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Conectandonos: A customized version for SPAN 201 at Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor

Author(s): CATHARINE TONNACLIFF

A culture-based, critical-thinking approach to learning and using Spanish in context. Conectándonos is a culture-based first year textbook that focuses on the analysis of language in its cultural context. By combining a textbook and website, Conectándonos engages students from the very beginning ...

Living Inspiration: A Text/Workbook for Applied Ethics, Public Speaking, Human Relations and Creative Good

Author(s): Nancy Erbe

Living Inspiration introduces the leadership skills that all employees seek in graduates with student reflection and skill development teaching and learning activities.  Students of humanities and peace studies/peacebuilding use to guide inner peacebuilding (mental health).  It is a popular text for...

The Truth is in the Photo? The Ramifications of a Photo Posted on Instagram

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Abstract When an NHL player goes out clubbing with childhood friends, he posts pictures on Instagram. The next morning he wakes to the news that his pictures are all over TMZ and other celebrity gossip sites and he is being characterized as a leader of the Blood gang. Over the next 12 hours, the ...

Risk Assessment and Negative Affect: Examining Compliance Gaining in the Context of Major Crises and Disasters

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Sample While a substantive body of research has explored compliance gaining processes related to environmental risks, the threats posed by impending environmental crises and natural disasters likely constitute a unique psychological state in which information seeking is paramount, in order to est...

"Feeling Stigmatized by Patients": Religiosity, Ethnicity, and Cross-Gender Patient Interactions for a Male Muslim Physician

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Sample Sitting in his office at the Women’s Health Clinic (WHC), Dr. Ahmad Rahal was deep in thought as he stared out of his office window at the budding blossoms on a nearby apple tree. The morning began at 7:30 a.m., and he had seen 16 patients by noon. The reason for their visits varied greatl...

Who's Leading You?: Success and Meaning in the Digital Age

Author(s): Bruce Arai

Instructors of first-year experience and foundational courses feel a lot of pressure. They often face roomfuls of students with very different levels of preparation, and instructors are expected to get everyone up to standard. But how can they meet these expectations when we know that many of our st...

Bollywood in the City: Can the Consumption of Bollywood Cinema Serve as a Site for Intercultural Discovery and Dialogue?

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Sample Bollywood’s new “coolness” (Banker 2001) creates the space for what Clifford calls “political struggles to define the local as distinctive community” (Clifford 1994, 308)—a space distinctly evident in the New York metropolitan area. This is made possible particularly by the post-globalized...