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Classroom Modifications For Learning Disabled Adolescents: The Effects Of Inservice And Follow-Up Consultation On Four Regular Classroom Teachers, Lynne Chalmers

Theses and Dissertations

This study asked the question: What are the effects of an inservice on classroom modifications for secondary learning disabled students on the teaching practice of four highly able teachers? A secondary question asked was: To what extent are teachers‘ behavior and attitudes affected by follow-up consultation? The participants were four secondary regular classroom teachers representing four curricula areas (English, social studies, health, and biology). All four had been recognized as having the ability to work well with learning disabled students. The procedure used for the study was a form of naturalistic inquiry, specifically participant observation. All four teachers participated in …

Essay Review Of Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology By W. J. T. Mitchell, David E. Latane

English Publications

Review essay of an important book on the relationship of the verbal and visual arts.

Review: The End Of Man, W. David Beck

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Foreword To Antonio De Nicolas Powers Of Imagining, Patrick Heelan

Research Resources

Patrick Aidan Heelan, "Foreword" to Antonio de Nicolas, Powers of Imagining: Ignatius: a hermeneutic of St. Ignatius de Loyola using a new translation of his Spiritual exercises, his Spiritual diary, his Autobiography Autobiography, and some of his letters. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986). ix-xiv.

A Text For Reading, A Text For Deciding, Antonio T De Nicolas

Research Resources

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Did Jesus Really Claim To Be God?, Wayne Brindle

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Review: Exodus, Donald L. Fowler

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Advice From The Apostle Paul, Paul R. Fink

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Genius And Monologue, Ken Frieden

Books

"Genius is the intellectual obsession of our time," Ken Frieden writes, "and monologue is one symptom of the disorder." From ancient, spiritual conceptions of genius to modern notions of the extraordinary mind, Frieden traces associated philosophic and literary expressions of inspiration and individuality.

Frieden juxtaposes the evolving forms of genius with traditions of monologue in pre-Shakespearean and Shakespearean drama, Romantic poetry, and nineteenthand twentieth-century fiction. He delineates the linguistic mechanisms that have shaped the dominant ideology of genius, showing that while literary monologues typically break the conventions of dialogue, aethetics ultimately identifies originality with deviance and madness. The successive guises …

Review: Soviet Evangelicals Since World War Ii, Donald L. Fowler

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Review: The Word Becoming Flesh, Donald L. Fowler

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Review: Recent Homiletical Thought: An Annotated Bibliography, V 2 (1966-1979), Paul R. Fink

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Review: The Minister's Library, V 2 (1972-1980), Paul R. Fink

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Information, Constraint, And Meaning, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Despite the familiar and correct disclaimer that information theory (Shannon and Weaver, 1949) does not concern the semantic level of communication, the technical definition of information nonetheless bears directly and importantly on the subject of meaning. Meaning, at least in one sense of the word, is the recognition of constraint and is based on isomorphism of structure. Constraint reduces information yet information is also the very substrate of meaning. Meaning is thus the union of the informative and the intelligible (Moles, 1958), the reconciliation of this dialectical opposition being achievable in several different ways.

Review: The Guide To Practical Pastoring, Paul R. Fink

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Secular Humanism: The Word Of Man, W. David Beck

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Review: Preaching And Preachers, Paul R. Fink

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter identifies the results of Kant's philosophical system on the contemporary discussion concerning an inerrant revelation. Knowledge, for Kant, is possible only as the forms and categories of the mind organize the raw data of the senses. Beyond this phenomenal world, the mind can only postulate what must or ought to be. It cannot know what is. The first postulate of this practical reasoning is freedom. The individual is autonomous, knows the good, and is capable of willing and doing as he ought.

Within such an epistemological framework, revelation becomes unnecessary, useless, and unverifiable. Inerrancy is not only false …

"A Philosophy For Complexity", Charles West Churchman

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

No abstract provided.

Retournez Á La Nature, Mary Jo Bruett

Graduate Research Papers

Known as the Father of French Romanticism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is noted for contributing much to his time. Not only will he be remembered for being an essayist and novelist, but he is noted as a philosopher and a principal adversary of the characteristics of 18th century philosophy. Rousseau's unique childhood became his own philosophy and in turn the basis of his well known educational theory "retournez, a la nature" the return to nature. Because of this theory and his writings, education as well as literature, were greatly influenced.

