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Book Talk: Continuing To Rouse Minds And Hearts To Life, Cheri F. Triplett, Alisa Buchanan Nov 2005

Book Talk: Continuing To Rouse Minds And Hearts To Life, Cheri F. Triplett, Alisa Buchanan

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

During the spring of 2004, we conducted research exploring the emotions of struggling readers. Specifically we were interested in finding out how school contexts, curriculum, and relationships influence students' experiences of struggle. Students in this study were 14 first, second, and third graders identified for reading intervention at their school. As we analyzed data sources, including field notes, interviews with students and teachers, we concluded that the literacy activities that engaged these students cognitively, motivationally, and emotionally were the book discussions that took place in their reading classroom. However, book discussions were not a part of reading instruction in their …

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Peaks Island Star : November 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 11, Service Agencies Of The Island Nov 2005

Peaks Island Star : November 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 11, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2005

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

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From Silence To A Whisper To Active Participation: Using Literature Circles With Ell Students, Catherine Carrison, Gisela Ernst-Slavit Nov 2005

From Silence To A Whisper To Active Participation: Using Literature Circles With Ell Students, Catherine Carrison, Gisela Ernst-Slavit

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article discusses benefits of using literature circles with ELL students to strengthen literacy skills and student confidence. Highlighting one teacher's implementation of literature circles, the authors present a candid examination of areas of initial weakness and describe strategies used for improvements in subsequent "rounds." A discussion of specific student growth in oral communication, attitude toward reading and improved reading comprehension is included as well as lists of resources and strategies supporting effective literature circles.

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The Doctrine Of Robin Hood - A Note On "Substantive Consolidation", Sabin Willett Nov 2005

The Doctrine Of Robin Hood - A Note On "Substantive Consolidation", Sabin Willett

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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An Overview Of Central Dizin Phonology And Morphology, Marvin Dean Beachy Nov 2005

An Overview Of Central Dizin Phonology And Morphology, Marvin Dean Beachy

Linguistics & TESOL Theses - Archive

Dizin (Dizi) is an Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia with three main dialects. This thesis focuses on Central Dizin phonology and morphology, but includes some data from Eastern Dizin and Western Dizin. Prolonged language contact with Amharic has affected the sound system of Dizin and numerous Amharic words have been borrowed. Features of the Dizin sound system include glottalized consonants, syllabic nasals, lengthened vowels, three phonemic tone levels and contour tones. Western Dizin has phonemic retroflex consonants. The glottal stop is analyzed as phonemic word initially before nasals, but not phonemic elsewhere. Dizin is polysynthetic and more agglutinative than …

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Confronting Race In The Composition Classroom, Kay A. Mooy Nov 2005

Confronting Race In The Composition Classroom, Kay A. Mooy

Rhetoric and Composition PhD papers

My premise is that the resources and opportunities in a society are unequally distributed among individuals according to group membership (race, gender, class, sexual orientation, etc.). Social institutions systematically reproduce inequalities that favor the dominant group and oppress others. I discuss using feminist pedagogy and contact/conflict zones be used in different ways to free classrooms from the invisible hegemonic theory of whiteness, which underpins all we do in our classrooms. bell hooks says we need to have "transformative" pedagogy. This paper will include methods to transform that pedagogy. No education is politically neutral. I propose decentering Western civilization to recognize …

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Introduction To Gendering Modern Japanese History, Barbara Molony Nov 2005

Introduction To Gendering Modern Japanese History, Barbara Molony

History

Gender, as Joan Scott asserted in 1986, is a useful category of historical analysis.1 In the last quarter century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars. Gender analysis has suggested some important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories-that is, the dominant, often celebratory, tales of the successes of a nation and its leaders.2 These narratives, like all histories, are provisional and incomplete and, to varying degrees, reflect the changing material, discursive, and ideological contexts of their times.3 To mention just two of the fields of history that had …

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The Quest For Women's Rights In Turn-Of-The-Century Japan, Barbara Molony Nov 2005

