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The Narrative Content Of Preschool Children's Drawing, Wendy Philippa Candy

Theses : Honours

The narrative content of preschool children's drawing is the focus of this study. The purpose of this study was to raise educators, preschool teachers and parents awareness of the narrative content of preschool children’s drawings and to alert them to how children of this age communicate through their drawings. A school with an operational pre-primary class was selected from the Northern Metropolitan education district of Perth. Twelve pre-school children were selected on the basis of their participation in drawing activities. The researcher observed the children at work over a period of eight sessions. A qualitative descriptive research method was used …

The Emergence Of Language Among Autonomous Agents, Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Michael N. Huhns

Faculty Publications

Suppose some autonomous shopbot agents had been representing us by dealing with a vendor's pricebot, and suppose they didn't share an agent communication language (ACL). What should they know at a fundamental level, what could each point to, and how could they establish a common language? Recent research at the University of Texas at Arlington has shown that agents first establish a common vocabulary, progress to a primitive language similar to human pidgin, then enrich the language's grammar to develop a creole, and eventually arrive at a full-blown ACL. During this process, the vocabulary and grammatical structures most important to …

Democratic Transitions And The Future Of Asylum Law, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

The United States's commitment to protecting refugees is dying a slow death. Two developments have contributed to its demise. The first, widely heralded, is the United States Congress's evisceration of procedural safeguards such as judicial review. The second development is more insidious: expansion of the asylum law doctrine, which holds that changed country conditions can defeat an otherwise valid asylum claim. In an age in which democracy seems triumphant throughout the world, the combination of severely curtailed judicial review and mechanical application of the changed conditions doctrine relegates refugees, as well as asylum law itself, to an uncertain future.' This …

A Supplemental But Not Equal: Reply To Dell'olio On Feminine Language For God, John W. Cooper

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Terminological Patterns And Genesis 38, Wilfred Warning

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Melanchthon In Europe: His Work And Influence Beyond Wittenberg [Review] / Edited By Karin Maag., Erwin R. Gane

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

The Letter To The Ephesians [Review] / Peter T. O'Brien., Carl P. Cosaert

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Metametascience Towards Reconciliation, John P. Kennedy

Honors Papers

The ideal of consilience - the inductive concurrence of seemingly disparate ways of thinking into a single, unified, all-encompassing intellectual system - or more simply put, "unified learning" - has been largely set aside since the rise of the industrial age and the championing of the industrious, better-be it individualized mind of the enlightenment. The Catholic Church was the last western world-dominant institution to actively perpetuate and work according to the rubric of a unified field of knowledge. Our thoughts and everything else were under God and indivisible: our ethics and our physics alike were the immaterial idea-stuff of the …

Am I A Woman In These Matters? Notes On Sinhala Nationalism And Gender In Sri Lanka, Jeanne Marecek

Psychology Faculty Works

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Space Invaders: Critical Geography, The Third World In International Law And Critical Race Theory, Keith Aoki

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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2000-2001 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

The Trigger Of Coverage For Cancer: When Does Genetic Mutation Become "Bodily Injury, Sickness, Or Disease"?, Donald T. Ramsey

Santa Clara Law Review

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The Empirical Shortcomings Of First Amendment Jurisprudence: A Historical Perspective On The Power Of Hate Speech, Alexander Tsesis

Santa Clara Law Review

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Speech Acts As A Focus Of Variation Studies: Aae Vs. Eae., Brian Jose

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Recent research in linguistics, and specifically within the field of applied linguistics, has been concerned with the different ways that speech acts are realized in different languages. This is so that language learners can learn to adequately conform to those norms in the target language. However, much of this research has assumed that all speakers of the relevant languages, such as American English, for example, are homogeneous, that they all perform the given speech acts in the same ways. I argue that this is an erroneous assumption: just as there is phonological variation, for example, between dialects of a language, …

2000-2001 Undergraduate Catalog, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Undergraduate Catalogs (Archived)

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(2000.4) Discovering Our Voice: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Geraldo', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp

Geraldo is a story about what an immigrant undergoes when he leaves one culture and tries to 'join' another culture. An immigrant suffers a triple disruption: he loses his sense of place, he enters into an alien language, and he finds himself surrounded by beings whose social behavior, norms and traditions are very unlike, and sometimes even offensive to his own. The explanation of the leading ideas in this manual help students and teachers explore the philosophical themes in Geraldo. The discussion plans, exercises, and activities are designed to foster and cultivate the process of philosophical dialogue in the classroom.

(2000) Concepts, Communities And The Tools Of Good Thinking, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

There is a strong connection, both pedagogic and conceptual, between the discipline of philosophy and the practice of thinking – or more precisely, the normative practice of good thinking. An understanding of this connection lends weight to the argument that philosophy needs to be a regular part of the educational landscape, not just for a tiny minority of college students, but for the overwhelming majority of school students – younger the better. Philosophical inquiry has three dimensions: an appropriate classroom environment (patterns of interaction), appropriate tools and strategies (specific cognitive and meta-cognitive moves), and content which is intriguing and accessible …

(2000) Thinking, Inquiry And Community: Teacher Perspectives On Philosophy For Children: Part Ii, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

This report is the second part of a longer Report into the state of Philosophy for Children in Australia gathered from data collected in 1994-5. It gives a picture of the early spread of P4C in this country and how teachers approached their task. The first part of the Report appears in the previous issue of Critical and Creative Thinking.

