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The Danish Colonization Society Of 1879, Frederick Hale Jan 1981

The Danish Colonization Society Of 1879, Frederick Hale

The Bridge

The Danish Colonization Society of 1879 (Den danske Kolonisations-Forening af 1879) is one of several organizations which historians have generally ignored. An analysis of it, however, could illuminate further a number of matters pertinent to the general theme of Scandinavian emigration. Essentially, it was an association that intended to assist economically deprived Danes in securing a collective home overseas as well as passage to it at the least possible expense. The Society was short-lived, apparently disbanding a little more than a year after coming into being. Moreover, the only direct evidence of its activity is its truncated biweekly newspaper, Udvandrings-Tidende …

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The Danish-Language Press In America, Marion Marzolf Jan 1981

The Danish-Language Press In America, Marion Marzolf

The Bridge

By the time Sophus F. Neble, a journeyman printer from Stubbekobing, Denmark, emigrated in 1883 to seek his fortune in the farmlands of the American Midwest, there was already a rudimentary Danish press tradition in the United States. But at that point in his life, Neble little cared or even knew much about it. He had thrown over his years of apprenticeship in the printing trade for a dream of becoming a successful American dairy farmer in order to win the hand of the young woman he loved.

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Hans Christian Andersen's Life And Works: A Danish-American Perspective, Inga Kromann-Kelly Jan 1981

Hans Christian Andersen's Life And Works: A Danish-American Perspective, Inga Kromann-Kelly

The Bridge

What meaning can Hans Christian Andersen's life and works, spanning almost the entire 19th century, have for the Danish-American of the twentieth and future centuries? What follows is the perspective of only one Danish-American; others may hold quite different views based on their familiarity and experiences with this internationally known and much revered figure. My intent is not to provide a definitive answer to the above question, but rather to stimulate thought on the subject.

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Danes And Danish On The Great Plains: Some Sociolinguistic Aspects, Donald K. Watkins Jan 1981

Danes And Danish On The Great Plains: Some Sociolinguistic Aspects, Donald K. Watkins

The Bridge

The number of Scandinavians in the upper Midwest in 1850 was insignificant compared to the tens of thousands who arrived annually after the Civil War; but the early settlements, primarily in northern Illinois and eastern Wisconsin, typically served as way stations for the Scandinavians who came later, staying near the Great Lakes for shorter or longer periods of time before moving westward where more favorable conditions beckoned. It is in this connection one finds the nominal beginnings of a Danish presence in the prairie states, the region of the country most favored by the somewhat more than three hundred thousand …

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Book Review, Egon Bodtker Jan 1981

Book Review, Egon Bodtker

The Bridge

This short book tells the reader what life was like for one young man in a small village in Denmark in the first two decades of this century. As the author writes in the Foreword: " it is a collection of reminiscences, a mosaic of people and places seen from a long distance, both geographically and chronologically." This sensitive sketch of a childhood and adolescence in the first two decades of the twentieth century will make all readers aware of the monumental changes in the world from then until now. While many of the individual behaviors can be related to …

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Chinese Christianity Since 1949: Implications For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Bruce J. M. Dean Jan 1981

Chinese Christianity Since 1949: Implications For The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Bruce J. M. Dean

Theses and Dissertations

In the last thirty years, Chinese Christianity has experienced severe persecution. Communism actively sought its subjugation. Despite this, Chinese Christians maintained their faith. When their church organizations became puppets of the state, Christians went underground and continued to worship in house churches. The recently li eralized political climate in China has allowed Christians to more openly practice their faith. The official Protestant and Catholic churches have been rehabilitated. House churches have come out of the closet. Capitalizing on an acute spiritual malaise in China, Christians are experiencing a major and sustained revival. There are ample opportunities for The Church of …

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Lds Church Educational Objectives And Motivational Influences For Seminary Attendance: A Comparative Analysis, Linda Brockbank Jan 1981

Lds Church Educational Objectives And Motivational Influences For Seminary Attendance: A Comparative Analysis, Linda Brockbank

Theses and Dissertations

This study addressed itself to identifying dominant motivational influences prompting seminary attendance of ninth and eleventh grade students living along the Wasatch Front in the state of Utah and to determine if these motivational influences were related to stated objectives of the LDS seminary program. The sample consisted of twelve randomly selected cluster groups of seminary classes from the Ogden, Salt Lake City, and Provo-Orem areas. Factors relative to stated objectives and to entertainment were incorporated in the survey questionnaire, Survey of Attendance Rationale, used for data collection. Data were collected in February 1981 and submitted to factor analysis, …

