3,297 research outputs found
Amy Roloff at Head Start
No full textTV personality Amy Roloff presents a lesson on diversity to the students at the Bridgeport Head Start program.[front] Amy Roloff comes to teach diversity. She asked 'Which pants are mine and which are my daughters?'; Viene Amy Roloff a enceniar diversidad ella pregunta 'A qual pantalon es Mio, y a qual es de mi hija?
A Study Assessing the Implementation of Male Circumcision as an HIV Prevention Strategy in Kenya
No full textA Study Assessing the Implementation of Male Circumcision
as an HIV Prevention Strategy in Kenya
Amy Kate Noel Herman-Roloff
B.A., Bethel University, 2000
M.P.H., University of Minnesota, 2003
Dissertation Chairperson: Dr. Robert C. Bailey
Research has demonstrated that male circumcision (MC) reduces the incidence of HIV acquisition in heterosexual men by at least half. In 2008, Kenya launched the national Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) program for HIV prevention, and plans to circumcise 860,000 males by 2013. Despite the protective effect of MC, there are concerns about the acceptability and safety of the procedure.
This study was implemented in Nyanza Province, Kenya, and used a mixed method approach to assess components of the VMMC program. The quantitative component of this study used both passive (N = 3,705) and active (N = 1,449) surveillance methods to monitor study participants. The qualitative component of this study included 12 focus group discussions among uncircumcised men.
The primary barriers to VMMC uptake included time away from work; culture and religion; possible adverse events (AEs); and the post-surgical abstinence period. The primary facilitators to VMMC uptake included hygiene; social pressure; protection against HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; and improved sexual performance and satisfaction.
Among the participants who underwent circumcision, the post-MC AE rate was 2.1% in the passive system and 7.5% in the active system. Experienced VMMC providers, who had performed more than 100 procedures, were less likely to provide an MC that resulted in an AE compared to inexperienced providers. Approximately one-third of participants reported engaging in sexual activity during the recommended 42-day abstinence period. In a multivariable analysis, being married was the strongest predictor of engaging in early sexual activity.
To increase VMMC uptake it is important to dispel misconceptions and increase the relevance of MC among men who are already practicing an HIV prevention method. As large-scale MC programs continue to be implemented throughout Africa, robust surveillance is crucial to identify factors that may improve the safety and efficacy of the program. The most important factor to reduce the AE rate is to ensure that providers achieve clinical expertise before they perform unsupervised procedures. Strategies to reduce engaging in early sexual activity should be implemented such as including female partners in counseling, mass education campaigns, and targeted programs for VMMC clients
George Herman Simmons family papers, MSS.2220
No full textAbstract: Correspondence written by and related to the Simmons family, primarily George Herman Simmons.Scope and Content Note: This collection consists of correspondence related to the Simmons Family. The bulk of the letters are correspondence written to George Herman Simmons, though some correspondence is written to Warren Simmons, Ruthy Jane Simmons, and Bessie Spaulding. The collection also contains letters written by George Herman, Warren, Ruthy Jane, Usray(?), and Herald Herman Simmons.The majority of George Herman's incoming correspondence was written by young ladies whom George Herman was apparently courting. Some of these individuals are Nellie Bush from Adamsville, Alabama; Maumee Campbell from Centreville and Blocton, Alabama; "Carene" from McShan, Alabama, Ruby Jenkins from Midland, Georgia; Florence Lowry from Blocton, Alabama; "Maude" from Starkville, Mississippi; Ira Moore from Piedmont and Acmar, Alabama; Lizzie Moss from Cleveland, Alabama; Amy Reach from Roda, Virginia; and Bessie Spaulding from Blocton, Alabama. It should be noted that Bessie Spaulding's letters are highly decorated with pencil illustrations.Other letters are correspondence with family, including Simmons, Sims, and Brights, and correspondence with friends, such as Charlie Fulton in Starkville, Mississippi.Biographical/Historical Note: According to the Bibb County Census from 1900, George Herman Simmons was born in December, 1896, to Warren Simmons and Ruthy Jane (Bright) Simmons. Warren Simmons was born in December, 1870, in South Carolina to David Simmons and Frances Lena. Ruthy Jane Bright was born in May, 1871. The census lists two brothers, Tuly S. and Adicus G., born in 1898 and 1900, but grave stones from Bibb County indicate that they died a few years after birth. Letters in the collection indicate he may have had another brother, Usray(?) Simmons, and may have had a half brother, as J.C. Dutton wrote a letter to Ruty Jane Bright addressing her as "mother."George Herman Simmons had at least one aunt, Amanda (Bright) Sims, and two cousins, Raymond and Pearl Sims. Also present in the collection is a "Cousin Sudie," cousin Ethel Bright, a Millie Bright, and a W.B. Bright, all of whom appear to be related to George Herman.For the period of time covered by the collection, the family primarily resided in Bankhead, Alabama. George Herman worked in various places around the southeast, and by September, 1924, worked as a coal miner in Shoopman, Kentucky.George Herman married Bessie Spaulding sometime between 1922 and September, 1924, at which point he addressed her as "wife" in one letter. George Herman Simmons had at least one son, Herald Herman
Author Talk: Daniel Herman Discusses His Novel, The Feudist
No full textPoster for an event where CWU History professor Daniel Herman discusses his historical novel The Feudisthttps://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1223/thumbnail.jp
“The Pondering Repose of If”: Herman Melville’s Literary Exegesis
