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Lack Of Resources In Classrooms, Juliana Maffea Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Lack Of Resources In Classrooms, Juliana Maffea

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

In different areas of the world, classrooms lack resources. Teachers are trying their hardest to teach their students with what is given to them, but it is not enough. The result of having a lack of resources is students not graduating, teachers burning out, parents scared for their students, and students not getting the proper education. An insufficient amount of resources in classrooms comes from the lack of funding or the improper use of spending in schools. There are solutions to this wicked problem, such as raising more money, making cuts, or changing the way schools spend their money. This …

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The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie Santa Clara University

The Impact Of Social Media On Society, Jacob Amedie

Pop Culture Intersections

It is the objective of this article to present evidence from several researches that were done by many scholars in different environment that distinctly demonstrates the negative impact of social media in three main categories. First, social media fosters a false sense of online "connections" and superficial friendships leading to emotional and psychological problems. The Second harm of social media is that it can become easily addictive taking away family and personal time as well as diminish interpersonal skills, leading to antisocial behavior. Lastly, social media has become a tool for criminals, predators and terrorists enabling them to commit illegal …

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On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner University of Massachusetts Boston

On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner

New England Journal of Public Policy

Lars Eighner became homeless in 1988 after leaving a job he had held for ten years as an attendant at a state hospital in Austin, Texas. He lives in a small apartment in Austin and continues to scavenge. This article was originally published in the Fall 1990 issue of The Threepenny Review. Reprinted with permission.

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Flying Man And Falling Man: Remembering And Forgetting 9/11, Graley Herren Xavier University - Cincinnati

Flying Man And Falling Man: Remembering And Forgetting 9/11, Graley Herren

Faculty Scholarship

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The Lantern, 2021-2022, Sarah Buck, Amy Litofsky, Julia Paiano, Juliana M. Valerio, Lauren Flanagan, Miles Noecker, Amelia Kunko, Isabella Almonte, Makayla Heisler, Bradley Kocher, Kate I. Foley, Jasmine Ruiz, Aurora McKee, Marie Sykes, Morgan Grabowski, Jessica Schnur, Jenna Lozzi, Tyler Ways, Kyle Guzy, Benjamin Tobias, Elliot Cetinski, Leo Cox, Ian Abrahams, Gabbie Pitt, Derek Matarazzo, Alessandra Armour, Jessica Celli, Emily Crocker, Anastasia Dziekan, Rimsha Maryam, Ryan Savage, Vanessa Worley, Jesse White, Amy Smith, Sarah Fales, Christine Heren, Emily Bradigan, Kristen Cooney, Rishabh Kancherla, Mairead McDermott, Kylie Halko Ursinus College

The Lantern, 2021-2022, Sarah Buck, Amy Litofsky, Julia Paiano, Juliana M. Valerio, Lauren Flanagan, Miles Noecker, Amelia Kunko, Isabella Almonte, Makayla Heisler, Bradley Kocher, Kate I. Foley, Jasmine Ruiz, Aurora Mckee, Marie Sykes, Morgan Grabowski, Jessica Schnur, Jenna Lozzi, Tyler Ways, Kyle Guzy, Benjamin Tobias, Elliot Cetinski, Leo Cox, Ian Abrahams, Gabbie Pitt, Derek Matarazzo, Alessandra Armour, Jessica Celli, Emily Crocker, Anastasia Dziekan, Rimsha Maryam, Ryan Savage, Vanessa Worley, Jesse White, Amy Smith, Sarah Fales, Christine Heren, Emily Bradigan, Kristen Cooney, Rishabh Kancherla, Mairead Mcdermott, Kylie Halko

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Impact Of Whitetail Deer Overpopulation With Hunting On The Decline, Matthew J. Lamprinos Kutztown University

Impact Of Whitetail Deer Overpopulation With Hunting On The Decline, Matthew J. Lamprinos

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

The whitetail deer is a key species for Pennsylvania’s forests, but their ecological balance has been disturbed by unregulated growth and urban sprawl. The deer population in Pennsylvania has exploded since the 1880’s causing a wide range of damage on the ecosystem, and humans. To reduce deer populations to sustainable levels, the Pennsylvania Game Commission relies heavily on hunters to dedicate time in the fall to go out and fill the tags the they issue. Hunter participation all around the world is decreasing for a variety of reasons. Fewer hunters out in the field causes revenue losses for the Game …

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Tragedy At Skyline—September 17, 1967: One Who Was There Investigates, David Govatski Dartmouth College

Tragedy At Skyline—September 17, 1967: One Who Was There Investigates, David Govatski

Appalachia

Fifty years after the worst accident in the history of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, David Govatski, who was there, went looking for the reason it happened.

