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Respecting Language As Part Of Ethnicity: Title Vii And Language Discrimination At Work, Carlo A. Pedrioli

Faculty Scholarship

This article argues that, in the absence of a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason or a business necessity, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act can protect employees from language-based discrimination in the workplace. Language is a part of one’s ethnicity, which refers to one’s culture. Ethnicity, much as race already does, should receive protection under Title VII. Plaintiffs, however, have the burden of proof in litigation, and so a plaintiff who sues under a discrimination theory should have to make his or her case to the appropriate fact-finder. Drawing upon the insights of critical theory, particularly to explore concepts like …

The Case Of The Dangerous Detective, Ronald S. Green, D. E. Wittkower

Philosophy and Religious Studies

No abstract provided.

Defining Gene Expression In Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocytes And Melanocytes: A Prerequisite For Understanding Hyperplastic And Neoplastic Pathology, Erika De Wyllie Billick

Student Theses and Dissertations

To define pathologic alterations, a reference of "normal" cells is needed in order to interpret genomic methods that study gene expression of melanocytes and keratinocytes in growth-activated or neoplastic skin diseases. Historically, mRNAs isolated from cultured epidermal keratinocytes or melanocytes are used to define normal gene expression patterns. In this study, we profiled global gene expression in human epidermal keratinocytes on Affymetrix U133 plus 2.0 arrays from three different "normal" sources: 1) cultured keratinocytes, 2) FACS keratinocytes from dispase-separated epidermis, and 3) laser-capture microdissected (LCM) epidermis. For melanocytes, the precursor cell of melanoma, the attempt was made to isolate a …

Women Under Soviet Rule: Policy And Reality, Melissa Samarin

Whittier Scholars Program

Pure communist doctrine emphasizes egalitarian practices and advocates for gender equality unlike any other political theory. In particular, the Soviet government, under the authority of Lenin and Marxist-Leninist ideology, legally granted women all-encompassing social rights, which persisted through Stalin’s time. But throughout this period, and especially during the Stalinist years, women’s experiences were not congruent with the policies and laws set forth. Women were treated unequally within the realms of education and work, as they faced wage differentials, separate training and a gendered division of labor. The onset of the Stalinist era also brought about changes in social policy-particularly the …

Enzymatic Defects Underlying Hereditary Glutamate Cysteine Ligase Deficiency Are Mitigated By Association Of The Catalytic And Regulatory Subunits, Melanie Neely Willis, Yilin Liu, Ekaterina I. Biterova, Melanie A. Simpson, Heejeong Kim, Jaekwon Lee, Joseph J. Barycki

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Glutamate cysteine ligase (GCL) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive trait that compromises

production of glutathione, a critical redox buffer and enzymatic cofactor. Patients have markedly

reduced levels of erythrocyte glutathione, leading to hemolytic anemia and in some cases,

impaired neurological function. Human glutamate cysteine ligase is a heterodimer comprised of a

catalytic (GCLC) and a regulatory subunit (GCLM), which catalyzes the initial rate limiting step

in glutathione production. Four clinical missense mutations have been identified within GCLC:

Arg127Cys, Pro158Leu, His370Leu, and Pro414Leu. Here, we have evaluated the impacts of

these mutations on enzymatic function in vivo and in vitro …

Transforming Lives And Communities: A Case Study On Building Partnerships In The Philippines Through Appreciative Inquiry, Rizalina L. Ababa

Capstone Collection

The growing number of poor in the Philippines is alarming. Neither the national government nor any individual organization acting alone has been able to alleviate the rising percentage of poverty. With this prevalent need in the country, networks, alliances and partnerships among several organizations, including faith-based organizations, have been established to help respond to the needs of those living in poverty.

OM Philippines–Cebu Ministries, a faith-based Christian organization was started in 2001. It has worked specifically among the poor through children’s programs in partnership with local Protestant churches. Like many NGOs, OM Philippines has been exploring new strategies to expand …

2011 J-Term Academic Catalog, Lynn University

Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Do Museums Still Need Objects?, By Steven Conn, Allison C. Marsh

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Greyhounded, Robert Ficociello

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Short Story, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2011 [Download Entire Issue]

Short Story

No abstract provided.

Copyright, Communication And Culture: Towards A Relational Theory Of Copyright Law, Carys Craig

Books

In this provocative book, Carys Craig challenges the assumptions of possessive individualism embedded in modern day copyright law, arguing that the dominant conception of copyright as private property fails to adequately reflect the realities of cultural creativity.

