Abstract
This paper follows the narrative of Amanda Knox's conviction and later release on charges of the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. The case was an international scandal followed by numerous news outlets around the world. Knox was painted both as a heartless offender and innocent bystander in a case that was tried as much in the papers as in the courts.

Outline:
The Murder of Meredith Kercher
Attention turns to Amanda Knox
Patrick Lumumba
The Trial
Appeal & Overturn of Convictions

From the Paper
"On the night of November 1, 2007 Meredith Kercher was found murdered in the apartment she shared with Amanda Knox in the small town of Perugia. Her throat had been slashed and she had been sexually assaulted by the perpetrator. Some of her belongings were missing, including cash and credit cards.

"After having had dinner and viewed a film with some friends, Kercher had returned home early in the evening around 9pm. Between 10pm and midnight her telephone was used twice to call the UK-- once to call her mother and once to the bank that handled her money in London. The call to her mother was cut off without anyone speaking; the call to the bank was not completed. (MASSE, 2010)

"Her body was not discovered until the next day, after her roommates had returned home. Knox was alleged to have arrived first and said that she found blood on the floor of the bathroom that she shared with Kercher. A window was also found to have been broken in another room of the house. Knox claimed that she suspected a break-in right away. She called her mother, who advised her to contact the police. When the carbinieri arrived, Kercher's body was discovered in her room. She had been covered with a blanket and was wearing only a t-shirt which had been pulled up to her chest. The exact time of Kercher's death was difficult to ascertain, as the medical examiner was not given access to her body until nearly 24 hours after the murder."

Tags:Amanda Knox trial, Meredith Kercher, Italy, Raffaele Sollecito, appeal, murder conviction, Patrick Lumumba

Abstract
This paper proposes an effective new approach to teaching students in Grades 4 to 6 multiplication, using Cindy Neuschwander's, book "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", which features the concept of multiplication as a shorter way to find an answer than counting. The paper explains that the book's approach involves teaching the children why one needs to learn the multiplication tables, since children are often preoccupied with the reasons they are asked to do things. The paper also explains that the book places emphasis on applying math to everyday real-life situations that children can relate to. To conclude, the paper maintains that "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream" will help to motivate children towards learning multiplication by making it into something fun.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
A Three-Part Lesson Plan
Exploration
Overview
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Children in Grades 4 to 6 are more given to questioning and this can become a device in postponing work sessions, in asking why something is undertaken. Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream has appealing illustrations reinforcing the idea of a world of many particularities. Using the example above, if a city neighbourhood has 200 televisions in about 200 dwellings but the class estimates that there are perhaps 50 to 75 dogs, what does this tell us about how people live?
"Flash cards indicating equations of 5 x 6, for instance, or 7 x 2, should be incorporated into the day at more than one point. Most children can attend to a focused lesson but will welcome the card's reappearance, later on, as a very old method of 'saturation' that also helps to break up the day. The teacher makes the reminder that times tables are learned a little at a time beyond formal efforts to memorize tables in printed form, till students do not need to think each time but realize they can recall more equations. The teacher should state that no one learns them perfectly, this human touch of stating which table she may have to pause and think through each time helping the task of memorization seem less daunting."

Tags:elementary, school, education

Abstract
This paper gives and overview and assessment of children's fiction geared to teaching mathematics in relation to a Grade 4 to 6 effort to teach multiplication and times tables. According to the paper, this book offers students an orientation geared to numbers. The purpose of multiplication tables is made plain as a shortcut to counting as an everyday requirement. The methods of teaching times tables tend to be timeless, in repeated formal memorization and group reviews towards steady incorporation.

From the Paper
"Cindy Neuschwander's Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream - a Mathematical Story offers an easy to follow text for students in Grades 4 to 6. Illustrations by Liza Woodruff help to reinforce the book's text with a last few pages of related math activities by Marilyn Burns are appealing and seem well designed. The approach is informal as can be carried over to a classroom making use of this book in a teacher's positive attitude implying how all of us must learn to multiply and the desirability of memorizing times tables, as the task at hand over what hopes is a long period. Ideally,..."

Tags:multiplication, amanda bean, methods

Abstract
The author evaluates the use of anti-depressants, and analyzes the patient's experience using Goffman's classic social psychology theory of 'Stigma'. Included are discussions of the concepts of moral career, information management versus interaction management, and discreditable versus discrediting stigmas.

From the Paper
"Despite the recent popularity of drugs such as Prozac and Paxil, depression and the use of antidepressants are stigmatized in American society. In this paper I will show how a college student, whom I will call Amanda, has been stigmatized for this reason. I will use concepts of personal identity and interaction from Erving Goffman's Stigma to elucidate the workings of stigma in this case."

Tags:career, discrimination, erving, goffman, information, interaction, management, moral, paxil, prozac, psychology, self, social, society

Abstract
This paper discusses the character of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie". It shows Amanda as an embattled mother who, along with her two children, lives in a world of illusions.

From the Paper
"Amanda Wingfield described by Preston Fambrough as an embattled mother is a woman desperately anxious to ensure that her daughter Laura will ensnare a suitable husband and that her son Tom will provide the support that Amanda needs for herself and for her family. The entire Wingfield family lives in a world of illusions or hopes. The thesis to be addressed herein is that in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie there are many different personalities living in ..."

