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Timothy Matthew Slemmons, Groans of the Spirit: Homiletical Dialectics in an Age of Confusion
No full textSiblings and Illness
No full textUsing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Mother and Child samples, I investigated the relationships among child and adolescent depressive symptoms, having a chronically ill sibling, and other child and familial demographic variables. From research on social support and social role transitions, with the Stress Process as a theoretical model, I hypothesized that children with chronically ill siblings experience more depressive symptoms. Specifically, I looked at age, gender, birth order and family size as potentially reducing the effect size of having a chronically ill sibling. Findings showed that having a chronically ill sibling is associated with demonstrating more depressive symptoms both in the bivariate and multivariate analyses. Although age, gender, birth order and family size do not interact significantly with having a chronically ill sibling in predicting depressive symptoms, they do present interesting findings about childhood depressive symptoms in general. Thus, the results of this study suggest specific and meaningful paths for future research
'Mujeres silenciosas, mujeres silenciadas': Reality and Representation of the Female Republican Struggle Against Francoist and Hitlerian Nationalism within the Context of the 'Spanish Republican Holocaust' Cultural Corpus
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Allan Hugh Cole Jr. ed., From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings.
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Sí Se Puede: Boycotting the Human Cost of Grapes in Delano, CA
No full textFrom the fields to our plates, much of our nation’s fresh produce comes from workers living in conditions steeped with injustice. They labor exhaustively in fields that burst with vegetables and fruit, yet subsist in constant hunger. Along with the struggle to obtain minimum wage, fair and safe working conditions, adequate housing, and health care, the excessive use of pesticides in the fields is a crucial issue of environmental justice as well. The effects of pesticides on the health of farmworkers and their families are scientifically proven to be both crippling and fatal. The pesticides continue to ruin laborers’ livelihoods and health, intensifying every other problem that the farmworkers face. In the 1960s and 70s, one union of farmworkers fought to raise awareness of the many cruelties in the current system of agricultural production. The situation of the California workers highlighted racial, legal, and cost-profit tensions that continue to affect our food systems today. The actions of the farmworkers and the leadership of César Chávez in the grape boycotts of Delano left the face of progress and civil rights in America forever changed. Organizing California’s migrant workers, some of the least empowered and most exploited groups in America, actualized Chávez’s once-impossible dream
