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Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins Jan 2006

Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is an important book if only for the reason that it will make many reconsider what they think they know about the Cherokees. Their early history, like that of any people, is obscured in the dimness of the past. While some of the early story may be reconstructed through surviving myth and modern theory, much uncertainty clouds origins and early migration patterns. After white contact and the chronicles and accounts of traders, missionaries, and adventurers are written, the veil isn't entirely lifted. Many written records pose more questions than they answer. For example, when the British first came upon …

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German Heritage And Culture In Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Thomas Austenfeld Jan 2006

German Heritage And Culture In Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Thomas Austenfeld

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Reid's discussion of the formal properties of Erdrich's work helps explain the author's popular appeal. Mewing easily between urban and rural settings, between reservation culture and mainstream culture, Erdrich has been evoking the various sets of social and historical circumstances that define the lives of contemporary Native Americans in the Great Plains. In The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003), Erdrich turns her attention explicitly to her own part-German ancestry and fictionalizes it, thereby bringing a n element of both thematic and autobiographical relevance into prominence.

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An Adventure On Pod's High Cs: Culture, Creativity, And Communication In The Academy: A Humanist Perspective, James Downey Jan 2006

An Adventure On Pod's High Cs: Culture, Creativity, And Communication In The Academy: A Humanist Perspective, James Downey

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Keynote address given at the November 2004 POD Conference in Montreal, Quebec.

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A Different Way To Approach The Future: Using Chaos Theory To Improve Planning, Marc Cutright Jan 2006

A Different Way To Approach The Future: Using Chaos Theory To Improve Planning, Marc Cutright

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Strategic planning is a good idea that gets a bad name from dubious efforts carrying the title. Much of this rap comes from half-hearted exercises, but some of it comes from efforts that founder due to faulty or limited conceptions of how the future “works.” Chaos theory is an alternative approach and metaphor with potential to let us see the future and its dynamics in new ways. Cognizance of chaos’s nature and underlying structure might help us do planning in new, nonintuitive, and more successful ways.

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Helping Faculty Learn To Teach Better And “Smarter” Through Sequenced Activities, Barbara J. Millis Jan 2006

Helping Faculty Learn To Teach Better And “Smarter” Through Sequenced Activities, Barbara J. Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty developers can help faculty learn to intentionally sequence assignments and activities to promote greater learning when they understand the convergent research—with its practical implications for teaching—on how people learn, on deep learning, and on cooperative learning. Such a sequence includes a motivating out-of-class assignment (homework), in-class “processing” that includes active learning and student interactions, and feedback and assessment, often given in multiple ways. This approach is modeled through two examples using graphic organizers.

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In Re Petition Of The Nebraska State Bar Association To Adopt Rules Of Professional Conduct Governing Attorneys, No. S-36-040001 (Neb. June 8, 2005): Changing The Rules—A Functional Analysis Of Nebraska's Newly Adopted Rules Of Professional Conduct, Joel Logsdon Wiegert Jan 2006

In Re Petition Of The Nebraska State Bar Association To Adopt Rules Of Professional Conduct Governing Attorneys, No. S-36-040001 (Neb. June 8, 2005): Changing The Rules—A Functional Analysis Of Nebraska's Newly Adopted Rules Of Professional Conduct, Joel Logsdon Wiegert

Nebraska Law Review

Regulation of lawyer conduct in the State of Nebraska. Upon the Nebraska Supreme Court's adoption of the Nebraska Rules of Professional Conduct ("Nebraska Rules") through its ruling on In re Petition of the Nebraska State Bar Association to Adopt Rules of Professional Conduct Governing Attorneys, the state shed its distinct position as one of only six jurisdictions not yet utilizing some form of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The new system represents the first complete revision of the professional ethical standards to which Nebraska lawyers are held accountable since the adoption of the Code of Professional Responsibility ("Nebraska …

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About The Authors, Volume 24 (2006) Jan 2006

About The Authors, Volume 24 (2006)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

About the editors and authors of volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

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“You’Re Not Typical Professors, Are You?”: Reflections On The Nchc Faculty Institute In Miami And The Everglades, Joy Ochs Jan 2006

“You’Re Not Typical Professors, Are You?”: Reflections On The Nchc Faculty Institute In Miami And The Everglades, Joy Ochs

Honors in Practice Online Archive

At the close of the NCHC Faculty Institute in Miami and the Everglades, our group went out for a celebratory dinner at a Cuban restaurant in Miami. Between the main course and the dessert, one of our group struck up a conversation with the young man selling flowers on the sidewalk outside. As we left the restaurant a short while later, knots of participants still locked in animated conversation, the flower vendor remarked, “You’re not typical professors, are you?”

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Exemplar, Winter 2006, Eastern Michigan University Jan 2006

Exemplar, Winter 2006, Eastern Michigan University

Alumni News: Eastern Magazine

No abstract provided.

