Download or read book The Dominican Experiment written by Michael D’Amato and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dominican Republic is the most visited country in the Caribbean and, according to CNN, the second-happiest place on the planet. However, most of its workers make less than fifteen dollars a day, it has around two million stateless people, and 70 percent of its schools do not offer students safe drinking water. The island is certainly a fascinating place for students to research, so why not take a social justice trip there so they can see it for themselves? That was what Kevin LaMastra had in mind when he took his students to the DR for some snorkeling, horseback riding, and waterfall jumping, but also to check out a garbage dump, a sweatshop, and an HIV/AIDS orphanage. We learn the most when we step outside our comfort zones. Thats not exactly LaMastras sales pitch when hes looking for students to sign up each year, but it becomes the leading philosophy of the trip when he takes them to bond with survivors of Haitis 2010 earthquake, to visit communities hidden deep inside sugarcane fields, and to witness an actual Vodou ceremony.
Download or read book The Unfinished Experiment written by Juan Bosch and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Natural Experiments of History written by Jared Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be the hallmark of the scientific method. This impossibility holds for any science concerned with the past. In addition, many manipulative experiments, while possible, would be considered immoral or illegal. One has to devise other methods of observing, describing, and explaining the world. In the historical disciplines, a fruitful approach has been to use natural experiments or the comparative method. This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the later chapters. The studies range from a simple two-way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies. Geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands. In an Afterword, the editors discuss how to cope with methodological problems common to these and other natural experiments of history.
Download or read book Natural Experiments of History written by Jared Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eight case studies by leading scholars in history, archaeology, business, economics, geography, and political science, the authors showcase the “natural experiment” or “comparative method”—well-known in any science concerned with the past—on the discipline of human history. That means, according to the editors, “comparing, preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses, different systems that are similar in many respects, but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.” The case studies in the book support two overall conclusions about the study of human history: First, historical comparisons have the potential for yielding insights that cannot be extracted from a single case study alone. Second, insofar as is possible, when one proposes a conclusion, one may be able to strengthen one’s conclusion by gathering quantitative evidence (or at least ranking one’s outcomes from big to small), and then by testing the conclusion’s validity statistically.
Download or read book The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean written by Luis Alvarez López and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, _lvarez-L-pez details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican Republic was annexed to Spain. The Spanish empire expansionist policy sought to preserve Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the acquisition of the Dominican Republic strengthened Spain's hold on the Antilles Empire. Spain's policies strengthened the political objectives of the Dominican ruling class, which were political stability and control of the political power under a Caucasian empire. While both these objectives were achieved, the new colonial experiment was a total failure. The exclusion of the native ruling class, over taxation, economic exploitation, coercive imposition of the Catholic Church customs, prejudice against blacks and mulattos led to war, ending with the defeat of the Spanish Empire. This defeat opened a revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean.
Download or read book The Dominican Way written by Lucette Verboven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dominicans are to be found in every part of the world and engaged in every sort of activity, from fighting for justice and peace to painting and poetry. They live on many frontiers, of the Church and of the World, of the rich and of the poor, of the West and East, and these are places of growth and discovery. This book will communicate some of the inspiration and excitement to be found there by women and men who are both utterly committed to their faith but also to what is to be learned as well.
Download or read book First the Bow is Bent in Study written by Marian Michèle Mulchahey and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1998 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation and Experiment written by Carl A. Bennett and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation and Experiment: Some Critical Issues in Assessing Social Programs is a collection of papers presented at the 1973 symposium held at The Battelle Seattle Research Center. This book contains eight chapters that consider some selected aspects of the problems in evaluating the outcomes of socially important programs, such as those dealing with education, health, and economic policy. The first chapter provides an overview of the issues around the Social Program Evaluation. The next chapters deal with the successes and failures brought by social innovations; the quasi-experimental evaluation in compensatory education to estimate the true effects of such education programs; and the usefulness and validity of econometric and related nonexperimental approaches for assessing the effects of social programs. These topics are followed by surveys of a number of additional program-evaluation studies, particularly in the field of family planning or fertility control, mostly carried out as experiments or quasi-experiments in Asian and Latin American countries. Other chapters describe the decision processes that involve explicit assessment of the worth or merit of outcomes and employ multivalued utility analysis and outline the ways in which evaluative data are useful in providing feedback to program or institutional operations and decisions. The final chapter discusses resolutions for some of the disagreements expressed by others concerning the role of field experiments, constraints in their utilization, and other factors that enter into a comprehensive conception of program evaluation.
Download or read book Experiment Station Record written by U.S. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experiment Station Record written by United States. Office of Experiment Stations and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Science Research Methods written by Janet Buttolph Johnson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the “how” and the “why” behind research in political science. Step by step, Political Science Research Methods walks students through the logic of research design, carefully explaining how researchers choose which method to employ. The Eighth Edition of this trusted resource offers a greater emphasis on the ways in which particular methods are used by undergraduates, expanded coverage of the role of the Internet in research and analysis, and more international examples. Practice makes perfect. In the new fourth edition of the accompanying workbook, Working with Political Science Research Methods, students are given the perfect opportunity to practice each of the methods presented in the core text. This helpful supplement breaks each aspect of the research process into manageable parts and features new exercises and updated data sets. A solutions manual with answers to the workbook is available to adopters.
Download or read book Levi s Children written by Karl Schoenberger and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a cost-cutting move, Levi Strauss and Company sourced some production to overseas sweatshops. Using the company's painful lesson as a guide, a veteran journalist offers a highly readable assessment of the challenge that the human rights scourge poses to international business.
Download or read book Report of the Special Study Mission to Chile Peru and the Dominican Republic November 6 19 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merging Features written by José M. Brucart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book leading scholars examine the intricate ways in which Merge and formal features, two factors in the Minimalist Program, interact to generate well-formed derivations in natural language. The authors combine grammatical theory with the analysis of data drawn from a wide range of languages.
Download or read book Experiments on Energy the Environment and Sustainability written by R. Mark Isaac and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents experimental economics research focusing on issues of environmental quality and sustainability. This title covers such topics as institutions for cap-and-trade, eco-tourism, urban sprawl, and optimal pollution control strategies.
Download or read book A I D Research and Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Beekeeping written by Ramón Eduardo Rebolledo Ranz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beekeeping worldwide has seen remarkable development in the face of the growing demand for products from bees by consumers who demand increasingly innocuous products that do not harm the environment. However, it should be noted that, recently, problems have arisen in beekeeping production that could become restrictive factors for the worldwide development of beekeeping. This book includes, in simple and accessible terms, very relevant topics such as the effect of pesticides, the impact of diseases and their management, production and analysis of pollen present in honey, DNA analysis, and sustainable management, among others. This book is answering an expected need for accurate and international information for the productive sector.
