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"Returning To My Father" : A Decolonial Reading Of Lk 15:11-32 Towards A Reconstruction Of African Theological Anthropology For Authentic Sacramental Ethics Via Indigenous Divinity Graduate Schools., Besem Etchi

Graduate Student Research Symposium

This paper makes three hermeneutical contributions: (1) By uncovering the Indigenous Norse zero-point subtext structuring today's Catholic liturgy, the paper constructs ancestral primacy as the delinking methodology for indigeniztion; (2) By emphasizing ritual as transformative technology for identity and relationship, in its wielding of neurolinguistic programming, the paper establishes indigenous epistemology as the proper spatial locus for any symbolic exchange that emerges authentic sacramental ethics; (3) By discussing the possibilities that creating indigenous Divinity graduate schools in African countries offers, a path of realizing sociopolitical stability and harmony in African states as a communal body is systematized.

With the ritual …

Expressions Of Sentiments During Code Reviews: Male Vs. Female, Rajshakhar Paul, Amiangshu Bosu, Kazi Zakia Sultana

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

As most of the software development organizations are male-dominated, many female developers encounter negative workplace experiences and report feeling like they 'do not belong'. Exposures to discriminatory expletives or negative critiques from their male colleagues may further exacerbate those feelings. The primary goal of this study is to identify the differences in expressions of sentiments between male and female developers during various software engineering tasks. On this goal, we mined the code review repositories of six popular open source projects. We used a semi-Automated approach leveraging the name as well as multiple social networks to identify the gender of a …

"Where Was I?": Linguistic Reprocessing In Distracted Reading, Katrina Hillam

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis examines the impact of repeated auditory and task-oriented distractors on linguistic processing. Impact was measured through eye tracking software recording first fixation duration, gaze duration, and total time spent on distractor words. This study found consistent significant difference only in the total time category, suggesting that the processing stage most impacted by distraction is global context—our awareness of how a word fits in to the paragraph at large. Participants were skilled at regaining reading speed after distraction, showing no overall impairment for other processing levels. This phenomenon could be dangerous for student comprehension, as reading speed will be …

Hearing On The Deaf Penalty: The Intersection Of Deafness And Criminal Justice, Kabrianna Tamura, Elaine Gunnison

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"The Deaf population in America's criminal justice system is far under-acknowledged, researched, and accommodated. Each year, gross negligence toward Deaf individuals results in exponentially costly lawsuits regarding violations of their constitutional and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) rights. The purpose of this study is to empirically identify the current deficits experienced by the Deaf within the criminal justice system through 18 qualitative interviews with two sub-populations: Deaf individuals who have directly interacted with the criminal justice system and professionals who witness the interaction of the Deaf within the criminal justice system. Results from the qualitative investigation revealed that the top …

Лол—Comparing Expressions Of Humor Used In Memes By Russian And English Speakers, Teya Jensen

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis explores trends in the types of humor used by Russian and English speakers in the creation and perpetuation of internet memes. The purpose of this project is to better understand the impact of the globalizing effects of the internet on social identity. Most current scholarship addressing the effects of memes on social communication and research into the specific trends of humor on the internet, focuses on the meme culture of English-speakers. Some researchers have focused on analyzing meme use in other countries, but they have not compared American and Russian humor.

This project demonstrates how patterns of pastiche, …

The Effect Of Caregiver Self-Efficacy On Health And Nutrition Outcomes In Young Children Enrolled In Head Start, Kristy Feden

Student Work

Healthy development in the earliest years provides the foundation for adult health, while healthy adults comprise a thriving workforce. Investing in the health of young children is paramount to prevention of chronic diseases in later adulthood. Quality early childhood programs have an opportunity to maximize the healthy development of children by intentionally increasing caregiver self-efficacy as it relates to completing tasks associated with preventive care. The purpose of this exploratory data analysis study was to learn more about the relationship between level of caregiver self-efficacy and their ability to achieve required health and dental outcomes for children enrolled in a …

Examining Seamus Heaney's Poem "A Herbal": A Corpus Stylistic Approach, Eman Adil Jaafar

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study aims at analyzing a selected poem "A Herbal" written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century; Seamus Heaney. The methodology is a corpus-based one. Using the tools of the computer to analyze and interpret poetry allows readers/ researchers to examine to what extent technology can bring the attention to crucial details that might be missed by human manual analysis. This does not imply that the later analysis should be neglected, but to emphasize employing both of the analyses to reach much more reliable results. In short, this study is qualitative and quantitative in nature This …

A Developmental-Longitudinal Study Of Request External Modifiers In Authentic And Elicited Data, Shurooq Abboodi Ali

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This developmental-longitudinal study aims to investigate the pragmatic development of Iraqi EFL learners in the use of external modifications of request over four years of study in authentic and elicited data. The authentic data is natural requests of Viber and WhatsApp while the elicited data is discourse completion test (DCT). The researcher has collected 202 authentic messages and 192 elicited messages from 24 learners. The external modifications are coded based on Blum-Kulka, House and Kasper’s (1989) and Economidou-Kogetsidis’s (2011) taxonomy of external devices.

