The paper explores “The Blue Rose” (1896) by Lesia Ukrainka in terms of the ‘rite de passage’ as text with a ritual function that reflects cultural, gender, and author status transformations within field literature. In most general sense, first drama is analyzed an act initiation into fin siècle culture. Peculiar features this are critical comments modern culture, transformation autobiographica...

In contemporary Western culture, fatness and singlehood are constructed as requiring change: from fat to thin, single coupled. Makeover shows with a dating theme that focus on both aspects in connection each other have become increasingly widespread, aiming for the makeover of one’s life relationship status through body. I analyze show Fat Chance theoretical context rites passage applying conce...

Young adults between the ages of 19 and 29 represent one of the largest segments of the uninsured; approximately 13.7 million were uninsured in 2008. The problem is linked to critical transition points in young adults' lives: aging off parents' coverage when they graduate from either high school or college, and losing eligibility for public programs like Medicaid and the Children's Health Insur...

Young adults ages 19 to 29 are one of the largest segments of the U.S. population without health insurance: 13.2 million, or 29 percent, lacked coverage in 2007. They often lose coverage at age 19 or upon high school or college graduation: nearly two of five (38%) high school graduates who do not enroll in college and one-third of college graduates are uninsured for a time during the first year...

Young adults (ages 19 to 29) are one of the largest segments of the U.S.population without health insurance: 13.3 million lacked coverage in 2005. Young adults often lose coverage at age 19 or upon high school or college graduation. Nearly two of five college graduates and one-half of high school graduates who do not enroll in college will be uninsured for a time during the first year after gra...

BACKGROUND Every year, thousands of suburban high school graduates from mid Atlantic states flock to nearby coastal beaches for a long-anticipated rite of passage known as "beach week." Sand, sun, and sea, and also smoking, binge drinking, drugs, and sex, are reported to be dominant themes. OBJECTIVE To document risk-taking behaviors by girls during beach week. METHOD Fifty-nine female subu...

Tieraona Low Dog, M.D., is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Education for the Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is chair of the United States Pharmacopoeia Dietary Supplements and Botanicals Expert Committee. Jodi R. Godfrey, M.S., R.D., is a health and wellness specialist in private practice and cont...

Young adults, ages 19 to 29, are one of the largest segments of the U.S. population without health insurance: 13.7 million lacked coverage in 2006. They often lose coverage at age 19 or upon high school or college graduation--most two of five (38%) high school graduates who do not enroll in college and one-third of college graduates are uninsured for a time during the first year after graduatio...

Fieldwork – “going there” is the presumed norm and baseline of geographical research. In this commentary, I propose a framework for challenging normative framing fieldwork in geography other fields (including those beyond academia): an ethic not going there. argue that fieldwork, rather than neutral rite passage, deeply entwined with some most entrenched issues contemporary research more broadl...