Recent research on science education has increasingly focused on the literacy challenges posed by multimodality. While students are required by government mandated syllabi to make a successful translation between different semiotic resources, there still remains a lack of research on the grammars and functionality of the specialized modalities to develop explicit instructions to improve literac...

How informed is a Latino vote? Though recent scholarship has improved our understanding of Latino political participation, partisanship, and policy preferences, relatively little is known about how Hispanics make electoral decisions. In this effort, we evaluate the role policy issues, candidate affect, and symbolism play in the electoral choices of Latino voters. In particular, we are intereste...

The intelligence community (IC) is asked to predict outcomes that may often be inherently unpredictable-and is blamed for the inevitable forecasting failures, be they false positives or false negatives. To move beyond blame games of accountability ping-pong that incentivize bureaucratic symbolism over substantive reform, it is necessary to reach bipartisan agreements on performance indicators t...

a large amount of information bearing upon the history of Medicine and Symbolism. His style is pleasant, his language well chosen, and the subject interesting; so that although the book is learned it is easy reading. So far as we know, this is the first medical work in which the "Aryan " origin of learning and belief is not universally accepted, and in which there is also demonstrated how much ...

A passage to India by E.M. Forster is a modern novel written in 1924. It describes the modern movement in that period, so we could say that each movement of the human beings has its own characterizations which recognize it from other periods. Forester’s novel has its own features which recognize it from other ages in English literature. A Passage to India is one of the novels affected by Modern...