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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Current Events"”.
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Coherence Between Wind and Current Events in a Nearshore, Shallow Water, Wave Dominated Environment
<p>Five days of observation were made of the current at four depths in a water depth of eight meters, and accompanying record of local wind one-half Kilometer from shore at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Engineering Research Center field facility at Duck, North Carolina beginning five May …
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A Study of the Effect of Teaching Current Events on Students in Grade 5
… study is to determine if a concentrated study of current events through television will affect fifth grade students' knowledge of the news. The data was gathered from three weeks of pre-testing, one week of concentrated study, and one week of no study followed by a post test of 37 fifth grade …
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Celebrating Diversity in Urban Areas: Embracing Current Events at the Intersection of Social Consciousness and Restorative Practices
… reflexive in nature, authentically connected to current events, and includes discourse as a generator for social consciousness in students via restorative practices. Using John Dewey’s theory of social consciousness, the researcher examined how educators can foster social consciousness through …
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A survey of the various methods employed by secondary school teachers in fusing current events with the social studies.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Single pi-zero production in neutrino interactions
… Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. The neutral current reactions, vn -> vnpio and vp + vprr , and the charged current reaction, vn -> u-ppi0 ,were investigated. The neutrino detector was made up of optical spark chambers and liquid o and solid scintillation counters. The pi0 is detected by …
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An evaluation of Whittle Communications' Channel One by students and teachers
… to the school day influences student interest in current events. Secondly, to determine how teachers integrate the study of current events into the curriculum. A suburban county school division in the western part of Virginia was selected for the study. The population for this study consists of …
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Gonna Spread the News all Around: Early, African-American Popular Song as Spoken Newspaper
… blues songs that related information about current events. Given the widespread illiteracy among African Americans during the height of the blues' popularity, these topical songs are particularly compelling. To date, however, no one has coupled topical blues together with their consumers' …
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Forward jet production in neutral current deep inelastic scattering with ZEUS at HERA
… GeV. Forward jets as a certain class of neutral current events are selected to probe different parton evolution models. The measured cross sections depending on Bjoerken-x and transverse energy are based on the luminosity of 76 pb-1. For the running period of 1998-2000 the calorimetric acceptance …
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
… ultimate, if unintended effect is to reify the current racial hierarchy. Drawing primarily from current events and an Afropessimist framework, I attempt to illustrate how this work, and others like it, occupy a specific space in the cultural zeitgeist bent to a specific purpose: obfuscating …
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From Rehabilitation to Punishment: American Corrections after 1945
… to the influence of politics, culture and current events.
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Selecting electron antineutrino charged-current interactions at the T2K ND280
… In this thesis we present a ν ̄e charged-current selection with which we test the Monte Carlo predic- tion using T2K data. To select ν ̄e charged-current events, the tracker region and electromagnetic calorimeters of the T2K off-axis near detector are used. The selected sample has a ν ̄e …
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An investigation of the tools and strategies used to present multiple perspectives in the classroom
… in the classroom were found: open discussion, current events, alternative texts, and movies or film clips. These four strategies were found in all of the data sources and in higher percentages than other strategies mentioned or observed. Implications for the use of these strategies to present …
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Structure Stories
The current state of world affairs conveyed in recent news media often underscores the unpredictability of what lies ahead. How might the combined effects of these daily headlines influence the world of tomorrow? This thesis will speculate on how interweaving among these narratives might suggest …
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The impact of federal legislation on the arts and the humanities : 1960 to present.
… administration since the 1960s, today’s current events in the museum field are not the first of their kind, and most likely will not be the last. The arts and humanities have faced trials for decades, yet the federal government has continued to provide support for them. Despite this …
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PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES GOALS AND CONTENT AREAS IN OMAN
… studies content areas were perceived to be current events, core values of Oman society, geography, environmental education, history, family life education, and public issues. Geography and history, along with the perceived most important content areas, received the highest degree of …
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Social Isolation Meets Technological Innovation: Towards Developing A Model Of Communication Among Parents Who Homeschool
… and fun, advice, questioning homeschoolers, current events, and socialization. These themes were verified through a word count listing from the software used to collect the data from the sample of blogs. The findings indicate that homeschoolers are not using blogs in the traditional sense, as …
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PERCEPTION OF RACISM IN AMBIGUOUS EVENTS: A CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY ANALYSIS
… to think that racism still plays a role in current events. Mainstream accounts often explain these differences as the product of something about Black Americans that leads them to over-perceive racism. This paper applies a cultural psychology analysis to this phenomenon and suggests a more …
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A Cinematic Dialogue between Nicaragua and Costa Rica: Shaping a Transnational Cinema through Filmic Exchanges
… Cinema (NLAC) movement to critically view current events from 1973 to 1979. By analyzing a variety of Costa Rican and Nicaraguan films, primarily documentaries, from 1973 to 1983, and by referring to a number of primary source interviews, it examines how the 1979 Sandinista Revolution in …
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Embedding Diversity Into The Curriculum: Facilitating Challenging Conversations
… used to think systemically when looking at the current (As-Is) and projected (To-Be) in the Galaxy School district. This paper focused on the need to embed past and current racial and gender diversity issues into the everyday curriculum in an effort to have a positive impact on students’ …
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