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Towering Figures, Enigmas, And Responsive Communities In American Legal Ethics, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The first thing Niebuhr and Guttman are telling us to do is to look around and figure out what is going on around us. With that in mind, it has seemed to me that, at the simplest, a lawyer (or a journalist) functions in at least four communities, any one of which might be a community to talk about lawyers' moral questions in.

My inquiry, then, is an inquiry in communitarian legal ethics, using a Guttman-Niebuhr focus on responsibility. I infer a further question about communities of moral discernment—that is, not only where a modern lawyer is responsible but also …

Identifying The Maya Through A Study Of Their Theatrical Practices| A Textual And Contextual Dramaturgy Of The Mayan Cultural Performance Heritage, Ann C. Wright

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Influence Of Print Media Advertisements On Women, Heather N. Paluso

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Mind, Memory, And Motion| An Exploration Into The Art Of Personal Dance, Lu Anne Nelson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Reflections On Reform: Considering Legal Foundations For Peace And Prosperity In The Middle East, Hiram E. Chodosh

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

reflections on reform

Public Religion In Samson Raphael Hirsch And Samuel Hirsch's Interpretation Of Religious Symbolism, Ken Koltun-Fromm

Religion Faculty Scholarship

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Reconciling Loss Aversion And Guilty Pleas, Richard Birke

Utah Law Review

In the context of criminal law, a criminal defendant may choose to waive the right to trial because the defendant does not value objectively and appropriately the worth of a trial relative to the worth of a plea, or because the defendant lacks information to make an informed valuation. Until and unless a researcher's privilege comes to exist, one will have to speculate about why defendants are making bad choices, and accordingly, about the right way to fix the problem.

Using The Same Actor "Inference" In Employment Discrimination Cases, Anna Laurie Bryant, Richard A. Bales

Utah Law Review

The same actor inference provides a simple rationale for disposing of easy cases, and reduces in some small degree the legal burden that Title VII places on employers who hire minority employees. It does not, however, provide absolute proof that discrimination has not occurred. For this reason, in Burdine-type cases where the plaintiff's circumstantial evidence of discrimination is weak, courts should be free to apply the inference in summary judgment or directed verdict proceedings as part of the third step in the Burdine framework. The effect of the inference should be to hold the plaintiff to a slightly higher standard …

The Third Model Of Criminal Process: The Victim Participation Model, Douglas Evan Beloof

Utah Law Review

It is time to face the fact that the law now acknowledges the importance of victim participation in the criminal process. Thirty-one states have chiseled victims' rights into their respective constitutions. The federal government and the rest of the states have enacted numerous statutory rights for victims? An amendment to the United States Constitution providing civil rights for crime victims has been proposed& and is the topic of authors in this symposium. There are those who resist acknowledging the existence, genuine nature, and significance of victim participation laws. The state of denial that accompanies such resistance has stood in the …

Victim Standing, Susan Bandes

Utah Law Review

The most cynical conclusion regarding the judicial role in protecting victims' interests is that, for standing purposes, the only collective interest cognizable is the government's own definition of its own interests, which it buttresses when necessary by claiming to represent victims or society as a whole. There are less cynical conclusions as well. Federalism, separation of powers, and prosecutorial discretion all play important and legitimate roles, when properly defined and limited. We can debate what those limits ought to be. For the purposes of this conference, however, the question is not so much the judicial role, or even the prosecutorial …

The Crime Victims' Rights Amendment And Two Good And Perfect Things, Steven J. Twist

Utah Law Review

After years of struggle, we now know that the only way to make respect for the rights of crime victims "incorporated with the national sentiment" is to make these rights a part of the sovereign instrument of the whole people, the Constitution. The movement for constitutional rights for crime victims, properly understood, constitutes neither an attack on the rights of defendants, nor on the power of public prosecutors, but rather is a movement to save these two good and perfect things in the American justice system by tempering their excessive virtue with true balance. Indeed, this Amendment just might save …

Reply To Paul Cassell: What We Know About Victim Impact Statements, Susan Bandes

Utah Law Review

Cassell fails to offer empirical evidence that victim impact statements increase victim satisfaction with the criminal process. More important, he fails to address (and indeed conflates) the difficult issues raised by the separate question of whether the criminal sentencing hearing can or should be a forum for the healing of the friends and relatives of homicide victims.

Barbarians At The Gates? A Reply To The Critics Of The Victims' Rights Amendment, Paul G. Cassell

Utah Law Review

Until we have further analysis of the data, lack of firm proof that Payne increased the number of death penalty convictions should count heavily against Professor Bandes and others who argue against admitting victim impact statements because of their effects on juries.31 9 Allowing surviving family members to make impact statements clearly improves the perceived fairness of the process32° and we have no proof that juries have been influenced, let alone unfairly influenced.

