A “Land You Could Not Escape yet Almost Didn’t Want to Leave”: Japanese American Identity in Manzanar Internment Camp Gardens

The Japanese American Internment during World War II drastically altered the lives of over 120,000 people. At the Manzanar Relocation Center just four hours from Los Angeles, 11,000 people were imprisoned from the spring of 1942 to the fall of 1945. Internees maintained self-expression through the gardens of Manzanar using traditional Japanese gardening techniques to transform the barren landscape into one of beauty and communal space. Today, the gardens are being restored based on photographic record, which serve as symbolic representations of the emotion invoked from these spaces. Through photographs, interviews, and evidence gathered on site, a story has been written about the creators of these gardens, their families, and the bond of community they forged in the California desert

Who Bears the Cost of an Emergency: Balancing Billing\u27s Effects on Health Care Providers, and Solutions Through Alternative Dispute Resolution

Arbitration, as well as other forms of alternative dispute resolution, provide many benefits for all parties when a dispute arises, such as faster results and less expense and time than litigation, and the potential for more qualified finders of fact on a specific topic rather than a jury of peers. In the following case note, Part II will focus on the background of different types of health insurance carriers in the United States, the Knox-Keene Act, and the California Assembly Bill 1611.20 Part III will discuss more specifically the issues that stem from balance billing through explicit cases. Part IV will explore current and proposed solutions to balance billing issues, comparing current legislation that includes arbitration to those offered in the federal arena. Finally, this note will conclude by reviewing the problem and acknowledging proposed solutions’ probabilities of being enacted and their impact on balance billing disputes

Honorable Mention Contest Entry: A “Land You Could Not Escape yet Almost Didn’t Want to Leave:” Japanese American Identity in Manzanar Internment Camp Gardens

This is McKenzie Tavoda\u27s submission for the 2014-2015 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won honorable mention. She wrote about Japanese American identity in the Manzanar Internment Camp gardens. You can read the final essay that came out of her research here

Honorable Mention Research Paper: A “Land You Could Not Escape yet Almost Didn’t Want to Leave:” Japanese American Identity in Manzanar Internment Camp Gardens

While prior scholarship on Japanese American Internment during World War II has been prolific, few have researched the role the natural environment played within the camps and the impact it had on the internees. Some scholars have supposed that the environment was chiefly a negative influence, like Connie Chiang, but few have studied the resourceful accomplishments of the internees in designing and cultivating gardens that reflected both their ancestral identity and contemporary American sensibility. Scholars such as Kenneth Helphand argued that the gardens were strictly an act of defiance. Others like David Neiwert lay claim to the Japanese immigrant enclave losing its sense of community during internment. This paper will discuss how, in actuality, through the gardens, the internees were able to convert their space from a form of social discipline into one of personal power and communal restitution

Using digital technologies in EFL classroom

Tato diplomová práce se zabývá využitím digitálních technologií ve výuce anglického jazyka. Práce představuje výsledky výzkumu provedeného na základních a středních školách v České republice zaměřeného na problematiku využívání digitálních technologií ve výuce angličtiny. Práce přináší výsledky širokého záběru dat, která jsou důležitá pro všechny učitele/učitelky angličtiny včetně názorů studentů/žáků, jejich schopností používat digitální technologie, jejich preferencí a představ. Dále práce uvádí jak často a jaký software a hardware je ve výuce anglického jazyka používán na příslušných stupních českého vzdělávacího systému. Práce je doplněna srovnáním výuky angličtiny v době před Covid-19 pandemií a v jejím průběhu. Výstupem práce jsou ukázkové aktivity zaměřené na hlavní oblasti výuky anglického jazyka s využitím digitálních technologií a seznam na trhu dostupných zařízení a softwarového vybavení v době vzniku diplomové práce.This diploma thesis focuses on the use of digital technologies in EFL lessons. It presents the results from research done at the primary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic regarding digital technologies in EFL classes. The study provides a wide range of essential data for EFL teachers, including students' opinions, their ability to use digital technology, and their preferences and wishes. Furthermore, it shows how often and which software or hardware teachers use at perspective levels of the Czech educational system. In addition, the study brings forward differences between Covid-19 lockdown education and before the pandemic education. As a part of this paper, there are six example activities with suggested software and hardware, a list of hardware and software suitable for EFL lessons, and accessible on the market when creating the thesis

