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A Document Based Question On The Civil Rights Movement, Brenna Renae Utzman

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

A Document Based Question (DBQ) designed for nineth to twelfth grade students in African American Studies curriculum. The DBQ question is "Why did the Civil Rights Movement form, and how did it reach its objectives? Students will have eleven sources that they will connect to a five-paragraph essay, as well as use outside information to formulate their responses. The outside information is given throughout a four-week lesson plan that is provided for educators to use. Each lesson plan has an objective, success criteria, and steps for how to conduct the lesson. All necessary resources for each lesson are provided.

Reckless Associations, Jane R. Bambauer, Saura Masconale, Simone M. Sepe

UF Law Faculty Publications

This Article provides a theoretical foundation and practical guide for a new form of liability that has proven necessary in the Internet era: the tort of Reckless Association. This tort would hold de facto leaders of informal networks responsible when radicalized members of the network cause physical harm to others. Recent prosecutions of the leaders of the Oath Keepers and other white supremacists who organized the Charlottesville protest, and rumblings of a similar prosecution against Donald Trump, demonstrate that there is a public appetite for this form of legal responsibility. To date, these prosecutions proceed on theories of incitement or …

The Fallibility Of The Brandenburg Test Through The Lens Of The Capitol Insurrection, Lauren M. Hausman

Western New England Law Review

This Article explores the insurrection that occurred at our Capitol in relation to the Brandenburg test. The paper seeks to discuss whether free speech has gone too far, whether Brandenburg needs reform, and how we could effectuate such changes. While the Article certainly has political undertones, sincere efforts were made to present the facts in a more neutral fashion. Despite the political nature of the Article, I wholeheartedly believe that discussing the insurrection is critical to not only our nation’s history, but to the law.

H2020 Auto-Dan Project: Enhance The Participation Of The Community To Demand Response By Providing The State-Of-The-Art Technological And Policy Solution, Rene Peeren, Dharmesh Dabhi, John Dalton

Conference papers

The growing demand for electricity in Europe has increased the need for a more flexible and sustainable power system. In recent years, Demand Response (DR) has emerged as a promising solution to meet this need, by providing an opportunity for residential and smaller commercial consumers to actively participate in the electricity market. This research paper investigates the potential for DR among the residential community and small commercial electricity consumers in Europe and identifies the technological barriers and drivers that impact consumer engagement with DR programs in Europe. The different DR opportunities are identified and validated at the six different demo …

2023-2024 Lynn University Academic Catalog, Lynn University

Academic Catalogs

The 2023-2024 Academic Catalog initially published as a web-only document.

This is a PDF version, created by the Department of Marketing and Communication.

Smartphones And Emotional Transfer : An Investigation Of Smartphone-To-Human Emotional Contagion, Stanislav Zavoyskiy

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

ABSTRACT

Caregiving Automatons: Gender, Care, And Disability In Poland, Michalina Grzelka

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The last few years in Poland have seen the increasing visibility of disabled people and family caregivers who demand the introduction of public policies more responsive to their needs. Such development suggests a shift from deeply rooted gendered ideas about caregiving and the rise of activism of people with disabilities and family caregivers who call for solutions to the neoliberalization of care work. However, despite growing attention to disability and care within anthropology, few studies have focused explicitly on caregiving relations in the context of disability, especially in the formerly socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. This dissertation attempts …

A History Of Educational Concerts Of The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Sean Radermacher

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This project illuminates the history of educational concerts of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) and reveals a legacy of performances for young audiences, today’s educational innovations, and the orchestra’s evolving mission to serve young people. Concerts for young people are an important facet of the history of American orchestras. Today, these concerts and other educational programs are essential to increase the accessibility of orchestral music.

