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Black Musical Traditions And Copyright Law: Historical Tensions, Candace G. Hines

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Note begins with a discussion of copyright law and then examines Black musical traditions and how they have conflicted with American copyright law through the years. Part I explains the history of American copyright law and its theoretical underpinnings. Part II relates common Black musical traditions in more detail. Part III illustrates how the foundations of Black musical traditions can be found in Negro Spirituals. Part IV outlines the notion of Black music as it evolved in ragtime. Part V describes how copyright undermined the traditions of blues, jazz, and R&B. Part VI explains how rock 'n' roll's prominence …

"We Insist! Freedom Now": Does Contract Doctrine Have Anything Consitutional To Say?, Hila Keren

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article first exposes the detachment between contract doctrine and the scattered antidiscrimination norms and analyzes the harmful consequences of this detachment. It then creates an original meeting point between the two bodies of law, one of which is intentionally located within contract doctrine. This point is found by dismantling the dominant concept of "freedom OF contact", and especially by defining and establishing the freedom to make a contract.

Utpa Undergraduate Catalog 2005-2007, University Of Texas Pan American

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Utpa Graduate Catalog 2005-2007, University Of Texas Pan American

UTPA Archives - Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Tackling Talk : Teaching And Assessing Oral Language, Rhonda Oliver, Yvonne Haig, Judith Rochecouste

Research outputs pre 2011

Tackling Talk was a collaborative research project sponsored by several bodies: the English Teachers Association (ETA), the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA) through Quality Teacher Program funding and the Association of Independent Schools of WA (AISWA). A team of researchers from the Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Research (CALLR), Edith Cowan University, guided teachers from the public and independent sectors through an action research program involving online/ electronic materials, professional development sessions and personal mentoring. Some 49 teachers from 28 schools from both metropolitan and regional districts of Western Australia were involved in the project.

Cbd Economic Enhancement Project : Final Report, Beth Walker, Beverley Webster, Anna Wildy

Research outputs pre 2011

The City of J oondalup engaged the Small & Medium Enterprise Research Centre at Edith Cowan University to review the activities of the business community in the Central Business District (CBD) in order to support the City's strategic development plan. This report provides data to inform the future strategic decisions for the City concerning how it will grow and develop its CBD. The project aimed to identify the key indicators of current economic activity within the CBD, which could then be used to assist in the development of a more targeted approach to continuous growth and development strategies for the …

Cutting And Grabbing Simulation Of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy In Dekstop Environment / Die Hui Hui, Hui Hui Die

Student Works (2000-2009)

Virtual reality (VR) can be considered as the use of various computer graphics systems in combination with various displays and interface devices to provide the effect of immersion in an interactive three-dimensional computer-generated environment. The interaction between the user and the virtual environment is basically limited to the three sensory modalities of vision, tactile sensing and audio. VR has led to many researches for many years, to improve the technologies especially in medical surgical training simulation.The main objective of this research project is to develop a simple surgical training simulation on laparoscopic cholecystectomy by using the low end PC-based system. …

E-Sign: An Electronic Sign Language Dictionary (Letters A-M) / Lim Pek San, Pek San Lim

Student Works (2000-2009)

e-Sign Dictionary is an electronic sign language dictionary that focused on Malaysian Sign Language. It can be a good learning tool for the deaf community as well as the public in general. e-Sign Dictionary is a trilingual system with instruction in English, Malay and Chinese. Through this system, users will be able to learn not only the sign language of a particular word but also the meaning of the word in English, Malay and Chinese. The synonym and antonym of the word as well as examples of its usage in a sentence are also provided. This system provides three kinds …

Hospital Management Information System / Yuhana Ashikin Ghazali, Ghazali Yuhana Ashikin

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project is aimed to facilitate nurses with decision support feature and benefit the management of the hospital through increased speed or data manipulation, automated processing, essential report generation, and also good patient care services rendered using an efficient, reliable and new-friendly method of computerization to solve the shortcoming of drawbacks of the current systems used in hospitals in Malaysia today. This project, which focuses on research and development is developed using the latest most accepted technologies of today and hence would widely accepted by the hospital industry in Malaysia. The HMIS features automated workload assessment, defaulting charting respond, decision …

Drama Discovery: The Effect Of Dramatic Arts In Combination With Bibliotherapy On The Self-Efficacy Of Students With Emotional And/Or Behavioral Disabilities Regarding Their Understanding Of Their Own Exceptionalities, Michele Jacobs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of dramatic arts in combination with bibliotherapy, which is the use of literary sources to help people solve complex problems and find understanding about a topic (Sullivan and Strang, 2003). The Drama Discovery curriculum was piloted in a middle school classroom for eleven students with emotional/ behavioral disabilities and one student with delinquent behaviors at a small private alternative education school in Western Pennsylvania. Students with emotional/ behavioral disabilities often have low self-efficacy when it comes to explaining their own disabilities, coping with the label of having a disability, and …

