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Uncharted Terrain: Maps Created For Military Purposes Also Possess Historical, 'Sthetic Richness, William E. Little

Civil War Book Review

During the Civil War, a map of good quality had the potential to make the difference between victory and defeat on the battlefield. Earl B. McElfresh's Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War brings together the War's most notable, interesting, and beautiful maps, some of which have never before ....

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Here comes one Civil War novel after another - and you wish something new would come along. Well, here it is: The Story of Don Miff, As Told by His Friend, John Bouche Whacker, A Symphony of Life, "edited" by Virginius Dabney. The title makes you think you know what you're in for but what you....

Annotations, Cwbr_Editor

Civil War Book Review

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Policy Directions For Second Stage Of Korean Banking Sector Restruturing, Asian Banker

Documents

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The Federal Reserve's Contingency Financing Plan For The Century Date Change, Evangeline Sophia Drossos, Spence Hilton

Documents

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Introduction: Symposium 2000: Water Rights And Watershed Management: Planning For The Future, Brian J. Perron, Sarah Richardson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Markets For Nature, Barton H. Thompson Jr.

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Choices And Institutions In Watershed Management, Jon Cannon

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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The Changing Political Landscape Of Hydropwer Project Relicensing, Sarah C. Richardson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Shall It Be Said That My Dusk Was In Truth My Dawn? What States Can Gleam From The Environmental Consequences Of Deregulating Electricity In California, Michael Kantro

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Restoring Polluted Waters With Public Values, Wendy E. Wagner

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Taking Nature Into Account: Observations About The Changing Role Of Analysis And Negotiation In Hydropower Relicensing, Kurt Stephenson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Remembering North Claiborne: Community And Place In Downtown New Orleans, Daniel Robert Samuels

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The construction of Interstate 10 on North Claiborne Avenue in the mid-1960s is seen by many in the historic downtown New Orleans neighborhoods of Treme and the Seventh Ward as a pivotal event in the life of their community. For many years, North Claiborne, with its broad, oak-lined median, had served as an anchor for the social, economic, and cultural life of this predominantly Creole and African American community.

The construction of Interstate 10 radically altered the physical character of North Claiborne. Many of the homes and businesses that lined the street were demolished to accommodate a series of access …

Y2000 Alcohol And Drug Survey: An Examination Of University Of North Dakota Students, Michael A. Seredycz

Theses and Dissertations

National and regional substance use studies suggest that college students are frequent users of alcohol, tobacco and drugs. This study examines substance use at UND, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods, examining the predictive power of Hirschi’s social control theory in response to collegiate substance use. This research will provide a profile of student activities and beliefs associated with use or non-use, as well as the prevalence of use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs.

Three focus groups were used to increase reliability and validity of the sample before a quantitative self-administered survey was administered to a convenient sample of students. …

Number 4, 2000, Palara Editors

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

Complete Issue

Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology: Against Promiscuous Modularity, David J. Buller, Valerie Gray Hardcastle

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Evolutionary psychologists claim that the mind contains “hundreds or thousands” of “genetically specified” modules, which are evolutionary adaptations for their cognitive functions. We argue that, while the adult human mind/brain typically contains a degree of modularization, its “modules” are neither genetically specified nor evolutionary adaptations. Rather, they result from the brain's developmental plasticity, which allows environmental task demands a large role in shaping the brain's information-processing structures. The brain's developmental plasticity is our fundamental psychological adaptation, and the “modules” that result from it are adaptive responses to local conditions, not past evolutionary environments. If different individuals share common environments, however, …

Heafey Headnotes, Vol. 11, No. 2, Santa Clara University - Heafey Law Library

Heafey Headnotes

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Westview: Vol. 20, Iss. 1 (Fall/Winter 2000)

Westview

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Mystery On The Docks, Bethany Marie Gruenenfelder

Honors Theses

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Inside Earth, Volume 3, No. 3, Winter 2000-2001, Dale L. Pate, Cave And Karst Program (U.S.)

