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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"WPA"”.
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A history of FERA and WPA workers' education, the Indiana experience 1933-1943
… FERA (1933-1935), Works Progress Administration (WPA--prior to separation from the other adult education programs, 1935-1939), and WPA Workers' Service Program (1939-1943). In separate chapters these phases of federal workers' education are examined from both the federal and state …
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Mutiny on the Bounty : California Newspaper Reaction to WPA Strikes in July 1939
… hundred thousand Works Projects Administration (WPA) workers protested a change in working hours and salary by striking. WPA, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, was an attempt to aid the unemployed through work relief programs. Earlier New Deal efforts at work relief, the Federal …
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Eager and Hungry for Music: The WPA Music Project in New Orleans, 1935-1943
… established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an attempt to put the nation back to work through governmentsponsored work projects. One division of the WPA was Federal Music Project (FMP). A great deal has been written about the WPA, but the Music Project has received little scholarly …
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Collaborative Legacy of the First Ceramics Laboratories at the Penn Museum: The WPA and Beyond
… research projects were those undertaken by the WPA ceramics laboratories, a joint effort between the Works Progress Administration and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now called the Penn Museum), which employed federally funded workers and the burgeoning methods of …
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Diagnostico organizacional y formulación del plan estratégico de desarrollo para la empresa WPA Fauna y Ambiente S.A.S
… plan estratégico de desarrollo para la empresa WPA Fauna y Ambiente S.A.S, utilizando modelos de administración tales como; el modelo Pestel, el modelo de Kast–Rozeinsweig, el modelo de cinco fuerzas de Porter, complementado con un análisis (DOFA) para así, a partir del análisis de los hallazgos …
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"Much Depends on Local Customs:"The WPA's New Deal for New Orleans, 1935-1940
… The implementation of the relief embodied in the WPA was influenced by local factors that reinforced the existing social order at first but that left a framework through which that order could be challenged. The business of providing WPA relief also was attended by scandal and criticism. In spite …
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It Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program Administration
Writing program administrators (WPAs) work in constant negotiation with institutional forces outside of individual control, where the concerns of infrastructure impact writing programs continuously. In periods of transition, where new WPAs are entering a program, or the institution itself is …
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Works of Art, Arts for Work: Caroline Wogan Durieux, the Works Progress Administration, and the U.S. State Department
… the impact of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on American culture by studying its smaller programs such as the Federal Writer's, Theatre, and Art Projects. This paper explores the life of Caroline Wogan Durieux, a New Orleans artist, WPA Federal Art Project (FAP) administrator, and …
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Experiencias de estigma de enfermos mentales con trabajadores de la salud en Colombia
… liderados la World Psychiatri Asociation (WPA). ¿Cómo se crea el estigma?, ¿cómo se difunde? y ¿que efectos tiene sobre los enfermos mentales, sus familias, la sociedad y los sistemas de salud?; es necesario caracterizarlas. Diferencias entre los países desarrollados y en vía de desarrollo, …
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… for a shift in Writing Program Administration (WPA) with a focus on issues of race and ethnicity in WPA work. While avoiding the assimilationist tendencies of this appropriation, by using these genres and rhetorical moves as the basis for programmatic shifts, pedagogy, and WAC2 initiatives, the …
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Preliminary Development of The Dialysis-Membrane-based Passive Biocide Delivery System for Spacecraft Water Recovery Units
… configuration of the Water Processor Assembly (WPA) aboard the International Space Station. In this configuration, silver ions have to be added at the last step in the WPA to inhibit the growth of microorganisms in the product water. The dialysis-membrane-based system has to supply silver ions …
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Use of Waterfowl Production Areas by Ducks and Coots in Eastern South Dakota
The use of Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA) by American coots (Fulica americana) and ducks was studied during 1970 and 1971 in east-central South Dakota The Eriksrud WPA, a type IV wetland with 55 acres of water area and 35 acres of upland, contained 188 coot nests during the 2-year study. Of the …
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High Impact Practices in First Year Composition Courses
… I was able to make the connection between the WPA Outcome Statement, and the most current understanding of HIPs, and have them both interact with FYC pedagogy. </p>
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Loci: Creative AR Visualization of Overlooked Narratives in Familiar Spaces
… as Brian Peterson, the social narrative of the WPA mural initiative, and Kandinsky's vibrant abstract work. The project utilizes Google's ARCore framework in the Unity game engine as well as Google's Geospatial API with the aim to creatively reveal hidden narratives in places and promote …
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Vertebrated Richness of Waterfowl Production Areas in the Prairie Pothole Region of Minnesota
… Species richness was directly related to WPA size. If diversity is a management goal, managers should attempt to both purchase as large a waterfowl production area as possible and create or purchase a mosaic of habitats on those areas to insure high diversity levels of breeding birds.</p>
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Magnetic gels for uranium recovery from wet phosphoric acid
… of uranium recovery into wet phosphoric acid (WPA) processes can potentially supplement a significant portion of the world's uranium production and simultaneously benefit human health and environment by reducing radiological and toxic contamination of the phosphate fertilizer products. …
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"Dat's one chile of mine you ain't never gonna sell": Gynecological Resistance within the Plantation Community
… a voice of their own. Relying primarily on the WPA slave narratives, as well as the Virginia Plantation records, this thesis first seeks to examine cases of gynecological resistance, as well as the motivations behind these acts. This thesis argues that enslaved women used gynecological …
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The sorption of fluoride ion with special reference to fluoride removal from potable waters
… and, later, with the assistance of a WPA project which is still in progress. A field survey was made by Professor Abbott in person, beginning with the counties where mottled enamel had been reported to be most severe, and later the study was extended to include practically all of the …
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Redes Wi-Fi: ¿Realmente se pueden proteger?
… recientes ataques KRACK contra los protocolos WPA/WPA2 y los ataques del tipo EVIL TWIN que son muy difíciles de evitar. A través de diferentes pruebas de concepto, se demostrará de forma práctica como pueden llevarse a cabo algunos de los ataques más relevantes sobre redes Wi-Fi analizados en …
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