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Kyle Jones Oral History Interview Records
No full textKyle Jones of Sewanee, Tennessee was interviewed by Kaila Seger, a Sewanee student, on November 27th, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included discussing race relations in the U.S. and his community’s reaction to BLM. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Selena Piercy Oral History Interview Records
No full textSelena Piercy of Sewanee, Tennessee was interviewed by Lyberti Bradley, a Sewanee student, on October 30th, 2023 in person/on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included her experience taking a class on Contemporary Social Movements, and how it influenced her view on the Black Lives Matter Movement. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Using a Strategy Consisting of Market Capitalization and Moving Averages to Analyze the Performance of Three Investment Models for a 3-Month Period
Get PDFUsing three different models, Portfolio Theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model, and Fama French Three Factor Model, we invested in five stocks to maximize profits and minimize risk. We decided to invest in one stock with high rewards while being less concerned with the risk that came along with the stocks. To minimize risk in our portfolio by investing in two stocks with low risk but still a positive historical reward. We then invested in two stocks with medium reward and a medium amount of risk. By using the three different models and with the use of R-Studio, we were able to create the best possible portfolio of the five stocks. By finding our optimal weights, risk vs reward graphs, capital allocation line, over or undervalued stocks, and macroeconomic developments, we were able to make informed and logical decisions regarding the portfolio in its entirety. Our optimal weights are the optimal percentage that each stock should have to get the portfolio with maximized profits and decreased risk. The risk versus reward graphs displayed the amount of return and the amount of risk that each stock has. The over or under-valuations of our stocks allowed us to make more informed decisions on the individual weights of each stock. The Fama-French three-factor model also tells us how each stock is correlated to the three factors in the model. With the unstable market making it difficult for the models to predict the future of our stocks correctly, we also analyzed our stocks individually. We wanted to see which stocks had a higher market capitalization to provide more stability from market factors. A high market capitalization would also show the history of the business and how it has performed in the past. Overall, we were pleased with the optimal portfolio, but we considered the amount of risk that the portfolio takes on, so we decided to decrease from one of our riskier stocks and put it into a safer stock with more stability.Huarui Jin
Veil of the Temple
Get PDFI was inspired to write this collection of stories by my experience while serving as an officer in the United States Navy. The military as an organization, in particular the officer corps, is an insular society which operated largely away from the view of the general population, having its own language, social norms, and methods of enforcing those rules.
The military is deified by many in this country and occupies an amoral role in the minds of many Americans, who rarely question its actions or motives. To me, this mystique that the military has is reminiscent of the Jewish priesthood in the New Testament Bible as told in the Book of Matthew-closed, exclusive, powerful. It is my intention to rip open the ‘veil’ of this ‘temple’ and in part reveal what is inside.
These stories are about ordinary people’s lives and the choices they make to deal with the demands of living within this structure. The story Veil of the Temple follows a successful African American couple who have attained high rank and status within the military. In the story they are forced to face the fact that their many years in pursuit of this goal has corrupted them and negatively impacted the lives of their family.
The Quality of Mercy is based on a story my father told me about his experience of meeting enemy Japanese soldiers in the jungles of Burma during World War II. It is fiction but draws heavily from the untold stories of the Negro soldiers, who like my father deployed to the China-Burma-India Campaign during the war.
The Gargoyle uses magical realism to tell the story of what happens to a young sailor who desperately wants to attend the United States Naval Academy and become an officer in the Navy. His future plans are jeopardized when he accidently loses his military ID card, the punishment for which could put a black mark on his record and ruin his chance to attain his goal.
What Skins We Bear is about the hatred between two naval officers on a ship and how their actions affect their lives and ruin the career of an innocent young officer who unfortunately gets caught up in the bitter conflict.
