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Theoretical Lighting Design: Little Shop of Horrors
Get PDFThis senior project includes design concepts, storyboard images, a light plot, a magic sheet, three cue lists, and three videos of songs from the show cued in the EOS augmented 3D software
Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship and Authority in Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Get PDFLouisa May Alcott’s Little Women and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House novels, share a place in the canon of American children’s literature as novels centered on female protagonists coming of age within an emblematic period in American history, respectively the duration and aftermath of the Civil War and the post-Homestead Act settlement of the Western frontier. Each text portrays the intertwined processes of girlhood and nationhood through the eyes of rebellious, gender-nonconforming protagonists, Jo and Laura, who each undergo an arc towards starting a traditional family and immersing themselves in normative national projects (respectively a philanthropic school for the poor, and the continued settlement of the West). Using the two texts’ collisions between nonconformity and conformity as guiding points, I undertake a comparative study between the two, examining the shared themes of gender norms, familial bonds, schooling, authorial voice, and audience effect as they operate in each text
Senior Project of Shaun McBride
No full textShaun McBride documents their journey of the directing process for Studio 115\u27s production WHITE by James Ijames, produced by the Theatre and Dance department at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. McBride\u27s portfolio includes journal entries from the beginning to the end of their process, analysis documents, schedules, and cast lists
Reforming the United States’ Currency Production
Get PDFSince the 1980s, the debate about the one-cent piece’s production and use has been discussed throughout relatively recent Congressional history; and has involved economic, financial, industry-based, as well as numismatic groups to weigh in on the topic. The question arises: Why have other countries successfully changed their lower-denomination currency and converted their economic system into one that incorporates cash-rounding while the United States has struggled to do so?
By observing international examples of the obsoletion of low-denomination coinage and the implementation of cash-rounding, the proposed economic and financial reform has proved to work as an economically-sound alternative to the current system. Due to industry-based lobbying efforts and growing partisanship within Congress, legislative productivity has decreased across most proposed legislation. The debate about the one-cent piece is one topic that has become stagnant within Congressional committees
Rank versus Romance: The Relationship of Class and Courtship in Burney\u27s Evelina
Get PDFFrances Burney explores the complex intersection of class and courtship in her novel Evelina as her heroine enters adulthood and consequently the marriage market. Throughout the novel, the heroine, Evelina, is pursued or courted by men as she is situated in three distinct class settings. First, she enters society in a respectable middle class setting, then a lower-middle class setting, before finally settling in an upper class setting and gets married. This development in the novel represents the significant affect class has on relationships in the 18th century. Ultimately, Burney communicates how a marriageable woman’s social and economic status clearly correlates with the level of respect she is given by suitors
Innovations in Intern/Mentor Relationships and Conceptions of the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Framework
No full textThe global COVID-19 pandemic has caused many adaptations to pre-service teacher preparation, especially supporting completion of field-based internship experiences. This mixed methods research project utilized surveys to analyze the impact of virtual settings on (1) intern (n=14) and mentor teacher (n=5) experiences and relationships and (2) the use of instructional technology, specifically Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). Key findings indicated (1) reversals of traditional mentor/intern relationships and (2) the role of technology as the foundation of instructional decision-making, resulting in challenges when adapting pedagogies of classroom management, assessment, and differentiation to virtual settings
How Electrons Impact Binding Energy
Get PDFAn atom is made up of a positively charged nucleus, consisting of non-charged neutrons and a number of positively charged protons, and of negatively charged electrons, the number of which is equivalent to the protons. The attractive force between the positive and negative charges fluctuates with the quantity of subatomic particles; binding energy is the energy required to overcome this attractive force to remove an electron from its orbital. In diatomic molecules, the binding energy is between the two atoms themselves rather than just between the nucleus and electrons for a singular atom. The relationship between binding energies of the atoms within the first three periods of the periodic table and the corresponding number of electrons present was investigated. Additionally, the same relationship was also investigated within the diatomic elements, H2, N2, O2, F2, and Cl2. This was accomplished through use of the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS) computational program. Using various parameters, including basis set, multiplicity, Hartree-Fock method, and calculating for single point energy, the binding energy of each of the atoms in the first three periods of the periodic table and the aforementioned five diatomic elements was determined. An inverse exponential decay was found between the binding energy of the atoms, with an increased number of electrons equating to a more negative energy (kcal/mol). Due to GAMESS measuring the binding energy between the nucleus and the first 1s orbital electron, these results indicate that as the number of electrons increases, it becomes more difficult to remove the 1s electron. The diatomic elements saw a similar inverse exponential decay between binding energy and electron count
The Medical Policing of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults
Get PDFThis research aims to better understand the discriminatory health care experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming adults. Conducted through a non-positivist sociological methodology, a primary objective of this research is to uplift transgender and other gender nonconforming voices through a study of lived, personal health narratives. In open-forum, semi-structured interviews, eight participants were asked questions relating to their health narratives, including questions concerning health care experiences and any encounters with discriminatory behaviors/actions by medical professionals and/or other medical affiliated personnel (i.e., receptionists, community health advisors, pharmacists, etc.). Potential questions ranged in theme (but were not limited to): gender identity, gender expression, insurance, health care experiences, medical transition, medical providers, institutions, and social support. Results show five major findings among participants: Anticipated Incompetency/Discrimination, Healthcare Avoidance, Community Healing, Medicalizing Trans Identity, and Critical Care. The results of this study illuminate the reality of discrimination and transphobia experienced by transgender and gender nonconforming adults within the medical realm and encourages social movement towards amelioration of such injustice
Working Smarter: Using Universal Design for Learning to Spiral Curriculum in Small Special Education Preparation Programs
No full textAlthough small teacher education preparation programs (STEPP) may struggle to implement robust program design frameworks compared to their larger preparation program peers, a collaborative design can help smaller programs with resource limitations. This collaboration can facilitate the design of effective and efficient teacher preparation programs (TPP) with a spiraled curriculum. Through scaffolding in TPPs, a spiral of support is defined as the process of learning continuous threads of information, gradually building to content mastery. These scaffolded components include case studies, role playing/modeling/feedback, and mentoring within the UDL framework. The use of case studies throughout a TPP provides a “continuum” of learning to prepare teachers to develop knowledge, skills, and practical experience within a diverse K-12 student population. Given a spiral of instruction to include role-play, modeling, feedback, and mentorship, preservice teachers can also engage in real world teaching and learning that go beyond the constraints of a classroom
Living Room
No full textDeeply phenomenological and ecological, Laura Bylenok’s poems in Living Room imagine the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life, including animals, plants, bacteria, buildings, and rocks. They explore the permeability of human and nonhuman experience, intelligence, language, and subjectivity. In particular, the poems consider so-called model organisms—nonhuman species studied to understand specific and often human biological processes, diseases, and phenomena—as well as an experience of self and world that cannot be objectively quantified. The impulse of these poems is to slow down, to see and feel, and to listen closely. Language becomes solid, palpable as fruit. Long lines propel breath and push past the lung’s capacity.Life at a cellular level, synthesis and symbiosis, is revealed through forests, fairy tales, and vines that grow over abandoned houses and hospital rooms. A living room is considered as a room that is lived in and also a room that is alive. Cells are living rooms. A self is a room that shares walls with others. Interconnection and interplay are thematic, and the network of poems becomes a linguistic rendering of a heterogeneous and nonhierarchical ecosystem, using the language of biology, genetics, and neurochemistry alongside fairy tale and dream to explore the interior spaces of grief, motherhood, mortality, and self.https://scholar.umw.edu/elc_books/1004/thumbnail.jp