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Survival of Deaf Jewish People during the Holocaust Era
Get PDFThis project uses academic and personal research to explore the experiences of Deaf Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. The author is a member of the Deaf community and a Deaf Interpreter, as well as the daughter of a Deaf Jewish Holocaust survivor. She examines the construction of Deafness in the eugenics era and chronicles the stories of Deaf Jewish survivors. A recurring theme in these narratives is Deaf survivors’ strategic use of silence to facilitate survival
It Takes Two: A Crisis of Identity and Turkey\u27s Rejection of the European Union
Get PDFIt Takes Two: A Crisis of Identity and Turkey\u27s Rejection of the European Union explores Turkish-European Union (EU) relations over time through the lens of accession. With the suspension of eight of the thirty-five chapters of Turkish accession in 2006- effectively hindering any semblance of productive negotiations, this thesis seeks to understand if, and how, Turkish sentiment shifted in relation to EU accession prior to and following this event. I conducted a textual analysis of primary and secondary sources and examined Turkish public opinion from the years 2000 to 2013. I found that there was a discernable process of de-Europeanization that occurred after the EU\u27s rejection of Turkish accession. This result is then discussed through the lens of topics such as populism, neo-Ottomanism, conditionality, xenophobia, and crises of identity and legitimacy
Signaling Allyship via Antiracism
Get PDFBlack students face ongoing exclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) classrooms and few studies have looked into strategies to help white professors attract Black students to STEM. Expressing support for anti-racism may help attract Black students to STEM, but this has yet to be explored. An identity safety cue, a signal suggesting one’s identity is valued, can help attract Black students to these STEM classrooms. We focused on anti-racism as an identity safety cue because of the preliminary evidence that support for anti-racism might be helpful for Black students, and the lack of research surrounding anti-racism as an identity safety cue. The present work recruited participants via Prolific, and explored whether the content of an introductory STEM course syllabus, paired with either a white or Black professor, signals allyship and promotes belonging among Black adults. That is, Black participants were assigned to one of four conditions: Black professor-antiracism statement, Black professor-DEI statement, white professor-antiracism statement, or white professor-DEI statement and reported their anticipated belonging in the classroom as well as perceptions the professor was an ally. Based on findings from previous work, we hypothesized that the most anticipated belonging would be signaled when participants viewed a syllabus with anti-racist course content from the Black professor. However, for the white professor, we predicted that he would promote the greatest allyship and anticipated belonging when the syllabus includes anti-racist course content (versus control diversity, equity, and inclusion content) in the syllabus. Participants reported their perceived allyship, interest, similarity, and belonging and trust, all of which were most salient in conditions including the Black professor and in conditions including the antiracism statement. Consistent with past work, the Black professor promoted greater allyship and belonging in the classroom than the white professor. We also found that the antiracism syllabus promoted greater allyship than the syllabus with the general DEI. Taken together, the present work suggests that allyship can be perceived at a higher level when creating a more specific statement promoting antiracism than general DEI. This shows that content and race both have an impact on how Black adults perceive STEM environments and what makes STEM more approachable for Black students
Seasonal plasticity and correlations among butterfly wing color patterns: Insights into modularity
Get PDFDealing with the wide ranges of temperatures throughout the year can be a challenge for ectothermic animals like insects. Phenotypic plasticity, the development of different phenotypes depending on the environment, is one way that animals can combat this problem. However, traits are often integrated and share developmental or genetic mechanisms which can limit the adaptive response of an individual trait. Modules, groups of traits that vary together but are independent of other traits, often share developmental mechanisms and therefore can facilitate the evolution of these adaptive traits. The seasonally variable melanistic wing patterns elements of the Colias butterfly are an ideal model to study modularity because of their homologies and shared developmental requirement of the pigment, melanin. The seasonal variation of the ventral hindwing is adaptively advantageous for thermoregulation, but the variation of other melanistic traits has received far less attention. This goal of this project was to identify which melanistic traits vary seasonally and examine how they correlate with each other and with the ventral hindwing in Colias butterflies using statistical analyses. The results show that melanistic wing pattern elements are seasonally plastic and modular. Furthermore, these modules align with elements of the nymphalid groundplan. Because melanized basal trait elements show similar patterns of seasonal plasticity as the ventral hindwing, they may share its thermoregulatory function. Additionally, the potential underlying mechanisms of the seasonal plasticity and modularity of these melanistic wing pattern elements are discussed
A Comparative Look at How Professionals Perceive Social Communication Intervention for School-aged Children
