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(Un)Conscious (Popular) Underground: Restricted Cultural Production And Underground Rap Music, Matthew Oware

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Alternative (or ‘‘underground’’) rap music proves a worthy site for applying ideas associated with Bourdieu’s field of cultural production. I examine how underground rap music blurs the boundaries of restricted and large-scale production, as represented by noncommercial and commercial rap respectively. Artists identified as ‘‘underground’’ deploy anti-corporate, politically-charged, and socially-conscious lyrics, which can be viewed as restricted production. However, these lyrical themes are relatively scarce compared to themes of misogyny and hyper-masculinity found in this sub-genre and predominately found in commercial rap. This study thus reveals that large-scale and restricted fields of production may intersect (Craig and Dubois, 2010; Elafros, …

Impact Of Paternal And Maternal Postpartum Depression On Infant Language Development: A Quasi Meta-Analysis, Kelsey Canada

Honors Projects

This paper presents a quasi meta-analysis of 16 different articles published between 2004 and 2014 examining the impact of maternal and paternal postpartum depression (hereafter PPD) on language development, specifically in infants up to 2 years old. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to adapt this methodology at the undergraduate level reducing the number of steps from 12 to 10. To achieve this goal, the author synthesized the results of the studies following selected themes of risk factors, synchrony and interaction patterns, meaning making, and connections within the family system. While significant results were reported throughout the studies, a presenting …

Alternative Theologies Of Christianity: Influencing The Christian Church From Within, Paul Bratt

Honors Projects

No abstract provided.

“Macgyver-Meets-Dr. Ruth”: Science Journalism And The Material Positioning Of Dr. Carla Pugh, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article examines the rhetorical consequences of foregrounding female scientists' materials through an analysis of seven news articles on Dr. Carla Pugh, a surgeon who designs medical patient simulators. Journalists foreground Pugh's materials by positioning her as both “MacGyver,” creatively assembling simulators from everyday objects, and “Dr. Ruth,” willingly discussing intimate parts. These positions avoid focusing on Pugh's personal life or body but still ultimately gender her and her work. The MacGyver position associates Pugh with gendered activities, objects, and spaces while undermining her affiliation with the technical aspects of design. Meanwhile, the Dr. Ruth position implies Pugh's knowledge comes …

Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

Children's poetry is barely studied and barely taught, except as an instrumental teaching tool in colleges of education. American children's poetry, like American literature more generally, took on distinctive characteristics after about 1820, as more work was written and published by Americans. The practice of addressing adults and children together in volumes of poetry spanned the whole nineteenth century, although it was slightly more common during the antebellum period. Most scholarly work on the child like qualities of women authors stresses that, although the voice seems innocent, it is really an adult voice making an adult point. The few poems …

Readings For Racial Justice: A Project Of The Iwca Sig On Antiracism Activism, Beth Godbee, Bobbi Olson

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

"The More Things Change ...": The World Bank, Tata And Enduring Abuses On India's Tea Plantation, Human Rights Institute

Human Rights Institute

Tea plantations in India employ more than a million permanent workers, and perhaps twice as many seasonal laborers. This makes the industry the largest private-sector employer in the country. But workers depend on plantations for more than just employment: millions of workers and their families live on the plantations, and rely on them for basic services, including food supplies, health care and education. Indian law has required plantation owners to provide these since the adoption of the Plantations Labour Act (PLA), soon after independence.

The Tata Group, one of India’s most powerful corporate entities, is also one of the most …

The Tower Of Babel: Human Rights And The Paradox Of Language, Moria Paz

Studio for Law and Culture

Key human rights instruments and leading scholars argue that minority language rights should be treated as human rights, both because language is constitutive of an individual’s cultural identity and because linguistic pluralism increases diversity. These treaties and academics assign the value of linguistic pluralism in diversity. But, as this article demonstrates, major human rights courts and quasi-judicial institutions are not, in fact, prepared to force states to swallow the dramatic costs entailed by a true diversity-protecting regime. Outside narrow exceptions or a path dependent national-political compromise, these enforcement bodies continuously allow the state actively to incentivize assimilation into the dominant …

Bilingualism And Latinos In The United States, Rigoberto Gutierrez-Pinon

2014 Symposium

In the U.S., many cultures and languages are in contact and many consider it to possess only one universal culture. However, often conflict arises as a result of the close proximity shared by all these different elements. In this investigation, I will concentrate on the experiences of Latino-Americans in the United States specifically related to language. Many Latinos in this country hold on to their linguistic heritage and, in varying degrees, speak Spanish. However, due to the duality of their identities, it is not uncommon for Latinos to encounter conflict within themselves and confrontations with others. Linguistically, there is a …

Successes And Problems Of The Hawaiian Language Revitalization Movement, Anna Greiner-Shelton

