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In this paper the author describes the reasons why she had to resign from her university post. She considers herself a Native American, despite her being Jewish. The author goes on to tell her story, why she was made to resign from her post in the Native American studies department. She also recommends, for all academics who are trying to get tenure, to ask a few pertinent questions of their departments before even applying. For example, she suggests that a prospect should inquire among his prospective faculty colleagues if they think that the decolonization of Native peoples is a significant issue today. The author carries on discussing her bitter experiences, emphasizing that because she is not the classic Native American, she was discriminated against. She concludes that it is better to work with your colleagues and find a common understanding, than to try and fight them.

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"Cornel Pewewardy calls for all of us to have a firm grounding in the discourse of the deconstruction of racial categories. He states that guilt and fear prevent too many from fully addressing the discourse and its ramifications "most of us are in denial about 'race' and 'hegemony' and do little committed thinking about race matters." Genocide and colonization are of course at the root of the guilt and fear; these historical processes will continue to erode every aspect of Native life until they are addressed both by dominant society and Native societies. Along with other Native academics and grassroots people, Pewewardy points to the need to "reach deep into the spiritual wells of our different religious traditions in order to draw strength and grace with which to address the challenges of healing and nation building." Implying that some of the current leadership may not be inclined or in position to do what he and others have called for, he also states that "Along with fresh leaders, a new leadership ethos grounded in tradition must be put in place, one that promotes accountability to the peoples through the revival of traditional decision-making procedures." My tenure experience, in addition to my experience of several reservations convinces me that too few of the people with power to influence the course of Native communities act from a Native ethos that is deeply concerned with reproducing Native values into the future."

Tags:phenotype, principals, dossier, program, chair, religious, ethos, cultureal, community

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This paper shows how the Christian scriptures use of an intensely personal, narrative form of story that gives that religion its unique quality, as distinct from Judaism, the religion Christianity evolved and sprung from. It suggests that because of the fact that Jesus? believes were disseminated in a narrative structure, the confession and the personal became the dominant Christian mode of understanding the world, rather than the collective and the tribal.

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"The New Testament, or Christian Bible, is divided into three basic sections, that of the Gospels, the Epistles, and lastly the Book of Revelation. The latter two sections were composed long after the death of Jesus. The last has a strikingly a similar form to apocalyptic books of that period. However, the first section, the section that is the founding core of the Christian story, could be entitled ?Jesus speaks.? Although these books were written considerably after the actual life and death of Jesus, the gospels thus attempt to convey a certain sense of accuracy, of reported testimony of the life of Jesus. "

Tags:Bible, Judaism, Jesus, New, Testament, belief, theology, life, worship, calm

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This paper attempts to show the connection between the writer's personal life and values and the values instilled in him by his corporate life at IBM. The paper explores the writer's childhood and discusses the important roles played by his mother and grandmother. The writer examines the positive influences his career at IBM had on his personal values and ethics.

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"Preppy, Wasp, Conservative Republican. These are the adjectives frequently given to the upstate New York State culture from which I hail, so memorably depicted in the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, herself a proud product of this "stock" and geographical region, as depicted in short stories such as "Where are you going, where do you come from?" Or the culture, one could add, so memorably satirized in Lisa Birnbach's The Official Preppy Handbook, although I like to think that the New York working class WASP culture has a slightly less noxious sense of entitlement than the New England WASPs the handbook chronicles. My own upbringing placed a strong stress upon hard work and core, American values, contrary to some of the attitudes expressed in the Guide as well."

Tags:preppie, business, personalities

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The paper is a self assessment of the writer's attitudes to reading and writing skills and the the factors that, for him, make the two actions either tedious or enjoyable.The author contends that reading and writing are unnatural processes in so much as they have to be learned and do not develop naturally as does speech. He further contends that an individual's personal preferences determine whether the skills are problematical or not. In addition, the writer tells us that, in his case, there are reading and writing activities which are tedious and lengthy because he has no interest in the subject, and others where, because of his interest or affinity with the subject, are easy and enjoyable process. This, he suggests, is true of most individuals.

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"I think I am an average to good writer depending on my mood. When I write about things I like traveling, sports or my hobbies, I can express my thoughts and feelings with gusto. I can describe the "moment" with such vividness and color that I could probably put other writers to shame. I can say this confidently because I am writing about me, my deepest thoughts, my happiness and my fear. It is quite easy to write something that springs from within especially if it is without boundaries, without shame. Now once you talk about writing things such as homework, thesis, research or term papers - you got me there. Boy will I get stump. I take forever to collect my thoughts and I am the great procrastinator. It's like when I get an assignment to write an essay due in two days, instead of doing it immediately I tend to keep telling myself, "Yah, I'll do it...eventually!" Whoa and two ours before the deadline, I'm up to my wits wrecking my brain to come up with a decent literary tour de force. Eventually, I make it but after a lot of unnecessary stress I put myself into instead of doing things way ahead of time."

