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Words Matter: Crafting And Critiquing Rhetorically Effective Styles (Engl 002w) Syllabus, Natalie Mera Ford

Aydelotte Curricular Grants

What does it mean to write an awkward or a clear sentence? Who determines what counts as appropriate or "good" writing, and how are such notions of standardized English currently being challenged? Can a scholarly voice be an authentic personal voice, too? In this course, we will examine the grammatical building blocks of written style while scrutinizing larger cultural concerns about the effectiveness of distinct styles. While recognizing famous tenets of style in creative writing, we will primarily focus on stylistic features of academic, civic, and professional discourse. We will learn grammatical terminology and apply it in analyzing and evaluating …

History And Myths Around The Battle Of Shiloh, Trey Lowenthal

Student Scholarship

On April 6th and 7th, 1862, the deadliest battle in American history up to that time was waged, with a staggering total of twenty three thousand dead, wounded, and missing.1 Though as guns fell silent on the evening of the 7th, another battle began, the battle for the narrative. It was a battle for the truth of what happened, and it is one that is still waged to this day. Unlike the physical confrontation that took place in 1862, the lines of battle and allegiance are not so easily defined. It is a patchwork of veterans, generals, newspapers, and historians. …

The Broad Economic Impact Of West Virginia Metallurgical Coal In The United States, Christiadi, Eric Bowen, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

In this report, we examine the economic impact of the production of West Virginia met coal and the economic impact of the production of steel by the US steel mills that are supplied by West Virginia’s met coal mines. Estimates are based on the West Virginia met coal production and the US steel production in 2019, respectively.

Richard Nixon At Whittier College: The Education Of A Leader, Joseph F. Dmohowski

Library

Richard Nixon’s character traits were shaped, in part, during his early family life. This article traces the development of those traits and their evolution during his elementary and high school years. But it finds that it was in his four years at Whittier College, 1930–1934, particularly in his co-curricular engagements there, that his personality, values, work habits, and skills fully emerged.

Reform And Regression: The Aftermath Of The 1909 Cairo, Illinois Lynching, Kenedy Manuel

History Student Projects

My paper highlights the research of the event and the context and impact of the lynching. My familial connection guided my research and led me to see the positives and negatives of this violent event. The effective use of the 1905 Illinois law against mob lynchings was a state victory. Ida B. Wells and other activists were helpful in this process. But researching the history of Cairo prior to the lynching and the aftermath of the murders, showed that the victory did not impact Cairo sufficiently. The event was not an anomaly once one researches America's problem with lynching at …

An Inpatient Fall Prevention Program Evaluation Using The Context, Input, Process And Product Model, Brittany Harker

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background/Context: Falls remain a substantial risk for patients and is reported that 1,000,000 patients fall each year and one-third result in injury to the patient.

Problem/Purpose: To evaluate the implementation of a fall prevention toolkit to determine if standards of care were followed and outcomes were met using the Context, Input, Process, and Product model.

Outcomes/Results: Fall risk assessment was occurring on admission (n=33) with opportunity for reassessment throughout stay. Required post-fall documentation was not completed per policy. 26% of staff responded to the feedback survey. The facility’s fall rate target was not met but reducing the …

2023-2024 Boise State University Undergraduate Catalog, Boise State University Office Of The Registrar

University Catalogs

This catalog is primarily for and directed at students. However, it serves many audiences, such as high school counselors, academic advisors, and the public. In this catalog you will find an overview of Boise State University and information on admission, registration, grades, tuition and fees, financial aid, housing, student services, and other important policies and procedures. However, most of this catalog is devoted to describing the various programs and courses offered at Boise State.

A Historical Evaluation Of The Position Of The United States On Genocide Designations: Framing Implications For Xinjiang, Marley Taylor Belanger

Graduate Capstone Projects

This paper evaluates the historical stances of the United States with the international norm against genocide. It further examines how U.S. positions in precedent cases of genocide may help frame the U.S. response to the current crisis in Xinjiang, China. This paper reviews the historical record of the instances when the U.S. government has designated past atrocities to be considered genocides, and identifies patterns of continuity and change in the decision-making process of the U.S. This work then applies the theories of liberalism, constructivism, and realism to interpret the actions of the United States when deciding to recognize genocide formally. …

Honors Oracle, April 2023, Marshall University Honors College

Honors Oracle

Marshall University’s Honors College newsletter.

