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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2010-02-10)
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(2021-07-16)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesListening difficulty (LiD) is defined as developmental difficulty in listening despite the presence of normal hearing; this difficulty is often exacerbated in noisy environments. Listening is a critical skill for everyone, ...
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(2023-03-24)Department: Learning, Teaching & Diversity and Comparative Media Analysis and PracticeListening has long been part of the neglected situation of the reality of human interaction. Blending social constructivist veins in the learning sciences with critical media studies, I trace the history of listening studies ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-04-01)This paper is a review of the literature on the impact of demographic and technological changes on research and practice of literacy education of English Language Learners (ELLs) in American K-12 school settings. It is ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Effective professional development for teachers has been a controversial topic in education for many years. Schools beg to answer the question: how do we continue to educate teachers so that student learning will increase? ...
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 1999-10-08)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-17)Alchemy is a pseudoscience that has persisted throughout millennia as a result of its own ability to change while retaining its primary purpose: transformation. What began as a means of wielding and evolving metals developed ...
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(Eisenbrauns, 1981)"...folk tales as well as fairy tales do create protagonists who never existed and do assign them tasks that have no historical bases. More commonly however, we either find protagonists with modest actual achievements ...
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(Garland Pub., 1823-07)
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(2017-08-09)Department: SociologyThis paper considers classroom gender inequity and its causes. It specifically does this by analyzing the authors and protagonists of major literary works read in United States freshmen English classes. This paper finds ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)Blindness plays a prominent role in literature and is frequently turned into a metaphor associated with wisdom or divinity. There are certainly other ways to interpret blindness, but literature consistently links blindness ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
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(2012-12-11)Department: GermanElisabeth Langgässer (1899-1950) was a German-Catholic writer banned from publishing by the Nazi regime because she was classified as half-Jewish. This dissertation sheds new light on Langgässer’s final works by reading ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2022-03-01)This literature review included 33 studies published in the past ten years focusing on language transfer of Chinese K-12 and college students who studied English. It intended to determine the factors that influence transfer ...
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(Washington University Law Quarterly, 2001)This paper is an empirical analysis of plaintiffs' success rates in executive compensation litigation. Using data from publicly available files, this study examines a sample of 124 cases where shareholders have challenged ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: HistoryThis dissertation seeks to throw open the courtroom doors and show how ordinary people—black and white, free and enslaved—shaped the law of manumission at a critical moment in American history. It is a detailed legal, ...
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(Texas Law Review, 2002)Optimal commodity tax methodology has been proposed as a way of making difficult line drawing decisions in the income tax. This paper explores some practical difficulties with the approach, and concludes that in one area ...
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