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Squatters, Shanties, And Technocratic Professionals: Urban Migration And Housing Shortages In Twentieth-Century Chile, Nathan C. Norris

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the struggles of squatters and slum dwellers for housing prior to the 1973 coup in Santiago de Chile, Valparaíso, and surrounding areas, with a focus on the Frei era of the late 1960s. The work argues that severe urban overcrowding generated advocacy for housing during the rise of progressive and leftist politics in Chile. It also explores the dynamics of efforts to promote housing through the lens of the work of professionals in the fields of architecture and urban planning. It argues that Chilean professionals adopted modernist principals in the fields of architecture and planning when promoting …

Determining Bioindicators For Coastal Tidal Marsh Health Using The Food Web Of Larvae Of The Greenhead Horse Fly (Tabanus Nigrovittatus), Devika Rajeev Bhalerao

LSU Master's Theses

The greenhead horse fly Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart is native to coastal marshlands from Texas to Nova Scotia. The larvae are apex invertebrate predators and their development is dependent on the food web in the soil. Surveillance of T. nigrovittatus after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico showed population crashes of adults in the coastal marshes of East Louisiana near places where oil made landfall, but not in West Louisiana where the oil did not reach. Sediment collection in 2011 from West and East Louisiana revealed larval population crashes in the Eastern coastal region. We hypothesized …

Flora Of Middle-Earth (2017) By Walter S. Judd And Graham A. Judd, Martin Simonson

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by Martin Simonson of Flora of Middle-earth (2017) by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd

Volume Cxxxv, Number 9, January 12, 2018, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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Wealth And Poverty | Spring Features Week On Identities And Inequalities, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Karl’S Law School, Or The Oven Bird In Buffalo, Alfred S. Konefsky

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 4 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song.

Looking Backward, Looking Forward, David M. Engel

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 17 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song.

The Songs Of Other Birds, Anya Bernstein

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 14 in Insiders, Outsiders, Injuries, and Law: Revisiting The Oven Bird’s Song, Mary Nell Trautner, ed..

In this essay, written for a volume that re-engages with David Engel's classic article, The Oven Bird's Song, I consider how we decide how to situate what we encounter in our research. Comparing the findings of my own research in Taipei with Engel's work in Thailand and America, I ask how we can decide to give different interpretations of seemingly similar social phenomena -- specifically, our interlocutors' evident distaste for invoking the law.

Although many of my interlocutors in Taiwan expressed …

The Impact Of A Values Clarification Process On The Factors Associated With Retention Of Historically Underrepresented Students At A Public University, Jose Antonio Aviles

Theses and Dissertations

The literature examining the retention of students of color is very much like a puzzle. Many scholars have contributed to the puzzle attempting to make a complete body of knowledge regarding student departure. However, a void in the literature seems to be the role of students' values in the retention puzzle, specifically, whether the process of clarifying personal values would affect the retention of students of color in higher education.

A transitional summer bridge program was modified using a conceptual framework anchored in the examination of espoused values versus values in use. The model was developed using Argyris and Schon's …

Williams, Paulette (Fa 1124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1124. Student paper titled “The ‘Lore’ of Autograph Book Verses” in which Paulette Williams collects numerous inscriptions, or “sentiments,” written in albums spanning across several decades. Williams gathered verses from books belonging to her mother and two local beauticians. The inscriptions are divided into several basic categories.