Employing both theoretical argument and doctrinal analysis, including the novel use of feminist theory, the author explores how the assumptions of modern copyright result in law that frequently restricts the kinds of expressive activities it ought to encourage. In contrast, Carys Craig proposes a relational theory of copyright based on a dialogic account of authorship, and guided by the public interest in a …

The Effect Of Culture And Self-Construal On Memory Development: Mother-Child Conversations In Eastern Turkey, Western Turkey And The United States, Basak Sahin

Doctoral Dissertations

Eighty-seven mothers and their four-year-old children from Eastern Turkey (N = 32 mother-child pairs), Western Turkey (N =30 mother child pairs) and the United States (N = 25 mother-child pairs) participated in a study of mother-child memory talk, self-construal and parenting goals. Mother-child pairs were audio-recorded while drawing pictures and talking about shared past and anticipated future events. Mothers completed Balanced Integration-Differentiation questionnaires and were scored as high or low on individuation and relatedness orientations. They completed child rearing goals questionnaires that were scored for conformity, self-maximization and power factors. Memory and future talk differed across culture and self-construal groups. …

Some Multidisciplinary Practices, Kathleen Black

Honors in Practice Online Archive

From the beginning of the Northwestern College Honors Program in 2002, we have operated with several underlying principles, three of which relate to our goal of being multidisciplinary. Based upon our recognition of multiple intelligences and our acknowledgment of scholarship in all academic disciplines, we have made it our goal that a single definition of either intelligence or giftedness should not suffice as a strategic design concept for the program or as a selection criterion for the students who participate in it.

In creating our program, the Faculty Honors Program Committee decided that our honors program would not include only …

Rethinking Asian Studies In The Interdisciplinary Honors Setting, Adam D. Frank

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In an interdisciplinary honors setting, especially at colleges and universities with minimal Asian studies offerings, teaching interdisciplinary Asian studies courses can present a particularly difficult challenge. The problem, as Charles Holcombe notes, is that “Asia is simply too enormous, spanning the better part of the entire Old World, and too diverse, to serve as a very meaningful label” (9). Unless students already have a background in Asian studies, have studied Asian languages and cultures, or are themselves from Asian countries, they often lack the basic, macro-level knowledge of geography, history, and politics necessary to address complex issues, particularly Orientalist stereotypes …

Rethinking Digital Editing Practices To Better Address Non-Canonical Texts, Amanda A Gailey

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This article stems from my recent work on Race and Children’s Literature of the Gilded Age (RCLGA),1 a digital archive that aims to provide a heavily annotated resource for scholars and students of literature, history, African American studies, visual communication, and education to examine how adults wanted children to think about race during the era of Jim Crow. I edit the archive with Gerald Early, Professor of Modern letters, English, African studies, and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and D. B. Dowd, Professor of Communication Design and American Culture Studies, also at Washington University. When complete, …

The Honors Differential: At Home And Abroad, Neil H. Donahue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Study abroad constitutes already the kind of enrichment that defines honors education at home. The honors component of instruction at home in the U.S. emerges from the differential between the regular course of instruction and the extension, or rather qualitative enrichment, of the same through various types of added conceptual complexity, scope of detail, depth of inquiry, or level of skill. That honors differential can be tracked visibly and explicitly onto a syllabus in a regular course through highlighted assignments for eligible students; or can be embedded invisibly and implicitly in a designated honors course the syllabus for which makes …

About The Authors

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Contents

Larry Andrews

Jaclyn Bankert

Sister Edith Bogue

Bernice Braid

Marian Bruce

Scott Carnicom

James J. Clauss

Craig T. Cobane

Theodore Coladarci

Kevin L. Dooley

Richard England

Linda Frost

Annmarie Guzy

Mark Haggerty

Nathan Hilberg

Mimi Killinger

Kenneth Oswald

Benjamin Moritz

Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers

Debra S. Schroeder

Charlie Slavin

Ernest Smith

Becky L. Spritz

Cross-Domain Collaborative Learning And The Transformation Of Faculty Identity, James B. Young

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This chapter addresses how faculty from disparate backgrounds collaborate in interdisciplinary learning communities and how this cross-domain collaboration leads to a tangible change in identity. Faculty enter learning communities playing the more common roles of expert and teacher, but they leave taking on the additional roles of novice, learner, and knowledge integrator. The experience of cross-domain interaction is both rewarding and transformative for faculty as they are well equipped to communicate across the disciplinary landscape and gain a rhetorical awareness that is an invaluable ingredient for learning community participation.

