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Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

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Answering The Calls For Inclusion From St. John's Students, Natalie P. Byfield

Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

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Book Review On Kyoto School Philosophy In Comparative Perspective: Ideology, Ontology, Modernity (By Bernard Stevens), Dennis Stromback

Comparative Philosophy

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Sustainable Futures-Integrating Indigenous Perspectives Into An Environmental Assessment Framework: An Analysis Of The Mauri Model, Anna Bettini

Journal of Environmental Sustainability

The twin concepts of sustainable development and sustainability have been key points in new policies. Nonetheless, only the Western scientific perspective is typically considered, excluding other voices and leading to a very narrow vision of “sustainability”. The following article investigates the benefits to including indigenous knowledge and principles, considering their values rather than limitations and presents two specific case studies using the Mauri Model Decision Making Framework, a tool applied for environmental assessment, seen as a more cultural-friendly sustainable approach.

Full Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1, Editorial Board

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The first issue in the fifth volume of the Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal.

Acculturation And Intimate Partner Violence Among Kenyans In The United States, Max J. Stein, Peter Ndiang’Ui, Eunice Menja

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse by a partner or spouse. This study focused on IPV among Kenyan immigrants to the United States. Several studies reported connections between IPV and cultural tensions experienced during the acculturation process. Scholars disagree whether acculturation buffers against IPV by exposing immigrants to adaptive social norms or heightens risk factors among those facing challenges acclimating to new settings. Whereas this association has been researched among Latinx and Asian communities in the United States, it is understudied among African and especially Kenyan diasporas. This descriptive study explored how acculturation and IPV among U.S. Kenyans were experienced …

Conflict, Resistance, And Resolve: Uncovering Lost Narratives In Japanese-American Internment, Hannah De Oliveira

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

By the end of 1942, the U.S. army and the national government had forcibly removed 120,000 Japanese descended individuals from their homes on the West Coast, confining them to ten internment camps across the nation. In an effort to construct a more accurate representation of the mindset of internees in the wartime era, my thesis hones in on conflict and division within camp life. I emphasize the heterogeneity of Japanese-American voices and push back against the oversimplification of the different internee subgroups: the Japan-born immigrants (“Issei”), U.S.-born citizens (“Nisei”), and Japan-educated Nisei who returned home before the war (“Kibei”). Throughout …

Sasquatch Sunset, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Sasquatch Sunset (2024), directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner.

Dividing The Body Politic, James A. Gardner

University of Chicago Legal Forum

It has long been assumed in large, modern, democratic states that the successful practice of democratic politics requires some kind of internal division of the polity into subunits. In the United States, the appropriate methods and justifications for doing so have long been deeply and inconclusively contested. One reason for the intractability of these disputes is that American practices of political self-division are rooted in, and have been largely carried forward from, premodern practices that rested originally on overtly illiberal assumptions and justifications that are difficult or impossible to square with contemporary commitments to philosophical liberalism.

The possibility of sorting …

Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Enslavement, colonization, and the systems that uphold racial injustice were and still are a series of new, unfathomable, and challenging experiences that prompt individuals within the diaspora to seek orientation. How does a human cope with centuries of attempts at the systematic destruction of their humanity, culture, and identity? How can they reclaim that identity, especially when so much of it seems lost? I address these questions by utilizing texts from the expansive body of work regarding ethnographic-historical-religious studies on Afro-spiritual practices to better analyze instances in literature in the ongoing practice of diasporic orientation. In this project, I argue …

Unh Earns Carnegie Classification For Community Engagement, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

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Cross-Cultural Preferences For Women’S Waist To Hip Ratio And Men’S Shoulder To Hip Ratio: Data From Iran, Norway, Poland, And Russia, Farid Pazhoohi, Reza Afhami, Razieh Chegeni, Dmitrii Dubrov, Katarzyna Gałasińska, Ray Garza, Nasim Ghahraman Moharrampour, Dmitry Grigoryev, Marta Kowal, Ståle Pallesen, Gerit Pfuhl

