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Teen Substance Abuse, Jaime Zamarripa

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Teen Substance Abuse is the act of teens showing dependence on drugs or alcohol or any harmful substance, and it is a serious problem in today’s society. This affects many teenagers in all aspects of life and harms their social life, home life, and negatively affects their health. While the use of opioids has fallen in recent years, other drugs have risen in popularity among teens. These include marijuana and vaping, the former is seen as a gateway drug and the latter statistically leads to the user being more likely to smoke cigarettes.

Immigration, Fatima Jaramillo

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Immigrants want nothing but the best, not only for themselves, but for their families. Immigrants are those who choose to take the greatest risks and put their sweat and tears into everything they do because they keep reaching for the happy ending, instead of worrying about the obstacles that come with immigrating.

In the United States the true definition that government gives an immigrant is: “An alien who has been granted the right by United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) to reside permanently in the United States and to work without restrictions in the United States.”

Immigrants struggle with …

Effects Of Discrimination On Society, Elizabeth Miller

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Discrimination is the idea of treating an individual differently because of a specific bias that is felt against them. This acts as a theory of grouping based on the party, class, or category in which everyone is judged. Prejudice however, refers to the negative attitudes or opinions aimed at a person over something out of their control. Discrimination and prejudice may take place in different forms. Today, both discrimination and prejudice are still ongoing issues that many individuals experience daily.

Child Reinforcement, Duncan Howser

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Children are positively and negatively affected by their peers and adults. From both being able to reinforce positive stimulus making the children be more open, to the the negative stimulus causing the children to become anxious.

Meme Culture: Its Effects On Society, Mathew Ford

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

This was a project to see the effect of memes on society and if memes have a postive or negative change. This is important because our society changes very easy and it is good to see some of the ways it is being changed and if these kinds of changes are hurting or helping us. Although memes have had a mixed impact on society, the majority of their societal effects have been positive.

Schizophrenia, Malaki Mileg

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

The purpose of this project was to explore the in and outs of a mental disorder known as Schizophrenia, its effects on the mind, relationship with people, and possible treatments to lessen symptoms. Schizophrenia is a mental illness that causes people to not understand the difference between reality and delusion.

Effects Of Athletics On Youth Development, Kevin Fierro-Chavez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Many new parents can be indecisive when it comes to allowing their kids to participate in sports. Allowing kids to take part in athletics can be very beneficial to their childhood but also as they grow and become young adults. But, youth sports can also have some negative effects.

Tobacco: Effects, Addiction, And Regulation, Kennedy Whiting

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

This project shows the adverse negative effects of tobacco and was created to encourage people to abstain from tobacco use of any form. Tobacco abstinence is an important part of ensuring proper development and both physical and mental safety throughout life. This research found that no matter the method of ingestion, tobacco is harmful, and even lethal to the human body.

Capital Punishment, Vanessa Mosqueda Ramirez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Capital punishment: one of the most debated topics in the United States criminal justice policy. A system that has been called arbitrary many a time due to prejudice, discrimination, and innocence in death row. Some critics argue that the death penalty is applied in somewhat of an erratic fashion; two different offenders who commit the same crime may receive immensely different sentences like life imprisonment or death. There have been executions of innocent people, and there are people who managed to get free because they were wrongfully convicted.

Sleight Of Hand, Samuel Aguilera-Robledo

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Both authors manage to tell the troubled stories of their countries with Garcia Marquez’s book serving as more of a reflection and a warning against the dangers of isolation; while Allende's book focuses more on the issues that women face in a seemingly isolated world.

The Pollution Crisis, Kelly Contreras

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Environmental pollution can be categorized into three main types: air, water, and land, all of which have effects on human health. Although human pollution happens continuously, most people give little thought to the negative effects it has. Pollutants destroy the air organisms, the land walked on, the water swam in, and the bodies they live on. The focus of this research is to explore how we can save our air, land, and ocean before it is too late.

Human Trafficking, Rodrigo Fajardo

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Human trafficking is a rampant crime around the globe. Men, women and children are trafficked in this dirty activity. The scale of women and children trafficking is vast but it is challenging to put a figure on the actual number of women and children trafficked all over the world. The crime of human trafficking is very secretive and remains a hidden activity. Many cases of human trafficking are not reported, while many of those reported are untraced. Women and children are the easiest victims of human trafficking due to their vulnerability, making them an easy target for traffickers.