The Quest For Women's Rights In Turn-Of-The-Century Japan, Barbara Molony

History

This chapter will discuss the goals of women's rights advocates and the meaning of their demands in the context of turn-of-the-century state and society formation. It examines women's rights discourses in late nineteenth-century periodicals, some of them directed to a female readership and some directed to a general, often male, audience. Sources include journals like Meiroku zasshi, Jogaku zasshi, Joken, Tokyo fujin kyofukai zasshi, and some regional publications. 25 Nineteenth-century advocates for women were, of course, of varying minds about the definition of “women’s rights,” but all agreed that women did not have rights at that time. Some argued for …

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Legal Education In Malaysia: Some Reflections, L.T. Khaw Nov 2005

Legal Education In Malaysia: Some Reflections, L.T. Khaw

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: Jonathan Steinberg, Why Switzerland?, Jurg K. Siegenthaler Nov 2005

Book Review: Jonathan Steinberg, Why Switzerland?, Jurg K. Siegenthaler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

"Any decent biography," a New York Times book reviewer recently remarked, "is a work of drama." Jonathan Steinberg's Why Switzerland? is truly a biography of Switzerland, and the story often has the substance of drama. Since the book has no subtitle, the author explains the three ways in which he is intending to answer the question "why." Why has a place such as Switzerland come about? Why should readers abroad care? And why should Switzerland continue to exist? "No country is more frequently visited but less known" (p. 4). What Steinberg manages to do very well is to provide answers …

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Legal Injustices: The Zina Hudood Ordinance Of Pakistan And Its Implications For Women, Rahat Imran Nov 2005

Legal Injustices: The Zina Hudood Ordinance Of Pakistan And Its Implications For Women, Rahat Imran

Journal of International Women's Studies

During recent decades the women of Pakistan have been the most vulnerable and convenient targets of social, domestic and sexual violence. This paper will examine the trend of sexual violence against women that emerged in Pakistan with the introduction of the Islamization process through the implementation of the Sharia laws since1979. The paper’s main focus will be on rape and the state legislation that governs it, namely the Zina Hudood Ordinance of 1979 and the Law of Evidence of 1984, and how the gender-discriminatory nature of these laws serves as a powerful weapon in the hands of the patriarchal society …

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Politics And Judgment, Suzanna Sherry Nov 2005

Politics And Judgment, Suzanna Sherry

Missouri Law Review

Two hundred years after its most famous invocation in Marbury v. Madison, judicial review has apparently lost its luster. Despite its global spread, it is in disrepute in its country of origin. The mainstream American academic attitude toward judicial review as practiced by the modem Supreme Court ranges from open hostility to a position similar to Winston Churchill's on democracy: It is the worst way to implement a Constitution, except for all the rest. In this essay, I want to explain the source of the hostility, defend judicial review against its critics, and make a few suggestions for improvement.

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Introduction: Un Cygne Noir, Peter Goodrich Nov 2005

Introduction: Un Cygne Noir, Peter Goodrich

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Europe, Or The Inheritance Of Responsibility, Rodolphe Gasché Nov 2005

Europe, Or The Inheritance Of Responsibility, Rodolphe Gasché

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Questioning Attitude: Questions About Derrida, Martin Stone Nov 2005

The Questioning Attitude: Questions About Derrida, Martin Stone

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Modeling Fuzzy Rules With Description Logics, Sudhir Agarwal, Pascal Hitzler Nov 2005

Modeling Fuzzy Rules With Description Logics, Sudhir Agarwal, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

In real application scenarios, input data and knowledge is often vague. Likewise, it is often the case that exact reasoning over data is impossible due to complex dependencies between input data and target outputs. For practical applications, however, good approximations often suffice, and efficient calculation of an approximate answer is often preferable over complex processing which may take a long time to come up with an exact answer. Fuzzy logic supports both features by providing fuzzy membership functions and fuzzy IF-THEN rule bases. In this paper, we show how fuzzy membership functions and fuzzy rules can be modeled by means …

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Davidson As Derridean: Analytic Philosophy As Deconstruction, Samuel Wheeler Nov 2005

Davidson As Derridean: Analytic Philosophy As Deconstruction, Samuel Wheeler

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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J.D., Peter Goodrich Nov 2005

J.D., Peter Goodrich

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Religious Situation In Contemporary Bulgaria, And In Serbia And Montenegro: Differences And Similarities, Nonka Bogomilova Nov 2005

The Religious Situation In Contemporary Bulgaria, And In Serbia And Montenegro: Differences And Similarities, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

