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No full textThe Toro Historical Review Volume 15, Issue 1
Editorial and Production Team
Efrain Contreras
Alexander Gonzalez
Michael Gonzalez
Shaleyah Haywood
Ava Kostka
Issac Rivera
Dr. Joshua J. Jeffers, faculty mento
CSTEM Exposé - Kendra Lam (Jameson Lab, Biological Sciences, CSTEM)
No full textInterview with a RSCA-active studnet in the Jameson Lab in Biological Sciences, CSTE
The Internship as a Catalyst for Civic Engagement: Using experiential education to depolarize the political climate.
No full textIn a time of record polarization and the questioning of the value of higher education, the internship plays an important and positive role in developing the civic minded graduate. Utilizing best practices in experiential education, an internship nurtures important civic skills in students and an orientation towards the common good. Through focus groups and surveys, our three-year research project found that internship sites and supervisors are integral partners in nurturing a student\u27s ability to engage their communities. An internship, as an incubator for civic skills, is a valuable educational contribution to society.
Land, Resistance, and Radical Care: Additional Exploration and Musings of Cover Image Design
Get PDFThe cover piece, Land, Resistance, and Radical Care, for the sixth volume of the California Sociology Forum stems from conversations between myself and the Student Editorial Board in hopes of prompting a discussion around the violent history of colonization and our role in the ongoing fight for Indigenous sovereignty. My goal for this written work is a more in-depth expansion on the cover piece to provide additional information and description, explore the concept of radical care from the Black Feminist perspective, and seeks to integrate these concepts as guides which inform both scholarship and praxis
Book Review: The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
Get PDFIn the wake of a growing consensus about global warming and the imminent climate crisis, the “Green New Deal” (GND) is a catchphrase that has increasingly gained political traction in recent years. Defined broadly, GND proposals call for policies which address climate change while also targeting social and economic efforts like job creation, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy. Some critics of GND proposals claim these efforts do not go far enough. The Red Nation – a coalition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, students, academicians, and organizers – is one such group with an alternative and more radical vision for climate change and social justice. In their book The Red Deal, they set forth a liberatory political vision that calls for an end to capitalism, settler colonialism, and global imperialism. Across three major sections, the book argues for the abolition of these systems and the institutions which support them in favor of a vision of society that affirms common life – Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike – and revitalizes relationships with land and the environment
Speak for Yourself, Don’t Speak for Me: Democratizing Discourse and Sex Work Reform
Get PDF This analysis of the various legal models addressing sex work aims to contextualize and reframe the discussion of regulating prostitution from an essential but overlooked perspective: that of sex workers. International and domestic legislation reflects a disconcerting trend of increasingly punitive approaches to legislation regarding sex work, culminating in detrimental impacts on the safety and labor conditions of sex workers, as well as contributing to the incarcerated population. Evidently, there is a disjuncture between the body of organizations shaping policy and the communities facing its ramification. Upon identifying the role of recent anti-trafficking initiatives and radical feminist discourse in shaping prohibitive policies, the importance of re-orienting legal discourse to center the exigencies of sex workers cannot be understated. Foundational to understanding recent policy trends is an outline of the socioeconomic imperatives and ideological perspectives underpinning contemporary sex work legislation.
Considering the discursive influence of legal and political actors in catalyzing policy, the position of sex workers should take precedence in determining the legitimacy and regulation of their labor. Designing policy conducive to safe and equitable work conditions can only be actualized with the contribution of the communities in mind. This framework for policy analysis will employ findings from participatory action research to measure the satisfaction of sex workers directly impacted by legislation and their suggestions for policy reform. Additionally, identifying the risks and benefits inherent to various legislative models concerning sex work will serve as a basis for assessing the practicality and implementation of legislation. A correlative analysis between punitive approaches to sex work policy and recent trends towards carceral feminism will position the criminalization of sex work as a contributing factor in a disfigured criminal justice system
Products of p-Adic Valuation Trees
Get PDFThe study of prime divisibility plays a crucial role in number theory. The p-adic valuation of a number is the highest power of a prime, p, that divides that number. Using this valuation, we construct p-adic valuation trees to visually represent the valuations of a sequence. We investigate how nodes split on trees generated by linear functions with rational coefficients, as well as those formed from a product of linear or lower degree polynomials. We describe the infinite branches of these polynomial trees and the valuations of their terminating nodes