Island Of Hope Research Articles

Review: Island of Hope, Island of Tears, by Charles Guggenheim

Review: <i>Island of Hope, Island of Tears</i>, by Charles Guggenheim

Islands of Hope: Milwaukee's African American Immersion Schools

The way in which one chooses to identify and define a problem determines both the nature as well as the perceived efficacy of the solutions to that problem. In urban America the problem of disparity in achievement between minority and nonminority students is disturbing. Moreover, when the data are disaggregated by race and sex, the gravity of the problem tends to escalate. For urban minorities in general the educational system is, at best, loosely knit; yet, for African American males in particular, the system has all but totally unraveled. The perceived inappropriateness of the solutions offered thus far has alienated a significant segment of the population: African American males. Consider the following data reported by the American Council on Education and the National Research Council (aynes & Williams, 1989):

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Gladys Delap takes us beyond Jersey’s tourist image of sun-soaked beaches and Bergerac to explain the work of the island’s health care team for elderly people

Review: Island of Hope, Island of Tears by David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, and Douglass L. Brownstone

Review: <i>Island of Hope, Island of Tears</i> by David M. Brownstone, Irene M. Franck, and Douglass L. Brownstone

Hope Island: salvage excavation of a Kombumerri site

This paper reports the salvage excavations of a shell midden at Hope Island, Gold Coast City, southeast Queensland. Archaeological investigations were carried out in the Gold Coast region during the late 1960s and early 1970s (e.g. Haglund-Calley and Quinnell 1973; Haglund 1975, 1976), but as academic input into the area waned it became something of a folk theory in the mainstream Anglo-Saxon community that nothing worthwhile in the way of archaeological evidence remained in the area. The Kombumerri people, traditional owners who have never ceded title to their land, knew differently. This paper follows an extensive site recording program undertaken by the Kombumerri Cultural Centre and the Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, which has clearly demonstrated the correctness of their view: material evidence of significance to the local Aboriginal community abounds within the Gold Coast City limits and its environs.

Holocene stratigraphy and depositional history of the Narragansett Bay System, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

ABSTRACT An extensive seismic reflection survey has been used to gain further knowledge of Holocene stratigraphy and depositional history in the Narragansett Bay System (NBS).The early Holocene stream‐dissected surface beneath the NBS is interpreted as having been flooded by the Holocene sea in a manner suggested by Oldale &amp; O'Hara's (1980) sea‐level‐rise curve. The sea initially is believed to have penetrated the pre‐NBS East Passage trunk valley about 9000 yr BP and subsequently spread landward via the trunk valley and its branches.The Holocene sediments display stratigraphic relationships that differ spatially. At passage mouths, the basal unconformity is inferred to be covered over with some 3 m of paralic and 5 m of marine sands and silts separated, by a transgressive unconformity. In contrast the interior sequences reveal (a) a valley section up to more than 15 m thick in which the regressional unconformity is overlain by probable lower fluvial and/or estuarine sand‐silt facies that commonly grades upward to an estuarine silt‐clay facies and (b) an interfluve section in which a basal transgressive unconformity is blanketed by an estuarine nearshore sand‐silt facies that locally may change upward to a silt‐clay facies.Primarily Holocene silt‐clay accretion, produced by sedimentation processes associated with net non‐tidal estuarine circulation, infilled the evolving NBS. Depositional bodies, lenticular in shape and comprised of 12 m or more of sediment, developed in lowlands near Gould Island (˜9000 yr BP), in Upper Narragansett Bay (˜7500 yr BP), around Hope Island (˜7500 yr BP) and in Mt Hope Bay (˜6250 yr BP) with an average minimal sedimentation rate of 1.6–2.2 mm yr‐1. Silt‐clay deposition, commonly gas‐bearing, has buried the basal relief in most of the NBS upper and middle portions except for middle East Passage.A comparison of NBS sedimentation with that of Chesapeake, Delaware and Hudson Estuaries shows that the estuaries to the south have accumulated more sediment over a slightly longer period yet, with the exception of the higher rate in the Hudson Estuary, the sedimentation rates appear to be similar.

