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Heritage Learners Of Mexican Descent In Higher Education: A Qualitative Study Of Past And Present Experiences, Alicia Gignoux Jan 2009

Heritage Learners Of Mexican Descent In Higher Education: A Qualitative Study Of Past And Present Experiences, Alicia Gignoux

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This is a qualitative interpretive study that explores the past and present experiences of heritage learners (HLs) of Mexican descent who were studying or had recently studied advanced Spanish in institutions of higher education. All of the participants had been exposed to Spanish in the home and began their studies in elementary or middle school in the United States. The population of HLs continues to grow and a need to understand this population exists. The statistics have shown that not all HLs of Mexican descent complete their studies in institutions of higher education and the reasons for this are not …

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Wealth, Groups, Ethics, Katalin Martinas, Andras Margitay-Becht, Dana Herrera Jan 2009

Wealth, Groups, Ethics, Katalin Martinas, Andras Margitay-Becht, Dana Herrera

School of Liberal Arts Faculty Works

For centuries, many scientists, many disciplines focused on how people make decisions. These approaches tend to be incompatible, if not orthogonal most case. In this article we attempt to give guidelines to a modeling approach, that will allow the description of a human “state vector”, which can be the basis for many decision making algorithms.First we will introduce a categorization of the things that determine the decisions of the individuals, and describe their characteristics and trade. Since the trade of things in separate groups is done in different fashion, they form groups on different grounds. These groups, formed by interaction …

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The Spillikin (Vol. 26), Valparaiso University Jan 2009

The Spillikin (Vol. 26), Valparaiso University

The Spillikin - The Christ College Newsletter

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University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 05 - January 2009 Jan 2009

University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 05 - January 2009

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter features, among others, articles about energy-saving efforts, the University's entrepreneur-inresidence Dan Phillips and his role in student mentoring and the newly established Venture Development Center, and a UMass Boston initiative, in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Cherishing Our Hearts and Souls Coalition (COHS) of Roxbury, to reduce socioeconomically-based health disparities.

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Italian (Ital), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Italian (Ital), Montclair State University

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Applied Linguistics (Apln), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Applied Linguistics (Apln), Montclair State University

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Anthropology (Anth), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Anthropology (Anth), Montclair State University

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Computer Science (Cmpt), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Computer Science (Cmpt), Montclair State University

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Earth And Environmental Studies (Eaes), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Earth And Environmental Studies (Eaes), Montclair State University

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Justice Studies (Just), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Justice Studies (Just), Montclair State University

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History (Hist), Montclair State University Jan 2009

History (Hist), Montclair State University

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General Humanities (Gnhu), Montclair State University Jan 2009

General Humanities (Gnhu), Montclair State University

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General Education (Gned), Montclair State University Jan 2009

General Education (Gned), Montclair State University

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Family And Child Studies (Fcst), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Family And Child Studies (Fcst), Montclair State University

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Practical Anthropology (Pran), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Practical Anthropology (Pran), Montclair State University

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Philosophy (Phil), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Philosophy (Phil), Montclair State University

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Spanish (Span), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Spanish (Span), Montclair State University

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Psychology (Psyc), Montclair State University Jan 2009

Psychology (Psyc), Montclair State University

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Language, Emotion, And Imagination: Constructing Human Identity Through Hemingway's Work, Gorka Diaz Jan 2009

Language, Emotion, And Imagination: Constructing Human Identity Through Hemingway's Work, Gorka Diaz

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis examines how Hemingway’s use of language evokes emotions in his stories and how his particular way of evoking emotions affects readers. Hemingway’s style of providing vivid experiences for readers centers on the image as the dimension where emotions are offered, but also the dimension where the writer’s work converges with the reader’s reception of it. The reader reconstructs the text through the act of signifying emotions. This process of signification is made possible only through the use of the reader’s imagination. The study of the relation between emotion and imagination emphasizes that readers decode fiction as they decode …

