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Deaf Southern Star, December 2021

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Determining The Psychosocial Needs Of The Nurses Of Covid-19 Patients, Allison Stevens

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

Nurses are a vital element of the COVID-19 healthcare crisis and have been since the beginning of the COVID-19 response. The professional strain put on nurses included, but is not limited to: changing professional roles, rapidly changing policies and procedures, an influx of patients—particularly of high acuity, and change in workplace morale. However, nurses also had to carry the burdens of living as a member of society, family member, friend, community member, and above all, simply as a person surviving a pandemic themselves. With all of the stressors nurses have endured, it stands to reason that their psychosocial needs have …

Perceptions Of High Achieving High School Students Regarding The Professionalization Of Teaching And Their Interest In Becoming Teachers, Jonathan Crossley

ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present

This study was designed to highlight the factors that contribute to high-achieving high school students not deciding to join the teaching profession. There is growing evidence to indicate that the teaching profession is comprised mostly of educators in their first five years in the profession and educators with more than 25 years of teaching experience. Increasing numbers of educators are leaving the profession within their first five years in a classroom. On the other end of the spectrum, as teachers with more than 25 years of experience ultimately retire, the question remains about the viability of the profession for younger …

Amjambo Africa! (December 2021), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Film: .......................................2/3

Le Intersection/Le Carrefour Zamzam Elmoge Black Owned Maine/Amjambo Holiday Gift Guide. ...........4/5

Editorial......................................6

Healthcare in Chad ...................8

French • Kinyarwanda Portuguese • Somali • Spanish Swahili

Poetry: My version of the American dream ......................13

Hermenegildo Paulo and Mathilde Micomyiza...............14

Diversity Calendar project.....16

Finance/All about cars............18

Columns. ............................18/19

Preble Street • MIRC • ILAP Maine Equal Justice • IntWork

5 New Mainers celebrate holidays...............................20-29

French • Kinyarwanda Portuguese • Somali • Spanish Swahili

Community Health Workers/CHOWs....................28

New Voices...............................29

Rupal Ramesh Shah • Roseline Souebele

Humanitarian crisis in Maine.31

The Vienna Genesis And The Evolution Of Christian Book Illumination, Samantha Castro

BYZANTIUM: Trade, Treasure, Tradition

In this essay, I argue that the Vienna Genesis influenced future Christian manuscripts by pushing the idea that higher status and holiness were linked. The Vienna Genesis' expensive creation and classically-influenced illustrations, which were seen by some as conspicuous, would be imitated by the Paris Psalter, only differentiating in the subject matter. The Melisende Psalter would take a turn in its style, mimicking Byzantine icons rather than classical works, but it continued the high-cost production and ruler-appealing narrative of King David. And unlike the other two, the Melisende Psalter cements the initial bias, with signs hinting at possible royal/imperial ownership.

"These Jests Of God": Arrowsmith And Tropical Medicine’S Racial Ecology, James Fitz Gerald

English and Media Studies Faculty Publications

This essay examines Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith (1925) through the ethical and ecological contingencies of U.S. tropical medicine in the early twentieth century. With an eye kept on the novel's well-known "St. Hubert " chapters, the essay elaborates the dangerous compromises that even the most well-intentioned medical professionals make in the name of scientific progress. The novel, I argue, summons and yet moves beyond the traditional outbreak narrative to unravel the various political, economic, and cultural strands of U.S. imperial medicine. The novel's platform for applied sanitary science helps me revisit famed public health campaigns, particularly those from Cuba and Panama, …

Byzantine Textiles: Embroidery, Delphine Dah

BYZANTIUM: Trade, Treasure, Tradition

The textile that I will be discussing is the Embroidered Medallion found in the fifteenth to the sixteenth century Byzantine Empire. This rare example of Byzantine embroidery consists of two medallions, one depicting the eagle of Saint John, the other the angel of Saint Matthew, two of the four evangelists. The original piece is paired with the other medallion, which shows the symbol for Mark and Luke. Since their scale is so small it suggests that they are meant to be attached to an epitrachelion, a stole worn by priests and bishops as a symbol of their priest hood.

