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Making A Way: Music In An African American Congregation, Emily Miller-Todd Jan 2012

Making A Way: Music In An African American Congregation, Emily Miller-Todd

Honors Program Theses

When I began brainstorming ideas for my research, I was initially drawn towards a general study of music's role in church settings. As a music major and religion minor, this topic appeared to be the most obvious way I could combine my interests and apply them to a research project. Broadly speaking, I was interested in describing the role of music in a worship setting and the meaning members of the congregation found in music. In addition, I wanted to develop a research project that allowed me a more thoroughly experiential understanding of music in a congregation through personal participation …

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Mental Health And Social Support Among Hiv-Positive Injection Drug Users And Their Caregivers In China, Martha Claire Greene Jan 2012

Mental Health And Social Support Among Hiv-Positive Injection Drug Users And Their Caregivers In China, Martha Claire Greene

Public Health Theses

The burden of HIV/AIDS in China is due to injection drug use. Non-clinical caregivers provide much of the care for HIV patients but are often not included in HIV care or research. The objective of this study is to examine the relationships between the caregiver context and mental health of HIV-positive injection drug users and their caregivers. We interviewed 100 patient and caregiver dyads using quantitative methods. A conceptual model was developed and used as a framework for multivariate linear regression modeling. The strongest predictor of patient mental health was social support, which was largely determined by the caregiver's stigma …

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Incorporating Effective Grammar Instruction Into The Classroom, Erin Mary Harrity Jan 2012

Incorporating Effective Grammar Instruction Into The Classroom, Erin Mary Harrity

Honors Program Theses

The debate about the effectiveness of traditional grammar instruction has been ongoing for many decades now. Traditional grammar instruction involves memorization of grammatical rules and practice exercise drills. As early as 1936, the Curriculum Commission of the National Council of Teachers of English stated that “‘all teaching of grammar separate from the manipulation of sentences [should] be discontinued…since every scientific attempt to prove that knowledge of grammar is useful has failed’” (Weaver, Teaching 9). So why is grammar still being taught in the same way-through traditional direct instruction-in many schools? It is because some parents, administrators, politicians, researchers, and teachers …

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Asperger Syndrome And Blogging; Theory Of Mind And The Extreme Male Brain Theory In Self-Identified Women With Asperger Syndrome, Vanesa Morgan Jan 2012

Asperger Syndrome And Blogging; Theory Of Mind And The Extreme Male Brain Theory In Self-Identified Women With Asperger Syndrome, Vanesa Morgan

Dissertations and Theses

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Immortalizing The Spirit Of The Colonizer, Maximiliano Lombardi Jan 2012

Immortalizing The Spirit Of The Colonizer, Maximiliano Lombardi

Dissertations and Theses

"European colonial expansion has institutionalized and simultaneously normalized, at the global level, the supremacy of a class, of an ethno-racial group, of a particular type of state organization, spirituality, an epistemology, a particular kind of institutionalization, a production of knowledge, language, pedagogy, and an economy oriented toward the accumulation of global capital. To understand these processes we cannot separate them from each other. In fact, even the word ""capitalism"" is misleading because it leads us to think of an economic system, when in reality it is a hegemonic system that transcends economic relations and includes race, sex, gender, spiritual, linguistic, …

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Disclaiming Legitimacy, And The Stories Of Katherine Mansfield, Mathew Mead Jan 2012

Disclaiming Legitimacy, And The Stories Of Katherine Mansfield, Mathew Mead

Dissertations and Theses

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Women's Development In Guangdong; Unequal Opportunities And Limited Development In A Market Economy, Ying Hua Yue Jan 2012

Women's Development In Guangdong; Unequal Opportunities And Limited Development In A Market Economy, Ying Hua Yue

Dissertations and Theses

In the context of China’s three-decade market-oriented economic reform, in which economic development has long been prioritized, women’s development, as one of the social undertakings peripheral to economic development, has relatively lagged behind. This research is an attempt to unfold the current situation of women’s development within such context by studying the case of Guangdong -- the province as forerunner of China’s economic reform and opening-up -- drawing on current primary resources. First, this study reveals mixed results for women’s development in Guangdong: achievements have been made in education, employment and political participation in terms of “rates” and “numbers,” and …

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Minority Rights In Europe; The Roma Population As A Case Study, Michael Brooks Jan 2012

