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Erving Always Behaved Like A Guttersnipe, Teasing And Mocking With His Back Against The Wall, Arlene Daniels

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

This interview with Dr. Arlene Daniels, professor emeritus of sociology at the Northwestern University, was recorded over the phone on February 5, 2008. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Daniels edited the transcript and gave her permission to post the present version in the Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”.

Academic Calendar | Graduate Schedule Of Classes For 2009, Fall [Full Fall Semester Schedule] | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

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No abstract provided.

The Text Through Time, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.

Writing Styles Cross-Culturally: What Shapes Do They Take?, Anna Rozzo

Sandanona

Rhetorical strategies in academic writing vary across cultures. In a context that calls for direct, Anglo-essay format, how can you teach the structure while acknowledging students’ culture? Part presentation, part workshop will explore writing styles from various perspectives and give attendees a chance to participate in a useful classroom activity.

International Research And Engineering Education: Impacts And Best Practices, Yating Chang, Dianne Atkinson, E. Dan Hirleman

Online Journal for Global Engineering Education

In 2006, the IREE program funded 115 proposals from 82 U.S higher education institutions. Researchers and their faculty attended and presented their trip report at a 3-day conference held at Purdue University in November 2007. The first grantees conference was attended by 170 people, including 47 faculty members, 113 graduate students, 6 undergraduate students, and 6 NSF staff members. The 2007 IREE Grantees Conference was to provide a venue and facilitated opportunity for the IREE awardees, both students and faculty, to share experiences and what they gained from their time abroad under IREE.

There are a set of 18 impacts …

Financing Community Health Centers As Patient- And Community-Centered Medical Homes: A Primer, Peter Shin, Leighton C. Ku, Emily Jones, Brad Finnegan, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This policy brief is part of a Commonwealth Fund-supported project that examines community health centers in the context of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) movement. Community health centers—non-profit primary care facilities that provide care to patients regardless of their ability to pay—are widely lauded as critical components of the health care safety net, providing comprehensive primary care for lowincome, high-risk populations in both urban and rural areas. Since their inception, health centers have directed their activities at improving patient care—through comprehensive primary health care, coordination with specialty care, and the provision of enabling services—as well as improving population-level health status …

Structural Polarities In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Quincey Vierling Upshaw

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

My thesis reflects an assessment of The Lord of the Rings centering on the idea of a structure of opposites. For each place, race, character and object in The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien included an element which serves as an antithesis. In addition, the style, pacing, and language of the work also contain antithetical pairs which continually engage and propel the reader to the work's conclusion. I contend that this deliberate pairing of opposing elements adds depth and verisimilitude to the work.

Tolkien was an avid student of what his contemporaries would have called "fantasy" or "fairy …

Bringing Students’ Culture Into An Esl/Efl Classroom, Moodiela Mathobela

Sandanona

Can there be an empowering and successful language teaching and learning without incorporating students' culture and their immediate life experiences? Participants and the presenter will experience, explore, and reflect on how students' culture could be used to affect successful learning and vindicate the saying, 'nothing about us without us'.

The Politics Of Tesol, Kevin Cross

Sandanona

What role does English play in the contexts we work in? What role do we as English teachers play beyond our classrooms in the communities, countries, and world we work in? This workshop will engage participants in an exploration of these questions and the choices we have as teachers.

How To Be A Learning Disability Detective In Tesol, Colleen Garrett

Sandanona

In TESOL, we are aware of culture and level. We encourage all four skills and full participation. But, some students do not seem to 'get it'. It is important to take a closer look at these struggling students. Identifying a learning disability and making accommodations benefits everyone, creating successful learners.

Exploring L2 Learners’ Cultural Identification: “False Passport & New Identities”, Rogerio Silvestre Da Silva

Sandanona

This presentation focuses on the students’ responses to poetry, exploring Dionne Brand’s political discourse regarding the intersections between language, race, class, identity, gender and sexuality.

The Story Of My Learning As A Learner As A Teacher, Yunju Choi

Sandanona

The presenter will share her experience as a non-native graduate student in the US. She and the participants will consider the challenges that international graduate students face. This workshop will give the participants a chance to think about how to help international students overcome their difficulties.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, May 24, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2009

No abstract provided.

Commencement 2009, Taylor University

Commencement

The program of the 2009 Annual Commencement of Taylor University, May 23, 2009.

Moarabisque: The Essence Of Arabia : A Motion Graphics Piece That Promotes The Diverse Saudi Arabian Arts And Culture, Wail Al Hamid

Theses

Moarabisque: The essence of Arabia is an "Arabian custom designed motion graphics series". This Series is inspired by the diverse geography, architecture, arts, and culture of the Arabian Peninsula. These series are merged together as a cohesive motion graphics piece that visually reflects and promotes the varied Arabian culture through arts, architecture, music, and Islamic iconography. The final motion graphics video will introduce a series of visual icons that are of vital importance to religious and cultural values of Muslims; especially the Arabic nation. These icons delineate the characteristics of the Arabian culture; an Islamic civilized culture that emerged from …

The Social Evolution Of War And Transformation In Political Organization, Talon J. Powers

Political Science Honors Projects

Until recently, international relations theory has treated the territorial state as a transhistorical constant. The post-positivist turn, however, revives the question of the state’s origins and future sustainability. By drawing together the contributions of historical sociologists and social theorists of war, this thesis provides a model for change in political organization stemming from foundational transformations in warfare. This model considers not only warfighting practices, but the social and broader historical context in which war is embedded. Through analysis of the feudal and modern cases, I demonstrate why warfare is the best lens through which to evaluate change in political organization.

