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Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders Who Care
No full textThe 2020 presidential election in the United States marked, for many, a return to “compassionate politics.” Joe Biden had run on a platform of empathy, emphasizing his personal history as a means of connecting with everyone from American workers who had lost jobs to military families who had lost loved ones. Although perceptions of candidate compassion are broadly understood to influence voter choice, less understood is the question of how candidates convince voters they truly “care about people like them.” In Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders Who Care, Jared McDonald provides a framework for understanding why voters view some politicians as more compassionate than others. McDonald shows that perceptions of compassion in candidates for public office are based on the number and intensity of commonalities that bind citizens to political leaders. Commonalities can come in many forms, such as a shared experience (“I’ve been through what you’ve been through”), a shared emotion (“I feel the way you feel”), or a shared identity (“I am who you are”). Compassion is conceptualized through the lens of self-interest. Compassion may be universal, such as when candidates convey empathy to all individuals who are struggling. Or compassion may be exclusionary, such as when candidates express a preference for some groups over others. Thus, the way campaigns choose to wield compassion in their messaging strategies has important implications not only for election outcomes but also for American political polarization as well.https://scholar.umw.edu/ps_ia_books/1000/thumbnail.jp
“Actitudes hacia los acentos y la comunidad latina: Un estudio de la percepción del inglés hablado con influencia del acento del español y su efecto en los latinos en los Estados Unidos”
Get PDFThe guiding question for the research in this study is as follows: what are the social impacts on Latino individuals speaking accented English as they live, work, and otherwise interact with US-born native English speakers? Are there adverse stereotypes and perceptions about foreign accents that impact their lives, and if so, what are those impacts and the potential long-term consequences of them?
La pregunta guía para la investigación en este estudio es la siguiente: ¿cuál es el impacto social de hablar inglés con acento extranjero en personas de origen latino mientras viven, trabajan e interactúan con hablantes nativos de inglés nacidos en los Estados Unidos? ¿Existen estereotipos y percepciones adversas sobre los acentos extranjeros que afectan sus vidas y, de ser así, cuál es el impacto y sus posibles consecuencias a largo plazo
Blueprints: Creating, Describing, and Implementing Designs for Larger-Scale Software Projects
No full textBlueprints is a concise yet comprehensive coverage of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design concepts, suitable for a second programming course in Computer Science. It introduces and teaches application development in a command-line environment, and assumes basic expertise with the Java programming language.https://scholar.umw.edu/computer_science_books/1001/thumbnail.jp
The History, Use, and Effects of Derivatives in Accounting
No full textThis presentation will focus on the history, use, and effects of derivative instruments in accounting. The main focus of the project will be the showcase of the use of derivatives by the Fortune 100 companies in the database that I created which tracks how each company uses derivatives for not only themselves, but for client purposes (if they are in that type of industry). Thank you to anyone who watches, I hope you learn something new
Using GIS to estimate the Solar Power potential for rooftops within the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Get PDFAs urbanization and energy consumption increase, the need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy has become urgent. Achieving sustainable energy consumption practices through solar energy has become an increasingly viable option in the United States (US). One of the ways to facilitate this transition at the local scale is to utilize Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to estimate the solar power potential and assess the spatial distribution of electrical power generation hot spots. At an urban residential neighborhood scale, GIS can aid the planning and location of efficient rooftop solar systems that have the ability to harvest the maximum amount of solar energy (Hestnes 1999).
This study aims to determine the suitability for the installation of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems based on their solar potential and corresponding electricity generation potential within a residential neighborhood in Cleveland Park, in the District of Columbia (D.C.). To achieve this goal, the Area Solar Radiation tool was utilized to produce a one year estimate of the total solar radiation that rooftops within the neighborhood receive. Thresholds for factors like slope, aspect, solar radiation receipt, and surface area were then applied to remove unsuitable surfaces resulting in a layer portraying suitable surfaces for rooftop solar panels. Using suitable surfaces, a conversion formula was then applied to calculate the electrical power production per individual suitable rooftops throughout the neighborhood. In addition, a hot spot analysis was performed to locate hot spots of electrical power production within the neighborhood, which was used in tandem with the Median Center tool to identify the best location for a battery storage facility for excess electrical power. ArcGIS Online was then used to create an interactive 2D web app of the solar power potential of the Cleveland Park neighborhood to portray the ability of the neighborhood to convert to solar development. The web app enables residents and solar panel developers to assess solar radiation levels and electrical power production in order to best design a rooftop solar array that harvests the maximum amount of solar radiation.