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Behind Social Media: A World Of Manipulation And Control, Spencer J. Keenan Santa Clara University

Behind Social Media: A World Of Manipulation And Control, Spencer J. Keenan

Pop Culture Intersections

This article will be arguing that big players, mainly governments and large corporations, use user data, targeted advertising, and selective speech to manipulate users of popular social media platforms. They do this in order to achieve their agendas goals at the expense of the users. These goals may range from selling a certain good or service to swaying a certain percentage of voters to cast their ballots one way or another. Regardless of the outcome, people are being taken advantage of, with most not even knowing it. Users must look past the media in front of them to see their …

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Online Dating Technology Effects On Interpersonal Relationships, Anabel Homnack Santa Clara University

Online Dating Technology Effects On Interpersonal Relationships, Anabel Homnack

Pop Culture Intersections

The trend of online dating has been around since the emergence of the Internet. In the generation before the online era, people would meet face-to-face in cafes, on streets or at bars or even on airplanes. People make initial contact based on a number of cues and preferences, getting to know one another in person. Today these coincidental or so to say "meant to be" moments seem to be non-existent. Why have they become such a rarity? Is it because we know that there is an easy way out? What will it take for people to be as straightforward and …

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Is This My Body? A Manual On Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Is This My Body? A Manual On Navigating Child Masturbation Without Shame, Stephanie M. Amis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Children’s natural exploration of their bodies and sexual expression through masturbation is often considered to be taboo by many adults and caregivers. It is important that children are taught that they have the right to explore their own bodies, to express and experience any sexual developments that may be happening. A child can be innocent and still have the freedom to explore the biological processes of their sexuality. In early Christianity, 19th century physicians and some 20th century psychologists greatly influenced the negative attitudes around aspects of child sexuality such as masturbation that still thrive today. As far as child …

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Lai Mi Ka Si (I Am Lai Mi): A Poetry Collection, Thang C. Lian 2024 Duke University

Lai Mi Ka Si (I Am Lai Mi): A Poetry Collection, Thang C. Lian

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

In this poetry collection, I combine oral history with official Burmese history to trace my family’s diasporic journey from the mountains of Myanmar to Kentwood, Michigan in 2008. To do so, I conducted interviews with my mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather over Zoom and accumulated dozens of hours of material. A rumination on refugee grief and displacement, this creative work expresses and investigates the multi-layered ritual of grief refugees conduct internally and externally—an intentional and powerful foray into the “affective.” Finally, this creative work intends to sift through the complications of transnational grief: how, when, and why do we grieve?

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The Lindenwood Review, Issue 14 (2024), Full Issue, 2024 Lindenwood University

The Lindenwood Review, Issue 14 (2024), Full Issue

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Contributors, 2024 Lindenwood University

Contributors

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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All Of It Burns, Laura Young 2024 Lindenwood University

All Of It Burns, Laura Young

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Retail Therapy, Isabella Garces 2024 Lindenwood University

Retail Therapy, Isabella Garces

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Between A Lake And A Mountain, Natalie Marino 2024 Lindenwood University

Between A Lake And A Mountain, Natalie Marino

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Falling Back To Earth, Geoff Watkinson 2024 Lindenwood University

Falling Back To Earth, Geoff Watkinson

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Inheritance, Joan Lange 2024 Lindenwood University

Inheritance, Joan Lange

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Without, Linda Caradine 2024 Lindenwood University

Without, Linda Caradine

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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My Father Has Always Been Dying, Ella Segall 2024 Lindenwood University

My Father Has Always Been Dying, Ella Segall

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Finding Your Mathematical Roots: Inclusion And Identity Development In Mathematics, Linda McGuire 2024 Muhlenberg College

Finding Your Mathematical Roots: Inclusion And Identity Development In Mathematics, Linda Mcguire

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This paper details a semester-long course project that has been successfully adapted for use in mathematics courses ranging from introductory level, general-education classes to advanced courses in the mathematics major. Through creating aspirational mathematical family trees and writing mathematical autobiographies, this assignment is designed to help battle belonging uncertainty, to challenge students to self-situate in relation to the history of mathematical and scientific knowledge, and to make visible a student’s developing identity in mathematics and, more broadly, in STEM.