The PSO’s history highlights the close relationship of American orchestras with an educational mission from their early years to the present. After an overview of the origins of permanent orchestras and the national context of …

Pleang (แผลง) : Portraying Prince Naris’ Cultural Hybridity In Architectural Forms, Chittawadi Chitrabongs, Malin Phlernjai

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

His Royal Highness Prince Narisaranuvativongse (1863 –1947) was a court designer whose works transcended various fields of art, design, music, and architecture in Siam. Since his death, the prince’s legacy has been fading from the public consciousness. This research comprises an architectural design proposal to resurrect recognition of his designs, and to create public connectivity in terms of physical spaces by focusing on Prince Naris’ way of thinking, as expressed in a Thai word, pleang (แผลง), employed by Prince Naris himself. Pleang does not mean conventional, nor does it mean atypical. Pleang is a way of thinking that has limited …

Applying The A-Kano Model To Assess The Impact Of Common Area Elements On Customers’ Perceptions Of Subdivision Housing Projects In Metropolitan Bangkok, Kongkoon Tochaiwat, Damrongsak Rinchumphu, Jatuphon Wangsong, Patcharida Pultawee

NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)

In the field of residential real estate development, understanding customer perception contributes to project success. This quantitative research studied customer perception towards common area elements in housing projects by applying the Analytical Kano (A-Kano) Model. Information was collected from a questionnaire survey of 150 buyers of detached and semi-detached houses in housing projects situated in metropolitan Bangkok who purchased their properties within five years. The quota sampling method was used, and the data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and the A-Kano Model. The research results identify important characteristics of three groups of residential development common area elements: (1) must-have elements, …

Assessment Of The Knowledge, Attitude, And Practice Of Postoperative Pain Management Among Nurses In Medical And Surgical Wards At Aga Khan University Hospital, Veronicah Wangui

MSc in Advanced Practice Nursing

Postoperative pain remains a significant global problem despite overall pain management advances. Postoperative pain may alter neural pathophysiology, including peripheral and central sensation, and lead to chronic pain syndrome. Postoperative pain management implies professional care to improve patients’ comfort and early ambulation, decrease analgesia side effects, and reduce chronic pain. Nurses taking care of postoperative patients must be equipped with adequate knowledge and skills to be effective. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and nurses' practice on postoperative pain management among nurses in medico-surgical wards at Aga Khan University Hospital. It is a quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study. Data …

Reporting Values, Partnership With Parents And The Hidden Curriculum: A Qualitative Study, Veronica Elizabeth Morcom

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The Australian government funded the West Australian project ‘Reporting Values to Parents’ as part of ‘The Values in Action Schools Project’ (2009). The two aims of the qualitative study were to develop a common values language supported by observable behaviours and an appreciation that values education is fundamental to schooling. Teachers used an action research process to create authentic values activities and involve parents in the assessment process. Parents shifted their perspectives to ratify teachers’ role to teach values explicitly. Students experienced a deeper sense of connection and belonging at school. Educators can adapt the activities in this paper to …

Measuring Australian Preservice Teachers’ Asia Capability And Perceived Readiness To Teach The Asia Cross-Curricular Priority., James F. Toohey, Peter R. Grainger, Michael Carey

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Preservice teachers are soon-to-be graduates expected to deliver the Cross-Curricular Priority ‘Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia’. Teachers of all learning areas are expected to teach about Asia, irrespective of their knowledge or capabilities in Asian contexts. The curriculum review has revised expectations for ‘Asia literacy’ in graduates. The changes de-emphasise cultural knowledge, and instead, promote relationship-building and intercultural understanding. This research identified 31 preservice teachers’ perceptions of their Asia literacy and preparedness to teach the related curriculum initiative. Grainger and Christie’s (2016) linguistic model was used to define and measure Asia literacy. Thematic analysis identified (1) how participants conceptualised …

Theming, Service Performance, And Downstream Effects Of Subjective Leisure Experiences, Brian J. Hill, Patti Freeman, Gary Ellis, Emily Catalan

Faculty Publications

We examined determinants (i.e., theming and service performance) and results (proclivity to recommend, enjoyment, perceived value of time spent) of structured leisure experiences. Structured leisure experiences were measured in terms of intensity of engagement (focus on unfolding narrative), absorption (focus on sensory stimuli), and immersion (focus on performance) during participation. Experience measures (n=310) reported by 168 young adults upon exiting a variety of leisure, recreation, and hospitality venues supported the research hypotheses.