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The Edge, Fall 2006, Eastern Michigan University Jan 2006

The Edge, Fall 2006, Eastern Michigan University

Alumni News: Eastern Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Focus Emu, March 7, 2006, Office Of Public Information Jan 2006

Focus Emu, March 7, 2006, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

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Colby College Catalogue 2006 - 2007, Colby College Jan 2006

Colby College Catalogue 2006 - 2007, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 2006 - August 2007

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The Human Rights Of Stateless Persons, David Weissbrodt, Clay Collins Jan 2006

The Human Rights Of Stateless Persons, David Weissbrodt, Clay Collins

Articles

By exploring statelessness through legal, theoretical, and practical lenses, this article presents a broad examination of the human rights of stateless persons. The article delineates the rights of stateless persons as enunciated in various human rights instruments; presents the mechanisms of, and paths to, statelessness; illustrates the practical struggles of stateless persons by highlighting the plights of various stateless populations; examines how the problem of statelessness is being addressed; and considers the complex political and regional forces affecting policies towards stateless persons. The article concludes with recommendations regarding remedies and solutions for statelessness.

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Raz, Authority, And Conceptual Analysis, Brian Bix Jan 2006

Raz, Authority, And Conceptual Analysis, Brian Bix

Articles

In "Authority: Revisiting the Service Conception," Joseph Raz reflects on his work on the nature of authority, defending much of what he has written on the subject, while offering some additional clarifications and modifications. I must leave to others a more direct assessment of Raz's views on authority, and the revisions he has suggested in this most recent paper. I will instead focus on some of the methodological considerations he discusses in this paper; in particular, I will compare and contrast Raz's discussion here about conceptual analysis and the concept of authority with his recent analyses of the conceptual analysis …

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Evolving Secondary Colours: Evidence From Sorbian, Andrew R. Hippisley, Ian Davies Jan 2006

Evolving Secondary Colours: Evidence From Sorbian, Andrew R. Hippisley, Ian Davies

Linguistics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Land Use And Housing Policies To Reduce Concentrated Poverty And Racial Segregation, Myron Orfield Jan 2006

Land Use And Housing Policies To Reduce Concentrated Poverty And Racial Segregation, Myron Orfield

Articles

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Treaty Interpretation After R. V. Marshall; R. V. Bernard, Mahmud Jamal Jan 2006

Treaty Interpretation After R. V. Marshall; R. V. Bernard, Mahmud Jamal

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

No abstract provided.

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The Silent Woolf: The Examination Of The Effects Of Silence By Gender, Shannon Ann Chisholm Jan 2006

The Silent Woolf: The Examination Of The Effects Of Silence By Gender, Shannon Ann Chisholm

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Virginia Woolf was tortured by limitations in her both life and writing. What modem critics now see as innovative and unique aspects of her style, she identified as flaws. Besides never being able to find a perfect balance between intellect and expression in her writing, Woolf also found limitations within language. Sue Roe explains that through her essays on silence, Woolf "expressed her sense that the English language was no longer equipped to suggest the nuances of emotional and psychological insight" (14). To her, modem English is not expansive enough to express the emotions that lingered inside the human soul.

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Diachronic Change In The Discourse Markers "Why" And "Say" In American English, Laurel Smith Stvan Jan 2006

Diachronic Change In The Discourse Markers "Why" And "Say" In American English, Laurel Smith Stvan

Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

Generational variation and contrasts in speech vs. writing are shown in usage of the discourse markers why and say across 20th century American English. Collocating with earlier 20th century address forms (e.g. say, pal rather then say, dude) these forms appear more dated than interjectional markers like oh, well, and so, Further, distinct subtypes of why and say show different frequencies across time. Using corpora of English from different eras, I present a diachronic description of these terms, and show evidence of new terms (e.g. hey and yo) taking over some of the functions that why and say once covered. …

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The Contingent Meaning Of -Ex Brand Names In English, Laurel Smith Stvan Jan 2006

The Contingent Meaning Of -Ex Brand Names In English, Laurel Smith Stvan

Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

The –ex string found in English product and company names (e.g., Kleenex, Timex and Virex), is investigated to discover whether this ending has consistent meaning across coined words and to observe any constraints on its attachment and interpretation. Seven hundred and ninety-three –exbrand name types were collected and examined, derived from American English texts in the Brown and Frown corpora as well as over 600 submissions to the US Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Electronic Search System database (TESS); American native English speakers were also surveyed to assess interpretations of –ex meaning in brands. Analysis of these coined terms reveals …

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Land Use And Housing Policies To Reduce Concentrated Poverty, Myron Orfield Jan 2006

Land Use And Housing Policies To Reduce Concentrated Poverty, Myron Orfield

Studies

This article, published in the Fordham Urban Law Journal, recommends that land use and housing policies be marshaled to reduce residential racial segregation and concentrated poverty. Such policies should be statewide, or at least regional, in scope. Isolated policies encourage leap-frog development that in turn promotes both sprawl and racial segregation. It also argues that state legislatures must adopt coordinated policy approaches, using Oregon’s comprehensive land use legislation as an example of policies that effectively promote affordable housing and decrease urban sprawl.