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Avoiding The Peep Show: Talking From Within The Tattoo Community, Rhonda Dass Jan 2009

Avoiding The Peep Show: Talking From Within The Tattoo Community, Rhonda Dass

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Within the tattoo community in the United States, and specifically within the tattoo artist community, the historic legacy of the commodification of tattooed individuals has created a strong reaction against the idea that they influence people in choosing to be tattooed. The narratives of capture and forced tattooing vilified the people doing the tattooing not those receiving the tattoos. While the carnival barkers were not identifying American citizens as the "barbarians" that would inflict ink on an unwilling person, the association nonetheless came to be. To distance themselves from the image of the "savage tattooer", the tattoo artist community has …

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Reading Between The Lines: Understanding Assistants In Fieldwork, Rina Sherman Jan 2009

Reading Between The Lines: Understanding Assistants In Fieldwork, Rina Sherman

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In this presentation I will look at the various levels of interaction between the three agents, the researcher, the assistant and members of the community within which research is being conducted within the context of my fieldwork amongst the Ovahimba people over a period of seven years. The potential interaction between these three agents are manifold and can be questioned in a number of ways, of which: What the researcher wants, what the assistant thinks the researcher wants, what the assistant wants in terms of his or her respective relationships with the researcher and members of the community, what members …

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Outsourcing Sacrifice: The Labor Of Private Military Contractors, Mateo Taussig-Rubbo Jan 2009

Outsourcing Sacrifice: The Labor Of Private Military Contractors, Mateo Taussig-Rubbo

Journal Articles

Numerous scandals arising from the United States government’s increased use of armed private military contractors have drawn attention to the contractors’ legally ill-defined position. But the complexity of the contractors’ relation to various bodies of law and doctrine — including military law, international law, state tort law, employment law, and sovereign immunity — is not the only salient issue. The contractors are also awkwardly positioned in relation to the traditional understanding of sacrifice, which has structured Americans’ imaginings about those who kill and are killed on behalf of the nation. This Article examines the contractors’ relation to the tradition of …

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Planting The Promised Landscape: Zionism, Nature, And Resistance In Israel/Palestine, Irus Braverman Jan 2009

Planting The Promised Landscape: Zionism, Nature, And Resistance In Israel/Palestine, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

This article reveals the complex historical and cultural processes that have led to the symbiotic identification between pine trees and Jewish people in Israel/Palestine. It introduces three tree donation techniques used by Israel, then proceeds to discuss the meaning of nature in Israel, as well as the meaning of planting and rooting in the context of the Zionist project. The article concludes by reflecting on the ways that pine trees absent Palestinian presence and memory from the landscape, and explains how Palestinian acts of aggression toward these pine landscapes relate to the Israel/Palestine relationship.

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Searching For Conscientização: Mentoring Fieldwork In International Service-Learning, Lauren Jones, Jonathan Arries Jan 2009

Searching For Conscientização: Mentoring Fieldwork In International Service-Learning, Lauren Jones, Jonathan Arries

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The article discusses the methodology of the College of William and Mary's Modern Language and Literature's Summer Institute in Nicaragua, a service-learning course designed for current and prospective teachers of English as a Second or Foreign Language. The leaders of the course were a doctoral student in Social Sciences and Comparative Education and an associate professor in Hispanic Studies with a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. The multidisciplinary training of the course leaders and Paulo Freire's concept of conscientização informed both the academic content of the three-week course and their process approach to mentoring students' independence as they conducted their …

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The Memory Archive: Filmic Collaborations In Art And Anthropology, Alyssa Grossman, Selena Kimball Jan 2009

The Memory Archive: Filmic Collaborations In Art And Anthropology, Alyssa Grossman, Selena Kimball

