Abstract This paper presents an overview and discussion of Shirley Cohen's book, "Targeting Autism: What We Know, Don't Know and Can Do to Help Young Children With Autism and Related Disorders". The paper focuses on areas most relevant to educators and includes an overall review of the book. The paper contends that Cohen's book is a comprehensive and objective examination of the key areas of autism.
From the Paper "Shirley Cohen's "Targeting Autism: What We Know Don't Know and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism and Related Disorders" offers comprehensive and objective examination of the key areas of autism. The subsequent review of this book will thus offer a concise overview of the book with a special focus on specific areas that can be highly useful to educators. Furthermore the impact of the book on my views as an educator will also be presented. Divided into three parts this book first introduces readers to..."
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Abstract This paper examines how, originally formed in 1989, the Information Technology Management Reform Act and the Federal Acquisition Reform Act were amended in the year 1996 and renamed as the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA). It shows how the objective of CCA is to influence performance-based and results-based management by means of an effective use of information technology (IT). It also discusses how the CCA also gives various means to government information technology to function in the same manner as any well-organized and cost-effective business would operate.
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Introduction
Clinger-Cohen Act & Law Governing IT Management
Requirements for Chief Information Officer
From the Paper "In order to ensure that information technology activities align with agency plans and operations, senior user management guidance is used along with standard evaluation of information technology skills record, skills necessities, and skills development programs. In brief, the Clinger-Cohen Act attempts to develop an operative and well-organized, mission-oriented, user-oriented and results-oriented information technology practice in all Federal agencies (University Washington)."
Abstract This paper explains how Cohen's concept of moral panic is helpful in understanding the media coverage of young people in Australian news media. It explains why it is necessary to mention media's power to make things visible first to understand how and why media constructs prominent images of deviance on public agenda. While the media is drawing a stereotypical and stylized image of the group which is defined as the threat, methods of exaggeration, distortion and symbolization are used in the invention phase of the panics. Afterwards, the diagnoses and the solutions are offered by the social control mechanisms which instruct the inclusion and exclusion of certain elements of the society.
From the Paper "First of all, journalism's main effect derives from its ability to make things visible to the public, in either a positive or a negative way (McNair 1998, 49). News media defines which events or issues should be pointed out at by selectively reporting them. Even if the media do not directly determine what the public will think, what they will think about is described by the news (Entman cited in McNair 1998, 50). Thus, the public agenda is set out by what is on the news. What is left out by the news reporters should not be of concern, whereas there are issues to be thought about."
Abstract This paper summarizes Leah Hager Cohen's book, "Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World", and then provides a personal reaction to its themes. The paper examines the author's experiences living at a school for the deaf where her father was the superintendent and her difficulties.
From the Paper "In Leah Hager Cohen's book Train Go Sorry Inside a Deaf World the author not only speaks generally about the emerging sense of a deaf culture but in personal terms as well Indeed Cohen's own experience living at the Lexington School for the Deaf makes her ..."
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Abstract This paper explains that the British comedy "The Ali G Show" revolves around four interviews by three different characters played by the Baron Cohen: Ali G, Borat and Bruno. The author points out that each of the characters come from different countries, have different cultural backgrounds and interests and usually target different aspects of the American society. The paper relates that the goal of the show is to emphasize different underlying traits of the American society and how the influences of the American modern culture are impacting the rest of the world.
From the Paper "This brings us back to Ali G, the character coagulating the entire show. As a hip hop TV show host, I think that Ali G wants to bring together the stereotypes that the other two characters have sought and met throughout the US and summarize the cultural impact of the US culture as simply a culture of ignorant hip-hopers. Ali G is a "completely illiterate, wannabe gangsta, from this streets of Stains, England" who discovers America by being ignorant. By this, Cohen plays into bringing forth the ignorant characteristics of the Americans themselves, in his view. "
This paper reviews Cathy J. Cohen's "The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics", which discusses the debate regarding the absence of a strong African-American vote.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 58.95
Abstract This paper explains that Cohen challenges the notion of a cohesive African-American vote by noting that African-Americans failed to become a strong political force because their political, business, and church leaders focus on imbibing the values of mainstream, middle-class America. The author points out that Cohen argues that, despite the growing threat of AIDS, African-American leadership failed to galvanize the population around this issue, which affects African-Americans as a group, despite categorical differences. The paper states that the Cohen believes that the attitudes of black leaders resulted in a secondary marginalization of gays and lesbians, who, due to their race and sexual orientation, remained among the most disenfranchised citizens.
