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Review Of: Gramática Para La Composición, Joan M. Hoffman

Modern & Classical Languages

Gramdtica para la composicidn reflects the understanding that written communication is more than a final product to be completed and forgotten. It is, instead, a process involving prewriting, composition and revision that must have a sound basis in grammatical knowledge and practice. The text is meant for students progressing from the intermediate to the advanced ACTFL proficiency levels in Spanish.

Review Of: Conversational Strategies In Akan: Prosodic Features And Discourse Categories, Edward J. Vajda

Modern & Classical Languages

The existing literature on conversation analysis (CA) has largely ignored the prosodic features that characterize spontaneous dialog, focusing instead on 'spoken prose, "invented" discourse, or written text'. This study is valuable both for the typological perspective its subject language brings to the study of CA, as well as for its innovative examination of a maximally wide range of prosodic features used in natural conversation-features that have all too often been ignored even in more intensively studied languages.

Review Of: Spanish Grammar And Spanish Reading Comprehension Cd Roms, Shaw N. Gynan

Modern & Classical Languages

Spanish Grammar and Spanish Reading Comprehension were tested on a Macintosh G4 400 MHz, 1024 x 768 display, 128 MB RAM, Apple CD/DVD. Both programs are designed for use by high school, college, and adult education students. Installation on the Mac is a very simple matter of inserting the disk and double-clicking on the icon that appears, which invokes the program. The screen goes black, meaning that the main Apple navigation bar is no longer available, and a window appears in the upper left hand corner of the screen displaying a menu with two options, Spanish Grammar and Comprehensive Spanish …

Senior Project Internship: Inside A Public Television Documentary, Nate Lepley

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This paper, in conjunction with the internship experience it describes, comprises my senior project at Fairhaven College and for Western Washington University’s Honors Program. My self-designed degree, or “concentration, is Documentary Production. Capturing Moments, Constructing Narratives. My concentration studies taught me how to produce media at a basic level and gave me a theoretical understanding of how documentaries ideally should be produced, but I needed experience in the real world to discover how they actually are produced in a professional setting. An internship with independent producers of a public television documentary provided that opportunity. In this paper, 1 will …

Review Of: Handbook Of Amazonian Languages, Edward J. Vajda

Modern & Classical Languages

Building upon the best tradition of missionary-inspired descriptive linguistic work fostered in connection with Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) activities, editors Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum launched HAL during the mid1980s as a means of attracting scholarly attention to one of the world's most persistently ignored linguistic areas. With the appearance of Vol. 4, HAL coverage of the Amazon now increases to three typological studies, four historical-comparative analyses, and ten grammatical descriptions of languages belonging to eight different genetic groupings. Unfortunately, this tally barely begins to approach exhaustive coverage of the region, since the rain forests of South America are …

Passions For Justice: Fragmentation And Union In Tragedy, Farce, Comedy, And Tragi-Comedy, Daniel Larner

Fairhaven Faculty Publications

This article examines the tragi-comic mode and some strong contemporary examples of the form, probing in detail the tragi-comic fabric through a look at farce, and searching for those ironic contours which shape our ideas of justice. The most powerful of these ironic contexts emerges as we see that our reforming ideas of justice are at one and the same time crucial, deep-rooted, fundamental, and almost ineluctable on the one hand, and fragmented, perspective-dependent, and hypercontextual on the other. The fundamental dimensions come out in tragic, comic, and farsic forms. The contextual elements are embedded in the content that fills …

Review Of: Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, And The Politics Of Race, 1938-1948, By Barbara Dianne Savage, Kevin Allen Leonard

History Faculty and Staff Publications

Most scholars have acknowledged the importance of the media- especially television-to the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. No one before Barbara Dianne Savage, however, had examined the role that radio played in the early years of the civil rights struggle. Broadcasting Freedom argues that the debates about race on the radio in the late 1930s and 1940s put in place the "ideological framing" for the later civil rights movement. Throughout the decade scrutinized by this book, African Americans tried to gain access to the national networks for programs about black history and the need for …

Looking For My Voice In The Rutabaga Patch: Confessions Of An Organic Writer, Anna Petersons

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Looking for My Voice in the Rutabaga Patch: Confessions of an Organic Writer is the Honors Project of Anna Petersons.

