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A&Q Presents: May 1, 2019
No full textKyandreia Jones \u2719 is a Posse Miami Scholar and a Creative Writing major at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She was born and raised in South Florida. When she thinks of home she likes to muse that she is in a “sunshine state of mind.” Jones’ poetry and prose has been published in various college literary publications and magazines such as Red Weather, Grasping Roots, The Black List Journal and The Underground. Opportunities like having her first short story “At Home” published by Living Spring Publishers in Stories Through the Ages, College Edition 2017 inspired Jones to take her writing to new heights. Working for Choose Your Own Adventure has been the highlight of Jones’ career and she cannot wait to see what other adventures await her! Jones values reading, writing, laughing, and promoting universal kindness.
She is the author of Choose Your Own Adventure SPIES: James Armistead Lafayett
The Treatment of People with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: The Example of Oneida County, New York
Get PDFThis publication is two-fold: an executive summary and the report itself. The executive summary provides a general overview of the larger report, on the criminalization of the mentally ill. It begins by summarizing three case studies from the report that concern the intersection of mental health issues and the criminal justice system in Oneida County in New York State. It then provides a brief historical overview of mental health issues and the criminal justice system before going on to discuss the current best practices in addressing the criminalization of the mentally ill, including law-enforcement mechanisms, mental health courts, and reintegration programs. Next, the paper identifies the shortcomings of these practices and the lack of organizational and financial capacity that hobbles concerned stakeholders from effectively tackling the issue. The paper concludes by proposing a general program for immediate action on local and national scales
Man Up! A Study on How Fourth Grade Boys Perform Masculinity
No full textMy research analyzes the ways fourth grade boys perform masculinity at school in the presence or absence of certain observed variables. The four variables at play were: structure of the environment, gender of actor within the situation, norms of said situation, and presence of an authority figure. According to the literature and consistent with my own finding was that boys performed masculinity was by establishing authority, and did so through displays of confidence, competitiveness, and bossiness. My results indicated that due to the close proximity of an authority presence in structured environments, in these spaces bossiness and confidence were more pronounced than in unstructured environments--where they were often subsumed by competitiveness. Differences in masculinity performance as it pertained to gender were inconclusive due to the lack of isolated situations of boys interacting with just girls This research grows the existing literature, and is one of few, if any, ethnographies on masculinity performance in elementary school boys since Thorne’s ethnography. Additionally, this research serves to re-analyze Thorne’s theories and ideas under a contemporary lens, blending her findings with those of Messner (2002) to help better understand the way perspectives on masculine identity are formed
24/7 in a Box: Inmates’ Written Expression in Solitary Confinement versus Lower Security
No full textResearch on social integration and suicide suggests that extreme social isolation can lead to feelings of detachment from others, hallucinations, and suicidal ideation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate changes over time in the written expression of inmates in solitary confinement compared to lower levels of prison security. Using data from the American Prison Writing Archive (APWA), the first and last essays of 36 inmates in solitary confinement and lower levels of security are analyzed and compared through the use of a computer text analysis program, Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), and qualitative coding. In line with the suicide model of social integration, writings by inmates in solitary confinement were focused more on themselves and less on other people over time. In addition, inmates in solitary confinement wrote about loneliness, fighting to stay sane, and suicidal thoughts. In contrast, writings by inmates in lower security were focused less on themselves and more on other people over time. They also wrote about both positive and negative relationships with other inmates. Both security levels wrote about abuse from prison staff. The results of this study highlight the detrimental consequences of social isolation and solitary confinement. Furthermore, these findings call into question solitary confinement as a violation of the constitutional protection from cruel and unusual punishment
Intentional Inheritance: William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides
No full textPoems and Meditations
No full textThis volume presents all the surviving writings of the poet Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612–1672): the poems published during her lifetime in The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America; or, Several Poems (London, 1650), poems added to the posthumous edition of Bradstreet’s Several Poems (Boston, 1678), and the material in her hand and that of her son preserved in a manuscript volume known as the Andover manuscript. Extensive footnotes illuminate Bradstreet’s broad reading in the medical, scientific, and historical literature of her day, as well as her interest in recent and current English history and politics.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1112/thumbnail.jp
Why Historians Should Examine Shaker Novels and Short Stories
Get PDFVisitors to the villages often broadcast cautionary tales in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century publications, tales that are remarkably similar to those of many authors of novels and short stories that appeared concurrently. Unfortunately, similar stories whose authors purport them to be historical novels continued to be disseminated in the twentieth century and indeed into the twenty-first century, well after most Shaker villages had closed. Thus a remarkably unvarying voice of anti-Shakerism has been kept alive for over two hundred years, a voice that threatens to obscure the legacy of the Shaker success in communal living
Combating Deception in Genocide
No full textAfter the Holocaust, the world vowed “never again,” yet there have been several genocides since then. Why? This paper studies the importance of deception in conducting genocide. Specifically, it focuses on perpetrators’ attempts to deceive the international community in three genocides: the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide, and the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar. It finds that deception plays a key role before, during, and after the genocide, and often fits one of three archetypes: creating false evidence, such as staging attacks or falsifying documents; propaganda, such as inspiring and promoting hate speech against a certain group; and destroying evidence, such as bodies, documents, or villages. The paper also examines the social forces that cause people to be complicit in genocide, and how the mind deceives and self-deceives. Next, the paper surveys the work that several key actors are doing to combat genocide. These are the United Nations, the United States Department of State, the United States Congress, and non-governmental organizations. The paper then offers direction for further research and concludes with comments about the importance of combating deception not only in contemporary genocides, but also in seemingly peaceful countries