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2018 Naccs Scholar Award Speech, Rosaura Sanchez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

University Authors, 2018, Montclair State University, Harry A. Sprague Library

University Authors

No abstract provided.

New Frontiers 2017-2018, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Office Of Graduate Studies And Research

New Frontiers

New Frontiers 2017-2018 Features:

• Educating Educators - Dick Meyer
• Career in Chemistry - Christopher Exstrom
• 18th Century Appeal - Denys Van Renen
• Printmaking Perfection - Victoria Goro-Rapoport
• Technology, Teaching, Teamwork - Angela Hollman
• Framing the Future of Fuel - Frank Tenkorang
• Strength Training, Nutrition, Exercise Science - Greg Brown
• Motivated by Mint - Bryan Drew

Women's And Gender Studies Spring 2018

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

On Friday, March 9, the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha hosted the annual No Limits Student Research Conference. This year’s conference featured Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (pictured below), founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College. Dr. Guy-Sheftall’s talk was “Gender and Activism in These Times.”

In all, 40 students presented their work at the conference. In addition to UNO, UNL, and UNK, students and faculty came from Hastings College, the University of Denver, Kansas State University, the University of Oklahoma, …

Syntax, Newsletter Of The Suffolk University English Department, Issue 2, 2018, English Department

Syntax Newsletter of the Suffolk University English Department

No abstract provided.

Sociolinguistics Ii: Deviance, Dystopia, And Democracy (Ling82) Syllabus, Jamie A. Thomas

Digital Humanities Curricular Development

This course builds upon foundational concepts in sociolinguistic theory to examine discourses of news and entertainment media, across science fiction and politics. Drawing upon contributions in applied linguistics, media studies, cultural studies, and archival research, we ask which realities are mirrored in our everyday language and in the fictional and sensationalized worlds we engage in through the media we consume. What role does science fiction play in our explorations of social difference, deviance, control, disability, sexuality, and normativity? Can science fiction assist the goals of social justice and democracy? How does language surface in the biopolitics of human and non-humans? …

Queer Turn: 2018 Proceedings Complete, Linda Heidenreich, Maria Gonzalez, Francisco Villegas

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Southern Register. 2018.2 (Spring/Summer 2018), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Amjambo Africa! (April 2018), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

Welcome to Amjambo Africa! Welcome to Amjambo Africa! We are Maine’s free newspaper for and about New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Amjambo Africa! is here to help New Mainers thrive and to help Maine welcome and benefit from our new neighbors.

Amjambo Africa! will serve as a conduit of information for newcomers as they navigate life in Maine.

Amjambo Africa! will include background articles about Africa so those from Maine can understand why newcomers have arrived here.

Amjambo Africa! will profile successful New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa in order to give hope to those newly arrived as well as make …

Emotional Intelligence And Leader Development: Measuring Trait Emotional Intelligence Scores Of Mid- Career Commissioned U.S. Army Officers, Stephan Lorentz Walters

Dissertations

The United States Army is preparing for the ambiguous and consistently changing realities of the modern world by developing leaders who are adaptive, mentally agile, and open to change. However, without instruments or tools that purposefully measure adaptability within each individual leader, it is challenging to determine the U.S. Army’s effectiveness at the strategic goal to develop adaptive and self-aware leaders.

The dependent variables of interest are the trait emotional intelligence scores of commissioned U.S. Army leaders who have at least 10 years of military experience. This quantitative survey based study samples (N = 28) mid-career U.S. Army Majors using …

Acquisition Of Word Spellings And Meanings During Reading In Nonnative Chinese Speakers, Yang Liu

Dissertations

This dissertation explored the acquisition of word spellings (orthographic learning) and word meanings (incidental word learning) during reading in adult nonnative Chinese speakers. Two studies were designed for this dissertation. In Study One, 45 Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) learners at intermediate and advanced proficiency levels participated and completed a character learning experiment in a self-teaching paradigm. Results indicate that CFL learners were able to use the phonetic regularity and semantic transparency of radicals to learn the spellings and pronunciations of new characters after limited exposures to the characters in a story context. In Study Two, 72 CFL learners …

