...Widely acclaimed saxophonist Donny McCaslin returns with a personalized project of his authorship after participating in David Bowie’s Blackstar. McCaslin reunites his Fast Future quartet, whose members - Jason Lindner on keyboards, Tim Lefebre on electric bass, and Mark Guiliana on drums - were also crucial in the English pop star's lattermost album, and adds a few influential guest musicians to play on selected songs. The nine tracks of Beyond Now intelligently combine a variety of variables that catapult McCaslin to the vanguard of the modern jazz. The opening tune, “Shake Loose” pulses with hypnotic rhythmic chops and feels simultaneously urban and futuristic. With strong influences of pop-rock, jazz, and electronic music, the quartet...
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...The Qualitative Report Volume 8 Number 3 September 2003 447-461 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-3/mccaslin.pdf The Five-Question Method For Framing A Qualitative Research Study Mark L. McCaslin University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA Karen Wilson Scott University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA The Five-Question Method is an approach to framing Qualitative Research, focusing on the methodologies of five of the major traditions in qualitative research: biography, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, and case study. Asking Five Questions, novice researchers select a methodology appropriate to the desired perspective on the selected topic. The Method facilitates identifying and writing a Problem Statement. Through taking a future perspective, the researcher discovers the importance and direction of the study and composes a Purpose Statement. The process develops an overarching research question integrating the purpose and the research problem. The role of the researcher and management of assumptions and biases is discussed. The Five-Question Method simplifies the framing process promoting quality in qualitative research design. A course outline is appended. Key words: Qualitative Research, Five-Question Method, Biography Research, Phenomenology Research, Grounded Theory Research, Case Study Research, and Ethnography Research Introduction Planning a qualitative study for the first time tends to be an intimidating venture for graduate students just entering...
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...harsh conditions. However, there seemed to be one solution to finding freedom: making their way to the North. In order to reach the free states, slaves would need to find a route to the North without being captured by their masters. This marked the start of the Underground Railroad. Before the beginning of the American Civil War, there was a secret network system that freed thousands of slaves. This system was named the Underground Railroad, not for being directly underground or because it was a railway station, but “because of the secret nature of the network” (Nancy McCaslin). The runaway slaves involved in the Underground Railroad overcame the oppression faced by their merciless owners by escaping Southern America. Despite its challenges, their perseverance led to the freedom of many slaves, allowing them to live freely and obtain their rights. According to the article, “The Underground Railroad” by Nancy McCaslin, Two Underground Railroad networks existed, the Northern and Southern Underground Railroad. Both had different purposes for transporting slaves from one place to another. The Southern Railroad aided slaves to escape and travel north. The Northern network would keep slaves in stations (hiding places of safety), to keep them from being returned to the south. It was important to ensure slaves would not be captured because of the active search for runaway slaves. Slave owners and masters printed advertisements for their escaped slaves in newspapers. Rewards for runaway slaves...
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...A qualitative researcher should identify the issue that is under investigation in the problem statement within the first few sentences of the work, usually within the introduction, in order to engage the reader "A well-written problem statement will have an opening sentence or phrase that stimulates interest as well as conveys an issue to which a broad readership can relate" (McCaslin & Wilson, 2003). The problem statement should include not only the topic that originally prompted the research, but it should also state the reasons that lead to formulating new questions about the identified dilemma (Polit & Beck, 2010, p. 151). The researcher’s interest is also reflected in the issue under inquiry within the context of qualitative research. There has to be a rational need for investigation, a valid reason behind the questioning, and a degree of reliability for the source of motivation or need, as explained by McCaslin &Wilson (2003) "Your objective, your reason for conducting your study, derives from some issue of importance to you that can be substantiated through a body of evidence from the literature. Once you recognize what that issue is, you have a rudimentary problem statement" (p. 451). The problem statement should be critiqued based on completeness of presentation with all the necessary elements: (Polit and Beck, 2010, pp. 150, 152) The problem should be easily identifiable and should be scrutinized under the elements of identifying the nature of the problem...
