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Memory: The Use of Technology Versus Reading
Get PDFThis study examined the comparison in retention of information between watching a movie scene and reading a movie script from that scene. There have been controversies on how technology has impacted retention of information among students. The use of technologies can create distractions among those who use it, which may lead to a lower rate of remembered information. We looked at a sample of 20 students who either read a movie script or watched a movie scene. After the experiment, each participant was asked to complete a 5-question quiz assessing their knowledge on the scene. The relationship between retention of information after reading a movie script (M = 4.200; SD = 1.135) versus watching the film clip (M = 3.600; SD = 1.264) was not statistically significant
Session 1
No full textWelcome by Michael Hemesath, President of Saint John\u27s University
Opening Remarks by Paul Haidostian, President of Haigazian University
Foundations for Muslim-Christian Dialogue and Peacemaking: Ideas about God, Faith, and Sacred Texts by Jon Armajani
The Conflicts That Pave the Way for Peace: Lebanese Poet and Philosopher Mikhail Naimy\u27s Perspective by Suha Naim
Becoming Community Episode 1
No full textWelcome to Season 1 of our podcast series, “Becoming Community”. My name is Sarah Gewirtz, and I am the Information Literacy Librarian for Alcuin & Clemens Library, and in this series, we will talk about how the Mellon Grants are helping the CSB/SJU community to be more inclusive. Season 1 of our series will focus on the first twin Mellon grants, which were awarded to CSB and SJU and were administered between 2015-2017. During this season we will talk to faculty and staff who had been involved with the Mellon Grants to find out what they did, what their next steps might be, and what their work means for the CSB/SJU Community.
In episode one, I will discuss with College of St. Benedict’s President Dr. Mary Hinton how the CSB/SJU community received a Mellon Grant; the goals; faculty and student response; and, the impact it has had on our community
Creativity and Performance: The Effects of Working in Groups versus Working Individually
Get PDFI-O Psychologists are interested in factors that can affect work productivity and performance among an organization’s employees. Some professionals argue that two heads are better than one when it comes to being innovative and coming up with creative solutions, however, others state the opposite given that group settings tend to result in many hindering factors such as conformity and production blocking. In the present study, we attempted to determine whether or not there is a differential impact of working groups and working individuals on creativity and performance. This was measured through a divergent thinking task based on Guilford’s Alternative Uses Task (1967) and a convergent thinking task based on Mednick’s Remote Association Task (1962). Introduction to Psychology students were asked to complete both tasks, once as a group and once as individuals. The alternative uses task asked participants to list as many possible uses for a single common household item within a span of three minutes while the remote association task asked participants to answer a number of questions made up of three words and list the one word that associates the other three together. I hypothesized that participants working in an individual setting will have a higher total mean score on the divergent and convergent thinking tasks than the same participants working on these tasks in a group setting
This Morning
Get PDFLarry Schug is retired from a life of various kinds of physical labor, including 34 years as Groundskeeper and Recycling coordinator at the College of St. Benedict. He currently volunteers as a tutor in the CSB/SJU Writing Centers and in various ways at Outdoor U. at St. John\u27s. He\u27s published eight books of poems, the most recent being A Blanket of Raven Feathers with North Star Press
Elegy for Stan
Get PDFChet Corey was born and raised in Minneapolis. Chet Corey’s poems have appeared in literary and religious journals since the mid-1960s, including Benedictines Magazine, Kansas Quarterly, Louisville Review, National Catholic Reporter, Review for Religious, South Dakota Review, and Windhover (U. of Mary-Hardin Baylor). Most recently poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Coe Review, Right Hand Pointing and Stoneboat. Chet and his wife Kathy live alongside Bush Lake in Bloomington, Minnesota
The Forest
Get PDFMaggie Pomerenke is gender non-binary double major in French and English, with a Creative Writing concentration from New Berlin, Wisconsin. They have been writing since they were very young, but really immersed themselves in the art during the last part of their high school career. They enjoy playing flute and piccolo, reading and listening to music as well as being a part of the swim and dive team at Saint Ben’s. Maggie enjoys writing many different genres as well as poetry and is a member of Pseudonym, and often shares their writing there
Traces of History
Get PDFSandeep Kumar Mishra is a writer, poet, artist and lecturer in English Literature. He is the art instructor at Kishlaya Outsider Art Academy. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets - Pearls (2002) and written a professional guidebook -How to be (2016) and a collection of poems and art-Feel My Heart (2016)
Home on the Market Range: an evaluation of cultural and economic barriers to large-scale bison farming
Get PDFGive me a home where the buffalo roam maybe a catchy tune from the 1800s, but it no longer represents the landscape of the American Midwest. As large-scale corporate farms invade the prairie with row crops and cattle yards, they are chasing away family practices as well as the antelope. Could bison, the original red meat, be a successful meat alternative? The argument that bison would be preferable to beef is based upon four premises: bison are better for the environment, healthier for human consumption, easier to manage, and similar in land needs. Based on these four premises, bison appears to be a positive choice yet there are few operations. This paper evaluates the cultural and economic barriers present in this industry. Through four site visits and numerous phone interviews, analysis reveals agriculture to be an unforgiving, risky, and unstable market. With farms going out of business and the market moving towards industrialization, families are walking a fine line between profit and failure which makes the initial leap to a new industry difficult. This could be mitigated with financial assurance or assistance such as a carbon cap-and-trade and programs working to improve niche markets