Evidence For Energetic Tradeoffs Between Physical Activity And Childhood Growth Across The Nutritional Transition, Samuel S. Urlacher, Karen L. Kramer

Publications and Research

Despite broad implications for understanding human life history, energetics, and health, the impact of physical activity on childhood growth remains unclear. Particularly understudied is the effect of secular changes in physical activity on child development. We address these shortcomings using data spanning the transition from traditional to semi-developed economy among Yucatec Maya agriculturalists. Anthropometric and behavioral observation data were collected from children living in a subsistencebased rural community in 1992 and again in 2012 following the introduction of a school and mechanized technologies but minimal overt dietary change. Multiple regression analyses demonstrate dramatic twenty-year transformations in how children spent their …

Numbers Are Just Not Enough: A Critical Analysis Of Race, Gender, And Sexuality In Elementary And Middle School Health Textbooks, Sherry L. Deckman, Ellie Fitts Fulmer, Keely Kirby, Katharine Hoover, Abena S. Mackall

Publications and Research

Textbooks are a multimillion dollar publishing business in the United States. Even as 21st-century classrooms become more multimodal, digital and hardcopy textbooks remain a key feature of American education. Consequently, classroom textbooks have been shown to control knowledge dissemination across the content areas. In particular, health texts have been uniquely shown to communicate values that validate or marginalize students and encourage healthy or harmful activity. Thus,what textbook makers choose to include as worthy of study, and how they portray various groups of people with regard to race, gender, and sexuality has societal implications. Employing quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods, …

Heroic Women In Deuteronomistic History, Miriam R. Alejandrino

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In her essay, Miriam R. Alejandrino examines the Hebrew term gibbôr to identify and describe female heroines (gibbôr) within the Deuteronomistic History. Despite the strong patriarchal culture surrounding these sacred texts, Alejandrino highlights figures like Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Hannah, Michal, Abigail, Huldah, and an unnamed woman as heroic. These individuals risked their lives and made vital sacrifices for the well-being of God's chosen people and the nation. Ultimately, these biblical narratives bear witness to the significant, active role that women play in fulfilling the divine plan for humanity.

A Critique Of Gender Ideology, James Mctavish

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James McTavish, F.M.V.D., critiques gender ideology for causing confusion among developing children, especially those experiencing gender dysphoria. He argues that disconnecting gender choice from biological sex exacerbates distress and encourages immoral behaviors, such as homosexual relationships, sex reassignment surgeries, and a laissez-faire sexual attitude. Emphasizing that gender-confused adolescents require clear guidance to navigate sexual maturation, McTavish aligns with Pope Francis’s teachings in Laudato Si’. The Pope asserts that valuing one's biological masculinity or femininity is essential for self-recognition, allowing individuals to joyfully accept and find mutual enrichment in God the Creator's diverse design.

The Mystique Of Dialogue: Pathway To Spirit Power For Liberative Struggle, Jojo M. Fung

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This paper recounts the author’s initiation into shamanism within a Murut village in Sabah, East Malaysia. The rigorous process of acquiring "spirit power" begins with the na rio bathing ritual, followed by an intensive apprenticeship. Under a master shaman, the initiate learns incantations to invoke favorable spirits for healing, deliverance, and communal harmony, eventually meeting a personal spirit guide during a full-moon isolation. Upon the master's death, the apprentice becomes the community's shaman. Reflecting on this experience, Fung advocates accompanying indigenous Asian communities, leveraging their shamanic spiritualities to advance social justice and ecological well-being.

Contributors, Contributors Contributors

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Full Issue, Volume 32, Issue 2

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Why World Art Is Urgent Now: Rethinking The Introductory Survey In A Seminar Format, Gretchen Holtzapple Bender

Art History Pedagogy & Practice

Ultimately, what can and should an introductory course in the history of art do? What difference can it make and what work can it perform? To fully contemplate these questions and radically rethink the standard large-lecture survey, in an experiment, it was taught as an advanced seminar to both majors and general education non-majors, with “global understanding” privileged over extensive content knowledge. The classroom environment moved from the authoritative stance imposed by a lecture format to a space for speaking and listening that was collaborative and exploratory, nurturing curiosity and critical thinking not just about disciplinary knowledge and methods, …

Towards The Creation Of The Civil Rights Museum Of New York City, Taylor Koczot

Graduate Student Independent Studies

In this study the author explores the many reasons why a museum devoted to the Civil Rights Movement should open in New York City. This work examines and delves into the very early stages and ideas that go into the creation of the museum, which include finding a need and purpose as well as envisioning what the institution has the potential to do and become. Koczot begins with a discussion of her own interests in the subject, including her experiences in the South and as an educator in New York City. The author moves on to discuss the city’s connection …

True, Valerie (Fa 1122), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1122. Student paper titled “Making of Lye Soap” in which Valerie True details the processes behind soap production. True’s informants include her grandmother, Delora True, and her boyfriend’s mother, Frances Chaney. Additional information regarding the uses of lye soap, necessary ingredients, and tools of the trade are also included. Black and white photographs of the process are provided as well.

