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Does a State’s Gun Control Legislation Significantly Influence the Number of Violent Crimes?
Get PDFGun control legislation varies significantly between State’s and results from previous studies show great variation on the effectiveness of gun control. This paper attempts to empirically evaluate the relationship that gun control legislation has on violent crime rates throughout the United States. Upon reviewing literature, this study controls for several different economic factors in order to examine the various incentives criminals face when committing a crime. From a theoretical perspective gun control is simply enacted in order to curtail the access to firearms, but with vigorous illegal firearm markets and criminal use of firearms, evaluating the true effect of gun control is proven to be difficult. This empirical study shows inefficient evidence that gun control truly reduces violent crime overall but finds significance in several socioeconomic factors that can efficiently reduce violent crimes. With implications for future studies, this study suggests that for legislators, more focus of efforts should be to reevaluate current existing laws and uniformly implement them across the nation. These findings propose that violent crime rates across the nation have a variety of causes, but with the appropriate attention from both Federal and State legislators, innovative gun control laws can evolve to mitigate the ease of access of firearms across all different markets
Irony and Sensitivity: Hugh Thomson’s Pride and Prejudice
No full textIt is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular classics ever published. Hugh Thomson\u27s illustrations, created for his Peacock edition in 1894, captured many elements of Austen\u27s wit and the nuances of her social commentary to perfection. We take a closer look
Twenty-First-Century Spaces for Twenty-First-Century Learners: Where We Are, How We Got Here, and What Next
No full textAppropriately designed laboratory and classroom facilities are essential for facilitating high-quality original research experiences for undergraduate students. Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL)-an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that involved leaders of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)-engaged faculty, administrators, architects, campus planners, and other key stakeholders in the intentional design of learning spaces for undergraduate research at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). This article discusses nearly three decades of experience since the initiation of the movement to improve STEM facilities at PUIs nationwide. It poses questions for consideration at the beginning of a space-planning process and presents examples of planning processes from Monmouth University and Skidmore College. It also discusses the Learning Spaces Collaboratory (LSC) and a roundtable model for learner-centered facility planning based on lessons learned
Crystal structure of a mononuclear copper(II) complex with 2-methoxy-N,N-bis(quinolin-2-ylmethyl)ethylamine (DQMEA)
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MDOCS Poster-2018-02-06, Issam Nassar
Get PDFFebruary 6, 6pm
Location: Payne Room
Free and open to the public.
In conjunction with the exhibition This Place
Part of the Palestinian Voices series, organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office
Join us for a lecture by Issam Nassar on the history of Palestinian photography. Nassar is a historian of the Modern Middle East and of Photography at Illinois State University. His work focuses on the modern Middle East and the history of photography. He is the co-editor of Jerusalem Quarterly and the author and editor of a number of books, including the editor of I Would Have Smiled: Photographing the Palestinian Refugee Experience (Institute for Palestinian Studies, 2009) with Rashā Salṭī, and The Story of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press, 2013).
Murat Yildiz, Assistant Professor of History at Skidmore College, will introduce Nassar and moderate a discussion following the talk.
This talk is part of exhibition This Place, on view February 3 through April 22, 2018, as well the Palestinian Voices series. The Palestinian Voices series is organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, Hayat, and the Skidmore College Dean’s Office.
This event is free and open to the public
MDOCS Poster-2018-03-28, Palestinian Voices Student Films from Palestine
No full textMarch 28, 6pm
Free and open to the public.
Join us on Wednesday, March 28, at 6:00 PM for a screening of student films from the West Bank and Gaza, organized by Sarah Friedland, director of MDOCS Documentary Storytellers’ Institute at Skidmore College, and Nancy Kalow, filmmaker and instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Program (62 minutes total)
We Love Life (Mohammed S. Ewais, 2015, Al-Aqsa University, 7 minutes): A portrait of graffiti artist Bilal Khaled in Gaza.
The Living of the Pigeons (Baha’ Abu Shanab, 2014, Dar Al-Kalima University, 16.5 minutes): A poetic observation of day laborers going through a checkpoint.
Memory of a Fish (Yousef Salhi, 2017, Birzeit University, 6.5 minutes): A whimsical story of sibling rivalry and the power of a pet fish.
A Pen from Majddo (Mohammad Houshieh and Lana Sadaqa, 2017, Al Quds University, 10 minutes): The risky hopes for one couple divided by incarceration.
The Cage (Khaled Tuaima, 2016, Birzeit University, 7 minutes): The hazards of catching birds in Gaza.
Day 79 (Wisam Al-Jafari, 2014, Dar Al-Kalima, 10 minutes): One man detained in a theater of the absurd.
Reporter, Suspended (Sanabel Al-Hoot, Salam Yahya, Renad Nasser, 2015, Al Quds University 4.5 minutes): One child’s comedic view of the media coverage in Palestine.
The group of films in the program include both documentary and fiction, showcasing creative, meaningful, and universal student filmmaking. The films bring us close to a range of people and situations in today’s Palestine: artists, workers, families, and children. The seven films, take viewers to places ranging from the rubble of Gaza to the Strip’s greenest fields; from crowded checkpoints to the isolation of detention and prison; and in and around the joyful homes and everyday life in varying parts of Palestinian society.
This screening is part of the Palestinian Voices series, which is organized and co-sponsored by the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS), the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, Art History, History, and Hayat.
This event is free and open to the public
The Eternal Tension: An Exploration of the Relationship between Textual and Performative Forms in Regards to Doctor Faustus
Get PDFThis essay explores the relationship between textual and performative forms and the affordances they offer their audiences specifically pertaining to Jacques Rancière\u27s theory of the distribution of the sensible and Caroline Levine\u27s use of affordances. Christopher Marlowe\u27s controversial Doctor Faustus has long challenged the way we think, not just about matters of religion, but about ways in which text and performative language altar what happens in the playhouse. This essay engages with a theoretical foundation concerning matters of both modern and early modern performance theory before applying those theories in readings of Matthew Dunster\u27s 2011 production of Doctor Faustus at Shakespeare\u27s Globe in London. Dunster\u27s production, along with inconsistencies in the A and B texts of Doctor Faustus, allow us to not only think about what each form affords its audience, but also the ways in which they construct or complicate Marlowe\u27s story
Impact of International Trade on Unemployment in the United States
No full textIn the existing economic literature, there have been contrasting views on what effect international trade has on unemployment. This paper seeks to answer the research question on what impact international trade has on unemployment by finding out the individual effects of exports, imports and net exports on unemployment. The results find significant negative effects for all variables although only the results of net exports are unbiased. This implies the U.S. having higher imports than imports decrease unemployment in the economy