Biographical Resources / UTSA Library Subject Guide Encyclopedia of latin American History and Culture Location JPL Reference Stacks notable American WomenThe Modern Period; A Biographical Dictionary http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Research/Subject/biographyguide.html
Extractions: @import "/Includes/sec_730.css"; Biographies give us information about the history of a person's life and their accomplishments. Biographical resources are found in almost any reference source, including dictionaries, almanacs, and encyclopedias. Below is a list of general and subject-specific biographical resources found at the UTSA 1604 Campus and Downtown Library. Academic Universe Biographical Information (UTSA subscription)
Extractions: General collections: Eye Witness To (Old West) History Ancestry.com Biography-Center Kansas History OnLine ... Lives: The Biography Resource (see: Regions Migration and Ethnic Relations People in The West Peoples of the Ancient Great Plains ... Wild West Questia On-Line Books for Research: Frontier Life Frontier Women Kit Carson Cottonwood: History of the Upper Sacramento Valley From the expansion west, to the mission days, buckaroos and bad boys, the pinto folk (moutain men who married chief daughters), the padres, the "wanted" men seeking a fresh start, buffalo soldiers, explorers, trappers, scouts and renegades. The Old West took all types, and more than a few preachermen wore themselves out trying to civilize the motley crew. African Americans: African American Links African Americans African-American Family History Research-Missouri African Americans in the Rugged West ... Underground Railroad sites (SW Ohio map) America's Story Quick quizes on American leaders and statesmen
Notable AfroBorincanos an abreviated list with short biographies and photos of the most notable black art and became known as the most gifted of latin American rococo artist. http://www.elboricua.com/AfroBorinquen_people.html
Extractions: Notable AfroBorincanos Homepage Rafael Cordero was a free black man born in San Juan on October 24, 1790. Most free black men were poor and illiterate but he was different. Very little is known about him. He was the son of Lucas Andino and Rita Molina. No one knows why he used the name Cordero but his sister used it also. At that time Puerto Rico was a colony with more free blacks than slaves. His parents, both free blacks, were educated. They could read and they taught their children at a time and place when most of the white population was illiterate. Cordero's story is extremely unusual. He was a cigar maker and had his own shop in a very poor section in San Juan. He began teaching black children how to read and write and spent time tutoring them in the classics. Back then there were only two school for children in the entire island. Soon Cordero was teaching white children as well. He taught without pay for it was not until his later years that the government recognized him and budgeted $15.00 per month for his school. Today there is a school and a street named for him in San Juan. A plaque on Luna Street commemorates the house where he lived and taught.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON: A VOICE OF CONSCIENCE The 1952 Campaign Better to lose the election than mislead the people During the summer of 1961, Stevenson toured latin America, trying to persuade http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/stevenson.html
Extractions: Heritage and Education Adlai Ewing Stevenson, governor of Illinois (1949-1953), Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965), was born in Los Angeles, California on February 5, 1900, the son of Lewis G. Stevenson and Helen Davis Stevenson. He grew up in Bloomington, Illinois, where his ancestors had been influential in local and national politics since the nineteenth century. Jesse Fell, his maternal great-grandfather, a prominent Republican and an early Lincoln supporter, founded The Daily Pantograph , a Bloomington newspaper. His paternal grandfather, Adlai E. Stevenson, served as Grover Cleveland's Vice President during his second term, was nominated for the office with William Jennings Bryan in 1900, and ran unsuccessfully for Illinois governor in 1908.
Research By Subject: Latin American Studies people Organizations, Web Resources, Further Research, Course Home Pages The following is a selected list of resources in latin American Studies. http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/las/guide/path.htm
Extractions: INFORMATION COMMONS REFERENCE (IC Ref) - 1st floor (basement), adjoining the Integrated Learning Center. The reference section is next to the Information Desk. Contains sections on the physical environment, the economy, the peoples, history, politics and society, and culture. A 3-volume set covering Discovery and Modernism, 20th Century and Brazilian Literature. Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects.
