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The Feeding Patterns of Sally Lightfoot Crabs in Comparison with the Tides in the Galápagos Islands.
Get PDFDuring our ecology course in the Galápagos Islands (2019), we became curious about the feeding patterns of the sally lightfoot crabs (SLC). We hypothesized that a relationship existed between crab feeding patterns and the tide levels. Our research was conducted on the shores of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristóbal, in the Galápagos Islands. Between June 12th, 2019 and June 22nd, 2019, we observed crabs during both high and low tide. The crabs were placed into three different age groups based on their coloring: juvenile, intermediate, and adult. We collected the number of crabs observed eating at each given time from each age group. We expected there to be a greater amount of crabs eating during low tides due to the larger amount of rocks being exposed which house the algae and nutrients that the crabs eat. Our results yielded a chi squared value of 0.42 which did not support our hypothesis that crabs favor low tide for feeding. With this being said, the results did exhibit a trend that indicated crabs favor eating during low tide as opposed to high tide. We also documented that adult crabs exhibited aggressive behaviors toward other age classes. This caused many of the smaller and younger individuals to hide or move to a different area disrupting their feeding and potentially reducing total intake of daily nutrients. Our study gives more insight as to the behaviors and feeding patterns of the SLC. To better understand the feeding patterns of the SLC in the Galápagos Islands, more studies need to be conducted on the species in general about their behaviors and feeding habits
Julius Nyerere’s Understanding of African Socialism, Human Rights and Equality
Get PDFJulius Kambarage Nyerere, African philosopher, anti-colonial leader, first president of the United Republic of Tanzania, and respected international statesman, served as president of the newly independent Tanzania from 1964 through 1985., after which he remained politically active in Tanzania and on the global stage. Trying to steer a post-colonial course of self-reliance, he developed and implemented African Socialism in Tanzania, articulated in the Arusha Declaration in 1967. As an anti-colonial leader, Nyerere referred to international human rights standards such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and maintained a commitment to human rights as president and afterwards. In this essay we look at Nyerere’s program of African Socialism, and his understanding of the interrelated concepts of socialism, human rights, and equality. We close with a discussion of Nyerere’s controversial human rights violations as president, and a reflection on his legacy
A Global Church in the Local Parish: Fostering Intercultural Competency for Indonesian Catholic Ministry in the United States
Get PDFAmani Mashinani Conflict Transformation Model: Bishop Korir’s Legacy on Peace and Reconciliation
Get PDFThis chapter is about the story of the late Bishop Cornelius Kipng’eno Arap Korir who stood up for peace and reconciliation in the midst of numerous interethnic conflicts. Bishop Korir, who was then the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, lived the experience of inter-ethnic violence between the Marakwet, Pokot, Kikuyu, and the Kalenjin communities. As a person from the Kalenjin ethnic community, he had to learn to distant himself from the abrasive political rhetoric and violent actions and embrace the path of the Gospel of Jesus instead. He started what he called Amani Mashinani (Kiswahili for \u27peace at the grassroots\u27) as a strategy for bringing together warring communities. Even after his death on 30th October 2017, his legacy of Amani Mashinani continues to be a major contribution to peace in the Rift Valley region in Kenya. The Amani Mashinani model is an end-product of experiences drawn from numerous peacebuilding efforts that Bishop Korir headed throughout his leadership in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret. This happened after many years of political tensions, mistrust, and tribal rivalry in the North Rift Valley. The model takes a conflict transformation approach that while recognizing the negative effects of conflicts, seizes the opportunity to draw different actors to find alternatives to their differences and commit themselves to working on social cohesion. This chapter details the unique aspects of the Amani Mashinani’s twelve step model that helped in addressing complicated inter-ethnic conflicts and has become part of Bishop Korir’s legacy
Religious Faith as Cultural Heritage at the Refuge for World Truths
No full textFaith undergirds the Refuge for World Truths, a multireligious heritage-scape that emerged out of an old Spanish land grant adjacent to the Wild West mining and ranching town of Crestone, Colorado. Established by an entrepreneurial husband-and-wife team in the late twentieth century, the Refuge’s spiritual centers were founded upon different faith commitments. Christian, [Sufi] Muslim, and Baha’i centers adhere to a monotheistic faith and claim divine revelation as the source of their presence in the Refuge. New Age, polytheistic, and nontheistic groups base their faith claim on the personal mystical revelations of “Glenn,” a local peripatetic and self-described prophet who hailed the arrival of the original couple. Two stints of ethnographic research point to the spiritual centers’ public ritual performances as both invitations to pilgrims to intensify this faith and as functional cogs in the integration and continuity of the heritage-scape’s ritual economy. Finally, the faith expressions underlying the Refuge for World Truths allow this unique locality to champion interreligious dialogue as a method for addressing diversity and negotiating potential onsite conflict on the path to peaceful mutuality
From Bean to Cup
No full textKeith Lemnios, the CEO/founder of Sun Coffee Roasters, outlines his journey of launching a sustainable coffee company along with the people and process required to go from bean to cup
Jason Schlude\u27s 2020 Induction Ceremony Address: The Art of Liberation: Life in the Liberal Arts
No full textA new group of College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University students are the latest to receive a select honor.
A total of 58 individuals from CSB and SJU make up the 2020 list of inductees to Phi Beta Kappa’s Theta Chapter of Minnesota. This is the 11th cohort of students who have been inducted into the chapter.
Students are chosen based on their grade-point average (3.85 for juniors, 3.65 for seniors) and must be a liberal arts and/or sciences major. The selection committee also looked at the breadth and depth of the student\u27s program and other achievements, such as a thesis or other research; interest in other cultures or languages; extracurricular activities; and academic performance.
Delegates from more than 200 chapters and associations of Phi Beta Kappa voted to establish the chapter at CSB and SJU Oct. 2, 2009, during their Triennial Council in Austin, Texas.
The CSB and SJU chapter was the eighth Phi Beta Kappa chapter established in Minnesota at the time and was named \u27Theta\u27 after the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Phi Beta Kappa’ is the nation’s oldest academic society, having been founded in 1776 by several students from the College of William and Mary during the American Revolution. It was originally intended to promote freedom of inquiry and liberty of thought and expression.
Those ideals continue today as the society champions the liberal arts and advocates for science education, according to CSB/SJU assistant professor of biology Clark Cotton, who is the chapter’s secretary/treasurer.
Past members have included 17 U.S. Presidents, 41 Supreme Court justices and over 140 Nobel Laureates.
According to the organization’s website, 10 percent of U.S. colleges and universities have Phi Beta Kappa chapters, and those chapters select only 10 percent of their arts and sciences graduates to join.
An induction ceremony had been planned for April 22, but was canceled because of COVID-19. The chapter worked on an alternate plan for some sort of recognition for the students. Phi Beta Kappa certificates will be mailed to students at a later point in time
How Will President Trump Respond to Iranian Retaliation for the Killing of Qasem Soleimani?
Get PDFThis analysis attempts to predict the general tenor of President Donald Trump’s likely response to Iran’s anticipated retaliation for the targeted killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, based on (1) empirical studies of Trump’s personality profile and leadership style conducted at the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics and (2) rational-intuitive inference derived from Trump’s observed behavior in office
The Catholic Church and the Turn of the 20th Century: An Anthropology of Human Flourishing and a Church for Peace
Get PDFThis paper will explore the connections between the 20th century’s unsurpassed violence and the Catholic Church’s adoption of anthropology of human dignity and flourishing, resulting in a call and commission for peace as seen in Pacem et Terris, Gaudium et Spes, and the Catholic Worker Movement