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Japanese North Americans, War, And Communal Healing Through Literature: Internment Memory As An Ascent In Meaning And Beauty, Chikako D. Kumamoto
Japanese North Americans, War, And Communal Healing Through Literature: Internment Memory As An Ascent In Meaning And Beauty, Chikako D. Kumamoto
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To define ourselves as Americans, we often like to invoke the still-potent idea, inherited from the Puritans, of a "city upon a hill." Steeped in a mythic discourse on our earliest conception of America as an elect nation, this phrase envisions the community at large as "the pilot society for the world" engaged in a noble experiment of innocence, consensus, justice, and freedom for all, while driving to achieve myriad forms of greatness. But when this community at large is found fallen from the ideal conception of itself and conducts itself contrarily to its communal responsibilities towards its smaller communities …
Living English Work., Min-Zhan Lu
Living English Work., Min-Zhan Lu
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Keeping in mind the Chinese character-combination yuyan, with its multiple meanings of language, parts of language, the processes of language, and the products of those processes, the author depicts English as kept alive by many people and by many different ways of using it in a wide range of personal, social, and historical contexts. She proposes four lines of inquiry “against the grain” of English-only instruction—that living-English users weigh what English can do for them against what it has done to them; that they weigh what English can do against what it cannot do; that they understand English as being …
Introduction : Cross-Language Relations In Composition., Bruce Horner
Introduction : Cross-Language Relations In Composition., Bruce Horner
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Detached And Empty: Subtexts Of The Unoccupied House In James Joyce's "Araby", Jason A. Snart
Detached And Empty: Subtexts Of The Unoccupied House In James Joyce's "Araby", Jason A. Snart
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The Other Side Of The Podium: Student Information Needs From Inside The Classroom, Marilyn R. Pukkila
The Other Side Of The Podium: Student Information Needs From Inside The Classroom, Marilyn R. Pukkila
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A few things the author learned about students and research when she audited classes on her campus as part of her sabbatical.
An Environmental Scan Of Adult Numeracy Professional Development Initiatives, Renee Sherman, Kathy Safford-Ramus, Anestine Hector-Mason, Larry Condelli, Andrea R. Olinger, Nrupa Jani
An Environmental Scan Of Adult Numeracy Professional Development Initiatives, Renee Sherman, Kathy Safford-Ramus, Anestine Hector-Mason, Larry Condelli, Andrea R. Olinger, Nrupa Jani
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