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Taking Stock: Language Arts At The Beginning Of The Nineties, Sheila Fitzgerald

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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On The Importance Of Writing With Students, Greg Shafer

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Are Nouns Easier To Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies, Jane B. Childers, Michael Tomasello

Psychology Faculty Research

A current controversy in the study of word learning is whether it is conceptually easier to learn nouns as compared to verbs early in development. This chapter describes three experiments which address the noun-verb question in different ways. In the first experiment, researchers asked how many times (and on how many days) does a 2-year-old need to hear a word to be able to learn it, and does this differ for nouns and verbs? This second study investigates whether — when nouns and verbs are presented in comparable sentence contexts, controlling the number of exposures, and presenting a dynamic event …

Gesture, Pulsion, Grain: Barthes' Musical Semiology, Michael Szekely

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Although Barthes is perhaps best known as a semiotician, he is paradoxically always in search of precisely that which defies the constraints of language, whether art, signs or, in fact, language itself. Enter the relevance of music for Barthesian aesthetics. Barthes called for a "second semiology," in contrast to the classical semiology, which would explore "the body in a state of music." In this essay, I explore Barthes' musical semiology in terms of key concepts, including gesture, pulsion, grain, and jouissance. I extend the relevancy of Barthes' concepts, often articulated within the context of the Western classical musical tradition, to …

Wittgenstein And Haydn On Understanding Music, Yael Kaduri

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Wittgenstein's remarks about music have motivated philosophers to build a comprehensive picture of his philosophy of music, concentrating on the central issues of musical meaning. It is often claimed that, according to Wittgenstein, understanding music consist in grasping the internal relationships between musical events. Musical practice, however, is naturally saturated with what philosophers often call extra-musical meanings. The present study, by considering a musical issue in Haydn's instrumental music, attempts to show that musical language games in the Wittgensteinian sense involve explanations of music that enhance the listener's ability to understand music by broadening his musical competence. Nevertheless, constituting understanding …

Strategies For Combating Human Trafficking Within The United States, Canada And Mexico, Dorchen A. Leidholdt

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Remarks by Dorchen A. Leidholdt, Director of the Center for Battered Women's Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families, entitled "Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking within the United States, Canada and Mexico".

Reflections On An Aesthetics Of Touch, Smell And Taste, Mădălina Diaconu

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Modern aesthetics regards sight and hearing as the only senses which were able to produce art. Touch, smell and taste might offer pleasant stimuli, but can never achieve the status of art objects. What are the arguments for this rejection, and are they still sustainable? This paper focuses on the general and specific difficulties of forming an aesthetics of touch, smell and taste; some can be overcome, while others are still waiting for a proper answer. At the same time, artistic movements, as well as changes in recent discussions of the aesthetics of everyday life prove the necessity of extending …

Expression And Religion : The Making Of Mexico, Jessica I. Arvizu

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Child Care For Children With And Without Disabilities: The Provider, Observer, And Parent Perspectives, Lisa Knoche, Carla A. Peterson, Carolyn P. Edwards, Hyun-Joo Jeon

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

This three-phase study, part of a larger study conducted by the Midwest Child Care Research Consortium (MCCRC), investigated the characteristics of child care providers in inclusive and non-inclusive center-based classrooms and family child care homes, the observed quality of care in a subset of these programs, and families’ perceptions of quality and satisfaction with child care services. A telephone survey of 2022 randomly selected Midwestern providers, 36% of whom provided inclusive services, revealed that inclusive providers rated themselves higher on most quality-related indicators. Inclusion status was related to observed quality in family childcare homes (n = 132), with non-inclusive homes …

Does A Regional Accent Perturb Speech Processing?, C Floccia, J Goslin, F Girard, G Konopczynski

School of Psychology

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Resistance On The Imperial Terrain: Constructing A Counter-Empire In Paul Beatty’S The White Boy Shuffle, Brian Grosenbaugh

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle ostensibly proffers a new model for black leadership, a role filled by the protagonist, Gunnar Kaufman. Yet the cheeky tone with which Gunnar as frame narrator characterizes such a leader, likening his position as leader of black America to that of a Negro Demagogue and Ebon Pied Piper, immediately casts into doubt the ability of and desirability for a single person to represent such a wide spectrum of particular entities. Instead, what becomes clear is that such a reductive form of representation serves only to stifle the multivalent reality of postmodern life. As Gunnar …

How Still The Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense Of Naturalness, Jill M. Beauchesne

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Beauchesne, Jill, M.A., Autumn 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, Thoreau’s pond—these concepts have shaped literary beliefs and perceptions of natural landscapes as much as a writer’s individual haunts or favorite creatures. In a contemporary context, a writer steps down a long, wellworn path when he or she attempts to describe a bird taking flight or the way the sunlight feels at a certain time of afternoon. …

Place Of Invention| Writing Western Women, Rachel Toor

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Stitching Orality Into The Textual Quilt In Derek Walcott's Omeros, Judith Bledsoe

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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State Courts And The Interpretation Of Federal Statutes, Anthony J. Bellia Jr.

