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Whereof we cannot speak
Title from PDF of title page, viewed on January 15, 2016
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If These Hills Could Speak
If these hills could speak, what would they reveal, and how would they express it? This central question guides this thesis, which examines three hills in the heart of Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria— each occupied by the ruins of colonial monuments. Before the construction of these structures, the hills …
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Skicinuwatu Toke : speak Passamaquoddy now
When learning to speak a language like Passamaquoddy, there are many grammatical patterns that one must be able to identify before a dialogue can be understood. In Passamaquoddy, it is extremely important to have a sense of context in the sentence. Exchanging an English word for a Passamaquoddy …
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What if Structures Could Speak?
… wrapping of structure, allowing the structure to speak for the form of the building with no interruption. With this continuity between structure and façade, the occupancy of the building becomes highlighted through shadow, allowing expression of internal use to the outside.
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Sicilians In Detroit: How Do They Speak?
… process of immigration and settlement involving speakers mainly arriving from the two Sicilian coastal towns of Terrasini and Cinisi. The varieties they speak appear to have never been the subject of systematic observation. The present study, thus, focuses on the preservation, attrition and/or …
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Selective mutism: Unwilling to speak or scared silent?
To examine the relationship between selective mutism and anxiety, 15 children with selective mutism (SM) were compared to 15 children with anxiety disorders (AD) and a control group of 15 nonclinical children (CN). The study included children age 4--10 years and relied on information from multiple …
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Parents Speak: An Ethnographic Study of Autism Parents
This ethnography documents the everyday experiences of the parents of children diagnosed with autism with whom I conducted fieldwork from April 2010 through September 2011. It describes the daily activities of self proclaimed "autism parents" living in Queens, New York, who tirelessly campaign for …
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I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth
"This auto/ethnographic, sacred performance text constitutes a radical, interpretive, political act. It argues for and is an exemplar of, what I define as a socially conscious, imagination-intellect. It counters the traditional notion that scientists or so-called rational thinkers, and artists or …
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Assessing the Parallelism of Four SPEAK Test Forms
… that the theoretical basis of the revised TSE/SPEAK inadequately serves the test's practical purposes, the author recommends the scoring rubric be changed from holistic to multitrait. It is hypothesized that the multidimensionality believed to exist in the construct ""oral English proficiency"" …
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Vision of 21st Century Iowa Schools : Superintendents Speak Out
The problem: What the K-12 educational reform movement has done throughout the 1990s is to create a dialogue around the beliefs, values, and purposes of schooling in this country. Conversations among educators, legislators, federal and state policy makers, and members of the business community are …
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Students Speak Out About Choices Made in the Classroom
This study examined how students perceived individual reading and writing choices through student involvement in academics. The goal of the study was to confer with students to see if choice was allowed in student literacy development, to what extent choice was allowed, and how choice motivates …
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Students speak up: career exploration and the working relationship
This study was undertaken to learn more about how mature students perceive the career exploration process when visiting a university career service. Further, research has found that client ratings of the working alliance are a positive predictor of client change; however, this relationship has not …
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Learning to Speak: A Connectionist Approach to Sentence Production
The relationship between learning and processing is a complex problem for theories of language. A connectionist model of sentence production is used to instantiate the relationship between these two domains. The model addresses the issue of how learning can be both sensitive to regularities in the …
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Adults with Autism Speak Out: Perceptions of Their Life Experiences
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the perceptions of three high functioning adults with autism about their life experiences. After a review of the literature, I determined that there is a lack of information regarding adults with autism, especially those at the high end …
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When Saints Speak: Stories of Spirituality From Senior Southern Baptists
The purpose of this study is to explore and develop an understanding of the perception and role of spirituality in the lives of senior Southern Baptists. Narrative paradigm was used as a theoretical basis for developing an understanding of the stories of spirituality offered by participants. …
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Conflicts, contradictions and commitments : men speak about sexualisation of culture
In the past two decades sexualisation has ascended as a focus for academic, social policy and public debate: central to these debates is concern for children and young people and the significance of sexualised cultural landscapes to feminist politics and women’s social positions. A striking feature …
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Isaac Bashevis Singer: Speak English, Think Yiddish-- Adaptation versus Assimilation.
<p>Critics use the words "vanished culture" to describe Isaac Bashevis Singer's work for Polish Jewry had been destroyed. However, Singer's characters survive the travails of anti-Semitism and resettle in America. This study explores Singer's Polish Jews to determine whether they assimilate into …
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