Michigan Academician articles from January 2003

Michigan Academician archives from January 2003

Interpreting Michigan archaeology: how and why social theories can be utilized to assess Michigan's unexamined agents.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Professional archaeology has been influenced by different paradigms since the inception of the field. Over the past 80 years, archaeology has been dominated by Culture History and Processualism (for an overview of these...

A forgotten "dialogue": a case of intertextuality in Galdos's Marianela and Valera's Las ilusiones del doctor Faustino.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... Of all the Spanish authors considered as belonging to the "Generation of 1868," Juan Valera is one of the most difficult to classify. His prose is not as costumbristic and romantic as those of Alarcon and Pereda; nor does it paint as realistic...

Audit committees in corporate annual reports.
January 1, 2003... Events during 2001 and 2002, such as the bankruptcies of WorldCom and Enron and the criminal conviction of one of the "big five" accounting firms, Arthur Andersen, have exposed severe problems with the financial accounting and reporting system...

Conceptual difficulties in teaching History of Science and Technology to engineering students.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Lower-division engineering coursework often suggests to students that all meaningful questions have quantitative right answers--and that open-ended questions do not merit attention. A course in the History of Science and...

Working-class students in higher education: playing on an uneven field.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION According to James Berlin, who draws on Kinneavy's communication triangle (Kinneavy 1971), we constitute reality through language. "Language does not correspond to the 'real world.' It creates the 'real world' by organizing...

Early Hemingfordian (Early Miocene) Squamate Reptiles from the Quarry A Local Fauna, Logan County, Colorado. (Note).
January 1, 2003... Following earlier studies by W. D. Matthew, B. Brown, and E. D. Cope in Logan County, Colorado, explorations by University of Kansas field parties (see Galbreath 1953 and Wilson 1960) resulted in the discovery of a concentration of fossils in a...

American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony 1839-1850. By Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart. Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, 2002. 270 pp. $29.95. After General...