The results unveil that there is an evidence of pragmatic development in the learners’ use of external …

The Problem – Solution Pattern In Hemingway’S Cat In The Rain, Sarab Khalil Hameed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The ‘problem – Solution’ model of discourse structure, developed by Winter (1969, 1976, 1977) and extended by Hoey (1979, 1982, 1983) is one of the few models which combine surface linguistic study and local levels of text analysis with the overall structure of text. This model has been used in the analysis of non-narrative texts.

It is hypothesized that:

The study aims at investigating the validity of the above hypotheses by using Hoey’s model of analysis on Hemingway’s Cat in the Rain.

The analysis of the short story proved the validity of the proposed hypotheses and revealed the following:

The …

The Effect Of Teaching Idioms From Numbers In English On Iraqi Non Specialists Students’ Comprehension, Yasien M. Taher

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research consists of two parts: the theoretical part and the practical part. The first part provides a general description of idioms and idiomatic expressions. The definition of the idiom depending on different points of view and theories, its composition and types according to different standards and criteria, and the relation between the idiom and other linguistic phenomena were given in detail. To give a simplified and complete image about idioms and to pave the way to the second part of the research, which focuses specifically on one type of idioms "idioms from numbers", all aspects regarding the idiom should …

Irish Poets: Keepers Of National Lore, Amal Nasser Frag

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This paper discusses three noteable Irish poets: Augustine Joseph Clarke (1896-1974), Richard Murphy (1927- ), and Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967), who are considered as keepers of national lore of Irland. It explains these poets’ contribution to world literature through the renewal of Irish myths, history, and culture. Irish poets tackle the problems of Irish people in the present in a realistic way by criticising the restrictions imposed on the Irish people in their society.Augustine Joseph Clarke’s poems present a deep invocation of Irish past and landscape. While Richard Murphy offers recurring images of islands and the sea. He explores the personal …

Pragmatic Study: Iraqi Efl Learners' Performance In, Haqi Ismaaeel Ghanim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study deals with adverbial movements as one of the common methods in the origin of the English language on the one hand, and because it is problematic for learners of English language on the other hand. The study assumes that Iraqi learners face difficulties in using these adverbial. Their performance at the cognitive level is better than the productive level. The hypotheses were varied through the adoption of a diagnostic approach to ten questions. The research was carried out on a sample of 190 students from the English language learners. Where the answers to the topics were collected and …

Duality Of Intentionality And Benificity Of The Grammatical Analyses Of Ibinalhajib(D. 646 H), Riyadh Abood Ehwain

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This paper addresses the issue of the width of the traditional grammatical discourse in embracing the modern pragmatic approach Besides, it refers to the fact that Arabic grammar is not mere a collection of formal rules alternately introduced and discussed by Arab grammarians, but the grammarians' thinking has a great effect in limiting meaning Therefore, the aim of this paper is to shed light on the mature thinking of IbinalHajib drawing the guidelines and the rules of grammar He was very keen to see the grammatical discourse fulfilling its goals as initiated by the speaker In addition, this serves the …

Channels Of Communication And Interaction Between Arabs And Other Nations: A Critical Historical Approach, Assem Zahi Mofleh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The subject of this study is (communication skills between Arabs and other nations). This study came in three sections, with an introduction and a conclusion. Either the introduction was an introduction to the study, and lighting to work in it. I spoke briefly about the importance of communication skills, and I stood on the linguistic difference between impact and impact, which is the focus of research and the subject of study. The first topic is devoted to the study of communication skills between Arabs and other nations in the field of language. And concluded that the impact of non-Arabic languages …

Woman Stereotypes And Patriarchal Hegemony: A Feminist Stylistics Analysis Of Iraqi Folk Proverbs, Nassier A. G. Al-Zubaidi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present research examines the stereotypical representations of women and women's position in the discourse practices of Iraqi folk proverbs from a feminist stylistics perspective. Sara Mills' (2008) theoretical framework is adopted to analyze a sample of 315 proverbs drawn from written and oral sources. The analysis reveals that the sub-categories of woman in general and wife in particular are the most frequently targeted in Iraqi proverbs. Personal attributes are the most salient properties associated with Iraqi women compared to physical attributes. Women are generally represented negatively in the Iraqi proverbial discourse where proverbs are generally manipulated to disparage and …

