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A changing military structure -- Fight our battles and claim our victories -- Just American soldiers going to do a job -- Serving in the European theater of operations, January 1945-March 1946 -- Life after military service -- Cohesion, conflict, and phenomenology

"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across the country. Indeed, the insurrection, now little remembered, became the most publicized and recorded protest of Black WACs during World War II as story of how four African American women pushed the army's segregation system to its breaking point.Drawing on relevant scholarship, archival work, newspaper responses to the strike, and interviews with the strikers or their families, Sandra Bolzenius shows how the strike at Ft. Devens demonstrates that army regulations prioritized white men, segregated African Americans, highlighted white women's femininity, and overlooked the presence of African American women. In drawing attention to these issues, this book is able to shed light on the experiences and agency of World War II Black WACs who resisted racial discrimination and asserted their entitlements as female military personnel, analyze military policies and their effects on Army personnel, particularly Black WACs, and investigate the Army's determination to maintain the existing social order through the strict segmentation of its troops based on race, gender, and rank."--Provided by publisher

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is the most common type of obstetric hemorrhage and is the world's leading cause of maternal mortality. The prevention of postpartum haemorrhage is a vital step towards achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of this study was to assess the factors that influence the practice of PPH prevention in primary health facilities in Osogbo. A descriptive cross sectional method was used in this study. Total enumeration of 128 skilled birth providers working in primary health facilities in the two local governments in Osogbo was used. Questionnaire was used as main instrument for data collection. Questionnaire was validated by the experts in Tests & Measurement. Reliability index of 0.702 was recorded using Cronbach alpha. Data collected were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics. Finding revealed that majority of the respondents 99.2% had good practice of prevention of postpartum haemorrhage, 93.7% had high level of knowledge of prevention of postpartum haemorrhage. The study revealed that the available drugs for prevention of postpartum haemorrhage in primary health centre are; misoprostol, ergometrine and oxytocin whereas the drugs are not free for patients. In conclusion, there is shortage of staff to cover all shifts and this really has influence on prevention of postpartum haemorrhage in primary health centres. Therefore, it was recommended among others that Government should employ more nursing staff in primary health centres to cover the three shifts as this will reduce the work load on the currents nursing staff for the effective practice of PPH prevention. Keywords: Factors, Postpartum Haemorrhage, Practice, Prevention, Primary Health Care, Skilled Birth Providers

The vast potentialities for higher education institutions (HEIs) in designing and implementing sustainable consumption and production systems need to be developed in this age of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To further elucidate this argument, various studies show that the material recovery potential of discarded solid wastes in universities is more than 50 %. Focus is given in Philippine HEIs, wherein recoverable solid wastes were identified in faculty rooms of three HEIs in Baguio City, Philippines, using a waste assessment and characterization survey (WACS). Results show that around 90 % of solid wastes in faculty rooms are potentially recoverable, as residual wastes only account 6–11 %. It is projected that 75,968 kg/day of solid wastes are generated annually in Philippine HEI faculty rooms alone, and around $537.66 can be monetized from recoverable wastes in such rooms per campus per school year. The untapped monetary equivalents of recoverable solid wastes should prompt partnerships between HEIs and recycling and or manufacturing companies, local government, non-profits, and non-government organizations to recover and monetize reusable and recyclable wastes. Such arrangements would eventually close material consumption and production loops not only in the Philippines but also in an ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) or global scale, and therefore reduce resource footprints generated by educational institutions.

Papers presented at a conference entitled "A Woman's War Too, U.S. Women in the Military in World War II", held in Mar. 1995. ; Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Women in the military: a perspective from the Air Force / Sheila E. Widnall -- Servicewomen and the American military experience / D'Ann Campbell -- Creating a women's corps: public response to the WAAC/WAC and questions of citizenship / Leisa D. Meyer -- The wartime history of the Waves, Spars, Women marines, Army and Navy Nurses, and Wasps / Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith -- Women, medicine, and war / Mary T. Sarnecky -- The Wac as cryptographer / Mary B. Johnston -- "Angels calling from the sky": the women pilots of World War II / RitaVictoria Gomez -- My experiences as a Spar during World War II, (February 1943-June 1946) / Dorothy Jeanne Gleason -- Service life in the Women's Army Corps and Afro-American Wacs / Janet Sims-Wood -- World War II experiences of a POW Navy Nurse / Mary Harrington Nelson -- Publishing and self-publishing memoirs / Linda Grant de Pauw -- A traveler's guide to the chronicles of military women in World War II / Eleanor Stoddard -- Museums, film and graphic archives, and educational resources / Clare M. Cronin -- Invitation to scholarship: an introduction to records in the National Archives / DeAnne Blanton -- Women at war: still pictures relating to U.S. women in the military during World War II / Barbara Lewis Burger -- Reading cultural text in government films: women, image, and the World War II experience / Jennifer A. Nelson -- Securing the "double V": African-American and Japanese-American women in the military during World War II / Cynthia Neverdon-Morton -- women as veterans: historical perspective and expectations / Mary V. Stremlow -- World War II and proactive women / Mary E. Haas. ; Mode of access: Internet.

When Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and the founder of religious toleration in what was to become the United States of America, examined the charter that King James I had given the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, he found in that document two significant misstatements. Williams first pointed out the falsity of the recital wherein the King "blessed God that he was the first Christian Prince that had discovered this land."' He then denounced the royal land grant to the Massachusetts Bay Company, because that land belonged, not to the King, but to the Native Americans who lived in that area. Accordingly, Roger Williams asserted that the monarch had told "a solemn public lie."

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