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Mother’S Social Network And Family Language Maintenance, Isabel Velázquez Jan 2012

Mother’S Social Network And Family Language Maintenance, Isabel Velázquez

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Abstract This article reports the results of a social network analysis (SNA) performed on the mother’s primary network of interaction in 15 Mexican American families in the city of El Paso, Texas, the neighborhood of La Villita, in Chicago, and the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. The goal of this study was to examine potential opportunities for Spanish use by her children as well as sources of information and influence that might shape her views about the benefits and drawbacks of linguistic maintenance in her family. The network features of primary language of exchange, density, strength of ties, level of integration …

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Revitalizing Tier 2 Intervention With Graphic Novels, Linda Smetana, Dana L. Grisham Jan 2012

Revitalizing Tier 2 Intervention With Graphic Novels, Linda Smetana, Dana L. Grisham

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The authors explore the practice of incorporating graphic novels in a Tier 2 Response To Intervention (RTI) program for five elementary-aged struggling readers in an urban school. Using a formative experiment framework, the study found that graphic novels provided a vehicle for the application of word recognition and fluency strategies learned in the RTI intervention program. In addition, graphic novels were used to develop students’ vocabulary and comprehension skills and resulted in increased progress for students’ fluency as measured by DIBELS. Since graphic novels are not grade level specific, they are appropriate for readers across grades. As a genre, graphic …

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Multiple Intelligences, Eclecticism And The Therapeutic Alliance: New Possibilities In Integrative Counsellor Education, Mark Pearson Jan 2012

Multiple Intelligences, Eclecticism And The Therapeutic Alliance: New Possibilities In Integrative Counsellor Education, Mark Pearson

Arts Conference Papers

In the wake of the movement in the field of counselling towards integrative and eclectic practice the search for unifying theories continues. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences (MI), only recently applied to the field of counselling, has a contribution to make in evolving a framework for eclecticism. MI theory may also have a particular contribution to make towards helping counsellors strengthen the therapeutic alliance and enhance flexibility in responding to clients' needs. Gaining an understanding of clients' preferred cognitive and communication styles, or 'intelligences', enhances an ability to tailor treatment. This presentation argues that increases in the therapeutic alliance and …

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Second Hand Prejudice, Racial Analogies And Shared Showers: Why Don't Ask, Don't Tell Won't Sell, Paul Siegel Jan 2012

Second Hand Prejudice, Racial Analogies And Shared Showers: Why Don't Ask, Don't Tell Won't Sell, Paul Siegel

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

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Examining The Role Of Identity In Negotiation Decision Making: The Case Of Cyprus, Cigdem Sirin Jan 2012

Examining The Role Of Identity In Negotiation Decision Making: The Case Of Cyprus, Cigdem Sirin

Departmental Papers (PS)

This study examines the effects of ethnic and social identities on negotiation decision making in the context of the Cyprus conflict. I conduct a theory-driven case study of the 1959 Zurich-London agreements on Cyprus, analyzing the positions of Turkey, Greece, Britain, and the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities during the negotiation process. I find that even in the presence of adversarial ethnic ties, decision makers who have a shared (and salient) social identity are more likely to employ collective-serving decision strategies and seek evenhanded solutions that will not jeopardize their mutual interests. In contrast, decision makers with severe ethnic fragmentation …

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When Schools Refuse To Say Gay: The Constitutionality Of Anti-Lgbtq No-Promo-Homo Public School Policies In The United States, Ashley E. Mcgovern Jan 2012

When Schools Refuse To Say Gay: The Constitutionality Of Anti-Lgbtq No-Promo-Homo Public School Policies In The United States, Ashley E. Mcgovern

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

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New Media And Asymmetry In Cultural Identity Negotiation, Guo-Ming Chen, Xiaodong Dai Jan 2012

New Media And Asymmetry In Cultural Identity Negotiation, Guo-Ming Chen, Xiaodong Dai

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

The advent of a new era of telecommunications and human interconnection brings with it questions of identity, community, the place of the individual in a globalizing society, the connectedness that stems from the information superhighway, and the possibility that microcultures will soon be dissolved in a diffuse macroculture. Among these trends, the impact of the emergence of new media on cultural identity is the issue most concerned by intercultural communication scholars. This paper aims to have an insight into the issue by examining the relationship between new media and asymmetry in cultural identity negotiation and its management.