Bringing Literature To Life For Sixth Grade "Reluctant Readers": A Collaborative, Participatory Study Using Theatre For Young Audiences Experiences To Address Aliteracy, Wayne Brinda

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the current disenchantment toward reading literature among adolescents, this study explored if an Artistic Director of a Theatre for Young Audiences could lead the transformation of aliterate, sixth grade "reluctant readers" into becoming engaged readers of literature? These students have the basic skills to read, but choose not to read for a variety of reasons. The study used the intervention of specific, collaborative theatrical strategies, which are alternative approaches to traditional middle school reading pedagogy. The strategies included rehearsal techniques, organizing small group "Production Teams," preparing for and experiencing a theatrical adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, and actively …

Imagining Europe: Carles Batlle's Combat (Landscape In The Aftermath), Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

At the end of Suite (1999), an award-winning play by Catalan dramatist Carles Batlle i Jordà, there is a memorable scene in which the spectators observe the collapse of a doll house upon the living room floor. It is a metaphor of domestic, as well as global, instability—not to mention, an ironic reference to Ibsen—in which the audience is left to wonder whether the character of Berta, confused and disoriented in the suite of an old hotel, will return to the mirage-like image of bourgeois European domesticity, to a home and marriage without foundations, or whether she will flee to …

Els Paisatges Del Teatre Català Contemporani: De Benet I Jornet A Cunillé, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Voldria començar amb Amèrica, i no pas amb Catalunya, amb un retrat del paisatge del desert de Jean Baudrillard, en el qual aquest intellectual francès ens ofereix una perspectiva poeticofilosòfica europea d'un vast territori pos diferenciat:

La grandeza de los desiertos consiste en ser, en su aridez, el negativo de la superficie terrestre y nuestros talantes civilizados. Son lugares donde los talantes y los fluidos se rarifican y las constelaciones descienden directamente. [...] El silencio del desierto también es visual. Lo conforma la extensión de la mirada que no encuentra sitio donde reflejarse. [...] El desierto es como una red …

An Investigation Of The Impact Of Visual Culture On Visual Arts Practice And Visual Arts Education, Robyn Roper

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This research project is based on the premise that school students have a right to an education that assists them to "develop a sense of personal meaning and identity, and be encouraged to reflect critically on the ways in which that occurs." (Curriculum Frameworks, 1998, Values, Statement 2.2 Personal meaning: 325). Not only should education offer students a sense of well being, it should make a difference to their lives and foster an appetite for life long learning. A key ingredient that makes for a rich, fulfilling and rewarding life, is an understanding of visual culture, that according to Freedman …

The Organ Music Of Robert Hebble (B.1934), John Paul Cappa

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this research project is to provide a stylistic and quasi-theoretical study of Robert Hebble's compositions for organ as a performer's guide. Hebble presently resides in Lake Worth, Florida. He is still composing, accepting commissions, writing articles, playing recitals, and giving workshops.;The organ music of Robert Hebble is a significant contribution to twentieth-century American organ literature. He has composed in various genres, from simple church service music to solo concert pieces. His organ compositions span his entire career and make use of a wide variety of techniques and styles.;Part I provides information about the composer's life. It discusses …

Connecting, Helen Walker, Louise Morgan, Amy Wink, Marcia Nell, Gergana Vitanova, Judy Huddleston

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Louise Morgan—Street Science: An English Teacher’s Introduction to Street Life.

Amy Wink—'In the Middle of Difficulty Lies Opportunity'— Albert Einstein

Marcia Nell—The New Partnership

Gergana Vitanova—Negotiating an Identity in Graduate School as a Second Language Speaker.

Judy Huddleston—A Cat in the Sun: Reflections on Teaching.

2005 Agricola, Arkansas Tech University

ATU Agricola Collection (Yearbooks)

This is the 2005 yearbook of Arkansas Tech University.

Wright State University Libraries Access Newsletter Winter 2005, Wright State University Libraries

Access Newsletter

A six page newsletter created by Wright State University Libraries that addresses the current affairs of the Libraries.

Abuse Of Public Use? Exploring The Smithkline V. Apotex Decision And The Future Of Public Use, 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 559 (2005), Artem N. Sokolov

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

In SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotx Corp., the court incorrectly applied the statutory public use bar and held the clinical trials did not constitute an experimental use. This ruling set the bar too high. Applying a narrow construction of the law, the CAFC invalidated a claim in a clear case of experimental use. The decision not only misapplied the precedent defining an “inherent” feature of the invention, but also essentially eliminated the need for applying the policies that underlie and define the public use bar under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).

Exthpress: Lesley University Expressive Therapy Newsletter, Fall 2005, Lesley College

Expressive Therapy Newsletters

Lesley Expressive Therapy Newsletter was first published in Fall 1996 as The Untitled News. From Fall 1997, it was called Expressions. In 2001, it became Expressive Therapy News, and by Spring 2003, it was renamed Exth Press.