Open: Open Source In Latin America After embarking on a field trip, and talking to lots of people, latin Americancountries should be more aggressive about mandating Open Source. http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_97/OSLA/OSLA.htm
Extractions: April 23, One e xample of how logic and politics do not always go in hand in hand is why national governments with economies that are developing or in a state of serious rehab have not passed mandates on Open Source software. While Open Source is a passport for local software businesses to grow, and for a new generation of Internet users to cross the digital divide, the freedom train is yet to arrive. Supporters crusading for Free Software in government nonetheless persevere. Mikko Välimäki researcher, co-founder and chairman of Electronic Frontier in Finland, and software licensing consultant, recently was hired by the Washington, DC-based Inter-American Development Bank, which lends about $8B a year in Latin America, to study and write a report on Open Source in that region. He shares some impressions of what he saw: Letters of intent. Initiatives. Campaigns. All leaving the author a bit confused. F irst Open Source came to business. Then Open Source came to politics. One of the biggest issues in the recent Open Source debate has been its suitability for developing countries and its potential to ease the great digital divide. Can migration to Linux and Open Source software save governments significant initial software investment costs? Will Open Source provide access to the Internet for all?
Central And South America Women's History latin American female film director, from Argentina. a radical conference onlatin American issues, focusing on the notable absence of women delegates. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/latinamerica/
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AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2004 Latin America 10 million million people are living with HIV in latin America. Shadowing theconsiderable variation in latin Americas epidemics, however, http://www.unaids.org/wad2004/EPIupdate2004_html_en/Epi04_09_en.htm
Extractions: with other men. HIV in Argentina Argentina directed at men who have sex with men is a concern, given HIV prevalence of 14% detected among them in Buenos Aires and the fact that just one-in-seven of the men who tested positive had been aware of their serostatus (Avilla et al., 2004). In Uruguay Until recently, the epidemics in the Andean area have been lodged largely among sex workers, their clients and men who have sex with men. However, this is beginning to change as the virus spreads increasingly to the wives and girlfriends of these men. One recent study in Lima
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Global Views On Bush's Reelection Substantial Minority Now Feels Worse Toward American people The most negativecountries are western European, latin American and Muslim ones. http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/BBCworldpoll/html/bbcpoll011905.html
Extractions: Clearly the negative attitudes toward Bush are not simply derived from anti-Americanism as negative attitudes toward the US, while significant, are not as strong as for Bush. On average a plurality of 47 percent say they now view US influence in the world as mostly negative while 38 percent view it as mostly positive and 15 percent did not answer either way. In twelve countries a majority see US influence as mostly negative, with large majorities in Argentina (65%), Germany (64%), Russia (63%), Turkey (62%), Canada (60%), and Mexico (57%).
Extractions: English remains the language of choice among the children and grandchildren of Hispanic immigrants, despite continuing waves of migration from Latin America and concerns from some analysts that English may lose ground to Spanish in some parts of the United States, a new analysis of census data shows. The study, conducted by researchers at the State University of New York at Albany, is the latest foray in a fierce debate about whether the continuing stream of immigration from Latin America will challenge traditional assimilation patterns charted by the descendants of European migrants. Scholars say that the descendants of most European immigrants who arrived in the late 19th and 20th centuries became exclusively English-speakers within three generations. In recent years, some people have questioned whether the descendants of Hispanic immigrants will follow suit, given the surging numbers of Spanish-speaking arrivals and the emphasis on multiculturalism and increased globalization. The study, which examined data from the 2000 census, found that most Hispanic-Americans were also moving steadily toward English monolingualism. The report found that 72 percent of Hispanic children who were third-generation or later spoke English exclusively.
Notable Facts notable Facts gives a chronological overview of important facts from New Jersey Europe and latin America repopulated the states declining cities, http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/notablefacts.htm
Extractions: Home Notable Facts Images Documents ... Search NOTABLE FACTS N otable Facts gives a chronological overview of important facts from New Jersey women's history. It is cross-linked to relevant images and documents. N Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997). At the end of each chronology is a selected list of secondary sources. Period I Period I: 1775 T he seventeenth century witnessed the beginnings of European and British settlement in the regions that became New Jersey. It also witnessed the introduction of chattel slavery and the decimation of the indigenous Native American population. I n 1664 a British victory over the Dutch established English control over the area and the Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors stipulated that any free person, male or female, worth L50 was considered a landholder. (This property requirement, of course, excluded indentured servants and slaves.) Generous land grants, religious freedom, and self-government attracted numerous settlers to the colony. C olonial New Jersey was an agricultural society comprised primarily of self-sufficient households. Women produced food, manufactured goods, and provided health-care and instruction for their households.
