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The Influences Of The Public Health Care System And Education System On The Economic Growth Of Swaziland, Grace Greer May 2023

The Influences Of The Public Health Care System And Education System On The Economic Growth Of Swaziland, Grace Greer

International and Global Studies Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Kingdom of Eswatini, also known as Swaziland, has one of the youngest populations in the world with over 70% of citizens being under the age of 18 years old. This creates a substantial opportunity for economic, social, and educational growth in a country previously plagued with diseases such as HIV/AIDS, poor health care infrastructure cutting off thousands from basic care, and an educational system with a very low attendance rate and an even lower graduation rate. By evaluating the root causes of such issues dating back to the colonial era there is an opportunity to reprioritize health care and …


Lesson Plan, 4th Grade, Lucía Pérez Mar 2021

Lesson Plan, 4th Grade, Lucía Pérez

Spring Workshop March 2021

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): (12) Economics. The student understands patterns of work and economic activities in Texas. The student is expected to: (A) explain how people in different regions of Texas earn their living, past and present, through a subsistence economy and providing goods and services;

Lesson objective(s):

1.The student will research how people of that time period made a living and compare and contrast how they do in modern day. 2.The student will research how the enviroment/climate affect what is produced in that area and offered for a living.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: videos, …


The Economics Of Artificial Intelligence: A Primer For Social Studies Educators, Scott Wolla Aug 2020

The Economics Of Artificial Intelligence: A Primer For Social Studies Educators, Scott Wolla

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This paper provides a framework for understanding the economic effects of automation and artificial intelligence (AI). First, it reviews how physical capital interacts with labor in the context of automation and AI. Next, it discusses recent advances in AI and potential economic outcomes such as job market polarization and income inequality. It then describes the role education has played in previous economic transitions and the role it will likely play as technology advances. Finally, the paper identifies key economic concepts and teaching resources that social studies educators can integrate into their instruction to help students understand the economic effects of …


Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Claire Y.C. Liang, Niclas Erhardt Jun 2020

Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Claire Y.C. Liang, Niclas Erhardt

Maine Business School

Email thread of the response from the Maine School Business to the request for syllabi/information about pandemic-related courses and activities from the Provost Office. Content was submitted by Claire Y.C. Liang, Assistant Professor of Finance, Maine Business School, University of Maine to Niclas Erhardt, Associate Dean, Maine Business School, University of Maine.


Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, John N. Angelis, Niclas Erhardt Jun 2020

Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, John N. Angelis, Niclas Erhardt

Maine Business School

Email thread of the response from the Maine School Business to the request for syllabi/information about pandemic-related courses and activities from the Provost Office. Content was submitted by John N. Angelis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Maine to Niclas Erhardt, Associate Dean, Maine Business School, University of Maine.


Economic Contribution Of Colleges And Universities In Maine, Megan Bailey, Andrew Crawley, Todd Gabe Jun 2020

Economic Contribution Of Colleges And Universities In Maine, Megan Bailey, Andrew Crawley, Todd Gabe

General University of Maine Publications

Maine has 38 colleges and universities that educate 72,605 students, employ a combined 14,621 nonstudent workers, and generate about $2.2 billion in annual revenue.

Colleges and universities in Maine generate a total annual economic contribution—including the spending of students and visitors, and multiplier effects—of an estimated $4.5 billion in output, 31,267 full- and part-time jobs, and $1.7 billion in labor income.

Maine’s colleges and universities support at least ten jobs in 125 Maine sectors, and there are statewide employment impacts of twenty jobs or more in 108 industries.

This report examines the statewide economic contribution of colleges and universities in …


Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Patti Miles, Niclas Erhardt May 2020

Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Patti Miles, Niclas Erhardt

Maine Business School

Email thread of the response from the Maine School Business to the request for syllabi/information about pandemic-related courses and activities from the Provost Office. Content was submitted by Patti Miles, Associate Professor of Management, Maine Business School, University of Maine to Niclas Erhardt, Associate Dean, Maine Business School, University of Maine.

Professor Miles had incorporated the COVID-19 pandemic into assignments for her BUA 101 and BUA 601.


Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Tracy B. Bigney, Niclas Erhardt May 2020

Business School_Response To Request For Syllabi/Information About Pandemic-Related Courses And Activities Email, Tracy B. Bigney, Niclas Erhardt

Maine Business School

Email thread of the response from the Maine School Business to the request for syllabi/information about pandemic-related courses and activities from the Provost Office. Content was submitted by Tracy B. Bigney, Cooperating Instructor, University of Maine to Niclas Erhardt, Associate Dean, Maine Business School, University of Maine.


Covid-19_Umaine News_Forecast Economic Fallout In Maine From Covid-19, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications May 2020

Covid-19_Umaine News_Forecast Economic Fallout In Maine From Covid-19, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of Maine News release regarding University of Maine faculty and students helping Maine state official estimate the economic fallout from COVID-19.


Business School_Pandemic Related Material In Bua 330 Human Resource Management Email, Tracy B. Bigney Apr 2020

Business School_Pandemic Related Material In Bua 330 Human Resource Management Email, Tracy B. Bigney

Maine Business School

Email from Tracy B. Bigney to the University of Maine Provost Office detailing how she had incorporated pandemic-related material into her class BUA 330 Human Resource Management.


Business School_Bua 325 Changes Due To Coronavirus In Work, John N. Angelis Apr 2020

Business School_Bua 325 Changes Due To Coronavirus In Work, John N. Angelis

Maine Business School

Material for University of Maine Course BUA 325, from John N. Angelis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Maine, regarding changes due to Coronavirus in work from Dumb Wealth.


Covid-19_Umaine News_Economic During Covid-19, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications Apr 2020

Covid-19_Umaine News_Economic During Covid-19, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of Maine News release regarding The Times Record speaking with James Mccannon, University of Maine Cooperative Extension business and economics specialist and professor in the School of Economics, for the article "Unfortunate timing, virus waylay new Bath restaurant's plans."


Business School_Bua 325 Dealing With Coronavirus Layoffs Paper Assignment, John N. Angelis Apr 2020

Business School_Bua 325 Dealing With Coronavirus Layoffs Paper Assignment, John N. Angelis

Maine Business School

Description of assignment for University of Maine Course BUA 325 on Dealing With Coronavirus Layoffs, from John N. Angelis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Maine.


Business School_Bua 337 Brief Blackboard Comments, John N. Angelis Apr 2020

Business School_Bua 337 Brief Blackboard Comments, John N. Angelis

Maine Business School

Blackboard Announcement Update in April for University of Maine Course BUA 337, from John N. Angelis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Maine, regarding how class topics are affected by COVID-19.


Business School_Bua 330 Employment Law Paper, Tracy B. Bigney Apr 2020

Business School_Bua 330 Employment Law Paper, Tracy B. Bigney

Maine Business School

Employment Law Paper for University of Maine Course BUA 330 class on Mandatory Paid Sick Leave, from Tracy B. Bigney, Cooperating Instructor, Maine Business School.


Covid-19_Umaine News_Covid-19 Economics, University Of Maine University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications Mar 2020

Covid-19_Umaine News_Covid-19 Economics, University Of Maine University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of Maine News release regarding Pankaj Agrrawal, a professor of finance at the University of Maine speaking with WABI (Channel 5) about effects of the COVID-1 9 pandemic on economics.


Business School_Bua 330 Hr Role In Pandemic Planning Class Presentation, Tracy B. Bigney Mar 2020

Business School_Bua 330 Hr Role In Pandemic Planning Class Presentation, Tracy B. Bigney

Maine Business School

Class presentation slides for University of Maine Course BUA 330 class on "HR's Role in Pandemic Planning", from Tracy B. Bigney, Cooperating Instructor, Maine Business School.


Business School_Undiscovered Maine Webpage, University Of Maine Business School Jan 2020

Business School_Undiscovered Maine Webpage, University Of Maine Business School

Maine Business School

Screenshot of webpage for the Undiscovered Maine University of Maine Business School student research project with the goal of increasing tourism and economic development within Maine via the Internet and social media.


