Creating America S Future

Author : James T. Ziegenfuss
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761841156

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Creating America's Future by James T. Ziegenfuss Pdf

American citizens assume that the future for this country will be a future much like the past-beautiful in many respects. This optimistic view is now countered by those who see a country in decay, struggling to address problems in health care, education, the environment, international affairs, and other sectors. This book calls on citizens and their leaders to build the future they most desire. The future should not happen to citizens but instead be created by citizens. In part one, this book examines the reasons for future building and the processes for doing so through interactive public sector-private sector dialogue and by applying methods of continuous improvement, reengineering, and visioning. In part two, Ziegenfuss presents scenarios of America's future that include the country's points of decay, trends, vision, and strategies in each of the "parts of America," meaning energy, health care, transportation, business, housing and urban development, education, arts and entertainment, science, environment, agriculture, international affairs and defense, and law and justice. Public and private citizens, especially students, teachers, and planners are encouraged to lead the debates with hope and vision, defining the future they most desire. Book jacket.

Author : Jan Cohn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971450

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Creating America by Jan Cohn Pdf

Before movies, radio, and television challenged the hegemony of the printed word, the Saturday Evening Post was the preeminent vehicle of mass culture in the United States. And to the extent that a mass medium can be the expression of a single individual, this magazine, with a peak circulation of almost three million copies a week, was the expression of its editor, George Horace Lorimer. Cohn shows how Lorimer made the Post into a uniquely powerful magazine that both celebrated and helped form the values of the time.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399564031

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How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher Pdf

A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.

Author : Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 080143937X

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The Creation of the Future by Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes Pdf

In the process, he articulates strong opinions on a range of difficult issues." "The Creation of the Future is no defense or promotion of the status quo. Focusing on American research universities, Rhodes makes the case that they are an irreplaceable treasure, whose value must be preserved through judicious renewal and reform, beginning with a rededication to teaching as a moral vocation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : UCR:31210018782571

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Survey of Science and Technology Issues Present and Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry C. Boyte,Nancy N. Kari
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1566394589

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Building America by Harry C. Boyte,Nancy N. Kari Pdf

The authors compare the "public spirited work [that] enabled diverse peoples to forge connection, gain a stake in the nation, and find intellectual challenges [to] a time when people are predominately consumers instead of producers." They offer many current examples which demonstrate encouraging changes.

Author : Frederick Steiner,Ming Zhang,Robert D. Yaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1558444289

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Megaregions and America's Future by Frederick Steiner,Ming Zhang,Robert D. Yaro Pdf

""Examines the socioeconomic, demographic, and climate challenges U.S. megaregions face in the 21st century and proposes new planning and policy strategies to tackle them"--Provided by publisher"--

Author : Shari M. Huhndorf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801454431

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Going Native by Shari M. Huhndorf Pdf

Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as these to examine the phenomenon of "going native," showing its complex relations to social crises in the broader American society—including those posed by the rise of industrial capitalism, the completion of the military conquest of Native America, and feminist and civil rights activism. Huhndorf looks at several modern cultural manifestations of the desire of European Americans to emulate Native Americans. Some are quite pervasive, as is clear from the continuing, if controversial, existence of fraternal organizations for young and old which rely upon "Indian" costumes and rituals. Another fascinating example is the process by which Arctic travelers "went Eskimo," as Huhndorf describes in her readings of Robert Flaherty's travel narrative, My Eskimo Friends, and his documentary film, Nanook of the North. Huhndorf asserts that European Americans' appropriation of Native identities is not a thing of the past, and she takes a skeptical look at the "tribes" beloved of New Age devotees. Going Native shows how even seemingly harmless images of Native Americans can articulate and reinforce a range of power relations including slavery, patriarchy, and the continued oppression of Native Americans. Huhndorf reconsiders the cultural importance and political implications of the history of the impersonation of Indian identity in light of continuing debates over race, gender, and colonialism in American culture.

Author : Oren Cass
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641770156

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The Once and Future Worker by Oren Cass Pdf

“[Cass’s] core principle—a culture of respect for work of all kinds—can help close the gap dividing the two Americas....” – William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. These woes are not the inevitable result of irresistible global and technological forces. They are the direct consequence of a decades-long economic consensus that prioritized increasing consumption—regardless of the costs to American workers, their families, and their communities. Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency focused attention on the depth of the nation’s challenges, yet while everyone agrees something must change, the Left’s insistence on still more government spending and the Right’s faith in still more economic growth are recipes for repeating the mistakes of the past. In this groundbreaking re-evaluation of American society, economics, and public policy, Oren Cass challenges our basic assumptions about what prosperity means and where it comes from to reveal how we lost our way. The good news is that we can still turn things around—if the nation’s proverbial elites are willing to put the American worker’s interests first. Which is more important, pristine air quality, or well-paying jobs that support families? Unfettered access to the cheapest labor in the world, or renewed investment in the employment of Americans? Smoothing the path through college for the best students, or ensuring that every student acquires the skills to succeed in the modern economy? Cutting taxes, expanding the safety net, or adding money to low-wage paychecks? The renewal of work in America demands new answers to these questions. If we reinforce their vital role, workers supporting strong families and communities can provide the foundation for a thriving, self-sufficient society that offers opportunity to all.

