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A Liberating Intent: The American Civics Curriculum In Illinois High Schools And The Development Of A Critically Constructive Citizenry, Gustavo David Albear

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Civics education and constructive criticality are not usually found within the same curriculum. In America the two concepts tend to be considered as antithetical in content and practice. Students and teachers do not approach education about the citizen‘s responsibilities with great necessity or urgency, and when they do approach the subject it is from the perspective of inherent rights that should not be questioned, since they are by birth granted, albeit only to some. The idea of criticality is also not considered to be part of the developmental need of a citizen, since the overall sentiment associated with it is …

The Impact Of Training On Music Therapists’ Songwriting Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, And Behavior, Tracy G. Richardson

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Songwriting has been used as an effective intervention for persons with a wide range of therapeutic needs. However, a literature search revealed that songwriting is underrepresented in the music therapy research literature, indicating that music therapists may perceive they do not have the abilities to effectively use songwriting interventions in therapy sessions. The purposes of this study were: (a) to investigate the impact of a songwriting training session on the songwriting knowledge, self-efficacy, and behavior of music therapists; (b) to evaluate the songwriting training program; and (c) to explore the impact of the training on perceived barriers and clinical practice. …

The Seven Deadly Sins In La Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidades, John Giblin

HIM 1990-2015

To the modern critic, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus aventuras y adversidades poses many problems. One cannot arrive at the book's precise meaning because the author remains unknown. If critics were to know who wrote the book, they would identify similarities between the book and the author's life to approximate the book's moral, or its lack of one. Additionally, some commentators view the book as incomplete or unfinished; although the author developed the first three tratados, the final four tratados seem short and incomplete. Does this diminish the book's purpose? Can the readers still fruitfully discover …

Bilingual Children's Book, Lauren Beth Gagliardi

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Welcome To My House, Bienvenido a mi casa is a bilingual children’s book that defines and explores the rooms of a house. The book uses simple sentence structure and simple dialogue to engage early level Spanish and English readers. Welcome To My House, Bienvenido a mi casa introduces its intention to the reader before the story begins. On the opening pages the reader is given instructions in English and Spanish on how to read the book in order to appreciate both languages. While this message is written simply enough that a young reader could follow and understand it, the intention …

Polyphony And Performance In The Poetry Of José María Arguedas, Leslie Bayers

Academic Affairs Faculty and Staff Articles

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Adult Survivorship And Juvenile Recruitment In Populations Of Crawfish Frogs (Lithobates Areolatus), With Additional Consideration Of The Population Sizes Of Associated Pond Breeding Species, Vanessa C. Kinney

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Crawfish Frog populations have declined significantly in both the northeastern and southwestern portions of their range, and are listed as state endangered in both Iowa and Indiana. They are animals with a secretive nature, and comparatively little is know about their basic life history and natural history. To address this gap, and to obtain the information necessary to manage for this species in areas of decline, I studied the breeding biology of two Crawfish Frog populations during 2009 and 2010. Using data collected from drift fence and pitfall trap arrays around breeding wetlands, I estimated breeding population sizes, operational sex …

Characteristics Of Difficult Patients In Prisons Compared To Difficult Patients In Primary Care Settings, Emily Kistler

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Research has found that patients perceived as being difficult by their physicians share a number of characteristics. These “difficult” characteristics include Axis I disorders, personality disorders, somatization, complex health problems, and aggression. Current research has focused on defining “difficult patients” in community populations, while other populations have gone overlooked. One population that has high prevalence rates of the “difficult” characteristics identified in community samples is offenders. As a group, offenders tend to have high rates of mental illness, chronic health problems, and behavioral issues such as aggression. While difficult patients in prison may resemble difficult patients in the community, research …

El Macho Sarniento: La Hipermasculinidad En Yonquis Y Yanquis De Alonso De Santos Y Entre Villa Y Una Mujer Desnuda De Sabina Berman, Joaquín M. Muñoz

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Dos obras de teatro de los años noventa del siglo XX, representativas de dos países, España y México, proporcionan espacios privilegiados para un estudio comparativo de la masculinidad. Esta tesis explora el género y la identidad masculina, y específicamente, la hipermasculinidad en las obras de teatro Yonquis y yanquis (1996), del español José Luis Alonso de Santos y Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1993), de la mexicana Sabina Berman. Para llevar a cabo este análisis se aborda primeramente lo polisémico que significa ser hombre en varios contextos socio-culturales, la hipermasculinidad, y también los términos que se conocen popularmente como …

Shakespeare And Cervantes Are Dead: The Construction Of Fiction And Reality In Hamlet And Don Quixote, Joanna Parypinski

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The reason that Hamlet and Don Quixote can be studied so thoroughly on the poststructuralist notion of a false or constructed reality is because they were both works far ahead of their time, often reflecting extremely postmodernist ideas. Don Quixote is generally considered the first modern novel, and Hamlet is also identified with the beginning of the modern age (Oort 319). Yet beyond this, these authors play games with the reader and with the structure of the fiction itself, which would fit sensibly in a 20th or 21st century novel rather than an early 17th century work. These new methods …

Cross-Cultural Educational Fallbacks: A Study Of Homeschooling In The Hispanic Community And The Reasons For Its Utilization, Luke Easterday

