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The Contextual Employment Of Verbal Clues (Surat Al-Alaq As A Model), Muhammed Abed Ali Alwan, Israa Abed Ali Hattab

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research is concerned with employing the verbal clues (phonemic, morphological, and grammatical) to reach the intentionality of the Qur’anic discourse, and consequently , these systems collide in determining what the linguistic context is, and this is what the idea of ​​the current research is centered on to reveal the mechanism of the dialectical relationship resulting from the interaction of these systems.

The Linguistic Structures That Underlie The Discretionary Tendency In Contemporary Arab And Islamic Thought - Najaf Fundamentalist School And Qom Fundamentalist School - A Model –, Ammar Abdul-Kadhim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The linguistic structure and its impact on the formation of ijtihad tendencies raise an essential issue of the link between words and their meanings, which bears the indication of the importance of the link and the relationship between language on the one hand, and ijtihad tendency on the other hand, and this relationship has accompanied and this connection raised a central question in the language About its nature and origin, which indicates this question of the juristic position of the language between the one who says the language and the one who says the language is conventional. Whoever says stop …

Proposing A Procedure For English Learners' Needs Analysis: Iraqi Vocational Schools As A Sample, Muayyad Naji

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research proposes a learners' needs analysis procedure that can be adopted before editing English textbooks, specifically for Iraqi vocational schools. The researcher explains the importance, the approaches and the procedures of learners' needs analysis, introduces a procedure that is thought to be practical and explains how it may be designed and/or developed. The main terms and concepts of learners’ needs analysis and those related to specific purposes have been defined. A questionnaire has been prepared by the researcher and then approved by experts as a research tool in its English and Arabic versions. Fifty vocational school teachers, supervisors and …

A Linguistic Perspective Of English Eulogies: An Analytical Study, Nadya Khairy Muhamed, Majda Sabri Faris

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present paper aims at shedding a spotlight on a significant issue in the western life, namely eulogies which are important practices in the western community employed in a funeral of a deceased / living person. However, writing eulogy requires a specific stylishness inscription in order to serve specific functions and purposes so as to mitigate or soften the gloomy effects of the event on his/her family or friends. Metonymy, mitigation of apology and hypophora are regarded as linguistic devices to convey the profound meaning of the eulogist in an elegant way. Exploring these devices , identifying their role in …

Do They Know Or Do They Think They Know? Analyzing Pre-Service Teachers Perceived Cultural Awareness, William Javier Rodriguez-Nieves

Theses and Dissertations

With an increasingly diverse population, are pre-service teachers confident in their abilities to teach Culturally and Linguistically Diverse students? The research available states the importance of teacher becoming culturally aware to work with diverse students, but little is known about how confident pre-service teachers perceive themselves to be in this aspect. This research study seeks to understand how teacher candidates in a teacher preparation program in the Midwest U.S. assess their levels of cultural awareness and how this informs their practice with minoritized students. To understand just how teacher-candidates perceive themselves and implement practices for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse students, …

Characterizing And Categorizing The Essence Of Sport Consumption Behavior: A Thematic Analysis, Sid Terason

The Qualitative Report

Sport consumer decision making is a complex process in which an individual evaluates, acquires, uses, or disposes of sport products or services. This qualitative study aimed to identify, understand, and describe the essential characteristics of sport products consumption behavior among professional athletes in Thailand. In-depth interviewing was carried out on 25 professional athlete consumers who responded to semi-structured questions regarding their sport goods consumption. Thematic analysis was performed on the transcripts to describe the essential characteristics of the consumption and to identify overarching topics. Following social constructionism, three themes (i.e., acquisition, use, and disposal) were analyzed and eight categories (i.e., …

Apology Meaning: Terminological Study In The Quranic Context, Fadi Abiddat

Al Jinan الجنان

This study addresses the meaning of apology construct in the holy Quran: through showing the constructs meaning, the importance of terminological studies in understanding the holy Quran construct (etymology) ,the study of its occurrence in the holy Qur'an ,and its uses in linguistic dictionaries .