2014 Symposium

The revitalization of the Hawaiian language is considered a success in the short term due to several factors including favorable government policies regarding revitalization, a large independent movement that formed the core of the language revitalization movement and provided the basis for Hawaiian language schools, and successful adaptation and use of the Internet and other multimedia sources to teach and promote use of the Hawaiian language. However, even though the revitalization effort has been largely successful, there are still several problems associated with the language revitalization movement. These problems include the authenticity of the version of the Hawaiian language being …

Romanies Versus The Mafia: “Us” And “Them” In Italian Crime Reports, Theresa Catalano

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Denaturalization is the act of making something appear less natural or less human which functions to “subordinate other living creatures to human beings” and “to justify denigration of certain groups of people” (Santa Ana 1999). In this study, the denaturalization of Romanies in Italy as represented in newspaper crime reports was identified and compared to the opposing naturalization of Italian crime organizations. This was accomplished through careful, multidisciplinary, scientific analysis of over 20 articles taken from Italian newspapers of assorted political tendencies from the years 2005-2010. A corpus analysis was conducted and lexical choices were categorized as denaturalization, naturalization or …

“What Is Critical Whiteness Doing In Our Nice Field Like Critical Race Theory?” Applying Crt And Cws To Understand The White Imaginations Of White Teacher Candidates, Cheryl E. Matias, Kara Viesca, Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade, Madhavi Tandon, Rene Galindo

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Critical Race Theory (CRT) revolutionized how we investigate race in education. Centralizing counter stories from people of color becomes essential for decentralizing white normative discourse—a process we refer to as realities within the Black imagination .Yet, few studies examine how whites respond to centering the Black imagination, especially since their white imagination goes unrecognized. We propose utilizing Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) to support CRT to aid in deconstructing the dimensions of white imaginations. Our findings describe how the white imagination operates inside the minds of white teacher candidates, namely through their (a) emotional disinvestment, (b) lack of critical understanding of …

Obtaining Efficiencies In Food-Borne Illness Protection For Residential, Health Department-Licensed, And Non-Licensed Entities, Ted W. Talley

Master of Public Health Program Student Publications

Severe storms, natural disasters, and other emergencies resulting in extended periods of power loss can negatively impact public health as the likelihood of food-borne illnesses resulting from the consumption of food products held in refrigerators and freezers at improper temperatures is greatly increased. Additionally, food products used or served during emergency responses present additional challenges as many of the products may have other risk factors often associated with food-borne illness outbreaks. These include food from unsafe sources (food prepared in a facility not subject to regulation or inspection), improper cooking temperatures, preparation on contaminated food contact surfaces, and poor hygienic …

Ucf Cocoa & Palm Bay Newsletter Spring 2014, Megan M. Haught

UCF Cocoa & Palm Bay Newsletter

This is the Spring 2014 edition of the UCF Cocoa & Palm Bay Newsletter which celebrates the accomplishments and community activity of the faculty, staff, and students from the University of Central Florida Cocoa and Palm Bay campuses. Some of the exciting news in this edition:
-The Cocoa campus hosted the Florida Intercollegiate Forensics Association state championships in February
-The Palm Bay campus hosted a Psi Chi Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference
-Sixteen students presented at the Showcase for Undergraduate Research Excellence

Evaluating Oral Health Trends In Kentucky, 2006-2012, Briana Michelle Forsythe

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

According to the former US Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, “You’re not healthy without good oral health.” Poor oral health, comprising of the presence of caries and/or periodontal disease, can lead to edentulism, which in turn can yield poor physical health, inability to communicate properly, poor mental health, and a lesser quality of life. In Kentucky, over one quarter of the adult population has lost six or more teeth due to decay or gum disease, a figure 10% higher than the national average. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine: a) Kentucky’s Statewide Oral Health Strategic Plan, implemented …

A Prequel To Law And Revolution: A Long Lost Manuscript Of Harold J. Berman Comes To Light, John Witte Jr., Christopher J. Manzer

Faculty Articles

The late Harold Berman was a pioneering scholar of Soviet law, legal history, jurisprudence, and law and religion; he is best known today for his monumental Law and Revolution series on the Western legal tradition. Berman wrote a short book, Law and Language, in the early 1960s, but it was not published until 2013. In this early text, he adumbrated many of the main themes of his later work, including Law and Revolution. He also anticipated a good deal of the interdisciplinary and comparative methodology that we take for granted today, even though it was rare in the …

Dios Defiende A Su Pueblo: Comentario Exegético De Daniel 10 Al 12 [God Defends His People: Exegetical Commentary Of Daniel 10–12] [Review] / Mora, Carlos Elías, Joel Iparraguirre Maguiña

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Play In Children With Motor Disabilities, Suzanne Martin

Theses and Dissertations--Rehabilitation Sciences

The purpose of this research was to explore and describe the relationship among the child, family, home environment, and pretend play of children with motor disabilities. The environment is a powerful force in early child development. This research is based on Bronfennbrenner’s ecological theory of development and the ubiquitous role of play in all domains of development. Children with motor disabilities may lack exploration of the environment and as a consequence demonstrate deficits in play. Play was measured in 32 children with motor disabilities aged 24.8 to 61.3 months with a mean age of 33.7 (SD 9.3) months. Children demonstrated …

Defensible Data Deletion: A Practical Approach To Reducing Cost And Managing Risk Associated With Expanding Enterprise Data, Dennis R. Kiker

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Modern businesses are hosts to steadily increasing volumes of data, creating significant cost and risk while potentially compromising the current and future performance and stability of the information systems in which the data reside. To mitigate these costs and risks, many companies are considering initiatives to identify and eliminate information that is not needed for any business or legal purpose (a process referred to herein as “data remediation”). There are several challenges for any such initiative, the most significant of which may be the fear that information subject to a legal preservation obligation might be destroyed.

