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A Longview on Iran: Echoes from the Ancient Middle East
Get PDFWith its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps blacklisted, Iran responded in kind, classifying United States Central Command as a terrorist organization. In the midst of a buildup of U.S. military in the Gulf, President Rouhani indicated Iran’s willingness to return to its previous program to develop nuclear arms. Where will this lead? Ancient history provides an illuminating—if unsettling—perspective
Effects of guided mindfulness meditation on anxiety and stress in a pre-healthcare college student population: A pilot study
No full textObjective: To identify the effects of guided mindfulness meditation on anxiety and stress in pre-healthcare college students. Participants: Students (n = 33, age 19-22 years) were tested between September and November of 2017. Methods: Students completed 5-12 minutes of meditation 6 days/week for 8 weeks. We examined differences in pre- and post-intervention stress, anxiety, mindfulness, and heart rate variability. Results: All variables significantly improved after the intervention. When broken into quartiles based on minutes of meditation, groups 1 (0-184 min, p = 0.044) and 2 (184.1-268 min, p = 0.042) significantly increased mindfulness after the intervention. Group 3 (268-350 min) significantly decreased state anxiety (p = 0.015) and increased mindfulness (p = 0.029). Group 4 (350.24-424.05 min) decreased stress (p = 0.003), state anxiety (p = 0.007), trait anxiety (p = 0.003), and increased mindfulness (p = 0.007). Conclusion: Five to twelve minutes of daily mindfulness meditation is associated with decreased stress and anxiety, and increased mindfulness with greater changes observed following more minutes of meditation
Visual vs Auditory Learners and Retention of Song Lyrics
Get PDFThis study investigated the difference between auditory learners and visual learners and their ability to retain song lyrics. I hypothesized that participants who hear the lyrics through auditory learning will retain more song lyrics than the participants who read the song lyrics through visual learning. The study included 20 college students. 10 were randomly assigned to condition A, which had participants listen to a song, the remaining 10 were randomly assigned to condition B, which had participants read the same song’s lyrics. Result showed a significant results from an independent sample t test, t(18)= -2.807,p=.012, d= 1.25. These results however, contradicted my prior research and hypothesis, implying that perhaps visual learners retain more song lyrics than auditory learners. Future research can be done concerning the type of post- test given
Memory Recall with Distractions
Get PDFPeople who had a distraction, listening to the podcast, while looking through the basic pictures will remember less images than those who did not listen to anything or have any distractions. There are many distractions that happen in our daily lives, throwing us off course or making us forget what we were doing completely. Even though we feel as if we are paying attention to the subject at hand, distractions can cause us to forget about it. According to a study conducted by McNab, Zeidman, Rutledge, Smittenaar, Brown, Adams, and Dolan (2015), when people are distracted while completing a task they are less likely to remember what they were doing. Technology has become an increasing part of our lives every day. For a majority of people it seems like they have at least one technological device with them anywhere they go. Not only are people tempted to look at them whenever they have a free minute, but they get notified whenever they have a new message so that they are able to instantly respond. This study was completed using random assignment and was a convenience sample for a class assignment. The study had 20 participants, 10 in the control group and 10 in the experimental group. The study looked at the difference between memory recall of 20 images when participants were listening to nothing and when they were listening to a podcast. This study was close to significance and had a high effect size and lower power, showing that my hypothesis was supported. When people are listening to something while trying to remember images, they are more likely to remember fewer images than those who were listening to nothing
Digital Pedagogy: Advanced Techniques in Canvas Courses
No full textPart of the Digital Technologies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference hosted by CSB/SJU Librarie
Cultivating Compassion:Insights Drawn from Buddhist and Benedictine Practices
No full textAjahn Jotipālo and Fr. Michael will share practices from their respective monastic traditions that they have found helpful for cultivating inner peace and a life of compassion. They are convinced that these can be helpful to students and others who are struggling to experience peace and to be compassionate in their lives. Committed as they are to interreligious dialogue, both monks will also discuss what they have learned from each other’s monastic tradition about peace and compassion .
Ajahn Jotipālo is a Theravada Buddhist monk of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in Redwood Valley, California, with which he became affiliated in 1998. Since then he has also stayed at Theravada Buddhist monasteries in Thailand, Canada, and New Zealand. A graduate of Wabash College in his home state of Indiana, he later worked in sales for six years and on staff at the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts before becoming a monk. Ajahn Jotipālo has been involved in interreligious dialogue with Benedictines and other Christians for many years, and he is a resident scholar this academic year at the Collegeville Institute where he is working on a project titled “What can Buddhist Artistic Traditions Learn from Christian Iconography?”
Fr. Michael Peterson, OSB, has been a Benedictine monk since 1996, first affiliated with Blue Cloud Abbey in Marvin, South Dakota, until its closing in 2012, when he transferred his monastic vows to Saint John’s Abbey. He is the abbey’s oblate director, the sacramental chaplain at the College of Saint Benedict, and the chair of the board of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, a group of Benedictine and Cistercian monastics engaged in interreligious dialogue with members of other religions, especially with Buddhists monks and nuns. He regularly leads retreats and conferences and he serves in many pastoral assignments throughout the Diocese of St. Cloud.
Danica Simonet (CSB \u2719) majors in peace studies, with an individualized concentration in forced migration, and she is pursuing minors in both German and philosophy. A former member of the CSB Senate, Danica has been working as a student interfaith leader with the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning since the fall 2017 semester. She also serves as co-director of Extending the Link, a group of CSB/SJU students who produce documentaries to ignite social change
Homelessness and Health in Central Minnesota
Get PDFCapstone students from the Intercultural Health Communication course will present findings from interviews conducted with professionals who work with the Central Minnesota homeless. Topics to be discussed will include the common health issues and barriers to healthcare Central Minnesota homeless face, as well as how the Central Minnesota homeless communicate about their health and strategies for improving their health
Introduction to Essays from the Conference on Religion, Politics, and Peacemaking
Get PDFThe following essays by Jon Armajani, Suha Naimy, Wilbert van Saane, Paul Haidostian, and Mary Dana Hinton were presented at the conference “Religion, Politics, and Peacemaking” that took place on the campus of Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota in October 2018. The conference’s co-sponsors were the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at Saint John’s University, the Department of Peace Studies of the College of Saint Benedict / Saint John’s University, and Haigazian University, with funding provided by the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota.
The essays approach religion, politics, and peacemaking from several disciplinary perspectives including Arabic Language and Literature, Armenian Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Studies, Middle East Studies, Peace Studies, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Theology. The essays address their topics keeping in mind the causes, mitigating factors, and peaceful approaches to conflicts in the modern and contemporary periods. One commonality of these essays is the idea that Christianity can be a meaningful framework for understanding peace and engaging in peacemaking
The Effects of High and Low Intensity Video Games on Cognitve Abilities
Get PDFThe purpose of this experiment was to see whether or not video games have any effect on an individual’s cognitive abilities. Specifically, we focused on working memory, information processing, context processing, and goal maintenance. In order to measure this, we had participants complete three tasks: the AX-CPT task, Erickson\u27s Flanker Task, and the N-Back Task. Participants were assigned to one of three groups: music group (Control), low intensity video game group, and high intensity video game group. Each group had exposure to the experimental variable for 15 minutes and then completed the three tasks. Scores on each task were compared for the different groups to see if there were any significant differences in performance