The Violence Against Women Act And Contemporary Commerce Power: Principled Regulation And The Concerns Of Federalism, Parker Douglas

Utah Law Review

In confronting the issues raised by the current judicial assessments of VAWA, this Note has attempted to synthesize a workable Commerce Clause test from previous Commerce Clause jurisprudence, a test faithful to principles of federalism and one that courts may use to assess the constitutionality of statutes that regulate non-economic, intrastate activities. Ultimately, commerce power questions are largely political in nature and any attempt to fashion justiciably manageable standards of review of Commerce Clause questions must recognize and respond to this fact. With this in mind, this Note has argued that Commerce Clause jurisprudence should focus on the regulated activity's …

Dietary Interactions Influencing Feed Intake, Nutrient Utilisation And Appetite Regulation In The Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus Mykiss, Ahmet Adem Tekinay

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Dietary factors are one of the most significant considerations in the regulation of appetite in fish since dietary nutrient and energy concentration modulate feed intake in the short and longer term. These interactions may also be important from a commercial aspect, since the objective of aquaculture is to obtain maximum growth, feed efficiency and consumer acceptance of the product. This thesis addresses the major dietary components which are likely to influence appetite in rainbow trout. These include dietary lipid level, carbohydrate content and degree of complexity as well as energy density and protein/energy ratio. Experimental data is presented which examines …

Outdoor Play, Carolyn E. Althaus

Graduate Research Papers

This paper is a review of the literature relative to outdoor play practices in education. Benefits, as well as problems, associated with outdoor play practices were discussed. Guidelines for planning and implementing successful outdoor play practices were outlined and conclusions were drawn from the literature. Recommendations were made for future outdoor play programs.

Phonemic Awareness : An Action Research Study, Pamela Miller

Graduate Research Papers

This study addresses the issue of phonemic awareness instruction and its effects on reading. Benefits of reading programs that encompass phonemic awareness training and problems with approaches that do not encompass phonemic awareness were discussed as well as benefits and problems associated with both direct phonemic awareness instruction and indirect phonemic awareness instruction. An action research study using Scholastic Phonemic Awareness Kit was conducted and conclusions were drawn from the study and from the literature. Recommendations were made for future phonemic awareness training.

Value Of Self-Talk In An Early Childhood Setting, Althea Murphy

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this paper is to examine the self talk of the child and how it relates to the child's cognitive development. The views of Piaget and Vygotsky regarding self talk are compared. Development and varieties of self talk are examined. Factors that encourage and discourage self talk are discussed. The final chapter summarizes this study, draws conclusions from the literature, and this paper suggests guidelines for developing an effective program of self talk in the early childhood setting.

A History Of The Development And Implementation Of A Whole Language Curriculum In A Rural Iowa Middle School, Anthony M. Pieper

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this project was to examine the history of a whole language curriculum which was developed and implemented for grades five and six in a rural Iowa middle school and to discuss any insights gained from the process. This project presents a description of the whole language curriculum and a rationale for its development. It also explains the purpose of a whole language curriculum and its importance to students, teachers, administrators, and parents.

The project describes the procedures used by the middle school in the development and implementation of the curriculum. The project concludes with a description of …

Sexuality Education In The Schools : The Psycho-Social Development Of Relationships, Intimacy, And Sexuality In Children And Adolescents, Brian C. Poncy

Graduate Research Papers

This paper investigates the present state of sexuality education in the American school system. Within this examination, the paper looks to clarify several aspects of sexuality education in the United States. More specifically, the investigation seeks to identify current practices concerning the teaching of human sexuality, relationships, gender roles, and interpersonal communication. Further effort is given to understanding the roles played by the media, the community, the peer group, and the family within the intrapersonal, cognitive, and social-sexual development of the individual.

Reading In The Kindergarten, Christine E. Resch

Graduate Research Papers

This study examines the effectiveness of implementing a formal reading program in the Kindergarten. Past and present reading instruction methods were reviewed. Benefits, as well as problems, associated with such implementation and instruction were discussed and conclusions were drawn from the literature. Guidelines and recommendations for implementing various approaches to the teaching of reading in the Kindergarten were outlined.

