Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming (review)

The purpose of this study was to explore and understand the experience of parental alcoholism from an adolescent's perspective. The stories of five adolescents were used to generate descriptions and explanations about the phenomenon. The study was exploratory in nature and was conducted using a qualitative research design. Data were collected by means of in-depth interviews with each adolescent. Field notes, personal reflections, and transcripts of all interviews made over the course of the research process, constituted the data for analysis. Four significant themes emerged from the data, which illuminated and provided a fuller understanding of the perceptions of adolescents living with parental alcoholism. The initial theme, 'The Nightmare', described the adolescents' memories and what it was like for them growing up with parental alcoholism. The second theme, 'The Lost Dream', explored their recognition of loss in terms of the experiences of the nightmare. The third theme, 'The Dichotomies', explained the daily struggles between what the adolescents thought, what they felt, and how their thoughts and feelings influenced their behaviour. The fourth theme, 'The Awakening', described the adolescents' recognition of their present responsibilities, and their understanding about their pasts, which enabled them to begin to let go and move on. The study concludes with reflections on the significance, meaning, and interrelatedness of the identified themes, and a discussion of findings and implications. The main findings were the resilience and strength of the participants, the uniqueness of each of their stories, and the therapeutic benefit to the participants from the opportunity to tell their stories. An understanding of the individual and contextual nature of adolescents' perceptions of parental alcoholism provides professional caregivers with new opportunities to offer specialized services to adolescents and their families.

Mansel G. Blackford. The Lost Dreams: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890–1920. (Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series.) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 1993. Pp. xiii, 189 Get access Blackford Mansel G.. The Lost Dreams: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890–1920. (Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series.) Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 1993. Pp. xiii, 189. Lawrence H. Larsen Lawrence H. Larsen University of Missouri, Kansas City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 3, June 1994, Page 988, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.3.988 Published: 01 June 1994

Journal Article The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning in Portland, Oregon, 1903–1914 Get access Mansel G. Blackford Mansel G. Blackford associate professor of history Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 1, January 1984, Pages 39–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/968558 Published: 01 January 1984

Multicultural concepts and practices continue to inform Australian anti-racist pedagogy. Such policies and practices are understood not only as crucial to good community relations but also as controversial and as often failing to achieve their lofty aspirations. Recent literature suggests that multicultural programmes and policies must broaden the way such strategies are understood and analysed. A more critical approach to multicultural theory places before us new lenses, both conceptual and material that consider subjectivity in ways which change understandings of self, culture and the social as they are re/presented in body, space and time. This paper explores these new lenses for understanding in order to negotiate a more critical multiculturalism, which interrogates the principles and practices of multicultural expression, attends to its silences as well to its august promises, and uncovers its lost dreams.

Childhood Marriages in Iran: Stolen Lives, Empty Classrooms, and Lost Dreams

Review: <i>The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920</i>, by Mansel G. Blackford

Nearly 65 million people around the world have been displaced by war, conflict, and persecution since 2014 (UNHCR; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2015). This yields an average of 42,000 people refugees, asylum seekers, or internally displaced every day. Displacement has adverse and disruptive consequences, including mental health problems (e.g., anxiety, depression), impaired interpersonal relationships, and heightened conflict. These consequences are compounded by profound ambiguity associated with navigating asylum in the United States. In this article, we describe the treatment of a couple from Syria who is seeking asylum in the United States. Informed by personal and professional experience, this case illustrates how ambiguous loss theory and awareness of relevant legal processes enhance our understanding of working with asylum seekers.

"Fairfield, John D. The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877–1937 Blackford, Mansel G. The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920. (Ohio State Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series). Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii. 189. Illustrations. $58.50 (US)." Urban History Review, 23(2), pp. 57–58