School of Psychology

Objectives: Body size and shape are sexually dimorphic in humans, with men being characterized with larger upper bodies, while women typically having broader pelvises. Such sexually dimorphic traits, quantified as shoulder to hip ratio (SHR) in men and waist to hip ratio (WHR) in women, serve as cues of an individual’s genetic fitness, reproductive potential, health, and resource holding power, and, thereby, functioning as attractiveness cues to the opposite sex. Methods: In the current study, we investigated men’s and women’s preference for the opposite sex body shape (WHR in women and SHR in men) in samples from Iran, Norway, Poland, …

An Affirmation Of Coexistence Between Artificial Intelligence (Ai) And Human Intelligence (Hi): An Inquiry Into The Structure Of Kazuo Ishiguro’S Novel, Klara And The Sun, Shiva Hari Mainaly

Critical Humanities

A narrative reflective of the perils and promises of automation entering the subjective realm of humankind, Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, Klara and the Sun, confronts us with the notion of coexistence between artificial intelligence (AF) and human intelligence (HF) by uncovering a robust structure arising from the contestation amidst a host of binaries: Human versus machine, AI versus HI, self versus the other, science versus nature, and the list goes on. Although a vast majority of analytical inquiries into this novel uncover the incoherence of human identity and consciousness in the society deeply invested in affordances of the fifth industrial …

Identifying Barriers To Mental Health Services Utilization For Black Youth In The United States: A Qualitative Study, Emily Stein, Matthew Hutnyan, Neely Myers

SMU Journal of Undergraduate Research

Mental health in Black communities and racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service utilization remain growing concerns. Evidence suggests that psychotic disorders may be more prevalent among Black individuals than white individuals and the Black community faces barriers to care that can negatively influence outcomes. To better understand these barriers, we interviewed mental healthcare providers (n = 11) and Black young adults with first-person experience of psychosis (n = 13) about the experiences of minority young adults with mental health treatment. We analyzed interview transcripts and, consistent with constructivist grounded theory methods, identified iterative patterns across individuals about barriers to care. …

Integrating Health Equity Into Implementation Science To Advance Chronic Disease Prevention And Control, Callie Walsh-Bailey

Brown School Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Marginalized populations are inequitably burdened by chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and cancer. The goal of health equity work is to ensure all people have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal health. Implementation science has made health equity a greater focus and priority in recent years. There has been a proliferation of guidance on what implementation science needs to do to advance equity. However, the field currently lacks specific, actionable guidance on how to integrate equity. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to synthesize conceptual and theoretical underpinnings regarding health equity and bring them …

Artistic Interactions Between Byzantine And Arab Muslims: From The Perspective Of Western Scholars, Maen M. Omoush

Information Sciences Letters

The Mediterranean region has long been an area of interaction between the two great powers, Arab Muslims, and Byzantine Christians. This relationship began in the 7th century AD and continued through to the 12th century. Although Islam became an increasingly powerful force during this period, these interactions were not always hostile; rather there was significant cultural exchange between both sides in areas such as art and architecture. These exchanges helped foster mutual understanding, which ultimately led to peaceful coexistence throughout much of this period despite their differences. This research aims to clarify the communication between arts of the Byzantine and …

The Type Locality Of Craveri's Murrelet Synthliboramphus Craveri, T. Bowen

Marine Ornithology

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Review: Shifting Baselines: The Past And The Future Of Ocean Fisheries (Jackson, J, Alexander, K & Sala, E (Eds)), D. Heinemann

Marine Ornithology

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Use Of Permanent Plots To Monitor Trends In Burrow-Nesting Seabird Populations In British Columbia, M. S. Rodway, M. J.F. Lemon

Marine Ornithology

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Population Size And Trends Of Four Globally Threatened Seabirds At Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean, R. J. Cuthbert, E. S. Sommer

Marine Ornithology

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The Case For Second Chances: A Pathway To Decarceration In Maine, Catherine Besteman, Leo Hylton

Maine Law Review

The Article argues that Maine incarcerates too many people, for too long, for too many things, at too great of an expense. We offer evidence to support this claim, briefly review some of the criminal legal legislation that shaped our present reality, and show how recent efforts at reform have been, at best, only modestly successful. In concert with a growing number of expert voices across the country calling for strategies of decarceration, our goal is to demonstrate the need for second chance legislation in Maine in the form of the reinstatement of parole, an effective clemency process, a far-reaching …