From the Paper "Cohen begins by dispelling the notion of a politically-cohesive African American community, one wherein race supposedly overrides differences spawned by class, gender or even ethnicity. Instead, she maintains that this cohesion is "being challenged and sometimes replaced by cross-cutting issues and crises rooted in or built on the often hidden differences, cleavages, or fault lines of marginal communities" (9). There is thus no strong ?black vote,? because the African American community is highly fragmented and factionalized."
This paper discuses the work of Albert K. Cohen and his theory of status frustration, which maintains that the proverbial "Man" (stereotypical black man) is essentially a function of sub-culture.
Abstract This paper explains that Cohen's theory of status frustration, which explains that lower class boys are failures at bourgeois roles because they do not fit the bourgeois mold physically or through their learned mindset and thus tend to invert defensively the dominant norms, viewing them in a negative manner. The author relates that, although Cohen's' notion of status deprivation and the middle class measuring rod help to answer questions that remain unresolved by strain and cultural deviance theories, his theory fails to explain why some delinquent subcultures eventually become law-abiding, even when this social class position is fixed. The paper states that Cohen's theory also fails by standards of economists, who explain criminality, in particularly theft and robbery by gangs, by economic standards.
From the Paper "In 1955, Cohen wrote "Delinquent Boys" to examine how a subculture emerged. He noted that delinquency among young men was more prevalent among the lower classes, and most commonly took the form of a juvenile gang. Cohen found that the values of delinquent subcultures are adverse to those of the dominant culture. The subcultures emerged in the slums of the nation's largest cities and are rooted in class differentials, parental aspirations and school standards, indicating that the root problem was a desire for recognition and respect, and the search for an accepted place in society."
Abstract This paper presents a review of Raymond Cohen's book, "Culture and Conflict in Egyptian-Israeli Relations: A Dialogue pf The Deaf". The genesis and structure of the argument, as well as Cohen's style and methods are reviewed. The analysis presents a mixed review -- appreciative of the insights Cohen offers, but skeptical that he is completely objective in his argument.
Abstract The paper relates that the Boxer Rebellion took place from 1898-1900, in Northern China and was waged between ordinary, lower class native Chinese peasants against the foreign missionaries. The paper explains that Cohen's book is more of a history as to how the rebellion has been interpreted, than it is of the immediate implications of the event itself and its aftermath. The paper discusses how Cohen's ideas are useful in terms of how to approach history, particularly historical events that have become especially fraught with meaning in modern culture, way beyond their immediate impact.
From the Paper "Paul Cohen is a professor of East Asian history with an openly postmodern orientation. The title of the book refers to Cohen's understanding of the rebellion as an event that can be viewed with a series of lenses, rather than a singular historian's lens. The rebellion is an event, experience and also a myth. Significantly, Cohen does not refer to any specific detail about the rebellion in his title; he is more concerned with describing his three-keyed approach to understanding the Boxers, rather than referring to the Boxers themselves. Even the name, the Boxer rebellion, is polluted to some extent in Cohen's eyes, because the idea of the Boxers has become so subject to political influences of people with agendas beyond mere understanding."
Abstract The paper relates how throughout their long history, the Jewish people have often been the object of persecution and prejudice. The paper looks at how Cohen's book, "Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages", maintains that during the Middle Ages, Jews living in the Arab world were more tolerated and less persecuted than those living in the Christian world. The paper shows how Cohen proves his thesis with historical research and solid arguments, discussing his historical findings. The paper discusses the significance of this work in the field of Jewish studies.
