Across the Divide

2023-05-31
Across the Divide

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  • Author: Elizabeth Bernays
  • Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 243

Nothing prepared Liz, the academic scientist (with a background in Australia and UK) for Linda, the quick-witted eighth-grade dropout from Texas excelling in malapropisms and outlandish jokes. Linda was still married and Liz a grieving widow. How could they sustain a relationship when they had such different personalities, backgrounds, and interests? But despite obvious incompatibilities, their chemistry was undeniable, and the extraordinary contrast was exciting for both of them. Over time, each of them enthusiastically engaged the other in different pursuits and each of them bonded over the novelties. They introduced each other to their favorite entertainments, with mixed results (Linda found opera boring; Liz cheered for the wrong team at a University of Arizona basketball game). Linda's jokes kept them constantly alive to humor that offset the complexities of the lives they led when they were apart. But slowly, their shared love of nature, carefree RV trips, and travel abroad (with the help of antianxiety meds for Linda's first time on a plane), brought them ever closer. Maybe, they realized, they were more alike than they thought, as each pondered their love of being rebels. Maybe their differences were to be celebrated rather than overcome. With humor and heart, Across the Divide: The Strangest Love Affair reveals how possibilities unfold when we open ourselves to unlikely opportunities.

Across the Divide

2012-08-14
Across the Divide

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  • Author: Ann Knight
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781469194349
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 141

South Africa is a country where the dichotomy is divided between black and white, rich and poor. Where the rich are usually white and the poor usually black. This is a story about how, a white woman from a wealthy privileged background and a black woman from rural background, become friends. And through circumstances, which bring them closer together, and where colour has no place, they and their children form a bond which is unbreakable. Phumlas battle with Aids, after being raped, and the subsequent rape of her only child, give Mary-Ann an insight of the hardships of African women. They both cross the divide.

Across the Divide

2013-04-22
Across the Divide

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  • Author: Steven J. Ramold
  • Publisher: NYU Press
  • ISBN: 0814729193
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

"Ramold disputes the old argument that citizen-soldiers in the Union Army differed little from civilians. He shows how a chasm of mutual distrust grew between soldiers and civilians during four years of fighting that led many Democratic soldiers to…build the groundwork for the postwar Republican Party. Filled with gripping anecdotes, this book makes for fascinating reading." —Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William & Mary Union soldiers left home in 1861 with expectations that the conflict would be short, the purpose of the war was clear, and public support back home was universal. As the war continued, however, Union soldiers noticed growing disparities between their own expectations and those of their families at home with growing concern and alarm. Instead of support for the war, an extensive and oft-violent anti-war movement emerged. In this first study of the gulf between Union soldiers and northern civilians, Steven J. Ramold reveals the wide array of factors that prevented the Union Army and the civilians on whose behalf they were fighting from becoming a united front during the Civil War. In Across the Divide, Ramold illustrates how the divided spheres of Civil War experience created social and political conflict far removed from the better-known battlefields of the war. Steven J. Ramold, Associate Professor of American History at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of two previous books, Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy and Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army. He and his wife reside in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Across the Divide 2

2010-05-03
Across the Divide 2

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  • Author: David Francis
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 0984238891
  • Category : Art, Modern
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 40

Letters Across the Divide

2001-02-01
Letters Across the Divide

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  • Author: David Anderson
  • Publisher: Baker Books
  • ISBN: 1585584975
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 154

A black minister and a white businessman candidly discuss the obstacles, stereotypes, and sins that inhibit interracial reconciliation. Provocative and honest.

Unifying the Divide

2011
Unifying the Divide

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  • Author: Lynn Gencianeo Chin
  • Publisher: Stanford University
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 487

This dissertation examines the processes by which the intragroup division of labor structurally influences the development of group attachment. It specifically addresses a classic sociological issue over whether specialization in the division of labor is beneficial or detrimental to the development of person-to-group bonds and group cohesion. I propose that that solely looking at the independent effects of task specialization in isolation is problematic. Instead, I suggest that it is more beneficial to characterize the division of labor in terms of the different relational aspects that underline micro-interactional task structure. Towards this aim, my project proposes that interdependence in the division of labor is organized around three relational dimensions (task coordination, task differentiation, and skill specialization), which in combination exert complex influences on the development of person-to-group bonds. The first part of my dissertation research proposes a new original theory that specifies how these three relation dimensions differentially impact three independent processes by which group cohesion can endogenously grow from task structure. The second part of my dissertation centers around two major empirical analyses derived from data collected from a large-scale laboratory experiment. The first empirical study asks whether group bonding is higher in specialized teams? The second empirical study asks whether the impact of specialization changes when task specialization is no longer equally differentiated among group members, but is instead unequally divided amongst group members such that only a few group members possess unique skills important for team success? This project provides three major theoretical contributions: First, it addresses a fundamental issue that lies at the heart of sociology by asking what structural aspects of social interaction encourage individuals to become more attached to a group? Second, it re-conceptualizes the division of labor on an interpersonal level by breaking the concept down into its constituent parts to analyze how the division of labor actually works in real social interaction. Third, it brings insight to a major debate over whether organizational division of labor inhibits or enhances group solidarity by suggesting that the impact of task dimensions like specialization is not straightforward, but is complex and can only be examined while in simultaneous combination with other task dimensions.

