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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2019

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Disaster Resilience As Communication Practice: Remembering And Forgetting Lessons From Past Disasters Through Practices That Prepare For The Next One, Rebecca M. Rice, Jody L. S. Jahn Dec 2019

Disaster Resilience As Communication Practice: Remembering And Forgetting Lessons From Past Disasters Through Practices That Prepare For The Next One, Rebecca M. Rice, Jody L. S. Jahn

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Communities learn important lessons about their vulnerabilities from disasters. A crucial aspect of resilience is how communities apply past lessons to prepare for future events. We use a practice lens to examine how communities remember and forget lessons through everyday communication surrounding their preparedness activities. We analyze two cases of disaster preparedness in one community. The first site, a local Office of Emergency Management, adapted national policies to the community while also keeping local disaster lessons in mind (i.e. remembering lessons). The second site represented an intractable conflict between the U.S. Forest Service and a community group that inhibited the …

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Uncovering The Women In Ocean’S Eight: Understanding The Trends Of The Women’S Movement With The Portrayals Of Women In Film, Elyssa Michelle Day Dec 2019

Uncovering The Women In Ocean’S Eight: Understanding The Trends Of The Women’S Movement With The Portrayals Of Women In Film, Elyssa Michelle Day

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study seeks for a better understanding of the correlations between major milestones in the women’s movement and how that is reflected onto the silver screen. With the rise of sexual assault allegations against prominent figures in Hollywood, and the growth of the #MeToo movement, we in turn are beginning to see an influx of films being released, and older films being rebooted, with an all-female led cast. One of those all-female film reboots is Ocean’s Eight, a film coming from a male-dominated trilogy and genre. Because of this correlation, the question of whether the narratives within Ocean’s Eight reinforce …

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Lifting The Veil: Do Health Care Price Transparency Laws Actually Lower Costs?, Nora Michelle Irene Langendorf Dec 2019

Lifting The Veil: Do Health Care Price Transparency Laws Actually Lower Costs?, Nora Michelle Irene Langendorf

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this research is to determine whether or not health care transparency laws, in the form of price transparency, lower the rate of increase paid out in health care expenditures in those states that have enacted these laws compared to those states that have not. By controlling for factors such as poverty, age, chronic illnesses, and income that may play a part in lowering or raising health care costs, the primary explanatory variable – health care price transparency laws – can determine if there is a strong relationship with the dependent variable (the rate of increase on health …

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Sizing A New Bike Sharing System For The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nesley Orochena Dec 2019

Sizing A New Bike Sharing System For The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nesley Orochena

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The strategic planning objectives for a novel Bike Sharing Systems (BSS) are to locate the BSS stations, size the stations, and determine the bicycle fleet size, among others. Current guidelines to design BSS programs are tailored to city centers with large coverage areas and high bicycle to population ratios, and thus not directly transferable to a university setting. An ordered probit model was created using data from a university online stated preference survey to determine the key factors that affect the uptake rates for the UNLV BSS program and to estimate the potential demand. The demand analysis was incorporated into …

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Dean Petersen Elementary School, Alexa Ching Dec 2019

Dean Petersen Elementary School, Alexa Ching

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

To educate their students by using a trauma-informed approach that allows students to be vulnerable to learning new information and provide a safe space

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Service Learning Project, Sheila Mae Agonoy-Pascua Dec 2019

Service Learning Project, Sheila Mae Agonoy-Pascua

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

UNLV CSUN Preschool has been accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) since 1994. The preschool’s mission is to “Provide a model inclusive early childhood program that serves children of students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding campus community. As the field of early childhood care and education evolves to meet the growing needs of today’s young children and their families, our preschool will continue to play a leadership role in teaching, training, and research at UNLV.” (unlv.edu/preschool/about).

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Project 150, Natalie Datastanyan Dec 2019

Project 150, Natalie Datastanyan

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Project 150 began when its two co founders learned about the increased number of homeless youth attending just Rancho High School. Patrick Spargur and Don Purdue worked together to form Project 150 to decrease and eventually end homelessness in the youth of Las Vegas. The purpose of Project 150 is to end high school homelessness through the support of a community.

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Service Learning At Dean Petersen Elementary School, Fayth Dean Dec 2019

Service Learning At Dean Petersen Elementary School, Fayth Dean

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Their purpose is to not only educate their students, but to also teach them in a way that allows them to let their guard down. These students come from environments that are filled with violence, abuse, yelling, etc. For these students to be taught, the teachers use a “traumainformed” approach where they are calm and patient with their students, which allow them to be teachable

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Project Focus And Wcta, David Islas Dec 2019

Project Focus And Wcta, David Islas

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Project FOCUS is a program designed to encourage students on the autism spectrum with educational programs suited for their wants and needs in life. WCTA is a Magnet school that has been existent for 10 years.