Calling Time: How To Remove Fossil Fuel Sponsorships From Sports, Arts & Events, Ashlee Morgan, Sophia Nimphius, Genevieve Stewart, Jennifer Rayner, Ashleigh Croucher, Simon Bradshaw

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Sports, arts and major events are deeply embedded in the Australian way of life. Weekend matches, concerts and festivals bring us together - to cheer, to share pride and excitement, to feel connected to each other and to keep building our national story.

When we barrack for our beloved teams, discover the work of a new local artist or laugh until our cheeks hurt at a comedy show, we are taking part in a ritual that has shaped social and cultural life in Australia for generations.

Climate change – driven by burning coal, oil and gas – is putting all …

The ‘People’S War On Terror’ In Xinjiang: A Model For China?, Hannah Theaker

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Evidence-Based Teaching In Contact Lenses Education: Teaching And Learning Strategies, Fabrizio Zeri, Frank Eperjesi, Craig Woods, Stefan Bandlitz, Bhootra A Kumar, Mahesh R. Joshi, Manbir Nagra, Helmer Schweizer, Shehzad A. Naroo

School of Health Professions

Contact lens (CL) practice is an ever-changing field with clinical knowledge, techniques and equipment continuously evolving. These new developments are backed with clinical trials and research to ensure that practitioners feel confident that there is an evidence base to support these advances. Evidence-based practice is now a crucial part of CL practice, and its importance also filters down to CL education. For example, lectures are one of the most popular tools for an educator but, is standing at the front of a lecture theatre full of students a more effective way of teaching than providing the same material for students …

“I Certainly Didn’T Expect The Spanish Inquisition!”: Politics Of Transculturation In A Spanish Enclave In North Africa, Brian Campbell, Brian Campbell

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Not Hearing, Not Engaging, And Not Happening: Elusive Inclusive Higher Education, It Is Time To Reconsider Sector Practices In Partnership With Disabled Student Expertise, Suanne Gibson, Zeta Williams-Brown, Jen Shute, Mette Westander

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper focuses on inclusive higher education in the United Kingdom. It details international literature, research studies and national reports, including findings from the authors’ study, ‘Working with disabled students to address unequal outcomes in UK HE during the pandemic’ where we critically explored inclusive practice in Higher Education (HE) and disabled students’ learning experiences. Our national study was carried out as a collaboration between the University of Plymouth, University of Wolverhampton, and Disabled Students UK (DSUK). Data collection took place in 2021 with an extensive literature-based investigation alongside the dissemination of a questionnaire to DSUK members resulting in 14 …

Arresting Assembly: An Argument Against Expanding Criminally Punishable Protest, Allison Freedman

Faculty Scholarship

ARRESTING ASSEMBLY: AN ARGUMENT AGAINST EXPANDING
CRIMINALLY PUNISHABLE PROTEST
ALLISON M. FREEDMAN

ABSTRACT

In recent years, public protests have shed light on societal inequities that had previously gone unheard. Yet instead of responding to protesters’ concerns, many state legislators are attempting to silence disenfranchised groups by introducing hundreds of “anti-protest” bills. This is a recent phenomenon and one that is accelerating—the largest wave of “anti-protest” bills was introduced on the heels of the most robust protest movement in recent history, Black Lives Matter during the summer of 2020.

Although it is clear that legislators are attempting to tamp down public …

Nursing Students Doing Gender: Implications For Higher Education And The Nursing Profession, Lesley J. Andrew, Ken Robinson, Julie Dare, Leesa N. Costello

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The average age of women nursing students in Australia is rising. With this comes the likelihood that more now begin university with family responsibilities, and with their lives structured by the roles of mother and partner. Women with more traditionally gendered ideas of these roles, such as nurturing others and self-sacrifice, are known to be attracted to nursing as a profession; once at university, however, these students can be vulnerable to gender role stress from the competing demands of study. A qualitative research design, guided by Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy, explored the gendered behaviours and experiences of 22 women nursing students, …

Archeota Fall/Winter 2023, Amanda Leung, Benja Thompson, Katrina Williams, Amelia Smith, Lawrence Lorraine Mullen

Archeota

Archeota is a platform for SJSU iSchool students to contribute to the archival conversation. It is written BY students, FOR students. It provides substantive content on archival concerns and issues and promotes professional development in the field of archival studies. Archeota upholds the core values of the archival profession.

