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The Fight for Partisan Control of Virginia’s State Legislature Continues and Democratic Women are on the Front Line
No full textLast week Virginia held primary elections for seats in the Virginia House of Delegates and state Senate, all of which are up for election this cycle. Currently, Democrats hold the majority in the state Senate, while Republicans hold the majority in the House of Delegates. This November both parties are seeking to gain legislative majorities in both chambers to aid – or thwart – Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin’s legislative agenda. Redistricting in 2023 brought a wave of retirements across both parties and chambers, and with them opportunities to fundamentally recast the membership of the Virginia General Assembly. With just one contest “too close to call,” there are three main takeaways of how gender is playing a significant role on the campaign trail in Virginia
A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics
No full textThe book in your hands is a quick guided tour of introductory-level discrete mathematics. It’s like a cool, brisk walk through a pretty forest. I point out the notable features of the landscape and try to instill a sense of appreciation and even of awe. I want the reader to get a feel for the lay of the land, and a little exercise. If the student acquires the requisite vocabulary, gets some practice playing with the toys, and learns to start thinking in terms of the concepts here described, I will count it as a success.https://scholar.umw.edu/computer_science_books/1002/thumbnail.jp
Exploration into the Inhibition of Tyrosinase
No full textTyrosinase is the chief active agent in the production of melanin and in the browning of fruits and vegetables. The reaction it catalyzes produces a pigmented product whose production can be easily measured in a spectrophotometer. For this reason, the Biochemistry I Lab at the University of Mary Washington conducts a multi-week project utilizing tyrosinase to study enzyme kinetics. This study sought to contribute to the biochemistry lab by identifying new types of inhibitors for tyrosinase to allow students to experimentally determine different types of inhibitors. This was done by running a series of enzyme assays with two different inhibitors, benzyl alcohol and cyanide, and performing Lineweaver-Burke analysis to determine Vmax and Km. The studies showed both benzyl alcohol and cyanide to be competitive inhibitors with Vmax’s of 0.1145 – 0.246 µmol/sec and 0.0548 – 0.1012 µmol/sec respectively. The Km values for benzyl alcohol and cyanide were determined to be 0.2818 M (uninhibited), 1.6947 M (50% activity), and 11.1973 M (10% activity), and 0.5039 M (uninhibited), 0.4183 M (50% activity), and 3.5259 M (10% activity) respectively. This data did not identify any new types of inhibitors that were not already available for the biochemistry lab but expanded the options of inhibitors available to the students
Redefining Unnatural: A Modern Understanding of Paul’s Homophobia
Get PDFThis paper examines the change in the meaning of the word “unnatural” in Romans 1:26-27, and establishes both an idea of what the Apostle Paul intended and a definition for how the word is used in modernity. There are five sections, each one building off of the next: Background, Analysis of the Text, Scholar’s Reading of the Text, Understanding and Usage in Antiquity, Modern Definition and Understanding, and Conclusion. The paper discovers that Paul’s intention with the word “unnatural” can be summarized as “any sex which is non-procreative, outside of marriage, and goes against gender roles.” However, a modern definition is that in Romans 1:26-27 “unnatural” refers to primarily to homosexuality
Tourism Marketing to Southeast Asian Countries via Social Media and its Ethical Implications
Get PDFAs the influence of social media on the tourism marketing industry continues to grow, it becomes necessary to analyze how these platforms are being used. This study aims to determine the ways in which the combination of visuals and written copy in an Instagram post work to create an advertisable overall image of Southeast Asian countries as tourist destinations.
Using a qualitative content analysis, twenty seven posts from the official tourism Instagram accounts of Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines were analyzed to determine what overall image is being presented, how this is being accomplished, and if the advertisement of these places and people is being done ethically.