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...The Fast Food Industry The last 50 years or so have been turbulent ones for America. Millions of “Rosies” may have quit riveting but they did not quit working, and the Civil Rights Movement resulted in fundamental changes in American society that have leveled the playing field for most workers today. A costly police action was fought in Korea that is still smoldering today, and the last vestiges of the Vietnam War were finally played out in the most recent presidential election. During the last 50 years or so, America succeeded in landing a man on the moon and safely returning him to the Earth, and winning a costly Cold War. During this turbulent period in U.S. history, life has become faster-paced and more women have joined the workforce, all of which have been to the detriment of “traditional” American family meals, but all of which has been to the enormous advantage to the fast food industry. People around the world today may criticize America’s politics, but the fact remains virtually everyone loves American fast food and the industry has become firmly established around the world. This paper provides an overview of the fast food industry from the 1950s to the present, an analysis of what social effects were caused by and reflected in the industry, what marketing and advertising changes have taken place in the industry during this time, followed by a discussion of current and future trends. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion. Review and Discussion ...
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...Evolution of healthcare - Teaching hospitals Mark Mccaslin MSAT19GDJ3 September 30, 2013 Martha Owen, MHA, FACMPE Evolution of healthcare - Teaching hospitals The trend in teaching hospitals has grown tremendously over the past years. Teaching hospitals “is an operating hospital where medical students and newly graduated doctors complete their training.” These facilities are often known as University Hospitals, in which more than 60 percent of traumas centers are in the United States are teaching facilities. They are normally well funded with the newest technology and treatments than public and private medical centers. These facilities are in inner city areas, and owned by the state or local governments. Doctors, who start working in these facilities, begin in their second half of their graduate program. They are known as interns, and once they graduate it is a requirement to complete four year of residency in their desired field. Teaching hospitals also educate nurses, and other allied professionals, according to the New York Times, individuals who practice in teaching hospitals, “experience an explosion of scientific knowledge that turns into practical use.” The responsibility of these facilities is to render the best care to patients, and members of the community. Teaching hospitals focus on precise areas, to provide the best education as possible. Teaching hospitals have changed the delivery in healthcare, by providing medical training to “physicians, research...
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...Amy McCaslin Obituary First let’s define the word racism, racism It’s a belief that separates the difference human inherent, a racial group of people deciding the way they live or one’s accomplishment, usually connects the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to tell others or that a particular race group. It started in 1472 Portuguese were the first slave trade, then in 1651 someone declares an enslaved after ten years of service. In 1862 Lincoln abolished slavery in territory controlled by the Confederate State of America. Congress rules that black soldiers must receive the same pay. 1870 they passed the 15 amendment allowing black men to vote. On 1963 MLKs letter from Birmingham Jail encourage growing national civil...
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...CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Background of Study According to the Wendy Karen Mages (2008), drama is something that inherently possesses the characteristics and play in the television station. While for the drama practitioners, according to the Fox (1987), Heathcote (1984) McCaslin (1996) and O'Neill & Lambert(1982) its contend that drama promotes development and note that drama is particularly beneficial for fostering language development. Davis and Behm (1987) explain that the spectrum of activities involving children and the drama/theatre is established on the classic definitions of drama (a thing done) and theatre (to gaze on). The natural dramatic propensities of children, located at the far left on the continuum, are seen to be the bases of, and to infuse, all the forms of drama and theatre. Jyoti thottam says that, a typical telenovela which is an example of drama is that runs daily for months could require more than 100 episodes, in contrast to two dozen weekly episodes for a season of a prime-time network drama. CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW Television Drama Television dramas will force networks and viewers to change their habits. Love, betrayal and cleavage all have starring roles in the plot of a typical of television drama which make people love to watch it. Jyoti Thottam(2006). Telenevola An Example Of Drama A typical telenovela that runs daily for months could require more than 100 episodes, in contrast...
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...IKEA Answer of Question 1: The porter generic strategies This concerns the positioning of the firm in the industry where it operates, so Porter illustrates that the strengths of any firm can be deployed in one of the costs advantages or the differentiation advantages and for narrow scope in the industry. So the three Porter’s generic strategies are defined as. • Cost-leadership strategy. This calls for being low cost producer for a given level of quality and sell at the average of industry pricing to make profits or sell at below the average of the industry pricing to increase the market share. • Differentiation strategy. This calls for the development of the product and add value by finding unique attributes that make the customer different in using this product from the competitor’s products, and the uniqueness of these attributes will charge the customer higher prices than the competitors who are not able to find a substitutes easily. • Segmentation or (Focus) strategy. And this can be split into (focused differentiation, or focused low-cost). This calls for concentrating or targeting a narrow group of people and serving them by either low-cost products or differentiated products. The strategy clock This is an elaboration of the Porter’s generic strategies, and developed by Bowman to consider the competitive advantage of the firm in relation to the cost advantage or differentiation advantage. This is represented by combination of price axe and the perceived added...