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Use Of The Phrase “That’S So Gay” As A Heteronormative Microaggression, Mary K. Ross Jan 2012

Use Of The Phrase “That’S So Gay” As A Heteronormative Microaggression, Mary K. Ross

All NMU Master's Theses

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The Cultural Context Of Nephite Apostasy, Mark Alan Wright, Brant A. Gardner Jan 2012

The Cultural Context Of Nephite Apostasy, Mark Alan Wright, Brant A. Gardner

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Nephite apostates turned away from true worship in consistent and predictable ways throughout the Book of Mormon. T heir beliefs and practices may have been the result of influence from the larger socioreligious context in which the Nephites lived. A Mesoamerican setting provides a plausible cultural background that explains why Nephite apostasy took the par ticular form it did and may help us gain a deeper understanding of some specific references that Nephite prophets used when com bating that apostasy. We propose that apostate Nephite religion resulted from the syncretization of certain beliefs and practices from normative Nephite religion with …

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Full Issue Jan 2012

Full Issue

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Conversation With Noam Chomsky About Social Justice And The Future, Chris Steele Jan 2012

Conversation With Noam Chomsky About Social Justice And The Future, Chris Steele

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Leading intellectual Noam Chomsky offers historical perspectives, insight and critique regarding recent social movements. His views on the Occupy movement, in particular, resonate with some key themes in Jesuit higher education. An interview with Chomsky, conducted by Chris Steele, centers on seven questions, presented here in both text and video, that can be used to spark reflection and discussion in university classrooms.

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Developing Justice-Oriented Teachers: Reciprocal Mentoring In Marginalized Communities, Joan Armon, Elizabeth Grassi Jan 2012

Developing Justice-Oriented Teachers: Reciprocal Mentoring In Marginalized Communities, Joan Armon, Elizabeth Grassi

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Community contexts stimulate pre-service teachers’ cultural and environmental awareness of local injustices while building their knowledge and skills as future teachers of diverse students. In Study “Abroad” in the Neighborhood, pre-service teachers visit local families who teach our students the Spanish language and culture. A second initiative is Environmental Regeneration through Permaculture Food Gardens focused on pre-service teachers’ and children’s construction of school gardens linked to curriculum, food cultures, and health. Pre-service teachers who understand why and how to appropriate a justice-orientation to education may become teacher-activists who honor perspectives and assets of diverse people in classrooms, schoolyards, and communities.

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Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (And Words Will Also Hurt Me) Poetry's Power And Significance, Martin G. Steele Jan 2012

Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones (And Words Will Also Hurt Me) Poetry's Power And Significance, Martin G. Steele

Theses & ETDs

A common hallmark of poetry is its emphasis on brevity, or its ability to say more with less. Language that is "poetic" possesses a certain ambiguous, yet strong significance, but what is it that makes this language so powerful? This is the question this thesis aims to address. The goal of the first chapter is to explore and establish the concept of poetic significance, primarily using Robert Von Hallberg's Lyric Powers as a touchstone. The second and third chapters explore the source of this significance in breath poetry and sound poetry, both of which are genres that highly emphasize the …

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Stuff Happens Colonialism, Archaeology, And National Identity Formation, Faith Lobdell Jan 2012

Stuff Happens Colonialism, Archaeology, And National Identity Formation, Faith Lobdell

Theses & ETDs

When the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in 2003, there was a great deal of looting and damage to Iraq's cultural heritage. This caused a great deal of controversy and international condemnation of the failure of pre-war planning agencies and committees to take the possibility of such negative consequences into account. My thesis explores some of the history of the use of archaeology for political purposes, both colonial and national, in attempting to answer the dual questions of why the preservation of cultural heritage is an important issue and for whom.