The construction and scaffolding of the project, assignments, examples of student work, foundational readings, assessment and outcomes, and adaptation strategies for …

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Critiquing The Discourse On Women In The Edo Era: Intertextual Studies Of Ariyoshi’S Hanaoka Seishū No Tsuma, Nina Alia Ariefa, Melani Budianta, Dhita Hapsarani 2023 Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas Al-azhar Indonesia

Critiquing The Discourse On Women In The Edo Era: Intertextual Studies Of Ariyoshi’S Hanaoka Seishū No Tsuma, Nina Alia Ariefa, Melani Budianta, Dhita Hapsarani

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Under the Tokugawa clan, Japanese women’s position was declined throughout the Edo era (1603–1868). Almost one century afterwards, a female writer called Ariyoshi Sawako (1931–1984) raised the issue of female position in the Edo era through the novel Hanaoka Seishū no Tsuma (HSNT). This article will focus on two things. First is the exploration of the discourse of women in the Edo Era through three texts written during the era. The second part of the article will discuss the intertextuality of novel, with the discourse on women in the Edo era. New historicism method and Foucault’s concepts of discourse and …

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Honeysuckles & Irises: Effigies Of The Land, Ami` L. Hanna-Huff 2023 Belmont University

Honeysuckles & Irises: Effigies Of The Land, Ami` L. Hanna-Huff

English Creative Writing Theses

Here is a memoir of my paternal line through the lens of my Great-Grandmother and myself. A reclamation of the land I hail from and a connection to a history previously felt distant, this examination of race and gender explicitly focused on the African American Southern female experience; I try to make sense of the juxtaposing positions in our lives. The culture built from its creation through Tennessee personified. Here, I integrate history and theory with lyrics and prose to experience the eighty-one years of progress brought between our births and the lingering anxiety of slavery. My great-grandmother, Hazel Irene …

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January 2nd 2023, Story Lee 2023 University of Mississippi

January 2nd 2023, Story Lee

Landshark Literary Review

This piece was written during a sleepless night worrying about the current downward spiral of treatment of trans people. It is a quiet look into the almost-mundane fears and struggles of American trans people.

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"Waiting By The Shores", Emily Suh 2023 University of Mississippi

"Waiting By The Shores", Emily Suh

Landshark Literary Review

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Amelie, August, Elisabeth A. Bailey 2023 University of Mississippi

Amelie, August, Elisabeth A. Bailey

Landshark Literary Review

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Defining Gastrocriticism As A Critical Paradigm On The Example Of Irish Literature And Food Writing: A Vade Mecum, Anke Klitzing 2023 Technological University Dublin

Defining Gastrocriticism As A Critical Paradigm On The Example Of Irish Literature And Food Writing: A Vade Mecum, Anke Klitzing

Doctoral

The aim of this study is to map out the gastrocritical approach, using Irish literature and writing to test its premises, and to provide a vade mecum for its practical application, particularly for interdisciplinary scholars. The gastrocritical approach furnishes a “culinary lens” for reading food and foodways in imaginative texts, informed by work in the field of food studies and gastronomy. The approach was broadly characterised by Tobin in 2002, but only sparsely used since. The past fifteen years have seen an increasing self-awareness and reflexivity in the field of literary food studies. As the field matures, there have been …

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What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees 2023 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

"What the Unburied Said" is a short collection of documentary poetry written during the waning years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In conversation with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, it seeks to exalt the beauty of humans who help each other live within an often-tragic, always-fascinating world.

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Requiem In Dee Miner, Evan Youngs 2023 SUNY Oswego

Requiem In Dee Miner, Evan Youngs

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Can't Sleep, Heather O'Leary 2023 SUNY Fredonia

Can't Sleep, Heather O'Leary

Gandy Dancer Archives

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