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2021 Commencement Program
Get PDFContains the names of degree recipients and commencement speakers, an order of exercises, and other related information.https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/commencement-programs/1070/thumbnail.jp
Phantom Limb Pain: Feeling Sensation from a Limb that is No Longer Present and What it Can Reveal About Our Brain Anatomy
Get PDFThis is a flexible, interrupted video case that uses phantom limb pain as a platform to investigate brain anatomy with a focus on somatosensory cortical mapping and the homunculus. The case begins with a video of neurologist Dr. V.S. Ramachandran interviewing two amputees who experience phantom limb pain (part one). Through Dr. Ramachandran’s dialog with amputees, students learn about the paradoxical condition of feeling pain in a limb that does not exist (e.g., phantom limb pain). Students witness Dr. Ramachandran analyzing fMRI data from an amputee, and subsequently learn the somatosensory cortical mapping of the amputee has remarkably changed. Dr. Ramachandran also introduces and demonstrates one form of treatment for phantom limb pain, the mirror box. The video case is supplemented with optional opportunities for further exploration about the mirror box (part two) and somatosensory cortical mapping, via the two-point discrimination test (parts three and four). In part two, students use the primary literature to investigate the effectiveness of the mirror box, and practice skills of interpreting figures. In parts three and four, students conduct a two-point discrimination test (part three) on each other or a person in their residence and analyze class data (part four). Students are led to discover conceptual connections between all four parts of this module. As one example, students are challenged to predict how two-point discrimination data from amputees (interviewed in the video, part one) would compare to students’ two-point discrimination data (parts three and four). While the four parts of this learning module are highly interconnected, instructors can choose to selectively implement one or more parts. In addition, each part can be executed in the face-to-face classroom, as out-of-classroom assignment, in a synchronous or non-synchronous video meeting platform, or as a hybrid of these options, providing flexibility for the instructor. This case has been used in a 100-level face-to-face, non-science major course and it has been modified as an online module for a 300 level General Physiology course
Ordre des Forestiers Franco-Américains
Get PDFCorrespondence and other documentation between the Union Saint Jean Baptiste d\u27Amerique and the Ordre des Forestiers Franco-Américains from 1925-1938.https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/usjb-documents/1007/thumbnail.jp
Bishop William A. Hickey of the Providence Diocese 1921-1964
Get PDFCorrespondence mostly with Bishop Hickey as the recipient from Elie Vezina, Secretary General of the USJB. Vezina was Secretary General from 1911-1936. Most of the correspondence is in French and often has to with the Sentinelle Affair and support for Bishop Hickey from the USJB. Some news clippings included. Also includes some controversial quotes of David Walsh, U.S. Senator regarding the different races Bishop Hickey had in his parish and how best to deal with them. Also an affidavit regarding the possible dislike of Cardinal William Henry O\u27Connell of Boston towards Bishop Hickey. Dates of correspondence is approximately 1919-1929.https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/usjb-documents/1009/thumbnail.jp
Excommunicants of the Sentinelle Battle
Get PDFCorrespondence regarding the reason for and the people who were Excommunicated by the Vatican for their stance against Bishop Hickey and other priests. The publication of the newspaper La Sentinelle and subsequent publications were the main basis for the Excommunication. Authors of the correspondence include Eugene LaJalbert, Elie Vezina, and Emile Dubuc. Also includes an address given to the representatives of the seven Kanakee County Councilhttps://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/usjb-documents/1011/thumbnail.jp
Urban Neoliberal Debt Peonage: Prisoner Reentry, Work, and the New Jim Crow
Get PDFIn this study, I analyze the experiences of people leaving prison and jail, using the concept of urban neoliberal debt peonage. I define urban neoliberal debt peonage as the push of race-class subjugated (RCS) formerly incarcerated people into the low-wage labor market. I argue that urban neoliberal debt peonage is a social process of economic extraction from and racial control of RCS groups structured by state bureaucracies and corporate employers. I provide evidence for this argument using participant observation and interview methods in a large northeastern U.S. city at an employment-oriented prisoner reentry organization that I call “Afterward.” People came to Afterward seeking employment, but were forwarded to work that was often unstable and unable to support subsistence living. Unstable low-wage work did not alter people’s social and economic situations enough to preclude them from engaging in income-producing criminal activity that comes with the risk of reincarceration. Meanwhile, the criminal justice system extracted money from the formerly incarcerated via debt collection, and corporate employers benefited from neoliberal policies that give them tax breaks for hiring Afterward clients. While not identical, the social process of urban neoliberal debt peonage echoes that of post–Civil War debt peonage and convict leasing
Canadian Hall, Maple Street Holyoke, Massachusetts
No full textImage of a brick building located in the mill area of Holyoke, Massachusetts circa 1920\u27s. Sons of Zion carved in brick near top of the building. Writing on back of photograph Synagogue erected on the site of the former hall of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Holyoke, Massachusetts, where the first meeting of the delegates of local societies took place in 1898, to lay the foundation for the federation which became the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d\u27Amérique. Former Canadian hall, Maple Street; Property of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the Union canadienne 10 x 8https://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/usjb-photographs/1068/thumbnail.jp
Episode 2: Behind the Juniper Berries: Gin Edition
No full textEpisode 2 of 3 in podcast series On the Origins of Spirits. A folkloristic engagement with the historical and rhetorical elements of distilled spirits, and the traditional - never mind contemporary - tales of cultural identity that they contain
Work and Social Reproduction in Rural India: Lessons from Time-Use Data
Get PDFEven as the literature on work in the Global South acknowledges the importance of forms of non-waged work, it has not sufficiently incorporated consideration of the labor of social reproduction. We propose understanding work through four conceptual dyads: waged productive labor, non-waged productive labor, waged reproductive labor, and non-waged reproductive labor. Through an in-depth description of three specific cases from a Time Use Survey we conducted in rural Punjab, India, we argue not only that all four dyads are required to encompass the world of work, but that this more expansive conceptualization can help us produce richer analyses of the intersections of class, caste and gender
Institute Canadien-Francais, New York
Get PDFhttps://digitalcommons.assumption.edu/mallet-correspondence/1005/thumbnail.jp