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ACE Newsletter October 2022
No full textAccess to College Education Program Newsletter October 2022https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/academicprograms/1027/thumbnail.jp
Mental Health/Wellness
Get PDFGoogle Slide Showhttps://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1013/thumbnail.jp
Being a PE Major
Get PDFI gave my students a presentation on what it is like being a physical education major and what to expect out of the program.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1044/thumbnail.jp
Preparing and Studying for Final Exams
Get PDFI chose my topic because when I was a freshman, I looked up to my upperclassman for advice about final exams. I wanted to give the students some helpful tips, to help them perform their best. Additionally, with the current mental health crisis many young adults are facing, I believe it is important for all students to know what resources they have available to them and ways to help better themselves.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1050/thumbnail.jp
Networking is your Net Worth
Get PDFStudents use social media, but don\u27t always realize the importance of in-person networking skills. This presentation addresses that.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1055/thumbnail.jp
The mythos of Lilith: a collection of madwomen
Get PDFFor too long, women’s stories have been mitigated, translated, truncated, and censored, if they were even recorded at all before the world could hear them. What could women be writing that would be so threatening to incite such censorship? To a male-dominated world, anything that could disrupt their illusions of power is a threat. If a woman penned a narrative of her experiences in this world, or if she were to begin speaking on a new way of thinking that called for change, that must be stopped. The ultimate goal is to prevent women from writing or stepping out of their boxes before they even begin. Through the following series of blogs, I aim to focus on the multiple definitions of madness and how it is disportionately applied to women to discredit and suppress them. Through a closer look at Western civilization and the dominant views of femininity and female gender roles; this will begin with some mythological beginnings and Christianity and then move through 19th-century literature where the madwoman had her heyday, into second-wave feminist theory and writers, and finishing with contemporary observations and examples
The impact of peer tutoring on elementary students’ mathematical education
Get PDFThis action research study utilized a mixed-methods approach to determine the impact peer tutoring can have in mathematical instruction within a fourth-grade classroom. Data was collected using student-surveys, personal journal entries, and student work samples over the course of a four-week time frame. Report findings show both unchanged and positive impacts in students’ achievement in math as well as data supporting the idea that students who present high mathematical comprehension prior to the study result in no significant impact in mathematical achievement through peer tutoring. This study also displays how student skill and personalities impact effectiveness and ineffectiveness in mathematical work results
Visiting the House of Bad\u27s Mother: Queering Saadat Hasan Manto\u27s “Thanda Gosht”
Get PDFThis essay reads Saadat Hasan Manto\u27s short story, “Thanda Gosht” (1950), depicting women\u27s experience of sectarian brutality during the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, to delineate the postcolonial significance Gayatri Spivak\u27s concept of originary queerness. Manto\u27s synecdoche (“cold meat”) for an unnamed and raped female corpse, her Sikh abductor and violator, as well as for the story\u27s readers, (re)figures reproductive heteronormativity as a process of unknowing that emplaces a gendered taxonomy, even when its victims are silent. Rather than reinforce sexual difference as a finished itinerary, however, Kulwant Kaur\u27s repeatedly piercing question—who she is—queers “Thanda Gosht” by taking us to a “she” who we cannot imagine but seem to know. This tarrying with originary queerness “in its place” (Spivak, “Gender” 817, emphases added) dockets an unpredictable futurity made especially resonant by the chill that asseverates from Ishar\u27s Singh\u27s use of a peculiar affective idiom to describe his encounter with the unnamed and raped corpse, whose originary queerness inverts a teleological trajectory to manifest (the fight for) Nation as (visiting) “burre ki ma ka ghar” (बुरे की माँ के घर; the house of Bad\u27s mother). This place, far from patriarchal honor and protection, makes a “zaalim” (ज़ािलम; bloodthirsty) of (“us”) all, such that we cannot say what happened
Performing Dalit Feminist Youth Activism in South India: Rap, Gaana, and Street Theater
Get PDFYoung Dalit men and women are changing the narrative of casteist oppression in India. Youth activists perform protest songs in the genre of rap and gaana, using elements of slam poetry and rap from African American artists and blending them with local musical innovations. The performances have deliberate messaging, signaling particular caste and gender injustices, both current and historical. This paper will analyze Dalit youth performances of rap, gaana, and street theater (koothu) in South India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, to understand the poetics of protest against caste and gender oppression. It will look at the notion of space in these performances. Since social space has historically been restricted for marginalized groups such as Dalits, and even private space has never existed for Dalits, more so for women, the performance space—the screen, the theatre, or street—becomes a heterotopia, or a third space for voicing injustice through song. Taboos are tossed aside in this space; transgressive, private-public fused in-your-face musical phrasings appear on every audio and visual device through the globalization of the internet. Rap and gaana queer accepted caste and gender narratives. This paper will look at youth rappers, such as Arivu, the latest sensation, gaana performer, Isaivani\u27s performances, as well as “The Casteless Collective” and inquire into the reasons for their appeal despite their iconoclasm. Affect is another area of inquiry in the analysis of Dalit performance, since caste and gender oppression meant invisibilizing Dalits and not seeing them as humans with emotions. Examining the value of affect within performances as well as its effect on audiences is important, since both coalesce to make historically restricted speech appealing and far-reaching in effecting change
A Look Through My Eyes on Getting Involved
Get PDFA look into the undergraduate career of Student Facilitator, Sabrina Martinez on getting involved on campus. Past experiences of involvement were used to help first-year students understand and recognize the available resources available to them at SUNY Cortland. The experiences involved were events, jobs, clubs, and useful departments. Since the COR class was specifically kinesiology students, the presentation was directed more toward what more they can do for the benefit of their years at Cortland and future career. A presentation directed in assisting first-year students on getting involved that will beneficially help them in their near future.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1000/thumbnail.jp