Dialectic As A Philosophical Method, Pierre Grimes

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Philosophy is the quest for wisdom and hence it may share a common end with religion. Not all philosophies are, however, concerned with this end, nor, again are all religions involved with a quest for wisdom. There may be different techniques and tools employed in the accomplishment of wisdom, but this dissertation is concerned only with the study of the nature and use of reason. In the philosophy of Plato reason is employed in diverse fields including mathematics, myths, and elaborate analogies, but when he turns to reason itself, then it becomes important to this analysis. Reason may be utilized …

Existentialist Philosophies And Political Decline, William A. Bultmann

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Value In An Age Of Crisis, W H. Werkmeister

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

On June 28, 1914, the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo. Less than five weeks after his death, the century of peace, which had been interrupted by only eighteen months of open warfare involving major European powers, came abruptly to an end. The searing flames of World War I engulfed the whole of Europe and burned away the last shreds of that complacency which had veiled for all but a few malcontents the forces of die integration which threatened the very existence of Western culture. The October Revolution in Russia, the political and economic collapse of Central Europe, …

A History Of The Religious Press Of Milwaukee, Evelyn Steinbrecher

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose or this thesis is to present a history of the religious press in Milwaukee. Through the religious press or this city is made articulate the growth and development of the various religious groups represented by the press and effected by it to the extent that the press is able to mold the thought and opinions of its constant readers. This thesis is not concentrated upon those ephemeral publications which came to life with the growth of Milwaukee and died before they had reached their literary maturity. It is concerned primarily with those religious presses operative today. Correlative with …

Is Man's Natural Desire For Perfect Happiness A Convincing Argument For Immortality, Felix Frank Taterczynski

Bachelors’ Theses

The argument with which I shall concern myself in this treatise is not of isolated interest, but one which at one time or another is bound to occupy the thought of every thinking person. My aim here is not to construct a new original philosophical doctrine of my own, but to construct or offer an interpretation, on well-founded and established principles, of a doctrine which is hidden in the minds of every rational being. As a passing remark I say that I am not writing this thesis as a philosophic expert, because I am well aware of the fact that …

Immortality In Cicero, Kathryn Collins

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to show that Cicero had a carefully developed belief in immortality. Since there is little opportunity in constructing a thesis of this kind to set forth any new or startling data concerning the subject, there is left to the writer only the originality of thought and presentation. So much commentary has been written on Cicero that it would be impossible to contact all of it . It may be said, however , that since Cicero has been known throughout the ages mostly as an orator and statesman, less has been written concerning his …

Devices In Spelling, Corinne H. Standish

Bachelors’ Theses

To a large majority of teachers, spelling is a hopeless subject. Frank M. McMurry says in the introduction of "The Teaching of Spelling" by Henry Suzzallo; "It seems to lack the possibility of such rich subject matter as makes reading and history attractive; and to want that organization of its facts that distinguishes every worthy branch of knowledge, since the units that compose it are not thoughts, but merely individual words. In consequence, it is recognized as almost entirely a mechanical study, providing little skill from the teacher, and depending mainly on mere repetition or brute endurance for mastery."

Motivation In Character, M. Rosita

Bachelors’ Theses

WHAT IS CHARACTER? Dr. John Dewey puts it down as a commonplace that the end of all schoolwork is the development of character, but the difficulty lies in the execution of it. He gives as the reason for this difficulty of execution, the fact that we have not a clear conception of what character means. "We know what character means in terms of the actions which proceed from it, but we have not a definite conception of it on its inner side, as a system of working forces."

To make a study of this system of inner forces has been …

Marriage And Divorce, Severin J. Wiza

Bachelors’ Theses

Marriage and divorce have of late received a great deal of attention throughout the world. The recent Encyclical Letter of Hie Holiness Pope Pius XI, on Christian Marriage, has occasioned comment and considerable thought. Anyone desiring a full treatment of marriage and divorce should consult the Encyclical on Marriage. But yet I would be glad to have the reader attend to the thought that the reading of the Encyclical has stimulated in me. Perhaps a reading of this thesis will result in a strong desire on the readers part to write a thesis on this subject which will excel my …

A Criticism Of Hume's Analysis Of Causation, Gilbert C. Wittig

Bachelors’ Theses

The question of cause and effect is an interesting and important one. Upon it and its interpretation many philosophers have argued. Some have said that cause and effect are considered together because of custom, but most of them have declared. the existence of a necessary connection between the two. Among the former is David Hume, an English philosopher of the eighteenth century; among the latter are classed most of the great philosophers of all times, including Plato and Aristotle, St. Thomas and St. Augustine. Indeed, if all of the latter were put side by side the line would be of …