Writing these stories was at first a kind of self-therapy for me, but later grew into deeper, and I hope, more insightful tales of people struggling to make it within this often pressure cooker of a system
Hooper Markert Oral History Interview Records
No full textHooper Markert of New York City, New York was interviewed by Naeem Mangum, a Sewanee student, on November 28th, 2023 on Zoom. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included Markert’s membership in the Baha’i faith and Markert’s exposure to the diversity of New York City. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview.Dr. Andrew Maginn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Histor
Fr. Seth Dietrich Oral History Interview Records
No full textFr. Seth Dietrich of Shorewood, Wisconsin was interviewed by Ella Dietrich, a Sewanee student, on November 26th, 2023 in person. While their conversation was primarily on the Black Lives Matter Movement, other topics included his diverse experiences by living in different locations and his Episcopal priesthood. We hope that this conversation will assist scholars with a further understanding of race in the United States during the early twenty-first century. Please click on the link to see the full interview
End the Syndemic Posters
No full textSyringe sharing continues to increase the spread of HIV, viral hepatitis, STIs, and other serious diseases, creating a syndemic and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Every county in Tennessee has been significantly affected by the syndemic, and by analyzing state-wide hospital discharge data, we will determine which counties would benefit most from new syringe exchange programs that assist patients with substance use disorders, slow the spread of disease, and reduce the overall healthcare cost. We will also create an interactive dashboard that will assist in lobbying for new syringe exchange programs in the Tennessee counties that need them the most.Camelia Simoiu, Matthew Rudd, Amber Coyn
Waterways Brought into Compliance by the Clean Water Act
Get PDFThe Clean Water Act (CWA) was established in 1972 to regulate the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the United States (EPA). Past research on the CWA has tried to study certain aspects of the legislation, but few studies have attempted to determine if the CWA is making the waters of the US cleaner. There has been little research done to determine if the Clean Water Act has brought waterways out of impairment. This study investigates whether stronger enforcement and implementation of the CWA in states with impaired waters is associated with higher water quality between 1990 and 2010. States with impaired waters, the number of enforcement actions per permit, the percent of impared waters, each state’s political affiliation, the length or area of waterways in each state, the number of fines, and the number of non fines each state received was considered. Data was collected from Dr. Aaron Elrod and the EPA, and analyzed through generalized linear model fitting for thirty states. The percentage of impaired lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, and rivers and streams rose from 1990-2010. The best fitting variable for rivers and streams and lakes, reservoirs, and ponds is the percent of impaired waterbodies in 1990. While this variable can not predict the number of waterways brought into compliance, it is important because most significantly impaired waterways in 1990 were brought into compliance, or closer to compliance, by 2010. If waterways were over 50% impaired in 1990, it is likely that the waterways were brought closer into compliance with the CWA by 2010. The next best fitting variable for both categories is enforcement actions per permit. The findings reveal that the Clean Water Act has not brought more waterways into compliance, but it appears it has slowed down the degradation of our waters. The research is limited by the CWA data collection policy since every state reports their water quality uniformly. Future research should attempt to quantify how much the CWA has improved water quality and where our nation's waters might be without the CWA
Water Music: Stories
Get PDFCharacters confront pivotal moments, their lives and times defined by flux, in “Water Music,” a collection of short fiction. A visitor arrives, inciting change: a betrayal, a ghost, a violent act, a suicide plan, destruction of a neighborhood, sex, war. Underneath the trauma, beats the intense love between women and men. These stories leverage a variety of styles and narrative strategies, while ranging over seminal decades in America. A young girl interprets a shocking church service through sound in the titular piece, “Water Music.”A university professor and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan are designing a backyard geode garden in “The Wandered Off” when the past confronts them in a disturbing manner. In “The Photo Essay” a college woman entangled with a complicated group of friends struggles to define herself. She gains self-knowledge by discovering how others see her. Meet elderly couple Claire and Dave in “The Device,” a utopian tale set in the world’s most famous amusement park, on the day Dave plans to die. In “Possessions,” a campus ghost story, Caroline must decide who she is and where she belongs while navigating two intense relationships. A gang of children—Janie, brother Roscoe, and pal Crockett—fight back against forces they don’t understand during the tumultuous Vietnam era in “The Field.” Charlotte and Robby, a brother and sister close growing up, are attempting to reset their adult relationship when a senseless act of violence interrupts in “Waffle House Christmas.