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EMT Certification Through National EMS Institute
No full textIn this reflection paper, I share my experience of becoming EMT certified and its connection to my academic and career goals
Pre-lab Videos for CHM 223
No full textShort lecture/demo videos meant to prepare students to begin lab work as soon as class starts. All videos CC-BY-NC-SAhttps://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/oer/1005/thumbnail.jp
Bridging Healthcare and Community: A Reflection on My PICA Internship at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital
No full textThis reflection explores my experience as a PICA intern at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, CT, where I served as both a volunteer in the emergency department and a student intern shadowing healthcare professionals. The hospital\u27s focus on equitable care, particularly for predominantly POC communities, was evident through their multilingual resources and mental health support systems
Summer Civics Leaders: Spark Makerspace
No full textNavigating myself in the arts field while being a stem person
The Image of Schizophrenia in Spain\u27s Healthcare System
Get PDFSchizophrenia affects thousands of people in Spain and is one of the most serious mental health disorders in existence. Despite its this characteristic, schizophrenia did not always get the proper attention it deserved within the country’s healthcare system. This was largely due to the influence that the Spanish government had, and continues to have, over the healthcare system, giving it the power to choose how the disorder was represented. Therefore, what does that mean for schizophrenia in Spain’s healthcare system today? This essay will explore the ways in which schizophrenia was represented in Spain’s healthcare system through an examination of the government’s attitudes towards the disorder during the second half of the 19th century, the Era of Francisco Franco, and today, as they were reflected in the available treatment methods of the time. Although the image of schizophrenia in the Spanish healthcare system has improved greatly and reveals less stigma within the government, there is still work to be done to improve it further
La migración dominicana y el enclave étnico: Identidad y performatividad en Indocumentados: El otro merengue y I Forgot to Speak Spanish
No full textLa Ciudad de Nueva York ha sido por varias décadas el enclave donde se ha desarrollado la vida de migrantes que han llegado a la metrópoli buscando un mejor porvenir. Entre estos transeúntes se encuentran los migrantes provenientes de la República Dominicana, en donde muchos (pero no todos) han arribado a los Estados Unidos de manera indocumentada. En el presente se encuentran disponibles varias fuentes de información que documentan la presencia de los dominicanos en la Ciudad de Nueva York, pero aún queda mucho por documentar y analizar en torno las particularidades de ese fenómeno migratorio desde disciplinas como la Historia y la Literatura. Mientras académicos como Jorge Duany, Patricia R. Pessar, María del Carmen Baerga, Ramona Hernández, entre otros se han acercado a esta migración desde la sociología y utilizado fuentes de información en su mayoría cuantitativa y documentos oficiales, desde géneros literarios como el teatro y desde los medios audiovisuales se ha presentado el tema desde la experiencia del sujeto, ya sea desde la ficción o la ficción creada y basada en hechos reales. La literatura, desde la inmediatez y en primera persona ha reconstruido las historias de los migrantes, la historia de una otredad que queda borrada en las fuentes tradicionales de información. Este escrito pretende de manera breve abordar diferentes representaciones de los enclaves étnicos dominicanos en la Ciudad de Nueva York. A través de las representaciones en el teatro o los medios audiovisuales se nos presentará las características del enclave, las prácticas transnacionales y la identidad de los migrantes. El análisis se enfocará en la experiencia de los migrantes y sus prácticas transnacionales en el primer acto de la obra de teatro Indocumentados: El otro merengue por José Luis Ramos Escobar (1991) y en las primeras cuatro escenas del performance audiovisual I Forgot How to Speak Spanish de Sydney Rahimtoola Medina (2018).
For several decades, New York City has been the metropolis where many migrants have chosen to live and seek a better future. One of the biggest ethnic groups that settled in the city are the Dominican migrants, of whom many (but not all) have arrived in the United States undocumented. The presence of Dominicans in New York City has been well documented, but there is still much to study and analyze regarding the particularities of this migratory phenomenon from disciplines such as history and literature. While academics such as Jorge Duany, Patricia R. Pessar, María del Carmen Baerga, and Ramona Hernández, among others, have approached this migration mainly from a sociological perspective and based on quantitative information and official documents, in literary genres such as theater and audiovisual media, the topic has been presented from the subject\u27s experience, whether from fiction or fiction created and based on real events. Literature, from immediacy and in the first person, has reconstructed the stories of migrants, the history of an otherness that is erased in traditional sources of information. This paper aims to briefly address different representations of Dominican ethnic enclaves in New York City. Through representations in theater or audiovisual media, we will be presented with the characteristics of the enclave, transnational practices, and the identity of migrants. The analysis will focus on the experience of migrants and their transnational practices in the first act of the play Indocumentados: El otro merengue by José Luis Ramos Escobar (1991) and in the first four scenes of the audiovisual performance I Forgot How to Speak Spanish by Sydney Rahimtoola Medina (2018)
Write Things Right: How to Communicate Most Effectively About Climate Change
Get PDFAs the climate change crisis worsens, it is more important than ever that communicators understand the role that specific messaging plays in the formation of public opinion and the overall strength of the call for action. This study seeks to determine the most effective methods of communicating climate change-induced environmental issues to the general public to raise awareness of the issue and encourage solution-focused behavioral change. A review of current climate change communication techniques reveals that it is up to communicators to understand the limitations of their chosen media and the most effective tactics for communicating the complex issue with the goal of bridging gaps, increasing awareness, and creating lasting change. A study of one, dialogue-based form of climate change education demonstrates that new and innovative forms of communication have the potential to increase understanding of the phenomenon and influence an audience to consider pro-environment behavioral change in their daily lives. A final econometric study determines that climate change stories with statistics-based language may be more effective at increasing levels of concern and willingness to change daily behaviors than stories with more narrative language, and that the effects of a hopeful tone versus a fearful tone depend on the specific climate-change-related issue being addressed. These results stress the importance of understanding the pre-established beliefs of specific topics, the outcomes of different forms and mediums of messaging, and the impacts of language choices, when designing climate change communication around the goal of creating lasting change in public opinion and behavior
Explorations of Nuanced Gender Representations in the Current Horror Genre
No full textThis paper explores the relationship between gender and horror, typically from the 1980’s to the current 2020’s. This research examines various areas of the horror genre in terms of its gender representation, including community reception, deconstruction of the gender binary and the myth of the vagina dentata. Multiple films will be analyzed through this work, including those of notable recognition, and others that go under many viewers’ radars. This is not about the confirmation of these gender representations as objectively “good” or “bad”, but rather about the nuanced methods that filmmakers take to present identities in new and unique perspectives. The goal of this thesis is to look into a variety of horror films and texts and determine the changes in gender representation that have occurred over the past forty years or so