Investigating The Contextual Meaning Of Idioms Of Animals In Some Selected English Colloquial Utterances, Mahmood Atiya Farhan

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

English is rich of idioms. Learning idioms is considered an integral part of vocabulary learning. Idioms of animals are very popular in everyday English and ESL and EFL learners should encounter them .The problem of this study is due to the fact that ESL and EFL learners may be unable to identify the intended meaning of idioms of animals since they are culture-bound and have colloquial sense. For example, “to beat a dead horse” has the abstract meaning talk about a topic other people think it is over whereas the contexual meaning is a failure or loser man. The current …

Needs Analysis Of The Engineering Staff At The Technical Instructors Training Institute, Nadia Majeed Hussein

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

It is often conceived that for any English language teaching program to be fruitful, it has to meet the needs of the participants. English for specific purposes (ESP henceforth) learners are typically adults who previously have experienced English and are willing to learn the English language to transfer some information and communicate a collection of specialized verbal activities and to execute certain occupation –linked purposes and functions. The engineering staff at the Technical Instructors Training Institute, Iraq, Baghdad/ Al-Zafaranyia have found some difficulties in linguistic communication in English which seems to be a necessary requirement to perform effectively in their …

Law's Enterprise: Argumentation Schemes & Legal Analogy, Brian N. Larson

Faculty Scholarship

Reasoning by legal analogy has been described as mystical, reframed by skeptics using the deductive syllogism, and called “no kind of reasoning at all” by Judge Posner. Arguments by legal analogy happen every day in courtrooms, law offices, and law-school classrooms, and they are the essence of what we mean when we talk of thinking like a lawyer. But we have no productive and normative theory for creating and evaluating them. Entries in the debate over the last 25 years by Professors Sunstein, Schauer, Brewer, Weinreb, and others leave us at an impasse: The ‘skeptics’ are too focused on the …

Merging Offensive-Speech Cases With Viewpoint-Discrimination Principles: The Immediate Impact Of Matal V. Tam On Two Strands Of First Amendment Jurisprudence, Clay Calvert

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

This Article examines flaws with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Matal v. Tam that equated giving offense with viewpoint discrimination. Already, the Court’s language in Tam that “giving offense is a viewpoint” is being cited by multiple lower courts. This Article argues, however, that giving offense is not synonymous with viewpoint discrimination. This Article contends that the Court in Tam conflated two distinct strands of First Amendment jurisprudence—namely, its offensive-speech cases with principles against viewpoint discrimination. The Article proposes two possible paths forward to help courts better clarify when a case such as Tam should be analyzed as …

The Functional Significance Of The Word Order In English Language, Mahzuna Shavkat Qizi Abdurasulova, Nilufar Azimovna Sadullayeva

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

This article is devoted to disclose the theoretical views of the grammatical and stylistic features of English word order. In English language the word order is definite and inflexible. Because of lack of words in English, so it makes constructive expression of person, case, number and tense. The word order plays a significant role in field of words relationships in a sentence. Any kind of sentence in English is one of the units of syntax that could give full opinion and it could consist itself a subject as well as a predicate. Moreover the word order arranges the orders of …

Ayyub Gulyamov And The Study Of The Case System In The Uzbek Language, Fazliddin Galievich Sharipov, Nasiba Xasanovna Toshtemirova

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

The article gives an overview of the history of the study of cases in Uzbek linguistics and provides comments on the study of the morphological system of the Uzbek language. This is the contribution of the linguist Ayyub Gulyamov to Uzbek linguistics. Contains information on the content of concepts in the Uzbek language parts of speech, root, base, suffix. There are also comments in the Uzbek language parts of speech, root, base, suffix. etc. in the works of Ayyub Gulyamov. Commenting on the history of studying the system of verbs in Uzbek linguistics, it is certainly necessary to refer to …

Principles Of Differentiating Of Genders In Uzbek Anthroponomy, Zulayxo Tuychieva

Bulletin of Gulistan State University

This article is devoted to the expression of the gender concept in anthroponyms. In the Uzbek language, the features inherent in the expression of the gender concept in the names of people, common and distinctive features inherent in the names of men and women are scientifically identified. In Uzbek linguistics, individual works performed on the study of the system of names of people are analyzed. In order to scientifically substantiate such important issues as the richness of the language and changes in the composition of the dictionary, the author put forward his views on the need to study the system …

Spartan Daily, March 14, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 152, Issue 22

“Divine Hunger”: Contextualizing Cannibalism In Slavenka Drakulić’S The Taste Of A Man, Carol A. Leibiger