What Is The Role Of Drag Art In Modern Day Spain?, Kevin Ludemann

Honors Projects in Modern Languages

Esta obra sirve para educar mejor al público y desacreditar estereotipos negativos y comunes que las Transformistas enfrentan al examinar el proceso de cómo ha llegado a ser al Transformista moderno. Específicamente, la pieza examina las preguntas “¿Cómo ha influido el arte de transformistas en producciones artísticas a lo largo de la historia Española en el arte de Transformistas en España hoy en día?” y “Cual es la meta, expresión del individualismo, la sátira social, el entretenimiento, o una combinación de los tres?”. La comedia comienza al examinar el papel de travestis en las Comedias que imitan a la sociedad …

Bryant Abroad: Comparing And Contrasting The Impact Of The Sie And Traditional Semester Abroad, Matthew Raggi

Honors Projects in History and Social Sciences

Bryant University is a global institution that provides a wealth of international opportunities for its students and faculty. The mission statement of the University is “To educate and inspire students to discover their passion and become innovative leaders of character around the world.” The Study Abroad (SA) programs the University offers are growing and allow students to explore the world outside of their traditional classroom. Bryant encourages global knowledge and SA is a means through which that can be achieved. By taking the Bryant mission statement and studying how those who go abroad and those who do not go abroad …

Cultural Context: An Argument For New Historicism Over Postmodernism In Analyzing Popular Literature, Conor King

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Lit Fest | ‘No Way In But Through’: The Essays Of Aisha Sabatini Sloan, April 12, 13, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Dislocation Of Cosmopolitan Identities In Eduardohalfon´S Monasterio, Nicolás Campisi

INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica

No abstract provided.

A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Higher Education Leaders As Portrayed In The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Colette Anderson Chelf

Dissertations

Leadership represents an abstraction of human thought. While functionalist theories propose leader-centric models, contemporary leadership theories embrace a postmodern paradigm acknowledging ontological and epistemological assumptions of qualitative study. This ideology suggests a multi-dimensional model of leadership that reflects the complexity and fluidity of leadership in practice. Emergent theories explore the social construction of leadership, rather than an individual leader’s traits or behaviors. Our collective understanding of leadership is manifest in the (re)creation of leadership as exemplified in social discourse such as newspaper reporting.

The purpose of the study is to reveal socially accepted archetypes assigned to higher education leaders, as …

Kiez Kieken: Observations Of Berlin, Vol. 2, Spring 2018, Maria Ebner, Paula Begonja, Evan Biancardi, Elodie Huston, Mckenna Lahr, Sophie Lee, Mackenzie Norton, Ann Pekata, Catherine Rabus, Timothy Uy

Modern Languages and Literatures Student Publications

With this journal Kiez kieken: Observations of Berlin the students’ articles of the course Berlin Tales: Germany’s Kiez and Metropolis taught by Prof. Maria Ebner are being published to open up classroom discourse to a broader academic community. Topics have been chosen individually by each student and involved first-hand fieldwork research in Berlin, Germany, between March 21^st and March 28^th of 2018 as well as continuous individual research throughout the course of the semester.

An Analysis Of Public-Private Partnerships In Infrastructure Of Provision Of Public Goods Through E-Governance In India, Murali Patibandla, Rupal Sethi

Working Papers

This article examines the public and private partnerships (PPPs) in investments in infrastructure of provision of public goods in India beset with institutional failures at several fronts. It draws insights from institutional (transaction costs) and information economics. The objective is to examine under what conditions PPPs succeed or fail. This article attempts to introduce (PPP) as a new form of governance structure that is efficient from the other structures in terms of contractual norms, transaction costs of uncertainty and asset specificity and information asymmetry through proper monitoring and incentive mechanism. Furthermore, we bring forth a few technological issues in applying …

Ripple Effect: An Examination Of Surfing As A Force For Positive, Lasting Personal And Societal Change, Sam A. Hayworth

Honors Theses

This study aims to demonstrate how the spiritual, sacred, and metaphysical components of surfing empower the activity as a force for positive, personal and societal change in a community. While many surfers are drawn to surfing for its spiritual attributes, traceable to its roots in ancient Polynesia, there are many others who embrace the sport for purely non-spiritual reasons. Quantitative data was collected by the research team to show how the differing views of these two groups of surfers affect three main areas: environmental ethics, personal growth and maturation, and general community outreach. The results of the study proved all …