Occurrences of the term in the holly Quran were first inducted ,followed by derivative forms description ,analysis of the form in which the term occurred ,as well as analyzing its particular meanings included ,in every occurrence ,and finally showing Connotations resulting from each form through the Context in which they occur.

Heroes Like Harvey Milk: Using Lgbtq-Themed Literature To Promote Critical Literacy And Social Justice In Fifth Grade English Language Arts And Social Studies, Jamie Carmack

Masters Theses/Capstone Projects

The purpose of this curriculum development project is to help practicing English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers in grade 5 construct and develop content-area curriculums that reinforce and support both critical literacy and social justice pedagogical frameworks for teaching and learning. This particular curriculum development project also addresses the ways in which English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers in grade 5 can use LGBTQ-themed curricular materials to not only promote critical literacy and social justice frameworks for teaching and learning but to also meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010) for English Language Arts, Ohio’s Learning Standards …

Mythic Circle #43, The Editors

The Mythic Circle

Is it just us, or was 2020-2021 the worst year of the past hundred years? Infections, deaths, lockdowns, and quarantines too long for human endurance just kept on keeping on, intensified by squabbles between proponents of collective health measures (masks, vaccines, social distancing) on one side and of individual personal liberties, regardless of the social and health impact, on the other. But through it all, artists continued to think, dream, and produce new work.

Contributors, The Editors

The Mythic Circle

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Nurse Educator's Role In Equipping Students With Culturally Competent Skills, Olukemi Kuku

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

Abstract

Nurse educators are responsible for preparing nursing students for safe and effective practice. Culturally competent care ensures patient safety and promotes positive patient outcomes. Twenty-first century society has bowed to globalization, immigration, emerging cultures, and subcultures. This phenomenon necessitates a broadening of the nurse educator’s perception of culture and strategies to facilitate student learning and preparation for effective practice. This article will examine the existing definition of culture and subcultures and discuss some strategies that nurse educators can use to facilitate student learning.

Chimes: September 13, 2021, Calvin University

Chimes

Freshman enrollment sees first growth in eight years by Harm Venhuizen

Calvin puts up historic numbers in 13-0 win over Finlandia by Jamison Van Andel

Student organizations experience loss in numbers due to COVID-19, chartering process confusion by Grace Toma

Presidential Search Committee hunts for new hire by Abigail Ham

Top five ways to get out and exercise while at Calvin by Jamison Van Andel

New art installations offer break from first semester stress by Ezra Craker

NSF grant funds STEM ambassadors, builds interdepartmental community by Timothy Lin

Faith, science and self-determination: the long history of vaccine hesitancy by Michaela …

Le Patrimoine Culturel Sahraoui Hassani, Identité Marocaine Et Développement Régional À Travers Le Projet Marocain D’Autonomie, Khadija Ennaciri

Dirassat

The Sahrawi Hassanicultural heritage, Moroccan identity and regional development through the Moroccan Autonomy Project

Throughout its history,Morocco has always hosted and defended a cultural diversity which gave him strength and singularity. It presents significant regional cultural, ethnic and linguistic specificities without contradicting itself with the national unity of Morocco. In fact, the question of cultural diversity has never arisen in Morocco as a counterweight to the power of the State to recognize regional specificities, On the contrary, the central power in its function of arbiter,did not seek to make one culture dominate over another. He clearly displayed his desire to …

Le Champ De L'Argumentation, Abderrazzak Rhazza

Dirassat

The Field of Argumentation

Argumentation has become one of the favorite subjects of literature in recent years, be it philosophical, logical, linguistic or psychological. In part, this interest is due to a certain almost general infatuation with everything that has to do with Communication. But on the other hand, it answers more fundamental questions, such as the status of ordinary rationality in relation to scientific rationality, or of natural logic in relation to formal logic. In this field, the theoretical approaches to argument are nonetheless so manifold, and their conceptions of the limits of its field so heterogeneous, that it …

Les Ait Baamrane De Sidi Ifni: Construction D'Une Identité Et D'Un Territoire, Mohamed Ben Attou