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Three Square: The Fight Against Hunger, Courtney Lee Dec 2019

Three Square: The Fight Against Hunger, Courtney Lee

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Three Square is a food bank for Southern Nevada, whose aim is to “provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger-free community.”

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Project Focus, Marc Angelo Non Dec 2019

Project Focus, Marc Angelo Non

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Forming Occupational and Community Understanding for Success Created in 2015 Has grown ever since Provides access to resources for students with intellectual disabilities

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Project Focus, Edrielle Ramirez Dec 2019

Project Focus, Edrielle Ramirez

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

History and Purpose Started with 1 student in 2015 1 to 25 students in 4 years Purpose: "give an opportunity for this population to have the opportunity to go to college" Community Service Paradigm Project Defines a problem, implements, achieve goal

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The Nevada Blind Children’S Foundation, Mara Ono Dec 2019

The Nevada Blind Children’S Foundation, Mara Ono

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

It was created to provide the essential blocks including expanded core curriculum, extracurricular activities, social opportunities, and transitional skills to children who are visually impaired Three main goals: ○ Increase graduation rates and postsecondary education enrollment and/or vocation ○ Increase employment rates for blind adults ○ Increase the quality of life (independence, socialization, life skills) for blind or visually impaired children Community Service Paradigm The community service paradigm this service site best fits is social change The Nevada Blind Children’s Foundation wants every child with a visual impairment to reach their full potential

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Signature Productions: Quality Family Entertainment, Tyler Lambert Dec 2019

Signature Productions: Quality Family Entertainment, Tyler Lambert

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Signature Productions is a nonprofit community theater company. It was created in 1989, by both Dr. Karl M. Larsen, a local Optometrist, and Victor J. Austin, an attorney. They believed that Las Vegas Valley needed quality family entertainment. The Board of Signature Productions is made up of 16 talented and dedicated people from Las Vegas consisting of an Optometrist, several Attorneys, a General Contractor, multiple small business owners, a photographer, music and dance instructors, office professionals and homemakers. We are housed in the Summerlin Library and Preforming Arts Center, where we rent space for each production.

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E W Griffith Elementary School, Leilah Torres Dec 2019

E W Griffith Elementary School, Leilah Torres

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Their vision is to keep their students, “...honest, safe, respectful, engaged, and own their learning and choices,” (“Griffith ES”).

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What Does A Good Life Look Like To You?, Mackenzie Zelensky Dec 2019

What Does A Good Life Look Like To You?, Mackenzie Zelensky

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

History and Purpose of Heaven Can Wait Animal Society Heaven Can Wait Animal Society is an organization that helps rescue dogs and cats from homelessness, starvation, and death. The founding principle of this organization is to save these animals lives, specifically be means of not euthanizing the animals that they rescue. The founders of Heaven Can Wait created this organization to “stop the senseless killing of dogs and cats,” according to hcws.org. This objective is achieved every day by HCWS. Based on the organization’s website, the people I’ve interreacted with, and my personal experience, it is blatantly clear that animals …

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Marquis Centennial Hills Post Acute Rehab, Christian Bondoc Dec 2019

Marquis Centennial Hills Post Acute Rehab, Christian Bondoc

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Three Square Food Bank, Jordan Hazeur Dec 2019

Three Square Food Bank, Jordan Hazeur

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Three Square, Jovan Lubura Dec 2019

Three Square, Jovan Lubura

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Three Square Southern Nevada Food Bank, Jherico Rivera Dec 2019

Three Square Southern Nevada Food Bank, Jherico Rivera

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Project 150, Hunter Speier Dec 2019

Project 150, Hunter Speier

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Asian Community Development Council, Juan Torres Dec 2019

Asian Community Development Council, Juan Torres

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Project 150, Dorian Laganière Dec 2019

Project 150, Dorian Laganière

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

Offer support and services to homeless, displaced, and disadvantaged high school students. so they can be successful during their high school journey and ultimately graduate.

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Project F.O.C.U.S, Tatiana Tonga Dec 2019

Project F.O.C.U.S, Tatiana Tonga

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Jacqueline Froid Dec 2019

Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Jacqueline Froid

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Project 150, Blakeleigh Loughery Dec 2019

Project 150, Blakeleigh Loughery

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Mater Academy Bonanza, Maika Hughes Dec 2019

Mater Academy Bonanza, Maika Hughes

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Service Learning, Zhengjian Li Dec 2019

Service Learning, Zhengjian Li

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Griffith Elementary School, Cristal Gutierrez Dec 2019

Griffith Elementary School, Cristal Gutierrez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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Marjorie Barrick Museum, Ngan Ha Dec 2019

Marjorie Barrick Museum, Ngan Ha

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

No abstract provided.

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