Important Things In Life Research Articles

Conversation with Griffith Edwards

Conversation with Griffith Edwards

Ambiguity

Ambiguity

Should nurseries charge registration fees?

Two of the most important things in life are being a parent and working. Yet these are often in conflict. Ask any working parent what their biggest issue about going out to work is, and they will answer the C word: childcare.

Living with Coeliac Disease: Controlled Study of the Burden of Illness

Background: Coeliac patients improve vastly when started on a gluten-free diet. After 10 years, however, women show a lower level of subjective health than men do. We investigated whether this could be explained by differences in the perceived disease burden. Methods : We studied 68 coeliac patients (34 women) (mean age 57 years, range 32-75) and matched type-2 diabetes controls treated for a mean of 10 years. They were examined by a 9-item Burden of Illness (BI) protocol comprising perceived worries, restrictions and subjective outcome. The subjective health was assessed with the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire. Results : The importance of complying with the diet was ranked similarly high by male and female coeliac patients. However, women were less satisfied with the outcome at 10 years than men were, and expressed more concern about the impact on socializing with friends and having to abstain from important things in life. None of these aspects distinguished male and female diabetic patients. Coeliac women showed a higher BI sum score than men did, and this was inversely related to their SF-36 General health, Vitality and Mental Health scores. Conclusions : Coeliac women adhering to the treatment regimen for several years perceive the disease burden to be worse than men do. In the light of similar differences in their quality of life, inquiry is warranted into the way coeliac men and women are coping with the disorder.

Revisiting Los Angeles: A Financial Look at the XXIIIrd Olympiad

1896 a wealthy French nobleman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, dreamed about resurrecting the ancient Olympian Games. He envisioned a contest that promoted international peace and goodwill most important thing is not to win, but to take part, he later said, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph, but the struggle.1 Coubertin realized his dream on April 6, 1896, when he helped to organize the first of the modern Olympiads in Athens, Greece. The competition encountered a difficult start with only thirteen nations sending teams and the bulk of the financial support stemming from Coubertin. Despite this tenuous beginning, the 1st Olympiad of Athens ignited an international Olympic fervor and the popularity of the contest increased dramatically with each successive competition. Nations bid competitively for the honor of hosting the quadrennial Games. In 1972 the XXth Olympiad boasted a record 122 attending nations. International enthusiasm for the Games, however, masked the serious problems confronting the modern Olympic movement. Six years later, these problems not only diminished the popularity of the Games, but placed the future of the competition in jeopardy.

Aging and Employment: Characteristics of Those Working and Retired in California

Little is known about the aging worker's psychological, social, and physiological characteristics. In this study, 447 individuals (working and retired) aged 50 and over completed the California Work and Health survey. Most of the working respondents (n = 150) were employed full-time and worked in education, health care, government, and retail trade. Those working reported being in greater health, being less depressed, and having more energy and activities than those retired. There was no difference between those working and retired in social and psychological characteristics such as number of friendships and ability to control important things in life and overcome difficulties. Educating managers and business professionals about these characteristics is essential given anticipated social security system changes in the future.

Review: The Important Things in Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929, by Dee Garceau

Review: <i>The Important Things in Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929</i>, by Dee Garceau

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County in Wyoming, 1880-1929

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County in Wyoming, 1880-1929

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929.

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929.

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929, by Dee Garceau

"The Important Things of Life: Women, Work, and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929, by Dee Garceau." Canadian Journal of History, 33(2), pp. 324–325

Still Worthy of Praise

As for the person who belittles the study of philosophy, I really do not understand what in the world he would consider worthy of praise.... And to say that there is no systematic art concerned with the most important things of life is the statement of a person who speaks without due reflection and makes a mistake in the most important matters.... For now, I mean only to explain why, deprived of the service of the republic, I have devoted myself to this particular pursuit.

Love and death: Laodamia and Protesilaus in Catullus, Propertius, and others

In one form or another an elevated, pleasure-transcending view of love is common, we might say natural. For readers of Latin poetry Catullus is perhaps the most impressive spokesman. In many respects, of course, Catullus is special. His particular values and choice of terminology, in his time and situation, mark him out from his crowd; in the Roman world indeed, ‘whole love’, perhaps rather its utterance, is hard to document before him. But a belief that love is powerful and profound, an important if not the most important thing in life, this is not a rarity. Roman tombstones attest to love and devotion, and myths inherited from Greece enshrine love's power, endurance, and transcendence.

