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Learning About Language: A Teacher’s Guide
Get PDFAcademic language, while a key component of language arts education and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, is often poorly understood by educators. Academic language and its norms must be taught explicitly in language arts classrooms in order for students to be proficient writers of academic genres and for testing purposes. This project provides a literature review on academic language instruction and writing instruction at the secondary level. The guidebook for academic language includes several lesson plans to assist educators in teaching academic language and its features. The features of academic language are outlined using authentic Texts that teachers can use in their own classrooms
An Examination of Sex-Differences in Emotion Identification as Influenced by BDSM Negotiations
Get PDFAbstinence-only sexual education curriculums are dominant in the USA, which leads the younger generation to seek sexual health knowledge from the next most readily available source—the media (Leistner & Mark, 2016); mass media portrayal of bondage-discipline/dominant-submissive/sadist-masochist (BDSM) relationships borders on the pathological. The present study sought to destigmatize BDSM practitioners through the use of empirical data. Participants of this study read a half page vignette of a conversation (to be imagined between them and a sexual partner) pertaining to either a sexual history overview, an adrenaline producing activity, or a BDSM-scene negotiation. Immediately following, participants viewed a self-progressed slide show of the seven culturally universal emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, contempt and surprise) at a rate of .1 seconds each, and judged which emotion they saw in which face. It was predicted that participants having read and imagined the BDSM-scene negotiation would have better emotion detection scores than participants in either the sexual history or adrenaline activity discussion and that women would be better able to accurately identify emotions, as compared to men. Predictions failed to receive support from the data analysis
Blood of the Iron Woods: A Graphic Novel Exploration of the Modern Gothic Horror Experience
Get PDF“Blood of the Iron Woods” is a creative thesis in which I explore not only my own fascination with the horror genre, but to also address the difficulties of familial relationships, and how characters evolve in situations where there is no right choice. While this project initially began as a fantasy novel, I quickly changed over to horror, where I felt as though I would be able to contribute to the overall academic discussion on the genre. A lot of time, hard work, frustration, excitement, and lessons learnt went in to this project, and I am proud of what I have been able to accomplish despite the difficulties I have faced in these past two years. This project addresses the concept of visual communication within the Gothic horror genre as well as the deeper genre conventions and themes that make Gothic horror what it is. This research has resulted in a complete analysis of my creative inspirations, and full review of the current literature on this topic, a full narrative outline, and a partial storyboarding of the graphic novel over a two-year period. “Blood of the Iron Woods” is the tale of three sisters who travel into the woods to escape for a while after their father’s death. This thesis will address all the core components of the horror genre, how we experience and enjoy horror, and why Gothic horror is so relevant to today’s youth
Confronting the Early Relationship Between the United States and Saudi Arabia
Get PDFSaudi Arabia has remained a staunch ally of the United States since 1945, the early days of the Cold War. The U.S. focused on Saudi Arabia as an ally in Southwest Asia mainly because of the U.S.’s need for oil in a modernizing world. But as the Cold War continued, Saudi Arabia served as a strong agent against the spread of Communism in the region. As the self-proclaimed Islamic leader to the Arab world, Saudi Arabia held, and continues to hold, significant influence over Arab nations in Southwest Asia. The U.S.’s promise of protection for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has lasted through the Cold War, which insinuates that the U.S. planned to use its connection with Saudi Arabia to expand its influence over the wider region known as the Middle East. Letters between U.S. presidents and the Saudi Arabian monarchy, letters between the U.S. State Department and officials of Saudi Arabia, and Western newspaper articles covering Saudi Arabia between 1945 and 1953 are the main sources used to examine the relationship established between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. The U.S.’s intention in Southwest Asia was not only to stop the spread of Communism or protect American oil, but establish an authoritative presence in Southwest Asia through an alliance with Saudi Arabia
[ working title ]: A Screenplay
