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The Role Of Theory And Policy In The Educational Treatment Of Language Minority Students: Competitive Structures In California, Tom T. Stritikus, Eugene Garcia Aug 2003

The Role Of Theory And Policy In The Educational Treatment Of Language Minority Students: Competitive Structures In California, Tom T. Stritikus, Eugene Garcia

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

… In this article, we examine the theoretical and policy-based positions currently competing to shape the nature of educational practice for language minority students. We highlight the salient theoretical differences between additive and subtractive conceptions for the education of language minority students and their policy- and practice-based implications. ...

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/26 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Aug 2003

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/26 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Role of theory and policy in the educational treatment of language minority students : competitive structures in California / Tom T. Stritikus [and] Eugene Garcia.

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 3, 2003, Barry Strassler Aug 2003

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 3, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2003

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The Old Testament Source Of Rev 21:3c, Helen Cadogan Aug 2003

The Old Testament Source Of Rev 21:3c, Helen Cadogan

Master of Art Theology Thesis

This paper intends an assessment of the textual form of Rev 21:3c as an OT reference; as such it may have something to contribute to the discussion commenced by Menken and continued by Schuchard on deciphering the form of the OT in the NT. Even though other aspects of Revelation study may be vital, the limitations of this research preclude more than the most cursory excursion, if any at all, into the ongoing dialogue on the use of the OT in the NT,language, style, authorship, unity, symbolism, the historical context of Revelation, or whether the author of the Gospel, the …

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Strike While The Irony Is Hot: Humorous Proverbs, Don Hauptman Aug 2003

Strike While The Irony Is Hot: Humorous Proverbs, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

One of my pet linguistic peeves is the widespread misuse of the adjective proverbial. Consider a recent example, from a magazine profile of a government whistleblower: "When she grabs hold of something, she is like the proverbial dog with a bone in its teeth." Of course, this expression is not a proverb; it's a metaphor or simile. Or, less charitably, a cliche or bromide.

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Shiftgrams: Spangled Wordplay, Richard Sabey Aug 2003

Shiftgrams: Spangled Wordplay, Richard Sabey

Word Ways

To form a shiftgram of a word, two operations are performed. First, it is enciphered using a shiftcipher, which replaces each letter by the letter n places further on in the alphabet. The result is then transposed to form a word. Howard Bergerson introduced shiftgrams in "Sea-changed Words" (WW 2.1969-24). In "Shiftgrams" (WW 2.1980-22). Tom Pulliam gave more examples and called the operation an n-shift.

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Colloquy Aug 2003

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 36 Issue 3 Aug 2003

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 36 Issue 3

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Lighter And Heavier, Susan Thorpe Aug 2003

Lighter And Heavier, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The weight of a word is determined by assigning A=1, B=2 through Z=26 and adding the letter values together. The density, or average letter value, of a word is found by dividing its weight by the number of letters in the word. Words with a low density are 'lightweight' words; those with a high density are 'heavyweight' words.

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Kickshaws, David Morice Aug 2003

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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Medical Flowers, Horticultural Ailments, William E. Brandt Jr. Aug 2003

Medical Flowers, Horticultural Ailments, William E. Brandt Jr.

Word Ways

Looking through a gardening magazine, I noticed that the names of some of the plants sounded like diseases. Conversely, many medical conditions sound like the names of flowers or plants.

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Dictionary Words, Leonard R. N. Ashley Aug 2003

Dictionary Words, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

Compiling a dictionary of a very many words that are not in the dictionary - mine is a dictionary of sexual slang - I naturally reflected on the words that do ordinarily get published. Most people say the average lexicons include too many useless "dictionary words" and by that they mean that you never hear or even read such words, that the words are only for lexicographers (and take up space in the lexicon that could better be used by words that are censored or squeezed out now although they are found in everyday use).

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Volume 1, Liberty University Aug 2003

Volume 1, Liberty University

Liberty Business Review

No abstract provided.