Journal Articles

Scholars have long debated the separation of powers question of what judicial power federal courts have under Article III of the Constitution in the enterprise of interpreting federal statutes. Specifically, scholars have debated whether, in light of Founding-era English and state court judicial practice, the judicial power of the United States should be understood as a power to interpret statutes dynamically or as faithful agents of Congress. This Article argues that the question of how courts should interpret federal statutes is one not only of separation of powers but of federalism as well. State courts have a vital and often …

Personalization For English Learners At A Small Conversion High School, Mary Jewell Edd

Dissertations

One of the most notable ways in which large, comprehensive high schools are working to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of English Language Learners (ELLs), and other students who may be struggling with academics, is by subdividing into smaller schools. One of the most appealing features of small schools is their emphasis on personalized instruction for students. While it takes many forms, personalizing education means knowing all students well and designing curriculum that meets their individual needs. Personalized learning environments hold enormous potential for improving the educational experiences, and even very lives, of English learners. The purpose of …

The Female Captivity Narrative: Blood, Water, And Orientalism, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

The story of how Europeans institutionalized, commodified, and controlled their anxious projections about Muslim "Others" is a long, complex, and ultimately tragic saga that the term "Orientalism" only partially conveys. Historians as well as literary, religious, political, and cultural critics have attempted for close to four hundred years to come to terms with the meaning of Islam and more broadly with the challenges that the Eastern world presents to the West. More importantly for the purposes of this essay, it is necessary to recognize that the binary model (Self/Other) adopted by Edward Said to define Orientalism has been challenged and …

The Benefits Of A For-Credit Course For New Writing Center Staff, Richard Benjamin Crosby

Faculty Publications

Some questions about writing center theory and praxis never seem to change: how do we prepare for our clientele? How do we engage them? What questions should we ask? When should we direct them? And when should we encourage them to direct us? The list goes on. Fortunately, we consider it a virtue that we continue interrogating the same issues. As students of rhetoric, we realize that the answers to these questions often depend on the contexts in which they are asked. Thus, we give ourselves over to principles of adaptability. Instead of establishing rigid, universal rules that do not …

Theories Of Creativity And The Saga Of Charlotte Brontë, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Negotiating Boundaries From Within: A Feminist-Psychodynamic Investigation Of Bulimia And Emotional Expression In Context, Deborah Pollack

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In light of research demonstrating that eating disordered women have difficulty recognizing and expressing emotions, this study began by critiquing the popular conclusion that bulimic behavior signifies an arrest at the separation-individuation phase of development. Since the prevalence of bulimia nervosa has increased dramatically in the past thirty years, socio-cultural factors must also play an important role. This investigation therefore attempted to illuminate how dominant cultural ideologies perpetuate stereotypic, gendered family structures, which in turn shape the intra-psychic and interpersonal psychodynamics of bulimic women.

This multifarious approach towards understanding the construction of bulimic subjectivity necessitated that the present study use …

The Phantom Philosophy? An Empirical Investigation Of Legal Interpretation, Jason J. Czarnezki, William K. Ford

Maryland Law Review

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Public Humiliation As A Mitigator In Criminal Sentencing, Barbara Benoliel

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study examined the relationship between the public humiliation and shaming of offenders in the sentencing portion of a criminal trial and the subsequent severity of the sentence the offender receives. Judicial moral shaming of offenders is returning to popularity in the courts, influencing the final sentence outcome as an under-identified mitigator, that substitutes for judges’ other punitive sanctions. Support for this shaming is found in Heider’s attribution theory and in Homans’ theory of social exchange; however Braithwaite found this form of shaming is overly punitive and ineffective. This four phase study used a sequential, mixed method, exploratory research design. …

Components Of Lay-Mobilizating Cultures And Systems, Tracy D. Hoskins

ATS Dissertations

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Toward A Contextualized Church In A Unified Korea/Corea: Exploring Resources In Wesleyan Theology And Eastern Philosophies, Ohoon Kwon

ATS Dissertations

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Robert Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy Study Guide, 2001-2006, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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David Kupelian: The Marketing Of Evil Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Harm De Blij: Why Geography Matters Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Russian Language Journal

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The Inevitability (And Desirability) Of Avoidance: A Response To Dean Kloppenberg, Melvyn R. Durchslag

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Northeastern Illinois University, 2006-2007 Academic Catalog, Northeastern Illinois University

Course Catalogs

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