Imperial British India is the point of origin for protagonists in both Frances Hodgson Burnett’s
The Secret Garden
(
1911
) and Rudyard Kipling’s
The Jungle Books
(
1894–1895
), two influential ...children’s stories in which late Victorian notions of childhood education and nature converge with those of national and imperial identity. In Burnett’s
The Secret Garden
, Mary Lennox, orphaned in colonial India, is restored to health only as she is “schooled” in the English countryside. Kipling, meanwhile, finds the imperial setting a fine and fitting place to raise his hero Mowgli. In both cases the young protagonists develop physically, spiritually and socially in classrooms of nature outside or parallel to mainstream culture. This paper follows the different “escapes” offered characters in these works, while tracing the contours of class structure, gender, family relations, educational standards and imperial identity as experienced in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Hospice at Home (HAH) services aim to enable patients to be cared for and die at home, if that is their choice and achieve a 'good death'. A national survey, in 2017, aimed to describe and compare ...the features of HAH services and understand key enablers to service provision.
Service managers of adult HAH services in the 'Hospice UK' and National Association for Hospice at Home directories within England were invited to participate. Information on service configuration, referral, staffing, finance, care provision and enablers to service provision were collected by telephone interview.
Of 128 services invited, 70 (54.7%) provided data. Great diversity was found. Most services operated in mixed urban/rural (74.3%) and mixed deprivation (77.1%) areas and provided hands-on care (97.1%), symptom assessment and management (91.4%), psychosocial support (94.3%) and respite care (74.3%). Rapid response (within 4 hours) was available in 65.7%; hands-on care 24 hours a day in 52.2%. Charity donations were the main source of funding for 71.2%. Key enablers for service provision included working with local services (eg, district nursing, general practitioner services), integrated health records, funding and anticipatory care planning. Access to timely medication and equipment was critical.
There is considerable variation in HAH services in England. Due to this variation it was not possible to categorise services into delivery types. Services work to supplement local care using a flexible approach benefitting from integration and funding. Further work defining service features related to patient and/or carer outcomes would support future service development.
The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is one of the greatest works of early modern English prose writing, yet it has received little substantial literary criticism in recent years. This ...study situates Robert Burton's complex work within three related contexts: religious, medical and literary/rhetorical. Analysing Burton's claim that his text should have curative effects on his melancholic readership, it examines the authorial construction of the reading process in the context of other early modern writing, both canonical and non-canonical, providing a new approach towards the emerging field of the history of reading. Lund responds to Burton's assertion that melancholy is an affliction of body and soul which requires both a spiritual and a corporal cure, exploring the theological complexion of Burton's writing in relation to English religious discourse of the early seventeenth century, and the status of his work as a medical text.
I began playing golf as a young child, surrounded by family of avid golfers, many with established tournament records and club championships under their belt. My grandparents’ home is filled with ...trophies and memorabilia from golf excursions near and far. My grandmother even won a tournament hosted by the King of Morocco in the 1980s—for my family, golf is more than a pastime, it’s a way of life. Growing up, every year when my mom competed in the local women’s golf championship, I would make a her a daily good luck gift; it was our own little tradition, and I dreamed of one day accomplishing what she had on a golf course. Much to my dismay, I have yet to master the game to the same level, but my love for the sport still runs strong and I attribute my connection with golf to playing on my high school golf team. For me, and for most of my team, golf wasn’t new to us. Our parents played, and we grew up in a town with a nice, private country club, so I had never really thought about what the sport does for the player—I was too far in the thick of it. But what I learned from my high school team was that golf has a way of teaching people something profound about themselves, and I saw this most in the young women playing on teams from nearby cities with much lower socioeconomic means. These girls may never have been on a course or swung a club before, and most of them probably didn’t continue to play after their high school years, but the change I saw in the girls I competed against for four years was inspiring, and it has always stuck with me. In recent years, much of the media attention on golf is focused on its decreased participation, it being perceived as an “old white guy’s sport” and the industry’s dim future. Most emphasize the lack of participation from Millennials, but women and minorities are often mentioned as well. I hate to hear this, as I am a golfer and I love the sport, but most of all it always leaves me thinking about those girls I competed against in high school and what a shame it would have been if they hadn’t taken the opportunity to learn to play. They comprise all three of the audiences with lower participation in the sport, and if it weren’t for their high school introducing them to the game. What I hope to accomplish with this thesis is to determine the best ways the field of communications can be used to help solve golf’s participation problem, in part to help the golf industry address an identified issue and also to encourage change that could make the sport more widely appealing to new audiences that would benefit from what the game has to offer.
BackgroundThe Women's Health Needs Study (WHNS) collected information on the health characteristics, needs, and experiences, including female genital mutilation (FGM) experiences, attitudes, and ...beliefs, of women aged 18 to 49 years who were born, or whose mothers were born, in a country where FGM is prevalent living in the US. The purpose of this paper is to describe the WHNS design, methods, strengths and limitations, as well as select demographic and health-related characteristics of participants.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey from November 2020 -June 2021 in four US metropolitan areas, using a hybrid venue-based sampling (VBS) and respondent-driven sampling (RDS) approach to identify women for recruitment.ResultsOf 1,132 participants, 395 were recruited via VBS and 737 RDS. Most were born, or their mothers were born, in either a West African country (Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, The Gambia) (39.0%) or Ethiopia (30.7%). More than a third were aged 30-39 years (37.5%) with a majority who immigrated at ages ≥13 years (86.6%) and had lived in the United States for ≥5 years (68.9%). Medicaid was the top health insurer (52.5%), followed by private health insurance (30.5%); 17% of participants had no insurance. Nearly half of women reported 1-2 healthcare visits within the past 12 months (47.7%). One in seven did not get needed health care due to cost (14.8%). Over half have ever used contraception (52.1%) to delay or avoid pregnancy and 76.9% had their last pelvic and/or Papanicolaou (pap) exam within the past 3 years. More than half experienced FGM (55.0%). Nearly all women believed that FGM should be stopped (92.0%).ConclusionThe VBS/RDS approach enabled recruitment of a diverse study population. WHNS advances research related to the health characteristics, needs, and experiences of women living in the US from countries where FGM is prevalent.
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Introduction Jackson, Earl; Goodwin, Mary
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies,
03/2023, Volume:
49, Issue:
1
Journal Article
...as all three boys flee, on the now-abandoned desk the voice drones on in the meaningless syllables of the former colonial power, a ghost of the once-mandatory language education imposed on the ...island. Pachinko deals with this through the chronicle of a zainichi family, and the Apple TV+ mini-series adaptation experiments with temporal structure in ways that illuminate the immediacy of the past in the present lives of the survivors. ...in the late 1980s, "a Zainichi's ability to speak Korean" is considered key to "closing a business deal," while after the 1923 Kanto earthquake, "the failure to properly switch language from Korean to Japanese" could result in death.3 While Pachinko demonstrates the shifting meanings of code-switching across historical periods, Julia Alekseyeva's comic illustrates the ways in which contemporaneous code-switching conditions the multiplicity of subject positions in a single individual. ...her last term, пёсик ("doggy"), is a cognate for the Ukrainian word песик.
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