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Oral Interview with Raul Betteta
No full text14 min.Oral history interview of Raul Betteta on his experience coming to the U.S. from Guatemala
China Complex: From the Sublime to the Absurd on the U.S.-China Scene
No full textFor more than a century, the United States and China have been partners in an occasionally graceful, sometimes awkward cultural-political tango. In this insightful narrative, Shouhua Qi, part of a new generation of scholars whose life experiences in China and the West serve as the basis for an acute analysis of cross-cultural perceptions, weaves literary and cultural criticism together with journeys across time, politics, and popular culture. Part memoir, Qi reveals the China complex as a manifestation of the search for meaning at many levels: personal, national, and global. With the future of the U.S. and China so intertwined now more than ever before, Qi's cogent assessment of the interpersonal foundations of the US-China relationship in the twenty-first century is a must-read
The Shattered Nuclear Family
No full textThis project includes the first five sections of a long-form journalism piece on the subject
of America's fastest growing demographic—the Blended Family. More than half of U.S. children will live in the so-called Blended Family before reaching age 18 and yet
this phenomenon is rarely or accurately represented in our culture. By 2010, more than 130 million Americans will be part of a blended family—more aptly called The Shattered
Nuclear Family
Oral interview with Antonio and Aulinda Montez
No full text25 minInterview with Antonio and Aulinda Montez on their immigration to America
Writing a Short Story: What Would an Animal Say?
No full textThis project represents a lesson plan unit for a third grade classroom based upon on how to write a short story. The lesson plans include the brainstorming process, discussions, graphic organizers, the importance of peer review and editing, and general syntax. The lesson plans are done in a way that will create enthusiasm in each student and will entice her to want to continue the process and enjoy it. The beginning essay reflects the author's teaching pedagogy and how she believes a good classroom works
The College Application Process: Do Letters of Recommendation Influence Decisions?
No full textSeven male and 13 female participants read a fictitious student's application to college that contained either a positive or negative letter of recommendation. They were then asked to make a decision regarding admission
and to provide their confidence in that decision using a six-point Likert scale. It was predicted that participants reading the letter containing negative information would be more likely to reject the student from college than would participants exposed to the letter containing positive information. However, participants in the negative letter of recommendation condition accepted the student to college with the same amount of confidence as did the participants in the positive letter of recommendation condition. The results are discussed in terms of the Implicit Personality Theory
