1,234 research outputs found
1714 - 2014 St. Michael\u27s Marblehead: 300 Years Serving a New England Community
No full textCommemoration of St. Michael\u27s Tercentenary celebration with a timeline of major events 2013 - 2015, panels from the Tercentenary Exhibition curated by Frances S. Nilsson, the induction and New Poem by Robert L. Howie, Jr. with the Rev. Andrew J. Stoessel, Rector.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/books/1062/thumbnail.jp
Defined contribution pension plans : can the real estate industry tap this growing pool of capital?
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997 [first author]; and, Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996 [second author].Includes bibliographical references.by Robert L. Johnson, Jr. & Peter R. Shepard.M.S
A study of the equal opportunity policies and matriculation patterns and graduation rates of African American students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 1980-1988, 1990
No full textThis study examined the equal opportunity policies utilized by a higher education institution and the effects these policies have on the matriculation patterns and graduation rates of African-American students. The selected policies were: (a) recruitment, (b) admissions, (c) financial aid, and (d) retention. The data were qualitative and included collection of official institutional documents and oral testimonies relating to the subject being investigated. Two research questions were designed to guide the investigation into the link between recruitment, admission, retention, and financial aid policies and enrollment and graduation of African-American students. The findings revealed there was a minor link between recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and retention policies and the number of African-Americans matriculating and graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1980-1988. It is hoped the findings and implications of this study will contribute to the literature in the field of higher education administration and related fields of knowledge
The young Black male in foster care: the St. Vincent's hall experience, 1982
No full textThe primary intent of this thesis is to examine foster care services. An attempt has been made to study, from a dual perspective, the relevance of discharge and the relevance of foster care services for Black children and the Black community. Juvenile boys are increasingly exhibiting behavioral problems such that the family is having to look outside of the nuclear and extended units for supportive alternatives. While the intent of the thesis is to examine discharge and Black children in foster care, the major concern is the institutionalization of Black males and the impact this syndrome is having on the Black community. After beginning with a brief history of foster care and a selected review of the literature, the thesis focuses on the central topic: the study of a sample discharge group from a foster care institutional residence program in New York City. The main source of information was the agency's population information forms. The separation experience was chosen as a focus of study for two reasons. First of all, the discharge experience can be a traumatic and confusing episode to adolescents who have developed a psychodynamic profile that makes them dependent on institutional living. Secondly, this examination will begin to draw attention to the effect the foster care experience has on their future development and the impact the system has on the Black community. It is therefore imperative to begin on examination of what happens to adolescent Black males when they leave foster placement
Founder's Day, circa 1980
No full textWritten on verso: (L-R) Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, Pres. Gloster, Dr. Jesse Hill, Jr. Founder's Day, 1980 Dr. Proctor + Dr. Hill Received Honorary Doctorates.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of historic collections as part of the project: Our Story: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions.</em
Abnormal morphogenesis of skin and feathers in the chicken embryo induced by the l-proline analog, l-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid: a light microscopical, ultrastructural (sem and tem) and chemical analysis, 1980
No full textCollagen is known to play a vital role in several developing systems which depend on epithelio-mesenchymal interactions for their normal morphogenesis. The development of embryonic chick skin has been found to be dependent on interactions between mesoderm (dermis) and ectoderm (epidermis) and collagen has been implicated in the formation of feather germs and feather patterns. Since collagen is the most abundant protein found in connective tissue and the major structural constituent of skin, the problem of whether normal skin morphogenesis is dependent on normal collagen biosynthesis is the subject of concern. The use of several proline analogs has provided a useful tool in exploring the morphogenesis of several differentiating collagen-dependent systems. In vitro studies have shown that the structural proline analog, L-azetidine-2-carboxylic (LACA), interferes with the normal biosynthesis of collagen molecules. The procollagen polypeptide chains containing the analog are underhydroxylated and, therefore, do not fold into the normal triple helical conformation; this causes a delay in the secretion of the molecule into the extracellular matrix. The purpose of this investigation was, therefore, to study the abnormal morphogenetic