Trung Institute of English as a Second language

Governmental and social pressures in Vietnam have increased the demand for English speakers within the workforce. With insufficient English programs in the public school system, many seek the education elsewhere. The Trung Institute will be a private school in Vietnam, specializing in teaching English as a second language (ESL). Currently ESL programs exist in Vietnam but most employ native English speakers with little teaching background as instructors. Teachers will be recruited from Teaching and ESL programs at Washington State University and Concordia for one-year stints in Vietnam. Teachers will be selected each year through an application process. The Institute is set apart through the use of certified teachers rather than untrained volunteers, and will be marketed as a higher level of education. The institute will prepare students for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, a requirement for citizens of Vietnam to receive their high school diploma. The curriculum will be designed to give students the edge in the workforce. The school will open in Ho Chi Minh. Due to the construction of the new international airport the surrounding area is going through significant development, and is expected to see a large economic boom. The initial investment is projected at $300,000. This will be used in the construction of the school, faculty residences and for operational funds, with high return in the long run from tuition and uniform sales. Once the first school is deemed a success, the model of this institute will be duplicated throughout Vietnam. The Trung Institute of English as a Second Language by Tyler Van Sickle was awarded the first-place prize in the 2014 SOURCE Business Plan Competition

CARAS DESCONOCIDAS

Este documento elaborado por Anjulie Van Sickle de la Universidad del Norte de Texas relata la historia de Carolina Madero, una mujer del Estado de Yucatán, México. The Heart of Mexico es un proyecto conjunto entre el Dr. Lenin Martell de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México y el Dr. Thorne Anderson de la Universidad del Norte de Texas

Nomadic Memorial: Dynamic Landscapes of Commemoration for the Civilian Public Service

This design-research thesis suggests the creation of a memorial commemorating the Civilian Public Service (CPS), a World War II era program of alternative service for conscientious objectors. Through an exploration of memorial culture, the thesis seeks to distinguish the commemoration of nonviolence from the commemoration of war and to propose a memorial that inspires its visitors to consider nonviolence and conscientious objection as positive aspects of American culture. To accomplish these goals, a memorial composed of modular commemorative elements was designed. Rearranging this kit of parts in combination with a new group of locally appropriate trees, the memorial will relocate to a different American city each year and return to Washington, D.C. every four years. With the growth of a new grove of trees and its donation to the neighborhood the memorial inhabits, the latter will draw attention to the history and the variety of services performed by the CPS

Interdisciplinary Studio Pavilion [ISP] 2019

An Interdisciplinary studio involves different knowledge disciplines who work together to achieve a common goal. This project engages this idea with three different majors. Our objective was to create a Pavilion to display wine history artifacts from the central coast. The project teams consist of architecture, construction management, and structural engineering majors. Each group was tasked with designing a portable pavilion that would achieve the desired objectives of the clients. At the end of the quarter the client will choose which project to be built. The roles of the different disciplines overlap, creating a project viewed at from many perspectives. This collaboration avoided clashes early on in the design and enabled an easier solution. As the construction management major in the group, the main input was in the logistics. We managed the constructability throughout the project, created an assembly package, tracked cost, and coordinated fabrication and transportation. The pavilion we designed is a HSS superstructure. This structure supports the form and display areas for the wine artifacts. No heavy equipment can be used for assembly and disassembly. Responding to that, we created a bolted assembly for the superstructure and a modular construction for the form. Were it not that this was an interdisciplinary studio, we would have not been able to design a project that responded to all the client’s needs

Cycloaddition-fragmentation mediated pathways to ring D modified 19-norsteroids

Includes summary.Includes bibliographical references.An efficient strategy for the synthesis of 14β-3'-oxobutyl 19-norsteroids has been developed and the intramolecular reactivity of the derived compounds has been investigated. The approach is based on cycloaddition of methyl vinyl ketone to 3-methoxyestra-1,3,5(10),14,16-pentaen-17-yl acetate which proceeded with a high degree of regio- and stereoselectivity to give 16α-acetyl-3-methoxy-14, 17α-ethenoestra-1 ,3,5(1 O)-trien-17β-yl acetate. The cycloadduct underwent base mediated fragmentation, affording an efficient and stereocontrolled synthesis of 3-methoxy-14β-3'-oxobutylestra-1,3,5(10),15-tetraen-17-one which in turn gave 3-methoxy-5',6'-dihydro-15αH-benzo[14,15]-14β-estra-1,3,5(1O)-trien-4'(3'H), 17-dione via an intramolecular Michael reaction. Regioselective deoxygenation of the dione at C-4', followed by standard functional group modifications provided the parent 14β-perhydrobenzo[14,15]-estradiol analogues. An alternative, more expedient, route to this novel steroidal ring system was developed which relied on an anionic oxy-Cope rearrangement as the key step. Thus methylenation of the cycloadducts derived from reaction of the dienyl acetate and selected dienophiles (acrolein and methyl vinyl ketone) gave after hydrolysis of the bridgehead ester, substrates which underwent [3,3]sigmatropic rearrangement to generate a series of 14β-perhydrobenzo[14,15]-17-ketones

Review Essay: Education and the Radical Critique

This essay will be primarily concerned with a critical analysis of recent writings pertaining to schooling in America. Included in the analysis will be the work of Samuel Bowles, Martin Carnoy, Herbert Gintis, Michael Katz, and Joel Spring. Although these scholars of American education will provide the theoretical framework for the essay, they do not necessarily concur on all issues. As we will later demonstrate, all of the works differ in many instances, especially their policy recommendations. If there is a common thread woven throughout all of these works, it is the intellectual debt they owe Karl Marx. All of them rely heavily on Marxian materialism in their analyses, but few utilize the Marxian dialectic to its fullest. The task of the essay will be an explication of the theories and subsequent policy recommendations of the works under scrutiny followed by a critical evaluation of the theory and its proposed praxis (or lack thereof)

Students' Conceptions of Scale Regarding Groundwater

This study involved surveying three groups of students regarding their ideas about the structure, scale, and percieved importance of groundwater. The survey results show that many participants selected sizes of groundwater structures that mirrored surface analogs; however, some students applied scales on the order of houses and skyscrapers to typical pore and crack structures. The authors' research indicates that students bring to the classroom many misconceptions that are well-positioned to interfere with their understanding of hydrogeologic principles. Educational levels: Graduate or professional

Traumatic Esophagitis

A 4 year old female Dalmatian was admitted to the Stange Memorial Clinic on Aug. 13, 1956, with the following history. The local veterinarian had examined the dog and found a small, hard non-fluctuating mass in the region of the thyroid. It was surmised that the dog was possibly suffering from a thyroid deficiency, precipitated by a tumor in the reg~on. The dog was placed on thyroid extract therapy but reacted violently by vomiting and exhibiting severe malaise

A Questionnaire For Sampling Price, Production, And Finance Information In Farm Supply And Marketing Cooperatives

A cooperative association is an organization of firms which is controlled by those who use it and is operated for their mutual benefit as patrons. The cooperative association operates under different principles than does a proprietary corporation. The proprietary corporation is normally assumed to have the objective of maximizing profits while the cooperative firm is assumed to have the objective of maximizing the benefit it derives for it*s member patrons