Book Review: Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada

According to the reviewer, Lorna Roth, in her book, Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada, examines the success the First Peoples of Canada have had in using the mass medium of television as a tool to counter the negative Indian stereotypes promulgated by Hollywood films, American television, and EuroCanadian television programming and as a voice to extend their own messages and images to all of Canada

Book Review: Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices

According to the reviewer, Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James present a series of five case studies where Alaska Natives have used newspapers, radio, and television media of mass communication as a means to tell their stories. While the authors focus chronologically on selected experiences of the Alaska Natives from the 1880s through 1990s, these examples illustrate the more universal difficulties Indigenous peoples face in preserving culture, place, identity, and way of life in a dominant white culture

The influence of Teach For America on Algebra I student achievement

This non-experimental study examined the influence of an initiative that High Risk School District (pseudonym) implemented to offset the effect of low student academic performance in low performing-schools. The study attempted to answer the following research question: Does having a Teach For America (TFA) teacher have an influence on a student's Algebra I EOC score, independent of gender and race? Teach For America teachers were assigned to the district's most disenfranchised schools. Previous studies have revealed mixed results on TFA teachers' impact on student achievement. The researcher compared student performance on the Algebra I North Carolina End of Course test in High Risk Schools between TFA and non-TFA classrooms. To analyze the data, the responses were measured using the composite Algebra I EOC scores, and the explanatory variables of student gender (male or female), race (African-American, Hispanic and White) and teacher type (TFA or non-TFA) employing a hierarchical modeling procedure. After considering the nesting nature of students within different schools, the researcher used hierarchical linear modeling and found that students taught by TFA out-performed students taught by non-TFA students t (1956)= 3.23, p=.002. Students taught by TFA teachers for all subgroups White, Black and Hispanic out performed students taught by non-TFA teachers (all ps<.01). The results of this study demonstrate that TFA teachers assigned to Algebra I classes have a significant influence on increasing student achievement. The researcher discusses the limitations of these findings. Other studies have shown that TFA teachers, in comparison to regularly certified teachers, have a negative influence on achievement

Book Review: Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930

Alan Trachtenberg's work, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930, examines a pivotal question: What is an American? That question has implications for other immigrant groups mired in the twenty-first century's public policy discussion. Trachtenberg focuses on the dominant culture's construction of what it meant to be American at the turn of the twentieth century with the arrival of twenty-three million immigrants between 1890 and 1920 and how Indian peoples were forced to fit those constructions in a way different from immigrants and African Americans

The young republic's self-image during the administration of James Knox Polk : a study of the swift unfolding of America's sense of destiny and mission 1844-1849

Those pioneers who first migrated to the New World in the seventeenth century brought with them a sense of specialty. They were not ordinary adventurers, no random sampling of those lands left behind. In fact, these people considered themselves sifted wheat among men, believing that God had bestowed upon them special advantages. With these advantages, furthermore, went the obligation to create a better society. As a result, the first Americans felt compelled to found the perfect civilization—a heaven on earth, so-to-speak. Such was not the case, for this theocracy, this Wilderness Zion, did not succeed. The foundation was laid, however, for future generations. These descendents were imbued with this sense of destiny and mission as were their predecessors

Diversity in College Newsroom Staff Key to Diversity in Coverage

Journalism is about telling stories — stories that matter and make a difference. As faculty adviser to the college newspaper for more than a decade, I mentored a staff that included female, male, LGBTQ, international, Native American, African-American, Asian American, Hispanic, and students with disabilities who brought to the newsroom recognition that diverse voices matter. They uncovered stories touching on diversity, accessibility, and social issues that may not have been apparent to a less diverse staff

Sermon hymns

"The Gospel of Jesus Christ" is the first movement of a planned multi-movement composition entitled Sermon Hymns, which offers a new way of using music for Christian corporate worship. Its novelty derives from its presentation: a multimedia composition for piano with electronic audio and video playback. Sermon Hymns consists of sermon clips sequenced together to communicate a specific narrative; in this case, the narrative is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but later movements will focus on different narratives. Original music, both electronic and acoustic, accompanies the sermon excerpts, which are further complemented by a video emphasizing the text. Could such a medium be used in a Christian church setting? What role does music - or more specifically, "textual music" - play in Christian worship from a theological perspective, and is Sermon Hymns consistent with this role? If Christian worship is a human's appropriate response to God's revelation and must engage both emotion and thought, as I will argue, then textual music efficiently mediates this marriage of heart and head, allowing the Christian to worship God "in spirit and in truth." Despite its unusual form of presentation, Sermon Hymns is consistent with this model and could be included as a part of Christian corporate worship. This document contains an overview of the role of textual music in Christian congregational worship from a theological perspective, which is followed by a discussion demonstrating how Sermon Hymns fits within this mold. A score is also included, along with the video file from the premier performance

The influence of north, east, south, and west exposures on plant community composition around the base of the knob on Pilot Mountain

A chart quadrat study of the plant communities on the north-, east-, south-, and west-facing slopes at the base of The Knob on Pilot Mountain was conducted with particular emphasis on altitude, slope angle, soil depth, actual water and mineral content in addition to the phytosociological aspects of the problem. Slope angles were found to be similar on all but the west side which had less main slope, but the fact that the west side is a ridge that slopes noticeably to the north and south may compensate for its lesser main slope in regard to the effect of slope on vegetation. The north had the greatest mean soil depth, organic matter content, and water contents and the south, the least. The altitude was approximately the same for each study area. A series of photographs helps to substantiate the statistical results that each of the four communities, while closely related, has a different species and quantitative makeup

A pilot study of the visible effects of estradiol on human intestinal cells in tissue culture

The purpose of this tissue culture study was to determine whether physiological levels of the steroid 17-B - estradiol would stimulate visible changes in morphology or growth of adult human fibroblastic cells derived from the large intestine, a non-target tissue. Two methods of data collection were used. First, sequential phase-contrast photomicrographs were made of 2 groups of 9 secondary cultures of 79-8924 tissue in plastic flasks at selected times during 3-day intervals. At the end of each experiment, cell monolayers were fixed with 10% neutral buffered formalin. Flasks were rinsed, sawed into 1 X 2½ inch slides and, stained with a modification of Lehman's (1965) polychrome staining procedure to which an initial staining period in 1% Alcian Blue and the final treatment with oil of cedar for clearing and mounting were added for the second type of data collection. This consisted of bright-field microscopic observation of stained slides. Analysis of stained slides included determination of mitotic coefficients, enumeration of lavender- and yellow-staining nuclei among the expected steel blue nuclei, and calculation of nuclear size index values as the product of the greatest length X greatest width of 90 oval nuclei per slide. The t-test was used to compare the difference of pairs of means

Three stories

These stories are autobiographical in that they are attempts on my part to introspect and find and state what I consider to be the truth concerning certain of my personal attitudes toward existence. Charlie, the central character of all three stories, is an autobiographical extension, or probe, which I use to explore depths which are no longer open to me personally. The language of these stories is as close to that of the people with whom I was raised as I can manage. My object in this pursuit is obviously verisimilitude, but there is another factor involved which is of greater significance; these stories are actually not stories per se; they are yarns: something to be told aloud. These yarns are all part of a larger work which I intend to call, the Charlie Ledger, in which I record the profits and losses of his days