The Spread of Buddhism during Ancient China

Stories contain the power to be able to pull people in and engulf them with the teachings and enjoyment they possess. Storytelling is used in many different manners and one of those is through religion. It is through the telling of stories, and eventually the writing of them, that major religious beliefs have successfully spread to other parts of the world instead of staying in one place. Buddhism is one of the religions that is well-known and practiced by many because of the spread of its stories to other parts of the world, especially Asia. In ancient China, Buddhism flourished among the Chinese people because it was not suited just for the elites. Lay people were able to enjoy and relate to Buddhist doctrines as well. Through different tales and explanations, Buddhism was able to flourish among not just one class but all classes because it related to many aspects of life. Stories played a key part

Petty Despots: Rethinking Human Rights Discourse After the Cold War

Flyer for Fall 2008 ICS Faculty Fellow Lecture by Neil Englehart.https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ics_fellow_lectures/1069/thumbnail.jp

An Exploration Of How Pre-service Early Childhood Teachers Use Educative Curriculum Materials To Support Their Science Teaching

Research indicates that a proportion of elementary teachers are not comfortable teaching science to young children. These teachers are unaware of the best methods of approaching science and don\u27t have the science background knowledge to support teaching through inquiry methods. This case study explores the role educative curriculum materials play in supporting pre-service early childhood education teachers\u27 knowledge with science content and teaching practices. Specifically, I examine how educative materials impact pre-service teacher\u27s content knowledge in science and their pedagogical content knowledge related to inquiry methods. Three pre-service early childhood teachers participated in this research. The teachers were initially interviewed about teaching science based upon three instruments: Views of Science Inquiry, Views of the Nature of Science and the Science Teachers Efficacy Beliefs Inventory. Each subject was observed teaching science in their internship site: the first lessons taught were guided or approved by their teachers and the next lessons were conducted using the support of educative curriculum materials. Finally, the initial instruments were once again administered along with an interview to obtain changes in teacher\u27s knowledge, beliefs and understandings of science and science teaching. Results from this research indicate that educative curriculum was supportive of teachers in a variety of ways. Most importantly, this curriculum helped teachers to target more aspects of scientific inquiry during their science lessons than lessons without the use of educative curriculum. The important considerations regarding the effectiveness of the educative curriculum for these pre-service teachers were their underlying beliefs about how science should be taught, their uses of the curriculum materials and reflective practices regarding their own teaching. Results specifically related to early childhood educators include the level of inquiry implemented with young children and how children communicate their findings. Young children need support in their participation of inquiry learning. Successful implementation of guided inquiry practices occurred in this research. Also, the teachers in this research found insightful ways that directly supported young children in their communication of ideas. Implications for further research are also discussed. Educative materials could further support pre-service early childhood teachers if additional supports were used including accessible curricular rationales, support in classroom management and the specific use of guided inquiry

A bibliography of electrothermal thruster technology, 1984

Electrothermal propulsion concepts are briefly discussed as an introduction to a bibliography and author index. Nearly 700 citations are given for resistojets, thermal arcjets, pulsed electrothermal thrusters, microwave heated devices, solar thermal thrusters, and laser thermal thrusters

Thermo-Chemical Conversion of Starches Using Ammonium Persulfate

The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of thermal-chemical conversion of corn starch for use in pigmented paper coatings. Thermal-chemical conversion of starch is capable of creating a wide range of starch solids and characteristics at one location with on-site conversion. It involves the use of high temperatures and pressures, along with a conversion agent (i.e. ammonium persulfate [A.P.], or a peroxide), to hydrolyze and oxidize the unmodified starches. In this study corn starch was converted using a National Starch Company C-1 Laboratory Jet Cooker. The study was done in three phases. Preliminary work was done to become familiar with the jet cooker operation. Next, three runs were made to prepare starches of different viscosities. These starches were used to prepare coatings which were applied on the CLC coater. Finally, the coated sheets were tested for brightness, smoothness, gloss, and wax pick. During the running of the jet cooker a number of difficulties were experienced. These included: poor retention, significant dilution due to flashing and quench water, plugging of the retention coil, poor back pressure control and unpredictable starch viscosities. Runability during coating of starch as a binder was excellent. The low dewatering effect that starch added to the coating aided in blade coating operability. The results of the testing of the coatings showed that brightness, smoothness and gloss were best at the medium addition level of A.P. (1.3%). The values of wax pick were indistinguishable from one another because they were within one standard deviation. These low molecular weights are most often caused by over conversion of the starch structure. The high-shear rheology of the three coating colors was thixotropic, of increasing hysteresis area as binder A.P. level increased. This suggests that as the A.P. level was increased greater reduction of starch molecular weight occurred

Restaurant meal cost trends in five of the top 100 United States business travel cities

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