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The Light of the World
No full textAnnotates and comments, often line by line, on familiar and obscure details and allusions to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the story. Opens with a discussion of the story\u27s composition history, critical reception, and relationship to other stories in and outside the collection before moving into an explication beginning with the title and closing with the story\u27s ironic final line relating back to its title. Covers topics such as Hemingway\u27s employment of Western conventions and thematic treatment of gender and sexuality
The Mother of a Queen
No full textAnnotates and comments, often line by line, on familiar and obscure details and allusions to the people, places, things, events, and other references found in the story. Opens with a discussion of the story\u27s composition and critical marginalization before moving into an explication beginning with the title and closing with the story\u27s final derogatory question linking Paco\u27s flawed kind of blood to his sexual orientation, thereby attributing his moral corruption to biology. Topics covered include sexuality, social stigma, and unreliable narration
Utilizing International Law to Move the Jeffersons On Up to the East Side--Exploring the Potential of International Law to Support Domestic Social Mobility
Get PDFCOVID-19 Health Pandemic: Impact on the Work of Special Educators
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School closures in March 2020 due to COVID-19 affected over one billion students worldwide (UNESCO, 2020). Stay-home orders issued across multiple regions required schools to shift to a distance learning model for the remainder of the school year. As the health pandemic advanced into the following school year, special educators continued to navigate multiple changes in programming and their professional duties. This mixed methods study aimed to examine how special education teachers in one mid-western state described the impact of the Coronavirus Disease -19 (COVID-19) pandemic on their work and the provision of special education services to their students.
This longitudinal study began at the onset of the health pandemic (spring 2020) by analyzing statewide survey results and follow up interviews. The survey revealed multiple practices for specialized programming, including new uses of technology and teachers\u27 positive coping approaches to deal with the rapid shift to distance learning. Interviews expose a deeper understanding of the multiple changes in the work of special educators, including online technologies, various methods for interaction, a dependency on others to provide specialized services using a distance learning model, and difficulties with work-life balance.
The study continued into the 2020 – 2021 school year by examining the experiences of four special educators during the ongoing health pandemic. Participants reported significant incidents using a structured monthly logging tool. They also engaged in three open-ended interviews throughout the school year (fall, winter, and spring) to narrate their experiences, frustrations, and insights. Findings feature four case studies and expose themes of the extra-ordinary workload and the value of collegial support during pandemic programming.
A comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon reveals indicators of cumulative organizational trauma due to the COVID-19 restrictions and required changes in special education programming. This in-depth study exposes the susceptible position of special educators as they faced the work necessary during pandemic programming and the negative patterns resulting within the work culture. Recommendations include an organizational stance for reimagining and restructuring systems to enhance special education teacher retention and student learning outcomes.
KEYWORDS: health pandemic, special education programming, online learning, special education paperwork, special education workload, collegial support, organizational traum
Almsgiving, Property, Wealth
Get PDFChristianity has, from its earliest beginnings, regarded voluntary giving to relieve poverty as a central religious and moral obligation. It has understood the holding of private property to be a limited right, contingent on providing for the needs of others.
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Creation, Free Will, Adam, Sin
Get PDFCreation in Christian theology refers both to the creation of the universe, and to the creation of humanity. Both are thought to be created by God. The creation account in Genesis 1-2 states that it was God who created the heavens and the earth i.e. the universe.
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Diversity in Islam
Get PDFIn Islam, the unity of God is central. The Islamic revelation given to Muhammad affirmed the earlier Abrahamic religions of one God (including Judaism and Christianity), yet also went beyond them to unify the divine truth of God and assert a more complete monotheism.
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Good, Evil, Sin
Get PDFChristianity stands in fundamental awe that anything at all exists. Simply to exist is good, and so Christianity\u27s first concern in respect to goodness is to understand what we and all other things are, and why we exist at all. A technical way to say this is that goodness is an ontological concern (ontos is the Greek word meaning being, and so ontology is the study of existence) before it is a moral one: we seek to understand what reality is and who we are before we dare to make judgments about whether particular things or actions or persons are good or bad.
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Marriage
Get PDFChristian marriage is a complex interface between a natural reality that every culture knows and a supernatural reality that mediates God’s loving presence (grace) and facilitates sanctification (holiness). It is a prime example of the Thomas Aquinas’s dictum that grace builds on nature (S.T. Ia2ae.62.1). Christian reflection begins with Genesis and the creation of Adam and Eve.
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