Inside Earth

Contents: National Cave & Karst Research Institute -- Park Updates -- Contributors

Ride It Like A Tiger: The Poems Of Daisy Fried '89, Nathalie Anderson

English Literature Faculty Works

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I'M Sorry, I Can't Remember, John F. Fanselow

PASAA

Each time a person in a language class responds to a question with "I'm sorry, I forgot," the person is implying that language learning consists mainly of memorizing. The long lists of vocabulary items learners try to commit to memory also imply that memorizing is the key mental activity required in language learning. Questions in textbooks and on tests that ask for facts also send the message that learning and memorizing are equivalent. In fact, though we need to memorize some things, much of all of learning, including language learning, requires thinking: processing sounds we hear and symbols we see. …

Evaluation Of English Listening Proficiency Of Salc Users At Kmutt, Thailand, Charatdao Intratat

PASAA

It is widely accepted that a self-access center provides opportunities for the students to develop their English proficiency skills out of class. Even though a self-access center requires a large sum of budget and resources, its practical usefulness for language learners and its effect on the users' proficiency development have not been fully investigated. This preliminary study which was funded by KMUTT was a tentative attempt (1) to evaluate English listening proficiency of the KMUTT's Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) users, and (2) to investigate on the significance of the SALC's role in autonomous learning, particularly in developing English listening proficiency. …

Can The Communicative Approach Be Appropriate To Language Teaching?, Annabel Bhamani Kajornboon

PASAA

This paper is a reflective piece. Most ELT teachers are very devoted to their students, but most of the time they find themselves weary from teaching. Most teachers want to help and to improve their students' English; however, they are not sure how to do it. Hence, this paper explores some of the possibilities through the communicative approach. It makes an attempt to explain what this approach is and how it can be applied to the classroom; it looks both at its advantages and disadvantages.

Changing English, Linguistic Identity And Elt, John E. Joseph

PASAA

A crucial part of knowing a language is knowing how to interpret variation- what it means if someone uses one form rather than another to say the same thing. This paper examines four ongoing changes in spoken English, and what it means to be a user of the old form or the new one. We interpret the identity of the people with whom we speak based upon these minor differences, and we often assess the truth or validity of what they are saying based on our assessment. In this sense, the linguistic identity of speakers cannot be separated from the …

A Reflection On Team-Teaching In An Efl Classroom, Punchalee Wasanasomsithi

PASAA

Team-teaching is a versatile instructional approach that has been implemented in a variety of English language teaching and learning settings for different pedagogical and administrative purposes. Existing research claims that by extending the teaching competencies of teachers through group interaction and process sharing, the quality of instruction provided to the students can be improved. It is believed that this would, in turn, lead to promotion of not only the teaching but also the learning process. This paper reports on an experimental study in which the team-teaching technique was employed to teach a graduate English course at Chulalongkorn University. The students' …

I'M Sorry: A Cross-Cultural Exploration Of Apologizing, Michael Ziesing

PASAA

Probably no language function has been in the news more lately than the function of apologizing. Week after week, the famous as well as the infamous stand before the public and apologize or, in any case, receive demands for apologies. Hardly a week goes by without some apology or other making the news - often times even the front pages.

Using Cooperative Concept Mapping Skill To Teach Esl Reading, Hua Tang

PASAA

Reading is now recognized as an important source of input for second language acquisition (Dupuy, Tse & Cook 1996; Krashen, 1993). Traditionally, reading has been taught as information retrieval. Primarily, it is the decoding of individual words that requires ESL students to approach a text using a dictionary (Mangelsdorf 1998). Now, in the new century, how should we teach ESL reading? How should we improve ESL students' academic proficiency in English? Students of this generation, different from students of the past, are more drawn with visual images, TV, music videos etc, so we need techniques that encourage reading. Concept mapping, …

Tuition Discounting: A View From The Financial Aid Office, Kenneth E. Redd

Journal of Student Financial Aid

The total amount provided by postsecondary education institutions for institutional grants increased nearly 70% during the 1990s. Much of the additional funding was provided for merit scholarships and other non-need based grants. Increases in merit aid suggests that many more higher education institutions used their institutional aid dollars for strategic "tuition discounting" purposes, rather than meeting students' demonstrated financial need. Given the shift in institutional aid from need- to non-need based purposes, what role did financial aid administrators play in the distribution of institutional grants? How has the financial aid administrator's role changed? This article uses data from the 1996 …

College Students And Credit Cards: Cause For Concern?, Lisa A. Jamba-Joyner, Mary Howard-Hamilton, Helen Mamarchev

Journal of Student Financial Aid

The aggressive marketing of credit cards to students at colleges and universities continues to be an issue of concern to many in higher education. Educators and consumer groups are interested in knowing which groups of students are at risk for becoming payers with revolving accounts and high levels of debt. This study reports the results of a 1998 survey of 21 7 undergraduate students at a Southeastern university. The researchers found that revolving payers are more likely to be women, students of color, students with low socioeconomic status, and students with large numbers of cards. Additionally, men are more likely …