looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. first of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. so, today, we are discussing david oceanfy s pulitzer prize winning book polio: an american story. you all received questions that i posted and i m really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course that s when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. before star
emphasis on research and writing. over the semester, we ve examined various disasters. first of all the psychological and physical problems at jamestown, disaster sermons in responses to fires, hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party, the potato family, disaster of tourism, the impact of the triangle shirt waste factory and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. today we re discussing polio: an american story. you all received questions that i posted and i m enterintereste this topic because i teach a seminar in the 1950s. looking at polio reveals so many different issues that affected that decade. before starting, though, i just want to mention one thing in light of what we were talking about in terms of dust bowl art, i was reading the new york review of books and there is a review of a novel that woodie guthrie wrote. it doesn t get a very good review. but obviously he gets some attention. you ll be pleased to know t
providing low income service. sort of almost to make it politically good, not just politically acceptable, politically good for a company to price discriminate. i wasn t sure where you were headed with that. i can t think of what it is right now. but if they were to take samples of fingerprints that are on some of those voluntary agreements, you might find fingerprints somewhere. that s good. i think that s great. the programs are there. just one thing, back to yesterday s conversation. he said the one thing about the act is it allowed competition to enter. what the competition did, is before the telecomact, the prices that we had didn t make a whole lot of sense. all kinds of different cross subsidies. 25 cents a minute long distance. and what the competition did is forced all those prices to get rationalized. the high cost fund kind of impedes that whole process. one thing, there s really i think the benefits in terms of incentives for investment and those other thi
have learned because there s just really no set curriculum that can be guaranteed. [ applause ]. today the civic club of cleveland, we have enjoyed a friday forrum from anne neal. thank you, ms. neal, for your informative remarks. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. this forrum is now adjourned. [ applause ]. [ bell rings ] on the next washington journal, we ll discuss the latest news from ferguson, missouri, and about the resignation of defense secretary chuck hagel. our guests include andrew tilghman. and later, bill shore will be here to talk about hunger in america. our show is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern/4:00 a.m. pacific on c-span. looking ahead to tuesday night, we ll have a look at one community in america is handling the recent influx of young, undocumented immigrants. you ll hear from republican mayor jude it kennedy who describes efforts to provide undocumented children with education and health services. then on c-span2 at 8:00 p.m., a sis dis cushion on cronyism
disinvited from graduation ceremony office student protest. this is an hour. good afternoon, and welcome to the city club of cleveland. my name is paul harrison. i m pleased to introduce today s speaker, president and co-founder of the american council of trustees and alumni. as stated on its website, acta is on academic freedom, the website states that the ideas of academic freedom and free speech are at the core of academic speech. and freedom in research is essential to the advancement of truth. today s forum offers a wonderful opportunity to juxtapose freedom of speech and academic freedom and just a moment to reflect on our 102-year history at the city club of cleveland. we proudly refer to the city club as in 1923, the city club invited famous labor leader, socialist and perennial presidential candidate eugene deps to speak and he accepted. asking mr. depps to speak, caused ultimately mr. depps determined to decline the invitation and he wrote that