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This paper forms the space for dialogue between a social anthropologist (Grossman) and a visual artist (Kimball), who have been collaborating on installations and films throughout the past decade. Our most recent films, including Into the Field (2005), and Objects of Memory (in progress) are shot on location in Grossman’s fieldwork sites in Romania, and incorporate sequences of stop-motion animation by Kimball. These films explore and question the conventional boundaries between art and anthropology. In this article, we examine the process of filming collaboratively in the field, and discuss the challenges and transformations we each undergo through sharing the literal …

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Practice In Mediated Space: Engaging 'Hobbiton' And Its Visitors Through A Constructivist Media Anthropology, Robert Moses Peaslee Jan 2009

Practice In Mediated Space: Engaging 'Hobbiton' And Its Visitors Through A Constructivist Media Anthropology, Robert Moses Peaslee

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This paper calls for a (re)emphasis in site-specific, open-ended investigation of individual experience as a viable and valuable strategy across disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities, especially in the face of ongoing trends toward globality, hybridization, convergence, and destabilization of symbolic and material culture. The paper is particularly interested in reporting on the application of such methodologies toward investigating the media-tourism complex, a constellation of government, industrial, and personal activity which relies on globally mediated conceptions of place and practice and which represents a dynamic and ever-present field of symbolic and actual capital within which consumers operate and …

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Eating The Allegory, Nicola Kountoupes Jan 2009

Eating The Allegory, Nicola Kountoupes

Theses

This project explores imagery, sense memory, and performance through the intersection of an event and the objects within it and at its periphery. The archaeological dig provides the emotional and intellectual setting for discovery, history, and cultural identity, as well as an outlet for creation (of new memories) and desire (for knowledge). The performance elements of the show, including roles portrayed by audience and participants, provide the uncertain layout and improvisational aspect that relies on people coming together in a moment that is unique. The ephemeral nature of a moment lends itself to construction of memory, so that it will …

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Measuring Youth Worker Efficacy Levels In A Not-For-Profit Youth Development Setting, Carly Jean Konecny Jan 2009

Measuring Youth Worker Efficacy Levels In A Not-For-Profit Youth Development Setting, Carly Jean Konecny

Graduate Research Papers

Albert Bandura's concept of self-efficacy has received much attention from researchers in a variety of fields and interests. Below is an analysis of the most prevalent research conducted using Bandura' s concept of self-efficacy. Discussed is a brief overview of the theoretical advances and various dimensions included in self-efficacy. Following this is a study based on an innovative aspect of self-efficacy in the youth development field, the concept of youth worker efficacy. This study analyzes youth workers in a not-for-profit youth development setting in Iowa. The study focuses on the variables of gender, age, experience, previous training in the field …

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From Sputnik To Minerva: Education And American National Security, Sean Kay Jan 2009

From Sputnik To Minerva: Education And American National Security, Sean Kay

Defense Horizons

This paper examines how external challenges have prompted national investments in education to enhance American national security. Rather than focusing primarily on traditional professional military education, this analysis examines how education has been used as a tool of American power. Four major moments of transformation in the international system are surveyed to illustrate a link between strategic educational capacity, defined as the application of attained knowledge and skills, and national power. The study then assesses how education is used as a power asset in the contemporary security environment. Today, an important educational capacity is emerging in the new Minerva program …

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Bisexuals Need Not Apply: A Comparative Appraisal Of Refugee Law And Policy In Canada, The United States, And Australia, Sean Rehaag Jan 2009

Bisexuals Need Not Apply: A Comparative Appraisal Of Refugee Law And Policy In Canada, The United States, And Australia, Sean Rehaag

Articles & Book Chapters

This paper offers an analysis of refugee claims on grounds of bisexuality. After discussing the grounds on which sexual minorities may qualify for refugee status under international refugee law, the paper empirically assesses the success rates of bisexual refugee claimants in three major host states: Canada, the United States, and Australia. It concludes that bisexuals are significantly less successful than other sexual minority groups in obtaining refugee status in those countries. Through an examination of selected published decisions involving bisexual refugee claimants, the author identifies two main areas for concern that may partly account for the difficulties that bisexual refugee …

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