El Salvador, Guatemala is a, study in black and white. On the left is a collection of extreme Marxist-Leninist groups led by what one diplomat calls “a pretty faceless bunch of people.’ ’ On the right is an entrenched elite that has dominated Central America’s most populous country since a CIA-backed coup deposed the reformist government of Col. Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954. Moderates of the political center. embattled but alive in E1 Salvador, have virtually disappeared in Guatemala-joining more than 30.000 victims of terror over the last tifteen vears. “The situation in Guatemala is much more serious than in EI Salvador, ” declares one Latin American diplomat. “The oligarchy is that much more reactionary. and the choices are far fewer. “ ‘Zero’: The Guatemalan oligarchs hated Jimmy Carter for cutting off U.S. military aid in 1977 to protest human-rights abuses-and the right-wingers hired marimba bands and set off firecrackers on the night Ronald Reagan was elected. They considered Reagan an ideological kinsman and believed they had a special

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We formulate a new data mining problem called storytelling as a generalization of redescription mining. In traditional redescription mining, we are given a set of objects and a collection of subsets defined over these objects. The goal is to view the set system as a vocabulary and identify two

Visual storytelling is a new research approach drawing on established methods of photovoice and photo elicitation. It appears well suited to research with young people. We explored the feasibility of this approach, reflecting on benefits and challenges encountered while using it during a study

The Virtual Storyteller is an agent based system for computational story telling. Its architecture contains four types of agents: Director, Actor, Narrator and Presenter. The Director agent is responsible for the story structure, which is captured in a story grammar. After creating the setting

My journey of pursuing a doctorate has been six years of travel, long nights, missed events, scholarly pursuits and growth in many ways. My children were 11 and 14 when I began and now Jessica and Whitney are Juniors in high school and Kevin is a Sophomore at OSU (go Pokes). The sacrifices that they made along with my husband, Rick, were many. Their support was unconditional. It was unwavering. Rick modeled his steadfast support of me for our children even when it meant that he had to do more work at home after he got off of work. Rick never complained about me, the work, yes, but not my choice to go back to school and all that it entailed. It was, and still is, overwhelming to me, to have such constant support from my family in this endeavor. I feel so blessed to have them in my life. They were my sun and my moon on this journey. Thank you Whitney, Jessica and Kevin for being so wonderful to your Mom—I love you! Rick, thank you for being my strength when I doubted myself, which was often. I don’t think I can ever explain to you how much I appreciated your steady guidance, love and assistance—I love you more!

of natural language and cognition, and is an attempt to simulate human perception of natural language. Previous research in related areas of language visualisation, multimodal storytelling, intelligent multimedia agents and interfaces, non-speech audio, and cognitive science is surveyed, and corresponding

The Evergreen State College for their critical feedback and reciprocity. I wish to thank my colleagues for their encouragement, diligence and integrity. I wish to thank my family This study examines the implications of storytelling in the secondary classroom. The literature examines the cultural