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“Friend Thou Art Often In My Remembrance”, Jay D. Miller

Faculty Publications - Department of English

A recently discovered letter by Elizabeth Ashbridge expands the very small archive of documents related to this important Quaker minister, gives scholars a better understanding of the circles in which she moved, and offers an occasion for reflection on epistolary writing in the eighteenth century. Written to her fellow Quaker Margaret Bowne, the letter fascinates as a dense record of the overlapping transatlantic, commercial, and ministerial connections Friends maintained during the period. It also illustrates the persistence of Pauline epistolary tropes in the context of an ostensibly “secular” familiar letter, reminding scholars of the pitfalls of thinking of the secular …

Realmente Tenemos La Capacidad: Engaging Youth To Explore Health In The Dominican Republic Through Photovoice, Catalina Tang Yan, Arelis Moore De Peralta, Edmond P. Bowers, Linda Sprague Martinez

Publications

Youth are often at risk for physical and psychosocial illnesses, and yet their input is rarely included in health assessments and interventions. Two U.S.-based universities partnered with community stakeholders and youth in Las Malvinas II, Dominican Republic to explore factors that promote and/or hinder the health of youth in Las Malvinas II. Youth (n=8) conducted a photovoice, and identified six key health priorities: (1) good nutrition, (2) depression and poverty, (3) violence, (4) sports and neighborhood association, (5) education, and (6) sanitation and community infrastructure. Findings revealed youth’s exploration of complex multi-level determinants of health. This study suggests youth have …

El Color De La Ira, Hannah Xu '21

Spanish Language Books

No abstract provided.

A Step Too Far: Matter Of A-B-, "Particular Social Group," And Chevron, Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer, Hillary Rich

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

Every day, thousands of Central American asylum seekers, many fleeing persecution from domestic abusers and gangs, attempt to seek refuge in the United States. To receive asylum, those escaping such violence typically must show membership in a "particulars social group." In Matter of A-B-, issued in June 2018, then-Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions III attempted to destroy the viability of domestic-violence-related particular social groups altogether. As we demonstrate in this Article, this far-reaching decision should not receive Chevron deference from reviewing courts.

A-B- is concerning both for its potentially calamitous effect on individuals fleeing domestic and gang violence and for …

"Our Roots:": Latinx Parents' Language Ideologies Concerning Bilingualism, Akanne S. Torres Beltran

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Language is a fundamental component of one's identity, as well as a means of surviving in a globalizing world. This study draws upon sixteen narratives of first-generation Mexican and Puerto Rican parents in Central Florida to answer the research question: What are the language ideologies of Mexican and Puerto Rican immigrant parents towards the English Language acquisition and Spanish Language retention of their children? The information was gathered through semi-structured interviews and it aimed to learn how and if they value English and Spanish bilingualism and whether it was desired for their children. On the one hand, they are aware …

Parent Couples’ Participation In Speech-Language Therapy For School-Age Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder In The United States, Michelle Flippin, Debbie L. Hahs-Vaughn

Communicative Disorders Faculty Publications

This study examined parent couples’ participation in and satisfaction with speech-language therapy for school-age children with autism spectrum disorder in the United States. Responses from 40 father–mother couples (n = 80 parents) were examined across therapy components (i.e. parent–therapist communication, assessment, planning, and intervention). Descriptive frequencies, chi-square tests, intraclass correlations, and dyadic multilevel modeling were used to examine participation across fathers and mothers and within parent couples. Compared to mothers, fathers communicated less with therapists and participated less in assessment and planning. Fathers also had lower satisfaction than mothers with parent–therapist communication and planning. Although few parents participated in …

Power, Punk, And Performance: A Critical Analysis Of Hooligan Laws In Russia, Noelle Wurst

Honors Program Theses

This paper presents the argument that the criminal charge of hooliganism in Russia is a political tool used to suppress dissent and uphold the authoritarian ideals of Putin’s regime. The background of this analysis includes a broad overview of the development of the hooligan laws over time and how they have been used to advance elite interests. In addition, the key policies, institutions, and rhetoric that surround hooliganism in present-day Russia are identified. The legitimacy of the hooligan laws is then tested against both domestic and international law, especially in regards to norms on freedoms of speech.

