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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 6, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, April 6, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

No abstract provided.

Proper Names As Narrative Gaps: A Deconstructive Reading Of Rosario Ferré And García Márquez, Dora Suarez

Honors College Theses

This thesis argues that language in general, and proper names in particular, are surreptitious examples of narrative gaps. In this way, in the context of literature, the narrative gaps enclosed in proper names enable the audience to become an active participant in a type of writing that exceeds the limit of the specific literary text at hand. In deconstructing the way in which proper names and nicknames are used by Rosario Ferré and García Márquez, this exposition shows how names, as conveyors of different identities, systematically enable an exercise of différance: they distinguish subjects while postponing an actual description of …

Martin Luther: Vater Einer Allgemeinen Sprache?, Annika Ewaldz

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Martin Luther ist nicht nur für den Beginn der Reformation bekannt, sondern auch für seine Übersetzung der Bibel ins Deutsche. Er übersetzte diese Bibel in der Zeit nach dem Reichstag zu Worms in seinem Versteck auf der Wartburg. Er nahm besondere Sorgfalt in diese Übersetzung, so dass jede deutsche Person die Bibel sollte lesen können. In seiner Übersetzung hielt er sich nah an der Latein-Versionen der Bibel. Er plädierte auch dafür, dass Deutsch die Lehrsprache an den Universitäten sein sollte, vor allem an der Universität Wittenberg, und auch dass Deutsch, statt Latein, die Kirchensprache sein sollte, damit jede Person verstehen …

April 5, 2014: Wright Lecture Wraps Up Speakers Series, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

From Course Creation To Final Examination: Using Video Game Concepts To Inform The Writing Classroom, Farrah Senn

Student Success in Writing Conference (1999-2021)

Despite the amount of negative media regarding video game play, young people between the ages of 8 - 18 spend on average 90 minutes per day playing them. The saturation of this game-based knowledge presents opportunities for what Gavriel Solomon and D.N. Perkins call "high road transfer" to composition. By first introducing faculty to a new way of perceiving video game play by re-conceptualizing games as "texts," this presentation draws upon a synthesis of relevant literature to communicate the breadth of cognitive processes involved in game play and to describe ways of integrating this prior knowledge into the writing classroom. …

Linguistics, Opie And Elip Faculty And Students Present At Call Conference, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Bison, April 4, 2014

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Agenda, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, April 4, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda from the April 4, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

The Impact Of A Curricular And Professional Development Intervention On Elementary Science Teachers’ Perceptions Of High-Stakes Testing And Accountability, Georgina O. Lindskoog

Open Access Dissertations

High-stakes testing and accountability (HSTA) is a topic largely debated because of the effects it can have on student learning. Teachers’ perceptions help determine teaching practices, ultimately teaching practices impact student learning, and unintended consequences of HSTA have been found to result in teaching practices that do not maximize meaningful student learning. The purpose of this study was to examine elementary science teachers’ perceptions of HSTA prior to an intervention and if participation in the intervention changed their perceptions. In addition, teacher professional variables (i.e., years of teaching and number of science courses taken) and school contextual factors (i.e., percent …

Boyd Briefs - Apr. 3, 2014, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Phenomenology Redux: Doing Phenomenology, Becoming Phenomenological, Thomas A. Conklin

Organization Management Journal

This article revisits the phenomenological method with particular focus on how it is meaningful for me. The effort is to present this method as a personal journey that has evolved over 13 years and to illustrate how it might become a more accessible approach for meaning-making and serving others. This is partly accomplished by dethroning it from its lofty philosophical perch such that it is available for daily use by practitioners, educators, and researchers. Further accessibility is provided through the presentation of various examples in health care, higher education, and personal reflections on the experience of understanding and employing phenomenology. …

Solorio's Research May Help Stop Cyber-Bullies, Plagiarism Or Even Terrorists, Natalie Wade

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The Missouri Miner, April 3, 2014

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

A Qualtitative Comparison Examining How The Educational Needs Of Students With Disabilities Are Met In West Africa Vs. The United States, Katherine Sniegowski

Honors Theses

The focus of this qualitative study was to examine the differences in services for students with disabilities In United States vs Dakar, Senegal.The strengths, weaknesses, and presenting needs of each system were addressed . The research questions addressed were: How is a disability defined?, (2) What support services are available for children with disabilities?, (3) What is the level of family support for children with disabilities?, Ind (4) How are teachers prepared 10 work with children with disabilities? The qualitative methodology used to examine the research questions include: personal interviews with school personnel in a self-contained school for children with …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 54, April 3, 2014, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Bi-Level Remedies For Human Rights Violations, Gerald L. Neuman

Harvard International Law Journal

This article seeks to add a different perspective to the important debate on the remedial practice of international human rights courts and tribunals. Currently, academic literature is dominated by attention to the comprehensive remedial practice of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which advocates consider the fullest and therefore best approach to international human rights litigation. This article proposes a different analysis, emphasizing that international courts and tribunals differ from national authorities, and also differ from one another. Ordinarily, the goal of international human rights institutions is to induce action at the national level, in order to remedy past injuries …

American Broadcasting Cos. V. Aereo, Inc.: Brief Of 36 Intellectual Property And Copyright Law Professors As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent, Jessica Litman

Appellate Briefs

Amici curiae are law professors who teach and write about intellectual property and copyright law at law schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States and Canada. We have no personal stake in the outcome of this case; our interest is in seeing that copyright law is applied in a manner most likely to fulfill its Constitutional mandate "to promote the Progress of Science," taking into account both the protections afforded to and the obligations imposed upon copyright holders and users of copyrighted works.

