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Get PDFRichard Dinges, Jr. has an MA in literary studies from University of Iowa, and manages information security risk at an insurance company. Gravel Magazine, Hurricane Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Avatar Review, and Pennine Ink most recently accepted his poems for their publication
Women\u27s Lives in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Narratives of Pregnancy and Childbirth
No full textMany women are now turning to midwives or home births as a more natural option for childbirth than hospital deliveries. But what was women\u27s experience of pregnancy, childbirth and new motherhood before the age of modern medicine? This presentation will present preliminary findings from archival research in Madrid\u27s National Library, examining household recipe manuals and midwifery manuals from sixteenth-century Spain in an attempt to reconstruct women\u27s experience of maternity, relying as much as possible on their own narratives. This presentation seeks to uncover the daily life of women in the Renaissance while also placing their experience in dialogue with current debates over what it means to have a \u27natural\u27 birth and women\u27s autonomy over the birth process
Married Love and Responsible Parenthood: Changing the Discussion on the Ethics of Birth Control
Get PDFThe current framework in which The Catholic Church discusses birth control originates within a sexual ethic based on rules Christians are obligated to follow. After a careful, internal critique of the encyclical, there needs to be a change in this framework so that Christian sexual ethics is less focused on the rules and more focused on the values which Humanae Vitae embodies. These values are presently described as the unitive and procreative ends of marriage. However, with a transition from a rule-based sex ethic to a value-based sex ethic, these ends of marriage can be redefined in terms of married love and responsible parenthood, which each carry a set of practices. Additionally, these values and their respective practices lead to a revised moral evaluation of all birth control methods including: fertility awareness methods, barrier methods, withdrawal, sterilization, hormonal methods, and abortion. Each method proves to be more or less ethical as each method is individually examined in how it upholds the values Humane Vitae embodies. By changing the framework in which we discuss the ethics of birth control, there can be more focus on the positive goods of marriage to encourage a happier and more fruitful living of married life
The Prairie & Oak Savannah Relationship in MN
No full textThe prairies and oak savannahs of MN have a complex and fascinating relationship, ever-evolving due to plant and human interactions. Learn about these tree and plant communities and how they’ve changed over time
Immigrant Voices in Conversations about Justice: A Conversation about Economic Justice
No full textLa Asamblea de derechos civiles (The Assembly for Civil Rights) is a statewide, faith-based non-profit organization which organizes immigrants from predominantly Latino congregations in Minnesota to build power for changes in the immigration system and the underlying political and economic structures behind it
Low soybean prices are bad for Minnesota’s soybean farmers. But that doesn’t mean they’re bad for Minnesota’s economy overall
Get PDFDynamic Reflectivity and Transmissivity Measurements of Black Phosphorus Flakes
Get PDFWe studied the dynamic reflectivity and transmissivity of black phosphorus flakes using a pump/probe laser system. The flakes were excited with femtosecond laser pulses, ~60fs, in order to observe how the optical constants changed with respect to time delay. The relaxation time period of the excited charge carriers was calculated to be ~200-300fs during transmission measurements. Reflectivity measurements had shown longer time periods but could not be calculated due to limitations of the experimental setup. Future improvements to the system’s temporal range will be able to provide more detailed information about the longer lifetimes