Strong and Weak Forms of English Grammatical Words

Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá problematikou výuky českých studentů anglického jazyka redukovaným a neredukovaným formám anglických gramatických slov. Součástí práce je hloubkový rozhovor s PhDr. Dušanem Melenem, Ph.D., lingvistou a učitelem anglického jazyka, zaměřující se na jeho názory ohledně zařazení redukovaných forem gramatických slov do výuky anglického jazyka pro české studenty. Názory odborníků z oblasti výuky anglického jazyka a čtyř učitelů angličtiny ze základních škol v České Lípě a střední školy v Mimoni byly porovnány s názory doktora Melena. Jedním z cílů bakalářské práce je také zjistit, jaké informace je ještě možné vyčíst z výsledků diagnostického testu. Tento test byl provedený mezi studenty předmětu Fonetiky a fonologie v průběhu jejich bakalářského studia na Přírodovědně-humanitní a pedagogické fakultě Technické univerzity v Liberci. Obsah diagnostického testu je zaměřen na poslechové dovednosti a schopnost užití redukovaných forem v mluvené formě anglického jazyka. Cílem výzkumu bylo zhodnotit dovednosti studentů v rozlišování redukovaných a neredukovaných forem a ověřit schopnosti studentů k použití těchto forem v mluveném projevu. Výsledky diagnostického testu ukazují na výhody začlenění výuky redukovaných forem do výuky angličtiny pro české studenty. Na základě získaných dat, rozhovorů a výsledků diagnostického testu byly v závěru práce nastíněny návrhy na způsoby implementace redukovaných forem do výuky angličtiny.The topic of this bachelor's thesis is teaching weak and strong forms of English grammatical words to Czech learners of English. An in-depth interview with PhDr. Dušan Melen, Ph.D., a linguist and a teacher of English, was conducted regarding his views about the teaching of weak forms to native speakers of Czech. The opinions of experts in teaching English and four teachers from my primary school in Česká Lípa and the secondary school in Mimoň about teaching the weak forms were connected to Melen's statements. The thesis is trying to ascertain how much information can be gained regarding the students understanding of weak forms using the online diagnostic test. I carried out a diagnostic test on the students of a phonetics and phonology course in the undergraduate programme at the Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education at the Technical University of Liberec. The content of the diagnostic test focused on collecting data regarding the abilities of the students at listening comprehension as well as their use of the weak forms in spoken English. The aim of the research is, therefore, to illustrate how well students are able to recognize the difference between weak and strong forms. It illustrates whether these particular students of English are capable of using those forms correctly. The results demonstrated the advantages of teaching the weak and strong forms to Czech EFL learners. Based on research data, that is, the interview, the results of the test, and the survey, suggestions for teaching weak forms were made

A “Land You Could Not Escape yet Almost Didn’t Want to Leave”: Japanese American Identity in Manzanar Internment Camp Gardens

The Japanese American Internment during World War II drastically altered the lives of over 120,000 people. At the Manzanar Relocation Center just four hours from Los Angeles, 11,000 people were imprisoned from the spring of 1942 to the fall of 1945. Internees maintained self-expression through the gardens of Manzanar using traditional Japanese gardening techniques to transform the barren landscape into one of beauty and communal space. Today, the gardens are being restored based on photographic record, which serve as symbolic representations of the emotion invoked from these spaces. Through photographs, interviews, and evidence gathered on site, a story has been written about the creators of these gardens, their families, and the bond of community they forged in the California desert