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Crafting Queer Conversations: Collaborating with Community Partners to Create Discussion Based Programming
Get PDFPerceptions of school shooters: How the race of a school shooter and his video game playing habits influence observers’ explanatory attributions about his crime
Get PDFThe current experiment is an exploration of how people arrive at causal explanations for instances of mass school shootings in the United States. Specifically, this study utilized a fictitious shooter vignette approach with a 2 (White vs. Black shooter) x 2 (shooter played violent vs. nonviolent video games) between-subject ANOVA to determine if these variables would differentially influence the participants’ levels of agreement with various causal attributions about why a mass shooter would engage in such an act of violence. In particular, this study explored participants’ utilization of internal (e.g., innate characteristics like the shooter’s race or gender) or external explanations (e.g., environmental factors such as having neglectful parents, being exposed to violent video games, being bullied at school) for the youth\u27s murderous behavior. Partial support was found for the main hypothesis that the race of the shooter would alter how people perceive the cause of the shooter\u27s actions
The Impact of Hormone Replacement Therapy on the Clavicle
Get PDFOne of the many medical procedures of gender transition that are available for transgender individuals involve the use of cross-sex hormones to align one’s physical characteristics with one’s gender identity. During this process, transgender male-to-female patients may see the feminization of their bodies, while transgender female-to-male patients may see the masculinization of their bodies. Currently, little research has been done to show the full range of the effects that hormone replacement therapy induces, specifically regarding its impact on skeletal morphology. This lack of analysis is not only to the detriment of transgender patients themselves but also to the field of forensic anthropology. Methods of sex estimation on deceased individuals do not presently take gender identity or medical transition into consideration, potentially leading to misidentifications and unsolved cases. This literature review explores the potential influence of hormone replacement therapy in the development of the clavicle in transgender individuals under the age of 30, the average age at which the clavicle halts medial epiphyseal fusion and overall growth. The clavicle was chosen to study due to its ability to continue growing in length even after puberty has been surpassed, emphasizing that the introduction of cross-sex hormones at any point before medial epiphyseal fusion could influence its growth in length. This literature review also serves as a foundation for a future quantitative research study that measures the clavicle lengths of 17 transgender and non-transgender decedents to determine if there is a correlation between hormone replacement therapy and the clavicle’s length at death
Classroom management in Michigan second grade classrooms
Get PDFAn important topic in elementary education today is classroom management. I explored this topic through interviews and surveys with second-grade teachers around Michigan in order to learn more about the question, “What classroom management systems and strategies are being used in Michigan second-grade classrooms today and are they effective at creating a supportive learning environment?” I obtained an in-depth picture of seven different classrooms and the differing methods the teachers use to manage their classrooms. Emphasized elements in the majority of classrooms include flexibility, relationships with students, expectations and routines, and communication with families
Patrician women in Renaissance Florence: Daughters, wives, mothers and nuns
Get PDFThe society, economy, and political institutions of Renaissance Florence between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries were dominated by powerful merchant, patrician families. These families continually worked to maintain their positions at the apex of Florentine society. The women in these patrician families, as daughters, wives, mothers, nuns, played an integral role in their struggle to remain atop the social, economic, and political spheres. In examining the lives of these females we need to ask, to what extent were the lives, roles, and power of patrician women in Renaissance Florence shaped by the needs and desires of their families and the patrician dominated culture? And was there actually any room for these women to negotiate agency or exercise influence in this male dominated culture?
