Editor's Introduction,
2017
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA
Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau
Journal of Global Catholicism
Introduction to African Catholicism: Contemporary Issues: Volume: 1, Issue 2 of the Journal of Global Catholicism
Service Provider Promising Practice: Fading Supports At Seec,
2017
University of Massachusetts Boston
Service Provider Promising Practice: Fading Supports At Seec, Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston
ThinkWork! Publications
SEEC (Seeking Equality, Empowerment, and Community) is a Maryland-based provider of employment, community living, and community development supports to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Originally established in 1987, SEEC started converting from facility-based to exclusively community-based supports in 2005, and closed down its center-based program completely in 2009. Currently all of SEEC’s supports are individualized and community-based, in keeping with the organization’s mission “to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to direct their lives with dignity, choice, authority, and responsibility.” SEEC provides supports to over 200 people with IDD throughout Montgomery County and the District of Columbia. …
Service Provider Promising Practice: Using Staff Networks To Build Community Membership At Loqw,
2017
University of Massachusetts Boston
Service Provider Promising Practice: Using Staff Networks To Build Community Membership At Loqw, Oliver Lyons, Thinkwork! At The Institute For Community Inclusion At Umass Boston
ThinkWork! Publications
LOQW (Learning Opportunities/Quality Works) is a community skills training, service coordination, and employment services provider in northeast Missouri. LOQW employs over 100 people and serves 14 counties in northeast Missouri and 600 customers annually. Their mission is to “positively impact the lives of individuals through support, advocacy and connection to resources.” LOQW operates several satellite offices in addition to its main office in Monroe City, MO. One of these satellite offices is located in Hannibal, MO, a city with a population of less than 18,000. For comparison, Busch Stadium in nearby St. Louis can hold over twice that amount of …
The Devil Is In The Details: Representations Of The Rural Appalachian Deviant,
2017
Old Dominion University
The Devil Is In The Details: Representations Of The Rural Appalachian Deviant, Stephen T. Young
Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations
Every year, it seems, a new film makes its way through theaters across America demonstrating a new variant of the rural Appalachian deviant. These films play a major role in continuing to shape societal perceptions of rural white populations in Appalachia. Drawing on theoretical insights of Cohen, Hunt, Simon, and Lupton this dissertation examines how film depictions of the rural white Appalachians supports the continued construction of the rural Appalachian deviant. This study finds that films support said construction by demonstrating this population through themes about tainted blood, intimate partner violence, and drug addiction. Moreover, these films camouflage the facts …
Social Cohesion Through Cooperative Contact: A Theoretical Perspective,
2017
University of Rwanda
Social Cohesion Through Cooperative Contact: A Theoretical Perspective, Ezechiel Sentama
Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies
This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical debate when it comes to how to successfully achieve social cohesion after violent conflicts. Using the premises of contact hypothesis, and qualitative approach, the paper’s theoretical conclusions are drawn from the experience of the relational effects of contact, in the cooperative organization, between antagonistic groups in post-genocide Rwanda—genocide survivors and genocide perpetrators, as well as their respective family members. The paper discusses the nature, the form and the degree of the relational effects resulting from contact, in the cooperative organization, between post-genocide sides and suggests that, by virtue of its guiding values …
Documents, Futures: Palm Reading, Palmyra Leaves, And Planetary Prophesy,
2017
University of Technology Sydney
Documents, Futures: Palm Reading, Palmyra Leaves, And Planetary Prophesy, Bhuva Narayan
Proceedings from the Document Academy
I begin to feel as if I’d been wandering around with these false documents permanently tattooed to my hand, forcing me to walk through life in a story not really my own.
Nothing To Write Home About: Aphorisms Against Actuality,
2017
University of Washington - Bothell Campus
Nothing To Write Home About: Aphorisms Against Actuality, Daniel Kissinger, Maisha Manson
Proceedings from the Document Academy
We ask the reader to consider what the claiming of home and home-ness means. For you, for each of us, for our nation. We jump between different documents and documentations of what it means to be, to make, to keep, to establish, to live at home. We look, particularly, to the aphorisms that collect around the sense and feeling of home, and home-ness. We posit counter-documents from historical archives to these structures of feeling which function to make (some of) us feel “at home,” or at least a certain way, while pushing out those who are marked as unwanted, who …
Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons For Housing And Labor,
2017
CUNY Graduate Center
Pension Fund Evictions: Lessons For Housing And Labor, Marnie F. Brady
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In this dissertation I analyze an institutional investor portfolio of over-leveraged multifamily rental housing in East Palo Alto, California to demonstrate how changing forms of landlordism produce both new and familiar targets for tenants organizing against displacement and for housing security. Venture capital investors in the first decade of the 2000s exploited the Silicon Valley regional conditions of racial exclusion, uneven development, and municipal rent control. I introduce the legacy of Black political organization in East Palo Alto as a way of contextualizing the tenants’ and the city leaders’ response to the monopoly investment purchase. The structure of this rental …
Emerson Garfield Community Commons Comprehensive Plan,
2017
Whitworth University
Emerson Garfield Community Commons Comprehensive Plan, Faith Keister, Mary Leu, Emma Phillips, Isaac Jang, Goldie Weers
Planned Communities: SO 375H
The content of this Community Plan is intended to be used by future community developers in order to create a Community Commons for the Emerson-Garfield Community. This document is a compilation of the potential resources such as an outline of costs, desired features and elements, possible funding sources, building plans, and more. The plot of land located at 127 West Mission Avenue is an ideal space for the community commons. This was determined to be the best way to meet the desires of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council.