Readex Primary Source Databases, Ucf Libraries

Technology Fee Funded Projects

Over several decades, Readex has published many of the most widely used collections of primary source research materials in academic libraries, first as Readex Microprint Corporation and since 1984 as a division of NewsBank, Inc. Academic librarians and scholars recognize Readex for its efforts to transform research in the humanities and social sciences and to dramatically reshape the study and teaching of centuries of American history, literature, culture and daily life.

Dictionary Of American Regional English, Ucf Libraries

Technology Fee Funded Projects

The Department of English is requesting $5,000 ($5,500 less a $500 cost share from the UCF Libraries) to purchase Dictionary of American Regional English from the prestigious Harvard University Press.

Indigenous Rights Litigation, Legal History, And The Role Of Experts, Kent Mcneil

Articles & Book Chapters

Litigation involving the rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada usually involves historical facts and events from a long time ago, sometimes as far back as 400 years. This reality presents significant challenges for proof of the facts upon which these rights are based. In addition to historical documents, the parties have to rely on testimony by Indigenous witnesses who are able to present the oral histories and traditions of their people, as well as on the opinion evidence of experts such as archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, ethnohistorians, and legal historians. In this paper, I examine the role of legal historians …

Say-It: Design Of A Multimodal Game Interface For Children Based On Cmu Sphinx 4 Framework, Mashael Alsulami

Technical Library

Nowadays, computer games are involved in a child’s education as tools for learning or practicing some academic skills. However, most educational games are designed without any considerations about children with motor system difficulties. Thus, the main benefit of multimodal interfaces is to allow for inclusive design, which will enable children with motor disabilities to use the same applications other children use. Since focus and concentration are major skills for children in the learning process, many physical games can be performed with assist from parents or teachers to practice these skills. This project aims to explore the effectiveness and the use …

The "Northern Cities Shift" A Digital Preservation Story, Max Eckard

Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Legal Education: Three Visions And A Prediction, Harry W. Arthurs

Articles & Book Chapters

In this article, the author examines three visions of the future of law schools. The first vision is that they should focus on producing "practice ready lawyers" to meet the immediate needs of today's legal profession. The second is that law schools should focus on training "tomorrow's lawyers, "graduates who are able to adapt to a rapidly-changing world. The third insists that law schools are knowledge communities whose many functions include, but are not limited to, providing students with a large and liberal understanding of law that will prepare them for a variety of legal and non-legal careers and for …

Out Of Tune: Why Copyright Law Needs Music Lessons, Carys Craig

Articles & Book Chapters

This chapter offers a critical analysis of copyright law that integrates insights from music. The authors argue that the unique qualities of musical works magnify the mismatch between creative practices and copyright doctrine, and suggest that an interdisciplinary analysis can shine a revealing light on both the problem and potential paths to improvement. Beginning with an overview of copyright doctrine in Canada in respect of musical works and music infringement claims, the authors then borrow analytical concepts from the discipline of music theory to problematize copyright’s “reasonable listener” test for determining substantial copying. Using a specially-designed musical composition, the authors …

Editorial, Arlene Dallalfar

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

No abstract provided.

Restorative Approach In Schools: Systemic Approaches To Building Positive School Climates, Estelle Archibold

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

The release of new federal guidance for developing positive school climate and equitable discipline practices has created a window of opportunity for schools to revisit their approaches to developing the conditions for student achievement and success. (U.S. Department of Education, January 2014) Recent education leadership literature notes that many school districts’ current discipline policies do not lend themselves to more equitable access to learning opportunities and positive school experiences for many students. Recent education leadership literature suggests that restorative approaches to building positive school climate are more likely to lead to more equitable academic and social-emotional outcomes for students of …

Learning In Circles: The Power Of A Humanizing Dialogic Practice, Carmen Veloria, Carolyn Boyes-Watson

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

There is an increasing sense of urgency to reconnect to the basic notion of a humanizing dialogic practice. A practice that prioritizes lived experiences and recognizes students and teacher as active, knowledgeable and insightful participants of the school community. Given the emphasis placed on test scores, assessments and other accountability measures, students and teacher voices are often omitted from the national dialogue on what is working and what needs to change in order to foster caring schools and responsive classrooms. Yet their voices are precisely the ones we need to hear from as any kind of educational reform efforts will …

Saving Originalism’S Soul, Stephen E. Sachs

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.