Identification Of Hispanic English Language Learners In Special Education, Gail I. Becker, Aaron R. Deris

Special Education Department Publications

Overrepresentation of English language learners (ELLs) in special education is a current problem. Urban school professionals indicated that inappropriate placement is linked to a multiplicity of factors. Scarce data exist regarding the relationship between school professional efficacy beliefs, the availability of bilingual programs and personnel for ELLs, and successful academic outcomes. School employees are still confused about the proper placement of English language learners (ELLs). What is enough time to acquire a second language and learn with success? Without other substantial program choices, children are referred to special education. Furthermore, many students in need of special education may be overlooked …

Ecopedagogy: Learning How To Participate In Ecological Consciousness, Peterson, Eric

CONSCIOUSNESS: Ideas and Research for the Twenty-First Century

This paper is the result of an inquiry into ecological consciousness through a participatory paradigm. The dialectical relationship between institutionalized education and consciousness is central to this inquiry’s focus. This exploration into ecological consciousness has lead to the following question: How can institutionalized education be designed, delivered, and experienced in a way that nurtures ecological intelligence, ecological consciousness, and more importantly, ecological activism? The ‘sense of self ‘is a central theme within the paper, and led to the conception of intraearthal and interearthal relationships as a way of communicating our need to identify as being in Earth. The author utilizes …

Bmcc Borough Of Manhattan Community College 2019-2020 Bulletin, Borough Of Manhattan Community College

Archives

This is the official college catalog for 2019-2020. It contains course descriptions as well as information on degree programs, college resources and services, admissions, tuition and fees, financial aid, a profile of the college, and rules and regulations.

The Stromata Vol. 61, No. 1, Calvin Theological Seminary

Stromata (1956-2020)

Inside This Issue

5- Finding Hope while Struggling by Isaias D’Oleo-Ochoa

7- Liturgical Theology in the Psalter by Andrew J. Belcher

22- Plantinga’s Ontological Argument of God by Jung-Yao Wang

43- Worshipping with Our Children by Sewon Jang

Neither Libertarian Nor Compatibilist, Richard A. Muller

CTS Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

The present essay addresses Paul Helm's most recent attempt to assimilate the thought of such Reformed scholastics as Francis Turretin to the 'compatibilism' of Jonathan Edwards. Helm has misunderstood a series of important scholastic distinctions concerning the relationship of intellect and will in the older faculty psychology, and the relationship of foundational or, as I identified it, 'root' indifference in the will to its multiple potencies. He has, accordingly, failed to register how Reformed orthodox understandings of free choice outlined in recent scholarship affirm both a simultaneity or synchronicity of potencies or capacities of the will and a diachronicity of …

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Academic Catalog, 2019-2020, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Living To Survive: Causes And Solutions To Poverty Among Low Income, White, Single Mothers, Sabrina Mikes

Theses & ETDs

The purpose of this study is to understand the causes and solutions to poverty among, low-income, white, single mothers from their perspective. I conducted five in-depth interviews with mothers about their experiences, struggles, needs and perspectives regarding poverty and ultimately the solutions they envision to alleviate it. Building from previous research about the causes of poverty, I use the framework of an individual, cultural, and structural lens to examine these causes and solutions. Through analysis on the five, qualitative interviews with the mothers, I found that bad partners and divorce, the responsibilities and roles of single motherhood, low quality jobs, …

“¿Eres Tú, Antígona?”: Intertextuality And Representations Of Authoritarianism In Two 20th Century Retellings Of Antigone, Ari A. Plymale

Theses & ETDs

This thesis aims to look at two 20th century retellings of Antigone by Sophokles, and how they use the framework of this ancient text as a means through which to discuss modern authoritarianism in the post-war era. This analysis includes an examination of Bertolt Brecht’s Die Antigone des Sophokles and José Bergamín’s La sangre de Antígona in relationship to their intertextual relationships (with Sophokles and other source texts) and the cultural-historical moment out of which each work was created. This thesis also includes a translation of the two prologues of Die Antigone des Sophokles that Brecht wrote, and a full …

“Various Are The Outcomes Of War”: The Chronicon Of Sampiro In English Translation, Kaithleen Coñoepan

Theses & ETDs

This thesis offers a complete English translation of the Chronicle of Sampiro with a brief commentary, as well a historical overview of Spain, beginning with the foundation of León as Legio under the Roman Republic. The introduction analyzes major historical events that took place in the Iberian Peninsula, especially those in the late ninth, tenth, and early eleventh century. It includes a brief history of the city of León, Spain from its foundation, the influences upon it of the Romans, Moors, and Visigoths, the transition of the Asturian monarchy into the Kingdom of León, and the chronicle of Sampiro and …

