569 research outputs found
Teamroom Caverns: Looking at Learning in a Whole Language First/Second Multi-age Classroom
Full text linkRenee Olander, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRenee Olander is author of the poetry collection American Dangerous and chapbooks A Few Spells and Wild Flights. Her work has appeared widely, including in the Split This Rock, Heart Online and The Chronicle of Higher Education Poetry Month blogs, the anthologies Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility, Forgotten Women, and Verse and Universe: Poems About Science and Mathematics, and journals Free State Review, The Café Review, South Loop Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review Best of the Decade, Rhino, Plainswoman, Dogwood Review, Snake~Nation~Review, 5am and The Writer’s Chronicle. Recipient of the Kate Smith Award from Amelia Magazine, the Benn Award for Creative Writing from Mary Baldwin University, and a Pushcart Prize nomination from Sistersong: Women Across Cultures, Olander works at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, and leads a regional task force focused on climate change and sea-level rise
Against living things: the rhetoric of gendered experimentation in Resident Evil
No full textResident Evil, the popular survival horror video game series, utilizes monstrous mutations of humans as the primary threat within its narratives. The nuances and patterns of these monsters are primarily defined by their genders. Though the series is typically known in digital, game, and film criticisms, I advocate we use methodologies from feminist rhetorics to discuss the monstrous creatures. Considerations of how such monsters, Bio Organic Weapons, alter or confirm to gender normativity can influence feminist rhetorical studies by diversifying the data sets the field explores and our understanding of gendered commentary for the rapidly growing population of women playing games. After a brief review of current feminist rhetorical scholarship and motivations, I’ll use domestic, temporal, motivational, and physical rhetorics to establish the pattern of gendered norms of ‘monsters’ in the franchise due to the commentary they offer on our culture and understanding of the world. Finally, I conclude with an overview of the growing community of women necessitating this study, adult women chased away from the violence of online discourses who turn to narrative based games like Resident Evil.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Renee Ann Droui
Kristen Renee Miller
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On Taking Care
No full textON TAKING CARE is a collection of 7 essays that revolve around author Kasey Renee Shaw’s decision to terminate a pregnancy in college, an event that is likely the product of sexual assault. The essays in the collection detail the author’s experience before, during, and after the abortion; Through narrative, humorous, and experimental modes of nonfiction storytelling, author Kasey Renee Shaw explores her journey of healing, survivorship, and eventual reclamation of life in the aftermath of violence
A Conversation with Renee Dinnerstein
No full textRenée Dinnerstein talks to us about choice, play, and inquiry, particularly in the early years. Renee is known for her work as an early childhood educator and as the author of Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play. With over 50 years experience in education, she has been affiliated with New York City’s public schools, Department of Education, and the Teachers’ College Reading and Writing Project Early Childhood ‘Think Tank’
SCRAPING THE INTERIOR
No full textSynopsis: This nonlinear, creative nonfiction piece is an examination of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and its effects on the life of narrator and author, Casey Renee Miller
Must be treated with respect: evolving ethics and curation of Mesoamercian human remains
No full textThis paper explores the ethical protocols for the handling of human remains sourced in Central America and stored in academic collections within the United States. Although all such institutions profess a commitment that osteological remains “Must be treated with respect,” the definition of what constitutes “respect” is often subjective. My research and data collected will draw upon the international mandates that govern the exportation, storage, study, and conservation of human remains with attention to three aspects that contribute to the legal framework in which human remains fall: 1) The laws and where they originate; 2) The organizations that maintain these laws; and 3) The extent by which these laws are applied and enforced. I will compare varying internal policies directed towards the conservation and handling of human remains in four academic institutions. As these policies and practices are necessarily institution-specific, they will be compared to demonstrate areas of significant alignment and areas of contrast. The ultimate goal is to establish how following ethical guidelines can become a sustainable feature in archaeological practice by crafting a framework in which ethical principles are designed in such a way that they can have a positive impact on the quality of scientific data. This position is supported by a demonstration of how standardization in ethical issues has consequences for the standardization in the scientific method and long-term conservation of remains. Other improvements discussed include the possibility for enhanced international cultural diplomacy to impact the overall discipline of archaeology in the public perception of its role as a steward of important cultural heritage.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Randi Renee Ragsdal
Author, Editor David Baker is Grisham Visiting Writer Feb. 6
No full textOXFORD, Miss. - Author and editor David Baker is the John and Renee Grisham Visiting Writer Feb. 6 at the University of Mississippi
An exploratory study of the perceived utility and effectiveness of state fusion centers
No full textAfter the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 9/11 Commission concluded that the nation's intelligence agencies had failed to "connect the dots," and improving the country's intelligence capabilities among all levels of government has been highly prioritized. While several federal initiatives were proposed to overcome "the wall" inhibiting information flow between agencies, a subfederal response was the establishment of fusion centers. Briefly, fusion centers are multiagency facilities tasked with improving the collection, analysis and dissemination of information and intelligence within the law enforcement community as well as between public and private sector partners. They are designed to maximize resources, streamline operations, and improve law enforcement's ability to fight crime and terrorism through all-source analysis and dissemination of information. Due to their relative newness, several issues currently remain unclear. Specifically, little research exists addressing whether fusion centers are fulfilling their intended functions, to what degree they have facilitated changes in how law enforcement understands and uses threat information, whether they are perceived effective, and whether they are innovative. Using case study design and qualitative methods, this study explored the perceived efficacy of fusion centers, using data collected from open-ended, semi-structured interviews and site visits. Using purposive and convenience sampling techniques, forty-nine (N=49) individuals offering a range of perspectives participated. Participants were solicited from, or affiliated with, four separate state fusion centers. In addition, individuals from key federal organizations and others with expert knowledge on the subject matter were interviewed for this research. The study's findings indicate that while fusion centers are partially fulfilling their designated tasks, they continue to struggle with several challenges. Although they have improved law enforcement's information collection and sharing capabilities, they have yet to develop robust analytical capabilities, or to overcome other obstacles. Moreover, the findings from this study suggest that the threat of terrorism is perceived as neither paramount nor trivial to fusion centers; however, fusion centers are perceived as valuable resources to address other criminal threats. The findings from this research have important policy implications for practitioners, as well as being a source from which future research regarding fusion center's processes and products can be empirically designed.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Renee Dianne Graphi
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