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Early Childhood And Elementary Education (Ecel), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Early Childhood And Elementary Education (Ecel), Montclair State University

Course Descriptions

No abstract provided.

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Bahan-Bahan Tentang Islam Dalam Koleksi John Bastin, T.A. Denisova Jan 2009

Bahan-Bahan Tentang Islam Dalam Koleksi John Bastin, T.A. Denisova

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

John Bastin’s compilations contain a group of books about Malay’s history and culture. His collections consist of more than 3,000 books about history, archeology, economy, cultural, geography, and so on. From all his collections, only 13 books are related to Islam. That books are about the history of Islam in Malay archipelago, history of Islamic preaching, hajj and rituals in Islam, Islamic movement on 20th century and present, etc. Analysis to the John Bastin’s collection as a historiography source unity, is significant in knowledge tradition research and historiography in Malay Archipelago to clarify and deny prejudice as well as decrease …

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Review Of Hard Road West: History And Geology Along The Gold Rush Trail By Keith Heyer Meldahl, Harmon D. Maher Jr. Jan 2009

Review Of Hard Road West: History And Geology Along The Gold Rush Trail By Keith Heyer Meldahl, Harmon D. Maher Jr.

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

The dust jacket of Hard Road West promises familiar pleasures to John McPhee lovers, and so I picked the book up with great anticipation. McPhee’s works have greatly heightened the interest of writers and readers in the genre of creative nonfiction, and while for me, Keith Meldahl’s work does not quite reach McPhee’s stratospheric heights, for the right audience it is definitely a very good read.

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Tampa Public Mood Ring, Collaborative Project Jan 2009

Tampa Public Mood Ring, Collaborative Project

Dyson College- Seidenberg School of CSIS : Collaborative Projects and Presentations

This entry adheres to the use of the quad chart template to provide a succinct description only of the current research project undertaken by the participants. It provides for the following information

1. Participants and Affiliations
2. Overall Project Goals
3. Illustrative picture
4. Specific research/artistic/pedagogic foci

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Addressing Judicial Activism In The Indian Supreme Court: Towards An Evolved Debate, Madhav Khosla Jan 2009

Addressing Judicial Activism In The Indian Supreme Court: Towards An Evolved Debate, Madhav Khosla

UC Law SF International Law Review

The Indian Supreme Court has invited a great deal of interest for its alleged activism and the role that it has begun to play in Indian governance. Recent years have been witness to substantial debate on the Court's functioning, with scholars positing views and raising concerns with considerable passion. This paper analyzes the judicial activism discourse in the Indian Supreme Court by focusing on the contributions of Professor Upendra Baxi. It argues that, despite the attention the Court has received on the question of judicial activism, the debate in this area has, for the most part, failed to engage with …

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Excerpts Of Directory, University Of South Florida, 2009-2010, University Of South Florida Jan 2009

Excerpts Of Directory, University Of South Florida, 2009-2010, University Of South Florida

Excerpts of University Directories

The front cover and pages 136-143 of the 2009-2010 University of South Florida directory. The pages include phone numbers for the St. Petersburg campus.

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The Self Portrait: How Are We Doing In South Carolina?, 2009, Donna S. London Jan 2009

The Self Portrait: How Are We Doing In South Carolina?, 2009, Donna S. London

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Becoming Jane Jacobs First Draft 2009, Peter L. Laurence Jan 2009

Becoming Jane Jacobs First Draft 2009, Peter L. Laurence

Publications

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), did not like the term “urban design” and did not describe herself as an architectural critic, but contributed significantly to the development of American architectural criticism and the new field of urban design. Although relatively little is known about Jacobs’ intellectual development, her influences, and her early writing career, before Death and Life was published, Jacobs was already among the most influential critics of urban renewal in the country. The book was a culmination of many years of studying and writing about the city; of working …

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City, Sweet City: A Study Of The Implementation Of New Urbanism And The Public Process, David A. Banks Jan 2009

City, Sweet City: A Study Of The Implementation Of New Urbanism And The Public Process, David A. Banks