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A Translation Of Juan Carlos Onetti's La Muerte Y La Nina, Antonella Pagani Jan 2012

A Translation Of Juan Carlos Onetti's La Muerte Y La Nina, Antonella Pagani

Theses & ETDs

This thesis consists primarily of my translation of Juan Carlos Onetti's short novel La muerte y la ni�a from Spanish into English. The original text presents a host of challenges to the reader, challenges which I attempt to reproduce, rather than resolve, in my translation. I attempt to recreate the complicated syntax, unusual word choice, and linguistic ambiguity that characterize Onetti's style and this novella in particular. In my introductory essay I analyze the function of certain narrative mechanisms including the use of adjectives, repetition, and apparent "recklessness" in the creation of Santa Mar�a, the fictional world at the center …

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Relationships Among Alexithymia, Altruism, And Interpersonal Trust, Felix Acuna Jan 2012

Relationships Among Alexithymia, Altruism, And Interpersonal Trust, Felix Acuna

Theses & ETDs

The current study sought to examine relationships among alexithymia or diminished engagement with one's emotions, altruism, and first-hand interpersonal trust (FIT). Three questionnaires were administered to 61 participants in order to examine potential relationships among the variables in question. FIT was measured using the added scores of two factors present in a generalized trust measure. Three hypotheses were advanced: (1) alexithymia is negatively related to first-hand generalized trust; (2) altruism is positively related to first-hand generalized trust; (3) alexithymia predicts first-hand generalized trust to a higher extent than altruism. None of the hypotheses were confirmed. However, subsequent analyses showed a …

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Constantly Varied/Highly Functional An Exploration Of Ethnographic Filmmaking In The Digital Age, Nicholas Manting Brewer Jan 2012

Constantly Varied/Highly Functional An Exploration Of Ethnographic Filmmaking In The Digital Age, Nicholas Manting Brewer

Theses & ETDs

Digital video has the potential to democratize the field of visual anthropology. The digital medium allows filmmakers to create and transmit their work at an substantial rate. I explore and defend visual anthropology as a subfield, looking to previous literature to examine some concerns that have plagued the field. I reflect on fieldwork at CrossFit Sarasota, a local gym in Sarasota, FL, between September and December 2011 that resulted in my short ethnographic film, Constantly Varied/Functional. I separate my method into the three sections of video production: pre-production, production and postproduction. In addition, I describe details that my film was …

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Embodied Gesture, Luce Irigaray And Woman's Political Imaginary In Digital Music Production Seven Compositions And Feminist Inquiry, Joohyun Kim Jan 2012

Embodied Gesture, Luce Irigaray And Woman's Political Imaginary In Digital Music Production Seven Compositions And Feminist Inquiry, Joohyun Kim

Theses & ETDs

In this creative project, I produced seven sonic compositions interpreting and strategizing my work with some key aspects of Luce Irigaray's political thought on Woman. Irigaray's thought on Woman has a strong political and ethical prerogative which is important for a provisionally embodied search for a women's place in politics and language. I rematerialized Irigaray's thought on speaking (as) Woman, mimicry, and disjunctive becoming, as a way of thinking about performing, listening to, and creating music. Irigaray notes that speaking (as) woman is "to loose the signifier from the signified, to escape the fixity of representation by an ever-changing signification." …

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Existence And Resistance A Heideggerian Reading Of Foucault's "Ethical Turn", Bill Yanelli Jan 2012

Existence And Resistance A Heideggerian Reading Of Foucault's "Ethical Turn", Bill Yanelli

Theses & ETDs

Discussing Michel Foucault's research of the history of ethical systems, this thesis argues for the viability of a properly Foucauldian political ethics�one informed by, but distinct from, the historical examples he studied. Such an ethics would stand in opposition to what Foucault called "domination" (not to be confused with "power"). Domination is an emergent structure of human relations that fortifies itself against any significant change, by: a) inducing participants in the structure to experience it as immutable (what Foucault called "subjectivation"); and b) creating spectacles that direct participants' conduct (what Foucault called "veridiction"). But to formulate an ethical procedure that …

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Contra Dance An Example Of Fully Participatory Dance Performance In The United States, Julie Allison Lado Jan 2012

