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Felix Almaraz, Author and Teacher, "The Tragic Calvalier."(photograph)
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Oliver, Felix; Oliver, Violet. Interview with Felix and Violet Oliver about their childhood, schooling, special days, and family.
No full textFelix and Violet Oliver share their childhood memories, their school life, and about their family. Violet shows some of the clothes she knit and photographs of her family.00:06-02:54 Violet was born on 26th March 1931 in Corner Brook, moved to Stephenville in 1941, brought up and got married there, moved to Toronto in 1955, and came back here again in 1962, Felix was born on August 1st, 1927 in Gull island, worked in St. John’s for 30 years, then moved to Toronto and came back again; 03:00-03:26 Violet’s mother died when she was three and half years old, her mother had six children, her step-mother had nine and she has also a brother, in total they are eighteen; 03:30- 06:23 she had to quit school when she was thirteen to help her mother as they were a big family, woke up in the morning, made bread, sometimes made bread at night and her mother used to bake them, she helped her mother to raise all her step brothers and sisters, when her youngest brother was born then Violet was two months pregnant who is now 51 years old, her sister lives in Ontario, one of her brothers died of cancer in 78 years old, another brother also got prostate cancer, Violet tells that she does not like to call step-sister as they are all a family; 06:27- 07:13 Violet points to the photographs of Felix’s parents hanging on the wall, Felix father is 113 years old and his mother is 105 years old, he has three brothers and two sisters, two sisters and two brothers live in Ontario; 07:21- 08:42 it’s been 56 years they got married, they have five children, they have four and adopted another boy, they have eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, one of his son is a doctor in St. john’s, another boy is a lawyer in Montreal, there are nurses, lab technicians, doctors, petroleum engineers, lawyer, actors in their family; 08:57-11:42 Felix went to school when he was six years old, there were only two rooms in his school from Kindergarten to grade seven, Violet went to a big school when she started her school, her school was a two-storied building and there were many kids, in Stephenville she went to a catholic school, she had nuns to teach her, Sister Merry Everden was her favorite nun, Sister Merry gave her first Bible and she turned catholic, she was a salvation army and then turned to catholic and got married, she done her grade 6 at home, she had to leave school at thirteen because she had to help her mother to raise her siblings, then books had to leave in school, she did homework in arithmetic, geometry, spelling, Violet’s favorite subject was arithmetic; 11:49- 14:47 Felix says that most people did fishing at his time, his father used to work in railroads and fishing too, Violet’s father worked in paper mills in Grand Falls, he was a scalar and painter, he made all around furniture, he was also a hunter, her father also worked with American navy; 14:58-22:58 Felix says most people bought clothes from little stores in the community, there was just one store, people used to sewing clothes, Felix’s mother knitted clothes, people grew vegetables in their garden, his father had cattle, 4 sheep, 2 pigs, 12 lambs, still now he grows his own vegetables like potatoes, beans and onions, Violet’s mother used to knit clothes for them, Violet can also knit clothes, she knows to bake cakes, they used to bake wedding cakes and birthday cakes, Violet can also make Christmas dress, baby shower dress, she shows some of her and her daughter’s knitted clothes, she says all of her kids can knit and they know sewing, she shows some white shawls and sweaters she knitted, she also shows a little white dress knitted for her granddaughter and different colorful sweaters she knitted, she says that she made almost hundred sweaters, she can make two sweaters in a week; 23:21- 31:15 Felix says they used to drink in Christmas to celebrate the event, Violet’s special holiday was also Christmas, apart from Christmas they used to celebrate other holidays, she used to celebrate Mother’s day and still now she celebrates this day, she thinks it’s a special day for every mother, she celebrates this day for her step-mother because she finds her step-mother very caring, in Christmas they enjoy dinner, Violet dresses herself as Santa Clause, she could remember a special doll made by her step-mother as a gift she received in a Christmas, it was special for her, she used to polish her shoes on Sunday, in the evening they played; 32:03-39:02 Violet’s brothers played music, they had even bands but she was not allowed to go for dances, she used to listen to music with her mother; Violet shows some photographs of her family and her marriage certificate; 39:04-end of the interview
Parents’ assets and child marriage: are mother’s assets more protective than father’s assets?
No full textChild marriage places girls at an increased risk for dropping out of school early, sexually transmitted infections, teenage childbirth, and accompanying childbirth complications, including maternal mortality. The determinants of child marriage are not clearly understood, which hinders efforts to mount effective interventions. This study examined the link between economic resources and child marriage by investigating whether maternal and paternal asset ownership were longitudinally associated with daughters’ child marriage in Ethiopia. Drawing upon household bargaining theory, it was hypothesized that maternal assets would be more protective of daughters’ child marriage than paternal assets. Data for 4,293 girls from the nationally representative Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey, fielded in 2011 and 2014, were employed. Logistic regression and instrumental variable analyses were used to examine the relationship between transition into child marriage during the study period and maternal and paternal assets, controlling for child-, family-, and community-level characteristics. Results show that a one standard deviation increase in mother’s assets was associated with 37–53% lower odds of daughter’s child marriage whereas a one standard deviation increase in paternal asset holdings was associated with 0–37% higher odds of daughter’s child marriage. Effects were strongest in regions where the dominant mode of marriage payments is bride price. These results suggest that the link between economic resources and child marriage depends on the gender of the parent who owns the resources. This study also highlights the interconnectedness of two targets of the gender equality Sustainable Development Goal—improvement of women’s ownership of assets and the elimination of child marriage—and suggests that the realization of one gender equality target could have implications for other targets.Peer reviewe
Disability among children of immigrants from India and China: is there excess disability among girls?