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...further he past his own, he became a quieter child than most, leaving him to become isolated which caused his studies to be hurt and not finishing school. Once William was around 17 years of age, he came to become more interested in literature thanks to a man name Philp Stone, but it was not until his thirties that he became successful with the creation of his first novel entitled Flags in the Dust. It wasn’t till fifteen years later in 1942, that Faulkner wrote a book filled with short stories with a famous story to be known as the best short story within the twentieth century. "The Bear" appeared in its fullest form as a chapter in Go Down, Moses. “The Bear”, is a simple yet complex story to wrap your head around told from Ike's, Isaac McCaslin, perspective. This short story set in a time frame shortly after the Civil War, during an annual late autumn hunting expedition in the wild lands of the Tallahatchie River region in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County. Every year the McCaslin’s family goes on this adventure for the hunt of the legendary Old Ben, a huge and elusive ancient bear with a mutilated paw. Once Ike was of age he was finally able to go out with the men and find Old Ben and who other than then to train him, but Sam’s Father, an expert tracker, a noble but yet brave huntsman who is the son of a Chickasaw Indian and an African slave. Sam also trains a fierce, woodland dog called Lion, and together they track Old Ben. As the story unfolds the young boy, comes across...
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...The Reivers : The War Between Virtue and Non-Virtue “So there you have it: two things and I can't bring them together and they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?” John reflects on his feelings and the consequences of his actions. (5.43)- Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish. In his novel, Richard Flanagan uses his character, John, to show an internal struggle between two values that contradict each other and cannot be brought together. This internal struggle in John is very similar to William Faulkner’s display of an internal war between virtue and non-virtue through Lucius Priest in The Reivers. The war between virtue and non-virtue is implied by his thoughts on adulthood and his actions when faced with adversity. Faulkner demonstrates how anyone can and will fall victim to the temptation of non-virtue. Using Lucius, an innocent child, to display that even those who choose virtue will give in to the seduction of sin. In his novel, The Reivers, Faulkner elucidates an ongoing war between virtue and non-virtue in the mind of Lucius Priest. First in the book through his unwillingness to disobey orders, Lucius demonstrates his captivity to virtue (AB Phrase). Lucius begins the book as an innocent child who always tries to make the right choice and choose the path of virtue. Lucius contrasts his Saturday morning to the other boys by saying “each...
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...have different images of good teachers”. Further, learners’ perception of effective teaching may vary from that of their teacher. Goodlad (1990) believes that Students coming from backgrounds different from the teachers exhibit a wide range of behavioral and academic characteristics about which many teachers are uninformed. The students may lack confidence in the teacher’s ability, when a teacher and his/ her students have opposing views about what should occur in the classroom. Dörnyei (2001) and Horwitz (1987) claim that without confidence and motivation learning is unlikely to happen. Thus, to be effective, teachers need to consider the roles, biases and general mood of their students before planning how to teach them (Crowley, 1995; McCaslin & Good, 1996).Further, teachers must be aware of what their students want and what their students feel (Good & Brophy, 2001). Considering the above mentioned issues, this survey aims to investigate secondary school students’ perception of effective foreign language teachers. Tanaka & Ellis (2003) claim that learner beliefs vary according to a number of factors such as age, cultural (or ethnic) background, learning environment, stage of learning, and target language. The previous studies in Iran mostly investigated the perception of higher education students and privet school students. This paper concentrates on the study of public secondary school students’ perceptions of effective English teacher. All these schools are located in rural...