Contra Dance An Example Of Fully Participatory Dance Performance In The United States, Julie Allison Lado

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an ethnography of practice on concentrating on contra, a contemporary American folk dance. Contra is also a style of music; both are inspired by European dance traditions and oldtime American music traditions. Present-day contra is unique because it is a collectively embodied performance art that does not assume an audience, and is therefore fully participatory in its approximation of social equality. Aside from using participant observation at the 2012 Snow Ball in Gulfport, Florida to approximate the experience of contra, this thesis is an account of change in the tradition from past to present, while attempting to …

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Voicing Trauma Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea And Djuna Barnes's Nightwood In Esistance Of A Masculinist Modernism, Alex Fixler Jan 2012

Voicing Trauma Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea And Djuna Barnes's Nightwood In Esistance Of A Masculinist Modernism, Alex Fixler

Theses & ETDs

This thesis investigates feminist resistance to a traditionally masculinist modernism in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood in terms of the expression of trauma within literature. In chapter one, I discuss Wide Sargasso Sea's protagonist's experience of trauma at the hands of heterosexuality and British structures of colonialism and primogeniture. In chapter two, I examine Nightwood's depictions of "queer" femininity as they are supplemented by themes of unconscious trauma. Rather than attempt to resolve these traumas, the novels resist patriarchal structures of modernism by rejecting unities of plot or form.

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Bilingual Bliss, Bilingual Blues A Look At Cuban-American Tongue Ties, Gabriela Portilla Jan 2012

Bilingual Bliss, Bilingual Blues A Look At Cuban-American Tongue Ties, Gabriela Portilla

Theses & ETDs

This thesis will focus on the literary construction of the Cuban-American identity and how Cuban and American cultural elements fuse together in the critical works and poetry of Gustavo P�rez Firmat. There is a trajectory of Cuban letters in the United States after the 1959 Cuban revolution as it progresses from exilic to ethnic. The three stages in this literary trajectory can be identified as: Cuban exile writers, a one and a half generation of writers, and Cuban-American ethnic writers. Greater emphasis will be placed on the one and a half generation, or Cuban-American generation, as these writers produce works …

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Embodying The Holy Spirit A Phenomenology Of Tongues, Jake Elrod Jan 2012

Embodying The Holy Spirit A Phenomenology Of Tongues, Jake Elrod

Theses & ETDs

In this ethnography, I explore the relationship between forms of transcendental experience and the conceptual construction of reality within a Pentecostal congregation in Greene, Ohio. My research focuses on Baptism of the Holy Spirit, an embodied union with God's animate force (often accompanied by glossolalia, divine communication, and spiritual healing) as an intensely life-changing experience played out in public rituals, personal testimonies, and Pentecostal theology. I will attempt to describe these forms of transcendental experience, their emergence in practice and discourse, and how these functioned to maintain a unified spiritual orientation. I will trace the role of transcendental experiences in …

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Don't Speak, I Know Just What You're Saying Gender Role Orientation, Self-Silencing, And Relationship Satisfaction, Francesca Leyva Jan 2012

Don't Speak, I Know Just What You're Saying Gender Role Orientation, Self-Silencing, And Relationship Satisfaction, Francesca Leyva

Theses & ETDs

Self-silencing is the enactment of self-censuring behaviors within the context of a romantic relationship intended to avoid conflict and preserve the relationship. Relations between gender role orientation, self-silencing, and relationship satisfaction were explored via and online anonymous self-report survey using a sample of students from a small liberal arts college in southwestern Florida. Results indicated that participants with androgynous gender role orientations self-silenced the least, while participants with undifferentiated gender role orientations self-silenced the most. Additionally, androgynous gender role orientations exhibited significantly higher relationship satisfaction than undifferentiated gender role orientations. Furthermore, a negative relationship was found between overall relationship satisfaction …

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Empathy Enhancement In Text Based Computer Mediated Communication, Sivens J. Glaude Jan 2012

Empathy Enhancement In Text Based Computer Mediated Communication, Sivens J. Glaude