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The Influence Of Advertising On Child Raising Within The Family, Jerzy Kulaczkowski Aug 2003

The Influence Of Advertising On Child Raising Within The Family, Jerzy Kulaczkowski

The Linacre Quarterly

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The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies Aug 2003

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2003, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

LETTER UwiVfeRsnYoFTHfi Pacific, Stockton, CA- Volume 13, Number 4 Fall 2003! uir & his Reading Interests by Ronald Limbaugh (Editor's note: Ronald Limbaugh retired in 2000 after thirty-four years at the University of the Pacific, serving concurrently as director of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies and Rockwell Hunt Professor of California History) ven without considering his published works, John Muir's surviving journals and private correspondence demonstrate that he was a voluminous writer with unusual gifts. With his family and friends— and with himself— he carried on an effusive dialog, describing events, recalling anecdotes, lecturing and philosophizing, opening a …

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Importunate Permutation: Aphorstical Parochialist, Stuart Kidd Aug 2003

Importunate Permutation: Aphorstical Parochialist, Stuart Kidd

Word Ways

The title and appellation above illustrate the apposite felicity in felicitous apposition of transposals in sets. Anil, Richard Lederer and Susan Thorpe among others, have looked at this area either directly or tangentially in these pages in recent years. My purpose here is to present a robus but necessarily subjective presentation of many curious, delightful, absurd and otherwise interesting examples of the genre.

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Fibonacci Words Aug 2003

Fibonacci Words

Word Ways

In the November 2002 Kickshaws, Dave Morice introduced the idea of using the Fibonacci sequence to generate all 676 bigrams in fourteen closed loops. Ross Eckler in the current issue points out the lovely symmetry and underlying mathematics of the fascinating pattern Dave found. Dave also noted several words embedded in six of the loops, mostly three-letter words with three of four letters.

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The Speculation Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2003

The Speculation Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

The SPECULATION puzzle is an (11,3) word configuration using the eleven words OUI, PUN, UTE, COP, LOT, SIC, LIP, SAL, TAN, ACE, and SEN. The puzzle is to arrange the words on the eleven nodes of the graph so that every "line" of three (either on a straight line segment or on the eleven nodes of the graph) so that every "line" of three (either on a straight line segment or on an arc) contains three words with a single letter in common. See "Puzzles and Games on Word Configurations" in the November 2001 issue of Word Ways for details …

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Text With Each Word Used Just Once, A. Ross Eckler Aug 2003

Text With Each Word Used Just Once, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Doug Nufer's Never Again, a novel of approximately 40 thousand words, is by far the longest text in which no word is repeated. In the Feb 1995 Word Ways I published a two-hundred-word essay on this topic, using each word only once, and noted that H.J. Verschuyl had created a document of similar length in Dutch, reprinted in Battus's Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde (Querido, 1981). The longest-known accidental text is a 66-word window from Rudyard Kipling's "Brother Square-Toes" in Rewards and Fairies, reported by Mike Keith in the Nov 2002 Word Ways.

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Back Cover Aug 2003

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

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Hypersyllabic And Oligosyllabic Words, Hugo Brandt Corstius Aug 2003

Hypersyllabic And Oligosyllabic Words, Hugo Brandt Corstius

Word Ways

Syllables in Dutch words have an average length of three letters. When a word has 48 letters, like thoraxchirugenconcurrentieverhoudingencommissie, we expect it to have 16 syllables. But logophiles are not interested in averages, they long for extreme cases. How long, and how short, can a Dutch word of seven syllables be? The longest lemma in the Dictionary of the Nederlandic Language (1882-1999) is handboogschuttersmaatschappij (29 letters). It has the same number of syllables as the 12-letter word operationele.

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Singularly Imperfect Tautonyms, Susan Thorpe Aug 2003

Singularly Imperfect Tautonyms, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Singularly Imperfect Tautonyms (SITS for short) are what I call words like NIGHTLIGHT in which a single letter in the second half of the word differs from the letters in the corresponding position in the first half of the word. Thus a single letter prevents NIGHTLIGHT from being a tautonym (NIGHTNIGHT). The SIT MENDMENT is prevented by a single letter from being a tautonymic sequence, rather than a tautonym, MENDMEND not being a word. For the purpose of this article, I do not distinguish between these two types of SITS. As a genre, SITS are only to be found amongst …

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Number-Names Revisited, Rex Gooch Aug 2003

Number-Names Revisited, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

This revision upgrades one area of the original article, published on pages 83-90 of the May 2003 issue of Word Ways, and clarifies another area.