The Face Of Power: A Chronological Comparison Of Byzantine Coinage, Emma Duffin

BYZANTIUM: Trade, Treasure, Tradition

Coinage was an effective tool for representing imperial power in the Byzantine Empire. This short essay focuses on the evolution of power representation in coinage and argues that Byzantine emperors displayed power by employing classical Roman elements in their coinage. This argument is communicated through a chronological comparison of five coins ranging in date from 288 to 1425 C.E. These coins are a small example of the transition from imperial iconography to Christian iconography in which we see how classical forms are preserved even among a drastic change in style and narrative.

The Constantine And Zoe Mosaic, Lilly Jones

BYZANTIUM: Trade, Treasure, Tradition

In this case study I will go over the history behind the Constantine and Zoe mosaic in the Hagia Sophia, why it was hidden for so long, and the multiple theories behind its alterations. I will also cover the history of Zoe and her many husbands and why altering the mosaic would have been necessary to show history and they wanted it to be remembered. There is not the same record of events in Byzantium like we have today, history was written by the powerful and important to write to narrative they wanted. Because of the clues left behind we …

El Lápiz, Logan Baker

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Destruir el lápiz es fácil. Hay muchas opciones para hacerlo. Para romperlo en dos pedazos, ponle fuerza en los dos extremos del lápiz. Tire el lápiz por el suelo.

Donna La Yegua, Ellie Christensen

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Donna anda por el campo en busca de su amigo Flash. Ellos son los mejores amigos. Han sido amigos por casi diez años ya. Por eso, han llegado al punto en su amistad en que puedan expresar todos sus sentimientos. Donna cuenta Flash de su odio por Wyatt, su compañero del trabajo. Donna no entiende por qué no puede halar vagones con Flash en lugar de Wyatt. Igual, ella trabaja dura por sus choferes preferidos. Si no fuera por ellos, ella no le gustaría hacer nada.

La Hamaca, Anna Lamoreaux

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

En la vida temprana de la hamaca, estaba haciendo una excursión con su familia. No planearon bien y una tormenta grande y fuerte crecía en el área. En la conmoción, todas los miembros de su familia se separaron y la hamaca fue dejada a solas en el medio del bosque. No sabía qué hacer cuando no tenía a alguien con qui en estar ni algo a qué agarrarse. No había nadie por cientos de millas. La hamaca sobrevivió la tormenta pero andaba sola por mucho tiempo.

La Vida Secreta De Las Cucharas, Gabriela Christiansen

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

El cuerpo cursivo, cumple con su propósito Cuya cúspide curvada lleva lo sabrosito. Chapulines, champiñones, salchichas para tí Y champaña, chacarero, y concha para para mí No te preocupes, nadie te juzgará rara, Lo racional no importa tanto como la sonrisa en tu cara.

El Cactus, Jake Vurpillat

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Amanece. Cada día pasa, no lo he visto fallar: El sol brilla tan fuerte y nos da luz. Somos mucho aquí en este desierto, y todos estamos hartos de sus rayos. Los coyotes y pumas duermen, Y los roedores y reptiles se esconden. Pero nosotros no tenemos esa opción, nos quedamos en el sol todo el día. Pero por alguna razón, me gusta. Y después de un día muy largo y caloroso atardece.

Chocolate, Maybree Spilsbury

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Chocolate es marrón y tiene muchas formas diferentes. Muchas veces el diseño es importante para vendederos y estético pero la cosa más importante es como sabe el chocolate. Chocolate diseño por empresas de chocolate y dulces.

El Laptop, Elijah Larson

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Tenían aluminio. Tenían plástico. Tenían cobre. Tenían miles de componentes diferentes. Juntaron todo y tenían un laptop.

La Fruta, Jacey Wilson

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Para comprar fruta, obviamente puede ir a una tienda grande. Pero, para comprar la fruta más fresca, deberías encontrar una frutería y comprarlo por ahí. Cuando estaba manejando por las calles del campo en Oregon, vi una frutería y paré para comprar mangos. El hombre que los estaba vendiendo por su camión me dijo que la fruta era de México.

Mi Perrita, Kaleb White

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

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Apepenas su corazón deja de latir tan rápido. La Perrita persuige a una hoja en el viente.

rri

Tan aburrido está la Perrita cuando no tiene con quien jugar. Que horrible sería esto.

