Thoreau and Spadina Dreamers Unite: Idealistic Communities in Canadian Publishing

Equity for "DREAMers" in Medical School Admissions.

Where We Are and How We Got Here In the autumn of 2012, the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine became the first medical school in the nation to amend its admissions policy to welcome applications from “DREAMers”—undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, i.e., prior to the age of 16, and have been raised and educated in the United States for mor...

The Idealistic GTL Predictor

Useful Knowledge and Beautiful Knowledge in Dewey and Thoreau

In order to see how the wisdom of American pragmatism can be usefully used in response to the crisis of humanities and of democracy and education, the purpose of this paper is to explore elements in Dewey’s thoughts that tend to be hidden in its familiar mainstream reception. The threads of these ideas are evident in Democracy and Education, but they become woven into more explicit expression i...

Climate Change, Health, and Vulnerability in Canadian Northern Aboriginal Communities

BACKGROUND Canada has recognized that Aboriginal and northern communities in the country face unique challenges and that there is a need to expand the assessment of vulnerabilities to climate change to include these communities. Evidence suggests that Canada's North is already experiencing significant changes in its climate--changes that are having negative impacts on the lives of Aboriginal pe...

Fuzzy Idealistic Soft Γ−Rings

The concept of fuzzy idealistic soft Γ−rings is introduced, some properties of fuzzy idealistic soft Γ−rings are given. Then the definitions of (∈,∈ ∨q)−fuzzy idealistic soft Γ−rings and fuzzy prime idealistic soft Γ−rings are proposed, and some theory of them is considered.