Description: This presentation discusses research on the hybrid Arab and Hispanic culture in the United States. For this poster, the author's research focuses on understanding the customs and traditions of the two separate cultures respectively and how the two cultures blend together socially, culturally, and linguistically.

Description: This presentation discusses a research study on English as a second language (ESL). The purpose of this study is to compare how ESL is taught and to examine the effects of English acquisition on a receptor's opinion and attitude of English learning and application.

Description: This paper offers a discussion on research on the validity of a guest worker program in the United States. Abstract: As border and immigration policy is a contentious political and social issue, it is important to consider a wide range of solutions. Actual people are being affected by these policies, but there has yet to be a viable guest worker program presented by policy makers. This paper addresses the possibility for a successful guest worker program by combining evidence gathered through interviews with former migrant workers with an analysis of immigration law in the United States since 1965, an analysis of guest worker programs in Europe and Canada, and an analysis of the effects of the political and economic situation between the United States and Mexico. The research indicates that successful implementation would require the allowance of remittances, an extensive public education program, and bilateral agreements between the United States and Mexico. Although the author's research addresses the issue of a program specifically linked to Mexico, the results provide the framework for comprehensive immigration reform in the United States.

Description: This presentation discusses research on archaeology. Public and academic perception of archaeology is unstructured. Members of the general public view archaeologists as key holders to the past, and members of "harder sciences" view archaeology as a pseudoscience. Both of these observations are problematic for the integrity of archaeological research and the field as a whole. Two case studies from the Northern Rio Grande (NRG) region of New Mexico show the limitations of zooarchaeological data. Principles derived from these case studies can help assuage overconfidence from the general public, as well as members of the archaeological community, and can ease excessive caution from members of the "harder sciences" in regard to archaeological conclusions.

Description: This poster discusses research on images of The American Indian in Hollywood films. The author will screen film clips illustrating different portrayals of Native Americans. Subjects will complete the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) including one TAT before any film clips are shown and a subsequent TAT after each following clip to determine what effects the clips have had on mood, sense of self-worth, and self-centeredness. An analysis of these tests will serve as a means to determine what effects the images portrayed in film have had on an individual's sense of self.