The Santa Clara, 2024-01-19, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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The Student Movement Volume 108 Issue 12: Leaping Into The New Year!, Anneliese Tessalee, Savannah Tyler, Grace No, Aiko J. Ayala Rios, Madison Vath, Lexie Dunham, Daena Holbrook, Andrew Francis, Melissa Moore, Katie Davis, Nate Miller, Sumin Lee, Wambui Karanja, Alyssa Caruthers, Anna Rybachek, Chris Ngugi

The Student Movement v. 108 (2023-2024)

HUMANS

A Farewell and Goodbye From Your Graduates, Interviewed by Anneliese Tessalee

Making Peace with 2023, Interviewed by Savannah Tyler

Professor Jean Cadet and the NYC Marathon, Interviewed by Grace No

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Upcoming events at HPAC, Aiko J. Ayala Rios

Music: The Forming of the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra, Madison Vath

The Media BREAKdown, Interviewed by Lexie Dunham

Christmas Traditions Across Andrews University, Daena Holbrook

NEWS

Michigan Football Ends Undefeated Season with NCAA Championship

Holiday Weekend Blast Brings Subzero Temperatures, Melissa Moore

Who is J.N. Andrews?, Andrew Francis

IDEAS

2024 the Plot, Katie Davis

Improving Andrews - Dorm …

Faculty Handbook Section Iii - College Of Liberal Arts Policies And Procedures - Updated 1/19/24, All Faculty

Faculty Handbooks

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Transformative Visions Of Qualitative Inquiry: Performative, Philosophical, And Artistic Transformations, Niroj Dahal

The Qualitative Report

I am writing this review, Transformative Visions for Qualitative Inquiry, considering performative, philosophical, and artistic transformations as an essential reading for faculty and students—novice and veteran. It inspires readers, writers, and novice and veteran researchers in various social sciences disciplines and educational landscapes to envision innovative approaches to healing from crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and/or earthquakes. These processes encourage resisting, recovering, connecting, finding joy, and embracing life. Likewise, Transformative Visions for Qualitative Inquiry centers on the concept of transformation and its potential for the future of qualitative research amidst a world grappling with the multifaceted implications of COVID-19, …

Collective Memory And Creative Subjectivity: A Living Conversation, Alexandra Katherine Goodall, Alba Torres Robinat

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This article is the record of a dialogue between two artists and Expressive Arts therapists, Alba Torres Robinat and Alexandra Katherine Goodall. They chose to undertake this conversation in the form of letters that were written back-and-forth over a period of time in a shared document, which places their correspondence in the tradition of epistolary writing. This decision to write the article as letters lends the conversation an immediacy, a warmth, a sense of time, distance and familiarity, and a feeling of intimacy.

The authors invite readers to witness the deepening of a relationship and the development of their conversational …

The Less Food Security You Have, The More Likely You Are To Face Discrimination Based On Your Weight, B. Sky Jones

Research on Capitol Hill

20% of US households were food insecure in 2020. One outcome of food insecurity is weight discrimination.

Similes Mini Lesson Plan, Kristen S. Addessi

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Immanuel Kant's Investigation Into The Beautiful And The Sublime And Its Theoretical Provisions, Puman Li Li Puman Is A Ph.D. Candidate In The Faculty Of Philosophy, Heidelberg University. His Research Interests Include German Aesthetics And Ethics.

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Immanuel Kant's theoretical investigation into the beautiful and the sublime is embodied in his theoretical construction of Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Critique of Judgment. Through practical anthropology and critical philosophy, the inherent differences in Kant's early and late aesthetic thought on these concepts can be revealed. Such differences profoundly reveal the distinction between axiological provisions based on the empirical principle and epistemological provisions based on the transcendental principle. In this way, Kant reveals that the beautiful and the sublime are not only positive to the judgement of aesthetic value in national cultural life, but …

Programs Agenda 1-26-24, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

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