The Impact Of Women’S Rights, Shauntee Mims

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Gender bias affects the teaching in young girls. The development of gender behavior has been passed down from generation to generation. The issue is that there are double standards in how gender bias affects women professionally, academically, and socially. Current efforts by many women have started to correct this learned behavior. More and more people are becoming aware of the issue, but some do nothing to try to change it. In a book by Anne Helen Petersen, Serena Williams is viewed as being “too strong” and that her body is “too masculine” and does not match the body of a …

Stress Among Teens, Raul Ramirez-Galindo

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Stress is something a majority of people go through. Teens however have to deal with finding their “identity” and struggling to prove to themselves that they are good enough. Teens don’t have much of a clue on how to “fix” or manage their stress which can be changed. The stress teens experience can impact them emotionally, mentally and socially, leading to greater effects in their lives.

Intelligent Design And Darwinian Evolution, Raul Sanchez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Darwinian Evolution has many fundamental flaws that are only being discussed in the technical papers and yet it’s portrayed as an unequivocal theory. Intelligent Design is being censored In Academia and represented poorly in public media. Even with leading scientists at the forefront of discovery and logical reasoning Intelligent Design is portrayed as a religious way of infiltrating the science classroom but in reality its far from it. Ultimately it comes down to what the evidence points to and if it points to God then let it be so.

The Impact Of Videogames, Say Wah

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

There is an abundance of misconceptions about the effects of videogames. The current connotation is negative, especially for videogames that show violence. The importance of this research is to help shine a light on the true extent on how videogames affect its users and the world around them. Many studies have been conducted around the link between videogames and aggressive behavior. Some studies have shown that there can be an increase in aggression. However, a similar study that found an increase in aggression, also found that the aggression was rooted from frustration of the game and not around the game …

Societal Disadvantages Of The Lgbtq Community, Mia Kennedy

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

In the United States, homosexual students face an increased rate of hardships that contribute to becoming homeless more often than their heterosexual counterparts which starts their disadvantages in society. These disadvantages include the lack of access to education, counseling, and of course a set home. LGBTQ students are at higher suicide rates, dropout rates, and less successful compared to heterosexuals which is all compared with the fact that they were homeless at one point in their life. The best way to battle this stigma against homosexuals would be to help spread awareness of the situation and from there begin to …

The Lost Mind Of A Culture, Ladaysia Smith

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

The black community struggles with mental health just like every other community, group of people, or singular human beings but the difference because its rarely talked about. The black community has many generational traumas and silent codes that dictate what we discuss and who we discuss these things with. Suppressing your thoughts, emotions, illnesses, and issues is unhealthy and ineffective. As a whole community this research would like to find outlets to work on effective communication and iterating our emotions without creating traumatic experiences for other people wo look like them. This research will talk about generational trauma, the perception …

How Animal Abuse Feeds Into Acts Of Human Violence, Elisa Soto

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

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Brain Dominance On Education, Dj Rodgers

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

What are the differences of being "left-brain" dominant and "right-brain" dominant. Would being one or the other make public education easier for some? That’s the answer that is being sought after. This is important because it can help prove to people that the way we do public education now isn’t good for everyone.

Journalism: Developing Students Into Global Citizens, Caitlin Pieters

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

This research project discusses high school journalism classes and the long-lasting effects those classes have on students. Journalism class can provide a student with helpful skills that are useful throughout their careers and lives. It also offers real life examples from students who have taken these journalism classes. Research done for this project illustrates how journalism can impact the information literacy skills of students when searching for and evaluating information. Overall, findings of this research shows significant evidence that completing a journalism class can positively effect students and should be a mandatory class or at least be a highly suggested …

Ethical Acceptance Of Drone Usaga, Maliik Jones

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Drones are currently not ethically accepted everywhere in the world, even illegal to use in some places. There are many different uses for drones, many are harmless and positive to the community. But the reason places are hesitant to allow them are due to the violent acts drones are used for. There are some countries who allow restricted use of the drones, I believe with more knowledge this should be a worldwide acceptance. As the technology advancements that drones provide outweigh the negatives that could possibly happen. This presentation will cover the laws that have been put into place, along …

