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

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

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)

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

MODELING SPRING CATCHMENT DISCHARGE: A CASE STUDY OF CANDELA, PANAMA, CENTRAL AMERICA

Where the proper geological and hydrological conditions exist, natural springs have provided a reliable source of clean water to mankind for eons. Changing climates and land development can negatively impact spring source replenishment and threaten their reliability as a source of water. In the face of prospects of diminishing supplies and increasing population demands, community leaders question whether and how to invest in development for enhancing sustainability and protecting water quality, causing water managers to dispute their reliability given decreasing flows. Springs located in the rugged jungle of western Panama serve as the primary water supply for many indigenous communities, such as Candela, which hosts a population of 140. The author of this report lived in that remote community for two years working with the water committee leaders to develop their spring-dominated water supplies. With a lack of data and the physical understanding of the hydrological principles, people often speculate when making water and land use decisions. Objective observational data from monitoring and computational tools for simulating system hydrology would be a valuable platform from which to hold more reasoned discussions on climate impacts and land use to enhance the reliability of water sources. This report characterizes the hydrologic conditions within the watershed that contribute to spring discharge and uses numerical modeling to test hypotheses related to the aquifer mechanics supplying the spring flow. Observations and measurements made within the watershed area included soil conditions, spring flows, and local weather (precipitation and temperature). The data were evaluated using various analytical and numerical methods in an attempt to understand the spring discharge processes relative to the local precipitation. The topography of the catchment area was extrapolated from DigitalGlobe imagery. Soil data analysis provided estimates of infiltration, runoff and recharge rates, which all affect water availability in the shallow groundwater aquifer supplying the springs. A baseflow recession analysis of the combined spring discharge data was performed to quantify the flow behavior of the hydrograph and offer predictions of drought flow behavior. Hydrologic inputs and outputs of the system were accounted for using a basic catchment-scale water budget that produced an annual recharge rate given the variable environmental conditions. These estimates were applied to two groundwater flow models using GMS MODFLOW-2000, each with different aquifer dimensions. The hydraulic conductivity and storativity of the aquifers were calibrated in transient-state simulations to the flow conditions observed during the dry season. Various climatic scenarios were then applied to the models to evaluate their accuracy of simulated flow to the observed flow and to predict water availability from the springs. Simulations using a thicker aquifer outperformed those using a thinner aquifer by having less flow error and more flexibility under a range of hydrologic conditions. Not only do the parameters defining the aquifer properties control the flow rate, but the volume of storage also plays a seminal role in matching the observed spring behavior within these models. The results suggest that the model aquifer presented here requires substrate that has large enough interstitial storage capacity to accumulate a substantial amount of water, yet exhibits flow paths tortuous enough to slowly release water over time. With plenty of recharge during the wet season, spring discharge is sustained throughout the long dry season by a combination of high infiltration rates of the soil and aquifer material, and sufficient aquifer storage volume and retention