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Greater Miami Chamber Of Commerce "Guaranteed Results: Investing In The Front End Of Life" November 1, 2000, David Lawrence

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Listening To Silenced Voices: Examining Potential Liability Of State And Private Agencies For Child Support Enforcement Violations, Karen Gievers

Nova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Journal In Entirety

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

The Inner Game Of Teaching: What Is It And How Can It Make Us Better Teachers, Michael Schulist

Education | Print Theses

The inner lives of teachers was researched and studied. Three key questions were the focus: 1) What is a mental peak performance state in teaching? 2) What is the value of achieving this state? 3) How can teachers attain peak performance states? Peak performance states are described as “a higher mental state” where teachers are motivated intrinsically; in this state, they are described as being “undivided”, their ‘truest selves”. Research shows that teachers are more effective when they achieve peak performance states in the classroom. Self- awareness and development of positive thought patterns are necessary skills for achieving optimum mental …

Report, Tampa Bay Region, 2001 Economic Market Report, Usf Center For Economic Development Research

Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) Collection

This report, prepared by the Center for Economic Development Research at the University of South Florida for the Tampa Bay Partnership, provides a comprehensive analysis of the Tampa Bay region's economy. It includes data on workforce demographics, wages, business conditions, and education indicators. The report highlights the economic structure, key sectors, and growth patterns in the seven-county Tampa Bay region.

Journal, Tampa Bay Economy, Volume 2, No. 1, 2001, Usf Center For Economic Development Research

Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) Collection

This journal, prepared by the Center for Economic Development Research at the University of South Florida, provides a detailed analysis of the Tampa Bay economy as of Spring/Summer 2001. It covers regional economic and demographic trends, labor force statistics, and industrial comparisons. The journal highlights the economic structure, growth patterns, and key sectors contributing to the regional economy.

Monteverde Land Use Study: [Supporting Materials: Data], 2001, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

No abstract provided.

Theory And Research In Social Education, Volume 29, No. 3, Summer 2001, E. Wayne Ross

Theory and Research in Social Education

No abstract provided.

Projections For 2010 And 2020 [Population Studies For Monteverde: Supporting Materials: Data], 2001, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

In order to develop future scenarios for Monteverde and Cerro Plano, we developed a process to determine the number of structures we had to include in these scenarios and how many people were likely to live in the zone.

Cerro Plano Land Use Study: [Supporting Materials: Data], 2001, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

No abstract provided.

Farm-A Conservation Easement [Powerpoint], 2001, Christopher Graham

Monteverde Institute: Sustainable Design, Planning and Community Development

Final report for the Finca A easement project

Effects Of Reading Disability In Adolescents On Self-Concept And Future Expectations, Miriam I. Meyer

Open Access Dissertations

This study investigated whether reading problems affect adolescents' self-concept and examined adolescent opinions regarding the consequences of reading ability. Three groups of adolescents participated: 68 special education students (SE), 41 regular education poor readers (REP), and 164 regular education students (RE). Two surveys were administered to the participants, the Multidimensional Self Concept Scale (MSCS) and the Meyer Reading Opinion Survey (MROS), along with standardized measures of reading ability and intelligence.

Results indicated that on the MSCS, RE students had significantly higher academic self-concept than REP and SE students; differences were not noted between the latter two groups. RE students also …

The Speed Of Money: Investment As Consumption In Age Of Computer-Mediated Communication, Detlev Zwick

Open Access Dissertations

Using the tools of interpretive consumer research my dissertation explores individual online investing in stocks and mutual funds. Investing in the stock market means more to the individual than the pursuit of a rational financial strategy. Approaches to study investment behavior developed by disciplines such as finance and economics have produced subject-specific but from a marketing perspective empty knowledge. An analysis informed by marketing and consumer theories is able to construe investing as consuming and bring into being a richer and more contextualized description of the lived experience of online investing. Based on a hermeneutic reading of 30 in-depth one-on-one …

Genealogy Of A State-Engineered “Model Minority”: “Not Quite/Not White” South Asian Americans, Tayyab Mahmud

Faculty Articles

This is review essay based on Vijay Prashad, The Karma of Brown Folk (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2000). It engages the saga of immigration of South Asian to the United States. A primary focus is on the matrix of identity formation within the grammar of imperialism. It explores how modern regimes of power/knowledge constitute racialized subjects. The deployment of the "model minority" discourse is examined as it relates to South Asian Americans. Structures of power and strategies of resistance among South Asian Americans are highlighted and it is argued that building solidarities among all subordinated is the only viable …

I Know That I Taught Them How To Do That, Laurel Oates

Faculty Articles

Teachers have complained for years that students could not transfer their skills from one class to another, and employers have complained that the students could not apply the skills they learned in class to real world tasks. This article delves into the issues involved in students acquiring skills and the ability to transfer those to skills to similar tasks. The article describes the four steps involved in transfer identified by researchers: problem representation, search and retrieval, mapping, and application.

