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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.

Building Honors Contracts: Insights And Oversights, Kristine A. Miller

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

Acknowledgments

Building Honors Contracts: Insights and Oversights, Kristine A. Miller

Curriculum Gone Bad: The Case against Honors Contracts, Richard Badenhausen

The Timeliness of Honors Contracts, Shirley Shultz Myers and Geoffrey Whitebread

Honors Contracts: Empowering Students and Fostering Autonomy in Honors Education, Anne Dotter

An Undeserved Reputation: How Contract Courses Can Work for a Small Honors Program , Jon Hageman

One Hand Washes the Other: Designing Mutually Beneficial Honors Contracts, Antonina Bambina

Honors Contracts: A Scaffolding to Independent Inquiry, Cindy S. Ticknor and Shamim Khan

Enhancing the Structure and Impact of Honors by Contract Projects with Templates and …

Internationalizing Honors, Kim Klein, Mary Kay Mulvaney

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

This monograph takes a “holistic approach to internationalization. [It] highlights how honors programs and colleges have gone beyond providing often one-time, short-term international experiences for their students and made global issues and experiences central features of their honors curricular and co-curricular programming. It presents case studies that can serve as models for honors programs and colleges seeking to initiate and further their internationalization efforts and highlights the latest research on the impact of internationalization on our students, campuses, and communities.” * * * “Our hope is that this monograph will serve multiple audiences: faculty wishing to develop new globally focused …

Stress And Coping Strategies Of Female 911 Emergency Telecommunicators, Briana Denise Kelley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Emergency number 9-1-1 is the most widely known and used telephone number in the United States and Canada, yet turnover, understaffing, and low retention of staff are national concerns in 9-1-1 emergency telecommunication centers. Emergency (9-1-1) telecommunicators are often the “first” first responder in the emergency cycle and are responsible for the collection and dissemination of emergency information to police, fire, and medical units. Resilience theory was utilized to see how some individuals adjust, adapt, and assimilate with presenting environmental stressors and/or conditions. This study of female emergency telecommunicators in a Southern Combined Emergency Dispatch Center explored the stressors …

Retail Business Leaders’ Strategies To Increase Employee Engagement And Workforce Productivity, Sada Hye Jaman

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Retail leaders face increased performance challenges due to disengaged employees. Disengaged employees cost United States’ organizations $77 billion to $96 billion in lost revenue annually. Grounded in the transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies retail leaders use to improve employee engagement and increase workforce productivity. Data were gathered from semistructured, face-to-face interviews using open-ended questions with 4 retail business leaders in the eastern region of the United States who effectively used strategies to engage sales associates and increase workforce productivity. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis through inductive coding of phrases …

Strategies To Improve Millennial Employees’ Engagement Within The Hospitality Industry, Duane Stephens

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In the United States, engagement levels of the multigenerational workforce are negatively affecting the overall business value. Employee engagement is important to hospitality industry leaders as an indicator of job performance, turnover, employee intentions, and organizational commitment. Grounded in Kahn’s employee engagement theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore effective strategies used by leaders in the hospitality industry to improve Millennial employee engagement. The participants were 5 hotel leaders in Virginia who successfully engaged their Millennial workforce. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, company documents, and note-taking. Data were analyzed using Yin’s 5-step data analysis, …

Strategies To Retain Skilled Assistant Project Managers In Construction Industries, Anastasia Persad

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Approximately 160,000 assistant project managers in the construction industry willingly left the U.S. labor workforce in 2018. The cost of replacing an employee could amount up to 200% of the departing employee's annual salary for construction companies. Grounded in Herzberg's two-factor theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to investigate effective organizational strategies business leaders used to retain skilled assistant project managers. Six participants were senior project managers from construction companies in Manhattan, New York, with more than 10 years of experience in the commercial construction industry. Data came from semistructured interviews and a review of company …

Interaction, Collaboration And Content Creation In Informal Online Learning Environments: Multidimensional Analyses Of Longitudinal Data From The Scratch Coding Community, Seung B. Lee

Theses and Dissertations

Despite rising levels of participation by children and adolescents in large, informal online learning communities, there has been limited research examining the role that social dynamics play on the online behavior of young users. In this context, this mixed-methods longitudinal study aimed to investigate the relationship between interaction, collaboration and content creation through the analysis of user-generated comments and log-data from the Scratch platform. The research focused on more than 45,000 comments associated with the online activity of 200 randomly selected participants over a period of three months in early 2012. A combination of methodological techniques was applied in the …

Covid-19 And It Education: Introduction To The Special Series, Christopher Cheong, Jo Coldwell-Neilson, Tian Luo, Kathryn Maccallum

STEMPS Faculty Publications

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Ecological Art Exhibition As Transformative Pedagogy, Stacey Skold

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Environmental degradation is considered one of the biggest issues facing humankind. The problem is deep and global with fast fashion playing a significant, yet underrealized role. Scholars have established that developing the sustainable behaviors necessary to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation is a complex process, that knowledge of environmental degradation alone is insufficient to develop sustainable behaviors, and that both attitudinal and behavioral transformations are necessary for global environmental action and stewardship. As a result, researchers have called for new approaches to environmental education to promote transformative learning.

Art experiences can function as a powerful tool in learning and …