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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Our Place On The Map, Chester Smolski, Anne K. Petry
Our Place On The Map, Chester Smolski, Anne K. Petry
Smolski Texts
"National Geography Awareness Week (Nov. 11-17) will have special significance for the schools of Rhode Island. The National Geographic Society has just awarded a $1000 planning grant to the two of us, one of such seven awards granted this year, to begin the process by which all of our schools may again bring geography to its full importance in the curriculum."
Voting Districts, Tailor-Made, Chester Smolski
Voting Districts, Tailor-Made, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"When a federal district court judge threw out the five voting district boundaries in Johnston this summer, it should have come as no surprise. After all, this marked the third time since the 1980census that boundary districts in Rhode Island have been challenged and changed as a result of improper political decisions made by elected officials."
Spotlight: Rhode Island, Chester Smolski, Leon Yacher
Spotlight: Rhode Island, Chester Smolski, Leon Yacher
Smolski Texts
"With the Atlantic bordering on the south and the 28-mile long Naragansett Bay splitting the state along a north-south axis, Rhode Island is nicknamed the "Ocean State." Its early settlement in 1636 and important sea trade there-after made Newport and Providence the seventh and eighth largest cities in the country as of the 1970 Census. The cities are no longer so nationally preeminent, but the state remains heavily populated and ranks behind New Jersey as the second most densely settled state in the nation."
Voting Districts Can Be A Bone Of Contention, Chester Smolski
Voting Districts Can Be A Bone Of Contention, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Size rather than number of voters is the criterion used in establishing district size. The difference in size between the largest and smallest districts from the ideal district, where all districts have the same population, is a source of contention. In 182 when Providence changed from 13 to 15 wards, there was a deviation of 10.6 percent between wards, deemed acceptable by the courts because, the judge ruled, the US Supreme Court has said 1.9 percent is acceptable. In the recent Johnston case, the total deviation came to 52.7 percent--a figure much too high to accept."
Demographics Will Dictate The Future Of Business, Chester Smolski
Demographics Will Dictate The Future Of Business, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"If one could predict the future numbers of a population with some accuracy, that projected data would be most valuable, especially to business."
Respected Charlotte Needs No Touting, Chester Smolski
Respected Charlotte Needs No Touting, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"In 1761 when Princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz became the wife of George III, during whose reign the American Revolution took place, little could she imagine how important the city that honored her name would become in the United States of today. Mecklenburg County is the center of a metropolitan area that now embraces one million residents."
Now We Are Counted, Chester Smolski
Now We Are Counted, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"There is an unusual clock in the Department of Commerce building in Washington. Looking like an auto's mileage odometer, it records the nation's population. Another single number is added to the total every 14 seconds. On March 6, the population odometer reached 250 million, which should be the number reported from this year's tally by the U.S. Census Bureau, the 21st decennial census in our country's history."
Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski
Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
The mid 1980s in Rhode Island will be long remembered as a time of intensive real estate development, explosive house process and manmade growth sprawling over the countryside. These phenomena also generated a reaction in the form of environmental concerns, the NIMBY syndrome, affordable housing issues and the passage of the 1988 Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation Act.
The 1990 Census Addresses Housing Concerns, Chester Smolski
The 1990 Census Addresses Housing Concerns, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Beginning Sunday, April 1, 1990, in all 50 states of the United Stated and in its possessions, the 21st census of the population will be taken. And with it will be questions on housing, asked since 1940, so that we will have an accurate data base for both people and their housing conditions upon which to base our requirements for the present and to better project what our needs for the future will be."
La Conservation Des Forêts Au Népal: Encourager La Participation Des Femmes, Augusta Molnar
La Conservation Des Forêts Au Népal: Encourager La Participation Des Femmes, Augusta Molnar
Poverty, Gender, and Youth
Ce numéro de SEEDS porte sur les moyens mis en oeuvre pour faire participer les femmes à un programme gouvernemental visant à preserver et à restituer la forêt au Népal. Comme il arrive fréquemment lors de la mise en place de projets aussi vastes ayant une portée generale, les femmes n'étaient pas un centre d'intérêt spécifique au moment de la conception du projet. Cependant, lorsque les activités ont demarré, les responsables népalais du projet et leurs collègues de l'étranger se sont tres vite rendus compte que le succès du programme dépendait de la participation directe des femmes aux activités du …