Alexander, Patricia (Fa 1123), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1123. Student paper titled “Folk Beliefs” in which Patricia Alexander gathers together a collection of old wives’ tales, proverbs, and superstitions. Beliefs were provided by Alexander’s grandmother, Rebecca Alexander, who was a Warren County, Kentucky native.

Hubungan Antara Fleksibilitas Dan Kekuatan Otot Lengan Dengan Kecepatan Renang, Djohan Aras, Abdullah Arsyad, Nurhikmawaty Hasbiah

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia

Kecepatan adalah aset utama atlet renang. Penelitian terbaru menunjukkan variabel fleksibilitas dan kekuatan otot lengan sangat memengaruhi kecepatan renang individu. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui hubungan antara fleksibilitas dan kekuatan otot lengan pada atlet renang gaya bebas di Makassar. Desain penelitian ini adalah cross sectional dengan jumlah sampel 20 orang atlet yang berusia 12-18 tahun. Variabel independen yang diukur adalah fleksibilitas dan kekuatan otot lengan. Variabel dependen yang diukur adalah kecepatan renang melalui tes renang gaya bebas 25 meter. Analisis bivariat digunakan untuk menganalisis hubungan fleksibilitas dan kekuatan otot lengan dengan kecepatan pada atlet renang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya korelasi positif …

Presentation, College Of Arts And Sciences, Joint Council Of Academic And Student Affairs Meeting, January 8, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts And Sciences

Council of Academic and Student Affairs

The PowerPoint from a presentation about the College of Arts and Sciences to the Joint Council of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Restoring Dignity To The Caribs Of Yurumein, Paula Prescod

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

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The Long And The Short Of It: Lucy Evans’S Communities In Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories, Michael Niblett

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

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Contributors

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

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Alumni News | Sociology's Kuckuck Writes On Millennials Flexible Work Environments, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Friends Or Strangers? A Feasibility Study Of An Innovative Focus Group Methodology, Chandria D. Jones, Jocelyn Newsome, Kerry Levin, Amanda Wilmot, Jennifer Anderson Mcnulty, Teresa Kline

The Qualitative Report

Focus groups are useful tools for examining perceptions, feelings, and suggestions about topics, products, or issues. Typically, focus groups are held in formal facilities with “strangers” or participants who do not know each other. Recent work suggests that “friendship groups” may provide an innovative alternative for collecting group-level qualitative data. This approach involves recruiting a single “source participant” who hosts a group in his/her home and recruits friends possessing the characteristics desired for the study. In order to examine the feasibility of friendship groups as a defensible research methodology, we conducted a series of four friendship groups as a feasibility …

Living, Doing, And Learning From Politics In A Youth Wing Of A Political Party, Carla Malafaia, Isabel Menezes, Tiago Neves

The Qualitative Report

The field of civic and political participation has been studied mostly from individual, psychological approaches rather than collective, relational perspectives. Here we address this gap through a political ethnography in the youth wing of a major Portuguese political party, conducted during the fervent months right before and after the Portuguese parliamentary elections of October 2015. Investigating the meaning-making of doing politics in real-life contexts, we assess the collective learning processes involved in political participation. This paper shows that youth wings can provide quality participation experiences. Indeed, collectively envisioning and constructing a more democratic society and working for the public good …

Happy Beginnings: Alumni Back To Explore Acid Mine Drainage In Appalachian Watershed, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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