Ethical Artificial Intelligence, Adrian Maya

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

This paper will address the lack of Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation within the United States and with European Union Artificial Intelligence ethics as a guideline. The current notion about Artificial Intelligence stems from movies, such as Terminator, that create a stigma that Artificial Intelligence will cause robots to take over the world. Ethics in Artificial Intelligence is a new concept that has risen as smart technologies concerning Artificial Intelligence have become widely used. To address the lack of Artificial Intelligence regulation this paper will suggest a process to analyze each use case of Artificial Intelligence such as its weaponization. To …

Climate Change, Ricky Suarez

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Climate change or global warming is an increase in the average global temperature. Human activity and natural causes are believed to be contributing to the increase in global temperature. The primary cause of the rise in temperature is the increase in greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide. Human activity is clear to be causing most of the warming by releasing heat-trapped gases into the atmosphere. This research seeks to identify what is causing climate change, who is causing it, what are some ways we can stop it from getting worse, what will happen if we don’t do anything to stop …

Education: Our Flawed And Outdated System, Gavin Farmer

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

Public schools are a place to learn and prepare for the real world. Even so, they do not fully succeed in providing a good education to all students. Some kids leave high school without all the life skills necessary to succeed in the real world and others feel they haven’t learned enough about what they are passionate about. Schools also seem to neglect certain aspects of their students' lives, such as their mental health. This research looks at surveys, journals and articles, to learn more about just a few areas in which the public school system seems to be lacking, …

Dakota 38+2, Jaidan Payer

Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects

This poster will discuss the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Thirty-eight Dakota men were executed on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota. Plus two for the two Dakota men who were hung the next day. This execution was the end of the Dakota War of 1862. All of which was under the decision of Abraham Lincoln.

Book Review: Neha Vora, Teach For Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, And Transnational Qatar, Loukia K. Sarroub

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

With a provocative title that inherently questions who might be served and educated best by the branch campuses of top US universities in Qatar and Gulf states, Vora’s new book debunks some old myths and reminds readers from the outset that “liberalism has Arabian roots” (18). Vora wonders about and studies the transplant of liberal education into “so-called illiberal” countries like Qatar and other Gulf States. Her timely book offers on-the-ground perspectives of students and faculty in these transplant institutions as they engage with curriculum and one another in a new knowledge economy. The book contributes to scholarship about how …

Climates For Ethnic And Racial Diversity: Latina/O Sorority And Fraternity Member Perspectives, Crystal Garcia

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

This qualitative critical narrative inquiry explored how members of Latina/o sororities and fraternities perceived campus climates for racial and ethnic diversity at predominantly White institutions. Using the multicontextual model for diverse learning environments, findings point to the significance of participants’ recognition of a misalignment between the espoused and enacted commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity in relation to how they perceived the campus climate for racial/ethnic diversity. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

Identity Negotiation In Multilingual Contexts: A Narrative Inquiry Into Experiences Of An African Immigrant High School Student, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, James Oloo

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Background/Context: Inclusion of African immigrant youth voices in educational and research discourses remains rare despite the steady growth of this population in the United States over the past four decades. Consequently, the multilingual abilities of these youth remain typically unnoticed or ignored in the classroom, and little is specifically known about their histories, cultures, expectations, and achievements.

Purpose: Using the narrative inquiry approach and the Natural, Institutional, Discursive, Affinity, Learner, and Solidarity (NIDALS) theoretical lens, we explore the lived experiences of one African immigrant high school student in the midwestern United States.

Research Design: Using narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, …

Exploring Cultural Logic In Becoming Teacher: A Collaborative Autoethnography On Transnational Teaching And Learning, Taeyeon Kim, Heather L. Reichmuth

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

Departing from the view that learning is a linear progression, we argue that through the lens of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and cultural logic, teacher learning research can be advanced. Applying these two constructs to a collaborative autoethnography of two emerging scholars’ transnational teaching and learning experiences in the US and South Korea we argue that implicit and explicit norms in a culture influence the process of becoming teacher in the Korean context. Findings suggest that socio-cultural elements of implicit beliefs and norms outside of schools are linked to teacher learning inside schools, thereby suggesting that teacher learning at …