Images Of God, Imago Dei And God's Relationship With Humanity Through The Image Of Mary's Breast Milk: A Focus Upon Sor María Anna Águeda De San Ignacio (1695-1756), Neomi Dolores Deanda

Dissertations

This dissertation presents an original contribution to the academic field of Theology, specifically Constructive Theology, because it begins the retrieval work of a woman's voice from seventeenth and eighteenth century Mexico, an entire area of historical and theological thought which has been globally under-explored. Analysis of María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio's eighteenth century original publications give a glimpse into this woman's official authority during her time, which also presents a historical woman's voice who has held ecclesial authority.

This project engages María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio's work to draw theological insights and further expand understandings about notions of …

Undergraduate Bulletin 2011-2012, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Understanding Environmental Deficit Phenomenon: Influences Affecting Children's Connectedness To Nature, Lauren Bates

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

The contemporary generation of young people experiences a childhood unlike any other previous generation. Federal funding for high achievement on standardized tests in the areas of reading and math have resulted in a narrowed school curricula focusing predominantly on these two subjects, and leaving little instructional time and resources for hands-on learning and unstructured time outdoors. Furthermore, children report spending less time outdoors and note that their parents are too busy to take them out to play. These circumstances at school and at home may indicate a decreasing value for nature experiences held by the adults who supervise children, which …

Focus Emu, April 19, 2011, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Class Schedule - Fall 2011, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules Collection

No abstract provided.

Introduction To Willa Cather And Modern Cultures [Cather Studies 9], Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

To some, linking Willa Cather to "the modern" or more narrowly to literary modernism still seems an eccentric proposition. As Richard Millington has pointed out, "one will look in vain for Cather's name in the index of most accounts, whether new or old, of the nature and history of Anglo-American modernism" (52). Perhaps she fails to feature in these accounts because in her public pronouncements and certain recurring motifs in her fiction, she appeared to turn her back on modernity. Cather was skeptical about many aspects of the culture that took shape around her in the early decades of the …

Remediation And The Task Of The Translator In The Digital Age Digitally Translating Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie Et Vent Sur Telumee Miracle, Stacey Lynn Diliberto

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this qualitative study, I examine the utilization of electronic publication and electronic writing systems to provide new possibilities for the translation of French Caribbean literary texts. Using Simone Schwarz‐Bart's 1972 novel Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle specifically for analysis and exploration, I investigate the potential of digital technology to aid in the production of literary translations that are mindful not only of the dynamics of language, but of French Caribbean women's discourse as well. Since the cultural turn of translation studies, translators need not only be bilingual but bicultural as well, having a discerning knowledge and familiarity of …

Ethnic Studies Review

Ethnic Studies Review

No abstract provided.

Native American Mascots: A Quantitative And Qualitative Study Of Students’ Acceptability Perceptions Of Native Mascots Versus Theoretical Use Of Other Ethnic Groups’ Iconology By Sports Teams, Shae Hart

McNair Scholars Research Journal

United States’ sports teams have made use of the faces, cultures and traditions of the indigenous people of our country for many years. Despite the perception that many Native Americans feel this practice is racist and/or insulting, it continues. This study helps further analyze perceptions that lead to the acceptability by the public of continued use of Native American iconology by sports teams for their logos, names, nicknames and mascots. Students report that the use of such iconology is a compliment to Native Americans, whereas it is an insult to other ethnic groups when represented in the same manner.

Provenance Xxix, Brian Wilson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.

Morphological And Tissue Culture Studies Of Platycerium Coronarium, A Rare Ornamental Fern Species From Malaysia, Rosna Mat Taha, Noorma Wati Haron, Sharifah Nurashikin Wafa

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

The genus Platycerium consists of about 18 species, commonly found in tropical and subtropical forests. Among the different species, Platycerium coronarium, P. platylobium, P. ridleyi and P. wallichi are found in Peninsular Malaysia, and P. coronarium is considered the most attractive ornamentally. Platycerium coronarium is an epiphytic fern, bears a gigantic morphology and is native to tropical areas of South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Guinea. Platycerium coronarium nests on the upper branches of the tallest trees in the forest. Due to having a uniquely-shaped fronds, they are famous for ornamental purposes, where they can be found in …

The World In Pictures: Aesthetics And Visual Culture In The Art Classroom, Melissa Burger

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The intent of this thesis is to present an argument for the inclusion of aesthetics and the aesthetics of visual culture within the art education curriculum. Technological advancement has created an age of unprecedented dependence on visual imagery; the pervasive (and sometimes misleading) visual culture of contemporary society affects the way in which individuals understand and relate to their world. The study of the aesthetics of visual culture can impact values within society and culture through the formation of self-identity, maintaining culture, and instituting cultural changes. An engaging visual arts program that builds upon students' lived experiences may be the …