and biochemical changes that occurred in chick embryo skin due to the administration of the proline analog, LACA, and to determine if these changes were due possibly to an interruption of collagenogenesis. Fertile eggs of the White Leghorn Variety chicken were injected with 0.6 cc of 1 mg/ml of solution of LACA through the air sacs at pre-incubation, 24 hr and at 48 hr of incubation. Single injections of 0.9 cc of 1 mg/ml of LACA solution were also given at pre-incubation, 16-18 hr, 24 hr, or 48 hr of incubation. The embryos were removed from their shells and analyzed for suppression and/or inhibition of feathers. The time at which the single injections were made proved to be critical. The highest percentage of feather suppression (30%) occurred in embryos that were injected at 16-18 hr of incubation. However, triple-injections caused an even greater percentage of feather suppressions and/or inhibitions (35%). This high percentage of feather suppressions was observed in embryos at days 11-12 as opposed to earlier or later days
An analysis of the need for a job description plan with in the Administrative Operations Division of the Bureau of Parks and Recreation,City of Atlanta, 1979
No full textThis study was undertaken to find out what problems the Administrative Operations Division was encountering in the absence of a job description plan. Many employees in the division were not aware of their actual job functions. They have only been giver a class description of their jobs by the Bureau of Personnel, which is not the actual job functions. They have only been given a class description of their jobs by the Bureau of Personnel, which is not the actual description that they are entitled to from the division in which they are employed. A class description is a stigmatization of general duties performed by employees assigned to that class. A detailed job description is a listing of the specific and everyday duties of an employee assigned to that poison The study found that this is indeed a problem in the Administrative Operations Division. This paper recommends that the problem be corrected by developing detailed job descriptions for each employee in the division, and specific recommendations are made toward that end
The significance of Magnus L. Robinson and the national leader to the black community, 1880-1891, 1981
No full textIn this paper the writer has undertaken the task of bringing to the forefront the contributions of Magnus L. Robinson and his paper, The National Leader, to the Black community during the period of 1880 to 1891. A large part of the paper is based upon data obtained from The National Leader and letters of Frederick Douglass and his son, Frederick Douglass, Jr., to Robinson. Magnus L. Robinson was a black Republican who lived during the period termed by some historians as the "Nadir." He and his paper were situated in the Alexandria, Virginia and Washington, D. C. area. Because of his allegiance to the Republican party, he was appointed to many political offices. This study shows how Robinson used these political appointments to elevate and advance the conditions of Blacks. Another phase of the study analyzes the newspaper, The National Leader. It will show how this black Republican newspaper kept members of the Black community aware and abreast of current day issues that directly or indirectly affected their lives. Some of these issues were lynchings, disfranchisement, education, health and women suffrage. Finally, this study contends that Magnus L. Robinson and his paper, The National Leader, have both been neglected in the study of Afro- American History; and that they deserve recognition along with other Black Americans who devoted their lives to the advancement of the Black race
The political philosophy incorporated within Black theology: a case study of the shrine of the Black Madonna, 1988
No full textThe Black Christian Nationalists under the leadership of the Reverend Albert B. Cleage, Jr., the founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna of the Pan-African Orthodox Christian Church, act as a separatist by seeking to establish their own separate black institutions in order to gain power with.in the. black community. Reverend Cleage asserts that the "traditional" black church has failed the black community by addressing only the spiritual -needs of its members. Although Reverend Cleage claims that the Shrine is the only black church meeting the needs of the black community, the majority of their institutions are designed primarily to aid only their members and not the entire community. The research is designed to address the question of whether the "traditional" black church has failed the black community while examining the political, social, and economic philosophy of the Shrine of the Black Madonna. Reverend Cleage's program of "institutional power" acts as a model for other black churches by combining poli tical philosophy with religious doctrine in order to aid the black community. The ideologies of Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are also analyzed in order to examine their contributions to the black religious community. The methodology utilized in conducting the study involves the Descriptive Case Study Method and the Document Study, in addition to David Easton's systems theory as the dominant paradigm
The Mormon Missionary: Who IS That Knocking at My Door?
No full textRobert L. Lively Jr. The Mormon Missionary: Who IS That Knocking at My Door?
Wilton, Maine: By the Author, 2015
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