George Weetaltuk (ca. 1862-1956)

The historic Inuit occupation of the James Bay region is largely associated with the name of one man, George Weetaltuk. This Inuit leader was a respected Hudson's Bay Company pilot, boat builder, and artist, as well as patriarch of the Cape Hope Island Inuit community. His reputation and accomplishments are attested to in various written sources, and his many drawings comprise the earliest extensive collection of Canadian Inuit graphic art. One of the earliest and most widely reproduced of Weetaltuk's sketches is his 1910 map of the (then unknown to map-makers) Belcher Islands archipelago in Hudson Bay. This remarkable map, drawn about twenty years after Weetaltuk had left the Belcher Islands to live in James Bay, led Robert Flaherty to search for and subsequently explore the Belcher Islands during the years 1914-1916. ... Between 1930 and 1950 Weetaltuk gained fame as a canoe and boat builder. He had constructed a sawmill and a steamer on the island for shaping wood, and there he built the renowned Cape Hope Island canoes, which are still being made today in Poste de la Baleine, Quebec, by his descendants. However, especially noteworthy were the three large, masted boats he built; the largest, the Carwyn, was over 50 feet long and was built in 1944 when Weetaltuk was more than 80 years old. The first large boat he built was resold by the Hudson's Bay Company to the Roman Catholic missions, who renamed it Notre Dame de l'Esperance, and under that name it sailed the East Main and Labrador coasts for many years. ... Weetaltuk's woodworking skills resulted in the arrival of many orders for handmade furniture, from cities and towns all over Canada and the United States. The Anglican churches at Old Factory, Quebec, and Moose Factory, Ontario, commissioned him to carve their ornate bishop's chairs. The Cape Hope Island community consisted, for the most part, of Weetaltuk's descendants, and was the most southerly Inuit community in Canada until its relocation in 1960. The community enjoyed harmonious relations with adjacent James Bay Cree communities, and all the Inuit spoke Cree (several spoke French and English too). ...

Nesting by One-Year-Old Black-Crowned Night Herons on Hope Island, Rhode Island

Nesting by One-Year-Old Black-Crowned Night Herons on Hope Island, Rhode Island

Journey to the island of hope: A memoir of Buru penal labour camp 1971

An Indonesian journalist released after 13 years in detention describes how he and other detainees were transferred from prison to a penal colony on Buru Island

Geology of Hopen, Svalbard

SummaryHopen (Hope Island) in the Svalbard archipelago is difficult of access and only recently has reliable geological information become available. Published information is reviewed and combined with new observations.The island, 37 km long and no more than 2.5 km wide or 370 m high is structurally simple with flat-lying arenaceous strata which are described with three measured sections. Three new local stratal units are defined: Iversenfjellet Formation (325 m, base not seen); Flatsalen Shale Formation (55 m); and Lyngefjellet Sandstone Formation (80 m, top not seen).From a few ammonite, bivalve, saurian and plant megafossil occurrences and 30 palynomorph taxa (newly recorded) the marine and fluviatile facies range in age from possibly late Karnian, through Norian, Rhaetian and possibly into early Jurassic. The Rhaetian flora, well established palynologically, is the first clear evidence of rocks of this age in Svalbard. Associated Sirenites extends the range of this ammonite and suggests that Svalbard may yield significant new evidence for this span of Earth history.

Islands of Hope. William E. Brown The National Recreation and Park Association, 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. 1971. 194p. $3.95

Islands of Hope. William E. Brown The National Recreation and Park Association, 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. 1971. 194p. $3.95

The pattern of Laminariales distribution in the northeast Pacific

The distribution of 40 species of Laminariales is described for the northeast Pacific coast from Santa Margarita Island, Baja California, Mexico to Attu Island, Alaska, U. S. A. In general this coast can be described as an area of gradual floristic change which can, however, be divided into seven broad transitional regions separated by regions of no floristic change. The relative distribution of Lessoniaceae, Alariaceae, and Laminariacea along the northeast pacific coast defines three distinct coastal floras: a southern segment from Santa Margarita Island to the Strait of Juan de Fuca; a northern segment from Hope Island, British Columbia, Canada, to Yakutat, Alaska; and a western segment from Kodiak Island, Alaska to Attu Island, Alaska.

