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Flying Closer: The Intersection of Circus and Dance
Get PDFDancers entering the professional industry must consider whether to be a jack of all trades, able to perform any style and any skill, or a specialized performer who has achieved mastery of one specific technique. Because commercial dancers require a greater variety of skill sets, and jobs for commercial dancers such as cruise ships, backup dancing, and Broadway shows, are increasingly asking their dancers to perform aerial arts - and circus companies such as Cirque Du Soleil, and Circa are blending circus and dance, I am arguing that a dancer entering the commercial industry has to also consider the value of circus training
Radical Joy Performed into Action: A Study of Feminist Performance Art
Get PDFAlthough traditionally excluded from the art world as from all major institutions, women artists staked their claim by revolutionizing performance art as a medium in the 1960s and 70s. By integrating life and art, feminist artists developed the powerful ideology that “the personal is political,” especially in art. From this foundation of radical assertion, feminist artists explored, resisted, and deconstructed their struggles. Contemporary feminist artists not only have different battles to fight, they fight them in a different format: digital media. In this project, I seek to explore the ways performance artists before me have used the medium of performance art for radical change, and the ways it can be used to affect change in the future
The Unconstitutionality of Consolidated Planning Boards: Interlocal Planning Under New York Law
Get PDFThis Article will examine the nature and constitutionality of consolidated planning boards in light of the broad powers actually granted them. The issues surrounding the constitutionality of consolidated planning boards begs, yet again, Chief Justice Marshall\u27s question respecting the extent of the power granted to the state governments. The question is whether a municipality may abdicate its power to regulate land within its own boundaries by delegating it to a separate planning entity
The Privilege Doctrines--Are They Just Another Discovery Tool Utilized by the Tobacco Industry to Conceal Damaging Information?
Get PDFThis Comment will analyze the tobacco companies\u27 use of the privilege doctrines to avoid litigation over the past thirty years, specifically focusing on the last fifteen years of litigation between this industry and its accusers. Part II of this Comment will discuss the pertinent discovery rules and the manner in which they are abused. Part III will examine the development, scope and limitations of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrines, considering with particularity the corporate context and the applicability of the crime-fraud exception to these doctrines. Part IV will review the case law of the tobacco litigation, focusing on the use and abuse of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. Part V of this Comment will analyze the abuse of the privileges by the tobacco industry lawyers as a means to evade disclosure during discovery. Part VI will conclude that this type of abuse is prevalent, but very much at the mercy of the courts
How Is Sex Harassment Discriminatory?
Get PDFWhat is sexual harassment, and what is its actual harm? Since the 1980s, these two questions have perplexed lawmakers, policymakers, feminists, and the public. Today, with the rise of #MeToo, and with increased national attention to Title IX claims regarding sexual violence on college campuses, these questions are once again in the spotlight. As some commentators have observed, in the last several years lawmakers and policymakers have been increasingly influenced by a feminist antisubordination approach to sexual harassment and assault. This growing influence is currently reflected in more strict standards of consent (“affirmative consent”) to sex, in higher procedural and substantive burdens on those accused of sexual harassment or assault, and in closer governmental monitoring of institutional settings, such as public universities
Planning for Excellence: Insights from an International Review of Regulators’ Strategic Plans
Get PDFWhat constitutes regulatory excellence? Answering this question is an indispensable first step for any public regulatory agency that is measuring, striving towards, and, ultimately, achieving excellence. One useful way to answer this question would be to draw on the broader literature on regulatory design, enforcement, and management. But, perhaps a more authentic way would be to look at how regulators themselves define excellence. However, we actually know remarkably little about how the regulatory officials who are immersed in the task of regulation conceive of their own success.
In this Article, we investigate regulators’ definitions of regulatory excellence by drawing on a unique source of data that provides an important window on regulators’ own aspirations: their strategic plans. Strategic plans have been required or voluntarily undertaken for the past decade or longer by regulators around the globe. In these plans, regulators offer mission statements, strategic goals, and measurable and achievable outcomes, all of which indicate what regulators value and are striving to become. Occasionally, they even state explicitly where they have fallen short of “best-in-class” status and how they intend to improve. To date, a voluminous literature exists examining agency practices in strategic planning, but we are aware of no study that tries to glean from the substance of a sizeable number of plans how regulators themselves construe regulatory excellence. The main task of this Article is undertaking this effort. This Article draws on twenty plans from different regulators in nine countries. We found most generally that excellent regulators describe themselves (though not necessarily using exactly these words) as institutions that are more (1) efficient, (2) educative, (3) multiplicative, (4) proportional, (5) vital, (6) just, and (7) honest. In addition to these seven shared attribute categories, our reading of the plans also revealed five other “unusual” attributes that only one or two agencies mentioned. Beyond merely cataloguing the attributes identified by agencies, this Article also discusses commonalities (and differences) between plan structures, emphases, and framings. We found that the plans differed widely in features such as the specificity of their mission statements, the extent to which they emphasized actions over outcomes (or vice versa), and the extent to which commitments were organized along organizational fiefdoms or cut across bureaucratic lines.