Region and Nation: New Studies in Western U.S. History

Hal S. Barron. Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 286 and note on sources and illustrations. Catherine McNicol Stock. Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the- Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 261 and bibliography and illustrations. Dee Garceau. The Important Things of Life: Women, Work and Family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. x + 201 and selected bibliography and illustrations. Not so long ago, conventional wisdom held that doing a dissertation on a topic that might be construed as western U. S. history was risky. To study one of the towns ringing Boston was to do national history (Thernstrom 1964; Dawley 1976). To study a western county, city, or even a state was to do regional history. In practical terms, this meant that one would have trouble finding a job or a publisher east of Lincoln. Those interested in studying places west of the Mississippi should therefore be encouraged that two of the three books reviewed here are published by the University of North Carolina Press and that the authors of dissertations on Wyoming and the Dakotas could end up teaching in Tennessee and Connecticut, respectively. Acade- mics, it seems, are taking western history seriously.

The important things of life: women, work, and family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

The important things of life: women, work, and family in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 1880-1929

The Paradox of Progress

James Willis Radcliffe, pounds sterling15.50, pp 136 ISBN 1 85775 063 2 Not everything that can be counted, counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. Sir George Pickering's splendid epigram apparently graced Einstein's wall, and it is a good summary of the spirit of James Willis's personal and anecdotal foray into the philosophy of holism. The ideas in The Paradox of Progress are deceptively simple: our minds are much larger than we can ever imagine, we cannot quantify the contents of our memories. The illusion that the important things in life are quantifiable is just that: an illusion, which …

The Swell Season: A Text on the Most Important Things in Life

The Swell Season: A Text on the Most Important Things in Life

The Buddha Nature: True Self as Action

Buddhism, and especially early Buddhism, is known for theanātman(no self) teaching. By any account, this teaching is central to both doctrine and practice from the beginning. Zen Buddhism (Chinese Ch'an), in contrast, is known for its teaching that the single most important thing in life is to discover the ‘true self’. Is there a real, or only an apparent, conflict between these two versions of Buddhism? Certainly there is at the least a radical change in the linguistic formulation of the teaching. Examining the two teachings on the linguistic level, we note that the use of the term ‘true’ in the phrase ‘true self’ may indicate that we have here a conscious reformation of the place of the term ‘self’ in the tradition, or perhaps that the use of this phrase in Zen is the product of such a conscious formulation. Thus we may expect, upon investigation, to find an evolution from one teaching to the other, rather than a true doctrinal disparity. The apparent, or linguistic, conflict between the two, however, remains; hence we must also expect to find a doctrinal formulation at some point in this evolution in which the apparent conflict is consciously apprehended and resolved.

Youth Programs of the ESA: Special-Interest Exploring in Entomology

An interest survey of high-school-age boys was made by the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan for the Boy Scouts of America. This survey showed 14- to 16-year-old boys to be more concerned about truly important things in life than we perhaps realize. Most of the boys (58%) said that taking on responsibility made them feel important and useful. Education and jobs are foremost in their minds, as 83% wanted to know more about vocations and career training. To obtain these objectives 94% wanted expert adult guidance.

ADVICE TO A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR

One of the most important things in life is to choose a means of livelihood that you will sincerely enjoy. Whatever career you choose, there will be times that you will be certain that you would have fared better in another field. There are no careers, there are no industries, and there are no lives, that are free from set‐backs and ups‐and‐downs. There are no rosy paths free of thorns. No career will present a straight and narrow path to follow. There will be junctions in all roads you travel and you must make a decision at each junction. You’ll never know where the other road would have led, so always forge ahead on the chosen path without looking back. Where you’ve been is not nearly as important as where you’re going. Geophysics, as a career, will be no different in these respects than any other you might choose, but the basic thing that we need to determine to answer your question is, “Will there be a continuing demand for geophysicists during your lifetime?” Let’s try to evaluate the future by the past.