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Memoir of a Bookseller
No full textThis project represents an overview of my thirty years experience as a bookseller and Founding Manager of The Book Cove in Pawling, New York. Eventually I plan to integrate the sections on authors, customers, etc. into a memoir that flows without designated chapters. However, for the purpose of this thesis project, all of Gaul is divided into its parts. The Prologue and chapter "A Bookseller's Beginnings," have been strongly edited. The succeeding chapters are partially written with cursory editing only
Steve Luciano (interview)
No full text32 min.Luciano is from Tuckahoe, NY and served on a PT Boat in the U.S. Navy during the years: 1944-1946. He participated in search and rescue missions involving downed pilots
THE EFFECTS OF LITERACY COACHING ON TEACHER STRATEGY USE AND STUDENT READING COMPREHENSION
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine the effect of literacy coaching on teacher strategy use and student reading comprehension. A convenience sample of 20 third-grade teachers and their students (n=330) participated in this study. Literacy coaches were identified as experts in the area of literacy, reading, and teaching methodologies. They provided job-embedded staff development to teachers with the intent of improving teacher effectiveness and student learning. The coaching consisted of three levels (in-class coaching, consultant coaching, and no coaching). Before treatment, the researcher provided an initial 3-hour presentation on summarization, the instructional focus of the study. Then, seven literacy coaches in seven schools administered the coaching treatment during an 8-week coaching cycle. The two treatment groups (in-class and consultant) received different numbers and/or combinations of follow-up coaching training. This study utilized a pre-post test, quasi-experimental design. Parametric and nonparametric statistics were used to analyze the data.
In order to measure whether the type of coaching (in-class coaching, consultant coaching, or no coaching) impacted teacher strategy use, the Concern Based Adoption Model’s (CBAM) Levels of Use (LoU) structured interview was administered pre and post treatment to investigate gains achieved by the teachers in the implementation of summarization. The Kruskal-Wallis test indicated a significant difference in teachers’ use of summarization among teachers in the different coaching conditions. The in-class coaching group attained significantly more growth than the no coaching group. However, no significant differences were found between the consultant coaching group and the in-class coaching group or between the consultant coaching group and the no coaching group.
The second research question examined how literacy coaching (in-class coaching, consultant coaching, and no coaching) affected students’ reading comprehension. A one-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze this question. Reading comprehension was measured pre- and post-treatment using an instrument developed by the researcher, the Assessment for Reading Comprehension (ARC-A and ARC-B). Students’ pre reading comprehension (ARC-A) and overall reading achievement (Degrees of Reading Power) served as covariates to produce adjusted means to equate post-treatment reading achievement scores based on initial reading ability. ANCOVA results indicated a significant difference among the three coaching groups. Results of the Bonferroni procedure indicated that the in-class coaching group’s ARC-B scores were significantly higher than those of both the consultant coaching group and the no coaching group.Doctor of Education (EdD)Education & Educational Psycholog
Victorian Fashion: a Middle Class Makeover
No full text92 pgsThe Victorian Era roughly denotes the period of time that Queen Victoria reigned over Britain, 1837-1901. It addition to its great length of time, the Victorian era was very complex. The era rapidly changed and developed, held many paradoxes and accomplished great expansion of wealth, power and culture. The expansion of culture can easily be understood by the fashions of the era as clothing and technology were closely entwined. The fashions of the Victorian era can be categorized into three periods: the Early Victorian 1830-1850, the Middle Victorian 1850-1870 and the Late Victorian 1870-1900.
The early era denoted the change from regency fashions, shift dresses gathered in an empire waist below the breast in fabrics such as chiffon, that favored lithe figures for women and extreme tailoring and ornate accessories for men. To the fashions that would come to be known as Victorian fashions, corseted waists and full skirts for women and more generic fits with a diminution in accessories for men. The middle era was marked by the influence of middle class values and application of present technology. During the late era Victorians utilized the improvements from the middle era to create variations and embellishments on the existing fashions. As well as apply technologies from the middle era to different aspects of fashion
Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
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The fact is that government officials long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government's power. Going right to the scenes of the crimes, bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution
Dilious of Creaton
No full textTo spare his wife, Dilious of Creaton is forced to lead an army of evil into the gates of Zeus's heavens. This is the epic journey of one man who braves the odds and sets free the victims under the reign of Janus, once a servant of Zeus, now condemned to an eternity of the depths in the outer rings. Good and evil face off in a battle to save humanity and divinity in this telltale story of the ages
We All Fall Down
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This thesis contains six shortened chapters of the novel We All Fall Down. We All Fall Down is an emotional story of an average woman, Ava, whose greatest desire in life is to be a mother, and the moment she becomes one, everything all comes falling down. The story begins with Ava giving birth to her first child in the hospital delivery room, when she and her husband Carter soon realize that something has gone terribly wrong. Their first child has been born a stillborn baby. The story illustrates how this couple deals with the aftermath of a death of a baby they never knew. When faced with a parent's greatest heartbreak, are they strong enough to move on? And ithey are, is another baby in their future? We All Fall Down is a story about how to pick yourself up after you fall down, and that no matter how tough a situation becomes that you are faced with, with a little strength and love, goodness will eventually follow
