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Toward A Further Understanding Of The Extensibility Of Sign Languages, Jason Hopkins

Theses and Dissertations

Sign language video recordings have limited extensibility when compared with live, face-to-face communication by signers. In an effort to improve the extensibility of video recordings this study explores the possibility of leveraging a common meaning negotiation technique, depictional signing, to increase understanding of recorded texts. In an effort to gauge the understanding of depictional signing compared to lexical signing a Recorded Text Test was devised using two texts, one with a high number of visual depictions, the other with a high number of lexical signs. While a comparison of the results of the two tests did not substantiate the hypothesis …

Jack London: Landscape, Love, And Place, Kristin Yoshiko Ladd

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In Jack London: Landscape, Love, and Place, American Studies theories and methods formed the prime basis for analysis of London's biography, historical context, and literary significance. Particularly, the ideas of agrarianism, the Turner Thesis moment, Western literature, American masculinity, Victorian ideals, and sustainable farm practices in America were used to understand London's motivations for writing and creating his farm, his influence on American literature, and his texts' abilities to open avenues between literature and place-based education. Key concepts that influenced how London's works could be incorporated into and applied to didactic theory included David Sobel's seminal works in place-based education. …

Dams, Roads, And Bridges: (Re)Defining Work And Masculinity In American Indian Literature Of The Great Plains, 1968-Present, Joshua Tyler Anderson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In the study of contemporary American Indian literature, the definition of work and the characterization of Native and non-native laborers—farmers, ranchers, lawmen, smugglers, Indian Affairs agents, academics, activists, "traditionalists," tour guides, artists, among others—are rarely the lenses that scholars use to interpret the texts. Instead, issues of class and labor often take a backseat to those of cultural survivance and traditional and/or "mix-blood" identity, resistance to historical and ongoing acts of colonialism, reassertion of treaty rights and cultural practices, and reclamation of land and cultural artifacts. However, although the canon of contemporary Native literatures warrants close attention to these issues, …

The Taste Of Mathematics: Caroline Herschel At 31, Laura Long

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The poem brings to life how Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) learned mathematics from her brother William as they began to work as professional astronomers.

My Mathematics, Karen Morgan Ivy

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This poem reflects a personal kaleidoscopic perspective into a world of actively engaging others in teaching and learning mathematics.

Math Stories: Learning And Doing Mathematics Through Fiction Writing, Frederick Chen, Janna Raley

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In this paper, we advocate the writing of mathematical fiction (i) as an aid for students in learning mathematics, and (ii) to engage students in doing mathematics.

Colour And Light In Design - Levels Of Experiencing Colour And Light, Ulf Klarén, Harald Arnkil, Karin Fridell Anter

Learn X Design Conference Series

In our designed culture, every environment, object and picture is analyzed from the viewpoint of colour and light. Colour and light play an important role in social life and culture. This paper springs from an epistemological project about concept formation in the field of colour and light. Based on own observations and scientific and scholarly references it presents a graphic model describing possible constituent relations between colour and light experiences. Design is the art of using knowledge – implicit or explicit – about how humans perceive, experience, and relate to the world around. In design all senses are involved, but …

Index Of Mentions Of St. Augustin's Church And School In Newport Daily News, 1940-1969, Patrick F. Murphy

Patrick Murphy Collection on St. Augustin Parish and School

List of mentions of the St. Augustin's Church and St. Augustin's School in the Newport Daily News, listed alphabetically by subject with date.

What Kind Of Asian Are You?, Uyen T. Le

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You don’t know anything about me. You’ve never been to my country; you don’t know my native language; you may not even be able to locate Vietnam on a map.

And that’s ok. What matters isn’t that you already know about my country and my culture. What matters is your attitude toward learning about it. [excerpt]

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

CLASS Notes

No abstract provided.