Psychosomatic Symptoms In Patients With Alopecia Areata And Vitiligo, İbrahi̇m Kökçam, Nevzat Akyar, Yunus Saral, Nalan K. Oğuzhanoğlu

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Vitiligo and alopecia areata present an excellent opportunity to f ocus on the effect of impaired appearance on the lives of the persons with these diseases. Emotional stress has precipitated vitiligo and alopecia areata in some patients. Twenty-eight patients suffering from alopecia areata and vitiligo and twenty healthy persons at ages between ten and sixty underwent psychological tests of examination with special regard to verification of their psychiatric symptoms. The results were compared for all groups. The results revealed that depressive symptomatology in patients with vitiligo and alopecia areata was higher than in the control group (respectively, 55%, 36%, 15%). …

The Relationship Between Learning Style And Academic Achievement In A Classroom Utilizing The Learning Cycle Teaching Strategy, Linda Kay Graber

Graduate Research Papers

This study asked the question: Is the gain in student achievement, in a classroom using the learning cycle teaching strategy, together with Kolb's Learning Style Inventory, different among eighth grade science students in the four cognitive learning modes identified by Kolb?

The population for this study consisted of eighth grade students at Price Laboratory School on the Campus of the University of Northern Iowa, located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The study was a one-group pretest-posttest design in which gain in achievement was compared to learning style. Two student groups participated in a four week unit on the structure and function …

School Violence And Its Implications For Gifted Children, Nancy Schuldt

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this article is to review the research of school violence, the emotional needs of gifted and talented students, and the implications of school violence for gifted students. The violence which has occurred during the past two years in the United States, not only in the high schools but also the middle and elementary schools, has been widely publicized in current periodicals, television, radio and newspapers.

The questions I have addressed in this article include: What is violence? What is school violence? What does research say about the emotional needs of gifted students? What are the implications of …

The Ethics Of Intimate Student-Faculty Relationships, Brian Craig Steinberg

Graduate Research Papers

What are the ethics behind intimate student-faculty relationships in higher education? Should such relationships be allowed? Can they be legally controlled? Should there be a penalty for faculty and students who engage in these relationships? Consenting romantic and/or sexual relationships between faculty and student, or between student services professional and student, although usually not expressly forbidden, are generally deemed unwise (Cahn, 1986). According to Svinicki (1994), codes of ethics for most professional associations forbid "professional-client" sexual relationships. In an educational institution, the professor-student and student affairs professional-student relationships are thus such "professional-client" relationships. The respect and trust accorded a professor …

Health Services In Community Colleges: A Review Of National Programs And Needs, Joan M. Lang

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to review available research pertaining to the role of student health services on college campuses, particularly as it relates to community college campuses. In addition, the present study explored the importance of student health services on improving the current health care system, and described student health services on Iowa's fifteen community college campuses.

Bibliotherapy : Background, Application And Research, Carla Marie Eich

Graduate Research Papers

This paper examines bibliotherapy in several aspects. Bibliotherapy is using books to help with client's problems or for developmental adjustment and growth. Bibliotherapy has a long history, dating back to early man. However, it was not until this century that scholars began studying it further. In 1949, the process of bibliotherapy was developed which is discussed in this paper. Research support for bibliotherapy has been mixed and speculation as to why is also discussed. There are many limitations of bibliotherapy which are important to consider if a therapist is interested in bibliotherapy. This paper allows the critics of bibliotherapy to …

Treatment Strategies Used To Teach Adults Diagnosed With Mental Retardation Appropriate Interpersonal Skills, Laurie S. Youngblood

Graduate Research Papers

Currently, the care of individuals diagnosed with mental retardation is moving toward meeting their needs in the least restrictive environment. Mildly retarded individuals are being guided away from the custodial care of institutions to normalized apartment settings. This integration into the mainstream of society, which allows the retarded individuals to lead as normal a life as possible, is the goal of normalization process. An expected outcome of community living is that these individuals will have increased opportunities to meet people and develop relationships. Living and working in a more free environment is a great challenge for the individual with mental …

Examining How Presentation Technology Affects Communication Of Student Ideas, Barbara Besch

Graduate Research Papers

This research examines the impact of presentation technology and the effect it has on the way students communicate their ideas. Students have traditionally stood at the front of the room and talked about their research and findings. Technology offers new means in presenting student research. The class that will be participating in this study will have access to presentation software and the tools to use it effectively to create dynamic presentations. Before the process begins, students will be asked to evaluate their attitudes and feelings on presenting the results of research. They will then evaluate the overall quality of their …

Visions Of Iowa, Shirley J. Daman

Graduate Research Papers

It was the purpose of this research project to explore the significance of poetry and photography in the classroom. The research included locating and reviewing studies of poetry for children and the use of photography for illustration. It also included reading and analyzing poetry written for and by children, especially those using photography. Journal articles were reviewed for the many ways teachers can use poetry and photography across the curriculum. Students in grades 4, 5, and 6 were interviewed for their feelings and knowledge of poetry, and for their visions of Iowa. A book was produced containing poems and photographs …