Following analysis, 202,168 m2 of unsuitable rooftop surfaces were removed from the study area. Results highlighted that, of 1,997 buildings, 1,110 (55%) were suitable for rooftop PV systems based on the criteria applied. The estimation returned that the suitable rooftops received 71,677.5 megawatt hours (MWh) of solar radiation which produced 9,862 MWh of electricity annually. The Cleveland Park neighborhood suitable buildings could produce an average of 8.9 MWh per year from solar radiation, which could cover 84% of the average yearly US household electrical consumption needs if they were to all be equipped with rooftop solar panels. Additionally, the hot spot analysis identified high productions of electrical power production primarily in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the study area along Connecticut Avenue Northwest (NW), and areas of low production in the northwestern region of the study area. Based on the results of the hot spot analysis, the optimal location for a battery storage facility was determined to be in the eastern region of the neighborhood near Connecticut Ave. NW. The resulting GIS layers from the analysis were successfully brought into a web app which provides users with the ability to assess the solar potential of the neighborhood based on solar radiation receipt and electricity production
Down The Great Unknown: My discovery of Seneca Howland and Just Jim in UMW Theatres\u27 production of Men On Boats
Get PDFMina Sollars fulfills her Senior Project at the University of Mary Washington with Klein Theatres\u27 production of Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. In this production she plays Seneca Howland and Just Jim. This website is a documentation of the preparation and process of these role
Sell-Outs or Warriors for Change?: A Comparative Look at Conservative Women in Politics in Democracies
No full textThis book addresses the central question of how right-wing women navigate the cross-pressures between gender identity and political ideology.
The hope has always been that more women in politics would lead to greater inclusion of women’s voices and interests in decision-making and policy. Yet this is not always the case; some prominent conservative women such as Margaret Thatcher have rejected the feminist label while others such as Angela Merkel have reluctantly accepted it. Republican women in the U.S. Congress have embraced social and economic policies contrary to what many consider to be women’s issues while EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen is a staunch supporter of feminist ideas. Other conservative women, such as Marine LePen in France strategically use feminist ideas to justify their conservative stances on immigration. This brings up an interesting yet understudied question: under what circumstances do conservative women become feminist allies and when do they toe the party line? It is this tension between women’s political representation and conservatism that this edited volume explores.https://scholar.umw.edu/ps_ia_books/1010/thumbnail.jp
Pandemic Innovations in Teacher Education: Communities of Practice, Mentoring, and Technology
No full textThis study aimed to investigate the transformation of pre-service teaching experience due to virtual or hybrid completion during the 2020–2021 school year and to identify teaching and mentoring innovations that teacher educators should continue to promote. The research involved 14 student teachers and 5 mentor teachers from the United States across elementary, secondary, and pre-K–12 programs who participated in surveys, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. The results indicated that the integration of technology in student teaching and the shift to virtual or hybrid learning brought about new challenges and opportunities for both student teachers and mentor teachers. The study highlights technology that may continue to be used post-pandemic, the promotion of virtual communities of practice, and ways to quickly integrate and maximize student teachers in the classroom
Supersymmetric Minimal (1) Model at the TeV Scale with Right-handed Majorana Neutrino Dark Matter
No full textWe propose a supersymmetric extension of the minimal (1) model, along with a new 2 parity. One of the salient features of this model relates to how both the (1) gauge symmetry and R parity are broken radiatively at the TeV scale by the vacuum expectation value of a 2-even right-handed sneutrino. By assigning one right-handed neutrino 2-odd parity, it can remain a viable dark matter (DM) candidate, despite R parity being broken. Furthermore, the DM relic abundance receives an enhanced annihilation cross section due to the (1) gauge boson (′) resonance and is in agreement with the current observations. We have also found a complementarity that exists between the observed DM relic abundance and search results for the ′ boson resonance at the Large Hadron Collider, which further constrains the parameter space of our (1) model. Finally, we consider a (5) ×(1) grand unified theory extension and investigate the complementarities mentioned previously
Introduction to Human Geography
No full textThis is a story about us. You and me. It is a story about connections. To each other. To the land. To the world we inhabit. Human Geography is fundamentally about our human experience of being in the world. It is a study of the way we organize, inhabit, and utilize the earth. We humans haven’t always had an easy road. We grapple with pandemics and famine. We wrestle with personal decisions, everything from what to eat to how to dress to what to do with our lives – decisions that other animals seem to not have to consider. In an effort to make things simple and easier, we tend to make things more complicated and now face problems that often feel beyond our capacity to solve.
And yet. Here we are. We come from an unbroken chain of human ancestors connecting us back to the first few people to walk this Earth. People who overcame. People who solved seemingly insurmountable problems. And so Human Geography is our collective story.https://scholar.umw.edu/geography_books/1002/thumbnail.jp