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Beside the Golden Doors (Waleck Dalpour Digital Story)
Get PDFDr. S. Waleck Dalpour was born in the city of Ghemshahre in Northern Iran, close to the Caspian Sea. He migrated from Iran in 1976, coming to the US to further his education. In this interview, Dr. Dalpour discusses his migration journey as well as his experiences integrating into US society and culture. He talks about what it means to be an immigrant in this country and in his community, how his experiences differ from immigrants coming to the US today, and the impact of immigration on a host country. Dr. Dalpour talks about the very few difficulties he has had integrating and the many benefits he has enjoyed since becoming a US resident and eventually citizen
André Siamundele Oral History
Get PDFAndré Siamundele, a professor of French at the University of Maine at Farmington, discusses his travels, both as a child and as an adult. He was born in Kinshasa in 1960, which is when it became the capital of the Republic of the Congo. As a child he moved around a lot because his father was a diplomat. He has lived in Nigeria; Kigali, Rwanda; Ottawa, Canada; New York City; upstate New York; Maine, and several other places. In the interview, he focuses on how the stereotypes that a lot of Americans have about different countries in Africa are not true at all and his experiences definitely opened him up to new ideas and new ways of thinking
The Power of Television Writing: Small Screen, Big Impact Artist Statement
Get PDFThe purpose of our project was to learn how to create and pitch an original show for television, during which research and analysis of different televised series and their literary and visual impacts were conducted. The project would also study the aspects of television writing, specifically animation, and create a basis for an original series in the form of concepts and scripts. We wanted to do this project to discuss the influence of animation as a visual media as well as create our own impactful vessel via an original story
Aggressive Behavior in the Social Dramatic Play Area
No full textThe aim of this qualitative case study implemented in a rural New England Head Start was to explore social development in a social dramatic play area. This study focused on and examined prosocial and aggressive behaviors of seventeen children ages 3-5. Analysis of observational recordings included a checklist created from development standards from the Head Start Framework (Department of Health and Human Services, 2018) and Maine Early Learning and Development Standards (Maine Department of Education, 2005). The research found that there are prosocial and aggressive behaviors that happened in the social dramatic play area. These prosocial and aggressive behaviors have shown that social development is a relevant and crucial topic in early childhood education
The two Maines in a (potentially) new swing state
No full textBook Summary: The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their votes will matter little in the presidential race. The same might be said for voters in most states and counties in the United States. Conversely, for those in Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Iowa, and a handful of other states, every vote matters. These states will be battered with a barrage of presidential candidate visits, commercials, political spending, and countless stories in the media. This book analyzes why the presidential race has been effectively reduced to about a dozen states and 20 counties. Contributors to this volume make substantial updates and additions in light of the 2016 and in anticipation of the 2020 presidentialelections, including 6 new chapters exploring why some states are swingers in presidential elections, capable of being won by either of the major candidates. The volume also adds a chapter examining important swing counties throughout the country. Presidential Swing States describes what makes these few states and counties unique and why the presidency is decided by who wins them. With cases studies written by prominent political scientists who are experts on these swing states, Presidential Swing States also explains why some states have been swingers but no longer are, why some are swinging, and which states may become the ones that decide the presidency
White Birch Trees and Purple Finches: A Year of Ten Minute Scenes
Get PDF12 ten-minute scenes about young adulthood in New Hampshir
Maine’s 2018 Election: Bonds Continue to Hold
No full textThis commentary follows up on Melcher’s article on bond issues from 2016, and it finds that these and other past tendencies in Maine bond voting held true once again in 2018
Arizona cypress (Hesperocyparis arizonica) to the Horseshoe Two Megafire in a south-eastern Arizona Sky Island mountain range
No full textWe examined the response of Arizona cypress (Hesperocyparis arizonica) to the 2011 Horseshoe Two Megafire in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA. We documented cover type, fire severity, cypress mortality and seedling establishment in 60 plots. In plots subject to severe fire, most mature cypresses were killed, the canopy opened and seedlings established abundantly. These results were consistent across three canyons differing in topography and vegetation. Successful regeneration of Arizona cypress contrasts with low seedling establishment for pines in the same area after the Horseshoe Two Fire, a difference possibly explained by abundant serotinous seed production in cypress or its preference for riparian sites protected from extreme fire. Our results firmly establish Arizona cypress as a fire-sensitive but fire-embracing species that depends on stand-replacing fire for regeneration. Given the fire sensitivity of Arizona cypress, however, recent increases in the frequency of high-severity fires in the south-west USA could pose a threat to the long-term viability of this species by preventing individuals from reaching sexual maturity during fire intervals. This scenario, termed the ‘interval squeeze’, has been documented in tecate cypress (H. forbesii) in California. A drier future with more frequent wildfires could pose serious threats to all New World cypresses
Screen Time at Home and Literacy Outcomes of Young Children
No full textThe purpose of this quantitative study was to explore children’s screen time usage at home and their literacy outcomes in the pre-K classroom. This study focused on twenty-one children and their families. Children were assessed using the Phonological Awareness and Literacy Screening (PALS), and their families completed a Home Screen Time Survey. The researcher explored how levels of screen time at home connected to children’s scores on name writing, uppercase and lowercase alphabet identification, letter sound identification, beginning sound awareness, print and word awareness, rhyme awareness, and nursery rhyme awareness tasks. Differences between passive versus interactive screen time were also examined. Results of the study suggested that children with low amounts of screen time at home had a higher average score on name writing, uppercase and lowercase alphabet identification, and on letter sound identification
Unlocking Stereotypes (André Siamundele Digital Story)
Get PDFAndré Siamundele, a professor of French at the University of Maine at Farmington, discusses his travels, both as a child and as an adult. He was born in Kinshasa in 1960, which is when it became the capital of the Republic of the Congo. As a child he moved around a lot because his father was a diplomat. He has lived in Nigeria; Kigali, Rwanda; Ottawa, Canada; New York City; upstate New York; Maine, and several other places. In the interview, he focuses on how the stereotypes that a lot of Americans have about different countries in Africa are not true at all and his experiences definitely opened him up to new ideas and new ways of thinking