Strengthening Slavery’S Border, Undermining Slavery: Fugitive Slaves And The Legal Regulation Of Black Mississippi River Crossing, 1804-1860,
2017
Northwestern University
Strengthening Slavery’S Border, Undermining Slavery: Fugitive Slaves And The Legal Regulation Of Black Mississippi River Crossing, 1804-1860, Jesse Nasta
The Confluence (2009-2020)
In the decades before the Civil War, St. Louis sat on a border between slave and free states. Jesse Nasta documents the role of common carriers—steamboats—on the Mississippi River for escaping slaves and the efforts of government to hold steamboat operators accountable for those escapes—efforts that reached all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court. This article is the recipient of the 2017 Tatom Award for the best student paper on a regional topic.
From Prairie To Destination: The Story Of South Grand,
2017
Landmarks Association of St. Louis
From Prairie To Destination: The Story Of South Grand, Andrew Weil, Josh Burbridge
The Confluence (2009-2020)
The business district on South Grand between Arsenal and Utah streets evolved from a prairie setting into a thriving business district when streetcars arrived. In this essay, Andrew Weil and Josh Burbridge chart the evolution of the business district through its architecture.
From The Editor,
2017
Lindenwood University
Big Spring And Recharge Area And The Possibility Of Lead Mining,
2017
Lindenwood University
Big Spring And Recharge Area And The Possibility Of Lead Mining, Quinta Scott
The Confluence (2009-2020)
In this second installment of her series of environmental studies, Quinta Scott examines the impact of lead mining on the region.
Spring/Summer 2017, Full Issue,
2017
Lindenwood University
Emerson Garfield Neighborhood Beautification,
2017
Whitworth University
Emerson Garfield Neighborhood Beautification, Kristin Jensen, Madi Burke, Tristan Renz
Planned Communities: SO 375H
The purpose of this neighborhood action plan is to enhance the aesthetic appeal, cohesion, and overall safety of the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood -- creating an environment that community members are proud to live in, and where parents can safely raise their children. An enhancement of appearances will work towards the fostering of a classy, family friendly, and local identity. These improvements will promote collaboration among community members, strengthening the neighborhood’s appeal, and implementing needed changes.
Emerson Garfield Neighborhood: A Neighborhood Life Plan,
2017
Whitworth University
Emerson Garfield Neighborhood: A Neighborhood Life Plan, Sarah Dixit, Joel Gabriele, Margot Spindola, Emily Wilson
Planned Communities: SO 375H
This comprehensive plan of Emerson-Garfield seeks to broaden the horizons within neighborhood life planning and assesses the strategies to create a more vibrant community. Our comprehensive plan focuses on neighborhood life because the residents have identified better opportunities for other residents in the neighborhood to interact and collaborate.
“The City Is Filled With Exhibitions & Places Of Amusement”: George And Clara Catlin In London,
2017
Lindenwood University
“The City Is Filled With Exhibitions & Places Of Amusement”: George And Clara Catlin In London, Jeffrey Smith
The Confluence (2009-2020)
George Catlin traveled to London and, later, Paris to exhibit and sell paintings of western Native Americans in the 1840s. His wife, Clara, joined him and sent these letters home about the experience.
Information Sharing, Transparency, And E-Governance Among County Government Offices In Southeastern Michigan,
2017
Northern Michigan University
Information Sharing, Transparency, And E-Governance Among County Government Offices In Southeastern Michigan, Lawrence Bosek
All NMU Master's Theses
The Internet has given rise to the availability of information at our fingertips. While the public, particularly consumers, are more commonly described as being the leading users and beneficiaries of electronic information services, businesses and governments are also players in the arena for sharing official information. Information can be easily stored on Internet websites for the public, businesses, and other governmental offices to search and peruse when needed. This study examined the ease of locating county governmental information, such as contact information for public officials and financial reports, and surveyed elected county officials for purposes of identifying how information is …
Documenting Social Enterprises: A Wider Look Into Best Practices,
2017
Bryant University
Documenting Social Enterprises: A Wider Look Into Best Practices, Jacqueline Calamari
Honors Projects in History and Social Sciences
The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. For my Senior Capstone Project, I applied to collaborate with The Hunger Project who then proposed a project to me. I have gained insight into the eight African countries’ current social enterprises supported by The Hunger Project, evaluated their success, and assessed what could be done to make them more successful. My project included completing three specific tas: first, cataloging the social enterprises, second, rating their profitability and social impact, and third, creating a leverage plan for those in need of improvement. These …
Las Ofrendas A La Tierra En Un Mundo Global \ Offerings To Land In A Global World,
2017
SIT Study Abroad
Las Ofrendas A La Tierra En Un Mundo Global \ Offerings To Land In A Global World, Alison Wuensch
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Esta investigación aborda si las ofrendas a la Pachamama en el Cusco responden a la desvalorización de las culturas andinas en un mundo globalizado por el turismo, la globalización, la modernización, y la urbanización. El turismo místico en el Perú ha crecido desde las noventas con la promoción del estado peruano de la cultura viva, y una de las ceremonias andinas más importantes es la ofrenda a la Pachamama. El objetivo era identificar y explicar los efectos del turismo, la globalización, la modernización, y la urbanización en las ofrendas a la Pachamama según los chamanes y la observación. Fui a …
