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Living in Dark Skin
Get PDFI wrote this piece to bring light the colorism that I have experienced as a dark skin woman. I also share the experience of struggling with my identity as a Mexican-American woman. I highlighted that this rejected also comes from within my culture.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hcom434_spring2023/1016/thumbnail.jp
Useless Molehill
Get PDFThis piece was a combination of two things: The phrase “don’t make a mountain of a molehill” as well as the concept of a useless watch, or a watch that does not tell time. Time is impossible to manage, it is the ultimate uncertainty. I find that I can be consumed by it or I can just acknowledge it.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hcom434_spring2023/1005/thumbnail.jp
Oxicity
Get PDFThis piece is a critique on our current climate crisis. It is set in a future where trees have been killed off and oxygen is scarce. A certain billionaire has to deal with the ramifications of his actions.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hcom434_spring2023/1000/thumbnail.jp
Heavy and Hateful: Growth of White Supremacy and Neo-Nazism in Skinhead Punk and Black Metal
Get PDFThis paper explores the presence of White Supremacists, racists and neo-Nazis within the genres and associated subcultures of skinhead punk and black metal. It discusses the history of both genres and how specific events and subcultural aspects contributed to the growth in both number and influence of racist actors in each scene. It also discusses the ways in which that racism manifests within the music itself as a means of fascist recruitment and propaganda, using examples taken from specific popular racist artists
Derailed Fortunes: California\u27s Forgotten Railroad
Get PDFAt a mahogany bar in Collins Saloon of San Francisco’s Montgomery Street, a successful businessman James G. Fair traced a trail of water droplets for his partner Alfred E. Davis to create the map of a visionary rail line soon to be known as the South Pacific Coast. Using historical records and photographs compiled by a selection of local authors and historians, this non-fiction retelling of Davis’ experience highlights the tribulations and triumphs of the most successful narrow gauge line in California history in order to share a largely forgotten but crucial aspect of local industrial archeology, as well as to explore the origins of the ghost lines and tunnels which lay abandoned in the Santa Cruz Mountains to this day. Davis’ experiences provide a unique opportunity to tribute and memorialize the efforts of dozens of fallen Chinese immigrants, many of whom lost their lives in building this crucial railroad
Importance of Guidance Counselors on High School Student Success in College and Career Readiness
Get PDFHigh school guidance counselors are a valuable asset in the education system, and support their students in a variety of ways. An important aspect of high school is the emphasis on college and career readiness for students’ post-secondary career goals where guidance counselors are the main resource for. Guidance counselors are the least understood within the education system and are not given enough credit for the types of services they provide to ensure student success. The purpose of this senior capstone research is to highlight and examine the role of high school guidance counselors and their impact on student success in college and career readiness. Through the use of a literature review, one high school guidance counselor written response survey, an anonymous high school student survey of forty-four students, an anonymous college student survey with ten responses, the result findings revealed that high school guidance counselors are not utilized by high school students in the ways they are intended to be and can potentially influence their postsecondary education and career goals
Give the Drummer Some: A Dive into Drum Breaks and Drum Break Production
Get PDFThis paper traces the history of hip-hop culture through the evolution of the drum break, the original context of drum breaks in funk and soul music, their influence on DJ culture, and the subsequent impact of drum breaks on music and music production. It follows the development of breakbeat compilations in the 1970s and 1980s, parallel to the development of turntablism and sampling techniques. It also examines in detail how copyright litigation in the 1990s shaped the development of sample-based music genres and created a niche market for originally-recorded drum breaks over the subsequent decades
La Ropa Sucia Se Lava En Casa: ADHD in the Latinx Community
Get PDFThe focus of this Capstone Project is on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the Latinx community, with an emphasis on parent education to spread awareness. This is an important issue for Latinx parents because proper identification and treatment of ADHD are essential for student academic success. An evidence-based argument is offered that Latinx youth are underdiagnosed with ADHD and that is because Latinx parents underutilize ADHD resources available to them. The three primary stakeholder perspectives chosen were parents, students, and teachers because their relevant experience allows them to provide insight into how the Latinx community views ADHD. Three themes emerged from an analysis of the data and were explored as ways to address the issue presented: 1) promoting parent education; 2) providing bilingual, bicultural ADHD resources; and 3) improving the accessibility of on-campus resources. Amongst the three action options that were suggested, providing bilingual, bicultural resources is argued to be the most effective way to achieve the goal of destigmatizing ADHD in the Latinx community
The Social Dilemma: The Effects of Social Media on Learning in High School Classrooms
Get PDFThis Capstone Project focuses on How Social Media Affects Learning in High School Classrooms. This is an important issue because Social Media is ubiquitous in the lives of students, and this flows into their classroom learning as well. Social Media has been found to affect students grades, attention span classroom behavior, and so much more. The primary stakeholder perspectives for this project are hearing from current high school students, high school teachers, and high school alumni who have graduated from high school within the last five years. Based on the stakeholders perspectives and data analysis, there has been a consensus found regarding whether the effects are positive or negative. Based on an analysis of the interviews and the relevant research literature, the researcher used what they learned to formulate an action that responded in a way that inspires, informs, or involves a particular audience
The Peninsula Influence: Monterey’s Musical Legacy and its Effects on the Current Music Scene
Get PDFThis paper looks at a small handful of key events in Monterey’s history related to music and juxtaposes that with interviews from a selection of artists operating in the area today