April 2018, Global News, Haenicke Institute

Global News

• Political theorist links inequality, citizenship, education's promise
• Top geography students test skills in state bee at WMU
• Noble Laureate to give talk on peace building, women's rights
• Confucius Institute hosts 2nd Annual Chinese Bridge Competition
• Senior engineering students showcase projects at design conference
• Kal-Haven Hike-Athon to raise money for Zambian scholarships
• Field notes: An undergraduate on the path to discovery discusses her research
• Take advantage of global engagement opportunities in May
• Registration open for summer Chinese culture classes
• State's first lady announces fall summit to be at WMU
• Application open to incoming freshmen for study abroad programs

Student Development: The Relationship Between Student Leadership And Self-Actualization, Norman G. Oliver

Selected Honors Theses

This study compared two groups of college students’ levels of self-actualization from Southeastern University, student leaders and non-leader students. The participants’ levels of self-actualization were measured using the Short Index of Self-actualization (SISA). The study followed a cross-sectional design. Participants were recruited through in-person communication, emails, and an on-campus study recruitment software called SONA. The participants completed a questionnaire containing the SISA and various demographic questions. Results indicated that the findings of the study were not statistically significant; therefore, it could not be determined whether or not student leadership is positively correlated with higher levels of self-actualization. However, a replication …

What Is My Role In This Situation? A White Girl’S Perspective In Ferguson, Mo, Samantha N. Shepherd

VA Engage Journal

This paper is a self-reflection about white privilege after a service experience in Ferguson, Missouri in 2015. The paper draws on excerpts from a journal kept during the service experience in Ferguson and juxtaposes them with scholarship and news articles about privilege and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Manual / Issue 10 / Polychrome, Sarah Ganz Blythe, Editor-In-Chief, Amy Pickworth, Editor, David Batchelor, Gina Borromeo, Nicole Buchanan, Catherine Cooper, Darby English, Mara L. Hermano, Elon Cook Lee, Josephine Lee, Dominic Molon, Maureen C. O'Brien, Risd Museum 2017 Summer Teen Intensive Students, Elizabeth A. Williams

Journals

Manual, a journal about art and its making. Polychrome. "In art, especially, polychrome invites us to the dialogue that colors are always having amongst themselves. A history of polychrome could be a series of poems exchanged among colors. The exchange might exhibit something like perpetual newness, again and again revealing differently bent hues and movingly novel blends. It would be a short-line poetry, excruciatingly sensitive to tone. Its speakers would have no names, so it would confuse the psychology of human orientation. In this connection, a warning against rendering polychrome as a pure positive seems in order: the parties to …

Vol. 41 No. 1/2 (2018): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Macroeconomics Course Outline And Syllabus, Sean P. Macdonald

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Usft Digital Scholarship Services Annual Report: Fy 2017-2018, Digital Scholarship Services

Digital Commons @ USF Publications

The Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) department had an impressive year for 2017/2018, and we continue to grow and expand operations. New areas of expertise in the department include copyright & intellectual property, geographic information systems (GIS), graphic design, web services, and data management.

This is the annual report for FY 2017-2018, the second full year of DSS.

What Must Exist Before You Have A Civilization?, The Northridge Discussion

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Thoroughly Modern Millie, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2017-2018 Season

The year was 1922 and to live in Manhattan meant, for many, an era of wild optimism, carefree abandonment of antiquated social constraints and for women, unprecedented advancement in how they were perceived by those around them. Everything was lovely and in this age of liberated sensibilities, our heroine, Millie Dillmount enters with just such a need to rewrite her personal narrative. Thoroughly Modern Millie is, to me, a valentine to optimism and a love letter to love itself.

Thom C. Warren, Director

Who Owns North Carolina? Econometric, Geospatial, And Interview Analyses Of Land In Appalachian North Carolina For Land Policy Reform In The Appalachians: A Research Design And Findings To Date, Jacob Meadows

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.