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Ghosts of Slavery
While some scholars imply that only the struggle for freedom was legitimate, Jenny Sharpe complicates the linear narrative-from slavery to freedom and literacy-that emerged from the privileging of autobiographical accounts like that of Frederick Douglass. She challenges a paradigm that equates agency with resistance and self-determination, and introduces new ways to examine negotiations for power within the constraints of slavery.
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Emmy and the rats in the belfry
Ten-year-old Emmy and her rodent friends must fend off the evil former nanny, Miss Barmy, as they search for Ratty's missing mother.
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Why nanny statism matters: evidence from the first wave of COVID-19
Background
A nanny state imposes restrictions on people’s liberty and freedom of action in order to advance their interest and welfare. The extent to which this is desirable, or even ethically acceptable, is debated in the literature. This paper formulates and tests the following hypothesis: the more of a nanny a state has been in the past, the more likely it is that the incumbent government will respond to a new, unknown threat with interventions of a paternalist nature, irrespective of other factors that might contribute to shaping government’s response. This hypothesis is then taken to the data using the first wave of COVID-19 as an empirical test.
Methods
Data are collected from secondary sources for a sample of 99 countries. Nanny statism is measured by the number of paternalist laws and regulations adopted by a country in the past. The response to COVID is proxied by the time of adoption of control and containment measures and their stringency. The public health outcome is measured by the COVID-19 death toll at the end of June 2020. These variables, plus several controls, are then used to estimate a set of linear and probit regressions and a proportional hazard model of the timing of adoption of control and containment measures.
Results
An increase in nanny statism by 0.1 (on a scale from 0 to 10) on average increases the probability of adoption of control and containment measures by 0.077 (i.e. 7.7 percentage points). The central tenement of the hypothesis is therefore consistent with the empirical evidence. The linear and probit regressions also show that there is no evidence of a significant effect of nanny statism on the stringency of the measures adopted. Irrespective of stringency, however, early adoption of control and containment measures is found to reduce the death toll of COVID-19 in the first half of 2020: an increase in nanny statism by 0.1 reduces the COVID death toll by approximately 7%.
Conclusions
A tradition of nanny statism potentially leads to a more timely and effective public policy response to a new, unknown crisis. Further tests of the hypothesis should look at the relationship between nanny statism and public health outcomes from natural disasters.
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Harriet spies again
Ole Golly is coming back into Harriet M. Welsch's life, but the circumstances remain unclear. For example, where is Ole Golly's husband?
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Raising Brooklyn
Stroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York's economy, providing childcare for white middle- and upper-middleclass families. Raising Brooklyn offers an in-depth look at the daily lives of these childcare providers, examining the important roles they play in the families whose children they help to raise. Tamara Mose Brown spent three years immersed in these Brooklyn communities: in public parks, public libraries, and living as a fellow resident among their employers, and her intimate tour of the public spaces of gentrified Brooklyn deepens our understanding of how these women use their collective lives to combat the isolation felt during the workday as a domestic worker.Though at first glance these childcare providers appear isolated and exploited - and this is the case for many - Mose Brown shows that their daily interactions in the social spaces they create allow their collective lives and cultural identities to flourish. Raising Brooklyn demonstrates how these daily interactions form a continuous expression of cultural preservation as a weapon against difficult working conditions, examining how this process unfolds through the use of cell phones, food sharing, and informal economic systems. Ultimately, Raising Brooklyn places the organization of domestic workers within the framework of a social justice movement, creating a dialogue between workers who don't believe their exploitative work conditions will change and an organization whose members believe change can come about through public displays of solidarity.
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The Unruly Queen
Minerva Von Vyle has had fifty-two nannies in fifty-two weeks due to her terrible behavior, but when nanny number fifty-three offers to crown her the \"Unruly Queen,\" Minerva begins to have some doubts.
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Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence : with a new preface
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
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Mr. Elephanter
From early morning until sunset, beloved Mr. Elephanter takes care of the rambunctious youngsters of the Elephantery, preparing their breakfast, taking them to the park, tucking them in for naps, and joining them at play.
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The Role of Educational Games in Developing Social Interaction Skills among Kindergarten Children from the Point of View of Nannies in the Jerusalem Governorate
Objective: This study aimed to identify the role of educational games in developing social interaction skills among kindergarten children from the point of view of educators in the Jerusalem Governorate. Methodology: The researchers used the descriptive analytical method in its quantitative and qualitative styles. Results: All fields and the total score obtained a high score, where the field of the role of educational games in developing the creativity skill obtained first place, while the field of the role of educational games in developing the group communication skill obtained second place, and the field of the role of educational games in developing the adaptation skill obtained third place. The results also showed differences in the age variable in favor of (30-39 years) and the variable of years of experience in favor of (less than 5 years). The results did not show differences in the educational qualification variable on the total score. As for the focus group, its most important results showed the existence of other roles for educational games, the importance of planning educational games, and the scarcity of electronic games in kindergartens. Conclusions: Revealing the pivotal role of educational games in enhancing social interaction among children, taking into account children with special cases and children with talent and high intelligence. Recommendations: Kindergarten curriculum developers should focus on different games for their importance in changing their behavior and developing their social interaction abilities, and developing the abilities of kindergarten teachers to use regular and electronic educational games, as well as identifying children's social interaction skills and the mechanism for developing them.
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