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- Rites of Passage: The Role of Induction in the Enculturation of Beginning Teachers
- Enculturation; Beginning teachers; Induction
- Researchers have reported that by the year 2010, two million teachers will be needed in classrooms across the country. The shortage has been attributed to population increases and a rise in the number of teacher retirements. Other researchers...
- 2006-05-22;
- The Making of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies for Public Space
- Frederick Law Olmsted, John Charles Olmsted, Audubon Park, Audubon Park Commission, American Victorianism, Progressivism, Urban parks
- The emergence of Progressivism at the beginning of the twentieth century influenced many aspects of American society. One of those aspects was urban parks. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide...
- 2010-12-17
- The Journey to Manhood in Gaines’s Bloodline
- Racial denigration, animalistic state, maturity, nurturing, self-identity, manhood
- Ernest Gaines collection of five short stories Bloodline, (1968) depicts the effects of racism and its denigrating effects on the lives of the black men .Gaines use of animal imagery furthers the effects of racism on the psychology of the blacks....
- 2011-05-20
- Statistical Analysis of Seasonal Precipitation for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin and Associated Watersheds
- Statistical analysis of rainfall; Louisiana precipitation; Lake Pontchartrain; Rainfall Patterns; Rainfall Database; Rainfall Climatology
- To investigate seasonal patterns of precipitation, statistical analysis was performed on a dataset of daily rainfall observed at 63 south Louisiana stations from 1836 to 2002. Each station record was examined for data quality and continuity with...
- 2004-05-21;
- Coping with Peer Victimization in Middle Childhood
- Currently, there are competing theories on whether children’s coping responses are important determinants of future victimization (Perry citations; Limber, 2004), but little longitudinal research has been conducted to test the competing theories....
- 2006-08-09;
- Möbius: for Orchestra
- Möbius: for Orchestra attempts to explore an alternative use of the material that typically appears in the development section of a piece composed in sonata form. By using the modified themes in the recapitulation rather than disregarding them...
- 2006-12-15;
- Smart Growth Initiatives and Their Ability to Enhance the National Security of the U.S.
- The beginning of the 21st Century has presented the United States with many new challenges. One of the most significant challenges we face are domestic and foreign security issues. Though traditionally the U.S. has relied on military and...
- 2007-05-18;
- On the Crest of a (Short) Wave: The Rise and Fall of International Radio Broadcasting
- shortwave radio, international broadcasting, radio broadcasting, radio propaganda
- Since 1927 international broadcasters have spanned oceans and transcended borders through the use of shortwave radio. In the beginning of the 21st century, some longtime shortwave stations have sharply cut back their English language services,...
- 2007-05-18;
- Ghost Dance in 31 Movements
- Poetry; Films; Modernism and Postmodernism; Post-structuralism; Cyber Literature; Literary Criticism; Reconstruction; Deconstruction
- A kind of poetry that tries to understand contemporary social and philosophical issues as much as behaviors by rewriting in a poetic language the video artwork of some of the main representatives of modernism and postmodernism. Such poetry is...
- 2008-08-07;
- The Role of Practicum and Intern Supervisees in Professional Identity Development
- Supervision, Professional Counselor Identity Development, Practicum, Internship
- A strong professional counselor identity is vital for supervisees in training (Hansen, 2003). Supervision has been linked to enhancing the development of a professional identity in supervisees (Bernard & Goodyear, 2004). In a study of counselor...
- 2009-05-15;
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain
- Memoir; auto-fiction; identity; photography
- “The Bear Went Over the Mountain” is a memoir that marks the people, events, landscape, and era that shapes a women’s identity as she journeys from adolescence to adulthood. The story evolves through accretion with the use of a variety of...
- 2004-05-21;
- Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans
- Floating baths, bathe, pool, public health, recreation, swimming, hygiene, and New Orleans
- One seemingly lost aspect of working-class life in antebellum New Orleans stems from the effort of entrepreneurs to provide bathing and swimming facilities for the city’s working poor. In exchange for a relatively inexpensive fee per use,...
- 2010-05-14