Get PDFThis study examined how different practitioners, such as speech therapists, occupational therapists, teachers, and psychologists, integrate social communication goals into their daily sessions when working with school-aged children. An online survey was sent out to practitioners in Midwestern cities in the United States to assess their opinions on implementation, execution, and usage of social communication in therapy or class sessions. The survey also outlined the six principles of social communication as described by Fujiki and Brinton (2000), and asked the participants to rank these principles in how challenging they are to implement into their sessions. The purpose of this study was to ultimately observe how frequently different practitioners use social communication intervention when working with school-aged children, along with understanding any facilitators and barriers to acting in accordance with the principles from Fujiki and Brinton’s study. The results of this study demonstrated the desires practitioners have to utilize more collaborative and interactive interventions when working with children with social communication challenges, along with the necessity for more resources and time to be dedicated to this particular field
#AidToo: Analysis of Sexual Violence and Power Structures in the Global Aid Sector
Get PDFThe global aid sector is meant to serve the world\u27s most impoverished, exploited, and vulnerable peoples by providing assistance to those in poverty, internally displaced persons, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars, and famines. Aid organizations have been afforded a moral status as crucial entities for humanitarian crises, but they operate in patriarchal, oppressive structures that perpetuate gender inequality, neocolonial mentalities, and sexual violence. This paper will focus on atrocities involving sexual violence. As sexual violence scandals from aid organizations increasingly emerged in 2018 alongside the height of the #MeToo movement, the global aid sector developed its own hashtag, #AidToo, to bring awareness to these issues. While #AidToo did help publicize these scandals and create a conversation, numerous reports unfortunately continue to arise about further issues with sexual violence and prominent aid organizations. The ongoing sexual violence within the global aid sector, despite #AidToo\u27s call for change, demonstrates the deeply embedded power structures that allow these issues to continue. To improve the global aid sector, it is necessary to recognize the structures and mentalities that exist in aid organizations to inform future change and operations
Investigation of Microgravity Grown Organic Crystals by Diffusion Techniques over the Course of Thirty-one Years
Get PDFThe effect of microgravity on crystallization experiments has been a topic of interest over the past fifty years. The first microgravity crystallization experiments have been dated back to the early 1970s, and since then hundreds of crystals have been grown in microgravity. Crystallization experiments have been conducted on multiple flights and a variety of spacecraft, using an assortment of techniques, and funded by several different countries. Scientists have been and continue to examine how macromolecular crystals grow in microgravity and how the structures determined from crystals grown in microgravity compare to the structures determined from Earth grown crystals. Parameters such as size, uniformity, mosaicity and resolution limit can give the scientists insight into whether or not there are marked improvements in crystals. The ability to grow high quality crystals can lead to many developments in the electronics, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and metal industries along with a variety of areas of research. This study is an analysis of publicly available data on organic macromolecular crystals grown by diffusion techniques over a thirty-one year period of time (1988-2019). The hypothesis is that experimental techniques and experience in microgravity crystallization have provided improved crystal growth throughout the analysis time period
How Early Modern English Pedagogy Shaped the Gendered and Racialized Use of Magic in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Get PDFMagical usage plays a significant role in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. However, who gets to use magic and in what ways? Why is Prospero painted the protagonist while Sycorax gets labeled a witch though both use magic? This thesis looks at how early modern English pedagogy shapes the use of magic in The Tempest. When magic is read as knowledge, then the pedagogy influencing early modern education dictates whose knowledge counts and is seen as correct and whose is erased and vilified. The epistemological formation happening in early modern England is apparent in The Tempest as Prospero uses magic as a means of control to puppeteer the outcome of the play, while Sycorax is both absent and voiceless. In this thesis I examine how the pedagogy present in early modern English schools and homes shapes the magical usage in The Tempest along gendered and racialized lines that ultimately creates an epistemology of empire
Locked Up: A Look into Healthcare Behind Bars
Get PDFThe United States incarceration rate is the highest in the world. Incarcerated individuals are guaranteed a right to healthcare but, it falls short in many correctional facilities, as systemic barriers and inadequate funding often result in substandard care and poor health outcomes. There are multiple challenges that come with providing healthcare in prisons such as limited resources, lack of funding, and staff shortages. Prisoners at every level of the correctional system are known to be less healthy than the general population, and despite multiple efforts to improve healthcare, many prisoners still receive inadequate healthcare. Improving prison healthcare and increasing funding is crucial for promoting public health, reducing medical costs, and ensuring the fair treatment of incarcerated individuals. This improvement is critical for breaking the vicious cycle of illness and poverty that is prevalent in these institutions