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Macalester Student Receives U.S. State Dept. Cls To Study Critical Need Language, Macalester College

College Press Releases

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Is Geographic Diversification Associated With Increased Risk? Evidence From The Spanish Banking Crisis, Briana Anderson

Business and Economics Honors Papers

This paper examines the association between geographic diversification and Spanish savings bank (caja) failure. The paper focuses on the geographic expansion of cajas between 2002 and 2012 and failure of several cajas between 2008 and 2011 during the Spanish banking crisis. Employing financial statement and branch location data collected from the CECA, logit models were used to test the association between failure and geographic and cultural diversification. This paper finds that, depending on the model estimated, geographic and cultural diversification of cajas either reduced or had no effect on the odds ratio of failure, suggesting that the benefits …

The Relationship Between Teachers’ Levels Of Cultural Competence And The Nomination/Referral Process For Gifted Identification Of Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Students, Patrice C. Wilson

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the extent to which teachers’ levels of cultural competence is a factor in the nomination/referral process for gifted identification of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Specifically, this study compared the self-assessed perceptions of second and third grade elementary teachers’ cultural competence to the various factors included in the gifted referral process. A quasi-experimental quantitative study was used. However, this study superficially included some qualitative exploration due to the nature of the open-ended survey questions and secondary data set analysis. Quantitative data were collected via an adapted version of the Cultural Competence Self-Assessment for Teachers survey created by …

Academically Resilient English Language Learners: A Focus Group Study Exploring Risk Factors And Protective Factors, Michelle Abrams-Terry

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, the researcher explored high school English language learners’ perceptions of risk factors and protective factors present in their academic and social lives. The researcher also explored how these students negotiated risk factors and used protective factors to be academically resilient. Therefore, the study was designed to examine academic resilience from the students’ perspectives, allowing them to share their story about their success in high school. The following research questions guided this study: (1) What risk factors are present in high school English language learners’ academic and social lives? and (2) Which protective factors do high school English …

Waveform Analogy, Experimentation, And Optimism, Aaron Storck

Theses and Dissertations

This paper offers a contextualization of my art practice, within particular trends in contemporary art and its discourse. It traces an expressed interest in networked objects, and the indeterminacy of meaning in art; from researched examples and texts, through specific expressions of these ideas in my thesis art exhibition. The paper then outlines key areas of practical interest to the experimental viability of my art practice. The paper goes on to explore the relationships between indeterminacy, experimentation, and creativity in the arts; within the context of an original thought experiment that draws an analogy between topics in physics and the …

Racial And Ethnic Diversity In Grounded Theory Research, Claire Burke Draucker, Halima Al-Khattab, Dana D. Hines, Jill Mazurczyk, Anne C. Russell, Pam Shockey Stephenson, Shannon Draucker

The Qualitative Report

National initiatives in the United States call for health research that addresses racial/ethnic disparities. Although grounded theory (GT) research has the potential to contribute much to the understanding of the health experiences of people of color, the extent to which it has contributed to health disparities research is unclear. In this article we describe a project in which we reviewed 44 GT studies published in Qualitative Health Research within the last five years. Using a framework proposed by Green, Creswell, Shope, and Clark (2007), we categorized the studies at one of four levels based on the status and significance afforded …

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly: The Construction Of Othering In Edward Bliss Emerson's Caribbean Journal Of 1831-1832, Alma Simounet

The Qualitative Report

This paper examines the vocabulary, grammar structures and rhetorical devices that appear in Edward Emerson’s journal based on his trip to the Caribbean. The end-in-view is to identify the devices that Emerson utilized, mostly unconsciously, in his depiction and construction of others; in the case of this journal, of the peoples he encountered in the Caribbean. The methodological approach of critical discourse analysis guides this examination.

Effects Of The First Language On Japanese Esl Learners' Answers To Negative Questions, Kosuke Kanda

Dissertations and Theses

This study investigates how Japanese learners of English respond to English negative questions. Previous research has reported that Japanese learners of English make errors in yes/no responses to English negative questions due to the first language (L1) influence (Kang & Lim-chang, 1998; Takashima, 1989). From the perspective of L1 influence, there are two learning pitfalls: different functions of the yes/no response and different interpretations of negative questions. Both of these influences were examined in this study.

This study involved 8 Japanese learners of English, 4 females and 4 males, attending Portland State University (PSU). In order to elicit data that …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 27, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

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(Im)Partiality, Compassion, And Cross-Cultural Change: Re-Envisioning Political Decision-Making And Free Expression, Emily Wade

Philosophy Honors Projects

Past justifications of free expression rely on the crucial role speech plays in deliberative democracies and respecting persons. Beneath each of these justifications lies the common goal of creating greater justice for individuals and groups. Yet 20th century political liberalism limits the kinds of arguments that ought to motivate political decisions. In this paper I explore how an inclusive political decision-making process can bring about a more just world. By relying on personal views and compassion rather than impartiality and reasonability, political actors can engage in a discourse that results in greater understanding among persons and lasting community change.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, April 27, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

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Doing Educational Research In Rural Settings: Methodological Issues, International Perspectives And Practical Solutions, Cl Gristy

Plymouth Institute of Education

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Comparative Humanities Review

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Comparative Humanities Review

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Students Of The Foreign , Nicholas K. Kupensky

Comparative Humanities Review

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“May The Forсe Be With You:” The “Animatistic Minimum” In The Mythological And Religious Consciousness , Kseniya Bychenkova

Comparative Humanities Review

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Do Russians And Americans View Space In The Same Way? , Evgeny Makarov

Comparative Humanities Review

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Overstepping Otherness: Christine De Pizan And Letitia Elizabeth Landon’S Genealogical Retranslations Of Canonized Text , A. Joseph Mcmullen

Comparative Humanities Review

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Transference And The Ego: A (Psycho)Analysis Of Interpsychic Translation , Lauren A. Rutter

Comparative Humanities Review

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The Great War Seen Through The Comparative Lens , Steven L. Mcclellan

Comparative Humanities Review

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Philosophy, Abstract Thought, And The Dilemmas Of Philosophy , James Rickard

Comparative Humanities Review

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Translation And Film: Slang, Dialects, Accents And Multiple Languages, Allison M. Rittmayer

Comparative Humanities Review

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“Don’T Steal Rolls”: Tolstoy’S Symposium On Love, Literature, Women, And Wine, Nicholas Kupensky

Comparative Humanities Review

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“A Light, Formed In The Heavens, Moves You”: Art And Sight In Dante’S Purgatorio As An Intermediary To Free Will And Love, A. Joseph Mcmullen

Comparative Humanities Review

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Purificatory Hermeneutics Of Desire, Kang Tchou

Comparative Humanities Review

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Recovering The Historical Arthur , Marcus Ladd

Comparative Humanities Review

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The Spirit Of Prospero: Fiction And Identity In Georges Poulet’S Phenomenology Of Reading, Graham Bippart

Comparative Humanities Review

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Poetic Proverbs, African Advocacy, And Melvin B. Tolson , Michelle Toumayants

Comparative Humanities Review

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