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Time of Eve (2010) and Japanese Cultural Americanization: A Look at Japanese Exclusion and Domination in America through an Anime Lens
No full textFinal project for ENGL 277 Asian American Literature; Spring 2015 --Stranger in a Home Land: Asian American Literature and the Mechanisms of Alienation
Altered Space
No full textFinal project for ENGL 277 Asian American Literature; Spring 2015 --Stranger in a Home Land: Asian American Literature and the Mechanisms of Alienation.Website accompanied by presentation and reflection paper. See the project website at http://soniaajmera.wix.com/alteredspac
Letter to a Comrade
No full textFinal project for ENGL 277 Asian American Literature; Spring 2015 --Stranger in a Home Land: Asian American Literature and the Mechanisms of Alienation.Recording accompanied by reflection paper
Capstone EFL portfolio
No full textTeaching and Learning Department Capstone ProjectThis Capstone ESL Portfolio is a synthesis of my understandings about teaching
and learning, as well as practices in how to best serve speakers of other languages (ESLs) in the Chinese University settings. I reflect upon the knowledge and practices that an effective ESL teacher needs to know and should actualize in my future teaching to maximize students’ learning opportunities and facilitate their language and content
learning.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Hablemos Juntos (Let’s Talk Together): Reimagining Early Language Intervention
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone project.Decades of research has been dedicated to demonstrating differences between low-
income children’s early language and high-income children’s early language: much of this research also indicates differences between racial/ethnic groups. This research, conducted from a middle-class White normative perspective, posits that these early differences are the cause of the achievement gap, and therefore deficits: many researchers and popular discourse argue that for these reasons there is a need for early language intervention programs. Latino families are a fast-growing population in our country, and are a target population for these interventions. I contend that the concept of intervention is colonizing in nature, and that in order to truly work for equity we must rethink the concept as opposed to merely culturally adapting programs. Rather than interventions intended to fix children and families, interventions should create avenues for empowerment so that educators and families may work together to fix schools and society. I provide a framework for such a program, with recommendations for adapting the framework to different contexts.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Picturing Critical Literacy: Using Picture Books and Critical Literacy to Promote Social Action in the Middle School Classroom
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone project: This capstone project provides a literature review, rational, and unit plan for a middle school critical literacy curriculum using picture books as anchor texts.
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Dr. Neal
Capstone SeminarDepartment of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Say on Pay Around the World
No full textarticle published in law reviewShareholders have long complained that top executives are overpaid by corporate directors irrespective of their performance. Largely powerless to stop these practices, in 2002, they prevailed upon the U.K. Parliament to adopt legislation requiring public companies to permit their shareholders to have a mandatory, non-binding vote on the compensation of their top executives (“Say on Pay”). Since that time, there has been a wave of such legislation enacted in countries around the world, including the U.S., Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden, while Switzerland, Germany and France appear to be moving rapidly in the same direction. In this article, we ask what is the justification for adopting these rules?
For countries where most corporations have dispersed ownership structures, like the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, proponents claimed that these votes would allow shareholders to more stringently monitor management and thereby reduce the agency costs of the separation of ownership and control in public companies. In concentrated ownership countries, such as the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, France and Belgium, the existence of controlling shareholders at most companies in these countries means that there already is close supervision of pay levels by a concentrated owner with strong incentives not to overpay executives. However, we argue that there are other compelling reasons why Say on Pay has been enacted in these nations.
We find several other reasons for these changes: movements at larger public companies toward increased dispersion of ownership in several of these countries that are opening up a need for an alternative monitor of executive pay; strong support of such legislation by foreign institutional investors whose ownership interests in firms from these countries has increased dramatically in recent years; social pressures in many of these countries against rising levels of income inequality; political responses by left-leaning parties to these social pressures by introduction of Say on Pay legislation; and the presence of important state-owned enterprises in some of these countries that allows the state to play an important role in the regulation of executive pay using different techniques, including Say on Pay. On balance, these arguments have carried, or seem likely to carry, the day in each of the countries we examine.
We conclude by examining existing evidence on the effects of Say on Pay votes and how it is likely to evolve over time
Community Integrative Education and the Faculty Reward Structure at Rhodes College
No full textLeadership Policy and Organizations Department Capstone ProjectVanderbilt UniversityDepartment of Leadership Policy and OrganizationsPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Behavioral Public Choice: The Behavioral Paradox of Government Policy
No full textarticle published in law journalAlthough government agencies increasingly use behavioral irrationalities as a justification for government intervention, the paradox is that these same government policies are also subject to similar behavioral inadequacies across a broad range of policies. This article develops an analysis of behavioral public choice in which we recognize that government officials are human and subject to behavioral anomalies and to public choice incentives that could further lead to welfare-reducing policies. Moreover, the existence of behavioral failures by the general public will lead to public pressures on government agencies to foster policies in response to these behavioral inadequacies. This article presents a series of policy examples indicating how government policies as well are subject to behavioral and political biases
The Scandalous Pose: An Exploration of the Figure of the Dandy in the Works of Oscar Wilde
No full textEnglish Department Honors Thesis.A brief study of the figure of the dandy in different works of Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray) with particular emphasis on the dandy as a queer or transgressive figure.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc