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A Meaning-Based Instruction To Enhance Literacy Learning In A Dual-Language Kindergarten Classroom, Megan Melissa Fife

Theses and Dissertations

Concerns among educators continue to grow with the increased enrollment of Second Language Learners (SLL) in classrooms throughout the United States. This influx has stressed the boundaries of current methods of literacy instruction, which are not designed to meet the needs of these at-risk students. Literacy instructional methods need to be remediated through early intervention, followed by effective literacy instruction that is designed to meet the specific needs of SLL. Effective literacy instruction overcomes differences in culture and background by using meaning-based instruction coupled with engaging and varied contexts. This study evaluated the effectiveness of incorporating meaning-based instructional activities into …

Documents From The March 11, 2006 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

ASUM Senate Documents, 1919-2007

Documents from the March 11, 2006 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM), including an agenda and meeting minutes.

The Focused Attention Of Others: A Conceptual And Normative Model Of Personal And Legal Privacy, Jeffery L. Johnson

ExpressO

The article defends an analysis of privacy as those areas of a person’s life where s/he is entitled to immunity from the illegitimate focused attention of others. It goes on to argue that such a model encompasses the concept of privacy in colloquial and legal contexts. The article concludes with an analysis of the normative value of privacy.

Course Description Booklet -- Women's And Gender Studies -- Summer And Fall 2006

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

Undergraduate and graduate courses offered through the Women's and Gender Studies Program. WIth descriptions and teaching faculty.

Professor Explores Impact Of Mary, Mother Of Jesus, On Medieval French Lyrics, Emilie Bramlett

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. ­ Writing a book about medieval lyric poetry taught one University of Mississippi professor an important lesson: He is in the right profession.

Reducing Uncertainty In Effects-Based Operations, Wilburn B. Mclamb

Theses and Dissertations

Known as the fog of war, uncertainty has been prevalent in the conduct of military operations throughout human history. Intelligence collection efforts are tasked to reduce this uncertainty through the collection of information. Utilizing Shannon's entropy as a measure of the expected information gain due to an intelligence collection effort, a methodology is developed to prioritize and allocate intelligence assets in an efficient manner. Incorporated in this methodology are target priority and the requirement to reassess dynamic targets. The application area for the methodology is Effects-Based Operations. A generalized state model is developed to conduct adversary system-of-systems analysis. This model …

The Freedom To Manifest Religious Belief: An Analysis Of The Neccesity Clauses Of The Iccpr And The Echr, Todd Parker

ExpressO

This paper examines Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Both documents affirm freedom of religion as a fundamental human right, yet both recognize the need for restrictions on freedom of religion when “necessary.” The paper discusses the text of Articles 18 and 9, as well as European Court of Human Rights and Human Rights Committee cases interpreting and applying the Articles. The paper then analyzes several current laws restricting religious freedom on necessity grounds as to whether the restrictions are legitimate or illegitimate under the …

The Futile Debate Over The Morality Of The Death Penalty, Daniel R. Williams

ExpressO

No abstract provided.

The Setonian, Spring 2006, Seton Hall University

2006

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session March 9, 2006, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the WMU Board of Trustees meeting include appendices:

• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Lease Renewal
• Conferring of Degrees

Voting Rights Act: Evidence Of Continued Need, Angelo N. Ancheta, United States House Of Representatives, Committee On The Judiciary

Faculty Publications

Ancheta's testimony, titled "Language Accommodation and the Right to Vote", begins on p. 2451.

Notes, Notas: A "Trilingual" Education In Words And Pictures, Whitney Dykhouse

Honors Theses

No abstract available.

Fuck, Christopher M. Fairman

ExpressO

This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education. The legal implications from the use of fuck vary greatly with the context. To fully understand the legal power of fuck, the nonlegal sources of its power are tapped. Drawing upon the research of etymologists, linguists, lexicographers, psychoanalysts, and other social scientists, the visceral reaction to fuck can be explained by cultural taboo. Fuck is a taboo …

The Expressive Impact Of Patents, Timothy R. Holbrook

ExpressO

Patents represent a quid pro quo between the public and the inventor: in exchange for disclosing the invention, the inventor receives the right to exclude others from practicing her invention. They therefore serve as a source technical information. Patents also communicate information to markets and companies that serve to reduce various transaction costs, allowing more efficient transactions and investment. Patents consequently communicate various types of information beyond the technical.

