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Creating a Globally Engaged Campus
No full textWhat does it mean to be a globally engaged campus? How might we imagine a more global liberal arts that educates and inspires a generation of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and local community members with the capacity to work on complex problems that span diverse cultural perspectives? Dr. Weinberg will lay out a series of principles and early action steps to move campuses in this direction
Students’ usage of and attitudes toward social media
No full textThis study examines the extent of usage of a group of college students of six social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and YouTube. The results confirm a shift to Instagram and Snapchat, but more than 60% of respondents use Facebook at least daily. The reasons to engage are largely social or to gain information. Respondents’ agreement with various statements related to privacy demonstrate a nuanced reality. In particular, respondents engage regularly with social media platforms while disliking the personalized advertising business model upon which social media platforms are based, and they largely do not trust the sites
Kaleidoscopic allusions: James and Wharton on modernity through art, convention, and the kaleidoscope
No full textHenry James and Edith Wharton comprise two of the most successful turn-of-the-century American writers. The two follow the progression of young men and women who attempt to navigate marital, social, and monetary concerns of high-society. Through my research, I’ve traced James and Wharton’s recruitment of art, convention, and the kaleidoscope (a cultural phenomenon that infiltrated nearly every social circle and spun its way into the literary sphere) to highlight their respective attitudes toward modernity. Their language especially concerns females and their socially-assumed decorative qualities. I have constructed a cultural and theoretical analysis on modernist literature and the kaleidoscope, followed by close readings of The Portrait of a Lady (James), The Age of Innocence (Wharton), The House of Mirth (Wharton), and The Custom of the Country (Wharton), to prove the valuable insight readers can glean from reading James and Wharton through a kaleidoscopic lens
Conscience & Courage in Public Life - The 12th Annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture
Get PDFDenis McDonough \u2792, was the White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. Prior to his 2013 selection to the highest non-elected position in the White House, McDonough served as Obama\u27s Deputy National Security Advisor, Chief of Staff to the National Security Council, and head of the National Security Council\u27s Strategic Communication division.
During his eight years in the White House, McDonough managed thousands of White House employees and Cabinet Secretaries, provided strategic advice to the President on the most pressing range of domestic and international issues facing the federal government, and coordinated efforts to recruit and retain key talent to the federal government.
Before his work in the Obama Administration, McDonough served in leadership and policy positions in the U.S. House of Representatives, National Security Council, and U.S. Senate.
In 2017, McDonough joined the Markle Foundation as senior principal, aiming to “transform America’s outdated labor market to reflect the needs of the digital economy,” according to the organization. He is also a senior visiting fellow at the Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs Program and an executive fellow of the Global Policy Initiative at Notre Dame\u27s Keough School of Global Affairs.
McDonough graduated summa cum laude from St. John\u27s University in 1992 with a B.A. in History and Spanish, where he played football for Hall of Fame coach John Gagliardi. He then graduated from Georgetown University\u27s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a Master of Science in Foreign Service in 1996
Clericalism: Advancing the Theological Basis for Vatican II\u27s Call for an Active Laity
Get PDFIt is the purpose of this paper to echo the Second Vatican Council’s call for a more active laity by, on the one hand, drawing atten-tion to the theological basis of this call (baptism), and, on the other hand, identifying and denouncing clericalism as the biggest obstacle to a more active laity in the church
The effects of low dissolved oxygen concentrations on diving behavior and lactate accumulation in \u3ci\u3eLithobates pipiens\u3c/i\u3e
Get PDFDissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in bodies of water can differ based on geographic location, time of day, or even climate change. Because frogs acquire approximately 20% of their oxygen across the skin, decreases in DO could negatively affect diving behavior by increasing reliance on anaerobic metabolism and formation of lactate. To evaluate this possibility, we measured pulmonary and cutaneous oxygen exchange as well as blood lactate levels before and after a 30-minute dive period under both saturated DO (8.341 ± 0.042 mg/L) and low DO conditions (3.918 ± 0.597 mg/L). Although frogs diving in a low oxygen environment tended to accumulate slightly more lactate, which would indicate a shift toward anaerobic metabolism, the trend was not significant (t(8) = 1.86, p = 0.525). A reduction in cutaneous O2 gas exchange was observed to be significant (t(8) = 1.86, p = 0.0015) following a forced dive. However, cutaneous O2 gas exchange only makes up a miniscule amount of the total pulmocutaneous gas exchange; therefore, would have little effect on lactate accumulation. In conclusion, low DO water does not appear to influence diving behavior or lactate accumulation in a biologically significant way for this species. However, we acknowledge the possibility that low DO water may have a more profound effect during dives of longer durations
Seeing an Exoplanet
Get PDFIn my experiment, I used the telescopes at the Saint John’s Observatory to measure the brightness of three stars that were expected to have exoplanets orbiting them. I was unable to take enough data on two of the stars, but was able to confirm the existence of an exoplanet around the third, HD189733
The Leadership Style of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un
Get PDFThis working paper presents a personality-based analysis of the likely leadership style of Chairman Kim Jong-un, supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in negotiations with U.S. president Donald Trump, inferred from the results of indirect personality assessments conducted 2013–2018 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Kim’s primary personality patterns were found to be Outgoing/gregarious and Dominant/controlling, supplemented by secondary Accommodating/cooperative, Ambitious/confident, and Dauntless/adventurous features.
Outgoing individuals are dramatic attention‑getters who thrive on being the center of social events, go out of their way to be popular with others, and are confident in their social skills; they may have an impulsive tendency and be prone to boredom. Dominant individuals enjoy the power to direct others and to evoke obedience and respect; they can be tough and unsentimental and often make effective leaders. Accommodating individuals are cordial, cooperative, and amicable; they are polite, respectful, and agreeable, willing to adapt their preferences to reconcile differences, and to concede or compromise when necessary to achieve peaceable solutions. Ambitious individuals are bold, competitive, and self-assured; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their special qualities, and may act as though entitled. Dauntless individuals tend to flout tradition, conventional standards, and cultural mores, dislike following routine, and may act impulsively and recklessly; they are resistant to coercion and may exhibit a strong need for autonomy and self-determination.
It may be inferred on the basis of his primary Outgoing personality pattern, infused with secondary Accommodating qualities, that in the absence of strong situational constraints Kim will be inclined to congenial–cooperative behavior in negotiations; a generalized expectancy for leaders with this particular psychological predisposition is to behave in a manner that is gracious, jovial, socially gregarious, agreeable, accommodating, and obliging in relating to others, with an underlying attitude of benevolence and neighborliness and a preference for avoiding conflict and seeking harmony with others.
Framed in terms of heuristic leadership models in political psychology, Kim appears to be temperamentally active-positive, with an active-independent orientation to foreign affairs and high-dominance extraversion as his preferred operating style in the international system