Siblings Of Individuals With Disabilities: An Analysis Of Online Support Group Usage, Hope M. Sparks

Theses & ETDs

This thesis reviewed the relationship between usage of online Facebook support groups for siblings of individuals with developmental disabilities and participant living arrangement in relation to their siblings, as well as levels of Depression, Anxiety and Stress. The current study hypothesized that participants who live with their sibling would have an increased usage of the Facebook page(s) for emotional and social support, along with an overall increased usage in comparison to their counterparts who live away from their sibling. The current study also predicted that participants who live with their siblings would have higher Depression, Anxiety, and Stress scores than …

“Our Father, Our King”: The Creators Of Artificial Life In Novels Featuring Artificial Intelligence, Golems, And Frankenstein’S Creature, Emily Mulholland

Theses & ETDs

In my thesis I explore the artificial creation of life in literature through novels featuring golems, artificial intelligence, and the Creature of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I trace these figures through The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague by Yudl Rosenberg, The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and He, She, and It by Marge Piercy. I explore the relationship between a human Creator and their nonhuman Creation in each text. This raises religious questions of origins, as well as ethical questions regarding how humanity is defined. I argue that the assumption of the …

Resetting The Connection: Legal Personhood And Decolonization In Aotearoa New Zealand, Sarah Kelly

Theses & ETDs

Exploitation and pollution of the environment has led some to search for a better way to protect the environment in law. In its current form, the majority of Western environmental policy only considers human interests. This shortcoming has been confronted in a few notable cases around the world where law has granted nature itself with “all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” Synthesizing philosophical, historical, ethnographic, and legal sources, this thesis examines how the “rights of nature” movement provides an avenue for decolonization and the legitimization of indigenous worldviews in mainstream policy. Two New Zealand examples …

The Nutcracker Queen: An Analysis Of Drosselmeyer And Marie In E.T.A. Hoffmann’S The Nutcracker And The Mouse King, Diana Barroeta

Theses & ETDs

In this thesis I will dive into E.T.A Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and The Mouse King. analyze the character of Marie and Drosselmeyer using Propp’s morphology of folktale as a reference. In order to see the bigger picture and deepen the level of understanding of the story, the introduction offers background information on the author, the place the story was written and the literary movement it was born into. I divided each chapter into sections containing each other character types Marie and Drosselmeyer represented and included evidence to show how multidimensional they both are, and how complicated each of their relationships …

Robots ‘Я’ Us What Science Fiction Tells Us About Gender, Race, And Humanness, Bethany Wilson

Theses & ETDs

Narratives centering on human contact with the “other”—aliens, monsters, and robots—are prevalent in science fiction. While these narratives encourage us to consider the physical and ethical boundaries of humanness, they also problematically recenter the experiences and perceptions of men—of White men—as those of a non-existent “neutral” human being. In this thesis, I analyze representations of robotic beings in science fiction to deconstruct Western logics of oppression and expose the constructed nature of the category “human.” In particular, I focus on the limitations of the binary logic of “self” as opposed to “other” in regard to race and gender. I begin …

Identity Negotiations Of Bilingual Lgbtqia+ Latinos/As/Es/Xs, Andreina Carrasquero

Theses & ETDs

The following study explores how people who self-identify as LGBTQIA+, bilingual in English and Spanish, and Latino/a/x/e conceptualize and communicate their identities through language. I conducted 7 loosely structured in-depth interviews in Spanglish to investigate how people who identify as LGBTQIA+, bilingual, and Latino/a/x/e talk and make sense of their identities. I found that participants conceptualize and communicate their identities by using a narrative approach to identities, employing code-switching and Spanglish, and by providing alternate meanings to Spanish as well as changing and transforming the Spanish language. This study also explores how oppression and trauma work to impact participants’ identities …

A Morally Schizophrenic Relationship: The Politics Of Humans And Nonhumans In America, Erika Thompson

Theses & ETDs

Often ignored in animal rights and welfare literature is the political context that shapes and influences our relationship with non-humans. Different species in America experience vastly different lifestyles and treatment, partly due to their legal classifications. This quantitative research project analyzes different demographic markers of a human, their level of meat consumption, if are a farmer, their degree, biological sex, age, income, race and political ideology to predict whether or not they serve as indicators of support for animal rights claims. The data, gathered from the 1993 and 1994 GSS, includes 2,771 participants and was analyzed using bivariate and multivariate …