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600 Transposals Of Uk Place Names, Darryl Francis Aug 2003

600 Transposals Of Uk Place Names, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

The May 1990 issue of Word Ways carried an article of mine entitled "London Wordplay". This was an examination of transposals, transadditions, beheadments and a variety of other wordplay based on place names in and around London, England.

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Humans And Animals At The Divide: The Case Of Feral Children, H. Peter Steeves Aug 2003

Humans And Animals At The Divide: The Case Of Feral Children, H. Peter Steeves

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

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All The News That’S Fat To Print: The American "Obesity Epidemic" And The Media, Natalie Boero Aug 2003

All The News That’S Fat To Print: The American "Obesity Epidemic" And The Media, Natalie Boero

Faculty Publications, Sociology

Increasingly the term epidemic is being used to describe the current prevalence of fatness in the United States. Skyrocketing rates of obesity among all groups of Americans, particularly children, the poor, and minorities, have become a major public health concern. Indeed, it is difficult to open a newspaper or magazine without encountering a discussion of the expanding American waistline and the health problems associated therewith. In this paper I use 751 New York Times articles on obesity to examine the media construction of the obesity epidemic. I show that there is not one dominant discourse (i.e. medicine) constructing this epidemic, …

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Freedom Of Conscience In John H. Newman And Miguel De Unamuno, Kevin T. Fagan Aug 2003

Freedom Of Conscience In John H. Newman And Miguel De Unamuno, Kevin T. Fagan

World Languages and Cultures

Deals with the issue of freedom of conscience in two of its principal advocates in the modem English and Spanish-speaking worlds, John Henry Newman and Miguel de Unamuno. Seemingly strange bedfellows, in their respective linguistic communities Newman is considered an intellectual defender of institutional Christianity, while Unamuno is oft characterized as its greatest heretic. This dissertation is a comparative study of both writers from a historical-critical perspective. Our aim is to suggest that the heroic defenses of conscience by both Newman and Unamuno towards the end of their lives are a logical corollary to a succession of actions and writings …

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Vowel Tetragrams Revisited, Susan Thorpe Aug 2003

Vowel Tetragrams Revisited, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A Vowel Tetragram (VT) is a group of 4 vowels unbroken by any consonants. There are 625 different VTs (125 beginning with each of A, E, I, O, and U), ranging from AAA, AAAE through UUUO, UUU. Words which contain a VT can be called Vowel Tetragram Words (VTWs). Relatively few words in current everyday usage include a VT. AQUEOUS, QUEUE, ONOMATOPOEIA, COOEE, HAWAIIAN and SEQUOIA are perhaps the most familiar.

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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Isaiah 56-66, Curtis W. Fitzgerald Aug 2003

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Isaiah 56-66, Curtis W. Fitzgerald

Faculty Dissertations

This study examines the continuity and cohesiveness of the prophecies comprising Isaiah 56-66, or Third Isaiah (TI). The method used is rhetorical criticism, a discipline set forth by James Muilenburg in his address before the Society of Biblical Literature in 1968. Because of the doubts concerning the authenticity of some of the prophecies in TI, and skepticism from some scholars about an overall theme in TI, the need for studies of TI from a rhetorical perspective are warranted. Using the method initiated by Muilenburg and developed by many able scholars in recent years, this limited examination of TI from a …

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Child Placement And Mothering Ideologies: Images Of Mothers In Child Welfare, Nancy Colleen Freymond Aug 2003

Child Placement And Mothering Ideologies: Images Of Mothers In Child Welfare, Nancy Colleen Freymond

Partnerships for Children and Families Project

No abstract provided.

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