There is no reason, however, that such messages must be limited to the technical or the pecuniary. This Article explores whether patents, like other governmental acts such as legislation, can create …

The Bates Student - Volume 135 Number 17 - March 7, 2006, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Financial Aid Offices Move Nextdoor
• Campus News
• News
• Classifieds
• Sports

Galactic Stupidity And The Business Judgment Rule, David Rosenberg

ExpressO

The article examines whether the business judgment rule allows courts to review the substantive wisdom of decisions made by corporate directors. Although the conventional view among legal scholars is that the business judgment rule precludes such review, the article concludes that Delaware courts must sometimes examine the substance of directors’ decisions in order to determine whether those directors acted in good faith. Where the evidence shows that a director acted in a rational way (and therefore in good faith) in arriving at a decision, courts will not review the substance of that decision. However, where a director made a decision …

Mustang Daily, March 6, 2006

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Vol. 30, No. 10 (March 6, 2006)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

March 6, 2006 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

The Free Press Vol. 37, No. 16, 03-06-2006, Joseph R. Thompson

Free Press, The

SMR to stay off ballot and find new funding - Student dies in crash - Letters to the editor - Getting in tune with the new face of Gorham TV - Letter from the editor - 1,400 miles for a bite - Question of the week - Arts & Entertainment - Amusements - Classified Listings - Sports

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Speaker: Hip Hop Has a Role in the Classroom
• Oscars
• National News
• Opinion
• News
• Classifieds
• Sports

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, March 5, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2006

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, March 5, 2006, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2006

No abstract provided.

Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents: Reevaluating The Patent "Privilege" In Historical Context, Adam Mossoff

ExpressO

The conventional wisdom holds that American patents have always been grants of special monopoly privileges lacking any justification in natural rights philosophy, a belief based in oft-repeated citations to Thomas Jefferson's writings on patents. Using privilege as a fulcrum in its analysis, this Article reveals that the history of early American patent law has been widely misunderstood and misused. In canvassing primary historical sources, including political and legal treatises, Founders' writings, congressional reports, and long-forgotten court decisions, it explains how patent rights were defined and enforced under the social contract doctrine and labor theory of property of natural rights philosophy. …

The Legalization Of Fat: Law, Science, And The Construction Of A Moral Panic, Paul Campos

ExpressO

Over the past decade, American public health authorities have made increasingly alarming claims regarding how obesity is becoming the nation’s leading public health problem. These warnings have inspired a flurry of legislative, administrative, and judicial responses, and calls for further legal intervention are issuing constantly from obesity researchers and public health officials. This article surveys and critiques the sudden wave of attempts to use the American legal system to shrink the nation’s waistline The article demonstrates that the health risks associated with the populace’s fairly modest increasing average weight have been greatly exaggerated; that the causal links, if any, between …

On The Green Vol. 36 No. 9 March 3, 2006, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

How U.S. Audiences View Korean Films: A Case Study Of Oldboy, Sung Taik Cha

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Prior studies have shown that the information and cultural product flow is dominantly one direction from large/wealthy markets to smaller markets. Extending this position through the underlying research, it is expected that the audiences in the United States, one of the largest cultural product exporters, may have shaped certain perceptions on the scarcity of Korean films in their domestic film market. By studying the users in an internet film discussion community, this research aims to provide useful ideas about how American audiences perceive Korean films. This qualitative case study conducted a content analysis of the actual postings by the participants …

Washington University Record, March 3, 2006

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

A Prolegomena To Federal Statutory Interpretation: Identifying The Sources Of Interpretive Problems, James G. Christy

ExpressO

This article traces the problems encountered in interpreting statutes to twenty-nine distinct problems encountered in creating statutory rule systems. Specifically, given their purposes and other purposes the law is simultaneously pursuing, statutory rule systems inevitably emerge incomplete in a least sixteen types of ways and containing key words and phrases with meanings that are in part inappropriate in at least thirteen types of ways. Interpreting a statute includes completing its incomplete rule system and modifying the meanings of words and phrases to bring the statute into better allignment with underlying purposes. So understood, the process of interpreting statutes can add …