Land Of Hope Research Articles

Land of hope: Chicago, Black southerners, and the Great Migration

Land of hope: Chicago, Black southerners, and the Great Migration

Historical Dictionary of Liberia

Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope. That was shattered by a long Civil War that shook its very foundation. Today's Liberia is glimpsed in this second edition. Building on the first edition, this updated volume focuses on the personalities, from the founders of Liberia, to the soldiers who are responsible simultaneously for destruction and the hope of stability. Along with these people, various social and ethnic groups, political parties and labor movements, economic entities and natural resources are profiled in this updated work. A new chronology of Liberia is included, and a selected bibliography suggests further readings for the scholar.

America: Land of hope

Initiating the papers collected here, the words of the President of Venezuela serve to highlight the global problems and dilemmas of these times, and of times to come. Mention is made of the proper attitudes and orientations which will lead to solutions.

Zimbabwe: land of hope and ...

Control of the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is one of the immense medical problems facing Zimbabwe. The recent war has seriously disrupted the medical services, which used to be one of the best in Africa. Health care facilities for the STDs are limited, but the enthusiasm and determination of the medical and allied professions--together with the potential wealth of the country--should lead to a steady improvement.

Three America Letters to Lesja

translated and edited by CARLTON C. QUALEY 3 Three America Letters to Lesja PRESENTED ters that Norwegian HERE are settlers three in America examples sent of back letters that Norwegian settlers in America sent back to family members and friends in Norway during the second half of the nineteenth century. Expressions of disillusionment are relatively rare in immigrant correspondence. In the first letter below, however, Syver Christopherson states plainly his belief that glowing claims of opportunities for a Norwegian newcomer in America had been greatly exaggerated. He had left his farm, 0ijordet in Lesja, for the United States, expecting his wife and four children to follow him when he became established in this country. His farm equipment had been sold at auction, and the lease was to be transferred to the new owner, Ole Toresen Hole. The letter was dated at approximately the time of settlement of the accounts in Norway. A letter written by Jens Grpnbek to his brother-in-law, Christian Heltzen of Hemnes in Rana, Nordland, has a far more optimistic tone about America than that of Christopherson. However, he stresses the fact that an immigrant from Norway would need capital to get started in farming. One must have friends, he says, not so much for the land - which could be had by homestead41 Carlton C. Qualey ing - as for equipment, housing, and sustenance until his first crops are harvested. Letters of immigrants who settled in the northern part of Minnesota are rather hard to come by. But one writer from Lesja, who lived in Duluth, wrote a long account of his experiences in what he called "the land of hope." Identifiable only by his first name, "Ole," he evidently sent home his journal-like record to be preserved by his family. What he put into the itemized log of the voyage across the Atlantic and of his experiences in the New World is given in part here.* 1. WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED Syver Christopherson from. Waseca, Minnesota, to "my dear friend" P. H. Kolstad, October 3, 1869. I have had in mind writing to you for some time, but have delayed in hopes of hearing from home in response to two letters I have written since coming to America, both without reply. Either your letters or mine have gone astray. I hope that you will send me a full report from home. First, I will report on how things have gone with me since I came here. On my arrival in Christiania, I met several acquaintances who advised me to buy my ticket to Oconto [Wisconsin, on the north side of Green Bay], known for its work opportunities. So I went there - it took six weeks from the time I left home. I got a job at $30 a month with free board. Wages ranged from $20 to $30 depending on the work. At the sawmill where I worked, there were many acquaintances, such as the Lil- *A copy of Syver Christopherson's letter to P. H. Kolstad was furnished by Professor Ingrid Semmingsen of the University of Oslo. It is now in the possession of Per Kolstad in Norway. Mrs. Semmingsen also sent a copy of the Gr0nbek-to-Heltzen letter; she had received it from Mrs. Ingeborg ThuneHolm , a granddaughter of Christian Heltzen. The journal written by Ole is now in the possession of Inga Slettahaugen of Lesjaverk. A copy of it was also made available by Professor Semmingsen. 42 THREE AMERICA LETTERS leenstad boys and others. With so many people there who knew me, I could not imagine that there would be any difficulty in securing payment of wages. After two months or so I had earned about $70, but there was great difficulty in getting my money; it was almost impossible for newcomers who did not know the language. So I quit, for I could not work for promises and good faith. On my departure, I got only $10 of my wages, the remainder to be paid after the mill shut down in the fall. Whether or not I get anything then I know not. Even though several others have had the same experience, I cannot understand how these Lesja people could...

A Land of Hope in Schools: A Reader in the History of Public Education in Puerto Rico, 1940-1965

A Land of Hope in Schools: A Reader in the History of Public Education in Puerto Rico, 1940-1965

Land of Hope, Land of Despair: Polish Scholarship and American Immigration

Land of Hope, Land of Despair: Polish Scholarship and American Immigration

‘Flowering Rifle’

To the Editor of Blackfriars.Sir,—I must resolutely disregard the red herrings drawn across my path by the correspondents who give such a sinister reading of my notice of Roy Campbell’s Flowering Rifle. I criticised the book only on literary grounds, and mentioned that works like Auden’s Spain and Spender’s Vienna were also poor art because of their excessive political preoccupations; and because I reject inferior Leftist art along with Rightist work, I apparently suggest that the Rightist writer is Leftist. A remarkable piece of reasoning to come from a great theological college.It is precisely on literary grounds that the critics neglect to base their criticism. The book is lyrical invective at best, and in trying to make an epic of it, the poet has executed a mechanical exercise, which oftenest sounds like a brass band at its brassiest repeating ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ ad nauseam. The language of the less prosy parts is worn-out ‘poetical’ currency like ‘golden,’ ‘scarlet,’ ‘silver,’ ‘storm-red,’ while often the faded literary metaphors of ‘rhyme,’ etc., are used to jolt the poem into life. The author himself says the poem is not meant to emulate people like Claudel, and we can easily agree when we read such bathos as :‘Toledo, here, against the morning sky Like some great battle-cruiser from the fight Returned with Victory (terrific sight I)’—the capitals being used to galvanise the cliche into some shadow of life. But above all, the epic lacks the structure of an epic, and is largely a broken record of literary quarrels.