The Honors College

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 25% of public school students speak a language other than English at home. Throughout the history of education in our nation, both obvious and covert limitations have been placed on immigrant children and children of immigrants from their first day in kindergarten, causing damage which can last a lifetime. Children whose native language is not English are now provided access to English as a Second Language programs, representing a step in the path to educational equity.

Suburban sprawl threatens the survival of all species and communities on the global scale.  This paper will exhibit these threats and examine them in the context of human development as well as the preservation of other species and habitats.  Relevant internationally-applicable solutions to these problems within the fields of city planning, appropriate technology, and permaculture will be given and described in depth.  Each of the processes that serve as a potential remedy for sprawl will be explained on the technical level within the manual and critically examined for their

Technologies exist for the generation of electricity from renewable sources. However, the intermittent nature of these energy sources, most notably from wind and solar, mandates a means of energy storage.1-4 Hydrogen is a viable energy carrier that could enable a sustainable infrastructure. To achieve this goal, the development of efficient, inexpensive catalysts is essential. Bis(glyoximato) cobalt complexes, a.k.a. cobaloximes, are promising catalysts for the reduction of protons to molecular hydrogen.5-6 Catalytic activity has been demonstrated primarily in non-aqueous solutions.

As dental care has changed over the past decade it has also become more highly utilized within the population. However, with use increasing, population expanding, and the number of available dentist’s decreasing, a large shortage and division in care has developed. In fact, large gaps have developed between urban and rural populations. In order to improve available dental care many services and programs are being implemented. One such program is the “Give Kids a Smile!” program.

We make judgments about others in a variety of contexts, and frequently these judgments are based on small samples of behavioral or descriptive information.  These quickly-formed perceptions persist over extended periods of time.  For example, student evaluations of teaching performance after a full semester of contact are correlated with evaluations based on only seconds of observation.

Though morality is often dealt with as a normative matter, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), a recent advance in psychology, attempts a descriptive account based on five distinct moral concerns, or foundations (Haidt, 2012). Basing these concerns in evolutionarily adaptive social behaviors (Haidt & Joseph, 2007), and our mechanism of moral judgment in intuition (Haidt, 2001), MFT broadens our framework of morality to include facets endorsed as moral by competing cultures and ideologies (Haidt, 2012). In testing MFT, significant correlations with ideology have been reported.

Vibrio cholerae is the species of bacteria causing the disease cholera in humans.  Bacteria are normally transmitted fecal to oral, leading to seasonal epidemics in areas with contaminated water sources.  Little is known about the mechanism of the periodic outbreaks or the factors affecting degree of response.  Additionally, little progress has been made in vaccination attempts.  A number of previous studies of V.

Purpose: This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a five week play-directed music therapy intervention on vocalizations, extended verbalizations, and grasp for two children with autism spectrum disorder aged four and five.

Type-2 diabetes has become an increasing problem among the youth populations worldwide. In order to improve quality of life and decrease financial burdens on individuals as well as the healthcare system as a whole, it is important to reduce metabolic risk factors among youth. The objective of this systematic review was to determine the most effective characteristics of non-pharmacological interventions for reducing the risk of type-2 diabetes in the youth population.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the element of pastiche within the film Moulin Rouge as well as to find out the extent of the use of pastiche to other forms such as the palimpsest. Finally, plagiarism was examined in this study. A qualitative method was applied examining the various styles of pastiche, for example, adaptation, appropriation, collage, imitation, montage, parody, recycling, and travesty.