Educational Engagement In Boston’S Vietnamese Community: Asian American Studies Program Student-Faculty-Alumni Engagement With Teachers, Students, And Families Of The Mather School (Bps) In Dorchester, Asian American Studies Program, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

Founded in 1639, the Mather Elementary School in Dorchester is the oldest public elementary school in the US. In 2012, nearly 40% of Mather students were Vietnamese American from immigrant households. The Mather School’s Vietnamese Structured English Immersion (SEI) program is the largest in Boston. In 1993, Ngoc-lan (Loni) Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee student in education and Asian American Studies at UMass Boston, was hired as a 4th grade bilingual teacher. Many of Lan’s students later attended UMass Boston where they reconnected educationally with the importance of Vietnamese American identity, community, and empowerment in AsAmSt courses. In 2007, Lan visited …

Third Annual German Undergraduate Research Conference, Danielle Kamp

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

German Undergraduate Research Conference, Danielle Kamp

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

American Indian Oral Traditions And Their Relation To The Paleo-Seti Community, Rachel K. See

JCCC Honors Journal

Paleo-SETI is a social discourse which has seen rapidly increasing popularity since its conception in the late 1800’s. Its main focus is identifying evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial occupation of Earth in its distant past. The Paleo-SETI community commonly draws upon ancient oral and religious traditions, reinterpreting them as containing evidence of alien visitors. Commonalities such as ‘the flood’ and ‘cyclical time’ are also identified. Paleo-SETI thought also incorporates evidence of Supra human knowledge, anomalous archeological sites and seemingly unexplainabe advanced technology. This paper examined six American Indian Oral traditions and their relation to the evolving discourses in the Paleo-SETI community. …

Spring 2014, Teaching And Documentary-Making In Colombia : Linguistics Alum Nicole Chartier Studies Regional Dialects On A Fulbright In Colombia, Center For International Education

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Advocating For A Transitional Bilingual Education Program For English Language Learners, Sandy Ozimek

Policy Advocacy

This paper examined the development and implementation of a small Illinois school district’s English Language Learner policy, which advocated for the use of a Transitional Bilingual Education program. A number of challenges were addressed to provide English Language Learners with the same opportunity to attain high levels of academic achievement as English proficient students. Common English Language Learner program models were examined, and research that supported or refuted using students’ native language to aid in the acquisition of English was considered. An implementation plan addressed these challenges and an assessment plan ensured the policy met its intended goals so all …

Ciis Today, Spring 2014 Issue, Cakifornia Institute Of Integral Studies

CIIS Today

This volume is the Spring 2014 issue of CIIS Today, the Magazine of the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Religion And Ethnicity In The United States, Mark A. Granquist

Faculty Publications

Religion and ethnicity are deeply intertwined in American life. This does not mean that Americans cannot be one in the gospel, but we will need new models and new ideas of how to express our unity with one another that take into account the ethnic diversity of twenty-first-century America.

Undergraduate Scholarship At Winthrop University 2014 Book Of Abstracts, Winthrop University, Undergraduate Research Office, Winthrop University

Abstract Books

University College proudly presents the third Undergraduate Scholarship at Winthrop University Book of Abstracts, which chronicles the scholarly accomplishments of students throughout all five academic colleges in the university: College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Business Administration (CBA), College of Education (COE), the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) and University College (UC). The book also highlights the students who have completed Honors Theses, applied for Nationally Competitive Awards, and were selected as McNair or WISE Scholars.

The Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement Experience: A Workshop Report, Liana E. Chase

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Assuming Identities: Gender, Sexuality, And Performativity In The Silence Of The Lambs, Lynne Stahl

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In the introduction to Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick discusses the instability of the ignorance/knowledge binary, which generally equates the latter with power and the former with impotence. She argues that ignorance (or the appearance thereof) can be a tool of power as well, citing as an example the 1986 ruling by the United States Justice Department that employers “may freely fire persons with AIDS” provided that those employers “can claim to be ignorant of the medical fact, quoted in the ruling, that there is no known health danger in the workplace from the disease” (5). That this …

Wmu International News Spring 2014, Haenicke Institute

WMU International News

In this Issue

• Second-year nursing students review skills during a CHHS pre-fall refresher session.
• Demand high for WMU’s College of Health and Human Services nationally recognized academic programs
• Alumna helps China advance services for people with vision disabilities
• Sudanese “Lost Boy” finds home in WMU occupational therapy program
• International researcher honored by American Speech- Language-Hearing Association
• WMU, Fetzer Institute collaborative program responds to Latino demographics
• Sabbatical work in Bangladesh widens perspectives for OT professor
• Nigerian nursing major finds way to Kalamazoo through WMU TNE program
• Former Croatian National Team basketball player takes the court at WMU