Tags:reading, writing, comprehension, literacy, education, skills, stress, essay, assignment

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In Truman Capote's "My Side of the Mater", the narrator is very much present and exhibits considerable and significant bias in his recounting of events. In Raymond Carver's "The Bridle", the narrator is distant from the action, a peripheral character and a largely disinterested observer with little apparent editorial opinion.

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The paper explores the research on the positive implications that post-tenure review might bear on the effectiveness, accountability and consistency of educators, as well as the negative implications which this could bear on educators' job security, educational freedom and academic integrity. The paper finds that the post-tenure review is inherently negative because it ties performance review to the threat to tenure, and, accountability can instead be sought through training programs and positive incentives. The paper concludes that the threat of negative repercussions for those educators who have already engaged the rigors necessary to achieve tenure is damaging to the personal and professional aspects of education and simultaneously deters institutional focus on broader challenges to the quality and consistency of education.

Outline:
Introduction
Purpose of Research
Methodology
Literature Review
Conclusion and Recommendations

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"In addition to the negative impact which it is likely to have on the psyche and security of teachers, the streamlining of post-tenure review in higher education institutions also seems ill-suited and arbitrarily selected as a way to address institutional shortcomings and disappointments in the experience of the student. Indeed, Allen (2000) notes that "despite attempts by some critics of higher education to use tenure as a scapegoat for a plethora of institutional shortcomings, there is no persuasive evidence that tenured faculty aren't doing their jobs." (Allen 2000; p. 95) Rather, there is cause to argue that administrators have simply found in teachers the most immediate point of action where lagging student performances, shortfalls amongst schools in achieving academic aims and a rising higher education expense which has to an extent artificially empowered the student as a consumer rather than a pupil. In taking the approach that improvement in these areas can be achieved by establishing some form of post-tenure review, institutions are sending the signal that the blame for school-wide failures falls upon the teachers. A failure on the part of the institution to take this responsibility and the eroding of its confidence in its teachers promotes a deeply unhealthy context for academic freedom or creativity."

Tags:teachers, faculty, job, security, accountability

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The paper shows how the first person narratives of "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver and "Stones" by Timothy Findley are significant in that they offer internal and external views of the worlds that are represented. The paper discusses how for Carver, the division between the husband's internal fears of understanding the blind are eventually externalized as he successfully helps the blind mind understand what a cathedral is through drawing.

Tags:carver, findley, cathedral

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This paper examines the use of the literary device, framed narrative, in Nabokov's "Lolita." First, the paper defines the term framed narrative. It then suggests that this device was used in "Lolita" because of the novel's controversial content. Finally, the author suggests that Nabokov may have used framed narrative to protect himself, and possibly his position as a tenured professor.

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"As for Nabokov's note at the end, called "On a Book Entitled Lolita" (pp. 313-319), Lolita's true author ("Foreword" included), Vladimir Nabokov, comes clean immediately, in the first line of this "afterward" note to the reader, about his "impersonation of suave John Ray" (Nabokov, Lolita, p. 313). Nabokov then tells us in detail about both the genesis of, and the creative processes that went into his writing of Lolita, assuring us along the way that (1) the original idea for Lolita was a very old one, and has in fact seen several metamorphoses, on two continents, before finally emerging into the public eye, as the book it is today; (2) his urge to write it was solely a literary one (and he has in fact been writing novels, in not one language but two, since 1924), and once the idea finally emerged into the raw form of a novel, he had no creative choice but (like an itch that simply must be scratched) to finish it; (3) that he had initially been reticent to sign his own name to the book; (4) that he is in fact a stably married man, with hobbies, interests, and a routine kind of life ("Every summer my wife and I go butterfly hunting" (p. 314)), and that this particular work, his own artistic creation Lolita, is a work of art, not pornography (". . . in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches", p. 315)"

Tags:Lolita, Vladimir, Nabokov, literature, framed, narrative

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This essay will examine four articles on prejudice and discrimination to provide a useful synthesis. The articles explore the challenge of recognizing and discussing these differences, as well as the implications that the differences have on policy making and social justice. The authors use a combination of narrative and technical styles, as well as appeals to pathos, logos, and ethos, to develop their compelling arguments on the subject.

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Body and Mind: A Synthesis of Research on Prejudice and Discrimination With such a huge population and massive land area, the people who populate planet Earth are incredibly varied, in their language, customs, values, abilities, resources, and thinking. At least one constant appears to exist across cultures and time: the tendency of people to assess others, categorize them into groups, and then treat them according to the status consensually assigned to that group. The notion of making these decisions may be called `prejudice', and actions that are guided by prejudice may be called `discrimination.' This essay will examine how four articles approach issues of prejudice and discrimination.

Tags:prejudice, discrimination, synthesis