No full textWe investigate whether there is excess morbidity among daughters of Indian or Chinese immigrants in the US by studying the prevalence of disability among children. We use data from the 2012–14 American Community Surveys on approximately 20,000 US-born children of Indian and Chinese immigrants. Children of US natives are used as a comparison group to account for innate differences in disability between the sexes. Results indicate that there is excess disability among daughters compared with sons among children of Chinese immigrants and children of immigrants from northern or western Indian states; this excess disability declines with younger age at arrival or longer exposure to the host country. Analysis using children of Filipino immigrants as an alternative comparison group yields similar excess disability rates for females.Peer reviewe
Effect of Food Subsidies on Micronutrient Consumption
No full textIn this article, we study the effect of an exogenous increase in wheat and rice price subsidy to poor families resulting from a targeted food price subsidy program in India called the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) on micronutrient intake in low-income families. Descriptive results show that wheat and rice have one of the lowest micronutrient density scores, suggesting that these are poor suppliers of micronutrients. Empirical analysis suggests that the increase in subsidy amount of Rs. 15-18 resulting from the TPDS expansion lowered calcium intake by 12-14 percent and had negligible to small (often negative) effects on the consumption of most micronutrients.Peer reviewe
Sex composition of children and spousal sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa
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In societies with a cultural preference for sons over daughters, women who do not bear sons may be at increased risk for spousal violence. This study examined whether women with daughters only are at an elevated risk for spousal sexual violence compared to women with sons only in sub-Saharan Africa. The study tested the hypothesis that the association between sex composition of children and spousal sexual violence would be observed only in large families.
Methods
Data were from the most recent (as at February, 2016) Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 22 sub-Saharan African countries for 37,915 women. Odds ratios comparing experience of spousal sexual violence of women with sons only to those with daughters only were estimated, separately for women with three or fewer children and those with four or more children, controlling for age, age at first cohabitation, age at first birth, educational attainment, urban residence, and household wealth.
Results
Having daughters only was associated with a greater likelihood of spousal sexual violence among women with many children (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.53; 95% CI = 1.02–2.30) but not among those with few children (AOR = 0.92; 95% CI = 0.82–1.04).
Conclusions for practice
A higher risk of sexual violence for women without sons suggests that son preference may have implications on women’s health and wellbeing. Efforts to further understand and address increased risk of sexual violence for women without sons should consider son preference and intra-couple conflict concerning fertility intentions.Peer reviewe
Sewing as authority in the Middle Ages
No full textThis essay considers medieval sewing in light of Austin’s speech-act theory. Analysing manuscripts, relics, indulgences, and even a bishop’s mitre, the article argues that stitching was a way to enact, or intensify, the ritual purpose of objects, whether that was ceremonial, devotional, or authoritative. Whereas a speech act functions by its utterance, stitches act by forming visible and often ceremonious attachments between materials in order to aggrandise, embellish, assert and layer authority, or swathe an object in textiles as if it were a relic
Culture, labor supply, and fertility across immigrant generations in the United States
No full textRecent immigration to the United States and other developed nations has increasingly been from countries that have relatively traditional gender norms. This study uses data from the Current Population Survey for 2000–14 to investigate how source-country gender norms influence the labor supply and fertility of married women across immigrant generations in the US. It finds that immigrants’ and descendants’ labor supply and fertility are associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio and total fertility rate in the source country; importantly, the association declines across successive generations. Husbands’ source-country characteristics are also associated with the labor supply and fertility of immigrant women. These findings indicate evolution and assimilation of traditional gender norms in the long run.Peer reviewe
The genome and proteome of a virulent Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteriophage closely resembling Salmonella phage Felix O1
No full textBased upon whole genome and proteome analysis, Escherichia coli O157:H7-specific bacteriophage (phage) wV8 belongs to the new myoviral genus, "the Felix O1-like viruses" along with Salmonella phage Felix O1 and Erwinia amylovora phage φEa21-4. The genome characteristics of phage wV8 (size 88.49 kb, mol%G+C 38.9, 138 ORFs, 23 tRNAs) are very similar to those of phage Felix O1 (86.16 kb, 39.0 mol%G+C, 131 ORFs and 22 tRNAs) and, indeed most of the proteins have their closest homologs within Felix O1. Approximately one-half of the Escherichia coli O157:H7 mutants resistant to phage wV8 still serotype as O157:H7 indicating that this phage may recognize, like coliphage T4, two different surface receptors: lipopolysaccharide and, perhaps, an outer membrane protein
Felix Grant and Peter Ustinov
No full textFelix Grant and internationally renowned actor, author and playwright Peter Ustinov converse.Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-09T17:40:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Previous issue date: 2002-11-04Handwritten on back: "Felix Grant and / Peter Ustinof [sic]
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