Decline And Disparity: The Case Of Spanish Language Newspapers In The U.S.,
2011
Illinois Wesleyan University
Decline And Disparity: The Case Of Spanish Language Newspapers In The U.S., Brianna Gidday, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
No abstract provided.
The English-Only Movement And The Linguistic Future Of The United States,
2011
Illinois Wesleyan University
The English-Only Movement And The Linguistic Future Of The United States, Erin Howes, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
This descriptive study investigates the opinions of proposed English-Only legislation and how the opinions of the current college generation will affect the future of this country's language laws. The English-Only Movement, also known as the Official English movement, refers to a political movement to establish the English language as the only official language in the United States and in government operations. The data will be collected from university students via an online questionnaire focusing on the opinions of the use of English as the country's legal language versus the presence of Spanish. Investigative questions regarding different demographics and background information …
Heritage Spanish Speakers: Self Confidence Through Study Abroad,
2011
Illinois Wesleyan University
Heritage Spanish Speakers: Self Confidence Through Study Abroad, Jordan Menendez, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
This study, describes the perception heritage Spanish-speakers have of their language abilities after they have studied abroad in a Spanish-speaking country. Research has shown that many heritage speakers struggle with their confidence in their heritage language, but that after studying abroad, the student's confidence in their language capabilities increases. The research questions include: Do the students have a higher self-confidence in speaking their native language after studying abroad? Do their perceptions of their language abilities change throughout the course of their study abroad experience? What do their heritage Spanish-speaking students feel effected their perceived language change after study abroad: improved …
Intrastate Conflict Resolution: Case Studies And Applications For A Globalized World,
2011
Providence College
Intrastate Conflict Resolution: Case Studies And Applications For A Globalized World, Michael Kriner
Global Studies Student Scholarship
The nature of conflict around the world has changed since the end of World War II. Since that time, there has been an increase in the number of intrastate conflicts, and these conflicts have become more violent and deadly. Since many of them involve questions of identity, the traditional methods of conflict resolution typically cannot be applied. Many intrastate conflicts also involve third-party interventions which add another dimension to the conflict. This paper will address the changing nature of conflict and the rise of intrastate conflict and resolution by including explorations and analysis of the conflicts in Rwanda and the …
Batik: A Process And A Means Of Progress,
2011
SIT Study Abroad
Batik: A Process And A Means Of Progress, Emily Swietlik
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
I chose an alternative ISP of doing batik because it incorporated all of the facets of my interests: anthropology, international development, and art. As an artist, creating my own batik satisfied my love for expressing how I see the world through art. As an anthropologist, I was able to gain insight on a new culture. As an international activist, I was able to explore how batik can be used as a mechanism to improve the quality of life for people in Senegal. While my project was all encompassing, the primary objective of my research was to gain an understanding of …
The Bilingual Student Experience,
2011
Providence College
The Bilingual Student Experience, Whitney Washousky
Global Studies Student Scholarship
English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing group of students in the United States. The purpose of this research is to help better understand the personal experiences of these students in their journey to learn English while still maintaining their Spanish roots. Much research has been done on a large scale to identify the successes and shortcomings of the American education system in supporting these immigrant ELLs. This project, however, focuses directly on the personal experience of the bilingual student in the mainstream classroom and the influence of their home and community life on the assimilation process. This case …
The Tourists And The Toured: Identity In Greenmarket Square,
2011
SIT Study Abroad
The Tourists And The Toured: Identity In Greenmarket Square, Sophia Perlman
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
This project explores the intersection between vendors and tourists in Greenmarket Square, a popular arts and crafts market in Cape Town. I examine the way in which the identities of the vendors and tourists are co-constructed in this market setting. I focus, in particular, on how vendors articulate and negotiate their identity through the tourist gaze. In addition, I consider the role of the objects in the co-construction of the tourists and toured identities. My findings are based on data gathered through participant observation with vendors, interviews with vendors and tourists, and content analysis of objects and tourist guidebooks. My …
Like The Roar Of A Thousand Thunders: Instrumental Music And Creativity In Tibetan Buddhist Ritual,
2011
SIT Study Abroad
Like The Roar Of A Thousand Thunders: Instrumental Music And Creativity In Tibetan Buddhist Ritual, Eben Yonnetti
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Tibetan Buddhism has numerous detailed and diverse traditions of ritual music that play an integral part in religious practices. Despite the prominence of such performances in Tibetan Buddhist life, spectators and researchers alike have frequently misunderstood them based purely on physical observation. As a religion that focuses on the cultivation and development of the mind, any analysis focusing only on physical description is significantly flawed. Music in Buddhist practice is at a base level a sound offering. On a higher level, however, it is much more. If done with the proper motivation, musical performance during ritual is a method to …
Poder Y Memoria: La Recuperación De La Memoria Histórica Por El Psoe En Los Spots Electorales De 1993 Y 1996,
2011
Universidad Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III
Poder Y Memoria: La Recuperación De La Memoria Histórica Por El Psoe En Los Spots Electorales De 1993 Y 1996, Claire Decobert
Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos
No abstract provided.
Advertising Trends For The Hispanic Market,
2011
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Advertising Trends For The Hispanic Market, Vanessa Parra
Graphic Communication
Magazines have been the lead sellers of entertainment and as technology advances many businesses are switching to the Internet as a way of advertising. By more companies going digital, the print industry loses business. However, if advertisements and articles were focused on certain groups, sales would improve. This study attempted to determine if by focusing on a culture’s needs, what popular trends will Hispanics be more interested in when purchasing magazines, therefore increasing sales? Spanglish advertising is a new demographic that is blooming in the United States. It is a combination of American and Latino culture that is mainly focused …
2011-02 Library Impact Statement For Chn 315/316 Intensive Advances Composition And Conversation I And Ii,
2011
University of Rhode Island
2011-02 Library Impact Statement For Chn 315/316 Intensive Advances Composition And Conversation I And Ii
Library Impact Statements
Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for CHN 315/316 Intensive Advanced Composition and Conversation I and II. New course was supported with no need for additional resources.
(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, And The Early Picaresque,
2011
Purdue University
(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, And The Early Picaresque, David R. Castillo
Purdue University Press Books
The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings (as in anamorphosis).
A Review Of "Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty",
2011
Syracuse University
A Review Of "Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case For Liberty", Fethi Keles
Anthropology - All Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Developing Intercultural Sensitivity In Children And Adults: A Trainer’S Experiences In The Field,
2011
SIT Graduate Institute
Developing Intercultural Sensitivity In Children And Adults: A Trainer’S Experiences In The Field, Laura E. Schairbaum
Capstone Collection
Intercultural training is a broad field which seeks to enhance participants’ cultural self-awareness, understanding of “Others”, and skills related to effective communication across difference. These are essential competencies for individuals, organizations, and societies to have in our increasingly diverse nation and globalized world. This capstone paper is a training course-linked capstone (CLC) related to Training of Trainers: Ethics and Intercultural Training Design. My Reflective Practice Phase (RPP) training design and facilitation experiences are presented and analyzed using experiential learning and intercultural training frameworks. My previous training experiences, motivation, and philosophical approach to intercultural and social justice-based training are also …
Ireland,
2011
Technological University Dublin
Ireland, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
Books/Book Chapters
This book section provides a history of food in Irish culture from the early beginings to the present day.
Argument Encoding And Pragmatic Marking Of The Transitive Subject In Shiwilu (Kawapanan),
2011
Chapman University
Argument Encoding And Pragmatic Marking Of The Transitive Subject In Shiwilu (Kawapanan), Pilar Valenzuela
World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research
Shiwilu (a.k.a. Jebero) is a nearly extinct Kawapanan language from Peruvian Amazonia. The goal of this article is twofold. First, it investigates the obligatory cross-referencing of arguments in the complex Shiwilu verb. This system is predominantly nominative accusative, with the caveat that main clause object markers coincide with those conveying subject in one type of clause involving nominal predicates, as well as subject and object of dependent clauses. Second, this article provides a first analysis of the enclitic =ler, which may attach to transitive subjects and thus exhibits an ergative-like distribution. Unlike the situation in languages with syntacticized ergative systems, …
Circus: An Integrated Curriculum Unit,
2011
University of Denver
Circus: An Integrated Curriculum Unit, Institute For The Development Of Gifted Education, Ricks Center For Gifted Children, University Of Denver
Ricks Curriculum Units Series
An integrated curriculum is an instructional approach that connects the disciplines to an underlying theme or topic. Immersing students in an integrated-thematic unit provides the backdrop for experiences to occur across the disciplines. Shaping coursework around integrated themes is especially appropriate for gifted students, however using an integrated-thematic curriculum is appropriate for all learners as it develops students' abilities to make connections, to solve problems by looking at multiple perspectives, and to integrate information from different fields of experience. An integrated-thematic curriculum permits students to be active participants in their own learning as they design their own explorations and take …
The Relationship Between American Media Exposure And Trinidadian Female Adolescents' Body Image Satisfaction,
2011
University of South Florida
The Relationship Between American Media Exposure And Trinidadian Female Adolescents' Body Image Satisfaction, Clarabelle Ferguson
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Numerous studies have examined the development of body image among people, especially girls and young women. Many factors have been associated with the development of body image dissatisfaction. Especially important are exposure to mass media and its relationship with three theoretical constructs: Awareness of a thin ideal, internalization of a thin ideal, and perceived pressures to be thin. Extending existing research, this study examined through experimentation the relationships among exposure to American media content and the awareness and internalization of the American norms and expectations for thinness, pressures to adopt these norms, and Trinidadian female adolescents' body image satisfaction. Based …
The “Eternal Loop” Of Guilt And The Attempt To Atone In Mcewan’S Atonement And Hosseini’S The Kite Runner,
2011
English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad, India
The “Eternal Loop” Of Guilt And The Attempt To Atone In Mcewan’S Atonement And Hosseini’S The Kite Runner, Ananya Mishra
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of The United States’ Embargo On Cuban Health During The ‘Special Period’ And Beyond,
2010
Providence College
The Effects Of The United States’ Embargo On Cuban Health During The ‘Special Period’ And Beyond, Jenna Stroly
Global Studies Student Scholarship
No abstract provided.