Dirassat

The Ait Baarnrane of Sidi Ifni: building an identity and a territory

In AitBaamrane, there exist a rich and diversified variety. They speak Tachelhit, the native Amazigh language of southern Morocco, they use a substantial vocabulary of words from Moroccan dialectal Arabic, classical Arabic, but also sometimes of Spanish and / or French, To this diversity of linguistic borrowings temporal, is added a construction of a complex local identity or the components of the exile of history, of holiness, of the border, of jihad (resistance) on the borders of the territory and the memory occupy a primordial place in the …

Generative Adversarial Networks For Classic Cryptanalysis, Deanne Charan

Master's Projects

The necessity of protecting critical information has been understood for millennia. Although classic ciphers have inherent weaknesses in comparison to modern ciphers, many classic ciphers are extremely challenging to break in practice. Machine learning techniques, such as hidden Markov models (HMM), have recently been applied with success to various classic cryptanalysis problems. In this research, we consider the effectiveness of the deep learning technique CipherGAN---which is based on the well- established generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture---for classic cipher cryptanalysis. We experiment extensively with CipherGAN on a number of classic ciphers, and we compare our results to those obtained using HMMs.

A Quest For More Equitable Experiences For All Students During A Global Pandemic: An Inquiry Into Remote Delivery Of De-Tracked Chemistry And Biology Classes, Mayra Cordero, Elizabeth Davis

Journal of Practitioner Research

Through our collaboration, we helped one another rethink and adapt the delivery of our de-tracked science courses for remote instruction as we finished out the 2019-2020 school year, with a particular focus on developing remote instruction practices that would support our learners struggling in our secondary science de-tracked classrooms. We derived three actions to take to target the needs of our students who struggled and to differentiate our instruction. We reduced the amount of material being covered to allow for deeper dives into content, prioritized depth of learning over breadth of learning; connected our remote lessons to our students’ real-world …

Students’ Lived Experiences During The Pandemic: Their Expressions Through Art And Poetry, Blake Beckett, Susan I. Johnson

Journal of Practitioner Research

Blake, a language arts teacher, and Susan, a visual arts teacher, were both committed to connect our students’ lived experiences of the pandemic with their academic learning in our new virtual classroom environments. Through this inquiry cycle, we were reminded of the critical role teachers play in addressing the social and emotional needs of their students, and seamlessly integrating those needs with academic goals. We chose to make our remote instruction platforms work for the individual needs of students rather than use a standardized curriculum enacted on an online platform (McQuirter, 2020). Our students responded, as evidenced in this essay, …

Ict Effects And Challenges Faced By English Language Learners In Education, A. A. Mirani, M. Al-Hamami, J. I. Mirani, M. S. Memon, H. M. Baloch, W. A. Dahri

Information Sciences Letters

We investigate the impact of the communication technology including the internet, wireless network, cell phones, and other communication mediums. It is shown that to improve the ways of teaching, teachers can be convinced that ICT should be an integral part of their teaching strategy. There is a thrust in the school sector for different ways of teaching, with the help of technology to improve the teaching-learning standards and various approaches have been applied including the dissemination of good practice and the investment in infrastructure and equipment. The prominent strategies like training programs are designed to raise the skills of teachers …

Blind Spots And Bottlenecks For Philosophy Of History, Bennett B. Gilbert

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Realist history does not meet many human needs. History needs a great deal more philosophy, but of what kind?

In his essay on this blog, "Reflections on Theory of History Polyphonic," Ethan Kleinberg suggests that historians often use theory to block change in their work rather than to advance it. One way they do this, he points out, is to include a little theory in order to inoculate themselves against greater and more fundamental challenges. They give or take a blow, and then hoist up their shield, thereby avoiding philosophy and miniaturizing it into "historical theory."

