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You Say You Want A Revolution: Slavery in Haiti and the United States in the Early 1800s
Get PDFThis thesis will explore the remarkable success of the Haitian Revolution and its impact on slavery in the United States. The Haitian Revolution has been covered numerous times by historians and has sparked different themes, theories, and conclusions. One interesting angle is the white French plantation owners\u27 overall role in the event. Their greed, cruelty, poor workforce management, and moral shortcomings contributed to the slave revolt, and the successful revolution shaped how the United States reacted and adapted its version of slavery. This paper examines what went wrong for the plantation owners while also considering what helped the slaves succeed. I argue that the plantation and slave owners inadvertently helped advance the revolution and when news of the Haitian revolt and refugees arrived in America, it ironically strengthened the pro-slavery views and policies in the United States in the early 19th century
D&D 5E Mass Combat Simulation
Get PDFDungeons and Dragons 5th edition, as well as many tabletop RPGs in general, struggles with very large scale combat encounters. Mechanics are either changed to make it more suited to the increased scale, affecting the game balance in the process, or an entirely different game is used to represent the combat. This paper outlines the process undertaken to create a program that simulates combat encounters in 5th Edition D&D at a scale normally unfeasible without changing the game’s mechanics. I compare my program and its goals with the solutions that come closest to it, including alternate rulesets, virtual tabletops, and a balance testing program
Priority Registration for Student-Athletes at Western Oregon University
Get PDFThis thesis attempts to gain understanding of the unique position of student-athletes. Student-athletes across the country are often academically and athletically successful while facing unparalleled challenges. The goal is to inspire institutional change in the form of enacting priority registration for eligible student-athletes. Priority registration can be a way to limit some of the challenges and facilitate student-athlete success. After analyzing academic literature on college studentathlete challenges and options for support, there are clear gaps in literature on the effects of priority registration for student-athletes. WOU student-athletes, faculty, and staff provided feedback regarding their thoughts and opinions on priority registration for student-athletes. A proposal for implementing priority registration for WOU student-athletes before the Faculty Senate resulted in an endorsement from the committee and approval from the university president. Universities can facilitate student-athlete achievement through educating and raising awareness of student-athlete challenges, providing resources, and implementing strategies such as priority registration to help student-athletes
Health Risks Involved with Prolonged Sitting: Spreading Awareness to College Students
Get PDFThis thesis is about the health risks involved with prolonged sitting. Our bodies are designed to move, and research has shown that sedentary lifestyles increase health risks. In addition to type 2 diabetes, cancers, and cardiovascular diseases, sedentary lifestyles can lead to premature mortality. Often times a sedentary activity such as prolonged sitting is overlooked, when in fact, sitting for long periods of time has a negative effect on health. The goal of this thesis is to research and spread awareness about the health risks involved with prolonged sitting to the students of Western Oregon University. In order to spread awareness, I have created and displayed posters supported by flyers throughout campus with information from my research on the topic. The posters address sedentary lifestyles as a problem and display what a sedentary lifestyle looks like. The flyers discuss the problem of prolonged sitting and potential solutions. Although there are posters and resources that already exist on the topic of sedentary lifestyles, I have created resources specific to the college student population in order to be more effective in spreading awareness to them. This is a widespread problem with serious consequences, yet simple fixes. This is an attempt to spread awareness to a population that includes individuals at a critical point in life who may not be informed about this issue
2019-02-27 (The Western Howl)
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2019-04-10 (Western Howl)
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2019-05-29 (Western Howl)
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Embracing Vulnerability: Exploring the Need for Strength-Based Interventions to Support the Mental Health of Sign Language Interpreters
Get PDFThis action research project focuses on one American Sign Language (ASL)/English interpreter’s mental health journey in the first two years of her professional career over two six-month periods. The aim of this study is to present strength-based interventions that may help support interpreters’ mental health and professional development. A secondary purpose is to reduce stigma by educating the ASL/English interpreting profession and opening a discussion about mental health. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma are discussed as some of the complexities of mental health strain that ASL/English interpreters face in the field. Strength-Based Theory and Self-Efficacy Theory are used as the theoretical frameworks. The methods used in this project included journaling and grounded theory analysis. Strength-based interventions such as workplace accommodations, personal therapy, and coaching were utilized and implemented for the stabilization of the mental and emotional health for this interpreter. However, the results showed a lack of strength-based interventions accessible to this interpreter during the six-month periods. Such interventions may have been beneficial in the prevention of and recovery from mental health strain experienced on the job. Results show this interpreter achieved mental health stability, yet lacked support when returning to work after a mental health leave of absence. Strength-based interventions, including supervision, extended internships, and the Mental Health First Aid training course are suggested for further research for the ASL/English interpreting field to reduce mental health strain. Mental health resources are listed at the end of the paper
Library Survey 2017 Executive Summary
Get PDFLibrarians created four similar surveys (for undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff) to evaluate the use and quality of the library’s collections, services, and facilities and to identify areas for improvement. The last such comprehensive survey was in 2006, using the LibQual+™ instrument. The 2017 surveys, using the SurveyMonkey software and taking less than 10 minutes to complete, were administered April 10-30, 2017, weeks 2-4 of the academic term. Solicitations to take the survey were multifaceted: emails to campus distribution lists and to faculty by divisions; postings to social media for the library and campus; slides on WOU Portal pages, postcards sent to employee and residential student mailboxes, and tabling with tablets at the Werner University Center. After completing the anonymous survey, participants were invited to enter their WOU username for a chance to win one of five $25 gift cards to The Press, the café inside Hamersly Library. The lead investigator was Janeanne Rockwell-Kincanon, Associate Professor & Public Services Librarian. IRB review was not sought since the purpose was internal program review