Metaconversations: Ongoing Discussion About Teaching Research Writing, P. S. Mcmillen, E. Hill

Library Faculty Research

This article is a follow up to an earlier publication that developed the rationale for using conversation as a metaphor to teach research writing. We presented this proposed teaching approach at several conferences, including WILU in May 2005 at Guelph, Canada. The discussions with participants in these presentations validated the tenets of the conversational metaphor for research writing. Here we provide a description of the research activities in the presentations, the subsequent responses by participants, and our thoughts on these responses. This dialogue between participants and the authors/presenters constitutes the metaconversation about teaching research writing.

Inside Unlv, Erin O'Donnell

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

"Taras Bulba" By Leos Janacek: A *Transcription For Wind Symphony, Beth Anne Lynch Duerden

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This document provides a transcription for wind symphony of Taras Bulba: Rhapsody for Orchestra by Leos Janacek. A brief historical background of Leos Janacek is presented including the influence of Russophilism on many of his musical compositions. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's novella is comparatively placed alongside the programmatic storyline of the rhapsody of Taras Bulba upon which this piece is based. Within this framework, differing views of musical symbolism are elucidated. The defense of transcriptions, criteria for selection of pieces, and problems associated with the transcription process are examined along with the techniques utilized in the solution of said problems within …

Penny Stinkards And Proper Gentlemen: The Demographics Of London's Theatre Audiences, 1567--1642, Brook Adelaide Mcginnis

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Knowing one's audience is crucial to any theatre. How can the marketing staff target new patrons if they know nothing about their immediate audience? This quandary need not be limited to the present. Therefore, the thesis I propose is entitled "Penny Stinkards And Proper Gentlemen: The Demographics of London's Theatre Audiences 1567-1642." I have researched the different facets of Elizabethan life that may have played a factor in attendance. Rather than discussing whom Middleton, Kyd, and Shakespeare were writing for, I have discussed who may have actually attended. Whom one writes for and who ends up in the audience are …

Examining The Basis For Change In Clark County Non-Conforming Zone Change Process: Was It Needed?, Maria Kaseko

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study reviews Clark County's non-conforming zone change process from 1990 to 2002. A non-conforming zone change, sometimes known as a non-conforming zone boundary amendment is a proposed request that is not within the range of residential densities and/or non-residential intensities indicated on the applicable land use plan map, master plan, or concept plan. This research explores and examines two questions raised by the Clark County's new implementation plan, which was approved in April 2003 to amend the non-conforming zone change process. (1) Clark County assumed there was a public perception that non-conforming zone changes were being approved without regard …

"Cinq Etudes-Tableaux" By Serge Rachmaninoff Orchestrated By Ottorino Respighi: A *Transcription For Wind Orchestra With Accompanying Historical Context And Transcription Techniques, Zane Stephen Douglass

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This document includes a transcription of three of the five movements of Ottorino Respighi's transcription of Serge Rachmaninoff's piano work Cinq Etudes-Tableaux. An overview of the historical context of the work, and a detailed explanation of the techniques used in transcribing the work for wind orchestra are included. The three movements transcribed in this document are: 2. La Foire; 4. Marche Funebre; and 5. Marche.

Embodied Language Performance: Mediational Affordances Of Dramatic Activity For Second Language Learning, John Richard Haught

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This qualitative study examines the unique mediational affordances a drama based approach to second language learning provides. From the perspective of Sociocultural theory, the nature of learning is greatly determined by the mediational means employed and this study revealed the importance of modeling and imitation and multiple perspective taking that arose from the recursive process of rehearsal to be instrumental in the students' understanding and growing mastery of English. This recursion process occurs within instructional conversations which serve to level the relations of power between teacher and learner, resulting in a more authentic learning environment. In short, drama introduces alterity …

Unlv Magazine, Lori Bachand, Regina Barcolas, Barbara Cloud, Holly Ivy De Vore, Gian Galassi, Cayrn Key, Jennifer Robison, Gillian Silver, Jason Vaughan, John F. Gallagher, Cate Weeks, Diane Russell

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

2005 - 87th Annual Bible Lectureship, "Since You Have Been Risen With Christ", Abilene Christian University, Abilene Christianity University

Lectureship and Summit Programs

No abstract provided.

Quality And Harvesting Specifications Of Some Medicinal Plant Parts Set Up By Some Herbalists In The Eastern Region Of Ghana, Y. Ameyaw Et Al.

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in some districts namely, Akuapem North and South, Kwahu South and the Afram Plains of the Eastern Region of Ghana. The research was to investigate the quality standards and harvesting procedures of some medicinal plant parts used in herbal preparations by herbalists in the region. The results indicate that quality standards such as specified plant parts, size specification, quality specification, specified packaging, good storage to prevent dust, growth of mould and other foreign matter were strictly implemented as required by Herbalists or Traditional Medical Practitioners in the region.