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Where is Home?
Get PDF“I know it is wrong to not want them to move in, but it’s the way we feel.” “If one family moves in then pretty soon there will be others.” “I think that all races should have equal opportunity. But I think they should stay within their own groups.” “Negroes and Mexicans have as much right to love as we do, but they still depreciate property.” These are all words that were written about by grandma and her two brothers when they moved to Moline, Illinois. They were born in the U.S. and had just been evicted from their apartment because the area was going to be industrialized. In this paper I tell part of my grandma’s story of her trying to find home. We will see how she was discriminated against because she moved into an area that was predominantly occupied by white people. I will make a connection between her lived experiences and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands. I will also explain how Moline can be looked at as a borderland area. Throughout this analysis we will see ignorance, hegemony, and diaspora
The Challenges of Making French Gender-Inclusive: How to Stop Leaving the Non-Binary and Genderfluid Community Out of the Conversation
Get PDFGender-inclusivity in the French language is being made mainstream at an extraordinarily slow pace because there is a lack of education for francophone citizens regarding the clear definition of inclusive language due to little to no support from politicians in France. The solution to making the French language more gender-inclusive at a quicker pace is to incorporate non-binary grammar early on in French education worldwide
Assessment of the Negative Role Amur Honeysuckle has on Urban Forest Diversity
Get PDFLonicera maackii (Amur Honeysuckle), an invasive shrub species, has out-competed native species in urban riparian zones for decades due to its ability to receive more sunlight and it also secretes an allelochemical from its leaves that negatively impacts the ecosystems. Our research question is how does Lonicera maackii affect native plant species in the herbaceous understory? Five forest communities were sampled in Northwest Illinois. Sites were separated into four different categories with L. maackii only, Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) only, Neither invasive species, and sites where both occur. There were 12 sites for each of the four categories resulting in 48 total. Daubenmire 1 m2 plots were placed haphazardly throughout the site. Native relative cover, native Shannon\u27s H, native richness, non-native relative cover, non-native shannons, and non-native richness were assessed. There was a site effect for native relative cover, native Shannon’s H, native richness, non-native relative cover, and non-native richness. There was a treatment effect for native relative cover, non-native relative cover, non-native Shannon’s H, and non-native richness. There was a site by treatment interaction for native relative cover, non-native relative cover, non-native Shannon’s H, and non-native richness. The data show that when comparing the effect L. maackii had on total relative native cover, four out of five sites had lower total native relative cover when L. maackii was present. All five sites had lower non-native Shannon’s H when L. maackii was present. We conclude that L. maackii has a significant effect on native plant species in the herbaceous understory. The data correlates to the literature with L. maackii’s presence lowering the amount of native plant species cover. A possible explanation is that L. maackii dominates native species with its shading ability as suggested from other studies
Building Speech Pattern 3: Picture Stimuli
Get PDFBuilding Speech Pattern 3: Picture Stimuli is part 3 of 8 in the picture stimuli to accompany the Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity documents. To see the full series, visit: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cgi/siteview.cgi/csdbuildingspeech
Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is a dual approach to treating and evaluating articulatory complexity in child speech. It has two components: Building Speech and Quantifying Complexity. These two components can be used independently or together. When used together, the speech-language pathologist has a method for selecting goals and targets of varying levels of articulatory difficulty, plus a means for measuring changes in a child’s words, targeted and produced, at one point in time or over time.
The Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity materials include a manual, picture cards for each of the eight speech patterns, and worksheets for the Index of Phonetic Complexity. The manual provides speech-language pathologists with foundational information, so that they can individualize their assessments and interventions to meet the needs of the children on their caseloads with challenging speech sound disorders. It is not intended to be a lock-step program, but rather, an approach to be used creatively and flexibly by speech-language pathologists to address the needs of the individual children on their caseloads. Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is designed to assess and treat speakers of American English, although the components can be adapted to fit the phonetics and phonology of other languages
Building Speech and Quantifying Complexity: The Manual
Get PDFThis document is the manual to accompany Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity. The full series can be viewed here: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cgi/siteview.cgi/csdbuildingspeech
Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is a dual approach to treating and evaluating articulatory complexity in child speech. It has two components: Building Speech and Quantifying Complexity. These two components can be used independently or together. When used together, the speech-language pathologist has a method for selecting goals and targets of varying levels of articulatory difficulty, plus a means for measuring changes in a child’s words, targeted and produced, at one point in time or over time.
The Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity materials include a manual, picture cards for each of the eight speech patterns, and worksheets for the Index of Phonetic Complexity. The manual provides speech-language pathologists with foundational information, so that they can individualize their assessments and interventions to meet the needs of the children on their caseloads with challenging speech sound disorders. It is not intended to be a lock-step program, but rather, an approach to be used creatively and flexibly by speech-language pathologists to address the needs of the individual children on their caseloads. Building Speech & Quantifying Complexity is designed to assess and treat speakers of American English, although the components can be adapted to fit the phonetics and phonology of other languages
The Forgotten Concentration Camps of 2022
Get PDFMany people would like to believe they could never be a Nazi, but as we speak a genocide not unlike the Holocaust is happening in China and North Korea. We must address this issue if we are to see ourselves as capable of taking on a threat as great as the Nazis. Millions of people are facing the worst oppression this world has ever seen and they need our help in any way we can afford it. In this paper, I compare Nazi Germany to China (1930s-present) and report on how Americans perceive the latter country. Although the terror and torture tactics China employs seem insurmountable, I offer some advice on how we can move forward as individuals and a society
Drivers of Macroinvertebrate Community Integrity Within Mixed Urban and Agricultural Dominated Mississippi Tributary Watersheds
Get PDFThe “urban stream syndrome” refers to a multitude of impacts caused by urbanization including flashier hydrograph, elevated concentrations of nutrients and contaminants, altered channel morphology and stability, reduced biotic richness, with increased dominance of tolerant species, reduced base flow and increased suspended solids. The drivers of these “symptoms” include impervious surfaces, piping in stormwater drainages, habitat and forest loss, water supply and sewer leaking, and direct alterations to channel morphology and flow. The goal of this study was to assess the integrity of the macroinvertebrate community and determine the most significant drivers of such integrity at the catchment, riparian zone, and reach scales.
The study area included eight mixed land use (urban & agricultural) watersheds in Rock Island County, IL and Scott County, IA. Watersheds were delineated using Arc-GIS. Forty-one sampling sites were identified to capture the maximum variation in known drivers of watershed degradation. Macroinvertebrates were sampled using standard dip-netting techniques, with staples apportioned to different in-stream habitats weights by habitat abundance. Water quality data was collected monthly for the following parameters: total dissolved solids (TDS), total suspended solids (TSS) dissolved oxygen (DO), phosphate, and discharge. Sub-catchment basins above each sampling site were then delineated and used to quantify upstream landscape characteristics using available geospatial data including land cover, total impervious surface and within a 5m buffer of streams, etc. The family biotic index (FBI), a measure of integrity in relation to organic pollution tolerance was calculated
Perceptions of Expertise in Disability: Intersectional Considerations for Disclosure
Get PDFIn this article, I will consider how perceptions of disabled tutees\u27 expertise relate to disclosure through an intersectional lens. Specifically, drawing from reading writing center literature and my own experience to understand how the stigma around disability affects disclosure opportunities for tutees with marginalities considered atypical of disability