Theses & ETDs

Empathy, defined as "the ability to put oneself into the mental shoes of another person to understand her emotions and feelings" (Goldmann was cited in Decety & Lamm, 2006, p. 1147 ), is a fundamental part of human behaviors such as communication, cooperation, and altruism. Many of the signals we use to understand the emotions of others, or to be empathetic, are based off of nonverbal behavior such as facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures. However, traditional text based communication lacks many of the nonverbal cues we normally use to communicate emotions during face-to-face interactions. Media richness theory states …

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The Linguistic Construction Of Ethnic Identity In A Greek-American Community, Natalie Boyd Jan 2012

The Linguistic Construction Of Ethnic Identity In A Greek-American Community, Natalie Boyd

Theses & ETDs

In Tarpon Springs, a historically Greek-American city in southwest Florida, the community and its use of the Greek language is changing. Competence in the Greek language has declined with successive generations as the children and grandchildren of immigrants adopt English as their primary language. Those who do speak Greek are increasingly rejecting the regional dialects spoken by previous generations in favor of Standard Modern Greek. Many informants attributed these changes to the increased influence of modernity and globalization, which they viewed both positively and negatively. This thesis examines how language ideologies and language use contribute to the construction of ethnic …

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Mentula Magna Minax A Study Of Genre In Catullus' Abusive Poetry, Zachary Low Jan 2012

Mentula Magna Minax A Study Of Genre In Catullus' Abusive Poetry, Zachary Low

Theses & ETDs

This thesis analyzes the abusive poetry of Catullus through the lens of three different generic traditions. The first, comedy, uses stock characters and comic language to, at times, undermine the persona of Catullus. In poem 8, there are the two figures of the counseling seruus callidus [clever slave] Catullus and the sad lovestruck Catullus. The second, oratorical invective, uses restrained language to condemn Catullus' enemies, such as the subtle allusion to Lesbius' incestuous practices in poem 79. The third, iambic invective, uses violent abuse to threaten Catullus' enemies. In the famous poem 16, Catullus defends himself against charges of mollitia …

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"You Always See Something, But You Never See All" Narative Devices And The Reader's Role In James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man And Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev, Jacqueline Aldrich Jan 2012

"You Always See Something, But You Never See All" Narative Devices And The Reader's Role In James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man And Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev, Jacqueline Aldrich

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the roles that narration and genre play in the generation and reception of texts, through James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev. The two works are known as "semiautobiographical novels," existing in a middle ground between fiction and autobiography. The works' child narrators utilize the language as their artistic medium in order to assert their agency. These narrators are ambiguous and shifting, which is defamiliarizing to the reader and serves to emphasize the division between what is real and what is fictional. These devices all trouble the distinctions …

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Dissynthegrations Modernist Canons, Technopoetics, And The Recovery Of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Steven Rizzo Jan 2012

Dissynthegrations Modernist Canons, Technopoetics, And The Recovery Of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Steven Rizzo

Theses & ETDs

Since his death in 1950, the experimental poet Abraham Lincoln Gillespie has largely been left out of literary-critical histories of modernism. Along with artists like Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, Gillespie was intimately connected to the artists, publications, and innovative aesthetic of the Parisian expatriate scene of the late 1920s and early '30s. Yet his work stands out among even the more experimental products of the expatriate communities in the interwar years: his heavy use of neologisms, idiosyncratic punctuation, peculiar graphic elements, and non-normative syntax make assimilation of his work into the received pictures of modernism difficult and problematic. But …

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Parallel Kinship In Nihon Buyo, Dominique Ghirardi Jan 2012

Parallel Kinship In Nihon Buyo, Dominique Ghirardi

Theses & ETDs

Nihon Buyou, like many other Japanese traditional arts, uses the iemoto system, which creates a family (ryuu) based in the art form from a surname exclusively associated with that art form. When a deshi reaches a certain level of mastery in the dance, he or she is given a name by the sensei to accompany that surname, initiating him or her into the kinship unit officially. Thus, the deshi holds the sensei in a parental role during dance contexts while simultaneously using his or her legal name and identity outside of this context. Drawing from ethnographic data gathered in Toyama …

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