We urge future scholarship to explore alternative methods of text mining, and to study strategic plans over time within agencies, in order to track how agencies’ notions of regulatory excellence respond to changes in the regulatory context and the larger circumstances within which agencies operate. Looking longitudinally will also shed light on how agencies handle strategic goals that are either met or that prove to be unattainable
Shadowing Lenders and Consumers: The Rise, Regulation, and Risks of Non-Banks
Get PDFSince the financial crisis of 2008, “shadow banking” or financial transactions by “non-banks,” has skyrocketed. Non-banks are not depositary institutions and as such, they roam free, largely outside the purview of the bank regulators. They occupy all parts of the credit markets, from mortgage loan origination to payday lenders. Untethered, they operate without government guarantees, such as deposit insurance and have no access to emergency government lending facilities, such as the Federal Reserve\u27s discount window.
There are both positives and negatives in the rise of non-banks. On the positive side is market liquidity and greater diversity of funding sources for consumer borrowing, which is often claimed to be a more efficient allocation of risk to investors. Also, by using alternative risk metrics in loan origination, non-bank lenders are increasingly making financing available to a particular demographic--the financially marginal. On the negative side, the heavy reliance on government guarantees and purchase of its loans may pose worrying systemic risks
Personality Predictors of Chronic Readmission in an Adolescent Inpatient Population
No full textIncreasing psychiatric readmission rates across the country have led researchers in the field to try and determine factors that can predict which individuals are at risk for readmission. While many researchers have focused on demographic, environmental, and diagnostic variables that may contribute to a heightened risk of readmission, there is minimal research examining personality variables as potential influences on readmission. The present study sought to explore personality variables that can differentiate which adolescents are at risk for incurring chronic psychiatric readmissions. Variables from the Rorschach, MMPI-A, and MMPI-A-RF were utilized and selected based on findings from previous research. The sample consisted of 349 adolescents, ages 13-18, who were referred for psychological evaluation in an inpatient hospital setting. Discriminant function analyses were performed using personality variables to predict group membership into single admission or chronic readmission groups. Results indicated that the Schizophrenia Clinical Scale on the MMPI-A, the PHR variable on the Rorschach, the EID Higher Order Scale and Demoralization Restructured Clinical Scale on the MMPI-A-RF were able to differentiate adolescents that are at a higher risk of psychiatric readmission. Results were explored and discussed within the context of school-clinical child psychology. Suggestions for future research were also provided
The Acceptability and Perceived Effectiveness of a Psychoeducational Session on Parent- Adolescent Communication for Immigrant Parents
No full textThe United States is experiencing a shift in the cultural composition of its\u27 population, specifically seen in the increase of immigrants and children of immigrants. These populations encounter unique stressors that influence the prevalence rates of adverse mental health outcomes such as depressive symptomatology. However, little has been done to develop culturally sensitive preventative programming in order to provide tier one support to these populations. This study sought to evaluate the perceived effectiveness and acceptability of a tier one psychoeducational preventative session geared for immigrant parents to increase their knowledge of healthy parent-adolescent communication. Results of the study indicated that immigrant parents (N= 86) found the psychoeducational session to be both effective and acceptable. Furthermore, certain characteristics of these immigrant parents led to differences in the perceived effectiveness and acceptability, such as the existing quality of parent-adolescent relationships and parent demographics. Study findings demonstrate the importance of increasing efforts to provide culturally-sensitive brief preventative programming for tier one immigrant populations. Implications for mental health professionals serving immigrant parent populations indicate the need for greater research into population characteristics as they influence the success of culturally-sensitive mental health programming as well a need to better evaluate long term outcomes of mental health programming
Cognitive Predictors of Reading Acquisition in Arabic: A Pilot Study Using an Arabic Version of the Cognitive Assessment System-Second Edition on a Sample of Egyptian Children
No full textThe current study explored the relationship between an Arabic translation of the CAS-2 and acquisition of early reading skills in a sample of 37 Egyptian early readers. CAS-2 scales were used to predict letter naming, non-diacritic reading, and diacritic reading. Results showed that Egyptian children acquired alphabetic knowledge by age five and their word-level diacritic and nondiacritic reading skills improved with age. Comparisons of raw scores between this Egyptian sample and CAS-2 normative data indicated significant differences for the Matrices and Planned Connections subtests. Partial correlations, controlling for age, revealed that CAS-2 subtests significantly predicted all aspects of early reading. Planning was identified as the primary cognitive process involved in reading in Arabic. For Successive processing subtests, visual digit span, but not word series were predictive of all aspects of early reading acquisition. These findings suggest that visual working memory, as opposed to auditory working memory, is important for early reading. Multiple regression analyses showed that matrices on the simultaneous processing index predicted word-level decoding, but not letter identification skills. Simultaneous processing is implicated in English reading skills as well, suggesting the importance of integrating information to construct whole words in most alphabetic languages. Overall, results of the current study suggest that young Egyptian readers rely on planning and simultaneous processing skills, particularly visual-spatial reasoning skills. Accordingly, visualorthographic skills are likely the underlying processes involved in Egyptian children’s early reading development, given the emphasis on visual working memory, as well as on detecting patterns and mapping them onto familiar words. While there are similarities between reading in Arabic and English, there are differences that are associated with unique aspects of the Arabic language, such as its diglossic nature and use of diacritics