Theses & ETDs

In October of 2007 the city government of Sarasota, Florida embarked on a planning effort called the "Bayfront Connectivity Charrette." Employing New Urbanist design principles, the city employed a contractor to hold an intense four-day design studio. In those four days, hundreds of residents interacted with public officials, professionals, and other residents to come up with a plan for a more pedestrianfriendly US-41 corridor. Through direct observation, document analysis, and follow-up interviews, this thesis tracks the public decision-making process in downtown Sarasota, Florida and asks the general question, "What are the perceptions of individuals' roles in the process; and how …

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Sur La Route…Topographic Patronage And The Genealogy Of Location In Late Capetian France, Tracy Chapman Hamilton Jan 2009

Sur La Route…Topographic Patronage And The Genealogy Of Location In Late Capetian France, Tracy Chapman Hamilton

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

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"The Stance Of A Last Survivor": C. S. Lewis And The Modern World (Chapter One Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude), Gary L. Tandy Jan 2009

"The Stance Of A Last Survivor": C. S. Lewis And The Modern World (Chapter One Of The Rhetoric Of Certitude), Gary L. Tandy

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "As professor and scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature, C. S. Lewis wrote and published well-respected and influential literary criticism. At the same time, following his conversion to Christianity around 1930, he felt a duty to apply his argumentative and philosophical skills to the writing of Christian apologetics-defenses of traditional Christian principles against the attacks of skeptics and religious liberals. More important, Lewis lived in an age largely hostile to his attitudes and thought, both in literature and Christianity. In a period that s.aw such startling literary productions as The Waste Land and Ulysses, Lewis chose to defend traditional …

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Clemson Catalog, 2009-2010, Volume 84, Clemson University Jan 2009

Clemson Catalog, 2009-2010, Volume 84, Clemson University

Clemson Catalog (undergraduate announcements)

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Common Data Set, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University Jan 2009

Common Data Set, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Common data set

No abstract provided.

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Myth As Redemption In Three Canadian Novels, Elizabeth A. Crachiolo Jan 2009

Myth As Redemption In Three Canadian Novels, Elizabeth A. Crachiolo

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Doe Climate Change Research Program: Strategic Plan Jan 2009

Doe Climate Change Research Program: Strategic Plan

United States Department of Energy: Publications

Advance the forefront of climate change research to provide the nation with the scientific knowledge it needs about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on Earth's climate and biosphere to support effective energy and environmental decision making.

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Undergraduate Catalogue 2007-2009 Jan 2009

Undergraduate Catalogue 2007-2009

Tennessee State University Undergraduate Catalogues

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Reflections On Capital Punishment, Rob Warden Jan 2009

Reflections On Capital Punishment, Rob Warden

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

Authored by the Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, this powerful article reviews the many different arguments against the death penalty and uses a multitude of case discussions to show how the death penalty works, not in theory, but in practice. Some of these arguments include: the death penalty does not have a demonstrable deterrent effect; it costs more to maintain the system than to imprison murderers for life; many wrongfully condemned defendants have been saved by the serendipitous discovery of evidence not available during trial; innocent persons have been executed; the death penalty has been applied in …

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2009 Rowan County High School Yearbook, Rowan County High School (Morehead, Ky.) Jan 2009

2009 Rowan County High School Yearbook, Rowan County High School (Morehead, Ky.)

Yearbooks of Rowan County High Schools

The 2009 Rowan County High School Yearbook from Morehead, Kentucky.

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Constructing Rural Geographies In Publication, Verdie Craig, Matthew Kurtz Jan 2009

Constructing Rural Geographies In Publication, Verdie Craig, Matthew Kurtz

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The paper compares American and British scholarship in rural geography. It argues that, among other reasons for the difference in “rural geography” between the two countries, their distinct publication strategies offer insights for potential interventions. To sketch how the field has been differently construed on opposite sides of the Atlantic, the article first examines several sub-disciplinary literature reviews. It then adds a materialist account to a performative perspective of subdisciplinary formation by exploring how the publication industry helped shape distinct relationships between rural geography and theory. We suggest that rural geographers in the US might use new publication strategies to …

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Linking Highway Improvements To Changes In Land Use With Quasi-Experimental Research Design: A Better Forecasting Tool For Transportation Decision-Making, R. G. Funderburg, Hilary Nixon, M. G. Boarnet Jan 2009

