Freshman (De)Composition: The Results of Grammar's Slow Death in the College Classroom
  Karen Heise

Just before the spring of 2000, I made what has turned out to be a critical and highly educational choice. I decided to attend graduate school after a fourteen-year hiatus away from higher education. Getting a Master's in English seemed to be a wise choice, and as I looked at my old transcripts, it became fairly obvious where I should plant my seeds in this broad and even highly-controversial field called "Language Arts"--writing instruction. As I began to hurriedly submit my paperwork to the University of Northern Colorado's Graduate School, one thing became clear to me: I could teach writing, and in the process I would likely satisfy the basic human need to apply oneself to an enjoyable job with enthusiasm.   full text

Editor's Note:
  Phil Brocato

'Yellow Earth' is a pivotal film in China artistically, from the point of view of the competing notions of film practice, and explicitly for its place within the continuing debate about the role of film in China. Both Chen Kaige, the director, and his cinematographer, Zhang Yimou, are members of the "Fifth Generation" of Chinese film makers, the first group of students to graduate from the first class of the Beijing Film Academy, china's only film academy, which had been closed during the Great Cultural Revolution. Both artists had personally experienced the social dislocations inflicted by the policies of the "revolution," having had their formal education curtailed during their teens and suffered exile to distant rural areas to labor alongside the peasants.   full text

Student Essay:
  Caleb Zia

Student Essay:
  Dean Campbell

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  Camille E. Filardo

Leadership & Management Evolution
  Michael C. Pickett

Three distinct polarizations of management and leadership research were found to fit into the following categories: descriptive, proscriptive and, prescriptive.

The descriptive ideology includes aspects pertaining to the qualitative nature of a discipline. The proscriptive ideology is exclusive or restrictive in nature. The prescriptive ideology adds situational factors to the application of theory.

An argument is made for restructuring management and leadership thought. In other words, organizational behaviors are adapted to the desired outcomes, based on individual organizational norms and mores. It is in this capacity that each individual organization will "fit" their management and leadership needs to their desired outcomes.  full text