Representing Islam In The Eyes Of The Self And The Other: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Newspaper Articles, Dewi Hermawati Resminingayu

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Since terrorism in Indonesia was associated to Moslem extremists, news regarding Islam has been mostly associated with those two aspects. In results, the concern of researches related to Islam in media only focuses on terrorism issue. Providing this background, this research is aimed to raise the issue related to Moslems and the Chinese minority in Indonesia, specifically in the celebration of Chinese New Year 2013 which is associated with Islamic issue. The data of this research are two newspaper articles. The first article is written by a journalist working for Agence France Presse (AFP) as the foreign media. Meanwhile, the …

Pronoun Production Order In A Gender-Neutral Language: A Single Case Study Of A Typically Developing Indonesian Child, Bernard A.J Jap

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Research in children with normal language development has shown that there is a certain order in the production and learning of pronominal forms. To one’s knowledge, there has yet to be a study on the pronoun development of Indonesian speaking children whose native language do not distinguish between the nominative-accusative form (e.g. in English, I/me – Indonesian, saya/saya) and at the same time being gender neutral (e.g. in English, he/she – Indonesian, dia/dia). The present study follows the personal pronoun development of a (Jakarta) Indonesian-speaking child from 24 months to 46 months of age.

Code-Mixing Among Students Of English Literature 2009 In Universitas Indonesia, Andari Ditya

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

People today are more globalized than before, and most of them are now able to speak more than one language. It also happens among the English Literature students 2009 in Universitas Indonesia who are able to speak English in their daily conversation. This may lead to the phenomenon called code- mixing. However, this code-mixing focuses more on written communication in their social media’s status. There are two major points that this paper attempts to make. First, the description of code- mixing itself according to the theory given by Wardhaugh (1986) and Hoffman (1991) and how it can be reflected into …

Fulla’S And Barbie’S Images In Relation To Women’S Beauty And Cultural Difference, Juwita Anindya

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Most people know Barbie, a doll that conveys some values about culture and about the concept of women’s beauty. However, Barbie only represents one specific culture, which is Western culture. Different with Western culture, Eastern culture needs a doll who can represent their values. Then, Fulla appears as the representative of Eastern beauty. Fulla conveys some values about Eastern culture and about the new concept of women’s beauty which are different from Barbie. Fulla’s appearance here is thought can emphasize the cultural differences among the society, but it can give another choice to shape people’s new thought about the beauty …

Identity Transformation Of Josephine Alibrandi And John Barton In The Novel Looking For Alibrandi (By Melina Marchetta), Ferdi Ferdi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This paper examines the progress of identity transformation of Josephine Alibrandi and John Barton in the novel Looking for Alibrandi. Josephine and John come from different family backgrounds. Josephine comes from an Italian immigrant family who lives in suburban area, while, John Barton comes from a politician family in Australia. Although they come from different family backgrounds, they still have the same problems in their identities. Their desire to be seen as themselves in the society makes them intend to find their identity. The reason I intend to do a research in this novel because I think this novel is …

Classroom Architect: Integrating Design Thinking And Math, Jain Kim, Swee Hong David Kwek, Colin Meltzer, Pilar Wong

Learn X Design Conference Series

Classroom Architect is a project-based curriculum that uses the principles of design thinking to review mathematical concepts, such as measurement, scale and area. The anchor task in this curriculum is to create a 3-D virtual model of the ideal classroom, based on the data the students collect. The curriculum uses design thinking as leverage to help students transfer classroom knowledge to real world problem-solving situations. Specifically, the students go through design thinking process -- user needs discovery, ideation, prototype and redesign. In each step of the process different mathematical concepts are reviewed and reinforced through their application to the task. …

Johnson, Leland Ross, 1937-2014 (Mss 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 462. Photocopies of original correspondence, telegrams, and reports housed at the National Archives as well as newspaper articles, correspondence and research notes related to the James Gang’s robbery at Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

List Of St. Augustin's School Graduates, Patrick F. Murphy

Patrick Murphy Collection on St. Augustin Parish and School

List of graduates of St. Augustin's School, listed by class year, with death dates. Some married names are also added.

Wooten, William H. (Sc 2753), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2753. Promissory note, 15 November 1858, of William H. Wooten and Company, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Pleasant Hines for $165.00. Includes notation by Hines acknowledging receipt of payment.