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Attitudes And Attained Esl Proficiency Among First Generation Swedish Mormon Immigrants, Cecilia Nihlen Jan 1981

Attitudes And Attained Esl Proficiency Among First Generation Swedish Mormon Immigrants, Cecilia Nihlen

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis project, the relationship between attitudes toward target and native culture groups and attained ESL proficiency among immigrants was evaluated. The subjects were thirty adult native Swedes, all members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who had spent an average of 29 years in the United States. Fourteen were members of a Swedish-speaking branch, while sixteen were members of English-speaking wards. Significant differences were found in immigrants' attitudes toward the culture groups. High English proficiency related positively with a more positive attitude toward the target culture group. Those demonstrating high proficiency viewed the general native …

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A Study Of Divorced Mormon Women In Salt Lake County: The Extent To Which They Use The Agencies And Institutions Available To Help Meet Personal, Financial, And Employment Needs, Melinda G. Stapley Jan 1981

A Study Of Divorced Mormon Women In Salt Lake County: The Extent To Which They Use The Agencies And Institutions Available To Help Meet Personal, Financial, And Employment Needs, Melinda G. Stapley

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to (a) describe the characteristics of divorced Mormon women residing in Salt Lake County, (b) determine the extent to which these women were aware of and used government, private, and Mormon church agencies after divorce in helping them solve their problems, and (c) determine the extent these women felt each agency was effective.

Responses from the questionnaire indicated that more than half of these women could be categorized as displaced homemakers. Results showed significant decreases in income before and after divorce. The women in this study had higher than national average occupational levels and …

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Measuring The Reading Level Of Lds Materials: A Supplement To The Dale Word List, Linda Stahle Jan 1981

Measuring The Reading Level Of Lds Materials: A Supplement To The Dale Word List, Linda Stahle

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to supplement the Dale word list with a list of terms that are familiar to most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thus increase the precision of the Dale-Chall readability formula when it is applied to LDS materials. The Dale word list consists of 3,000 words that are familiar to 80 percent of fourth graders. The procedure involved identifying non-Dale words that occur frequently in LDS church publications and testing them on LDS fourth graders in a three-alternative multiple-choice format.

Of the 850 words tested, 249 were identified correctly …

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Authorship Of The History Of Joseph Smith: A Review Essay, Howard C. Searle Jan 1981

Authorship Of The History Of Joseph Smith: A Review Essay, Howard C. Searle

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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In Memoriam Michael Hoffman (+1908), Christian B. Hoffman Jan 1981

In Memoriam Michael Hoffman (+1908), Christian B. Hoffman

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Michael Hoffman was born at Altendorf, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, on December 15, 1837. He died at his home near New Basel, Dickinson County, Kansas. It is a far reach from the mountains of the little republic to the great central plains, the very heart of the great republic. The life, the struggles and hardships, the hopes and ambitions and the accomplishments of this man are typical of the development of our country.

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Auguste Lambelet (1838-1919): A Soldier Of Fortune, Jane H. Dein Jan 1981

Auguste Lambelet (1838-1919): A Soldier Of Fortune, Jane H. Dein

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Readers of Mari Sandoz' Old Jules will remember that this enthusiastic pioneer not only helped newcomers to the frontier file claims but also sent off to family, friends and journals a blizzard of letters extolling the rich soil of Nebraska and the free land available to anyone willing to work it. Among the Swiss attracted to Nebraska by this fervent praise was Auguste Lambelet, who gained American citizenship and title to his homestead in Knox County in 1889. While even after forty years of residence in Nebraska, he never learned English, his descendants, many of whom still live in the …

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Full Issue Jan 1981

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue Jan 1981

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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Clinton Larson's "The Witness": The Quest For A Mormon Mythic Consciousness, Dennis R. Perry Jan 1981

Clinton Larson's "The Witness": The Quest For A Mormon Mythic Consciousness, Dennis R. Perry

Theses and Dissertations

"The Witness" can be viewed as Clinton F. Larson's poetic manifesto that points the direction for much of his subsequent work. Although his poetic "mormonism" has been questioned by several of his critics, this thesis shows that Larson definitely expresses his Mormon faith in "The Witness" as a metaphorical quest for mythic consciousness. While searching in the poem for sacred space and time, Larson seeks to become closer to the divine and powerful center of being, creating at once a metaphor for his quest to understand and assimilate Christ's atonement and a poetic voice from which he can speak for …

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Sodium Flux Ratio In Voltage-Clamped Squid Giant Axons, David D. Busath, Ted Begenisich Jan 1981

Sodium Flux Ratio In Voltage-Clamped Squid Giant Axons, David D. Busath, Ted Begenisich

Faculty Publications

The sodium flux ratio across the axolemma of internally perfused, voltage-clamped giant axons of Loligo pealei has been measured at various membrane potentials. The flux ratio exponent obtained from these measurements was about unity and independent of membrane voltage over the 50 mV range from about -20 to +30 mV. These results, combined with previous measurements of ion permeation through sodium channels, show that the sodium channel behaves like a multi-ion pore with two ion binding sites that are rarely simultaneously occupied by sodium.

