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Author: Akiko Hashimoto Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521555203 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Modern societies today contend with population dynamics that have never before existed. As the number of older people grows, these countries must determine how best to provide for the needs of this population. The constraints are real: fiscal and material resources are finite and must be shared in a way that is perceived as just. As such, societies confront the fundamental question of who gets what, how, and why, and ultimately must reappraise the principles determining why some people are considered more worthy of help than others. This study systematically explores the Japanese and American answers to this fundamental question. This is the only US-Japan comparative work of its kind, utilizing systematically comparable data from both countries. It also draws on interview material that presents the choices, disappointments, and satisfactions of old age in the individual's own words.
Author: Akiko Hashimoto Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521555203 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Modern societies today contend with population dynamics that have never before existed. As the number of older people grows, these countries must determine how best to provide for the needs of this population. The constraints are real: fiscal and material resources are finite and must be shared in a way that is perceived as just. As such, societies confront the fundamental question of who gets what, how, and why, and ultimately must reappraise the principles determining why some people are considered more worthy of help than others. This study systematically explores the Japanese and American answers to this fundamental question. This is the only US-Japan comparative work of its kind, utilizing systematically comparable data from both countries. It also draws on interview material that presents the choices, disappointments, and satisfactions of old age in the individual's own words.
Author: Neal Milner Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781491019061 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 124
Book Description
The book's stories are connected by connections--the ways families try to hold themselves together as generations move from one another in both time and place. The stories examine these issues just as families face them--through everyday life experiences like giving underwear as gifts; dealing with elderly parents from thousands of miles away; trying to understand what your grandchildren do for a living; obsessing over retirement planning; and the adventures of Hawaii's only teller of Jewish stories. Like everyday family life, the stories are both serious and funny.
Author: Tiffany Rhys Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 311
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(This is the 2nd Edition, and has 2,000 more words) A powerful force awakens. One that can change the course of history. Hidden behind the Pincer Mountains, Aeryn pictures a peaceful and fulfilling future. However, his preconceived plans for life are upended. The spirit of the world places a heavy burden on the only one that can save it all. Without his efforts, the world as he knows it will fall into darkness, a darkness that will destroy the balance of nature itself. Tensions are rising in Criysous as the people grow uneasy and the land reels with ominous foreboding in the air. The King searches for that which he cannot find. Princess Kaley Zarra wishes nothing more than for her father to be the loving man he once was. Her world shatters. Beneath it all, hidden in the darkness, an evil is rising and it's nothing that Aeryn or Kaley could have prepared for. War was just the beginning
Author: Lucille Clifton Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681375885 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 113
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A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A father’s funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Clifton’s formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, “born among the Dahomey people in 1822,” who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author’s grandmother. Clifton tells us about the life of an African American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, the death of her father and grandmother, but also all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. “I look at my husband,” Clifton writes, “and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones.”
Author: Haydn Shaw Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1414386192 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 285
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This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964), Gen X (born 1965-1980), and the Millennials (born 1981-2001). Haydn Shaw, popular business speaker and generational expert, has identified 12 places where the 4 generations typically come apart in the workplace (and in life as well). These sticking points revolve around differing attitudes toward managing one’s own time, texting, social media, organizational structure, and of course, clothing preferences. If we don’t learn to work together and stick together around these 12 sticking points, then we’ll be wasting a lot of time fighting each other instead of enjoying a friendly and productive team. Sticking Points is a must-read book that will help you understand the generational differences you encounter while teaching how we can learn to speak one another’s language and get better results together.
Author: Pamela W. Hollander Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793617341 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 173
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Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the Baby Boomers and Millennials. This essay collection examines representations of Generation X in contemporary popular culture, including in television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays in this volume consider the past identities of Generation X, relationships with members of younger generations, modern appropriation of Generation X aesthetics, interactions of Generation X members with family, and the existential values of Generation X.
Author: Joan L. Richards Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300255497 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 456
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An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family This book recounts the story of three Cambridge-educated Englishmen and the women with whom they chose to share their commitment to reason in all parts of their lives. The reason this family embraced was an essentially human power with the potential to generate true insight into all aspects of the world. In exploring the ways reason permeated three generations of English experience, this book casts new light on key developments in English cultural and political history, from the religious conformism of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic era into the Industrial Revolution and prosperity of the Victorian age. At the same time, it restores the rich world of the essentially meditative, rational sciences of theology, astronomy, mathematics, and logic to their proper place in the English intellectual landscape. Following the development of their views over the course of an eventful one hundred years of English history illuminates the fine structure of ways reason still operates in our world.
Author: Akiko Hashimoto
Author: Akiko Hashimoto
Author: Neal Milner
Author: Tiffany Rhys
Author: Lucille Clifton
Author: Haydn Shaw
Author: Pamela W. Hollander
Author: Kathie Amidei
Author: Joan L. Richards
Author: Mary Emily Ropes
Author: Jennifer Cole