Posters and Presentations

Slavenka Drakulić’s novel of 1995, Božanska glad or “divine hunger” (English title: The Taste of a Man) tells the story of Tereza, a Polish graduate student and poet, and José, a Brazilian anthropologist, who engage in a brief, passionate love affair while both are on research fellowships in New York City. José’s research focuses on the notorious episode of cannibalism by a Chilean rugby team that crash-landed in the Andes Mountains in 1972. Eating and sex are Tereza and José’s primary occupations during their three months together, as the partners seem to consume one another in a seemingly endless array …

Korean Scholars’ Use Of For-Pay Editors And Perceptions Of Ethicality, Eun-Young Julia Kim

Faculty Publications

Many Korean scholars rely on language professionals for preparing English manuscripts. So far, little has been reported on how Korean scholars utilize them and how they perceive various types of help received. This study examines how Korean scholars utilize for-pay editors and translators, and how they perceive various types of textual modifications incurred in the process, based on the data obtained through a survey completed by 88 Korean faculty from three universities. Half of the participants received proofreading help from for-pay editors, and fewer participants received help with translation. They held widely differing views on ethicality concerning scenarios that involved …

Redescription Of Anaschisma (Temnospondyli: Metoposauridae) From The Late Triassic Of Wyoming And The Phylogeny Of The Metoposauridae, Bryan M. Gee, William G. Parker, Adam D. Marsh

United States National Park Service: Publications

Metoposaurids are non-marine temnospondyls that are among the most common constituents of Late Triassic deposits, but despite their abundance, the evolutionary relationships of the group are poorly resolved and have not been fully addressed with modern phylogenetic methods. The genus Anaschisma is one of a number of poorly resolved metoposaurid taxa and was erected to describe two species from the Popo Agie Formation (Carnian) in Wyoming: Anaschisma browni and Anaschisma brachygnatha. Since being named, the genus has been repeatedly synonymized and separated with other taxa in the context of broader revisions of the Metoposauridae. At present, Anaschisma is considered …

Racial Disparities In A State Based Workers' Compensation System, Caroline Kristine Smith

Dissertations and Theses

Racial, ethnic, and linguistic minority workers suffer higher rates of work-related injuries and illnesses in the United States compared to their White counterparts. Explanations for these higher rates include potential socioeconomic causes (education, income, and wealth) and occupational segregation into more dangerous occupations. What is less studied are the post-injury sequelae for minority workers, which is their experiences in the workers' compensation system, as well as their health and return to paid employment. What is known comes primarily from qualitative literature, which includes themes of racial discrimination (from employers, health care providers, and workers' compensation employees), a lack of information …

Optimization Of Remazol Brilliant Blue R Adsorption Onto Xanthium Italicum Using The Response Surface Method, Mohammed Saleh, Mutlu Yalvaç, Hüdaverdi Arslan

Karbala International Journal of Modern Science

In this study, the adsorption capacity of toxic and recalcitrant organic pollutant(s) Remazol Brilliant Blue R (RBBR) onto the invader Xanthium İtalicum (XI) plant was assessed using the Response Surface Method (RSM). The adsorp-tion behavior of RBBR was determined by the spectrophotometric method, FTIR and SEM analysis were used to characterize XI, Brunauer, the Emmett and Teller (BET) analysis was accomplished to find the surface area of the ad-sorbent. The experiment procedures were planned by the Central Composite Design (CCD) whereby a model was built to examine the effects of the different parameters and the possible interaction between them. The …

Cops & No Counselors: How The Lack Of School Mental Health Staff Is Harming Students, Angela Mann, Amir Whitaker, Sylvia Torres-Gullien, Michelle Morton, Harold Jordan, Stefanie Coyle, Wei-Lung Sun

Showcase of Faculty Scholarly & Creative Activity

This report examines data provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights to better understand the prevalence of school-based mental health (SBMH) professionals in schools. Asserting that access to emotional, behavioral, and mental health supports are part of accessing a Free and Appropriate Education and are a civil right, Dr. Mann and her collaborators at the ACLU examine the impact of a lack of appropriate SBMH supports in schools. The report authors also examine the consequences of hardening of schools including the proliferation of law enforcement in schools.

Living Water: Groundwater And Wetlands In Gnangara, Noongar Boodjar, Sandra Wooltorton, Len Collard, Pierre Horwitz

Nulungu Journal Articles

Different languages, knowledge systems and ways of knowing impact upon shared understandings of place across and within landscapes. In this article we illustrate ways in which Noongar and English language-based understandings of groundwater and wetland interactions can inform a third space. Noongar knowledges recognise deep interdependences across social, linguistic, ecological, physical and spiritual domains, while English ways of knowing highlight separations and abstractions such as those between people and nature, and spirit and matter. The English language assumes a linear sense of time in which the past is always behind the present, where going forward is associated with progress. Noongar …