D-Day Through Song: Teaching History Through Music And The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Lucas Rewa

Honors Theses

Socials studies teachers know that making their lessons engaging for students in of utmost importance. History has a reputation of being one of those subjects that students think is boring. They think that history has no connection to their lives; it has no meaning for them. In order to get the students engaged in the material and to really learn, a teacher has to relate history to the students' lives. They need to foster an emotional attachment between the students and the material. "Emotion is the glue that makes history stick."

The Experience Of Grey, Andrew Super

Theses

This text is an accompaniment to an endeavor spanning approximately thirteen months in which I used photographic and literary processes to create documents concerning my history. These nearly universal processes were chosen because of their correlative nature. Images are read in a similar fashion to texts and both facilitate discourse. This thesis is an investigation on a personal level about the manner in which experiences are had, documented, and in many ways conditioned. The photographs that amount to the physical portion of this thesis explore the personally anecdotal within the context of generalized methods of documentation. In this work I …

University Of New Hampshire Students Win Fulbright Scholarships, Jody Record

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, May 17, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2009

No abstract provided.

The "Choking Game": Content Analysis Of Persuasive Messages, Attitudes, Values, And Beliefs In Mediated Talk, Rebecca D. Nobs

Communication

"The 'choking game' is an activity played by children typically ranging from 9-17 years of age that has been linked to many deaths among young children and teenagers. This study employed the use of content analysis to look at different persuasive messages, attitudes, beliefs, and values in mediated talk in regards to the 'choking game' in an effort to better understand what communicative approaches may be useful when attempting to influence children regarding this 'game.' Several key findings resulted from this research. The results of this study suggest that cognitive dissonance theory could be utilized to persuade children to stop …

The Utilization Of Constitutional Space To Maximize Sub-National Autonomy In Federations, Mark E. Oppe

Arctic and Northern Studies

"The comparative study of federal systems has most often focused on the view of federation 'from the top down.' This is particularly true of the study of constitutionalism in federations, in which federal constitutions have received significantly more attention than sub-national constitutions. An emerging concept in the understanding of federal systems from the sub-national perspective is the idea of constitutional space, which is defined as 'the range of discretion available to the component units in a federal system in designing their constitutional arrangements.' Some scholars have suggested that the full utilization of constitutional space can effectively increase the autonomy of …

2009 Spring Boise State University Commencement Program

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

164th University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

164th Commencement and Mass Program

Saturday, May 16, 2009

English Reading/Language Arts Instruction In First-Grade Classrooms Serving English Language Learners: A Cross-Analysis Of Instructional Practices And Student Engagement, Maribel G. Mora Harder

Open Access Dissertations

This study was designed to provide information on the reading instructional practices of 36 first grade teachers in nine schools that serve predominantly Spanish-speaking and ELL students in a southeastern U.S. school district. The purpose of this investigation was to describe teaching practices employed during English language arts instruction and to examine their use in relation to instructional grouping strategies, teacher language use, and student engagement. Participating classrooms were observed three times throughout the 2006-07 school year. Data were collected via the Timed Observations of Student Engagement/Language (TO/SEL) classroom observation instrument (Foorman & Schatchneider, 2003). Paired sample t-tests, multivariate analyses …

On The Green Vol. 38 No. 8 May 15, 2009, 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.

Undergraduate Schedule Of Classes For 2009, Fall [Full Fall Semester Session] | Academic Calendar | Class Schedule, Office Of The Registrar, Stony Brook University

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Stigma, Surgery And Social Identity: Attitudes Towards Cosmetic And Sexual Reassignment Surgeries, Cheryl Mayeux

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis uses a combination of vignettes and interviews to explore social approval of cosmetic and sexual reassignment surgeries as a means of studying sex and gender in contemporary society. It draws from poststructuralist, queer, symbolic interactionist and intersectionality theories. This study found that social approval was higher for normative surgeries than for non-normative surgeries. The main themes that emerged in regard to social approval were respondents‘ religious beliefs, their social distance from a person undergoing surgery, their concerns with possible risks or complications, and their views on an individual‘s right to control their own body. Underlying the vast majority …

Exploring Bilingual Arab-American Students' Performance In Solving Mathematics Word Problems In Arabic And English, Samar El-Rifai Sarmini

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This study aims at answering questions pertaining to the performance of bilingual Arab-American students on solving word problems written in their home and school languages: (1) Does the language in which a word problem is stated have an effect on the performance of the bilingual Arab-American students?; (2) Do Arab-American students with higher levels of Arabic proficiency perform better in either or both versions of the word problems?; and (3) What are some common differences and similarities in the problem solving processes of Arab-American students as they solve problems in English or Arabic? The study used both quantitative and qualitative …

Tenure Insecurity And Post-Disaster Housing: Case Studies In New Orleans And Tegucigalpa, Robert Charles Peterson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This research focuses upon cases wherein post]disaster housing assistance was affected by tenure insecurity. In the case of post]Katrina New Orleans, the Road Home, which provided monies for rebuilding, faced difficulties in allocating its aid because of heirship titles, a form of tenure insecurity to which the United States has often been misconceived as immune. In the case of post]Hurricane Mitch in Tegucigalpa, a post]disaster housing relocation program struggled to find lands in an urban land market with pervasive insecurity