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Consumer Capitalist Christmas: How Participation in Christmas Frames Us as Religious Subjects
Get PDFChristmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. It starts with the music that plays on the radio, then retail stores begin to drape their shelves with red and green streamers, followed by Christmas movies running on every other channel. Every December, Christmas feels almost inescapable. The holiday manages to find its way into every facet of public life in the United States. Christians and non-Christians alike find themselves exchanging gifts with friends and loved ones on the 25th of December every year. Christmas is able to be so pervasive because of how unassuming it is. You participate in the rituals of Christmas because it markets itself as being trivial and wholesome. Christmas is much more than a Christian holiday, it is a secular consumerist holiday that has an unassuming nature and has Christian trappings. I will be looking over the many ways that Christmas is able to frame us as religious subject. How the annual rituals that take place in America every December play a role in shaping how we perceive our world
Graphs and CAD: Analyzing the experience of a Mechanical Engineering Intern
Get PDFA reflection on the experiences of a mechanical engineering intern at Bergstrom Inc., this presentation, by Senior Matt Des Biens, will discuss what it was like working for a manufacturing and design company making HVAC units for large customers across the world. The highlights will be on the projects he worked on, the things that he learned, and his views on working for the company as a whole
Erik S. Tjernberg : Augustana Alum of 1886
Get PDFErik S. Tjernberg graduated from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history and his genealogy. We will include information about life in Augustana in the 1880s. We will use sources from Augustana\u27s special collections and original Swedish Parish records
Gustav Mahler: An Honorary Secessionist
Get PDFGustav Mahler’s artistic philosophy was closely related to that of the Secessionists in fin-de-siècle Vienna. His work, both as the director of the Imperial Opera and as a composer, was based on the idea that art should be paramount over personal, sociological, and historical influences. Thus, Mahler should be viewed as an honorary Secessionist who, though personally distant from the Secessionist movement, continually sought higher artistic standards and freedom. This essay will focus on the first movement of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony and contemporary criticisms of the work to better understand both Mahler’s music and the environment in which he worked
Looking Beyond Binaries to Avoid Polarization in the Sex Work Debate
Get PDFThis paper considers both sides of the debate surrounding sex work--the argument for criminalizing sex work and the contention for legalizing sex work--in relationship to policies aimed at combating sex-trafficking in America as well as globally. A queer theory concept of recognizing and removing linguistically created binaries is applied to this debate to offer a more productive perspective on the matter
Instagram: Redemptive Self Love
No full textThis instagram page shows Redemptive Self Love from the perspective of black women in the media while also highlighting black women outside of the media
Sr. Eleanor: Removal of the Habit
Get PDFBeing a women religious for over 60 years, Sr. Eleanor has had the opportunity to experience many changes associated with Vatican II with one of which being the transition to life without a habit. This paper dives into the personal feelings and social implications Sr. Eleanor experienced with this change
Sr. Lucille and Sr. Mary Anne: Choice in Ministry
Get PDFI interviewed Sisters Lucille and Mary Anne regarding their experience as women religious within the Church. This paper highlights a portion of the interview dedicated to the changes for women religious relating to the choice in ministry and the decreasing number of women entering the church
Mrub_3019 casA gene is an ortholog to \u3cem\u3eE. coli\u3c/em\u3e b2760
Get PDFThis research is part of the Meiothermus ruber genome annotation project which aims to predict gene function with various bioinformatics tools. We investigated the function of Mrub_3019, which encodes the CasA protein involved in the multi-subunit effector complex for the CRISPR-Cas immunity system and predicted it to be an ortholog of E. coli K12 MG1655 b2760 (casA). We predicted that Mrub_3019 encodes the protein CasA, which is involved in PAM recognition of CRISPR interference pathway. Foreign DNA will bind to CasA, which signals Cas3 for helicase-mediated DNA degradation. Our hypothesis is supported by low E-values for pairwise alignment in NCBI BLAST, Pfam, and TIGRfam. Both proteins were predicted to be non-transmembrane-embedded, and in close proximity to Cas3 in the Type I-E CRISPR-Cas complex. Finally, both revealed several amino acids that were identical in the Pfam domain hit (PF0481) for the CRISPR_Cse1 family.
Key words: Meiothermus ruber, genome, bioinformatics, annotation, CRISPR-Cas, prokaryotic defense, Mrub_3019, b2760, ortholog, cas
Augustana Stories
Get PDFThis is an Android app that describes the history and urban legends of Augustana’s campus. There are several stories that can be accessed from a list or from a map feature that shows where the buildings are on campus. The map is also capable of giving an order in which to visit the buildings if the user decides to take a tour of the campus. The app is written in Java and the stories are housed in webpages