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Mythology Is A Reflection Of Culture [7th Grade], Tina Harper

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

Helping students understand the connection between culture and mythology is the central focus of this unit. Humanities is a course where the ideas, skills, and content of both history and English weave together to form the curriculum. In this unit the content focuses on Greek mythology and the Native Tribes of Texas.

The skills students will develop and transfer include: note taking skills, finding the main ideas in both history and literature to define aspects of culture, the writing process, the format of an effective story/myth using plot structure, the behaviors needed to function as an effective group. Also included …

Where I Live [2nd Grade], Melissa Cole

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

Students will understand that people use maps and map features to identify specific landforms, landmarks and areas of significance in their local and national communities. Students will know how to use and create maps that contain specific map features, (titles, orientation, and legend/key) will be able to identify, label and place landforms correctly on maps and will be able to identify and describe local and national places of significance. Students will independently use their learning to create, identify and interpret maps of their local environments, communities and state.

Why Is It There: Placing Companies In The United States And Canada [9th Grade], Luaren Heath

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit is designed to discuss the regions of the United States and Canada from a more economic, rather than historical, point of view. The students must understand that the physical and human geography of a region affects the people and the economic activities. In order to achieve this, students will first look at the physical and human characteristics of the United States and Canada. This will include an investigation of the climate, landforms, other demographic information, migration patterns, and where people live. Then, using this information along with available maps the students will determine the best location for a …

The False Promise Of Proffit, Stephen K. Harper

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

How Does Your Garden Grow? Environmental Justice Aspects Of Community Gardens, Heather Mcilvaine-Newsad, Rob Porter

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Community gardens are models for improving health by growing and eating local produce. In addition, they are instruments for generating social awareness and community change. This conceptual paper focuses on the benefits of community gardens as the authors understood them, informed by participant observation and literature coming out of the environmental justice movement.

Swamplife: People, Gators, And Mangroves Entangled In The Everglades, Damien Contessa

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Insectopedia, David J. Godfrey

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Challenges Of Cave Management In A Developing Country: A Case Study Of Grotte Marie-Jeanne, Departemente Sud, Haiti, Patricia N. Kambesis, Brian Oakes, Michael Lace

National Cave and Karst Management Symposium 2013

As with many developing countries,Haiti has environmental, economic and cultural challenges that complicate natural resource management. Karst landscapes dominate Haiti and caves are abundant as recent cave and karst inventory data indicate. Though the caves and karst are subject to environmental challenges they also provide the potential for the development of tourism that would improve local economic conditions. There are 500 documented caves in Haiti of which, five are show caves. Of those, only one, Grotte Marie-Jeanne, located in Port-ấ -Piment in Departement Sud, has a structured cave management plan that addresses identification of cave resources, visitor access, interpretive guidelines, …

Front Matter, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

National Cave and Karst Management Symposium 2013

Front Matter for the

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH CONFERENCE

NCKMS: A CHANGING CLIMATE

November 4 through 8, 2013

Carlsbad, New Mexico

National Cave And Karst Research Institute 2012-2013 Annual Report, National Cave And Karst Research Institute

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Landforms Of Mountainous Karst In The Middle Latitudes: Reflections, Trends And Research Problems, Ugo Sauro

KIP Articles

Research into the landforms of karst highlands in the middle latitudes began in the "Classical Karst" in the 19th century and has been marked by alternating periods of progress and stability since. In the beginning, the elementary morpho-types were recognized, in particular the circular closed depression defined as the "karst doline." Later the midlatitude karst forms were compared with those of other climatic zones, especially tropical humid karst. In recent decades many papers have been published on the morphometry, the fillings, and models of the evolution of the surface karst landforms. It has been emphasized that in the midlatitude karsts …

The Strange Case Of Lieutenant Waddell: How Overly Restrictive Rules Of Engagement Adversely Impact The American War Fighter And Undermine Military Victory, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Faculty Articles

A rules of engagement (“ROE”) Review Board should be created in order to provide an impartial review process for service members facing adverse administrative action for violations of ROE. Politicians defining the ROE, rather than military experts, create rules that are so restrictive and confusing that they ultimately run counter to the military objective of victory. A violation of a ROE can be a criminal offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but violations are issued arbitrarily, and often the military does not charge the service member with a crime, instead using adverse administrative measures to impose punishment.

While …

Threats To The International Trade Regime: Economic And Legal Challenges Arising From Anti-Offshoring Measures Across The Globe, Deth Sao, Amar Gupta

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Citizen Engagement In The Shrinking City: Toward Development Justice In An Era Of Growing Inequality, Barbara L. Bezdek

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Promises And Pitfalls Of Tif In The St. Louis Metropolitan Region: A Look At Neighborhood Disparities, Sarah L. Coffin

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

St. Louis Blues: The Urban Crisis In The Gateway City, Colin Gordon

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sustainability, Social Equity And The Idea Of The Good City In Post-Industrial America, Alan Mallach

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Biodiplomacy: A Better Approach To Dual Use Concerns, Victoria Sutton

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

A Few Good Angry Men: Application Of The Jury Trial Clause Of The Sixth Amendment To Non-Citizens Detained At Guantanamo Bay, Thomas Mcdonald

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

2012-2013 Faculty Senate Annual Report, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

The primary file includes the 2012-2013 Committee on Academic Responsibility Annual Report. Additional annual reports are attached.

A Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectral Analysis Of Aromatic Medicinal Plants From Tajikistan, Hanjing Zhang

Theses

Tajikistan is a small country located in central Asia which is rich in Aromatic medicinal plants. A large number of locally available plants species are used in the preparation of traditional medicines. However, research on essential oils of medicinal and aromatic plants from Tajikistan is still limited, and only a small number of species have been investigated. In coordination with a chemist from Tajik Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, six aromatic medicinal plants were collected and their essential oils were extracted for analysis. The targeted plants are Bunium persicum B. Fedtsch., Anethum graveolens L., Galagania frangrantissima Lipsky, Melissa officinalis L., …

Putting Scientific Information Into The Service Of Environmental Justice For Residents Facing Groundwater Contamination, Yvonne Emily Sorovacu

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Opportunity, Montana is a small town within the 300 square mile Anaconda Smelter Superfund site in Western Montana. Waste from 100 years of ore processing has impacted the area. Arsenic exceeds Montana drinking water standards within the aquifer system feeding residential wells of Opportunity, causing resident concern about current and future safety of drinking water. The project described in this paper engages with this context from an environmental justice (EJ) perspective that views meaningful participation of affected communities as integral for sound and democratic decisions about environmental risks. Because Opportunity residents are left out of important decision making processes regarding …

Ecology Of Juvenile Salmon In Large Floodplain Rivers: The Influence Of Habitat Modification By Beavers (Castor Canadensis) On Salmon Growth And Production, Rachel Lanelle Malison

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

I investigated the influence of beavers on aquatic floodplain habitats and determined how juvenile salmon habitat use, growth, survival, movement, and production varied by habitat type in a large alluvial floodplain of the Kwethluk River in western Alaska. I also compared juvenile salmon production at the floodplain scale in the Kwethluk River (with beavers), to a very similar salmon river in Kamchatka (the Kol) that has no beavers.

Beavers modified 87.5% of the aquatic off-channel habitat of the Kwethluk River, which was composed of three successional stages of beaver ponds (early-, mid-, and latesuccessional), and beaver-influenced spring brooks. Early-successional ponds …

Psychological Adjustment And Relational Development In Ethiopian Adoptees And Their Families, Waganesh Zeleke

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The number of American families choosing to adopt a child from Ethiopia has increased exponentially since 2004. Over the past five years alone, between 2006 and 2011, 13.5% of internationally adopted children in the U.S. came from Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to examine psychological adjustment and relational development of Ethiopian adoptees who have been adopted during 2007 -2010 and their families who reside in Montana.

Using a convenience-sampling method, data were collected from 25 adoptive parents who adopted a total of 35 children from Ethiopia. All families live in Montana and responded to questions through an online …

Csbs Statements, V15, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Statements

Contents:

-- From the Desk of the Dean
-- Stephen Quirk
-- CSBS faculty provides social science research support to YESS
-- CSBS alumna served as YESS intern and found her place
-- Quirk family leaves legacy in CSBS
-- A Young Hopeful
-- "We need to take care of each other."
-- From our Director of Development
-- The Dean's Fund for Excellence
-- College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Loyalty Roster
-- Dean's Fund Inner Circle
-- 2013 Distinguished Alumni Day
-- Center for Violence Prevention
-- Center for Social & Behavioral Research
-- GeoTREE Center
-- New …

Hydrologic Conditions And Streamflow Change In An Evolving Semi-Arid Agricultural Watershed, Smith River, Montana, Andrea Stanley

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Agricultural land and water use has modified natural flow regimes in the western US. Understanding the effect of agricultural water use on streamflow is critical to effective water management and is often limited by the available data record. This investigation evaluates agricultural water use and streamflow in the Smith River watershed (SRW), a semi-arid agricultural watershed located on the eastern slope of the northern Rocky Mountains in west-central Montana. Questions motivating this study include: (1) Has agricultural water use modified streamflow on the Smith River? (2) What aspect of agricultural activity in the Smith River watershed is having the greatest …

Escape Probability: An Alternative Risk Metric To Support And Evaluate Wilderness Fire Management Decisions, Kevin Matthew Barnett

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Inside many U.S. federally designated wilderness areas, fire suppression is the dominant management strategy largely due to the risk that fires pose to resources adjacent to the wilderness boundary. Opportunities to exploit the fuel treatment and risk-mitigation benefits of allowing wilderness fires to burn are foregone when ignitions are suppressed. Existing risk-based metrics (e.g. burn probability) produced from wildfire simulation models were not designed to inform management of wilderness fires. They focus on the management of fuels, or on suppression resource allocation, not managing ignitions through monitoring strategies for resource benefits. The purpose of this research was to develop a …

Front Matter, Journal Of The Book Of Mormon And Other Restoration Scripture

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

No abstract provided.

From The East To The West: The Problem Of Directions In The Book Of Mormon, Brant A. Gardner

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

The 1985 publication of John L. Sorenson’s An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon presented the best argument for a New World location for the Book of Mormon. For all of its strengths, however, one aspect of the model has remained perplexing. It appeared that in order to accept that correlation one must accept that the Nephites rotated north to what we typically understand as northwest. The internal connections between text and geography were tighter than any previous correlation, and the connections between that particular geography and the history of the peoples who lived in that place during …

I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means, Brant A. Gardner

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

Of course, the correct quotation of Inigo Montoya’s famous line in The Princess Bride is “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Unfortunately, it made too long a title, though in homage to Richards and O’Brien’s book, I have substituted the culturally defined Word for its more common reference. That is precisely the message of the book. You keep reading that Word. It doesn’t mean what you think it means. From their introduction: