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This unique collection examines the social justice implications
of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting
the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors
included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of
several established theories and policy approaches that undergird
contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These
explorations offer themselves as foundations for building new
frameworks to understand how school finance policies might better
support broader changes needed to improve the educational
conditions faced by those individuals and groups traditionally
underrepresented in economic, political, and social policy
arenas.
This unique collection examines the social justice implications
of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting
the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors
included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of
several established theories and policy approaches that undergird
contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These
explorations offer themselves as foundations for building new
frameworks to understand how school finance policies might better
support broader changes needed to improve the educational
conditions faced by those individuals and groups traditionally
underrepresented in economic, political, and social policy
arenas.
This concise book looks at the external history of the French language from its Latin origins to the present day through some of the analytical frameworks developed by contemporary sociolinguistics. Using the model proposed by E. Haugen, the author examines the basic stages involved in standardization to plot the development of this process in French. The concluding chapter deals with language variability and the wide gulf that has developed between French used for formal purposes and that used in everyday speech, with particular reference to the former Occitan-speaking regions. Concentrating on the ordinary speakers of the language rather than the statesmen or great authors as agents of change, the book combines a traditional history of the language with a sociolinguistic framework to provide a broad, comparative overview of the problem of language standardization.
Be the speaker they follow with breakthrough innovative
presentations Innovative Presentations For Dummies is a practical
guide to engaging your audience with superior, creative, and
ultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concise
style, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you to
reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how to
stimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your hand
with sound, sight, and touch, and get up to speed on the latest
presentation design methods that make you a speaker who gets
audiences committed and acting upon your requests. This resource
delves into desktop publishing skills, online presentations,
analyzing your audience, and delivers fresh, new tips, tricks, and
techniques that help you present with confidence and raw power.
Focused and innovative presentations are an essential part of doing
business, and most importantly, getting business. Competition,
technology, and the ever-tightening economy have made
out-presenting your competitors more important than ever. Globally,
an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second.
When it's your turn, you need to go high above and far beyond to
stand out from the pack, and Innovative Presentations For Dummies
provides a winning game plan. The book includes extensive advice on
the visual aspect of presentations and, more importantly, it
teaches you how to analyze your audience and speak directly to
them. A personalized approach combined with stunning visuals and
full sensory engagement makes for a winning presentation. * Learn
how to be an innovative, not just "effective" presenter in any
situation * Understand how to read and cater to specific audiences
* Create captivating visual materials using technology and props *
Creative customize presentations to best communicate with audiences
More and more employees are being called upon to make
presentations, with or without prior training. With step-by-step
instruction, vivid examples and ideas and a 360-degree approach to
presentations, Innovative Presentations For Dummies will help to
drastically improve your presentation outcomes as never before.
Paris mushroomed in the thirteenth century to become the largest
city in the Western world, largely through in-migration from rural
areas. The resulting dialect-mixture led to the formation of new,
specifically urban modes of speech. From the time of the
Renaissance social stratification became sharper as the elites
distanced themselves from the Parisian 'Cockney' of the masses.
Nineteenth-century urbanisation transformed the situation yet again
with the arrival of huge numbers of immigrants from far-flung
corners of France, levelling dialect-differences and exposing ever
larger sections of the population to standardising influences. At
the same time, a working-class vernacular emerged which was
distinguished from the upper-class standard not only in grammar and
pronunciation but most markedly in vocabulary (slang). This book
examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the
Parisian population through these various phases of in-migration,
dialect-mixing and social stratification from medieval times to the
present day.
Paris became the largest city in the Western world during the thirteenth century, and has remained influential ever since. This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population through various phases of immigration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from the Middle Ages to the present. It reveals how new urban modes of speech developed during periods of expansion, how the city's elites sought to distinguish their language from that of the masses, and how a working-class vernacular eventually emerged with its own "slang" vocabulary.
Gender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean:
Perspectives, Histories, Experiences is a collection of critical
perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and
gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied,
discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing
and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities
in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of
lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the
Caribbean who fall outside the traditional binary categories of
heterosexual males or heterosexual females.Opening with a variety
of perspectives - from the biological to the religious and
historiographical - the volume explores definitions of sex and
gender as well as constructions of sexuality among Commonwealth
Caribbean scholars, and the ways in which the Judaeo-Christian
tradition popular in the region has responded to these. Other
chapters examine the socializing forces that reinforce or challenge
conventional conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how these
result in the constraining forces of social exclusion and
discrimination that many members of the LGBTQ community in the
region experience. The book ends with chapters that interrogate the
normative standards of gender and sexuality that have traditionally
underlain Caribbean popular culture. Additionally, there is an
exploration of how anti-gay discourse in Jamaican dancehall,
embedded in a language linked to the country's vernacular
nationalism, has been neutralized by a coalition of local and
international LGBTQ activists.
Have you been looking for a great way to motivate your child to
brush and floss better? This book will get them to do just that It
tells them a story in terms they can understand Kids love gross
things When they read this book, the words and images will be
retained by them for a long time They will actually want to brush
and floss after reading about what plaque and tartar actually is
and all of the bad side effects of not removing it If your child
ever starts slacking with their home care, simply remind them of
this book and they will get right back on track Buying this book is
such a small investment with big returns in helping kids to get and
stay healthy
This book focuses on design and development of a unified framework
for radiographic image analysis and interpretation with emphasis on
defect classification. The framework is constructed by creating two
ontologies namely process ontology and domain ontology. Process
ontology structures information for performing gray scale image
analysis and it is maintained as a knowledgebase. The images are
analyzed by using the process plan which resulted in the enhanced
images from which geometrical, statistical and textural features
are extracted to construct domain ontology. In addition to that,
details of welding defects in radiographic image are conceptualized
and maintained in the domain ontology. The framework includes a
flexible user interface through which the experts' knowledge of the
domain can be uploaded into the knowledgebase. The knowledgebase
search is minimized into single selection on the domain ontology
using which the entire content of defects and type of defect
appearing in the image can be visualized. The performance study
shows that the developed unified framework outperformed the other
two models viz. neural and statistical with respect to
classification of defects.
In the book SAILAWAY Vol 2 Robert and Penny Powers had achieved
their goal of sailing from Lake Superior, U.S.A to the Caribbean
Sea. At that point in time and the beginning of this adventure,
they were at St Croix Island in the West Indies, over 1,000 miles
from the east coast of the U.S.A. The time is January and they
continue to sail and play for another 10 weeks in the Sailor's
Paradise know as the Virgin Islands. Here they are faced with the
dilema of how to return their Coronado 35' sloop-rigged
center-cockpit yacht named Drifter back to the United States before
the hurricane season begins in the West Indies. After several
alternatives are ruled out, they are left with only one option,
that being to sail the yacht on a Passage of 700 miles offshore
with no additional crew. This Passage requires 7 consecutive days
and nights to reach San Salvador Island in the Bahamas. The actual
voyage through ideal sailing conditions as well as strong storms is
depicted in 'real world/real life' detail including the use of
'storm survival tactics'. From San Salvador they island-hop their
way to the U.S. Mainland ahead of the hurricane season beginning in
June. A great deal of preparation is done prior to departure for
"the PASSAGE" offshore from St Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands to San
Salvador Island, Bahamas. This is a wonderful story of fun and
adventure at Sea as life truly exists aboard a sailing yacht.
Robert and Penny Powers continue their dream cruise aboard the
Coronado 35' sailing yacht named DRIFTER which began in Lake
Superior U.S.A. This Volume 2 begins at North Caicos Island enroute
to the Caribbean Sea. For the Final Dynamic Conclusion of the
Powers couple "once in a lifetime adventure," read "SAILAWAY - the
PASSAGE - Vol 3."
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