Crossing the Divide

2021
Crossing the Divide

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  • Author: Robert E.B. Lucas
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0197602150
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 705

"The magnitudes, nature, causes, and consequences of population movements between rural and urban sectors of developing countries are examined. The prior literature is reviewed, proving limited in key dimensions. Evidence is presented from a new database encompassing nationally representative data on seventy-five developing countries. Several measures of migration propensities are derived for the separate countries. The situation in each country is documented, both in historical context and following the time of enumeration. Rural-urban migrants enjoy major gains; those who do not move forego substantial, potential gains. Barriers to migrating are very real for disadvantaged groups. Migration among ethnolinguistic communities is a pervasive theme; the context in which each group lives is detailed. Upward mobility in incomes in towns is affirmed, and the departure of adults from rural homes raises living standards of the family left behind but consequent separation of married couples is endemic to particular societies. Reclassification of rural areas as urban is shown to be more important than net rural-urban moves in incremental urbanization and rural-urban moves are less permanent than normally portrayed. A contention of symmetry between rural-urban and urban-rural migration propensities is rejected and indications that these twin movements result in sorting of labor by skills is not supported. Moreover, step and onward migration are not as common as popularly claimed. Previously neglected topics studied include autonomous migration by women, child migration, and networks at origin. Policies to limit rural-urban migration are questioned, rather planning for managed urban growth is vital as climate change continues. Key words: Rural, urban, migration, development, literature, database, reclassification, sorting, policies"--

The Divide

2022-01-05
The Divide

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  • Author: Paul Brenner
  • Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
  • ISBN: 1638670765
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 386

The Divide By: Paul Brenner Harlan Wyatt operates a prosperous elk guiding and outfitting service on the Western Slope of Colorado, but is still haunted by his role in exterminating the grizzly bear from the Colorado Rockies back in the 1950s. As Harlan enters his final year on the Divide and prepares to pass the business on to his son, Harlan’s plans for a smooth transition are disrupted by a poacher, the long-time rancher on the mountain, the United States Forest Service, the local game warden, a female newspaper reporter and a record-setting bull elk on the loose within the permit area. Harlan Wyatt’s final season at the helm of Wyatt Outfitters proves anything but ordinary.

West of the Divide

2021-02-03
West of the Divide

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  • Author: Paula Overton
  • Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
  • ISBN: 1649578164
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 202

West of the Divide By: Paula Overton Paula Overton was born and raised in the South. She and her husband have traveled extensively all over the world and the United States. She loved the Northwest United States, including the area West of the Divide. The ruggedness of the area remains the same through the years. When she first saw the area around the Salmon River, even now with the modern highways and cities, it remains a wonderful rugged land. She thought back about the pioneers who came West to tame this wild land. This impeccable spot of the country inspired Overton to write about the settlers’ experiences. And to try and bring to life what it must have been like to settle this terrain. Anyone with an interest in the history of the United States and its development, especially the area West of the Divide, will thoroughly enjoy Paula Overton’s work.

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

2018-02-13
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

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  • Author: Jason Hickel
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • ISBN: 0393651371
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created. More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries up the development ladder. It insists that if poor countries would only adopt the right institutions and economic policies, they could overcome their disadvantages and join the ranks of the rich world. Anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this story ignores the broader political forces at play. Global poverty—and the growing inequality between the rich countries of Europe and North America and the poor ones of Africa, Asia, and South America—has come about because the global economy has been designed over the course of five hundred years of conquest, colonialism, regime change, and globalization to favor the interests of the richest and most powerful nations. Global inequality is not natural or inevitable, and it is certainly not accidental. To close the divide, Hickel proposes dramatic action rooted in real justice: abolishing debt burdens in the global South, democratizing the institutions of global governance, and rolling out an international minimum wage, among many other vital steps. Only then will we have a chance at a world where all begin on more equal footing.