A Theory Of Claim Interpretation, Craig Allen Nard

Faculty Publications

This article explores the proper scope of judicial power in patent law by focusing on the Federal Circuit's theories of claim interpretation. A study of the court's claim interpretation jurisprudence reveals two schools of interpretation. I characterize these approaches as (1) hypertextualism, which is the predominant interpretative theory; and (2) pragmatic textualism, which is gradually asserting itself. The hypertextualist judge has an expansive view of judicial power, characterizing claim interpretation as a question of law subject to de novo review. This highly formalistic approach stresses textual fidelity and internal textual coherence, but eschews extrinsic evidence as an interpretive tool, portraying …

Convenient Shorthand: The Supreme Court And The Language Of State Sovereignty, Benjamin Priester, H. Jefferson Powell

Journal Publications

Recent Supreme Court decisions have dramatically underscored the significance of the states as vital entities within the United States constitutional system. The Court has repeatedly protected the states' political and legal integrity against congressional conscription' and federal court litigation. In addition, the Court has broadened the effective range of state autonomy through its revival of content-based limitations on the scope of Congress's delegated powers. This recent wave of federalism has generated opinions that often seem to turn on The problem with this principle of respect for state sovereignty is that its meaning is not self-evident. The states plainly are not …

The American 'Legal' Dilemma: Colorblind I/Colorblind Ii--The Rules Have Changed Again: A Semantic Apothegmatic Permutation, John C. Duncan Jr

Journal Publications

"Our Constitution is colorblind" initially meant that white majority preferences could not and should not be reflected in government action. The maxim now means race should not be reflected at all in government action. The answer to racism lies somewhere between well-reasoned "blind" hope and historically-proven skepticism. Part I of this Article discusses the ideal of the colorblind society; Part II discusses what this Article deems as Colorblind I. Part III places each colorblind argument in perspective, and seeks to illustrate that the concept of colorblindness could be an ideal, but has rather become meaningless rhetoric in an endless racial …

Oklahoma Constitutional Law: Highway Robbery: In Re Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Authority: The Eulogy For Oklahoma Constitutional Debt Limitations, Brian Edward Wheeler

Oklahoma Law Review

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Outing Hybridity: Polymorphism, Identity, And Desire In Monika Trent's Virgin Machine, Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

Monika Treut's 1988 film, Virgin Machine, offers a playful, self-ironizing look at the construction of sexual identities, utilizing the techniques specific to the filmic medium to create cuts and bridges between concepts, characters, and locations. In its portrayal of the passage and passages of the story's central character, Dorothe Muller, the film takes the viewer on a voyage of self-exploration and self-discovery that moves from one harbor city, Hamburg, and ends in another, San Francisco. The move between harbor cities carries associations of commerce and exchange, arrivals and departures, as well as the potential for import and export of …

"Adjectives Of Mystery And Splendor": Byron And Romantic Religiousity, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

I will suggest that had the history of Christian metaphysics taken a different course than the one it did, it is likely that Byron's considerable objections to religion would have been diminished by at least one. About the particulars of Christian theology, he had little to say, his writings suggest a general discomfort with particular aspects of Christian metaphysics as they had developed by the nineteenth century.

An analysis of Byron's metaphysical/religious misgivings might serve to clarify the nature of his discontent, clearly showing that his particular "heresy" is radically distinct from others of the "Satanic school." It might also …

Salvaging Amistad, Douglas O. Linder

Faculty Works

Moviemakers believe that history can be made more dramatic. They add and subtract characters, invent dialogue and scenes, make heroes more heroic, make villains more villainous, correct incorrectness, make ends happier, and turn shades of gray into black or white. They even tell lies-all in the interest of providing a good show, of course. Steven Spielberg, producer-director of the 1997 historical drama "Amistad," is no exception.

Whether Hollywood's reshaping of history is good or bad depends upon whether one believes it is more important to be thoroughly entertained or to have a clear sense of history. Right now, on this …

Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit

Faculty Works

As kids we called it having to use the old noodle: needing to think real hard about something that was real hard to think about. It was the kind of thinking that would cause your face to get all scrunched up, and if you didn't stop or if someone didn't stop you - it would eventually make your head hurt. The expression came from our families when we figured something out: that's using your old noodle, they'd tell us. The noodle we eventually understood to be our brains, which, we reckon, do look something like noodles, though we were quite …

Nt 662 Exegesis Of Philippians, Brian D. Russell

Syllabi

David Alan Black. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998 Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981.

Nt 500 Concise Greek, Mark J. Hatcher

Syllabi

Black, David Alan. It’s Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998). Cotterell, Peter and Max Turner. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation. (London: S.P.C.K.; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1989). Douglas, J.D., ed. The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament. (Wheaton, IL:Tyndale, 1993)

(2000) The Psychodynamics Of Community Of Inquiry And Educational Reform: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Pavel Lushyn, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

Community of inquiry is a ''whole" pedagogy, in that it recognizes the systemic nature of group process, the congruence of personal and social systems, and the identity-in-difference of thought and feeling, self and other, and individual and group. Above all it recognizes the fundamental urge-however tortuous and conflicted in its outworking-of both individual and social systems for self-actualizing transformation; for the chaotic passage to higher, both more inclusive and more diversified, levels of integration. In this regard it provides a deep-structural theory, not just for the democratic personality, but for democratic systems as well. It produces individuals who are capable …

1 Corinthians 7:10-16: Divorce Of The Unbeliever Or Reconclilation With The Unfaithful?, Ed Christian

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

No abstract provided.