Browsing by Author "Cole, Natalie B."

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    The ABC’s of Law School
    (Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Sanchez-Murphy, Lauren; Cole, Natalie B.
    Although the juris doctor degree opens many doors and allows for the exploration of many different areas outside the basic study of the law, as a recent law school graduate, I would caution the uninitiated that law school may be the hardest work they have ever done.
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    About Water: an Interview with Jerry Dennis, Author of The Living Great Lakes
    (Oakland University, 2013-01-01) Freeman, John; Greene, Janae; Haar, Catherine; Horning, Alice; Kraemer, Elizabeth W.; Shepherd, Gary; Walwema, Josephine; Cole, Natalie B.
    Jerry Dennis, a Traverse City resident and author of many books about nature and outdoor recreation, visited Oakland University on October 26 and 27, 2011 to speak about the Great lakes and his books, The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas (St. Martins Press, 2003) and The Windward Shore: A Winter on the Great Lakes (University of Michigan Press, 2011). He spoke to the university community, and met with students in the Honors College and in the OU Writing Center, where he talked about working as a writer. In addition, a small group of faculty and students in the department of Writing and Rhetoric and from Kresge library and the Honors College interviewed Mr. Dennis about water issues and about his life as a working writer.
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    Academic Service Learning: Moving Your Students Outside of the Classroom-Literally
    (Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Smydra, Rachel; Cole, Natalie B.
    Many instructors are using social media to move students “out of the classroom” into virtual worlds; however, constructing a method to move students—literally—outside of the classroom exists as a viable option as well. As a pedagogical methodology, Academic Service Learning is more than an internship or experiential learning.
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    An Acorn No More
    (Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Byrne, Bill; Cole, Natalie B.
    Why, after reading and grading countless college and high school composition papers lo these many semesters, would I become a “reader” for the College Board Advance Placement (AP) English Language and Composition exam?
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    Adams and Jefferson: Personal Politics of the Early Republic
    (Oakland University, 2012-01-01) Conner, Robert; Cole, Natalie B.
    What led these two men who once worked so closely together to turn from close friends to bitter enemies in only ten years?
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    Adams and Jefferson: Personal Politics of the Early Republic
    (Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Connor, John; Cole, Natalie B.
    The deterioration of the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson remains a controversial subject among historians.
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    The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom
    (Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Van Vliet, Jennifer; Cole, Natalie B.
    This essay focuses on two American family sagas from the early twenty-first century, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, both chosen for the diversity of gender constructions and sexual identities of their characters as well as for the “traditional” nature of their focal families.
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    Anatomy of a Failure: The Detroit Public School System
    (Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Brieger, Gottfried; Cole, Natalie B.
    For a few short years in the 1920s, a remarkable coalition of the city financial elite, politicians of all stripes, and the unions, united behind school improvement, and the system flourished, at least financially. Then came the Depression, and the elite were the first to pull out. Since that time, there has been a continual conflict over control of the school system, with the State, the mayor, the city council, the school board, and the unions jockeying for power. Especially today, with an annual budget of over a billion dollars, the plum is well worth fighting over.
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    Archives
    (Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Cole, Natalie B.
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    Archives
    (Oakland University, 2010-01-01) Cole, Natalie B.
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    Art Review: Clinton Snider at Suzanne Hillberry
    (Oakland University, 2012-10-01) Corso, John; Cole, Natalie B.
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    Art Review: Michael McGillis at Public Pool
    (Oakland University, 2013-01-01) Corso, John; Cole, Natalie B.
    In the summer of 2012, artist Michael McGillis used Hamtramck’s alternative art space, Public Pool, to experiment with an evolving multipart installation. One component of the installation offered a pointed critique of environmental neglect.
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    A Beautiful Economics Story: A Review of Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Nasar
    (Oakland University, 2012-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Cole, Natalie B.
    This isn’t what textbooks on the history of economic thought typically look like, and if you want a book much denser on the theory side you will have to look elsewhere. But Grand Pursuit is richly entertaining and often very exciting.
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    Beyond the Secret Decoder Ring: Guidelines for Constructing Assignments That Fulfill Rather Than Frustrate Student and Teacher Expectations
    (Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Perdue, Sherry Wynn; Cole, Natalie B.
    Are there ever cases when we faculty frustrate even our most diligent students’ efforts to perform? This discussion is designed to help my colleagues more fully demonstrate our role as rhetoricians when we compose and assign written work.
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    The Book of Mirrors: an Excerpt
    (Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Gilson, Annette; Cole, Natalie B.
    Excerpt from a novel
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    Book Secrets
    (Oakland University, 2013-01-01) Jaymes, David; Cole, Natalie B.
    Author shares experience of adventures online researching his ancestry.
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    Cadavers: Touching Lives After Death
    (Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Kzirian, Natalie; Bee, Mary; Cole, Natalie B.
    Dissecting cadavers is a vital part of educating health professionals.Unlike a book or computer program, learning with cadavers exposes students to the three-dimensionality of the human body.
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    City Life and Feline Opinions: The Tomcat Murr and Hoffman’s Urban Landscape
    (Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Clason, Chris; Cole, Natalie B.
    Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr (The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, 2 vols. 1820–22) offers some of the most detailed reflections on city life by Hoffmann, an author associated intimately with urban settings such as Bamberg, Dresden and Berlin. It also concretizes and elucidates the position of the feline vis-à-vis human society and the environment from the cat’s own point of view. Finally, it moves toward a synthesis of feline and human perspectives, which implies an aesthetic bridging of the homo sapiens / animal gap that is realized not only in the novel’s content, but also in the form. This remarkable novel both inscribes and expresses ecology, transforming space into content and content into space.
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    Contributors
    (Oakland University, 2010-10-01) Cole, Natalie B.
    Oakland Journal Issue 19 contributors list
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    Contributors
    (Oakland University, 2011-01-01) Cole, Natalie B.
    Oakland Journal Issue 20 contributors list