Acer 2000-2001 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Cycles Of Statutory Interpretation, Adrian Vermeule

University of Chicago Law Review

This Article advances an explanation of interpretive change--the fact that the Supreme Court frequently changes the nominal formulation of its rules for statutory interpretation, and to some degree changes its actual interpretive practice as well. The prevailing styles of explanation attribute interpretive change to exogenous shocks such as a change in the party composition of the legislature or a string of judicial appointments. The Article criticizes the exogenous explanatory style on methodological grounds, and advances an alternative model that attributes interpretive change to endogenous shifts in the expectations of actors in the interpretive system. In particular, the Article develops a …

The Case Against Retroactive Application Of The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Of 1976, Adam K. A. Mortara

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

How Free Is Florida's Public Education: An Examination Of School Fees In Florida's 67 Counties Public Secondary Schools, Lori Ronan-Khessali

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if Florida's public high schools provide a free education as defined by Florida's constitution. More specifically, the following issues were analyzed: (a) the extent to which Florida's 67 counties assess user fees in public high schools, (b) the extent to which user fees are represented as voluntary or mandatory, (c) categorization of the 67 counties with respect to consistency of user fees within and between districts, and (d) the relationship between the assessment of user fees location, per-capita income, and percentage of children on free/reduced lunch.

A descriptive survey research procedure …

The Effects Of Hamilton's Power Writing Strategy On The Writing Test Scores Of Fourth-Grade Hispanic And Haitian Esol Students, Ann Elizabeth Jackman

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The writing test scores of linguistically and culturally diverse students in Southeast Florida have been consistently lower than those of mainstream students. This quantitative, experimental study investigated the effects of the Power Writing (Hamilton, 1997) strategy on the writing test scores of fourth-grade Hispanic and Haitian ESOL students. Four null hypotheses were tested: (a) There is no significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental group. (b) There is no significant difference between the posttest scores of the experimental and control groups. (c) There is no significant difference between the scores of the Hispanic and Haitian students. …

Intent To Use: A Failed Experiment?, Amy B. Cohen

Faculty Scholarship

When Congress enacted the Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988 ("TLRA"), it made the first truly radical change in trademark law since the passage of the Lanham Act in 1946. By adding Section 1(b) to the Lanham Act allowing applications for federal trademark registration to be based on an intent to use the mark, Congress for the first time provided a way to apply for federal trademark registration before actual use of a trademark. Congress made this change to bring United States law into closer conformity with the practice elsewhere in the world where use is not a prerequisite to …

Modeling: Placing Persuasion In Context, Myra G. Orlen

Faculty Scholarship

The Author discusses the use of a contextual model to teach persuasion and its proven success in first year classes at Western New England College School of Law.

Has The Fog Cleared - Attorney Work Product And The Attorney-Client Privilege: Texas's Complete Transition Into Full Protection Of Attorney Work In The Corporate Context., Fred A. Simpson

St. Mary's Law Journal

The following discussion in this Article fills the gaps in the substantive rules surrounding the attorney work product doctrine and the attorney-client privilege, thereby encouraging practitioners to utilize these tools more freely. Initially, the attorney-client privilege contemplated application only to individuals. As the rule developed in the United States, however, the scope of the privilege broadened until it included corporations. Since 1982, Texas has provided for the attorney-client privilege in Texas Rule of Civil Evidence 503.149. Notably, the Rule defined client in such a way as to include a corporation. Unlike the attorney-client privilege, the work product doctrine developed much …

No Taxation Without Realization: Srivastava V. Commissioner, The Fifth Circuit's Answer To Tax Treatment Of Attorney's Fees Under A Contingency Fee Agreement., Bernard J. Grant Iii

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Jury Erosion: The Effects Of Robinson, Havner, & (And) Gammill On The Role Of Texas Juries., Ricky J. Poole, Kimberly S. Keller

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Attorney Referral For Medical Treatment: A Wolf In Disguise., Martin J. Phipps

St. Mary's Law Journal

Texas attorneys should be obligated to disclose whether they referred their client to a pre-selected physician. Plaintiff attorneys, however, have been allowed to withhold this information from the court arguing the information is privileged. The practice of using a pre-selected physician is unethical and unfairly prejudicial. If the attorney and physician have an agreement, the attorney is likely to send numerous clients to that specific physician in order to receive a discount. The physician in turn is likely to recommend medically unnecessary procedures in order to inflate money damages. Therefore, in order to prevent potential abuse between the attorney-physician relationship, …

Getting It Right From The Beginning: A Critical Examination Of Current Criminal Defense In Texas And Proposal For A Statewide Public Defender System., Rebecca Copeland

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Religion In Public Schools: Let Us Pray - Or Not., Carolyn Hanahan, David M. Feldman

St. Mary's Law Journal

This Essay addresses judicial interpretation and application of the religious protections of students in public schools. Part II addresses the evolution of the law governing prayer in public schools, including the creation of judicial tests utilized in determining whether a school district has impeded the rights of students in the area of religion. Part III examines the application of these tests to various activities, including a discussion of the disparity in judicial interpretation with respect to the permissibility of prayer at public school functions. This Essay concludes with a discussion analyzing the effect of the recent United States Supreme Court …

Those Dangerous Student Prayers., Kelly J. Coghlan

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Parental Rights In The Twenty-First Century: Parents As Full Partners In Education., Linda L. Schlueter

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.