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2020-10-13 (Western Howl)
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Hamid Behmard Interview 2020
Get PDFOral Interview with the Division Chair of Natural Science and Mathematics Hamid Behmard
Trajectory of a floater kick: Video kinematics and influencing factors.
Get PDFSoccer is one of the most popular sports in the world and it is still growing tremendously across people of all ages today. The goal of this research was to look at the history and manufacturing of the soccer ball since the beginning of its time in the early 1800s and the trajectory of a floater kick. A floater kick is when there is no spin on the ball. This is a difficult kick to attain due to aerodynamic drag and the magnus effect of a moving object. Another concept examined is the speed the ball travels at with no spin across a certain distance for a single participant. Additional concepts assessed in this study were the average velocity for one kicker across three segments and to see if a critical Reynolds number was reached in a floater kick
Petopia: Bettering Lives for People and Their Pets
No full textMore and more, people consider pets to be a part of their family -- or at the very least, best friends who are counted among their “loved ones”. For some, pets are their only house-mates!
Just like with human kids or senior loved ones, sometimes it’s difficult for those who work full-time to be able to do everything, every day, for their pets… but unlike with human loved ones, there really aren’t that many options for finding good, reliable, affordable caretaking assistance.
For finding help with taking care of your human loved ones, probably the most well-known web application is Care -- where you can find caretakers for pretty much every set of needs your human loved ones may have. However, most web apps currently available for pet services -- the most well-known being Fetch and Rover -- focus primarily on just dog-walking and basic pet-sitting.
From personal experience, and from other pet owners I know, there can be lots of other things that need doing. Sometimes your pet needs medications while you’re at work. Or dropped off & picked up at the groomer’s, or taken to the vet for it’s shots, or some bloodwork. Maybe your senior pet needs to be let out and back in again more often while you’re at work. Maybe your pet with a health condition needs several small meals a day, or just watching over. There are lots of things beyond walking and basic sitting that pets and their owners need help with!
Therefore, we wanted to create a pet caretaking services web app that:
Was inclusive of all kinds of pets,
Covered any type of caretaking needs a pet and their owner may have,
Connected pet-loving individuals, to arrange to help each other out.
Petopia is meant to not only help Pet Owners find reliable fellow pet lovers to help them with the caretaking and well-being of their pet(s) -- therefore bringing them peace of mind ... but also to give pet lovers the opportunity to have a fun and meaningful way to make some extra money doing something they enjoy, on their own schedules.
We want to connect every type of Pet Owner to pet-loving Pet Care Providers, so that people and Pets can enjoy a better quality of life
Feminism Within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Proposal for Thesis Research
No full textFeminism is a popular topic in today’s society, but religious women are often left out of it on the basis that one cannot be both religious and feminist. Even though they may not take part in the most obvious feminist actions as they continue to maintain traditional western family structures, they can still hold feminist beliefs and take other kinds of feminist actions. In my senior thesis I will be studying feminism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints using ethnographic research via first hand participant observation, both in person and online, in the Salem Young Single Adult Ward and within the community of young adult Church members active on Tumblr.com. I hope to see how these women who live or plan to live these more traditional western structures can still take feminist action in their daily lives
Alexa, is my home network safe?
Get PDFThis thesis was created to research the usability and ease of understanding of home network hardware, specifically routers. After the usability is researched, it will highlight the issues and insufficiency with informational documents from a layman’s understanding and the issues that arise when home networks are not properly secured. Most technical manuals that accompany networking hardware are not built for ease of understanding for someone with little technical knowledge in the field and should prioritize securing the hardware and user awareness. Additionally, this thesis aims to bring to light the concerning situation of responsibility post-breach in home networks, business networks, or data-holding providers. In most cases, whichever business has the breach should be held liable for compensation to those affected and initiate better security standards in the future
Blasphemy: A Romantic Comic about the Devil Himself
Get PDFThe tendency for societies to organize themselves around contours of sameness and difference leads naturally to social constructions of us versus them. Individuals are primed to identify with the groups to which they belong, and thus intellectually classify those unlike themselves as the other. Our social inclination toward othering is intractable and ubiquitous across cultures. It breeds conditions of chronic inequality and marginality, reinforcing the ethos of xenophobia that perpetuates and undergirds human atrocities such as war, slavery, and genocide. Through a creative project — a webcomic entitled Blasphemy — I address and illustrate how othering behavior can manifest in the world. Armed with the knowledge that powerful lessons can be gleaned from the arts, the goal is to raise awareness of othering and its deleterious impacts on individuals, and the wider society. Blasphemy co-mingles narrative and visual image in a long-form, serialized webcomic leveraging my study of art and psychology and engaging my own yearning to lessen the suffering of those who find themselves marginalized or targets of discrimination. As is common practice in webcomic production, each update will advance the story until the full story arc reaches its satisfying conclusion. Given the length and nature of Blasphemy as a complete narrative published in series, the full execution of the project logically spans beyond the time scope of this thesis