No full textThis study examines how Herman Melville’s oeuvre interacts with Old Testament (OT) wisdom literature (the Books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes). Using recent historical findings on the rise of religious skepticism and the erosion of Biblical authority in both Europe and the United States, I read Melville as an author steeped in the theological controversies of the eighteenth-century. Specifically, I am interested in teasing out the surprising disavowals of overt religious skepticism in Melville’s writing. By tracing the so-called Solomonic wisdom tradition throughout Melville’s oeuvre, I argue that Melville had developed an epistemology of contemplation towards that body of Biblical texts. Scholarship has traditionally painted Melville as a subversive if not downright skeptical religious thinker. Most studies have produced authorial readings, using texts as forensic evidence to make assertions about the author’s psychology. Incidentally, such assessments have confirmed the narrative of Herman Melville as a grand failed author of the nineteenth century, while ignoring the ambivalent attitudes toward Biblical authority, textual history, and skepticism that emerge in Melville’s writing. The present study intervenes by re-addressing several procedural questions about Melville’s literary dealings with the Bible: How does Melville deal with the distinct topics of religion, theology, religious skepticism, and doubt? How does he think through the relationship between science and religion as well as that of personal religion and theology? I claim that Melville’s work can be read as a continuous contemplation of Biblical wisdom. His writing, I argue, deals productively rather than a destructive with the Bible, its textual history, and authority. Melville’s thinking on theological and religious subjects was not merely subversive but constructive. In mounting this argument, I contradict current scholarship that reads Melville as trying to invent a new American Bible. In contrast, I show how Melville’s philosophical forays, even when critical, are dependent on the ethics, language, and thinking of the OT.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Author Herman Wouk with his dog, ca. 1950s
No full textHerman Wouk, author of "The Caine Mutiny" (1951), "Marjorie Morningstar" (1955), "The Winds of War" (1971), "War and Remembrance" (1978) and many other novels. "The Caine Mutiny" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Photo by Angelo Pinto.Digital imageItem is part of an online exhibition "Jews in America: Our Story," maintained by the Center for Jewish History at http://www.jewsinamerica.org
The Buddhist nun´s ordination in the Tibetan canon : possibilities of the revival of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇī lineage /
No full text"This critical edition introduces the Tibetan texts and their English translations of two important chapters in the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya: the Chapter on Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī (*Mahāprajāpatīgautamīvastu) and the Manual for Buddhist Nuns' Ordination (*Bhikṣuṇyupasaṃpadājñapti). Based on the presented materials, the author discusses ways in which the nuns' ordination in the Tibetan tradition--from which full ordination for women has been absent for centuries--may be legitimately reinstated. This is a concern Carola Roloff has been supporting for more than two decades. Her edition and exegesis of the Tibetan texts and their Sanskrit parallels constitute a solid foundation for discussing why the Mūlasarvāstivāda bhikṣuṇī lineage should be re-established and how concrete steps in that direction may look like."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-365)."This critical edition introduces the Tibetan texts and their English translations of two important chapters in the Tibetan Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya: the Chapter on Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī (*Mahāprajāpatīgautamīvastu) and the Manual for Buddhist Nuns' Ordination (*Bhikṣuṇyupasaṃpadājñapti). Based on the presented materials, the author discusses ways in which the nuns' ordination in the Tibetan tradition--from which full ordination for women has been absent for centuries--may be legitimately reinstated. This is a concern Carola Roloff has been supporting for more than two decades. Her edition and exegesis of the Tibetan texts and their Sanskrit parallels constitute a solid foundation for discussing why the Mūlasarvāstivāda bhikṣuṇī lineage should be re-established and how concrete steps in that direction may look like."-
Herman Leicht
No full textNotes - Mr. Herman Leicht's career and education are discussed including his interest and subsequent career in radio and technology. Details are given of his marriage to Doreen Wilkinson and their family life (1 page
Marilynne Robinson, housekeeping: part 1 [The american novel since 1945]
No full textPresents a lecture of Professor Amy Hungerford that comments the work of renowned American author Marilyne Robinson. Housekeeping is a novel from 1980, which talks about cleaning in several ways, household cleaning, the cleaning of the spirit and the family. It is a traditional American work that relates the individual with the nature including the powerful influences of the Bible. The Professor explores the authors Marilyne Robinson, Herman Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson and the evolution of the American novelEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letra
Marilynne Robinson, housekeeping: part 1 [The american novel since 1945]
No full textPresents a lecture of Professor Amy Hungerford that comments the work of renowned American author Marilyne Robinson. Housekeeping is a novel from 1980, which talks about cleaning in several ways, household cleaning, the cleaning of the spirit and the family. It is a traditional American work that relates the individual with the nature including the powerful influences of the Bible. The Professor explores the authors Marilyne Robinson, Herman Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson and the evolution of the American novelEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letra
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