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- Kathleen Newman, Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, delivers a talk entitled, "Striking Images: Workers on Screen and in the Streets in the 1950's." Newman describes her interest in working class issues, worker and consumer activism, and explains how mass culture and media has marginalized workers. She says that workers have commonly been portrayed as dolts and that this perspective has effectively silenced the American majority. She provides several examples of this marginalization of the working class in television and movies and talks extensively about the film, "On The Waterfront". Newman answers questions from the audience. She is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-10-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Willis Dunbar interviews the citizens of Kalamazoo to get their reactions to President Truman's firing of General Douglas MacArthur. Many are upset with Truman's action.
- Date Issued:
- 1951-04-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Traditional approaches to rehabilitation of disabled people have emphasised segregated institutional care, and have largely neglected the need both to integrate people with disabilities into their wider community, and for community attitudes themselves to be rehabilitated or changed to facilitate this integration. This paper reviews institutional and community based strategies for rehabilitation, arguing the case for a community orientation but recognising some of the difficulties of implementing this effectively in developing countries.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This study seeks to address the following questions: (i) Is amount of television viewing related to sexual behaviour? (ii) Do some background and demographic factors affect the relationship (if any) between amount of television viewing and sexual behaviour? (iii) Is amount of television viewing related to attitudes towards AIDS? (iv) Do some background and demographic factors affect the relationship (if any) between amount of television viewing and attitudes towards AIDS? The study focuses on only the dimension of sexual behaviour - the number of sexual partners the respondent has had over the twelve month period prior to the survey. The overall findings Indicate a number of patterns in the relationships among sexual behaviour, attitudes towards AIDS and amount of television viewing. These results are significant in the evolving campaigns for AIDS education.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- This articles examines viewer preference for two TV stations in Nigeria, ABS/TV and N.T.A., with the aim of determining the more preferred of the two stations, determining their programmes ratings, determining the viewers assessment of the TV stations on selected attributes and finding out the influence of their presenters on programmes preference. The study used the field survey and library review methods and tested four hypothesis. A sample of 500 viewers were studied; but the response rate was 63.6%. The study revealed that ABS-TV was the more preferred station. It was evaluated positively by the viewers on clarity
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- This paper is divided into four sections; the first examines briefly and generally the position of the elderly in traditional Africa and stresses especially their political and economic roles. Next it looks at the social and economic transformation which followed the colonisation of Africa and its effect on the position of elders. In the third section are discussed the responses of the elders to these changes and the extent to which they have tried to retain their positions against opposing forces of change. In the concluding section the paper argues that African states need to provide an alternative form of social security in the light of the diminishing economic security of the elderly in present day Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- United States President Barack Obama talks about the contributions of Muslim Americans after meeting with Muslim community leaders in Baltimore. Obama also discusses the history of Islam in the U.S. and how groups such as the militant Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) distort the Muslim faith.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-02-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Betty Bowman talks about her twenty-two year career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. Bowman says she received her training as a nurse and dietitian and joined the Army in 1951 because she felt patriotic and wanted Army travel opportunities, pay, benefits, and security. Bowman says she hated basic training and had a difficult time adjusting to the long, overnight shifts and quick rotations Army nurses faced and says that such policies were dangerous to both the nurses and the patients. She discusses her duties as a medical surgical nurse, her duty stations overseas and in the U.S., housing, and her uniforms. Bowman also recalls Eleanor Roosevelt's trip to Japan and her own visit to an orphanage in Japan and seeing the plight of the Amer-Asian children who were ostracized by the Japanese. Bowman is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Doug Noverr, Michigan State University Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, delivers a talk entitled, "Two versions/visions of Irish immigrant history: Ron Howard's 'Far and away' (1992) and Martin Scorsese's 'Gangs of New York' (2002)". Noverr describes the films and their historical context and recounts Irish patterns of immigration, intermarriage with Native Americans, and settlement on the continent. He explains the fear and racism directed at the Irish by the "Know nothings" as well as the machine politics rampant in New York City. Questions and answers conclude the event. Noverr is introduced by Professor John P. Beck, Associate Director, Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-11-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University junior Connie Tingson talks about her Filipino heritage, growing up in Livonia, Michigan, and attending private Catholic schools. Tingson also reflects upon being an Asian-American, American perceptions of Asian academic superiority, her high school curriculum, her difficult transition to college life, and the racism she has experienced. Tingson says that she first wanted to be doctor, but now wants to practice international law and have a family.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-05-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection