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Dialogue Between Confucius And Socrates: Norms Of Rhetorical Constructs In Their Dialogical Form And Dialogic Imagination., Bin Xie

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The present dissertation consists of six parts: an introduction, four chapters and a conclusion. It is intended to recapture the rhetorical norms governing the Confucian and Socratic dialogues--their voice of credibility, proto-scientific attitude, tragic consciousness, and use of irony--so as to demonstrate how rhetoric enables them to carry out their political, philosophical and epistemological pursuits; my research aims at the description of similarities and differences between Socrates's and Confucius's rhetorical methods, which are shaped by their respective historical and cultural contexts. Specifically, my major objectives are to foreground, in accordance with Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism, the significance of the …

A Study To Determine The Influence African-American Male Teachers Have On Improving Academic Success Among African-American Male 4th And 5th Grade Students At Jacox Elementary School, J. Frederick Braswell

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

In order to guide this study to determine the influence African-American male teachers have on improving academic success among African-American 4th and 5th grade students at Jacox Elementary School the following questions considered: 1. Do students at Jacox Elementary School perceive that there is a significant difference between African-American male students who have African-American male teachers? 2. Do African-American male students prefer teachers of the same ethnic group and gender? 3. Is there a significant difference between the number of African-American males suspended and placed in detention compared to the overall student body? 4. Does the number of African-American male …

Research In Mathematics Education: A Contemporary Perspective, Alistair Mcintosh (Ed.)

Research outputs pre 2011

The twelve chapters in this book-all but two written by researchers in Australian universities-provide ample evidence of the impressive contributions currently being made by Australia to research in mathematics education. The authors' fields of inquiry are diverse: they include discussion of the roles of language and imagery, problem posing and problem solving, students' beliefs and students' thinking, gambling and mental computation. T!1eir methodologies are no less diverse, incorporating descriptions of both quantitative and qualitative research projects, including action research in classrooms, theoretical perspectives and the development of theoretical models, reviews of research, surveys, clinical interviews and descriptions of new research …

Arts On The Edge Conference: 30 March - 3 April Perth 1998 Western Australia, Western Australian Academy Of Performing Arts

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

Health Aspects Of Native American Indians And Alaskan Natives, Beverly V. Bennett-Maine

Theses

This thesis will focus on the decline in health of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives in regards to chronic diseases due to changes in their food habits, customs, traditions, and culture.

The purpose of this study is to explore why Native Americans and Alaskans health has deteriorated in relation to diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and alcoholism.

Limitation in access to health care facilities includes geographic location, cul tural, and linguistic barriers.

The studies to be discussed include: the Inter-Tribal Heart Project (ITHP) for cardiovascular disease; the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) for self-reported risk factors; and the Navajo Health …

Products Liability Law Restated, David G. Owen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

"To Gloss Or Not To Gloss": An Investigation Of Reading Comprehension Online, Lara Lomicka

Faculty Publications

This pilot study investigated the effects of multimedia reading software on reading comprehension. Specifically, the study aimed to explore how multimedia annotations influence the level of comprehension. Twelve college students enrolled in a second semester French course were instructed to think aloud during the reading of text on the computer screen. Participants read the text under one of three conditions: full glossing, limited glossing, or no glossing. In addition, a tracker was set up in the software to record the amount and type of glosses, and length of time that each was consulted. The raw data clearly indicate an increase …

At The Crossroads Of Richmond And Gault: Addressing Media Access To Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings Through A Functional Analysis, Joshua M. Dalton

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Power Of International Law As Language, Dino Kritsiotis

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Transnational Technology And The Death Of The Other : An Essay About Khmers In Cyberspace, Tyrone Wayne Siren

Honors Capstones

Throughout this essay, I attempt to come to terms with anthropology as an human science. I look at it as both an empirical and theoretical discipline, discussing the role anthropology should play in an age of transnational culture and media technologies. First, I discuss contemporary theoretical anthropology, describing its philosophical motivations and associations-a topic that is all too neglected in anthropological theory, as if theoreticians are not in the social nexus and philosophical milieu of their time. I begin with hermeneutics and then describe the postmodern reaction to it. However, I critique the postmodernists for being even more arrogant than …

The Characteristics Of Learners Enrolled In Advanced Level Courses In Hebrew, Chinese, And Japanese At Brandeis University, Vardit Ringvald

Educational Studies Dissertations

Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of foreign language study in higher education in the United States are familiar with the phenomenon of declining numbers among learners in advanced foreign language courses. The studies that have examined this phenomenon such as Graman (1987) and Dupuy (1994) investigated the learners of so-called "easy" and commonly taught languages, such as French, German and Spanish and suggest that the learners' positive learning backgrounds outside the formal language program are the main factors that influence the learners' decision to continue their language study in the advanced level courses. This study offers new …

A Five Year Retrospective Study Of Tuberculosis At A Public Hospital In The Ecuadorian Highlands, Eric Gary Shmookler

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

The Meter Of Tohono O'Odham Songs, Colleen M. Fitzgerald

Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

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Mea Culpa: Formal Education And The Dis-Integrated World., Brian P. Coppola, Douglas S. Daniels

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Formal education has removed itself so far from any truly integrated view of the Natural World that fragmentation and certainty are prevailing ethics. Technological progress has resulted in increased specialization within academic disciplines and their concurrent separation from each other. Knowledge is extracted from a fully integrated world, but is examined and defined by the 'dis-integrated' objectives.

Rediscovering Fuller’S Legal Ethics, David Luban

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Lon Fuller is the greatest American philosopher to devote serious attention to the ethics of lawyers. Indeed, he is arguably the greatest philosopher since Plato to do so. I don't suggest that Fuller was a philosopher of Plato's magnitude, but it is not preposterous to mention Plato and Fuller in the same breath. Their unique affinity was that both were thinkers whose broader philosophical concerns may plausibly be said to arise from reflections on the craft of law. In Plato's case, the effort to understand forensic argument, and to analyze why opinions about justice might be persuasive without being true, …

Object-Oriented Programming And Parallelism, Atanas Radenski

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Initially, object-orientation and parallelism originated and developed as separate and relatively independent areas. During the last decade, however, more and more researchers were attracted by the benefits from a potential marriage of the two powerful paradigms. Numerous research projects and an increasing number of practical applications were aimed at different forms of amalgamation of parallelism with object-orientation. It has been realized that parallelism is a inherently needed enhancement for the traditional object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm, and that object orientation can add significant flexibility to the parallel programming paradigm.

The Lawyer's Left Hand: Nonanalytical Thought In The Practice Of Law, Graham B. Strong

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Fall And Rise Of Criminal Theory, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

These are good times – at least for the theory of criminal law. This special issue of Buffalo Criminal Law Review testifies to a remarkable surge of interest among younger scholars in perennial questions: Why should we punish offenders? Do we require a human act as a precondition for liability and what is its structure? What does it mean for someone to be guilty or culpable for committing an offense? How do we avoid contradictions in structuring the criteria of liability? The time has come for renewed intensity in pondering and discussing these basic issues.

The contributions of this symposium …

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff From January To December, 1998., Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 1998.

Engineering The Middle Classes: Class Line-Drawing In New Deal Hours Legislation, Deborah C. Malamud

Michigan Law Review

The likely readers of this Article work for a living, or are studying with the hope that they will work for a living very soon. Unlike many other workers in this society, they do not (and will not) get paid time-and-a-half for overtime. In this Article, I tell the story of how upper-level white-collar workers - people like the intended readers of this Article - came to be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act's general overtime rules. My purpose in telling this story is not to participate in the debate on whether the so-called "white-collar exemptions" to the Fair …

Resistance Is Futile: How Legal Writing Pedagogy Contributes To The Law's Marginalization Of Outsider Voices, Kathryn M. Stanchi

Scholarly Works

This Article will examine the ways in which legal writing pedagogy contributes to the marginalization of outsider voices in the law. In Part II, the Article explores the two reigning pedagogies of legal writing and describes the linguistic model used to gauge how teaching law as language marginalizes outsider voices. In Part III, the Article applies the linguistic model to explore specific examples of how legal writing pedagogy may contribute to the marginalization of certain groups by focusing on audience and socializing them into the culture and language of law. In Part IV, the Article considers various solutions, all of …

The Relationship Between Central Auditory Processing, Visual Processing And Learning Modalities In College Students, Sarah A. Seitz Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Acer 1997-1998, 68th Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

Contents: Valuing Educational Research, Research highlights, Benchmarking against the world, Social development, Indigenous education, Cambodia exams, Selecting tomorrow's doctors, Assessing reasoning skills, Celebrating language learning, Monitoring standards in education, Education index online

Correlates Of Early Reading Performance In A Transparent Orthography, Kurt Johann Muller

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Stylistic Analysis Of Pictographs And Petroglyphs In Hells Canyon, Robyn L. Johnson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Language Imperialism Versus Linguistic Rights: The Case Of Native Americans., Jonathan Woodruff Maffay

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

From the days of the Old Testament and Tower of Babel through the nineteenth century efforts to create artificial languages, the human race has longed for a universal language. Its purpose would be to bind the linguistically diverse people of the world into a cohesive whole. With English apparently well on its way to becoming just such a universal language, many people are now growing concerned at the prospect. For them English is an imperial language that threatens the world’s rich cultural and language complexity. Linguistic rights activists have now begun trying to counter this universalizing trend with language repair …

Too Many Secrets: Challenges To The Control Of Strong Crypto And The National Security Perspective, J. Terrence Stender

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Human Rights And Development: Using Advanced Technology To Promote Human Rights In Sub-Saharan Africa, Jennifer M. Myers

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Susanna And The Elders: A Note On The Regulation Of Families, Carol Weisbrod

Utah Law Review

The title of Robert Dahl's book, Who Governs, seems to capture the approach of many conversations on family governance. In an approach which parallels our dominant political theory, we focus on the question who, as an individual, governs, and ask how that power to govern can be better shared with others. Often the goal is equality in the family, at least as between adults, and when we consider this, we use a model of democratic political decision making. The focus is on individuals in a nuclear family. The approach is not new. It is the stance that John Stuart Mill …

Lone Star Liberal Musings On 'Eye For Eye" And The Death Penalty, Irene Merker Rosenberg, Lee A. Wright

Utah Law Review

Texas is number one. Since 1976, the year in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state's death penalty scheme, Texas has executed 167 persons, as compared to distant secondplace Virginia and third-place Florida, with a mere 61 and 43 persons, respectively, during the same period. Indeed, Texas's enthusiasm for the death penalty was highlighted by the recent case of Karla Faye Tucker, the first woman to be executed in the state since the Civil War-an execution that took place despite pleas of clemency from a wide spectrum of notables, including the Pope, the European Parliament, …