Linking Highway Improvements To Changes In Land Use With Quasi-Experimental Research Design: A Better Forecasting Tool For Transportation Decision-Making, R. G. Funderburg, Hilary Nixon, M. G. Boarnet

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

An important issue for future improvement and extensions of highways will be the ability of projects to sustain challenges to Environmental Impact Statements based upon forecasts of regional growth. A legal precedent for such challenges was established in 1997 when a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the EIS for a proposed Illinois toll road was deficient because the growth projections were the same in the build and no-build scenarios. This paper incorporates popular regional growth forecasting models into a quasi-experimental research design that directly relates new highway investments in three California counties to changes in population and employment location, …

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Pass A Law, Any Law, Fast! State Legislative Responses To The Kelo Backlash, Edward J. Lopez, R. Todd Jewell, Noel D. Campbell Jan 2009

Pass A Law, Any Law, Fast! State Legislative Responses To The Kelo Backlash, Edward J. Lopez, R. Todd Jewell, Noel D. Campbell

Faculty Publications

The Supreme Court in Kelo v. City of New London left protection of property against takings for economic development to the states. Since Kelo, thirty-seven states have enacted legislation to update their eminent domain laws. This paper is the first to theoretically and empirically analyze the factors that influence whether, in what manner, and how quickly states change their laws through new legislation. Fourteen of the thirty-seven new laws offer only weak protections against development takings. The legislative response to Kelo was responsive to measures of the backlash but only in the binary decision whether to pass any new law. …

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Women, Peace And (In)Security? Rape, Armed Conflict And United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 A Cross-Comparative Analysis, Tierney Elison Jan 2009

Women, Peace And (In)Security? Rape, Armed Conflict And United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 A Cross-Comparative Analysis, Tierney Elison

Theses & ETDs

Sexual and gender-based violence has been used as a systematic weapon of war, political violence, terror, and even genocide across geography and time. Yet, only recently have rape and other forms of sexual violence been addressed as deliberate strategies of war and repression in international humanitarian and human rights law. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in 2000, was hailed as a watershed achievement in the incorporation of gender analysis into the emergent human security paradigm. This thesis examines the resolution's ability to redress the gender-specific insecurities of women and girls in armed conflict, particularly mass rape and sexual …

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Autres Realites: Trois Romans De La Diaspora Haitienne, Anne-Laure Grignon Jan 2009

Autres Realites: Trois Romans De La Diaspora Haitienne, Anne-Laure Grignon

Theses & ETDs

Cette thèse est une étude de l’utilisation du surnaturel, de son rôle et sa symbolique, dans trois romans de la diaspora haïtienne. Les trois auteurs ont choisi la stratégie du détour : parler d’Haïti sans le faire explicitement en utilisant le surnaturel comme métaphore du contexte historique haïtien. Derrière cette méthode se trouve aussi le désir de ne pas simplement focaliser sur Haïti, mais de replacer la culture, l’histoire, et la situation socio-économique du pays dans un contexte international. René Depestre avec Hadriana dans tous mes rêves, utilise le vaudou et le refus de la zombification pour souligner la rébellion …

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Representations Of Women In The Work Of Gustave Flaubert And Leo Tolstoy, Jillian Horowitz Jan 2009

Representations Of Women In The Work Of Gustave Flaubert And Leo Tolstoy, Jillian Horowitz

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines works by two recognized masters of Realist fiction, Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy, in light of contemporary feminist theories. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to examine both the canonical novels and lesser-known short stories of these Realist writers and to consider a range of feminist approaches to literature. The first chapter reads Flaubert's short story "A Simple Heart" ("Un Coeur Simple") (1877) in conjunction with Gayatri C. Spivak and post-colonial, post-modernist theory. The second chapter examines Leo Tolstoy's novella "Family Happiness" (1859) through the lens of ecofeminism, using Sherry B. Ortner's essay "Is Female to …

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The 1.5 Generation Of The Bosnian Diaspora, Jennifer H. Lelaurin Jan 2009