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

A popular belief held by many Americans is that Caucasian families homeschool based on a desire to shield their children from the outside world and to pass on particular religious beliefs. However, among the Hispanic community, homeschooling is often implemented due to a lack of resources in the community. Many Hispanic parents utilize this nontraditional educational method due to a desire to raise their children bilingually, to pass on their cultural heritage, and to have an active role in the academic lives of their children. Quite often, the communities in which Hispanic families live do not have many resources available …

The Aspiration Of The Spanish Grapheme ‘H’, Carolina Gonzalo-Llera

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

One aspect of Spanish pronunciation that differs from English pronunciation is the phonetic treatment of the letter ‘h’. While this grapheme corresponds to a voiceless glottal fricative [h] in English (also known as “aspirated [h]”), it has no phonetic realization in Spanish. In other words, the letter ‘h’ in Spanish is not pronounced at all or is “silent”. This difference often results in Spanish pronunciation errors by L2 learners of the language. The present study aims to deepen our understanding of the erroneous pronunciation of ‘h’ by exploring how prevalent the error really is in the speech of beginning and …

Lexical And Morphological Variations Of Verbal Forms In The Spanish Of Bilingual Youth In Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, Jason Roeschley, Christina Isabelli, Factulty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Managing Hispanic Clientele; A Case Study Of Language Policy At A Company In Bloomington, Il., Jenna Rowland, Christina Isabelli, Factulty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Meeting Student's Needs; A Qualitative Analysis Of School Counseling Services, Colin B. Schofield, Christina Isabelli, Factulty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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The Availability And Effectiveness Of Health Information And Materials In Spanish In Bloomington-Normal, Il, Jennifer Fitton, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Language Choice Of High School Students In Central Illinois, Jaclyn Morrison, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Spanish Language Representation In Illinois Media, Kathleen Zeman, Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Violence In Religious Imagery: Representations Of The Virgin Mary In Alfonso X'S Las Cantigas De Santa María, Elizabeth White, Carolyn Nadeau, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

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Hogar Sin Luz: Home, Homeland And Personal Space In The Works Of Federico Garcã­A Lorca, Ellen Snell '11

Honor Scholar Theses

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Mitificar Con Los Escombros De Las Desmitificacions, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

En el onton de 1996, asisti a un seminario sobre Antonio Buero Vallejo, dictado por Patricia O'Connor en la Universidad de Cincinnati. Al final de una de las sesions del seminario, O'connor me dio un ejemplar de Mito: libro para una opera, obra escrita por Buero en 1967.

Somos Y Estamos, Spring 2011, Department Of Spanish

Somos y Estamos

Volume 2, issue 1, English version

Somos Y Estamos, Primavera 2011, Department Of Spanish

Somos y Estamos

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Por Granada: Revista De Estudiantes, Vol. 1, Spring 2011, Rafael Lamas, Mark Herreros, Rachel Curland, Tim Gallagher, Tatiana Dilanzo, Jessica Cisneros, Molly Malar, Maureen Sweet, Veronica Torok, Kristen Sharp, Jacqueline Tralies, Gabriel Agostini, Luciana Taddei, William Larkin, Clare Masullo, Jaime Breslin, Kyle Forrester, Chris Ready, Sarah Rosati, Kelsey Sweeney

Modern Languages and Literatures Student Publications

The journal Por Granada publishes the student's final project of the course Spain in Context taught by Prof. Lamas at Fordham in Granada. Rather than the academic research papers, the preferred format is the well-informed article of investigative journalism. All articles are the result of thoughtful teamwork of their authors and have been originally written in Spanish.

Marriage, Power, And The Law In Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's Esmeralda Comes By Night, Osvaldo Di Paolo

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Newsletter Spring 2011, Hispanic Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University

Newsletters

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Usos De Google Docs En La Clase De Ele, Pilar Munday

Languages Faculty Publications

Presentación hecha en los I Encuentros virtuales de la Comunidad Todoele.

Leisure And Agrarian Reform: Liberal Governance In The Traveling Museums Of Spanish Misiones Pedagógicas (1931–1933), Eugenia Afinoguénova

Spanish Languages and Literatures Research and Publications

This article examines the program of bringing itinerant art museums to the rural areas implemented by the Misiones Pedagógicas of Spain’s Second Republic. My analysis seeks to answer the following questions: a) Why did the government support these initiatives while peasants were using violence to contest its agrarian reform? b) How did museums fit into the Republic’s program of public education? And 3) how did they treat the peasants' own culture? Tracing the philosophical foundations of the Museo del Pueblo in Manuel Bartolomé de Cosso's (1857–1935) theory of leisure, I discuss Cosso's indebtedness to late-Victorian uses of art education for …

Latin American And Hispanic Artistic Representations Of Afro In The Globalization, Eduard Alberto Arriaga

Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series

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Input Vs Corrective Feedback In The Acquisition Of Spanish Negation, Yolanda Pangtay‐Chang

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Input is important and necessary to acquire a language, nevertheless output will tell us in what degree the language has been acquired.

Since other factors such as motivation affect acquisition, what type of feedback is necessary and in what amount to help L2 students correct their proficiency in the target language?

Ellipsis And Agree: Parallelism Effects In Spanish Noun Drop, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

In Spanish it is possible to drop nouns in order to avoid repetition. Noun drop is very productive (Ticio 2001; 2005).

Given the high level of accuracy in gender concord found in previous studies (Bruhn de Garavito and White 2002; White et al 2004, among others) I predict that adult learners of Spanish have the appropriate representation of number and gender in their L2. They will therefore distinguish between these two features under ellipsis.