Get PDFToni Morrison said, “If there\u27s a book that you want to read, but it hasn\u27t been written yet, then you must write it” (Morrison). That has always been my philosophy when it comes to writing. I don’t want to write the same story I’ve read, I want to write what I wish I had been able to read. This means I write a lot of abused gay women, and maybe one day someone will look at a collection of all my writings and comment on the fact that I wrote a lot of abused gay women, and I’m really very much okay with that, because I will have filled the niche I so desperately missed when I was a young gay kid, and later when I was an abused gay adult. The film begins with a woman coming home to make dinner. She pours herself a glass of wine and gets everything she needs to make fajitas. It’s mundane and honestly a little boring, with intention. I wanted to establish the reality quickly and help the audience suspend any disbelief early so that when it starts to pick up, they are swept along with her, and not jolted out of the moment, because when it gets going it goes by quickly. The entire story happens over 29 minutes. With this story, I not only wanted to share my experience with the audience, but communicate the mundanity of my experience. To do that, I drew on experimental practices, naturalism, found space theatre, and the theatre of the oppressed. I used what I saw and what I studied at Western, and then I wrote. And then I threw that entire script out the window because it honestly wasn’t that good. Then, I sat down, and in 3 hours, I wrote, [ working title ]
2019-04-03 (Western Howl)
Get PDFStudent newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. For additional information about this collection see: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/studentnewspapers
2019-12-04 (Western Howl)
Get PDFStudent newspaper includes campus, local and national news stories and photographs. For additional information about this collection see: http://digitalcommons.wou.edu/studentnewspapers
\u27It\u27s Just What You Do:\u27 Exploring Relationships Between Young-Adult Grandchildren and their Grandfathers
Get PDFThe grandparent role is a dynamic and often ambivalent relationship requiring simultaneous navigation of “being there” and “not interfering” in the lives of grandchildren (Mason, May, & Clarke, 2007). These relationships change as grandchildren mature and can result in new grandparent-grandchild connections based on communication, intimacy, and mutual respect (Sheehan & Petrovic, 2008). Utilizing a sample of grandfathers and young-adult grandchildren (N = 32), this study investigated the impact that grandfathers have on their young-adult grandchildren. Utilizing a life course perspective, we asked: a) How do grandfathers invest in the futures of their young-adult grandchildren? b) How do young-adult grandchildren recognize and receive their grandfather’s investments in their futures? Results suggest that grandfathers emphasized their grandparenting role but undervalued their contributions to their grandchildren. Grandfathers and grandchildren also did not always agree on the transmissions intended and received. When asked to recall meaningful memories of grandfathers, young-adult grandchildren were more likely to remember instances of shared hobbies, interests, and personal connection. Findings have implications for understanding and strengthening the ties between grandfathers and their grandchildren
Am I a Feminist? Narrative fidelity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s \u27We Should All be Feminists\u27
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In this paper I analyze Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and her TED Talk based off her book, “We Should All be Feminists.” Adichie is a Nigerian woman who has firsthand experience with feminist issues of inequality and she serves as a speaker and activist for issues of feminism and beyond. She is a renowned author, activist, academic, and a feminist. In hearing of her personal experiences regarding inequality, I realized I am able to identify parallels between her experiences and the inequalities which I have faced despite our vastly different origin stories. The importance of her work as a feminist is emphasized in her rhetorical techniques, such as using personal narratives and public vocabulary to bring connection and a sense of equality to her audience. Adichie urges society to modify their actions in order to promote and normalize feminism in a positive light
#BorderWall
Get PDFThis interactive installation sculpture was erected between the Oregon Military Academy Building and the Richard Woodcock Education Center from October 29 through November 30, 2018. This installation is symbolic of both the US-Mexico Border Wall other border security walls, and provides an opportunity for the students of Western Oregon University and the surrounding community to interact with the art by utilizing graffiti to express their opinions of the international border wall proposed by the current administration. When erected outdoors, this symbolic wall is approximately 50 feet long and 8 feet high