Theological Foundations Of Nonviolent Communication In The Christian Lived Experience, Edward Khoa Ngô

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

In places globally and locally, people will likely find some sense of division, and/or violence in the world they live. There might be conflict in their homes, workplaces, schools, and places of worship but not limited to those areas. In the 1960’s, psychologist Marshall Rosenberg first developed Nonviolent Communication (NVC) amid the United States of America, starting the work with youth and then spreading to include school integration. NVC has found success in places with histories of violence – among families, prisons, warring tribes, and ethnic/racial groups. As NVC has been witnessed bring greater peace, understanding, and reconciliation to these …

Reading (In) A Quadriform Cosmos:Gospel Books In The Early Christian Bibliographic Imagination, Jeremiah Coogan

Jesuit School of Theology

Early Christian thinkers developed the widespread linguistic cosmology of the Roman Mediterranean in a novel way in order to advance a specific bibliographic project: aligning the emergent fourfold Gospel with the structure of the physical cosmos. Employing interlocking concepts from the disciplines of meteorology, geography, music, mathematics, and astronomy, a number of figures—including Irenaeus, Origen, Ephrem, Eusebius, Fortunatianus, Augustine, and Maximus—imagined a Gospel corpus consisting of precisely four texts. Number provided a way to articulate the coherence of the fourfold Gospel—both with itself and with the rest of the world. By situating both familiar and neglected evidence in the context …

Tabular Thinking In Late Ancient Palestine: Instrumentality, Work, And The Construction Of Knowledge, Jeremiah Coogan

Jesuit School of Theology

In late antiquity, a revolution in information technology transformed the practices and possibilities of knowledge. At the cutting edge of this development, several third- and fourth-century figures in Roman Palestine deployed the emerging technology of the column-and-row table as a novel tool of historical and literary scholarship. The Christian scholars Origen and Eusebius and the rabbinic sages of the Palestinian Talmud adapted this specialist technology from grammar and astronomy, and put it to work to structure complex textual corpora. As a “textual machine,” the table generated new possibilities of knowledge. Bringing together literary and material evidence, this study analyses the …

Finance Annual Report 2022/23, Finance Committee

Finance Committee

No abstract provided.

Profile: Beyond The Classroom, Communications And Marketing

Profile (1996-)

In this issue: Her Campus, Her Cause, Helen Jane Morrison: 1921-2022; Gift of Rare Maps; Scholarships Foster Study Abroad and Experiential Learning; Burks Appointed to National Transportation Study Committee; Education Building Renamed in Honor of Bill and Ida Stewart; UMN Morris Included in HHMI Grant; Sloan Foundation Grant to Increase STEM Opportunities for Native American Students; Spotlight on MAX Fund; Environmental Studies Internship Leads to Job; International Student Brings New Perspective to Music Research; Renewable Energy Trail Leads Student to a New Experience in a New Setting; UMN Morris Archives Offers Online Trip Back in Time; Randy Koopman '78, UMMAA …

Effects Of Full-Fat High-Oleic Soybean Meal In Layer Diets On Nutrient Digestibility And Egg Quality Parameters Of A White Laying Hen Strain, Pramir Maharjan, Amin Rahimi, Kari L. Harding, Thien Chuong Vu, Ramon Malheiros, Edgar O. Oviedo-Rondon, Rouf Mian, Michael Joseph, Lisa Dean, Kenneth E. Anderson, Ondulla Toomer