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Rasmus Sorensen And Danish Emigration, 1847-1863, Frederick Hale Jan 1981

Rasmus Sorensen And Danish Emigration, 1847-1863, Frederick Hale

The Bridge

Probably no individual played a more seminal role in the limited Danish emigration to North America before and during the Civil War than Rasmus Sorensen. From the late 1840s until the early 1860s this author, educator, politician, and social reformer led three groups of his countrymen to Wisconsin and, through numerous booklets, speeches, and letters encouraged others to settle elsewhere in the United States and Canada. Yet Sorensen has generally been little more than a supernumerary in the historiography of this transatlantic migration. Its pioneering historian, Peter Sorensen Vig, devoted twelve pages to him in his mammoth compendium, a dozen …

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Full Issue Jan 1981

Full Issue

The Bridge

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New American Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), With Two Recently Introduced Species, Stephen L. Wood Dec 1980

New American Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), With Two Recently Introduced Species, Stephen L. Wood

Great Basin Naturalist

Species named as new to science include: Conophthorus michoacanae, C. teocotum, Hylesinus aztecus (Mexico), Phloeocleptus punctatus (Costa Rica), Pseudothysanoes atomus (Venezuela), P. leechi (California), Pityogenes mexicanus, Araptus speciosus, Amphicranus spectus (Mexico), and Xyleborus praestans (Panama). Also reported are the first records of the notorious Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff) from South America (Brazil), and the first American records of Xyleborus fornicatus Eichhoff (Panama) and X. validus Eichhoff (New York and Pennsylvania).

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Meetings And Conferences, Enid Bishop, Daisy Tagge, Yongxiang Lai, Dingzhong Chang Oct 1980

Meetings And Conferences, Enid Bishop, Daisy Tagge, Yongxiang Lai, Dingzhong Chang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Amcap Journal Volume 6 Issue 4 1980, Issues In Religion And Psycotherapy Oct 1980

Amcap Journal Volume 6 Issue 4 1980, Issues In Religion And Psycotherapy

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

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Publications, Weiying Wan, Raymond N. Tang, Tao-Tai Hsia, Ramon Hawley Myers, Chun-Tu Hsueh, Thaddeus Y. Ohta, Hisao Matsumoto, Shizue Matsuda, Eugene Wu Oct 1980

Publications, Weiying Wan, Raymond N. Tang, Tao-Tai Hsia, Ramon Hawley Myers, Chun-Tu Hsueh, Thaddeus Y. Ohta, Hisao Matsumoto, Shizue Matsuda, Eugene Wu

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Christ & Psychiatry, M.N. Beck Oct 1980

Christ & Psychiatry, M.N. Beck

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Presented at the Candian Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., June 1973 as the Presidential Address. this is a condensed version.
Reprinted with permission from the author and the Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, Vol. 18 (1973), pp. 355-361.

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Libraries And Institutions, Weiying Wan, Tsuneharu Gonnami, D. E. Perushek, Eugene Wu, Ramon Hawley Myers, John W. Haeger, Karl Lo, Jack Jacoby Oct 1980

Libraries And Institutions, Weiying Wan, Tsuneharu Gonnami, D. E. Perushek, Eugene Wu, Ramon Hawley Myers, John W. Haeger, Karl Lo, Jack Jacoby

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Ancient Roman And Modern American Food: A Comparative Sketch Of Two Semiological Systems, Lowell Edmunds Oct 1980

Ancient Roman And Modern American Food: A Comparative Sketch Of Two Semiological Systems, Lowell Edmunds

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Misplaced Ideas: Literature And Society In Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Roberto Schwarz Oct 1980

Misplaced Ideas: Literature And Society In Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil, Roberto Schwarz

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue Oct 1980

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Romanticism And Taoism: The Planes Of Cultural Organization, Vytautas Kavolis Oct 1980

Romanticism And Taoism: The Planes Of Cultural Organization, Vytautas Kavolis

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

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Addenda To "Explaining The Change From Republic To Principate In Rome", Jürgen Deininger Oct 1980

Addenda To "Explaining The Change From Republic To Principate In Rome", Jürgen Deininger

Comparative Civilizations Review

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