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Pedagogies Of The “Irresistible”: Imaginative Elsewheres Of Black Feminist Learning., Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In her foreword to the groundbreaking anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Toni Cade Bambara (1983) famously argues that the great work of feminist writing is “to make revolution irresistible.” This statement is often read as a founding call of women-of-color feminism, and of feminist literary expression in particular. Yet Bambara’s notion of the “irresistible” extends beyond the page; throughout her works, she also uses the term as a key descriptor of her pedagogy, and her vision of the classroom. Bambara joins Audre Lorde and other Black feminist writer/teachers in insisting on a …

Special Forum: Undergraduate Perspectives On Feminism, Sabrinna Fogarty, Jeannette E. Riley

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Preface, Robert B. Keiter

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Private Lands In Conserving Yellowston'e Wildlife In The Twenty-First Century, Arthur Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Drew E. Bennett, Travis Brammer, Laura Gigliotti, Hilary Byerly Flint, Sam Maher, Bryan Leonard

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

“Work For The Night Is Coming": How Christian Hymns Frame Human Labor, Monty L. Lynn, Sarah Easter, Ryan Jessup, Greg Straughn

Management Sciences

No abstract provided.

Math Department 2021-2022 Newsletter, Mathematics Department

Mathematics Newsletter

Welcome to our annual Mathematics Department Newsletter. As we are slowly coming out of the pandemic, we were able to resume many of our normal events.

Evolutionary Kuramoto Dynamics, Elizabeth A. Tripp, Feng Fu, Scott D. Pauls

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Biological systems have a variety of time-keeping mechanisms ranging from molecular clocks within cells to a complex interconnected unit across an entire organism. The suprachiasmatic nucleus, comprising interconnected oscillatory neurons, serves as a master-clock in mammals. The ubiquity of such systems indicates an evolutionary benefit that outweighs the cost of establishing and maintaining them, but little is known about the process of evolutionary development. To begin to address this shortfall, we introduce and analyse a new evolutionary game theoretic framework modelling the behaviour and evolution of systems of coupled oscillators. Each oscillator is characterized by a pair of dynamic behavioural …

Section Iii: Gender-Based Violence And Society, Gavin Patrick Gray, Nidhi Shrivastava, Deepesh Nirmaldas Dayal

English Faculty Publications

This chapter is a transcript of an open-ended discussion that occurred between the authors when they met to discuss the subject matter of the third section of the book, which focuses on cultural and normative attitudes toward the problem of gender violence. As with the previous introductory dialogues, the discussion takes place after preliminary drafts have been completed and the authors share their thoughts on the subjects that they will each discuss in more detail in the following chapters. These include the culture of silence surrounding rape in India, the way masculine gender norms impact the treatment of women in …

Speech And Enchantment In Early Greek Thought From The Archaic To The Hellenistic Period, R. J. Barnes

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

When describing complex aesthetic or cognitive experiences, speakers often reach for idiomatic language. For ancient Greeks, one major cache of idiomatic terms comes from the language of enchantment. This dissertation accounts for how and why ancient Greeks used words related to θέλγω, κηλέω, γοητεία, μαγεία, μαγγανεία, ἐπῳδή, and ψυχαγωγία as a way of describing the effects of speech and song. Examination is given to writers from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Most important are Gorgias of Leontini, Plato, and Philodemus, who each remark in detail about the experience of enchantment. The study reveals that Greek writers use the language …

Cruel And Usual: Contaminated Water In New York State Prisons, Shannon Haupt, Phil Miller

City University of New York Law Review

People who are currently or formerly incarcerated in New York State prisons know that the water inside is often not safe to drink. However, when they advocate for access to clean water, they are regularly met with retaliation and denial.

This article brings together firsthand accounts, case law, and ongoing investigations regarding water quality in New York State prisons. Contaminated water is not an anomaly in prisons–it is one of many severe conditions that people in prison are forced to live under which threaten their physical, mental, and emotional health. The daily abuses and harms suffered by incarcerated people are …

Exploring The Influence Of A School-Based Therapy Dog Reading Program On Reluctant Readers’ Motivation To Read And Reading Fluency In The K-4 Setting., Laura A. Carino

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This mixed-methods research study focuses on students’, teachers’, and parents’ perceptions of the influence therapy dogs in schools can have on reluctant readers’ attitudes about reading and motivation to read at school and at home as well as exploring changes in the participants' oral fluency. Eight student participants read to our school therapy dog in a 1:1 setting two times each week throughout a six-week period. Before beginning the sessions, each student completed a reading perception survey to serve as a baseline for each child's motivation to read. Each student was also interviewed, seeking information about each child's feelings about …