Contents:

The Southwark Archives: Stories of a London Borough and its People

by Amanda Leung

Chains of Fire: Building a Queer Archive in Mill Valley, CA

By Benja Thompson

The Fabric of a Community: How Events Connect Individuals to Institutions

By Katrina Williams

Farewell to Our Winter 2023 Graduates: Interviews With …

2023 Warbler, Eastern Illinois University

The Warbler

The 2023 Warbler, the annual yearbook of the students of Eastern Illinois University.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, February 16, 2023, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Influenced: Performing Gender And Femininity In Mormon And Evangelical Online Spaces, Kathryn Ann Davis

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The construction of a digital self is fully performative; online identities are simultaneously highly curated, edited, and uniquely personal. These spaces allow users to become producers of identity and religious narrative. In this dissertation I examine the online communities which are a dynamic and developing aspect of religious life in America. I will argue that religious women have created increasingly diverse virtual spaces for themselves, and that these online communities give women a safe space to talk about their faith and create common bonds with other female adherents. I have engaged with these creators directly through oral history interviews and …

Thai Actors And Their Methods Of Characterization, Thanyarat Praditthaen, Prit Supasetsiri, Porawan Patayanon

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article discusses findings from interviews with 26 Thai actors on their methods of characterization. It was found that Thai actors have two concepts regarding their style and beliefs towards acting: (1) good acting naturally portrays normal characters in a realistic manner, (2) a major component of acting is ‘becoming the character.’ Participants reported needing a character’s actions to be logical, and therefore need to thoroughly analyze a character so they can completely transform into the character. Methods of characterization were found to be consistent with approaches in the works of Stanislavski. This is in part due from Pantoomkomol (1995)’s …

Part I — Introduction: Social Physics And The Vespace Project, Jeffrey M. Leichman, Ben Samuel

Faculty Publications

This article introduces the VESPACE project, an international, multi-disciplinary digital humanities initiative to build a computer-mediated playable simulation—a video game—of the eighteenth-century Paris Fair theatre. As part of this project, a weeklong postgraduate workshop was convened by the authors in May 2020 to develop protocols and procedures for coding literary and historical data for the Ensemble social physics engine that will govern behaviour of non-player characters (NPCs) in the interactive model. This article lays out the history and theory of social physics, the potential impacts of this project on historiographic practice, and the methodology and outcomes of the workshop week. …

Needs Salt, Joshua Lang

Dance (MFA) Theses

Researcher Joshua Lang investigates the development of the Eden narrative in western culture. Near the beginning of the book of Genesis, the Eden narrative provides a lens to culturally significant elements of early Hebrew culture. Genesis illustrates early Hebrew culture’s relationship with the natural world, sex, sin, judgment, and death. Similarly, John Milton’s retelling of the narrative in Paradise Lost divulges information about the culture that Milton lived in, as well as a great deal about the author himself. Milton’s blindness, and his opinions on heteronormative marriage, Protestantism, sin, judgment, and death are evident in the text. In Paradise Lost …

Dancing Through Loss, Tracy Vogt

Dance (MFA) Theses

This thesis project aims to examine and interrogate the embodiment of grief through the comparison of western concert dance works choreographed by Antony Tudor, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Anna Halprin, and Camille A. Brown. This research will culminate in a choreographic work reflecting and responding to my own personal journey with grief and loss while also incorporating and integrating the process of the choreographers studied.

#Iykyk: Tiktok As A Subversive Space: Democratizing Dance And Shifting Artistic Paradigms, Meagan Dodini

Dance (MFA) Theses

The emergence of TikTok as a platform for dance content has revolutionized the dance industry providing new avenues for exposure, creativity, and self-promotion. Researcher Meg Dodini explores the impact of TikTok on the institution of dance, investigating opportunities for increased visibility, collaboration, and brand sponsorships. Moreover, TikTok has facilitated the creation of new dance styles and trends, fostering collaboration between artists and engagement with the viewer. It is important to acknowledge the drawbacks of TikTok's influence. This research or thesis aims to explore the potential biases surrounding the expectations of dance regarding appearance, spaces, and performance. It argues that TikTok …