Author : Valentin V. Tepordei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aggregates (Building materials)
ISBN : UCSD:31822024291460

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Natural Aggregates, Foundation of America's Future by Valentin V. Tepordei Pdf

Author : Eric H. Greenberg,Karl Weber
Publisher : Pachatusan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780982093108

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Generation We by Eric H. Greenberg,Karl Weber Pdf

The largest generation in history, the Millennial Generation are independent-- politically, socially, and philosophically-- and they are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world.

Author : Sascha Pöhlmann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781571139511

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Future-founding Poetry by Sascha Pöhlmann Pdf

An investigation of how American poetry since Whitman makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about what the future is and how it may be affectednow.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822037827193

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An Overview of the Administration's Federal Research and Development Budget by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011) Pdf

Author : Mohammad H. Tamdgidi,Anna D. Beckwith
Publisher : Ahead Publishing House (imprint: Okcir Press)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781888024586

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Sociological Imaginations from the Classroom Plus A Symposium on the Sociology of Science Perspectives on the Malfunctions of Science and Peer Reviewing by Mohammad H. Tamdgidi,Anna D. Beckwith Pdf

This Spring 2008 (VI, 2) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes two symposium papers by Klaus Fischer and Lutz Bornmann who shed significant light on why the taken-for-granted structures of science and peer reviewing have been and need to be problematized in favor of more liberatory scientific and peer reviewing practices more conducive to advancing the sociological imagination. The student papers included (by Jacquelyn Knoblock, Henry Mubiru, David Couras, Dima Khurin, Kathleen O’Brien, Nicole Jones, Nicole [pen name], Eric Reed, Joel Bartlett, Stacey Melchin, Laura Zuzevich, Michelle Tanney, Lora Aurise, and Brian Ahl) make serious efforts at developing their theoretically informed sociological imagination of gender, race, ethnicity, learning, adolescence and work. The volume also includes papers by faculty (Satoshi Ikeda, Karen Gagne, Leila Farsakh) who self-reflectively explore their own life and pedagogical strategies for the cultivation of sociological imaginations regardless of the disciplinary field in which they do research and teach. Two joint student-faculty papers and essays (Khau & Pithouse, and Mason, Powers, & Schaefer) also imaginatively and innovatively explore their own or what seem at first to be “strangers’” lives in order to develop a more empathetic and pedagogically healing sociological imaginations for their authors and subjects. The journal editor Mohammad H. Tamdgidi’s call in his note for sociological re-imaginations of science and peer reviewing draws on the relevance of both the symposium and other student and faculty papers in the volume to one another in terms of fostering in theory and practice liberating peer reviewing strategies in academic publishing. Anna Beckwith was a guest co-editor of this journal issue. Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge is a publication of OKCIR: The Omar Khayyam Center for Integrative Research in Utopia, Mysticism, and Science (Utopystics). For more information about OKCIR and other issues in its journal’s Edited Collection as well as Monograph and Translation series visit OKCIR’s homepage.

Author : Vernon Weaver
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781639858033

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Create America by Vernon Weaver Pdf

You will find that Create America is both enlightening and entertaining. It is written from the scriptural teaching standpoint. As an ordained minister, scripturally backing his work is paramount. Vernon shares that coming to know the Lord as his Savior, his life's challenges and the many profound ways in which God prepared the path before him better both himself and his family, as well as mankind. He leads the way in exploring in depth God's providential care, both past, present, and future. The intent of Create America is to open our eyes to God's creation of situations, scenarios, and opportunities for and with humanity to accomplish or fulfill our God-given purpose on this earth. With where we are in America today, the success of Creating America depends ultimately upon our choices from this point forward as God's children. Through your study with Create America, you will see how the things in our life are more absolute than we ever imagined, proving our God is a purposeful God. Vernon is a living proof that God's power is given to us in His Holy Spirit indwelling and working through us individually to create a better America. Ultimately, we all can do our part to create a godly America for His honor and glory!