447 research outputs found
Abby Zimet piece on the Foster Grandparent Program, which began as part of Lyndo
No full textAbby Zimet piece on the Foster Grandparent Program, which began as part of Lyndon Johnson\u27s War on Poverty. John Curtis, 74, of Portland, is a foster grandparent, and today will celebrate Grandparent\u27s Day with the approximately 60 million other grandparents in the country
for Abby Kelly Foster
No full textAbby Kelly arose from Worcester, Massachusetts to become a foremost defender of equal rights in the eighteenth century. Praised by William Lloyd Garrison as a moral Joan of Arc, and by Parker Pillsbury as the woman of the age, Kelly battled discrimination as she spoke out publicly for the rights of the slave. Inspired by the platform orations of Angelina Grimke, Kelly decided upon a career as an abolitionist speaker in 1839, choosing initially to lecture in rural Connecticut. Over the next thirty years she spoke tirelessly in support of Afro-American\u27s and woman\u27s rights, traversing the backwoods of New England before opening anti-slavery societies in Ohio and Indiana
Interviews: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, RHM Editor, interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on their persuasion brief, “Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective”
No full textDownload of the interview includes 1) transcript and 2) Appendices A, B, and C from Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara DavisThis interview is published as Meloncon, Lisa; Trauth, Erin; and Molloy, Cathryn (2019) "RHM Author Interview: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, RHM Editor, interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on their persuasion brief, “Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective”, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine: 2019, 2(1). Posted with permission. </p
RHM Author Interview: Dr. Lisa Melonçon, RHM Editor, Interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on Their Persuasion Brief, "Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective"
No full textRHM Author Interview: Dr. Lisa Meloncon, RHM Editor, interviews Dr. Abby Dubisar and Sara Davis on Their Persuasion Brief, “Communicating Elective Sterilization: A Feminist Perspective.
Stuck? Diagrams Help
No full textLike digital tow trucks, diagrams have been helping people feeling stuck for thousands of years. But why? Because diagrams give us superpowers. The ability to render our ideas visually helps us move through some pretty gnarly human situations. In this keynote Abby Covert, an author and information architect, takes us on a tour of five of the superpowers that make diagrams the helpful superhero of many sensemaking stories.Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. Abby has written two popular books, How to Make Sense of Any Mess and Stuck? Diagrams Help. She currently spends her time making things that help you to make the unclear clear, many of which she makes available for free on her website, www.abbycovert.com or at accessible price points in her popular Etsy shop, AbbytheIA. In 2022, she started The Sensemakers Club where she brings together sensemakers from different walks of life to learn from one another. Abby currently lives and writes from Melbourne, Florida, where her most important job title is "Mom.
sj-pdf-1-chl-10.1177_17475198211057467 – Supplemental material for Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-chl-10.1177_17475198211057467 for Facile synthesis and biological evaluation of chrysin derivatives by Nicholas Omonga, Zakia Zia, Hesham Ghanbour, Abby Ragazzon-Smith, Howard Foster, John Hadfield and Patricia Ragazzon in Journal of Chemical Research</p
Prisoner
No full textBio: Abby N. Lewis is a poet from Dandridge, Tennessee. She is the author of the chapbook This Fluid Journey (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the poetry collection Reticent (Grateful Steps, 2016). Her work has appeared in Timber, The Mockingbird, The Allegheny Review, Sanctuary, and elsewhere. Follow her website: freeairforfish.com
Palms Up, Fingers Curled
No full textBio: Abby N. Lewis is a poet from Dandridge, Tennessee. She is the author of the chapbook This Fluid Journey (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the poetry collection Reticent (Grateful Steps, 2016). Her work has appeared in Timber, The Mockingbird, The Allegheny Review, Sanctuary, and elsewhere. Follow her website: freeairforfish.com
Bradenton Mayor "Abby" Leach and Realtors
No full textBradenton Mayor Abby Leach and members of the Manatee County Board of Realtors sign a proclamation. Man at left is realtor Carl D. King, center is the mayor. Name of lady is unknown. Carl King was president of the Manatee County Historical Society from 1974 through 1977 and was the author of "Model-T Days", the story of his family's arrival in Bradenton in the 1920s and tells of Carl's entry into real estate during the Great Florida Real Estate Boom of the 1920s
Abby Williams Hill: A Case Study of Early 20th Century Environmental Thought
No full textThis paper attempts to put forward an understanding of environmental thought in the early 20th century through a case study of Abby Williams Hill. By examining her stance on environmental issues in comparison with prominent writers and naturalists who preceded her the author suggests both a logical progression of American environmental thought between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the necessity to acknowledge the differences in perception and action towards nature that Abby Hill pursued throughout her life as an example of the necessity to understand personal and local attitudes towards broader historical themes
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