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75th Birthday
Get PDFJanet McCann’s work has been published in Kansas Quarterly, Parnassus, Nimrod, Sou’wester, America, Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, New York Quarterly, Tendril, and others. A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, she taught at Texas A & M University from 1969-2016, is now Professor Emerita. Most recent poetry collection: The Crone at the Casino (Lamar University Press, 2014)
Quiet Johnny
Get PDFIn 1987, Patricia and Leonard Porcello endowed the Wagner-Berger Prize to honor Patricia’s parents, Louis and Mary Wagner-Berger, and to support college women who are interested in writing short stories and novels. It is designed to encourage and reward excellence in creative writing at the College of Saint Benedict.
The Wagner-Berger Prize for fiction is the first scholarship of its kind at the College of Saint Benedict. It is a scholarship awarded annually to the CSB student who submits the most original, previously unpublished short story. All submissions are judged by a committee of English Department members, and the winner receives an award of $1,000. Studio One is honored to publish this year’s winning piece by CSB senior Ryan McCanna.
Ryan McCanna is a senior English and Theater double major and Hispanic Studies minor. She hails from St. Louis Park, Minnesota where her teachers and family encouraged her to pursue writing. In particular, the wonderful Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Baldwin, Mr. Wilkes, Sra. Anderson and the Richardson family. She studied abroad in Viña del Mar, Chile during her first semester junior year and her second semester she wrote this story in Professor Callahan’s Creative Writing class. She’d like to thank her family and professors Callahan, Marston, Harkins, Opitz, and theater professor Johnston for their encouragement and honest feedback throughout her college career
The Influence of a Positive or Negative Mindset on Affect and Heart Rate Variability
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to see whether the induction of a positive or negative mindset could influence measures of health and happiness, specifically heart rate variability and affect. 43 participants completed two short writing exercises intended to place them in either a positive or a negative mindset. During the entirety of the study, I measured their heart rate and calculated the variability between beats. Participants reported their affect before and after the manipulation. The results showed a clear relationship between mindset condition and heart rate variability and a possible link between mindset and affect. The positive mindset condition evoked more positive affect, less negative affect, and higher heart rate variability, with the negative mindset condition having the opposite effect. The study also looked at the relationship between trait optimism and resting heart rate variability and found that, contrary to expectation, pessimists had higher resting heart rate variability. Overall, the results indicate that there is evidence for a link between mindset and measures of health and happiness
Shifting Bilateralism: Understanding Change in the US-Japan Alliance During the Cold and Gulf War
Get PDFEmerging from a violent past as unlikely partners, the alliance of the United States and Japan has withstood years of cooperation and competition. Today, the two nations face regional threats from North Korea and China. Considering the unique alliance, I hope to provide a framework for understanding inter-alliance management and policy making processes. Subsequently, I consider one main question in my research. What factors explain continuities and changes within this alliance relationship? To address this question, I consider leadership role conception, role prescription, and norms of consultation that contribute to changes within alliance relations.
Analyzing these variables in the case of the US-Japan alliance provides a clearer understanding of what contributes to policy change in bilateral alliances. Research on alliances often fails to address normative variables and attributes much of change to arguments posed in the realist camp that emphasize system pressures. Focusing on different aspects of decision-making expands the research on change in alliances and fills the gap of intra-alliance relations research. I analyze the alliance at two different time periods in the relationship. First, alliance relations and security policy during the Nixon and Sato leadership give a better understanding of the Okinawa Reversion and Nuclear Deterrent issue of 1972. Second, the 1991 Persian Gulf Crisis raised tensions due to unclear roles and a lack of norms of consultation. The roles that these nations play in the alliance illustrate how tensions are alleviated or heightened due to role variation and the strength of consultation norms. Role conceptions and perceptions along with formal or informal norms of consultation contribute to changes in alliance relations. The presence of norms of consultation and alignment of roles alleviates tension
The Voting Behavior of Labor Union Members in the 2016 Presidential Election
Get PDFThe conventional wisdom surrounding the 2016 United States presidential election suggests that Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, received significant support from labor union members. This has drawn attention, as labor union members have long been considered a crucial Democratic voting bloc. Previous studies have shown that Democratic support from organized labor groups has been declining over time. The stereotypical labor union member has long been a white working class male with a high school level of education in a private sector union, and recent work has primarily focused solely on these individuals. However, those traditional labor union members have been found to make up a declining share of labor union members. Therefore, there is a considerable gap in the understanding of who labor union members in the United States are. This paper will consider the changing demographics of labor union members, and analyze ANES data to consider their behavior in the 2016 U.S. presidential election
Study USA, Our CSB/SJU Experience
Get PDFWe (Cathal and Emma) came here from Northern Ireland on a programme called ‘Study USA’. The Study USA programme, originally known as the Business Education Initiative, was established in 1994 by the British Council. It is a highly successful and innovative programme which offers undergraduate students studying in Northern Ireland the opportunity to study business and management for one academic year at church affiliated universities and colleges in the USA. The programme was designed to assist with the Peace Process, which was developed in Northern to rebuild the communities after a period of conflict known as the Troubles. The White House provided their own endorsement for the programme in March 1995 in a letter written by President Bill Clinton. We were lucky to be given the opportunity to take part in the programme; and in August CSB/SJU student community. Since coming here we have felt nothing but welcomed by the CSB/SJU community. We would like to take part in this event to celebrate all of the opportunities that this campus has given us and show other students what they can gain from a study abroad experience
Mni Sota Makoce: The Dakota Homelands
No full textLearn about and integrate Dakota values for caring for the land and consider your individual, family, and community connections by examining Minnesota as a Dakota place
Lava Heron Fishing Success: The Impact of Water Depth
Get PDFThe Galápagos Lava Heron (Butorides striata sundevalli) is a small bird that is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. It is territorial and primarily preys on small fish. Currently, there is little research on these herons, so any information will be helpful in better understanding their ecological processes. During a biology course on the islands (July 2017), we observed the hunting patterns of herons specifically their strike patterns. We hypothesized that Lava Heron’s fishing practices would differ depending on water depth. We predicted the successful strike rates would be higher in shallower water, and herons would more likely to hunt standing in the water in shallow water versus standing on rocks when hunting in deeper water. To test our hypothesis, we observed Lava Herons as they hunted in a tidal stream for ten days in Puerto Baqueriza Moreno, Isla San Cristóbal. The water depth, whether they were successful, time between strikes, and location of where the heron was when it struck was recorded for each strike attempt. Our results showed a significant difference between the success in shallow versus deep water strikes (χ2= 63.74, df = 2, p \u3c 0.001). Specifically, the strike success rate was higher in shallow water and more strikes into shallow water originated from water than land. These results suggest that shallow water is an important aspect in the Lava Heron’s territory. Hunting territories that lacked the important component of shallow water could result in negative impacts on the heron’s heath. Continued observation of strike patterns across an extended period of time would contribute more information to our results