Avatars And Empathy: The Use Of Video Games To Affect Prejudicial Evaluations Of African Americans, Christopher J. Corr

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This research sought to test the relation between video game avatars (online representations of the self), empathy, social dominance orientation, and prejudice. By having participants imagine playing in a game as an avatar I sought to test three hypotheses. Th first hypothesis proposed that that participants would be more inclined to support policies regarding a specific racial group when imagining play as an avatar representing that group. The second hypothesis proposed that empathy would influence the connection between the avatar and participant race variables. The third, which was split into three parts, tested for a negative correlation between prejudice and …

Fur-Ever Homes After Divorce: The Future Of Pet Custody, Sara Mićković

Animal Law Review

More than ever, Americans are considering their companion animals to be members of their families. However, the majority of states plainly consider companion animals to be personal property under the law in custody disputes. Therefore, when a pet custody dispute emerges in these states' courts, separated couples proceed to divide companion animals the same way they would other material belongings. At the same time, married couples in the United States are divorcing at increasing rates making these types of pet custody disputes an increasing issue in family courts around the country. Despite most states adopting this approach where companion animals …

What Comes After Defund? Lessons From Police And Prison Abolition For The Animal Movement, Michael Swistara

Animal Law Review

As the mass incarceration crisis skyrocketed, the animal protection movement adopted many of the mechanisms of the carceral state. Improving the status of animals was equated with pushing for lengthier sentences for those who caused harm to animals, placing more people into cages for longer periods of time. This disproportionally harmed Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority (BIPGM) communities who are the most heavily policed, surveilled, and imprisoned. Allying with the carceral state has also harmed animals-advocates are labeled terrorists, potential allies are dissuaded from action, and companion animals are killed by officers of the state. This approach …

The (Symbolic) Legislative Recognition Of Animal Sentience, M.B. Rodriguez Ferrere

Animal Law Review

This Article will draw conclusions from the legislative recognition of animal sentience in animal welfare legislation of Oregon, New Zealand and Quebec. A range of jurisdictions have, in recent times, amended their animal welfare legislation to recognize that animals are "sentient." While seemingly a progressive and welcome advance, there are a range of reasons to doubt the actual impact of such amendments. The limited impact of the amendments within animal welfare case law in these jurisdictions appear to confirm these doubts. This Article questions whether such symbolic amendments are benign or have a damaging effect on the attempt to reform …

Teaching Constitutional Law After The Trump Presidency, Joel K. Goldstein

Saint Louis University Law Journal

Teaching Constitutional Law will not, and should not, be the same after the presidency of Donald Trump. President Trump conducted his presidency in a manner which disregarded constitutional limits and assaulted basic constitutional principles. At the most conventional level for Constitutional Law courses, the Supreme Court generated new doctrinal responses to some of Trump’s presidential acts. Moreover, Trump’s presidency engaged non-judicial actors in considering how relatively obscure constitutional barriers operated, such as the Emoluments and Pardon Clauses, provisions regarding presidential inability and impeachment, and even segments of the Twelfth Amendment related to the role of the Senate president during the …

A Taxonomy Of Professional Identity Formation, Harmony Decosimo

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Character Copyrightability In Chaos: How Unclear Character Copyrightability Tests Lead To Improper Result, Kathleen Hanley

American University Law Review

Copyright law for fictional characters has been inconsistent since the first character copyright case in 1930. The lack of explicit statutory protection for fictional characters has led circuit courts to develop varying tests to determine character copyrightability. Several of these tests stray from the well-established constitutional principle that copyright protection is available for any work that exhibits a minimal level of originality and creativity. This Comment analyzes three different character copyright tests: (1) the “distinctly delineated” test, (2) the Towle test, and (3) the “stock character” test and argues that the “stock character” test is the appropriate test for courts …

The Subject Strikes Back: Intellectual Property Law, Visual Pleasure, And Resistance In The Arts, John Tehranian

American University Law Review

In which we discuss self-infringement, monkey selfies, wildlife, Oscar Wilde, (Richard) Prince, Prince (Rogers Nelson), kissing sailors, the metaphor of the hunt, fatwās, the Masters, the male gaze, revenge porn, peeping Toms, surveillance art, nudes at the Met, Rastafarians, celebutantes, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Rockwellian tranquility, and the Three Stooges.

Defining "Habitat" Post-Weyerhaeuser: Critical Habitat Regulations Under The Endangered Species Act Must Promote Species Recovery, Nate Mccabe

American University Law Review

As one of the strongest federal environmental statutes, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a powerful tool for environmental litigators to uphold the important conservation objectives articulated by Congress in 1973. In recent years, the role of “critical habitat” within the ESA has come into question. The Supreme Court decided in Weyerhaeuser that “critical habitat” must also qualify as “habitat,” but it failed to articulate any guidelines for determining what “habitat” actually is. This decision incited a regulatory tug-of-war over the proper definition of “habitat” within the ESA. This Comment explores the approaches to defining “habitat” employed by the Trump …

Spider-Man: Work From Home And Retain No Copyright Under The Instance And Expense Test, Shahnoor Kamal Khan

American University Law Review

From Spider-Man to Ms. Marvel, superheroes are beloved by many, but owned by the few. Marvel Entertainment retains the copyright to iconic characters such as these, despite the fact that Marvel’s employees did not create them. These characters were created by freelance artists Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Lawrence Lieber, among others. Yet, the Second Circuit ruled in Marvel Characters v. Kirby that these freelance artists have no claim of copyright over their own masterful works. The Second Circuit relied on the instance and expense test for copyright, as opposed to the Supreme Court’s leading copyright decision, Community for Creative …

The Casino Up North, Jai Ahluwalia

Quill & Scope

No abstract provided.

Polluters Paradise: The Dark Canon Of The United States Supreme Court In Pollution Control Law, Oliver A. Houck

American University Law Review

This Article is the last in a series of four articles exploring the Supreme Court's destructive legacy on environmental protection in the United States. This Article specifically explores the relationship between the Supreme Court and pollution through the lens of four landmark cases. Perhaps unsurprisingly, these cases together evince the Court’s tendency to distort both facts and law to reach outcomes that will benefit industrial polluters and emitters alike.

In the first case, Coeur Alaska, Inc. v. Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, the Court disregarded EPA regulations banning the discharge of toxic materials into waters to approve a pollution-heavy mining operation. …

The Write Stuff - Autumn 2022 (Vol. 19, No. 4), Research Medical Library

Write Stuff 2022

• Updated guidelines on reporting race and ethnicity in the AMA Manual of Style
• ARRIVE 2.0 and MDAR Framework guide methods reporting for animal research and other life sciences research
• SciScore: A tool to measure reproducibility
• Tips for using figures effectively in grant proposals
• Unusual terms used in scientific writing and publishing: Format-free submission

In Memoriam Professor Emeritus Egon Guttman, Claudio Grossman, Walter A. Effross, David V. Snyder

American University Law Review

This Issue of the American University Law Review is dedicated to the memory of Egon Guttman, longtime professor at American University Washington College of Law and an esteemed member of the American University Law Review’s Faculty Advisory Committee.

Why Does The Federal Government Get A Pass? Applying Best Practices In Child Protection To The Circumstances Of Migrant Children And Families, Randi Mandelbaum

American University Law Review

For too long, the United States has had a separate child-caring system for migrant children and families that operates alongside our domestic child welfare systems. The latter is a robust system focused on the principles of safety, wellbeing, and permanency; while the former flouts constitutional protections, separates children from parents, and perpetuates a system that is detaining children, warehousing them in large jail-like settings at worst, and sheltering them in large congregate care facilities at best. Children are being harmed, some irreparably.

Yet, if our child welfare laws reflect what we know to be proper standards for caring for vulnerable …

Effects Of Snake Fungal Disease On The Survival And Growth Of The Queensnake (Regina Septemvittata), Andrew Jerome Ibach

Theses and Dissertations--Forestry and Natural Resources

Having only emerged as a threat to snakes in 2006, relatively little is known of snake fungal disease’s (SFD) impacts on demographic processes, particularly survival and growth. I used data from an extensive capture-mark-recapture study to examine survival and growth in central Kentucky Queensnake (Regina septemivittata) populations. I found that diseased snakes and healthy snakes possessed similar monthly survival estimates (SFD positive 0.9687, 95% CI 0.8444 to 0.9944; SFD negative 0.8735, 95% CI 0.7518 to 0.9402) and that disease state transition probability from SFD negative to SFD positive, and SFD positive to SFD negative were also similar (N-P …

Criterion, Volume 40, 2022, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Alexandra Paradzick and Comer Wadzeck

La Voz 2022, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department

La Voz Student Journal

LA VOZ is published by the Modern Languages & Literatures Department, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.

Teacher Agency In Social Studies Education: Gaming Peace Education, Nancy B. Sardone

The Great Lakes Social Studies Journal

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