Minority Rights In Europe; The Roma Population As A Case Study, Michael Brooks

Dissertations and Theses

"This thesis undertakes an in-depth analysis of the minority rights of Roma populations living within the European Union. The Roma people face economic, social and political discrimination that permeates both government institutions and society in general and has prevented this minority group from integrating into the workings of society. This issue is important because the Roma lack a positive identity both of themselves and from other groups, which deprives the state of an important source of productivity. This is due in part from their own actions based on chosen isolation to some degree, and also because some Roma have become …

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Using A Virtual World For Robot Planning, D. Paul Benjamin, John V. Monaco, Yixia Lin, Christopher Funk, Damian M. Lyons Jan 2012

Using A Virtual World For Robot Planning, D. Paul Benjamin, John V. Monaco, Yixia Lin, Christopher Funk, Damian M. Lyons

CSIS Technical Reports

The architecture constructs a real-time virtual copy of the robot and its environment using PhysX, OpenCV, the Point Cloud Library, Soar, and Robot Schemas. A Match-Mediated Difference component compares actual sensory data with corresponding virtual-camera data and alerts the cognitive system to significant divergence. The virtual world can then be run faster than real time to search possible future trajectories for planning.

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Volume 24 — Christian Theology And Social Relevance: Ethical, Economic And Social Implications Of Solidarity, The Ecumencial Association Of Nigerian Theologians Jan 2012

Volume 24 — Christian Theology And Social Relevance: Ethical, Economic And Social Implications Of Solidarity, The Ecumencial Association Of Nigerian Theologians

Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology

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Physician Assisted Suicide: Its Challenge To The Prevailing Constitutional Paradigm, John H. Robinson Jan 2012

Physician Assisted Suicide: Its Challenge To The Prevailing Constitutional Paradigm, John H. Robinson

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Lawyer Ethics: A Pedagogical Mosaic, James R. Elkins Jan 2012

Lawyer Ethics: A Pedagogical Mosaic, James R. Elkins

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Epistemological Nonsense - The Secular/Religious Distinction, Christine L. Niles Jan 2012

Epistemological Nonsense - The Secular/Religious Distinction, Christine L. Niles

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Marriage And The Ethics Of Office, Scott Fitzgibbon Jan 2012

Marriage And The Ethics Of Office, Scott Fitzgibbon

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Moral Foundations Of Liberal Democracy, Secular Reasons, And Liberal Neutrality Toward The Good, Robert Audi Jan 2012

Moral Foundations Of Liberal Democracy, Secular Reasons, And Liberal Neutrality Toward The Good, Robert Audi

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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What's In A Name - The New York Times On Partial-Birth Abortion, Kenneth L. Woodward Jan 2012

What's In A Name - The New York Times On Partial-Birth Abortion, Kenneth L. Woodward

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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John Paul Ii On The Relationship Between Civil Law And The Moral Law: Understanding Evangelium Vitae In The Light Of The Principle Of Subsidiarity And The Moral Grammar Of John Paul Ii, Gregroy R. Beabout, Mary Catherine Hodes Jan 2012

John Paul Ii On The Relationship Between Civil Law And The Moral Law: Understanding Evangelium Vitae In The Light Of The Principle Of Subsidiarity And The Moral Grammar Of John Paul Ii, Gregroy R. Beabout, Mary Catherine Hodes

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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John Paul Ii: Migrant Pope Teaches On Unwritten Laws Of Migration, Nicholas Dimarzio Jan 2012

John Paul Ii: Migrant Pope Teaches On Unwritten Laws Of Migration, Nicholas Dimarzio

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Impartiality In Judicial Ethics: A Jurisprudential Analysis, W. Bradley Wendel Jan 2012

Impartiality In Judicial Ethics: A Jurisprudential Analysis, W. Bradley Wendel

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Toward A Catholic Vision Of Nationality, Donald Kerwin Jan 2012

Toward A Catholic Vision Of Nationality, Donald Kerwin

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Liberty: The Concept And Its Constitutional Context, Timothy P. Terrell Jan 2012

Liberty: The Concept And Its Constitutional Context, Timothy P. Terrell

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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The Treatment Of Hard Cases In American Juvenile Justice: In Defense Of Discretionary Waiver, Franklin E. Zimring Jan 2012

The Treatment Of Hard Cases In American Juvenile Justice: In Defense Of Discretionary Waiver, Franklin E. Zimring

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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'Other Spaces' In Legal Pedagogy, Lolita Buckner Inniss Jan 2012