From the Paper "The author begins by "debunking" several myths on both sides of the debate, so he can level the playing field. He indicates there were misunderstanding and misinterpretations on both sides of the debate, and that Jews and Arabs have both helped perpetuate some of these misinterpretations. He then begins to compare life in the Christian world opposed to that in the Islamic world, and begin to sort out the information regarding Jews in both worlds. For example, he notes that in the Christian world in the Middle Ages, most Jews lived under the mantle of serfdom that decreed who they worked for, where they lived, while Jews in the Arab world did not serve and serfs, and could choose to live wherever they wanted (Cohen 46). Thus, Jews in the Arab world had better living arrangements, and were better off in that regard."
Abstract The paper shows that the film "Instrument: Ten Years with the Band Fugazi", directed by Jem Cohen at first seems to have no particular perspective upon its subject. It discusses however that when a viewer looks at the film more closely and carefully applies a critical cinematic eye to the filmmaking process, a solidified interpretation begins to become clear. The author of the paper shows that by not having an ostentatiously obvious "take" on this punk band and the particular music the band has produced, the director has revealed his own moral orientation in favor of personal simplicity and a lack of hype in the production of music. He shows too that the director has chosen to focus on the band because Fugazi is one of the supreme manifestations of the punk scene, a scene that emerged as a radical movement in youth music but largely became commercialized but Fugazi stands apart in sharp contrast to all of descents into commercialization, however, and still remains pure and true to its roots. The director's own simplicity of style reflects its subject's simplicity.
From the Paper "The film's belief in the purity of the band is primarily reflected in the film's unpretentious format. The director simply followed the band's progress over the course of ten years, from backstage, to on-stage, to meetings with fans, even to the grandmother's home of one of the band members. Rather than choosing a short period of the band's history, the film follows a "story" arc over an extended period of time. Thus the documentary does not attempt to create a sharp, swift narrative about the seduction or perils of fame. Rather, it features the artists from Fugazi talking about their work and playing their work through various ups and downs of concert touts and through various stabs at music distribution and creation. The perspective the artists are able to bring to their work over such an extended period of history gives the documentary an authenticity and a full reality that similar manifestations of the 'rock-u-mentary' genre lack."
This paper reviews Cohen and Brawer's "The Collegiate Function Of Community Colleges" work about the community colleges' purpose, effectiveness, curriculum, transfer function and social factors.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, 1995, $ 47.95
From the Paper "Arthur M. Cohen and Florence B. Brawer, in "The Collegiate Function of Community Colleges: Fostering Higher Learning Through Curriculum and Student Transfer", describe and analyze the factors shaping the community college "as a link between the lower schools and establishments of higher learning" (xi). As such, the community college is clearly a significant cog in the educational system in the United States, and the representatives and leaders of the community college must be sensitive to the educational realities of those "lower schools" and to the educational needs of those "establishments of higher learning."
Generally, with certain reservations, the authors are optimistic about the community college's fulfillment of this collegiate function: We are encouraged by the way the collegiate connection
Abstract Paul Cohen discusses the problem of how the assumptions upon which Americans have written Chinese history have simply been wrong. In many respects, this is the problem of Americans seeing everything through their own eyes, and not being able to understand that other countries have their own cultures and traditions -- as well as values.
Abstract This 8 paper compares and contrasts the representations of masculine and feminine selfhood in Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride 'and Leonard Cohen's "Beautiful Losers".
Abstract This paper discusses "Out of the Shadow" by Rose Cohen, a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the century and who provides the personal aspect of the greater story of the massive wave of immigration in the late 1800s. It addresses the effects of the rapid growth of industry on the population, the role of women in the social and economic system, and the complicated tangle of religion and society in America.
From the Paper "Rose Cohen's "Out of the Shadow" is the quintessential immigrants autobiography, as it succeeds in not only depicting one woman's personal story but in shedding light upon many common issues faced by immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I was interested in reading the book to find out what life was like for a female, Jewish immigrant from Russia in the late 1800s with so many strikes against her (her being female, Jewish, and an Eastern European immigrant). What I found is that Out of the Shadow paints a picture of an America that is contrary to the land of opportunity and equality that many immigrants believed it to be before arriving and that many Americans today proclaim it to be. By describing her experiences in the garment industry, bearing witness to the burgeoning labor and progressive movements, and testifying to the compromising of her religious and cultural practices, Cohen provides a realistic framework within which to understand the history of the 1800s and early 1900s."
