American Ways American Ways A Guide for Foreigners in the United States GARY ALTHEN with Amanda R. Doran and Susan J. Szmania First published by Intercultural Press. For information contact: Intercultural Press, Inc. Nicholas Brealey Publishing PO Box 700 3-5 Spafield Street Yarmouth, Maine 04096 USA London, EC1R 4QB, UK Tel: 207-846-5168 Tel: +44-207-239-0360 Fax: 207-846-5181 Fax: +44-207-239-0370 www.interculturalpress.com www.nbrealey-books.com © 1988, 2003 by Gary Althen Production
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Bullying at School What is Bullying and How Does It Differ in Boys and Girls? What is bullying?1 * An intentional act. The child who bullies wants to harm the victim; it is no accident. * Characterized by repeat occurrences. Bullying is not generally considered a random act, nor a single incident. * A power differential. A fight between two kids of equal power is not bullying; bullying is a fight where the child who bullies has some advantage or power over the child who is victimized
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A BRIEF CONTENTS PART 1 • GETTING STARTED 1. Becoming a Public Speaker 2. From A to Z: Overview of a Speech 3. Managing Speech Anxiety 4. Ethical Public Speaking 5. Listeners and Speakers 1 2 8 1 4 23 30 PART 2 • DEVELOPMENT 6. Analyzing the Audience 7. Selecting a Topic and Purpose 8. Developing Supporting Material 9. Locating Supporting Material 10. Doing Effective Internet Research 1 Citing Sources in Your Speech 1. 36 37 49 57 64 73 83 PART 3 • ORGANIZATION 1 Organizing the Speech 2. 1 Selecting
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Desk …………………………………………………………………….…18 What is Expected from Your Housing Application/Lease Contract ..…………………....19 Residence Halls Policies & Procedures ………………………………….………….….…26 More Information for You Section V Helpful Hints for Your Safety and Security ..….…………………………………………...45 Your Rights, Freedoms, & Responsibilities ………….………….…………………….…..47 More on Roommates & Apartment Mates ……………….……………………..…………48 Student Services & Centers ………………………………….…
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talent. It, too, can be approached by treating it as a process which provides students with opportunities to discover whether they have the particular capabilities that are required for the type and level of education at which they are working. — Theodore W. Shultz (1968: 331) good example for factual/ indirect writing style ore than 40 years have passed since Theodore Shultz argued that higher education provides students with the opportunity to discover their talents, but relatively little research
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laboratory courses are co-requisites of each other, dropping one of them requires that you drop the other as well, unless the drop occurs during the final 2 laboratory periods of the term. Pre- and co-requisites will be checked and students not meeting the requirements must drop the course. REQUIRED or RECOMMENDED COURSE MATERIALS A. Experimental Organic Chemistry, 5th edition, by J. C. Gilbert and S. F. Martin, Saunders College Publishing, 2010 (Required). You must use the one sold
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begins with helping the hurt m. I must be the change Question: According to contemporary anthropologists, is race a stable category for organizing and differentiating the people of our world? (L, F-2) No its not According to the instructor, what is the first multicultural step for educators to make? (L) a. Become aware and educated on the cultures they will be dealing with. Realize that racism exists and that, if teachers are white, they have benefited from it. According to the instructor
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Project Report Strengthening student engagement in the classroom. Course: Msc (Science Communication) Faculty of Science National University of Singapore Ganeshini D/O Sri kanthan A0075383Y Name: Student ID: Project Supervisor: A/P Helmer Aslaksen ABSTRACT The Ministry of Education (MOE) recognizes the importance of student engagement in the classroom. However, keeping students engaged in the classroom is a challenge for many educators these days. Student engagement is a contested
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Confirming Pages chapter 1 Personal Finance Basics and the Time Value of Money kap61647_ch01_002-033.indd 2 16/10/13 1:40 PM Confirming Pages Learning Objectives What will this mean for me? LO1-1 Analyze the process for making personal financial decisions. Every person has some money. However, the amounts and individual needs and choices are diverse. You now have the opportunity to learn about varied financial paths for avoiding common money mistakes. Your knowledge
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You have substantial latitude about what to emphasize in Chapter 1. I find it useful to talk about the economics of crime example (Example 1.1) and the wage example (Example 1.2) so that students see, at the outset, that econometrics is linked to economic reasoning, if not economic theory. I like to familiarize students with the important data structures that empirical economists use, focusing primarily on cross-sectional and time series data sets, as these are what I cover in a first-semester course
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