Extractions: mvargas@csli.stanford.edu Crossing the border into another country frequently carries with it the expectation that things will be different and maybe unexpected. It was in this spirit that I went to Mexico this past summer as part of an ongoing research project on Latin American philosophy. What I found was distinctive, but less unusual than I had hoped. Despite some obvious and not-so-obvious differences in the practice of philosophy in Latin American and the United States, the trip confirmed that philosophical divisions based on approach, language, and nationality remain as entrenched as they were in 1943 when Brand Blanshard said that of "the Latin American mind, of its dominant interests and ideas, of its guiding convictions about religion and society, even of its leading exponents in literature and science and philosophy, most of us must confess that we know almost nothing."
LATIN AMERICA GOES SOUTH: Political Reform In Latin America Have free market reforms caused stagnation in latin America? They key to thiswhole thing is reform so that the people participate in the system much http://www.uncommonknowledge.org/900/921.html
Extractions: Latin America Goes South Filmed on October 21, 2004. Guests: Stephen Haber , Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor, Stanford University. Alvaro Vargas Llosa , Research Fellow, Independent Institute; Author, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression Streaming video: John M. Olin Foundation. Peter Robinson: Today on Uncommon Knowledge: Latin America, good neighbors, bad policies. Announcer: Funding for this program is provided by the John M. Olin Foundation. [Music] Peter Robinson: Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. Our show today: the enduring woes of Latin America. Over the last quarter century, we've seen democracy and free markets establish themselves around the world, including in Latin America where one country after another that used to be ruled by an oligarchy or a military junta has become a democracy and moved toward free markets. With what result for Latin America? Well, over the last half-decade or so, economic stagnation and one political crisis after another. Democracy, free markets. In Latin America, they don't seem to work. How come? Joining us, two guests: Stephen Haber is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and the editor of
People Puerto Rico, at Colby College s latin American studies speaker series people with SAD may not be as in sync with their 24hour internal clock, http://www.voice.neu.edu/960516/people.html
Extractions: President John Curry stands in front of his likeness at Joe Tecce's Ristorante. e may be leaving the university this year, but President Curry's presence will always be felt in Boston. Particularly inside Joe Tecce's Ristorante in the North End, where the president's caricature now hangs alongside the faces of such legendary figures as Bobby Orr and James Michael Curley as part of a new mural recognizing famous Bostonians. The wall of 212 faces was unveiled May 6 during a reception attended by more than 600 people. "President Curry is an outstanding person who has done a lot for the city. That's why he's up there," said City Councilor Richard Ianella. Proceeds from the unveiling will go to a charity for inner-city youth named for Ianella's late father, a former city councilor. Among the caricatures adorning the walls of Tecce's are Sen. Edward Kennedy, Channel 5 anchors Natalie Jacobson and Chet Curtis and Celtics great Larry Bird. Jane Fried , assistant professor of counseling psychology, was the keynote speaker at an April 26 conference based on her recent book, "Shifting Paradigms in Students Affairs." The conference was sponsored by the Connecticut College Personnel Association and the Connecticut division of the National Association of Student Affairs Administrators. Jeffery Born , associate professor of finance, was honored as an "Accomplished Graduate of the College of Business," at Bowling Green State University during its commencement weekend activities May 10. Born, who received a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Ohio university, was one of 25 graduates honored by Bowling Green as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of its business college.
People Among the findings people are working more hours than ever; delivered apresentation on latin America at the Alliance for the Commonwealth Board of http://www.voice.neu.edu/960125/people.html
Extractions: Business professors Frederick Wiseman, left, and James Molloy review their recent survey. rederick Wiseman, professor of marketing, and James Molloy Jr., associate professor and coordinator of general management, conducted a survey of the chief executives of the state's top-rated public companies that appeared in the Jan. 16 issue of The Boston Herald. The poll results indicated that most executives were optimistic about their businesses' prospects for the coming year. The survey was conducted in conjunction with the Herald's special report on the top 96 public companies in Massachusetts. In November, Wiseman and Molloy conducted a poll of corporate heads in the six New England states to identify the issues most important to business leaders in the 1996 presidential election. The key issues noted by executives included a balanced budget by 2002, a reduction in capital gains tax rates, health care reform and Medicare/Medicaid reforms Nursing faculty members Jane Aroian, Pat Meservey and Trish Gibbons presented a paper, "Nursing Leadership in a Seamless Health Care System," at the sixth National Conference on Nursing Administration Research and Reform on Nursing Impact on Health Outcomes in St. Paul, Minn. Aroian also presented the national document on "Essentials of Baccalaureate Level Nursing Education for Nursing Leadership and Management and Essentials of Master's Level Nursing Education for Nursing Advanced Practice."