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...Annotated Bibliography on Vocabulary Development in EFL Learners Supatranut Singhanuwananon 5506040111 Vocabulary Development in EFL Learners: Optimizing Lexical Competence Vocabulary teaching and learning in English language teaching (ELT) had been long considered unimportant until the light started to gleam gradually on the field in the 1980s to the 1990s (Nation, 2011; Henriksen, 1999). It has become widely known that slow vocabulary development blocks learners’ ability to comprehend L2 content through reading and listening (August, Carlo, Dressler, and Snow, 2005). Studies also show that because EFL learners have very much fewer productive vocabulary than receptive vocabulary, they often encounter difficulties in language production (Zhong, 2011). As an EFL learner myself, I have experienced such problems as well. Oftentimes, my vocabulary limitations interfere with my communication in L2. Therefore, it kindles my personal interest in studies of L2 vocabulary development. Because vocabulary has become one of the key elements in ELT and ELL, through decades, many research have been conducted to identify how vocabulary is learned and developed, and what factors that impede or boost learners’ lexical competence. Hence, this study attempts to respond to the research questions as follow: 1. What are existing vocabulary learning strategies that EFL learners use? 2. What are factors that affect vocabulary development in EFL learners? 3. What are effective vocabulary learning...
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...http://vietbao.vn/Kinh-te/Triet-ly-IKEA-Cau-chuyen-than-ky-ve-mot-thuong-hieu/20537948/87/ Cách mà IKEA đã trở thành một thương hiệu hàng đầu về bán lẻ đồ gỗ là một câu chuyện thần kỳ. IKEA được đánh giá là một điển cứu thương hiệu được trích dẫn hàng đầu. |[pic] | |Với hàng trăm cửa hàng trải khắp Châu Âu, Châu Á, Úc và Mỹ đang làm ăn rất phát đạt phục | |vụ hơn 410 triệu khách hàng, IKEA thực sự là gã khổng lồ đáng nể nhất trong ngành bán lẻ. | Không phải Walmart, vì dù là đại gia hàng đầu thế giới trong lĩnh vực bán lẻ nhưng lại chẳng thể thành công tại Brazil, Đức và Nhật. Cũng không phải là Carrefour, gã khổng lồ nữa của Châu Âu không được thành công tại Mỹ. Mà chính ngay tại thời điểm này, với 226 cửa hàng trải khắp Châu Âu, Châu Á, Úc và Mỹ đang làm ăn rất phát đạt phục vụ hơn 410 triệu khách hàng, IKEA mới thực sự là gã khổng lồ đáng nể nhất trong ngành bán lẻ. Bạn đã bao giờ tưởng tượng ra câu chuyện thế này chưa: Khi Roger Penguino, một chuyên gia máy tính của Apple Computer nghe nói rằng IKEA sẽ tặng một món quà trị giá 4.000 USD bằng hiện vật cho người đầu tiên có mặt tại cửa hàng sắp khai trương tại Atlanta, thế là không có cách nào, Penguino dựng ngay một cái lều ngay trước cửa hàng và chờ đợi. Vài ngày mệt mỏi chờ đợi trôi qua, vào cái ngày mà IKEA khai trương cửa hàng của mình, hơn 2000 fan của IKEA đã tham gia cùng với Penguino. Bầu không khí không khác gì một lễ...
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...Medicaid Expansion: Dichotomous Philosophy Threatens the Economy and Health of Millions Medicaid is a federally funded program that insures disabled, elderly and low-income Americans. While all 50 states have yet to opt-in to its expansion per the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would add 21 million people to its rolls, or half of the nation’s uninsured, many states chose to opt in following the June 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision which deemed the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) constitutional (AAFP)(Mears) Despite the ruling of the Supreme Court, the decision to accept Medicaid remains a divisive and heavily debated issue in many states. Indeed partisan bickering, already strained budgets and questions of uncertain monetary futures all weigh heavily upon those relegated to make the final decision of acceptance or refusal. There is also a question as to whether refusal to accept is ultimately meritorious, as acceptance necessarily requires states to agree to some future percentage of the bill while refusal renders them ineligible for millions in federal funding every year. Thus, in a way, the ACA, perhaps much like many governmental policies, could well be considered a gamble either way. Accept it now and don’t miss out on federal funding or decline it, miss out on the funding but don’t put your state on the hook for unknown quantities of money that have to come from somewhere. The option of acceptance or refusal is indeed a very loaded choice;...
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