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Corre la perrita como está mirando a una torta.

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Using Legos® In Research Facilitation: An Advanced Scripted Research Method, Samuel W. Root

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Transpersonal research methods can help individuals access useful information and material that typically reside out of conscious awareness. The playful activity of LEGO® block-building can be adapted for research purposes and used to overcome research impasses, for example. This paper presents a novel transpersonal LEGO® building process for facilitation in each of the four major phases of research. Readers are provided with a 6-step script that takes between 30 minutes and 1 hour to complete. Steps include: Prepare to Exercise; Set Intentions; Build While Intending Solution; Appreciate/Take In; Project and Actively Imagine; and Reflect and Ease Out. Future studies could …

Las Montañas, Tate Richman

Microrrelatos (Flash Fiction) Collection

Si yo pudiera ser cualquier cosa, sería un glaciar. Los glaciares son tan bonitos. Cada vez que cae la nieve, trato de atrapar todo la que sea posible. Ojalá que un día me convierta en un glaciar y todo el mundo me vea.

Reading The Archival Remains Of Arturo Islas's La Mollie And The King Of Tears, Allison Fagan

Department of English - Faculty Scholarship

This essay considers Arturo Islas’s posthumously published novel, La Mollie and the King of Tears (1996), arguing that an examination of its “archival remains”—its drafted and rejected material found in Islas’s archive—offers compelling evidence of the text’s anxious resistances to bodily, narrative, and cultural annihilation. Drawing on textual scholarship that prioritizes notions of texts as “fluid” or “in process” as well as on theories of queer and asycnhronous temporalities, I argue for a reading of the novel as haunted by its erasures and absences, and for a reading practice that more purposefully imagines the role of the body—of the author, …

Vol. Lviii, No. 5: Geographies Of Time And Space: Translating Christian Formoso, Terry Hermsen, Sydney Tammarine

The Hollins Critic

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The Luminous Night Of The Soul: The Relationship Between Lucid Dreaming And Spirituality, Tadas Stumbrys

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Lucid dreams, in which the dreamers are aware that they are dreaming, can be a source of spiritual and mystical experiences. This empirical study aimed to explore the relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality, taking into account the role of mystical lucid dream experience, in an online sample of 471 respondents, 95% of whom had lucid dream experience and 65% were frequent lucid dreamers. The findings support the relationship between lucid dreaming and spirituality: spiritual transcendence was positively associated with both lucid dream frequency and mystical lucid dream experiences. Thus having recurrent lucid dreams and mystical experiences in them may …

Utility, Liturgy, And Luxury, Olivia Brock

BYZANTIUM: Trade, Treasure, Tradition

The material legacy of medieval Byzantium is one of intricate luxury objects made of precious materials. As was evident in many cultures and periods, including the Byzantine, high-quality luxury materials were used to promote the status of individuals and institutions. The Attarouthi Treasure out of the Church of St. Stephen in Syria presents an excellent case study of luxury liturgical objects used to promote the social status of the church, as well as imbed the church in a series of complex social networks that both enhanced and retracted from the church’s social role. These objects were also physically dynamic as …

Cases Vs. Statistics: A Crux In The History Of Medicine, Stewart Justman

Global Humanities and Religions Faculty Publications

During the 1720s in England, inoculation was described as a kind of engrafting, and we might say that proponents like James Jurin, the secretary of the Royal Society, engrafted the procedure itself onto their customary modes of thinking and doing. In Jurin’s case the transplant was particularly awkward, in that inoculation had already broken through the limitations he imposed on it by the time he picked up his pen.

Queershots Vol I Issue I, Deborah Sutherland

QueerShots

Welcome to Volume I Issue I of QueerShots, the annual newsletter published by the students of Queer(ing) Film in the Women and Gender Studies Department of St. John Fisher College. With each issue, we will focus on queer and feminist film and the intersectional issues of gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, and ability that these films draw to our attention, particularly as they impact the LGBTQIA+ community here at Fisher, in Rochester, New York, and beyond. We will also report directly from the Image Out Film Festival, which since 1993, has been bringing the best new LGBTQIA+ cinema to Rochester …

Deaf Catholic Newsletter, Advent-Christmas 2021

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