Results revealed that these accounts all use compelling written and visual rhetoric in the social media copy and visual of their posts in order to market these countries as the ideal tourist destination. It was further determined that content relating to ethical tourism is not a significant theme found across these selected Instagram accounts
Women and Authority during the Protestant Reformation
Get PDFThis paper will examine the rhetoric and theology of four women reformers during the beginning of the Protestant Reformation to understand their conceptions of women’s authority during the Reformation. These four women, Marie Dentière (1495 - 1561), Marguerite de Navarre (1492 - 1549), Katarina Schütz Zell (1497/8 - 1562), and Argula von Grumbach (1492 - 1554), wrote numerous different religious tracts to disseminate their ideas. However, they still had to overcome cultural and religious barriers that prevented them from being allowed to speak on religious matters. To circumvent religious barriers, these women relied on many common rhetorical tactics to justify their decision to speak out on spiritual affairs. They adopted and proclaimed the traditional doctrines of the Reformation such as sola scriptura and the fellowship of all believers. However, they then took these beliefs to far more inclusive ends than their male contemporaries did. They wanted to expand the authority of women by allowing them to preach and by attempting to eliminate the moral and educational barriers which would otherwise be used to deny women the ability to communicate on spiritual matters
Mental Health in M*A*S*H: An Analysis of the Changing Portrayal of Mental Health Topics in the 1970s and Early 1980s
Get PDFThis paper studies all eleven seasons of the hit television show M*A*S*H (1972-1973) and examines how the portrayal of mental health changed in the show’s plotlines in response to changing guidelines and mental health policy in the 1970s and early 1980s. This study focuses on the association of mental illness with homosexuality, the changes made to the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in the 1970s and early 1980s, the rise and fall of mental health policies from the Kennedy Administration to the Reagan Administration, and the portrayal of several pertinent mental conditions, such as combat-related trauma, PTSD, repressed memories, phobias, and stress-induced drug use
Lady Winters
Get PDFLady Winters is a young adult fantasy novella based in a world of royalty and assassins. The line between good and evil should be clear but recent events have blurred them. In the shadows, lurks a darkness that seeks to change the course of history.
In a futuristic kingdom, Lady Celestia Winters inherits debt and a kill list following the death of her parents. She takes over her mother’s position as an Academy Assassin and uses her training to work towards paying off the family debt. In charge of her assignments is the infamous Headmistress and Celestia’s newest target is Lord James Attley. This time, however, instead of eliminating her target, Celestia must protect him from whoever is killing off the line of succession to the throne. Despite her hesitation, Celestia takes the assignment and finds herself in a world of shadows where nothing is what it seems. Love threatens to get in the way of duty and that duty becomes increasingly complicated. Is the enemy really who Celestia thinks? Will she complete her assignment? Or, will her years of training take over and she fails
Using a Distributive Approach to Model Insurance Loss
Get PDFInsurance loss is an unpredicted event that stands at the forefront of the insurance industry. Loss in insurance represents the costs or expenses incurred due to a claim. An insurance claim is a request for the insurance company to pay for damage caused to an individual’s property. Loss can be measured by how much money (the dollar amount) has been paid out by the insurance company to repair the damage or it can be measured by the number of claims (claim count) made to the insurance company. Insured events include property damage due to fire, theft, flood, a car accident, etc. An actuary aims to calculate the probability of an insured event occurring. In this paper we take a set of existing auto insurance data and model it using the Gamma and Weibull distributions. We use method of moments and maximum likelihood estimation to obtain parameter estimates for each distribution. We divide the data into different attributes where we found that the 60+ age group has slightly different shape/scale parameters and there is no real difference between male and female drivers
A Critical Review of Animal and Fetus Rights in Utilitarianism or “How Come When It’s Us, It’s an Abortion, and When It’s a Chicken, It’s an Omelette?”
Get PDFIn this paper, I will be considering the moral standing of animals and fetuses within utilitarianism—by discussing the Time Relative Interest Account and Harm-Based Account—and how the question of moral standing relates to discussions of abortion. The Time Relative Interest Account provides a more effective framework for considering the rights of both animals and fetuses in utilitarianism, and a lack of access to abortion poses a significant challenge to the utilitarian viewpoint often espoused by anti-abortion advocates because they fail to consider the lack of access implications within their utilitarian approach. Therefore, the utilitarianism that is animal rights-based arguments used in anti-abortion rhetoric is flawed and does not follow the moral theory of utilitarianism