I cannot …

Co-Editors' Introduction

The Southern Quarterly

Introduction to 57.2/3 Southern Expatriates

How Democratic Is Democracy? A History Of Political Corruption In Peru, Kaitlyn Selzler

Great Plains Graduate Review

With the emergence of revisionist scholarship beginning in the 1960’s and 1970’s, scholars have taken terms which had absolute definitions, such as totalitarianism or democracy, and introduced different perspectives and methods which questioned the absolute authority of historical terminology. As a case study into these new historical methodologies, this essay seeks to answer the question: How democratic is Peru’s democracy? To answer this question, this research explores the deep seeded corruption in Latin America, specifically Peru, beginning in 1985 with the election of Alan Garcia, continuing through the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, and eventually ending with the current state of …

Expansion Of The Department Of Mathematics At Princeton University And The Founding Of The School Of Mathematics At The Institute For Advanced Study: 1900-1950, Andrew Beman-Cavallaro

Great Plains Graduate Review

From 1900 to 1950 Princeton, New Jersey, hosted two of the most prestigious institutions and provided a location for the expansive mathematical investigations taking place just before, during, and immediately after the Second World War. Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study housed, fed, and provided workspaces for an array of Mathematicians uncovering new research methodologies (resulting in the defeat of both the Nazi Party and the Empire of Nippon), the foundation for modern experimental Mathematics, and expansions of Theoretical and Applied Physics.

Professor's New Textbook Prepares Medical Students For Interactions With Spanish-Speaking Patients, Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The So-Called Series Qualifier Canon, Adam G. Crews

NULR Online

No abstract provided.

Understanding Pediatric Surgery Cancellation: Geospatial Analysis, Lei Liu, Yizhao Ni, Andrew F Beck, Cole Brokamp, Ryan C Ramphul, Linda D Highfield, Megha Karkera Kanjia, J Nick Pratap

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Day-of-surgery cancellation (DoSC) represents a substantial wastage of hospital resources and can cause significant inconvenience to patients and families. Cancellation is reported to impact between 2% and 20% of the 50 million procedures performed annually in American hospitals. Up to 85% of cancellations may be amenable to the modification of patients' and families' behaviors. However, the factors underlying DoSC and the barriers experienced by families are not well understood.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to conduct a geospatial analysis of patient-specific variables from electronic health records (EHRs) of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and of Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), …

Recent Developments In Coating Procedure By Using Direct Current (Dc) Sputtering For Optical-Medical Applications, Akram Jassim Jawad

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

Nano thin film coating procedure by DC sputtering technique has been reviewed, investigated, and evaluated by using different materials and device parameters in recent years. This report focuses on device factors that affect the thickness of nano-thin films for optical and optic-electric applications. These parameters including time, temperature, power, pressure, and flow rate of gases. The review provides more understanding meaning of the coating procedure by DC sputtering process.

On The Street Where I Live: Mapping A Spectrum Of Antiracist Messages And Meanings, Carla Chamberlin

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This paper describes a critical media analysis of antiracist messages from both teaching and research perspectives. Antiracist discourse of public media (yard signs and websites) was collected in two communities in the Northeastern United States in 2020 and are discussed here, first as a site of social construction of antiracism, and second as a model for pedagogy. As a critical media analysis, this study reveals antiracist messages on continuums from passive to active, low-risk to high risk, self-oriented to other-oriented, and detached “not racist” postures to actively antiracist stances. These continuums encourage interrogation of what it means to be antiracist …

The View From Ventress - 2020-21 Academic Year, University Of Mississippi, College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

News from the College of Liberal Arts

Listen To Your Doppelganger! Global Cultural Empathy For Educators: A Literature Review Based Conceptual Model, Papia Bawa Dr.

Journal of Research Initiatives

Our student populations' diversity now includes African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos, as classrooms represent various cultural backgrounds. This shift in student population dynamics brings fresh challenges to educator's unpreparedness to identify with the unique cultural identities of international students. The cultural dissonance that international students face compounds this challenge since the cultural unawareness and misconceptions may be generated from both educators and student groups. The Doppelganger Inspired Change Effect model or DICE discussed in this article is inspired by an extensive literature review. It elucidates a process of fostering global cultural empathy and preparedness of educators by linking such …