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Abstract:In this essay, Sherry Simon explores the ways that cities shape language, and are shaped in return by the shifting languages of immigrants.

Meals On Wheels, Inc. of Tarrant County (MOWI) collaborated with local community-based organizations and hospitals to provide home-delivered meals and an evidence-based medication management intervention as a care transition service. The model program was designed to address risk factors commonly associated with preventable hospital readmissions. MOWI staff provided meals to 121 patients recently discharged from an inpatient hospitalization or emergency department visit from March 2013 through March 2014. A total of 18,010 meals were delivered to the 121 clients. On average, clients received 6.25 meals per week with meal delivery starting, on average, 8.95 days postdischarge. Ninety-three of the 121 clients also elected to receive the HomeMeds program. Client self-report of health care utilization (e.g., hospital readmission) at three months and six months was lower than expected given client characteristics. Positive changes in the Emergent Care Assessment and resolution of medication alerts provide additional evidence of a positive effect of the home-delivered meals program. More research is needed to document the benefits of home-based care supports following hospitalization.

Etymologically, translation evokes an act of moving or carrying across from one place or position to another, or of changing from one state of things to another. This does not apply only to the words of different languages, but also to human beings and their most important properties. They too can be moved across all sorts of differences and borders and so translated from one place to another, for instance from one cultural and political condition to another. Thus, one can culturally translate people – for a political purpose and with existential consequences. No discussion of the concept of cultural translation can easily dispense with an analysis of the very concrete devices of such translation if it strives to maintain contact with the political and existential issues at stake in the debate on cultural translation. The political meaning of cultural translation is not a quality external to the concept and capable of being discussed in a haphazard way. Precisely by becoming cultural, translation opens up the problem of its intrinsic political meaning.

In this article, the author talks about different languages ​​shape Montreal, Canada today. It mentions about the massive political and linguistic Change in Montreal, from the 1960s the turbulence of the so-called silent revolution led to the overthrow of the old anglofonen Power structures and the triumph of the new Francophone bourgeoisie. It also mentions that language laws through the French was given preference.

Presents an article on the representations of cultural diversity in the motion pictures filmed in Quebec, Canada released from 1985 to 1995 from "Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec." Functions of the motion picture films that represent cultural diversity; Format and objective of the motion picture "Caffé Italia"; Analysis of the motion picture "Xenofolies," directed by Michel Moreau; Characteristics of social films dealing with cultural diversity; Discussion of the motion picture "Shabbat Shalom," directed by Michel Brault.

Discusses translation in Canada, focusing on the fact that it has become a right of passage and a process of transformation. Information on Canadian cultural politics; Details of the humanistic version of translation; Solutions to multilingualism; Importance of translation in Canada.

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Profiles Elizabeth Cleaver, author of picture books for children. Interests and techniques used in writing books; Research made for the book `Petrouchka'; Notable illustrations in several of her books; Work philosophy.