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

This study was conducted to understand the impact of including full fat high-oleic soybean meal in layer hen diets on nutrient digestibility and added nutritional value in eggs. Forty-eight layers (∼36 wk old) were randomly assigned to one of 4 isonitrogenous (18.5% crude protein) treatment diets with 12 replicate birds per treatment in a 3-wk study. Treatments were 1) solvent extracted defatted soybean meal + corn diet, 2) dry extruded defatted soybean meal + corn, 3) full-fat soybean meal + corn, 4) high-oleic full-fat soybean meal + corn diet. Apparent ileal digestibility of crude fat (CF) and crude protein (CP) …

Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research And Creativity Symposium List Of Abstracts, North Carolina Agricultural And Technical State University

Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Symposia

List of abstracts for Spring 2023 Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Symposium

Is Growth In Outstate Missouri Tied To Growth In The St. Louis And Kansas City Metro Areas?, Howard J. Wall

Faculty Scholarship

In a 2016 Show-Me Institute essay, Michael Podgursky and Nick Pretnar demonstrated the proportional importance to the state economy of Missouri’s two dominant metro areas.1 As they report, the St. Louis and Kansas City metro areas together account for well over half of Missouri’s economic output (64 percent of gross state product in 2013), indicating that the aggregate performance of the state economy is largely determined by the performance of the two metro areas’ economies. In this essay I take this idea a step further and examine whether there is more than simply a proportional relationship.

Specifically, I look at …

Criminal Justice Update - April 2023, Patrick Mahoney

Criminal Justice Updates

The Criminal Justice Update is a monthly newsletter created by the Adams County Bar Foundation Fellow providing updates in criminal justice policy coming from Pennsylvania's courts and legislature as well as the US Supreme Court.

Contents:

• Updates from PA Governor's Office (no updates this month)

• Updates from the PA Legislature (no updates this month)

• Updates from the Courts

• U.S. Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure

• PA Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure

• PA Superior Court: Criminal Law & Procedure

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Spring 2023), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Spring 2023 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Perceived And Experienced Factors On Purchase Intention For Foreign Natural Cosmetics, Raymond Liu, Leon Zurawicki, Jurui Zhang

Atlantic Marketing Journal

There is a growing attention to the “natural” products in personal care and other areas of fashion consumption. Considering the present inflationary economic environment, the study of American consumers’ attitude toward foreign natural cosmetics and important factors determining the purchasing intent of foreign natural cosmetics imported from Asia (Taiwan in this study) with high quality but low price is timely. Based on literature on Purchase Intention and the Theory of Planned Behavior, we proposed a model and a set of hypotheses to uncover the relationship between purchase intent and the determining factors. Our hypotheses are confirmed following a nationwide survey …

Great Expectations: Consumer-Brand Relationships And Their Influence On The Organizational Outcomes Of Brand Transgressions, Sabrina Viscomi

Atlantic Marketing Journal

The business landscape has shifted from simply delivering quality products and services to creating shared value. It does this by fulfilling consumers’ deeper needs and meeting their increasingly high expectations. Brand transgressions inhibit organizations’ ability to meet consumers’ demands, complicating the consumer-brand relationship. As a result, brands are often unprepared to deal with the consequences of transgressions, which can be costly. The purpose of this research is to explore the influence of prior consumer-brand relationships on the organizational outcomes of brand transgressions through the lens of social contract theory. This systematic review synthesizes 39 articles to derive five analytical themes: …

Learning To Avoid Luck Traps In Contexts Of Uncertainty A Review Of Jeffrey Rosenthal’S Knock On Wood: Luck, Chance, And The Meaning Of Everything, Vincent Martin, Mathieu Thibault

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In the field of probability instruction, much has been written about the increasingly important role of uncertainty and probability in our everyday lives. This work similarly highlights the key role that probability plays in a growing number of professional areas.

The Hocus Pocus Of Martin Gardner A Review Of Martin Gardner’S Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography Of Martin Gardner, Neil J. Hatfield

The Mathematics Enthusiast

I have always enjoyed games, especially when incorporated into the classroom. I can still remember the game my fifth-grade teachers had us play to explore colonizing a new world. One of the most impactful games I’ve played is SET®, which has become a go-to for mathematics teachers as a means for exploring geometry, combinatorics, probability, statistics, and vector spaces (Larson Quinn et al., 1999; Waddell Jr., 2017). I first learned the game in the seventh grade and continue to play the game today. How many sets do you see in Figure 1?

