos que de poco o nada funcionan por la falta de visión y compromiso social. La educación no es válida basada sólo en la enseñanza del contenido curricular del conocimiento, la pedagogía criminológica en el ánimo de prevenir conductas antisociales, tiene como eje central la formación psíquica sana del individuo con un carácter preventivo, antes que remedial; atendiendo además la “crisis de valores” que esta propiciando intolerancia y desacuerdos por la diversidad étnica y cultural existente, ahora ninguna cultura se mantiene completamente aislada de la dinámica cada vez más globalizada, es necesario replantear la noción de la formación del sujeto como ser-social, que lleva a la debacle de su conservación gregaria, por el desmedido uso de la violencia y de las arbitrariedades que r...

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School failure is inevitably due to a whole of shortcomings of the educational system which should help the individual to understand and manage their emotional States assertively. The need for prevention of anti-social behaviour from the school, has not generated a criminological policy adequate, at best, apply only palliatives which little or nothing they work by a lack of vision and social commitment. Education is not valid only based on the teaching of curriculum content knowledge, criminological pedagogy in the spirit to prevent anti-social behaviour, has as central axis psychic training healthy individual with a preventive rather than remedial; taking account Furthermore the "crisis of values" that this encouraging intolerance and disagreements by the ethnic and cultural diversity, now no culture is kept completely isolated from the increasingly globalized dynamics, it is necessary to rethink the notion of the subject as being-social formation, leading to the debacle of his gregarious conservation by the disproportionate use of violence and arbitrariness that break with the rule of the rule....