Urban historians are finally starting to give western cities their due. Several recent volumes about the urban West have focused on the unique and not so unique characteristics of cities in that region. Mansel G. Blackford's The Lost Dream: Business and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920 (1993) has ably demonstrated that western civic leaders used planning at the turn-ofthe-century primarily as a tool for urban boosterism. The failure to implement the plans had to do with divisiveness within the leadership of western citiesa characteristic of cities in the East as well. Roger Lotchin's important Fortress California 1910-1961: From Welfare to Warfare (1992) has provided a convincing argument that California's rapid growth in the twentieth century was closely tied to a well-thought-out strategy to promote martial metropolises. These volumes join the slim but expanding list of scholarship by urban historians, as well as by historians of the West such as Gerald Nash, to provide a much clearer picture of urban development in that region than we had before.' The book reviewed here represents a further maturing of the historiography of the urban West. John Findlay, an associate professor of history at the University of Washington, has added a new wrinkle to the historical literature of the twentieth-century urban West by focusing on cityscapes. He argues that new western cities not only have a distinctive urban form, but they have been more successful in accommodating their residents than is often acknowledged. Drawing on the work of cultural geographers, and a variety of other urbanists and journalists, he suggests that new ways of organizing space in western cities have influenced urban development throughout the nation. Unlike some historians who explain changing urban form by a type of transportation determinism, Findlay approaches the western city not merely as the creation of new technologies, but as being shaped by the aspirations of its western residents. Magic Lands also typifies another recent trend in urban history by claiming that western cities represented a unique urban variation. Findlay joins the list

When Phindile (this is not her real name) left rural Kwa Zulu in 1989 for Johannesburg, she had every hope of building a better life in the city. She dreamed of a place where she was free from the trauma of virginity testing, where she could move freely as a black woman, and where she could own her own home and have children that she could bequeath a better life than the one she had had. A few years later, the incoming government of the African National Congress (ANC) had a similar dream for its citizens – the right of all South Africans, regardless of race, creed or gender, to dream of a better future. In its Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), the new ANC government promised to create ‘an integrated programme, based on the people, that provides peace and security for all and builds the nation, links reconstruction and development and deepens democracy’ (ANC, 1994, p. 7, emphasis in original). What has happened to both the state's and Phindile's dream 20 years later? Through Phindile's life, a single mother of two, this article explores the extent to which 20 years of democracy has changed the urban landscape and realized the state's vision for a non-racial, integrated and prosperous city for all. We follow Phindile through Gauteng, the country's most urbanized province, as she migrates to the city, looks for work, rents a shack in an informal settlement and eventually gets her own state-provided RDP home in the province's East Rand. Phindile's life becomes a window through which we examine how public policies, policy statements and programmes affect individual lives. We follow the evolution of key policies on local government housing policies, the constitution, integrated development plans, the National Development Plan and other official statements and legal statutes that relate to cities. Through Phindile's experience we move beyond discourses of policy ‘failure’ or ‘success’, allowing us to understand how policy deeply impacts personal lives – for better or worse. By juxtaposing Phindile's everyday life with official declarations, visions and statements, we see the progress, setbacks and stagnation of South Africa's dream to create a rainbow nation with cities that are racially, economically and socially integrated.

Book Review| February 01 1994 Review: The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast: 1890-1920, by Mansel G. Blackford The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast: 1890-1920Mansel G. Blackford Robert W. Cherny Robert W. Cherny Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1994) 63 (1): 99–100. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640685 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robert W. Cherny; Review: The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast: 1890-1920, by Mansel G. Blackford. Pacific Historical Review 1 February 1994; 63 (1): 99–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3640685 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1994 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The pandemic and the lost dreams of a junior engineer

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Archives are not the only holders of a nation’s history; it can be found in the writing of memoirs. In this chapter, I focus on two recent memoirs, Marina Benjamin’s Last Days in Babylon: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad (2007) and Tamara Chalabi’s Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: Lost Dreams of my Iraqi Family (2010), to elucidate the role that memoir can play in preserving a nation’s memory. Benjamin’s and Chalabi’s use of “Last Days” and “Lost Dreams” evokes impermanence and transience as a result of what has been lost by both these authors’ families: having to flee their homeland due to political instability in the country. These memoirs serve not only to reclaim family origins but also function as a response to the lost ancestral home in Iraq.

Book Review| October 01 1995 Review: THE LOST DREAM: Business and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920, by Mansel G. Blackford THE LOST DREAM: Business and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920Mansel G. Blackford Timothy J. Lukes Timothy J. Lukes Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (1995) 77 (3): 262–264. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171769 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Timothy J. Lukes; Review: THE LOST DREAM: Business and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920, by Mansel G. Blackford. Southern California Quarterly 1 October 1995; 77 (3): 262–264. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41171769 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1995 Historical Society of Southern California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.