'Other Spaces' In Legal Pedagogy, Lolita Buckner Inniss

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

There is an increasing focus upon the material and metaphoric spatial dimensions of various academic disciplines, including law. This essay considers the spatial dimensions of legal pedagogy, focusing on Critical Race Theory (CRT). The essay first explains the “critical program” in law and how CRT grows out of it. The essay then suggests that the critical program, and especially CRT, is as much a human geographic or spatial construct as it is a social, political or historic one, and briefly describes the nature of human geography and legal geography. It next considers how metaphors for understanding CRT’s position in legal …

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Enrollment And Academic Outcomes Of English Language Learners In Pre-K To Grade 3 In The Boston Public Schools, Sy2009: Data Points For A Discussion At Wheelock College, Miren Uriarte, Faye Karp Jan 2012

Enrollment And Academic Outcomes Of English Language Learners In Pre-K To Grade 3 In The Boston Public Schools, Sy2009: Data Points For A Discussion At Wheelock College, Miren Uriarte, Faye Karp

Gastón Institute Publications

This brief report focuses on the enrollment, characteristics and academic outcomes of English Language Learners in Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 3 in comparison with those of English proficient students and all students at these grade levels. The purpose of the report is to generate discussion about ways in which the learning needs of these students can best be met. As proposed, the report consists primarily of data tables and annotations organized around five sets of questions.

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Beyond Caperton: “Public Confidence” In Courts And Close Relationships Between Judges And Jurors, Byron C. Lichstein Jan 2012

Beyond Caperton: “Public Confidence” In Courts And Close Relationships Between Judges And Jurors, Byron C. Lichstein

Catholic University Law Review

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Health Care Access And Insurance Availability In Nevada, Douglas L. Garner, Marie A. Wakefield, Tiffany G. Tyler, A. Dexter Samuels, Roger Cleveland Jan 2012

Health Care Access And Insurance Availability In Nevada, Douglas L. Garner, Marie A. Wakefield, Tiffany G. Tyler, A. Dexter Samuels, Roger Cleveland

Social Health of Nevada Reports

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2012) defines healthcare access as “the timely use of health services to achieve the best health outcomes.” The Department specifies that efficient health care access is contingent on several steps, including (1) entry into the healthcare system, (2) availability of needed services, and (3) accessibility of providers with whom individuals can establish relationships founded on mutual communication and trust.

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Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide And The Birth Of The Middle East, Michelle Tusan Jan 2012

Smyrna's Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide And The Birth Of The Middle East, Michelle Tusan

History Faculty Research

Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms of the moral, humanitarian, and religious commitments of the British empire. Smyrna’s Ashes reevaluates how this story of the “Eastern Question” shaped the cultural politics of geography, war, and genocide in the mapping of a larger Middle East after World War I.

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Psychological Culture: Ambivalence And Resistance To Social Change, Alexander Etkind Jan 2012

Psychological Culture: Ambivalence And Resistance To Social Change, Alexander Etkind

Russian Culture

"National character," "modal personality," "collective unconscious," "ethnic mentality," "cultural identity" -- these and similar notions are designed to capture psychological traits that distinguish one social group from another. Attempts to isolate such hypothetical qualities are not different in principle from efforts to describe religious, legal, or other social patterns found among people who have lived together for a length of time, except that psychological constructs tend to focus on subjective characteristics and are somewhat harder to identify. For the first time, the link between culture and psychology came under close scrutiny in the nineteen century. German linguists Steinthal and Lazarus …

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Soviet Everyday Culture: An Oxymoron?, Svetlana Boym Jan 2012

Soviet Everyday Culture: An Oxymoron?, Svetlana Boym

Russian Culture

Mikhail Mishin, a Soviet satirist, wrote that Russians recognize themselves in the famous fairy-tale character Ivan the Fool. He bides his time napping on the heated furnace and gets up only to undertake major heroic feats. Ivan the Fool might be a great hero, but he has no idea how to survive his everyday life. Everyday life, captured in the Russian word byt, is a more dangerous enemy to him than the multi-headed fire-spitting dragon. The everyday is Russia 's cultural monster. The nation might worship its heroes and their fabled ability to withstand hell or high water, but …

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Colonizing Chaos: Russian Literature At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Alexander Genis Jan 2012

Colonizing Chaos: Russian Literature At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Alexander Genis

Russian Culture

Culture sets the parameters of our reality, defines its boundaries, gives each of us a system of values and reference points and, most important, provides our subconscious with the materials necessary for an awareness of chaos and the universe, space and time, cause and effect. Beginning my essay with these broadest categories, I will attempt to sketch the coordinates of that landscape in which the stormy drama of post-Soviet literature is played out. This will be followed by an analysis of the literary situation in the period directly preceding our own. Coming next will be some brief sketches of nine …

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