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Review of Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone Edited by Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley and Ismail Rashid
No full textCommunity Sanctification of Forgiveness
No full textPrevious research has yielded mixed findings regarding the relationship between religion/spirituality (R/S) and forgiveness. This study examined the degree to which victims view forgiveness as spiritually valuable within their R/S community. We developed the Community Sanctification of Forgiveness (CSF) scale to assess this construct. We divided the sample (N= 307) into two subsamples (n = 157; n = 150, respectively) in order to conduct exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. We then examined whether CSF was related to forgiveness in the combined sample (N = 307). We found that religious commitment moderated the relationship between CSF and forgiveness, such that greater community expectations for forgiveness were positively related to forgiveness only for individuals high on religious commitment. Implications for R/S, forgiveness, and the measurement of these constructs are discussed
Governance/Providence
No full textKierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard’s contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines
Acoustic and Perceptual Variation Across Hindi, Spanish, American English, and German Vowels
Get PDFThis study explores the impact of language background and experience on listener perceptual accuracy. The languages of interest, Hindi, Spanish, General American English, and German, were selected because they distinctly correspond to the Indo-Iranian, Italic, and Germanic language categories on the Proto-Indo-European family tree, whose branches are determined by shared lingual characteristics. This project included both an acoustic and a perceptual study. For the acoustic analysis, adult speakers of each language were recorded producing vowels in neutral consonantal context. Praat analysis software for speech was utilized to compare vowel target formant frequencies across these languages of interest to measure differences in acoustic space and temporal qualities. Listeners were monolingual General American English speakers and bilingual individuals. These participants listened to the recorded words and were asked to identify the vowel they heard in the target word. Following the categorization of the vowel, the listeners were asked to rate the vowel sound they heard regarding goodness of fit in that category, using a seven-point Likert-type scale. Given the variance in language experience, we expect listeners with a language background (individuals that have studied a foreign language for at least two years, or are bilingual) to have a higher vowel identification accuracy than those who do not. We predict that individuals with a foreign language background will have the highest vowel identification accuracy in the language(s) in which they are most familiar. Concerning unfamiliar languages, individuals with multilingual experience will be more accurate in identifying vowels, due to cross-language facilitation, than individuals with monolingual experience. We hypothesize that of the non-English languages, monolingual English speakers will more accurately identify vowels in Spanish and Hindi, as they are syllable-timed languages in which vowels are less reduced as opposed to English and German, which are stress-timed languages that do experience vowel reduction
Living at the Friendship House: Findings from the Transition Planning Inventory
Get PDFA residential initiative, named the Friendship House, was created through advocates focused on helping people with intellectual disabilities live independently in affordable and safe housing on a university campus. The Friendship House is a small residence hall where individuals with intellectual disabilities live side-by-side with similarly aged and same gendered university students. Qualitative finding as in resident reports and observational data provides support that the Friendship House experience has been successful. However, to better equip these residents with intellectual disabilities, it is important to assess the program in terms of post school transition acquisition skills. This study focuses on whether the residents with intellectual disabilities are mastering the skills necessary to live successful lives after high school. Hence, the purpose of this quantitative study is to determine the effect of living in the Friendship House on the acquired transition skills (as measured by the nine Transition Planning Inventory skill sets) on individuals with intellectual disabilities
News from Hope College, Volume 46.3: December, 2014
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The Anchor, Volume 127.24: April 23, 2014
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor, Volume 127.15: January 29, 2014
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
Vacationland U.S.A.
No full textArtist Statement: Where would your dream vacation take place? On a tropical cruise? In the Bahamas? Italy? Paris? Or what about here, in the Unites States of America? I think too often we get set on traveling to new, exotic places and forget about the beauty and adventure offered in our own backyards. We are lucky to have the diversity we do in our country, and with that comes vacations of all types.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1098/thumbnail.jp
This Fabulous Century
No full textArtist Statement: The women of the 40\u27s seemed never to go anywhere without a hat. Whether she was shopping in the daytime or attending the theater at night, she almost invariably had something on her head. And almost always, it was non-sensical--a high turban or perhaps a wide sailor, festooned with a veil and generally sprouting a profusion of feathers, folds and pleats. To display this culmlnatlon of the 1940\u27s era I decided to fashion a hat, but not just any hat. I wanted to make an over the top hat that any fashionable society woman would want to wear and would have all the GI Joes taking a second look. I hope you enJoy and appreciate This Fabulous Century through my artist book.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/altered_book/1101/thumbnail.jp