Echo: Spring 2023, Columbia College Chicago

Echo

Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Articles: Spread: stories about the future, Sprout: stories about the present, Seed: stories about the past. 76 pages.

Extended Privacy For Extended Reality: Xr Technology Has 99 Problems And Privacy Is Several Of Them, Suchismita Pahi, Calli Schroeder

Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies

Americans are rapidly adopting innovative technologies which are pushing the frontiers of reality. But, when they look at how their privacy is protected within the new extended reality (XR), they will find that U.S. privacy laws fall short. The privacy risks inherent in XR are inadequately addressed by current U.S. data privacy laws or courtcreated frameworks that purport to protect the constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. Many scholars, including Ryan Calo, Danielle Citron, Sherry Colb, Margaret Hu, Orin Kerr, Kirsten Martin, Paul Ohm, Daniel Solove, Rebecca Wexler, Shoshana Zuboff, and others, have highlighted the gaps in U.S. …

Things Behind Bayes’ Theorem A Review Of Sharon Bertsch Mcgrayne’S The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Theorem Allowed To Decipher The Enigma Code, To Pursue The Russian Submarines And To Emerge Triumphant From Two Centuries Of Controversy From A Statistics Education Perspective, Ernesto Sanchez, Nathalia Morgado, Eleazar Silvestre

The Mathematics Enthusiast

A feeling emerges from reading McGrayne’s book expressed as a paraphrase of a verse from Hamlet: There are more things behind Bayes’ theorem, Horatio, than dreamt of in your philosophy. The book tells a story of the birth and survival of an idea around which social enterprises, personal odysseys, and human passions are masterfully woven by the author. The book has 17 chapters distributed in five parts and two annexes. These parts reveal a narrative structure worthy of Propp: The hero of the story (Bayes’ theorem) is born and raised normally but rejected later. It is forced to act …

Free Expression In Private Stadia: The Public-Private Nexus And The Reclamation Of Free Expression In Sport, Michael K. Park

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

This Article examines how the degree of government and military entwinement with the private enterprise of sport may provide a sufficient nexus for state action, arming athletes with First Amendment protection they would otherwise not possess against private entities. It reviews sport’s historical and cultural ties to militarism and its venerated symbols before exploring the applicability of the theories of state action within the context of private stadia. Anchored by the symbiotic relationship theory, this Article analyzes how the interdependent relationship between the government/military and private sport enterprise may provide the mutual benefits necessary to establish a sports franchise as …

Border Search Rationales Ripe For Abuse, With Journalists Particularly At Risk, Bryan Sykes

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

No abstract provided.

The Junk Food Problem: Why The Law Allows Advertising To Kids And How To Implement Change, Makenna Hardy, Madison Maloney

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Rapid technological advancements have increased the methods in which advertisers can reach the public, specifically children. As obesity rates increase among America’s youth, more stringent advertising laws barring junk food exposure have been advocated for. Since the Supreme Court has determined commercial free speech as deserving full First Amendment coverage, the rights of advertisers frequently inhibit productive methods of protecting children from junk food advertisements. This article examines the current standards safeguarding both children and advertisers and the feasibility of restricting advertising to kids within the limitations of commercial speech protections.

Identity (De/Re-)Construction: A Shifting Scale Of Identities Moving Abroad And Its Teaching Implications, Matthew Francis

MA TESOL Collection

Language learners who relocate voluntarily to different countries where their native tongue is not the primary spoken language, often uncover and learn aspects of who they are, that is, their identity and user agency. Through personal experience relocating, I intend to share the phenomenon of identity de/re- construction being immersed in another language and culture, moving in between my ‘original’ home country and the ‘new home,’ all while not being able to experience both former and latter identities at the same time (physically). This study will explore what I coin as an ‘identity spectrum’ through first person narratives (interviews) to …