In this study, I will argue that women of the patrician class in Renaissance Florence occupied a nuanced domestic and social sphere. The social status, wealth, and power of these families depended on alliances created by strategic marriages of patrician daughters. To make their daughters attractive in the marriage market, young patrician girls were educated in the socially dictated virtues of chastity, modesty, and obedience. Once married, young patrician women were expected to take on the roles assigned to them by the patriarchy: becoming good wives and mothers. Throughout a woman’s life, she operated within a constrictive and regimented social structure, but a closer examination of the lives of several patrician women will reveal that within these roles, a number of them—wives, widows, and nuns—were able to exercise a great deal of power and influence in Renaissance Florentine society
The time war: Comparatively analyzing the process of settler colonialism & the importance of personal record
Get PDFIn this work, I argue for the necessity of framing settler colonialism as an ongoing process of exploitation and genocide, rather than an event of the past. Understanding settler colonialism as ongoing allows us to recognize how white supremacy utilizes direct and indirect forms of violence to not just occupy land but extract resources, build infrastructure that ensures its survival, and displace indigenous peoples. I offer first a sketch of settler colonialism as it is happening in Palestine, Algeria, and the Americas. I engage with books and research essays to think comparatively about these phenomena & further reveal the legacies empires have left in these regions. I expect to identify models of settlement which include resource extraction and establishment of bureaucratic forces and world power relationships that allow for settler colonialism to be continually reproduced. I then endeavor to express how personal record is a powerful tool in capturing and combating settler colonialism whilst it is happening. By understanding settler colonialism as ongoing systems of domination we honor the lives, rights, and culture of those under its rule
Assessing the impact of the Great Recession on the Rust Belt states: A policy analysis
Get PDFThis research examines at the wide-ranging effects of the Great Recession, which struck the Rust Belt states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin between 2007 and 2009. The study uses historical economic data and state-level policy responses from 2005 to 2015, including GDP and unemployment, and examines the various policies implemented to combat this substantial economic slump. These policies include investments in infrastructure, job creation programs, industrial support, and aid for vulnerable populations. Beyond immediate responses, the research takes into account the region\u27s long-term recovery trajectory. By evaluating different policy choices and the resulting and outcomes, this study contributes to a better understanding of how Rust Belt states navigated one of the most difficult economic periods of the twenty-first century, providing insights for future policy decisions and strategies to improve economic resilience in similar regions experiencing economic distress
In it and of it: A Black principal’s self-examination of anti-Blackness and critical leadership praxis
Get PDFNarrative inquiry is my research method, and my goal is to validate the use of narratives, including my reflective memos, journal reflections, and interpretations of various artifacts that share my students\u27 experiences. As a Black woman and an educator, I emphasize the importance of culturally responsive school leadership for K-12 principals, which includes fostering connections with and amplifying the voices of marginalized Black students to improve their academic engagement. My study also highlights my experiences\u27 critical role in building positive relationships with the school community, particularly in enhancing Black students\u27 climate and cultural experiences. With this study, I shed light on the critical issue of anti-Blackness in my leadership practices by sharing narratives of my lived experiences that chronicled my journey as a principal who, alongside my students, disrupted oppressive systems and processes that criminalized Black students. In addition to culturally responsive school leadership theory, I referenced anti-Blackness as a theoretical, conceptual framework for this crucial autobiographical study. This autobiographical study explained how I interrupted the school-to-prison narrative for Black students through a critical examination of my own anti-Black racist leadership practices. This study influenced future research on culturally responsive school leadership by highlighting my lived experiences alongside my students as we interrogated systems of oppression within our school
“We Gon’ Be Alright”: How resiliency & africultural coping behaviors factor into African American college students’ intentions to seek mental health services
Get PDFBackground: African Americans, apprehension toward utilizing mental health services (MHS) has a long history in the United States. The low rates of utilizing MHS can result in detrimental health consequences, both mental and physical, despite there being a developing literature base on how evidence-based treatments are effective in therapy with African Americans.
Objective: There is expansive literature on several factors (e.g., stigma, cultural mistrust) that contribute to African Americans’ hesitancy concerning seeking MHS. The current study aimed to add to this literature base. Specifically, this study sought to acknowledge both African American college students’ choices to use alternative coping strategies (i.e., resilience and Africultural-based coping) and explore if actively utilizing those strategies might predict feelings of apprehension toward utilizing MHS, despite the need for them.
Methods: The current study is a secondary data analysis of the responses of 360 African American college students. The Hayes’s PROCESS 3.5 macro for SPSS 27 was used to test the simple mediation models explored in this study.
Results: As hypothesized, resilience mediated the relationship between both Africultural coping strategies (i.e., collective- and spiritual-centered coping) and students’ help-seeking propensity endorsement. However, resilience did not mediate the relationship between students’ psychological openness and their help-seeking propensity.
Conclusion: Per the findings gleaned from this study, it appears that for many African American college students, the use of Africultural coping (an external coping strategy) predicted higher levels of resilience (internal coping strategy), and the increased endorsement of resilience tended to increase participants’ willingness to seek MHS. The findings from this study have implications for relevant professional stakeholders (e.g., researchers, mental health professionals, teachers) to inform ways to advance future research related to this topic and refine current health policies and clinical teachings/practice used to promote help-seeking and the care of African American college student