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Introducing Discipline: Anthropology And Human Rights Administrations, Iris Jean-Klein, Annelise Riles Nov 2005

Introducing Discipline: Anthropology And Human Rights Administrations, Iris Jean-Klein, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Anthropologists engage human rights administrations with an implicit promise that our discipline has something unique to offer. The articles in this special issue turn questions about relevance and care so often heard in the context of debates about human rights outside in. They focus not on how anthropology can contribute to human rights activities, but on what anthropological encounters with human rights contribute to the development of our discipline. They ask, how exactly do we render the subject relevant to anthropology? Reflecting on some ways anthropologists in this field have dispensed care for their subjects, the authors highlight two modalities …

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Economic Globalization And Civil War, Katherine Barbieri, Rafael Reuveny Nov 2005

Economic Globalization And Civil War, Katherine Barbieri, Rafael Reuveny

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Brave New School: A Constitutional Argument Against State-Mandated Mental Health Assessments In Public Schools, Jennifer H. Gelman Nov 2005

Brave New School: A Constitutional Argument Against State-Mandated Mental Health Assessments In Public Schools, Jennifer H. Gelman

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This comment examines the constitutionality of emotional health assessments in public schools. Despite the Supreme Court's recognition nearly a century ago that parents have a right to control the education of their children, American courts have grown increasingly hostile to parental interests in conflicts between parent and school. The author explores the possibility that the Court's reaffirmation of parental rights in Troxel v. Granville (2003) could be invoked in certain cases to reverse that trend. It is argued, in particular, that parental objections to school involvement in emotional health determinations ought to merit some form of heightened scrutiny.

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Lawlessness Revealed: The Supreme Court's Man Of Liberty Transcends Tort Law, Nelson P. Miller Nov 2005

Lawlessness Revealed: The Supreme Court's Man Of Liberty Transcends Tort Law, Nelson P. Miller

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Rediscovering Subjectivity In Contracts: Adhesion And Unconscionability, Richard L. Barnes Nov 2005

Rediscovering Subjectivity In Contracts: Adhesion And Unconscionability, Richard L. Barnes

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Philip Melanchthon On Time And History In The Reformation , Timothy J. Wengert Nov 2005

Philip Melanchthon On Time And History In The Reformation , Timothy J. Wengert

Consensus

No abstract provided.

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Picturing Terror: Derrida's Autoimmunity, W. J. T. Mitchell Nov 2005

Picturing Terror: Derrida's Autoimmunity, W. J. T. Mitchell

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Rhetorical Context Of A Ged Preparatory Program, Kay A. Mooy Nov 2005

The Rhetorical Context Of A Ged Preparatory Program, Kay A. Mooy

Rhetoric and Composition PhD papers

Since rhetoricians believe that everything is rhetorical and I am a rhetorician, I wanted to look at the rhetoric involved in a program of GED training. The professional context or culture that I examined in this research project is a GED Preparatory Program at a large school district Community Learning Center in a Mexican-U.S. border town. What I found was that four categories or themes emerged from the interviews, observations, and documents that I examined. Three of the four themes are directly from classical and modern rhetoric, and the fourth, I contend is a result of the other three operating …

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University Reporter - Volume 10, Number 03 - November 2005 Nov 2005

University Reporter - Volume 10, Number 03 - November 2005

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about a UMass-sponsored debate on ethnic media issues related to the at-large Boston City Council race, Nursing faculty studies of motherhood, a talk by South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada, the establishment of the Urban Cultural History Center, and other news from UMass Boston.

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Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits Of Electoral And Spatial Integration In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan Nov 2005

Multiracialism Engineered: The Limits Of Electoral And Spatial Integration In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This paper examines Singapore's innovations in electoral and spatial integration. In examining the Group Representation Constituency and the Ethnic Integration Policy, a critique is made of the official discourse that multiracialism is internalized and entrenched in Singapore's political psyche and electoral process. While the electoral and spatial integration policies are driven by the objective of enhancing multiracialism, their actual workings do not adequately advance the development of norms and values that would be truly supportive of the need for a multiracial legislature and an abiding commitment to multiracialism. The layering of the electoral system with other political objectives, such as …

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Paradoxically, Derrida: For A Comparative Legal Studies, Pierre Legrand Nov 2005

Paradoxically, Derrida: For A Comparative Legal Studies, Pierre Legrand

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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