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Implicit Sources Of Bias In Employment Interview Judgments And Decisions., Sharon Segrest, Pamela L. Perrewe, Treena L. Gillespie, Bronston T. Mayes, Gerald R. Ferris Jan 2006

Implicit Sources Of Bias In Employment Interview Judgments And Decisions., Sharon Segrest, Pamela L. Perrewe, Treena L. Gillespie, Bronston T. Mayes, Gerald R. Ferris

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

This study empirically examined implicit sources of bias in employment interview judgments and decisions. We examined two ethnic cues, accent and name, as sources of bias that may trigger prejudicial attitudes and decisions. As predicted, there was an interaction between the applicant name and accent that affected participants' favorable judgments of applicant characteristics. The applicant with the ethnic name, speaking with an accent, was viewed less positively by interviewers than the ethnic named applicant without an accent and non-ethnic named applicants with and without an accent. Furthermore, modern ethnicity bias had a negative association with the favorable judgments of the …

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A Poetics Of Servant-Leadership, Nadine Chapman Jan 2006

A Poetics Of Servant-Leadership, Nadine Chapman

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

One day somebody "identified" me. Beside me, in the queue, there was a woman with blue lips. She had, of course, never heard of me; but she suddenly came out of that trance so common to us all and whispered in my ear (everybody spoke in whispers there): "Can you describe this?" And I said: "Yes, I can." And then something like the shadow of a smile crossed what had once been her face. -Akhmatova (1985, p. 87) Anna Akhmatova places her great elegiac poem, "Requiem," in the years of the Yezhov terror, during Stalin's purges, when she spent seventeen …

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Global Sociology And The Nature Of Rights, Turner Jan 2006

Global Sociology And The Nature Of Rights, Turner

Societies Without Borders

Citizenship is fundamentally a western political and legal concept; it is also a concept relevant specifically to a national polity. By contrast human rights have been, since their formal proclamation in 1948, promoted as universal rights. The relationship between the social rights of national citizenship and the human rights of the Declaration provides a useful case study in which to discover whether sociology can provide concepts and theories that function across conceptual boundaries and territorial borders. Furthermore, human rights discourse may prove to be the primary candidate for sociology to operate as an effective discourse of global social reality. However, …

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Constitutional Issues When Testing Students For Drug Use, A Special Exception, And Telltale Metaphors, Ronald T. Hyman Jan 2006

Constitutional Issues When Testing Students For Drug Use, A Special Exception, And Telltale Metaphors, Ronald T. Hyman

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

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Kinship And The Dynamics Of The House: Rediscovering Dualism In The Pueblo Past, Carrie Heitman, Stephen Plog Jan 2006

Kinship And The Dynamics Of The House: Rediscovering Dualism In The Pueblo Past, Carrie Heitman, Stephen Plog

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Temporal Scales And Archaeological Landscapes From The Eastern Desert Of Australia And Intermontane North America, Simon J. Holdaway, Luann Wandsnider Jan 2006

Temporal Scales And Archaeological Landscapes From The Eastern Desert Of Australia And Intermontane North America, Simon J. Holdaway, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Time gets much less attention than space in discussions of archaeological scale. This may seem strange in a primarily historical discipline for which the demonstration of human antiquity is something of a defining moment (Grayson, 1983). Part of the reason may lie in the nature of time. Time unfolds along a continuum, and the way observers perceive time depends on their location and the scales they adopt. Compare the contemporary Western experience of earth time, for example, with time at the scale of the universe. A person traveling at the speed of light would experience a different time (Hawking, 1998; …

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Beyond Manicheanism: Assessing The New Constitutionalism, Lisa Hilbink Jan 2006

Beyond Manicheanism: Assessing The New Constitutionalism, Lisa Hilbink

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Attorney General’S Annual Report To Congress On U.S. Government Activities To Combat Trafficking In Persons Fiscal Year 2005, U.S. Department Of Justice Jan 2006

Attorney General’S Annual Report To Congress On U.S. Government Activities To Combat Trafficking In Persons Fiscal Year 2005, U.S. Department Of Justice

Human Trafficking: Data and Documents

Trafficking in persons (“TIP”) is a regrettably widespread form of modern-day slavery. An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 human beings are trafficked across international borders each year. More than 80 percent of these victims are women and girls, and 70 percent of them are forced into sexual servitude. Furthermore, one estimate claims that between 14,500 and 17,500 victims may be trafficked into the United States each year, although that figure may be overstated. In response, the United States has led the world in the fight against this terrible crime.

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Trafficking In Persons: The U.S. And International Response, Francis T. Miko Jan 2006

Trafficking In Persons: The U.S. And International Response, Francis T. Miko

Human Trafficking: Data and Documents

Trafficking in people for prostitution and forced labor is one of the most prolific areas of international criminal activity and is of significant concern to the United States and the international community. The overwhelming majority of those trafficked are women and children. According to the most recent Department of State estimates, between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year. If trafficking within countries is included in the total world figures, official U.S. estimates are that 2 to 4 million people are trafficked annually. However, there are even higher estimates, ranging from 4 to 27 million for total …

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