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Expanding Carceral Frontiers: The 100-Mile Border Zone and Constituting Latinx Political Subjectivity
Get PDFThe thesis has two interrelated concerns. The first explores the emergence of the 100-mile border zone in order to study how the U.S. has expanded its borders inward and redefined notions of national security and carcerality. The second will define the 100-mile border as a carceral frontier that has emerged from previous years of racial security operations such as “Operation Wetback” in 1953. Moreover, I will demonstrate how the 100-mile border zone, a carceral frontier, blends the logic of security and the carceral in order to create a space of total state control. This inward turn of the 100-mile border zone and the security and carcerality of this space reveals much about the constitution of the sovereign state’s right to define and secure its borders within the nation, the rights of the state over that of the citizen, a citizen\u27s right to free movement and due process, and the racial dynamics of security actions. To explore this contradictory logic of security, I conduct an analysis of security language on border and immigration “operations” that constituted the emergence of the 100-mile border zone since 1953. Through this analysis, I will argue that the 100-mile border zone, as a carceral frontier, is a new theoretical development in Critical Carceral Studies. In this way, this thesis will engage in Securitization Studies, Border Theory, and Carceral theories. This type of analysis will reveal that the 100-mile border zone, and the making of this carceral frontier, is inextricably bound to the rights and status of Latinx
Interpreting Spain\u27s Jewish Past: Jewish Heritage Tourism and the Politics of History
Get PDFThis honors project explores Jewish heritage tourism in twenty-first-century Spain and how the politics of historiography permeate all aspects of the tourism experience. It argues that Jewish heritage sites in Spain are deeply entrenched in global, centuries-long historiographical debates about Spanish empire, nationalism and legacy. This, in turn, has shaped decisions about which Jewish spaces Spanish entities preserve for future generations and how Spanish entities represent present-day Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism. To demonstrate the reach of academia beyond the classroom, I use on-site signage, heritage management initiatives, and souvenirs to trace the influence of historiographical narratives, like Spanish Black and White Legend, in the heritage tourism sphere
Relationship of Nothofagus Pumilio Dendrochronology to Precipitation in Patagonia, Chile
No full textTree ring width depends on tree species and age, as well as environmental conditions such as temperature, precipitation, and even wildfire occurrence. Because of the dependence of overall tree health and growth rates on climate, variability in tree ring width and diameter is used to infer past climate variations. This study compares precipitation data obtained from Chile’s Centro de Ciencias del Clima y la Resiliencia (CR2) and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) to average tree ring growth per year of Nothofagus pumilio in Puerto Natales, Chile. My results demonstrate there is an overall positive trend in tree-ring width over the last century, but there is not a significant correlation between total annual precipitation or DBH and tree-ring width
Negotiating Arabic: Diglossic Language and Intercultural Proficiency in American Education
Get PDFDiglossia refers to the coexistence of High (H) and Low (L) varieties within a language (Ferguson 1959). Arabic, a diglossic language, struggles with this division. Native speakers of Arabic communicate via their dialects (L). Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) in the US focuses on Modern Standard Arabic (H), neglecting the dialects. US government investment in Arabic as a critical language since 9/11 has continued to prioritize the instruction and professionalization of the H variety, suppressing intercultural proficiency. Arabic Language curricula in the US must evolve to teach meta-linguistic awareness between the H and L forms of Arabic
From Experiment to Theory: Investigate the Effect of Pump Beam Size on Photovoltaic Material Behavior
Get PDFIn orde to investigate the effect of the pump beam size on an ultrafast conductivity measurement experiment, an experiment using Femto XL-500 laser and a simulation using Mathematica were performed. From the experiment data, we found that as the size of the pump beam decreases beyond certain limit, the Drude model can not accurately predict the relationship between conductivity and frequency. In addition, the simulation results corroborate with the experiment result that there is a limit for the size of the pump beam
Rhetorical Dominance: How Homeric Dialogue Defines Characterization
Get PDFThe importance and social power of a character in the Odyssey can be defined by their dialogue. Characters who display tact and strategy when speaking to others are often much more successful in their goals than those who are blunt or careless. There are scenes wherein characters noticeably gain these skills, such as the conversation between Telemachus and Athena, as well as scenes where characters engage in rhetorical “combat,” seen in Calypso’s farewell to Odysseus. By examining the dialogue between characters in these scenes, we can see clearly how a character’s rhetorical strength directly correlates with their importance and role in the greater text. Beyond dialogue, this can be found in the repeated lines that introduce and carry conversations. How this formula is used in various points throughout the text, especially when characters use it within dialogue, indicates a character’s grasp of social interaction. By examining dialogue rather than narration, we can learn more about the social status of characters, which defines their narrative role
A Friend Who Does Me No Good: Aphorism in Matteo Ricci’s On Friendship
Get PDFThis paper argues that Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) designed his aphoristic compilation, Jiaoyou Lun 交友論–On Friendship (1595)–to serve the Jesuit mission of converting the Chinese to Catholicism and express the conflict he may have felt exploiting friends to forward the Jesuit mission. Utilizing friendships to allow for greater social influence was central to the Jesuit proselytization strategy in China. However, Ricci’s moral education from youth taught him to judge utilitarian friendships as immoral. The extant scholarship regarding Ricci’s On Friendship fails to acknowledge the significance of the aphoristic form to this work. To illuminate the value of aphorism to the Jesuit mission and this book, I analyze a selection of the book’s one-hundred maxims. My interpretation emphasizes the tone of authority and universality established through the genre’s concision. This brevity can raise questions about the meaning of the text and spark conversations, strengthening friendships among readers, and arguably furthering the goals of the mission. Additionally, the text’s inconsistent moral portrayal of utilitarian friendship may reveal Ricci’s ambivalence about his own friendships with Chinese literati. Through close reading of On Friendship, I posit that the aphorism\u27s brevity and ambiguity may have allowed Ricci to express his emotional unrest while still crafting a book that could be considered a tool of proselytization
Yellow
Get PDFPotent power and vitality reside in our connection to the Earth, music, ourselves, and each other. Drawing inspiration from the raw, coming-of-age albums Blue by Joni Mitchell, and Red (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift, ecofeminism, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the multi-genre anthology “Yellow” aims to make manifest the vibrancy intrinsic in deep attention and attunement to our emotions, the natural world, those whom we love, and exaltation of sadness and longing as vital to our aliveness. Its poems and creative nonfiction attempt to articulate and dance in the golden hour light of coming of age and feeling it all
Investigating the Psychology of Morbid Curiosity: The Role of Needing to Know
Get PDFThe goal of this study was to investigate the psychological factors that motivate morbidly curious behavior, specifically the cognitive motivation to learn new information. Participants were shown various morbid and non-morbid control images, sometimes with a preview and sometimes without a preview. The preview condition created a situation in which the target image contained no new information, thereby removing the opportunity to learn more information. For each image, participants were asked to complete a visual search task unrelated to the content of the image as quickly as possible. If morbid content distracted participants from the visual search task, then response times for correct responses should be slower, and gaze duration on the morbid content should be longer compared to the control. Furthermore, if morbid curiosity depends in part on the opportunity to obtain new information about a potentially dangerous situation, then providing a preview of the morbid content should reduce this effect. Results indicated response times and image gaze durations were longer for morbid images and for images without a preview. These data illustrate that morbidly curious behavior significantly decreased when a preview was given and cognitive motivation was taken away, which suggests that the opportunity to learn new information is important in eliciting morbid curiosity. However, some morbid curiosity remained even in the absence of this cognitive motivation, which suggests that other factors are also at play in motivating morbidly curious behavior