Lesson Plan, World History, 10th And 11th Grade, Brenda Hernández Jun 2019

Lesson Plan, World History, 10th And 11th Grade, Brenda Hernández

Summer Institute June 2019

TEKS: WH15B, 16A, 18B (S) 1A, 2A, 2B, 2C, 15C, 18A, 19B,26A

Lesson objective(s): 1-The Learner will (TLW) interview family members as to how they came to the Rio Grande Valley (RGV). 2- TLW create a half poster of the interviews according to P-politics, E-economics, R-religion, Ssocial, I-intellectual, A=arts (PERSIA) 3-TLW be able to identify the components of P.E.R.S.I.A.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Interview family members, Take pictures of family /close friends


Twentieth Century Economics Of Child-Rearing In Japan, Michele Gibney May 2005

Twentieth Century Economics Of Child-Rearing In Japan, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

In order to explain the falling Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Japan, it is necessary to look at the social factors affecting women and raising children in Japan. By examining historical factors surrounding women in Japan—their education, their presence in the workforce, and the cultural stigmas attached to their stereotypical representation—I will attempt to describe the deteriorating TFR in Japan as an economic problem with political and social repercussions. In conclusion I will also try to provide a prognosis and a recommendation for a solution.


In Defence Of Exploitation, Justin Schwartz Jan 1995

In Defence Of Exploitation, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

The concept of exploitation is thought to be central to Marx's Critique of capitalism. John Roemer, an analytical (then-) Marxist economist now at Yale, attacked this idea in a series of papers and books in the 1970s-1990s, arguing that Marxists should be concerned with inequality rather than exploitation -- with distribution rather than production, precisely the opposite of what Marx urged in The Critique of the Gotha Progam.

This paper expounds and criticizes Roemer's objections and his alternative inequality based theory of exploitation, while accepting some of his criticisms. It may be viewed as a companion paper to my What's …


The Paradox Of Ideology, Justin Schwartz Jan 1993

The Paradox Of Ideology, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A standard problem with the objectivity of social scientific theory in particular is that it is either self-referential, in which case it seems to undermine itself as ideology, or self-excepting, which seem pragmatically self-refuting. Using the example of Marx and his theory of ideology, I show how self-referential theories that include themselves in their scope of explanation can be objective. Ideology may be roughly defined as belief distorted by class interest. I show how Marx thought that natural science was informed by class interest but not therefore necessarily ideology. Capitalists have an interest in understanding the natural world (to a …


Functional Explanation And Metaphysical Individualism, Justin Schwartz Jan 1993

Functional Explanation And Metaphysical Individualism, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

A number of (present or former) analytical Marxists, such as Jon Elster, have argued that functional explanation has almost no place in the social sciences. (Although the discussion is framed in terms of a debate among analytical Marxists, the point is quite general, and Marxism is used for illustrative purposes.) Functional explanation accounts for what is to be explained by reference to its function; thus, sighted organism have eyes because eyes enable them to see. Elster and other critics of functional explanation argue that this pattern of explanation is inconsistent with "methodological individualism," the idea, as they understand it, that …


The Grizzly, November 30, 1979, Brian Barlow, Diana Dakay, Thomas A. Reilly, Larry Muscarella, Hedy Munson, Jay Repko, Dean Mioli, Jeffrey Plunkett, Michael Lees, Tracy Nadzak, Martin Katz, John O'Neill, David Mcphillips Nov 1979

The Grizzly, November 30, 1979, Brian Barlow, Diana Dakay, Thomas A. Reilly, Larry Muscarella, Hedy Munson, Jay Repko, Dean Mioli, Jeffrey Plunkett, Michael Lees, Tracy Nadzak, Martin Katz, John O'Neill, David Mcphillips

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

College Costs To Skyrocket • Committee Explores Campus Problems • Audiovisual Services Relocated in Myrin • USGA Notes • Letters to the Editor • Roving Reporter: Iranian Crisis • Portrait of a Professor: Dr. John Wickersham • JDB - Full of Surprises • Vonnegut's 'Jailbird': Life of Walter Starbuck • Pilgrim To Speak On Economy • Cagers Open 79-80 Campaign With Victory • Gridders Win Finale With Shut-Out • Garner Races To 68th In Nation • Sports Profile: Rick Morris • Pool Records Set