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The Academic Achievement Of Chinese-American Fluent English Proficient And Non-Minority Background Intermediate Grade Students (Bilingual, Asian-American), Edmund W. Lee
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
More than a decade has passed since the United States Supreme Court made its historic decision in Lau v. Nichols on January 21, 1974. Ruling in favor of the non-English-speaking Chinese plaintiffs, the Court upheld earlier guidelines established by the office for Civil Rights for school districts with more than five percent national origin-minority group children. In delivering the Court's opinion, Justice Douglas reiterated these words of J. Stanley Pottinger, former director of OCR:
And Then The Letting Go, Kim Silveira Bowers
And Then The Letting Go, Kim Silveira Bowers
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The novel And Then The Letting Go involves protagonists Samantha Evans' simultaneous discoveries of her husband Don's infidelity, her own unplanned pregnancy, and the pregnancy of her unmarried, best friend Regina. These pivotal events act as emotional catalysts, ejecting Sam out of the passive restraints of her unhappy marriage into a frightening, yet exhilarating, life of active participation.
Within a nine month temporal framework, the novel explores a period of psychological gestation which results in the birth of her new Identity. Sam Evans passes from frozen passivity ("The nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs--") into a chilling confrontation with the "Hour …
Sexual Ethics In Paul, Chang Ho Maeng
Sexual Ethics In Paul, Chang Ho Maeng
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to determine the teaching of Paul in the area of sexual ethics. This is a significant issue for Christians in contemporary society. The method was to study the passages dealing with these things in authentic letters of Paul and to interpret them in the light of contemporary scholarship. This involved but was not limited to understanding the cultural background in Paul's time.