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L’histoire d’Ellis Island, de l’ouverture de la station d’immigration en 1892 jusqu’à la restauration du site dans les années 1980 après une période d’abandon et d’oubli, reflète les interactions entre les discours sur l’immigration et la construction de l’identité politique et culturelle de la nation américaine. Le musée de l’immigration qui a ouvert sur l’île en 1990, dans le bâtiment même où sont passés douze millions d’immigrants entre 1892 et le milieu des années 1920, est devenu le lieu de mémoire de l’immigration américaine. En partant du postulat que les sociétés construisent leur représentation du passé et leur mémoire collective pour répondre à leurs besoins dans le présent, cette thèse entend montrer comment et à quelles fins la nation américaine a choisi de mettre en avant, à un moment donné, certains éléments de son histoire pour s’affirmer « nation of immigrants ». La création du musée d’Ellis Island, qui a consacré l’immigration et l’ethnicité comme composantes essentielles de l’identité américaine, était en effet aussi un choix de mémoire de l’Etat fédéral, témoignant d’une manière d’interpréter et de représenter l’Histoire. / The story of Ellis Island, from the opening of the immigration station in 1892 to the restoration of the site in the 1980s after a period of neglect and oblivion, reflects the interactions between discourses on immigration and the building of the political and cultural identity of the American nation. The immigration museum that opened on the island in 1990, in the building where twelve million immigrants were processed between 1892 and the mid-1920s, has become the site of memory of American immigration. Starting from the postulate that societies build their representation of the past and their collective memory to meet their demands in the present, this thesis aims at showing how and for what purposes the American nation chose to put forward, at a certain time, selected pieces of its history to assert itself “ nation of immigrants”. The setting-up of the Ellis Island museum, which affirmed immigration and ethnicity as essential components of the American identity, was indeed also a choice of memory by the Federal government, testifying to a way of interpreting and representing History.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, 2004. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-202).

Zugl.: Jena, Univ., Diss.

Zugl.: Jena, Univ., Diss.

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Missed appointments by patients are a major problem for health care professionals. To combat this issue, some optometrists use a pre-appointing system in which patients are scheduled for an annual exam a year after their initial visit. Prior to that subsequent appointment, clinic staff often try to contact the patient to confirm the appointment. This study examined baseline levels of appointment keeping, analyzed existing processes for pre-appointing patients, and introduced a revised process package to improve appointment keeping at an eye care clinic. This package included training, mailed postcard reminders and two phone call reminders. Results indicate appointment keeping by pre-appointed patients increased over baseline. The intervention was also shown to be cost-beneficial.

The purpose of this study is to give the common words, together with a collection of old expressions or terms, of the oldest residents of Ellis County and to trace their usage to the states in the Old South. The importance of recording these old words and terms is to preserve the oldest forms of the community for those who are interested in the growth and development of local speech and, also, to trace the history of these words.

Thesis advisor: David Quigley / This thesis will explore the factors that contributed to the enshrinement of the immigrant, in relation to places relevant to the Old World immigrant narrative. The chapters concentrate on the area around New York Harbor, often referred to as "the gateway," where turn-of-the-century immigrants sailed and settled and to where public memory made its return in the late sixties, seventies, and eighties. Public attentiveness to ethnic identity affected the character of historic preservation, prompting the creation of new symbols of American history. Many Americans' own Roots narratives brought them here, to the very place the immigrants began their American stories. Chapter One puts the spotlight on New Jersey, exploring how Jersey City claimed its part in the immigrant narrative, and how the state government organized its multi-ethnic character. Chapter Two opens to the national level, illustrating how the enshrinement of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty Centennial embodied the nationalism that came with the rise of conservatism. Chapter Three surveys immigrant memory in the Lower East Side, the quintessential neighborhood of nations, exploring what the Lower East Side Tenement Museum has done to pay homage to the "urban pioneers" of American history, using the past to affect contemporary immigration issues. The public memory that took shape at these historic sites resulted from not solely a revived interest in Old World ethnicity, but through a combination of factors. This thesis will also show how the ethnic revival helped draw attention to aspects of American life such as urban living, and provoked public discourse and scholarly research to attend to the people that history previously overlooked. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History. / Discipline: History Honors Program.

Um dos marcos mais importantes da filosofia do tempo contemporânea é o artigo de McTaggart (1908) denominado “The Unreality of Time”, no qual o autor defende que a suposição da existência do tempo é contraditória. O texto em questão demorou algumas décadas para ter sua importância filosófica devidamente reconhecida, devido à dificuldade proposta pela segunda parte de sua argumentação, chamada posteriormente de “Paradoxo de McTaggart” , pois não consiste em mostrar a coerência de suposição da que o tempo é irreal, mas que a ideia da existência disso que comumente se entende por tempo é inconsistente devido a uma contradição na aplicação dos predicados ser presente, ser passado e ser futuro. Há alguns autores que consideram o argumento de McTaggart muito plausível e que desenvolveram respostas a este, a fim de assegurar a realidade do tempo abandonando alguma (ou algumas) das suposições fundamentais que se tem a respeito da natureza do tempo. Uma destas respostas é denominada presentismo e consiste em defender que tudo e apenas o que existe é presente e tudo e apenas o que é presente existe. Essa resposta enfrenta algumas dificuldades, dentre as quais ressalta-se a dificuldade da veridação de proposições a respeito do passado e do futuro, e a dificuldade de conciliar o presentismo com a teoria da relatividade. A proposta desta dissertação é analisar a argumentação de McTaggart levando em consideração os requisitos necessários para interpretá-la a fim de que fique claro o que está sendo pretendido em cada premissa. O próximo passo será analisar o presentismo enquanto teoria coerente para, por fim, verificar a possibilidade de utilizar o presentismo como uma alternativa concreta de interpretação da realidade na qual o tempo seja real, resolvendo o paradoxo de McTaggart. / One of the most important milestones of contemporary philosophy of time is the paper by McTaggart (1908) "The Unreality of Time", in which he argues that the existence of time is contradictory. The work in question took a few decades to have its philosophical importance duly acknowledged, mainly due to the difficulty of the second part of McTaggart’s argument, which came to be called “McTaggart’s Paradox”, since it does not show the consistency of the assumption that time is unreal, but that the idea of the existence of what is commonly understood by time is inconsistent due to a contradiction in applying the predicates of being past, present or future. There are some authors who consider the McTaggart's argument very plausible, and have developed responses to it in order to ensure the reality of time, abandoning some of the fundamental notions that are usually attributed to time. One of these responses is called presentism, and consists in the assumption that all and only what exists is present and all and only what is present exists. That response faces some difficulties, like the difficulty of the truthmakers, the makers of the truth-value of assumptions about the past and the future, since only the present exists, or the difficulty reconciling presentism and Relativity Theory. The purpose of this dissertation, then, is to examine McTaggart's Paradox, analyzing the requirements needed to interpret it in a way that is consistent. If the argument shows itself sound, the next step will be to analyze presentism as a coherent theory in order to finally verify the possibility of using presentism as a concrete alternative for interpreting reality in which time is real, solving the McTaggart’s Paradox.