Tags:Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Abstract
This paper provides an explanation of Amanda Wingfield's accusation of her son in the last scene of Tennessee Williams' 'The Glass Menagerie' with respect to the passage's dramatic irony in the context of the play in its entirety.

From the Paper
"Just prior to Tom Wingfield's long-foreshadowed desertion in the last scene of Tennessee William's 'The Glass Menagerie' Amanda Wingfield hurls a departing accusation at her son which is in the context of the play both a statement of the obvious and a dramatic irony. When Amanda angrily proclaims You don't know things anywhere You live in a dream you manufacture illusions she is besides berating her escapist son for his idealism restlessness ..."

Tags:Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, dramatic irony, fantasy, illusion

Abstract
This paper is a critique of Amanda Lotz's article, "Textual (Im)possibilities in the U.S. Post-Network Era: Negotiating Production and Promotion Process on Lifetime's Any Day Now," about the script changes made to the show's script as a result of sensitivity to network and racism issues.

From the Paper
"Amanda Lotz's article "Textual (Im)possibilities in the U.S. Post-Network Era: Negotiating Production and Promotion Processes on Lifetime's Any Day Now" describes her research into the history and background of the Lifetime original narrative series "Any Day Now". The program chronicled the friendship between a white woman and a black woman that started in the racially tense times in Birmingham, Alabama, when they were childhood playmates, and was rekindled in when one of the women returns to Birmingham for her father's funeral."

Tags:"Textual, (Im)possibilities, in, the, U.S., Post, Network, Era:, Negotiating, Production, and, Promotion, Process, on, Lifetime's, Any, Day, Now, communication, network, producer, racism, post-network, era, research, Lotz, script, changes, viewer, controversial

Abstract
This paper analyzes three essays concerned with the nature of imprisonment and with those that suffer incarceration in the American prison system; : "Double Standard on Drug Sentences" by Cynthia Tucker; "Time", by Nathan McCall; and "Mother's Day in Federal Prison" by Amanda Coyne. Two of the essays discussed are concerned with drugs and imprisonment and two of the essays also are concerned with the ways in which men and women (and their families) deal with incarceration. This multiple analysis looks at the prison system, and whether it fairly treats those who are imprisoned.

From the Paper
"Most of the works here see the drug-user as a victim of the wars against drugs: they are unfairly taken from children, or families (Even, in Tucker, from becoming 'Tax-paying citizens" (Tucker, 1998, page 3)). This is not met with agreement by the McColl piece; his drug-dealer is a partially dangerous, partially benevolent wide-boy. He is, however, the only one to treat the system as a business opportunity, and the only one of all the characters in the articles to undermine the system to the extent of escaping."

Tags:prison system, criminals drugs, prison sentences, violence

Abstract
This paper discusses two literary works and focuses on the hopes and wishes of the mother in each story for her family. The paper compares and contrasts Amanda Wingfield from Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" and Linda Loman from Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman", in terms of how they wish their families to be treated. The paper contends that both women are passive-aggressive toward their children, refusing to see or accept them as they are. The paper explains that as a result, both women damage and eventually destroy, their much-cherished relationships with those they love most.

From the Paper
" Linda Loman, Willy's long-suffering wife in Death of a Salesman, although less out of touch than Amanda, is unable to confront Willy, the most important person in her life, about the depth of his misery, or his plan to commit suicide. When Linda finds evidence in the garage of Willy's plan, instead of insisting that Willy level with her, and then should seek outside help, Linda merely confides Willy's suicide plan to Biff, who is as emotionally helpless as his father. At the beginning, Linda tells Willy, when he feels confused and exhausted, "But you didn't rest your mind. Your mind is overactive and the mind is what counts" (Miller, Death of a Salesman, p. 1674). Here, Linda is on the right track, but only briefly. Soon afterward, she fails to note Willy's obviously exhausted and confused mental state when he says "Biff is a lazy bum" and then, a few lines later: "There's one thing about Biff-he's not lazy" (p. 1674)."

Tags:willy, biff, tom

Abstract
This is a summary/reaction to an article featured in "U.S. News and World Report" and written by Amanda Spakes. The summary portion of this paper identifies the thesis of Spakes' article and highlights the main ideas. This paper then summarizes these main points, and uses direct quotes to give further emphasis. The reaction portion of this paper touches on the relevance of the information presented, the currency of the information, the credibility of the author, the objectivity of the publisher and author, and the quality of evidence presented.

From the Paper
"In the recent article "Don't Breathe the Air" featured in U.S. News and World Report, author Amanda Spake draws the attention of her readers to the international issue of air pollution. Spake presents evidence which seems to make apparent the harmful effects which air pollution has on health, focusing especially on the pollutant known as ozone. She focuses on several aspects of air pollutants in particular; focusing mostly on the causes of air pollution, the health risks of air pollution, and possible ways in which air pollution levels can be alleviated."

Tags:atmosphere, causes, issue, levels, news, ozone, problem, world, environment, breathing