Units Of Consciousness: Translating Multimodal Synesthesia Eperience Into Specialized Aural Resolution, Zulfiia O. Tursunova

Theses & ETDs

I present a chamber music composition Units of Consciousness written for violin, cello, double bass, and piano. It consists of three movements: “Units of Consciousness”, “Dissonant Coherence”, and “Intrusions”. The piece employs various modern music composition techniques and focuses on concept of consciousness as an integral part of existence and interaction between all elements of the environment. This work raises questions about the conflicting role of humanity in the current evolutionary and revolutionary processes of the planet. Units of Consciousness is based on multimodal synesthetic experience of the composer; on my own perceptions of time, consciousness, and music. Rather than …

Ethnographic Colonization: A Postcolonial Theoretical Examination Of The Italian Migration To Argentina From 1870 To 1914, Lewis Lee

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores the question of how migrants become colonizers, specifically examining the Italian migration to Argentina from 1870 – 1914. In the context of this particular period, the question is whether or not these migrants unknowingly acted as agents of a larger Italian colonial project by engaging with the Italian government’s created nationality, or italianità. By building a theoretical lens through the theories of Ania Loomba and Frantz Fanon on colonialism, Lorenzo Veracini on settler colonialism, Albert Memmi on the colonizer and the colonized, and Anibal Quijano on the coloniality of power, it is possible to see how these …

Linguistic Rights In The Classroom: The Education Of Language Minorities In The United States, Julia Frichter

Theses & ETDs

English dominance has been the overwhelming trend of US history. Native languages have long been eradicated alongside their speakers. Boarding schools were established to Americanize indigenous peoples both culturally and linguistically (Warhol 2011). Naturalization laws mandated English proficiency for migrants, minimizing the number and size of language enclaves across the country, enclaves which used to define the colonies. States individually established English only clauses and banned foreign language education in schools (Malakoff and Hakuta 1990), and though the civil rights era presented hope for language rights, a subsequent wave of English-only sentiment swept the country again in the 1980s. Now, …

Implementing A Network Based Approach To Learning Chinese Characters, Katherine Diamond

Theses & ETDs

For the uninitiated, Chinese often appears to be extremely difficult. The writing system is complex with few hints as to what any character looks and sounds like. This project aims to review the relevant literature and design a learning tool that takes advantage of the structure of Chinese characters in order to provide an easier and more enjoyable learning environment for second language (L2) learners of Chinese. This is achieved by introducing Chinese characters in a computer generated learning order that is theorized to be substantially more effective for L2 learners of Chinese.

One Nation Under God: The Myth Of The Christian Nation, Rachel Rochlin

Theses & ETDs

In my thesis I explore the origin of and the current iteration of the myth that the United States was founded as and remains a Christian Nation. Specifically, I explore the effects of the death of George Washington during the early years of the republic in establishing the myth, followed by an examination of televangelists like Jerry Falwell in spreading the myth the last half of the twentieth century by citing the mythologized histories of the nineteenth century that falsely state the Founders were devout Christians with intentions to create a Christian Nation by law. My final chapter is an …

“Lessons From Liberation Theology: A Letter To El Buen Vivir”, Paola Baez-Perez

Theses & ETDs

This research is a product of interdisciplinary work focused on analyzing the connections between religious and secular social movements of Latin America and the way one can inform the development of the other. Seeking to understand the rise of liberation theology in the mid-twentieth century Latin American Catholic Church research points to the efforts of Gustavo Gutierrez in redefining the Church from the perspective of the poor. His idea of critical reimagination as necessary to begin the process of liberation for all focuses on solving some of the immediate issues in life – temporal, over the more traditional model of …

Justification Must Come To An End! Wittgenstein And William James's Shared Commitment To A Theory Of Worldviews, Colton Kunzeman

Theses & ETDs

This thesis formulates a “theory of worldviews,” which I claim both William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein implicitly hold. To prove this, I look at the intellectual relationship between James and Wittgenstein and argue that their conceptual similarities are the result of a shared, underlying commitment to an anti-foundationalist theory of worldviews. In this thesis I also explore what the theory of worldviews entails, especially its relationship with religion, evidence, and doubt.