The New Frontiers of Science

The magnificent gifts that I havejust received from the Gasimi Institute1 and from Contessina Germana Gaslini, and the far too laudatory words of Avvocato Carlo Martinengo, president ofthe institute, threaten to bolster my already redoubtable self-satisfaction, so that I must light bonfires to remind myself of this world's vanities. I can feel in your words and attitudes a warm, optimistic expectation, the certitude of things hoped for, the trust in my missionary zeal—all things that are indispensable to anyone working for the love-borne, love-dedicated Gaslini Institute. I bow before these monuments ofChristian and social charity, which I regard as islands of grace, hope, spiritual enrichment, and salvation, where the noblest spiritual gifts find increase and reach out to the farthest horizons.

Twenty-five years of Norwegian sovereignty in Svalbard, 1925–50

By a treaty signed in Paris on 9 February 1920, Norway was given the sovereignty of Svalbard, comprising all the islands situated between longs. 10° and 35° E. and lats. 74° and 81° N., thus including Spitsbergen, Bjørnøya (Bear Island), Hopen (Hope Island), Kong Karls Land, and Kvitøya (White Island). The treaty, which has since been recognized by a number of other states, was signed by the United States of America, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland, the Dominions of Canada and New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, India, and Sweden. The U.S.S.R. recognized Norway's sovereignty of Svalbard in 1924 but did not sign the treaty until 1935; Germany signed the treaty in 1925. On 14 August 1925, Norway formally took possession and the Norwegian flag was hoisted in Longyearbyen. Since then, twenty-five years have elapsed, and in honour of the occasion the anniversary was celebrated at Longyearbyen in 1950.

German meteorological activities in the Arctic, 1940–45

Between 1940 and 1945 the German navy undertook a series of expeditions to the arctic regions in order to obtain regular synoptic weather reports, the international exchange of which had practically ceased upon the outbreak of war in 1939. During these years the German naval meteorological service [Wetterdienst des Oberkommandos der Kriegsmarine] organized and dispatched some thirteen parties, whose task it was to provide the information required to meet the exigencies of modern naval warfare and to enable forecasts of the influence of the “polar front” on European weather to be made. Owing to the strategic situation these activities were confined to Svalbard, East Greenland and Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa (Franz Josef Land). The German air force sent one expedition to Spitsbergen and two to Hopen (Hope Island) but on the whole the Luftwaffe preferred to employ aircraft flying from bases in northern Norway to obtain operational data, making special flights as and when required.

Dr. W. S. Bruce

THE untimely death on October 29, at the age of fifty-four, of William Speirs Bruce removes a leading oceanographer and the foremost British authority of his time on Polar regions. From the age of twenty-five Bruce had devoted practically his whole life to the exploration of Polar lands and seas, and had to his credit no less than twelve Arctic and two Antarctic expeditions. On the eve of completing his medical course at Edinburgh he sailed for the Antarctic in the Dundee whaler Balaena in 1892. The visit of this and other whalers was of course a commercial venture, and though Bruce was mainly occupied in assisting the crew in sealing, he found time to make many valuable observations in the north-western part of the Weddell Sea, the first scientific observations made in those regions for half a century. Returning home the following year, he became an assistant in the Challenger office, and later was in charge of the observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis until 1896, when at a few hours' notice he sailed in the Windward to Franz Josef Land with the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar expedition. For a year he assisted in the survey of the archipelago and made valuable collections, and he was present at the historic meeting with Dr. F. Nansen on his return from the Polar ocean. In 1898 Bruce sailed with Major A. Coats to Novaya Zemlya, Kolguev, and Hope Island, and later in the same summer with the Prince of Monaco to Spitsbergen. This was the first of many cruises with the Prince of Monaco, and laid the foundation of Bruce's wide and authoritative knowledge of Spitsbergen and its natural history.