The Anglo-Irish Identity Of Elizabeth Bowen, Kara Munce

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

“One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it” {HOTD 97). When Elizabeth Bowen was born in 1899, the Protestant Ascendancy was living in the shadow of the past. After nearly a century of prosperity in Ireland, the tables were turning on them. Their wealth and power were waning. The Catholic Irish were rebelling. The future of Ireland was in turmoil. Motherless from the age of thirteen and forced to shuffle between various relatives during her childhood, Elizabeth Bowen struggled during these tumultuous times to come to terms with her identity. For Bowen, growing up both in …

Protestant Dissent In Nazi Germany: The Confessing Church Struggle With Hitler's Government, Jenisa Story

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgement on themselves ... Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience."

This passage in Romans highlights the struggle many have faced over the centuries regarding the relationship between church and state. While most Christians believe that God has …

Review Of: Handbook Of Amazonian Languages, Edward J. Vajda

Modern & Classical Languages

This thick book is the first supplement to the Handbook of Amazonian languages (henceforward, HAL) to appear in nearly a decade. Building upon the best tradition of missionary-inspired descriptive linguistic work fostered in connection with Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) activities, editors Desmond Derbyshire and Geoffrey Pullum launched HAL during the mid1980s as a means of attracting scholarly attention to one of the world's most persistently ignored linguistic areas. With the appearance of Vol. 4, HAL coverage of the Amazon now increases to three typological studies, four historical-comparative analyses, and ten grammatical descriptions of languages belonging to eight different genetic …

Paraguayan Language Policy And The Future Of Guaraní, Shaw N. Gynan

Modern & Classical Languages

Paraguay is unique among countries of the Americas in that a substantial majority of the population speaks an indigenous language, Guaraní. Socioeconomic and demographic dimensions of Paraguay Guaraní-Spanish bilingualism appear to favor the vitality of Guaraní, especially in the rural sector, well into the 21st century. The early nineties saw significant advances in language policy. Guaraní is now co-official with Spanish and bilingual education has been implemented in compliance with the standards for linguistic human rights of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. Despite these positive signs, education for literacy in Guaraní is limited …

Democracy Betrayed: Okinawa Under U.S. Occupation, Kensei Yoshida

East Asian Studies Press

Kensei Yoshida's Democracy Betrayed: The U.S. Occupation of Okinawa is easily the best history, analysis, and commentary we have on the United States's domina­tion from 1945 to 1972 over the unlucky people of Okinawa. It is written from an Oki­nawan perspective. Yoshida is of course aware that when the United States's formal do­minion over Okinawa ended in 1972 and it condoned a pro forma "reversion" of Oki­nawa to Japanese sovereignty, the semicolonial conditions he describes did not end. In fact, they continued and persist to the present day in an often exacerbated form. For the past fifty-six years, and with …

A Study Of Japanese-English Translation, Anne Cisney

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This is an on-line version of an Honors Program project by Anne Cisney. This on-line version does not contain Cisney’s translation of N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto. It does contain two essays, “The Art of Translation” and “My Translation Experience”, plus an annotated bibliography.

A complete version, with translation, of Anne Cisney’s Honors Program project, "A Study of Japanese-English Translation", is located in Western Libraries.

https://onesearch.library.wwu.edu/permalink/f/1jlslm9/CP71146670620001451

Creating A High School European History Class, Brien Mcguire

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This class shall cover the course of European history from the rise of the Greek Empire up to the most recent clashes in the Balkans. In all, we will cover about 3000 years of history in 180 days. During the first quarter of the year, we will explore ancient Europe during the time of the Greeks and Romans. The second quarter will take us through the darkness of the Middle Ages. Semester number two begins with a study of early modem Europe, including the Renaissance and Reformation all the way up to the start of the French Revolution. Finally, during …

Moons In Our Bellies: A Collection Of Earth Poetry, Alyssa Von Lehman

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Women writers from Sylvia Plath to Terry Tempest Williams to Tori Amos have described the poetry and stories they create as their children. Creating poetry is an organic, natural process and the result, the living fruit of our labors, is always intimately connected to its creator. If it fails, stops short of fulfilling its purpose, we are disappointed, our pride bruised, our abilities as mothers questioned. We did not nurture this one enough and its heart stopped before it ever opened its eyes; a stillborn, as Plath says. Or we may say that this one somehow has that intangible breath …

Life Through My Eyes, Heather Nicole Casler

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Life Through My Eyes, a collection of poetry.