Natural History Museums Of Early Utah Settlement, Leslie Evens

Library Research Grants

No abstract provided.

Birthday Party, Cheesecake, Jelly Bean, Boom: The Easy Sesquicentennial Ends, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

There's been a good deal of digital ink spilled recently over whether the sesquicentennial is over. A provocative question can erupt into a torrent of thought.

But those thoughts have been brewing in my mind for a while now, since the whirlwind here in Gettysburg died down to a dull roar from the fever pitch of a few weeks ago. The tourist tide has subsided. The streets are easier to drive.

But most importantly, the press inquiries have died away. Nearly every day of the anniversary week, I had an e-mail or a voice-mail asking me to help a reporter …

Voting Blocks, Julian Maxwell Hayter

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

In 1971, Creighton Court resident Curtis Holt filed a monumental lawsuit against the city. His suit attacked an increasingly problematic, yet subtle form of institutionalized racism — the dilution of African-Americans’ growing voting power. Richmond had annexed 23 square miles of Chesterfield County a year earlier to head off the city’s growing black electorate and keep City Council predominantly white. Holt’s suit charged that blacks would have won a council majority in 1970 had Richmond not added 47,000 suburbanites, only 3 percent of whom were black.

Knowledge Generation In Doctoral Design Education, Martina Maria Keitsch

Learn X Design Conference Series

Knowledge generation in doctoral design education and its endeavour to meet a variety of interdisciplinary issues from engineering to aesthetics, sustainability and stakeholder requirements can be labelled with what Rittel and Webber called a “wicked problem” [1]. The following article reflects on conditions, methods and challenges to combine design theory and design research practice on a doctoral level. The study case for these reflections is the PhD course, PD 8300: “Topics in design research” at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The course introduces among others a disciplinary architecture for industrial design and three theory of science philosophies related …

Civil War, 1861-1865 - Draft (Sc 1090), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1090. Commutation money receipt given to Henry J. McLean, Owensboro, Kentucky. McLean, a colonel drafted into the Union army from Kentucky’s 2nd Congressional District, paid $300 to receive a discharge from further liability for the draft. Receipt signed by George D. Blakey.

Stanley, John Hart, 1808-1878 - Relating To (Sc 1091), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1091. Holographic copy of memorial comments related to the death of John Hart Stanley, a Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer, who represented the 5th District in the state legislature. He was a state senator when he died, having been elected in 1875. Includes holographic copy of a campaign flyer used in his senatorial race.

Nazro, Johanna Louisa (Underwood), 1840-1923 (Sc 1089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1089. Will of prominent Bowling Green, Kentucky native Johanna Louisa (Underwood) Nazro, filed on 28 July 1924 after her death on 14 November 1923.

Mckinney, Thurman Ray, Jr., 1931-2008 (Sc 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1093. Baby book of Thurman Ray McKinney, Jr. kept by his mother Emily while living in Somerset and Louisville, Kentucky. Includes Ray's report card for 2nd grade from Bowling Green's 11th Street school; photos of family members and schoolmates; and copies of his mother's obituary and death certificate.

Simons, J. R. (Sc 1092), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1092. Three letters, June-December 1863, from J. R. Simons, serving with the Union army near Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his cousins Harriet and Nancy Trout, Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky. He describes the fighting at Vicksburg as well as conditions before and after the battle.

Index Of Mentions Of St. Augustin's Church And School In Newport Daily News, 1900-1940, Patrick F. Murphy

Patrick Murphy Collection on St. Augustin Parish and School

List of mentions of the St. Augustin's Church and St. Augustin's School in the Newport Daily News, listed alphabetically by subject with date.

Owning Up To The Age Old Excuse, Emily G. Hauck

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A few days ago, I was having a conversation with an older gentleman. He was friendly and very interested in my studies, but every now and then he would interject some racist slur or joke. He insistently referred to undocumented individuals as illegals because, according to him, “that’s exactly what they are.” He also made a few comments about Aryan dominance yet claimed that he wasn’t racist because he discriminates against all non-Aryans equally. The man clearly expected me to laugh along with him, especially with those last remarks, as if it were completely normal to utter them in an …