The 1.5 Generation Of The Bosnian Diaspora, Jennifer H. Lelaurin

Theses & ETDs

Many immigrant and refugee studies address issues related to the 1st and 2nd generations of immigrants without accounting for individuals who migrate as children, known as the 1.5 generation. This thesis explores the topics of acculturation, identity, ethnic enclaves and family dynamics in relation to the 1.5 generation through semi-structured interviews with three female 1.5 generation Bosnian refugees living in St. Louis, Missouri. The research presented in this study suggests that members of the 1.5 generation may have acculturation experiences, identity formation processes, and outcomes distinct from the 1st and 2nd generations of immigrants. Analysis of this case study, in …

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Striking The State Apparatus Through Indigenous Mobilization: A Comparative Analysis Of Central Andean Movements In Ecuador, Bolivia, And Peru, Serena Simone Jones Jan 2009

Striking The State Apparatus Through Indigenous Mobilization: A Comparative Analysis Of Central Andean Movements In Ecuador, Bolivia, And Peru, Serena Simone Jones

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is a comparative study of the central Andean indigenous movements' rise as dynamic collective actors at the turn of the 21st century. To understand variances in these movements and how they emerged, a most similar systems design study was conducted. Under this method some historical and cultural factors were held constant while four independent factors were observed: the degree of openness in a political system, the presence of influential allies, framing of the movements' demands, and a movements' organizational structure. My findings revealed that these factors accounted for Ecuador's and Bolivia's indigenous movements' rise as collective actors able …

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Origins And Applications Of The Conch Republic: Key West, Florida, David Weinberg Jan 2009

Origins And Applications Of The Conch Republic: Key West, Florida, David Weinberg

Theses & ETDs

In 1982, Key West seceded from the United States of America as an act of protest against the Federal Government, forming the Conch Republic. To this day, residents of the island maintain they hold a dual citizenship, both American and Conch. The motivation and inspiration for this unique form of protest can be found in the island's history and culture. From the island's initial settlement in 1819, the residents of Key West considered their island as fundamentally different from the United States. By extension, they viewed themselves as fundamentally different from the rest of the American population. The island's culture …

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The Irreligious American: Italian Immigrants In Ybor City, Florida, Madeline Edison Jan 2009

The Irreligious American: Italian Immigrants In Ybor City, Florida, Madeline Edison

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is a sociological examination of Italian immigrant communities in Ybor City, Florida and New Orleans, Louisiana between 1895 and 1920. The primary theorists used are Will Herberg and R. Stephen Warner. Examining Herberg and Warner's theory that to become American is to become religious in a public sphere, Ybor City, Florida is shown to be one location in which this theory is not applicable. Using records from the archdiocese in New Orleans, Louisiana and research performed by Gary Mormino, the conclusion is made that New Orleans fits Herberg and Warner's sociological theories, while Ybor City does not. The …

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The Political Economy Of Development In South Korea, Geoffrey Gordon Jan 2009

The Political Economy Of Development In South Korea, Geoffrey Gordon

Theses & ETDs

A common explanation for South Korea's vulnerability to contagion in the East Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-98 has been the close relationship between business elites and the government – so-called “crony capitalism.” Since the crisis, a number of scholars have sought to revise the history of development in South Korea, attempting to explain how corruption could exist alongside development. They attribute the success of the developmental state to systemic vulnerabilities that forced politicians to enact development-friendly policies, or to private initiative in the face of self-seeking behavior by politicians. This thesis re-examines both the history of the developmental state in …

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Diving Into A Mirror Of Light: A Diachronic Exploration Of Cenotes, Jessica Anne Wheeler Jan 2009

Diving Into A Mirror Of Light: A Diachronic Exploration Of Cenotes, Jessica Anne Wheeler

Theses & ETDs

According to Miriam Kahn, space has been “relegated to a static physical backdrop, a kind of stage-setting removed from human action and interaction” (2000: 8). Rather than taking this avenue, I attempt to examine cenotes as specific settings of human action and interaction. This thesis attempts to deconstruct the powerful concepts of place imposed by outsiders and the perspectives of places held by their inhabitants. My thesis examines uses, perceptions, and conceptions of cenotes during the prehispanic period and contemporarily. In order to do this, I synthesize and interpret the material deposits from caves and cenotes dating to the prehispanic …

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