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An Emoji Legal Dictionary
Get PDFThis Article is the first to provide a legal emoji dictionary. We have reviewed over 100 cases to provide a legal definition of emojis as interpreted by U.S. case law. Our Article will have three parts. Part I offers a brief overview of the history of emojis and their increasing prevalence in U.S. case law, Part II highlights cases that have wrestled with emoji interpretation; and finally, Part III presents a detailed database of the emojis parties have introduced in courts of law with their legal interpretations--largely through context
Adaptive Rezoning for Social Equity, Affordability and Resilience
Get PDFIn this Article, I will show how the legacies of the institutional barriers to housing still persist to deprive many of the predicates for economic thriving and personal flourishing and how existing zoning philosophy cannot be justified by the need to protect health and safety. Righting the inequities of the past and of the present will require dismantling some of the institutions, apparently legitimate and well-meaning, but operating devilishly to create and perpetuate hardship and exclusion. This will require laying bare the institutions to reveal their ignoble essence. We need a radical overhaul of the historic zoning regime from one that excludes to one that is prescriptive of inclusion. We must imagine and construct a new world, one that is open and sustainable for living and against the looming impacts of climate change. We can do this by what I call adaptive rezoning. In laying out the contours of this concept, I will offer comment on the various initiatives around the country for inclusive and sustainable cities (including those that pertain to the impacts of climate change) and offer my own ideas for a plan for social and economic justice
Confronting State Violence: Lessons from India\u27s Farmer Protests
Get PDFIn December 2021, following a year of sustained mass protests, farmers in India forced the repeal of three controversial Farm Laws that attempted to deregulate India’s agricultural sector in service of corporate interests. Farmers feared that the laws would dismantle price supports for key crops, jeopardize their livelihoods, and facilitate a corporate takeover of India’s agrarian economy. This Article situates India’s historic farmer protests in the context of the country’s longstanding agrarian crisis and the corporate capture of agriculture worldwide. I argue that the protests arose in response not only to the Farm Laws, but also to decades of state-sponsored ecological and economic violence that have relegated millions of Indian farmers to a state of precarity and desperation. I further argue that the protests hold key insights for social movements around the globe, and for the future of food in India and beyond.The Article analyzes the farmers’ protests using a four-part paradigm to assess contemporary movements for social change: Roots, Resistance, Reform, and Reconstruction. In so doing, it makes several contributions to legal scholarship. First, it makes visible the lived realities of India’s rural masses who have been left behind amidst the country’s celebrated economic growth. Second, it reveals the many ways in which State violence manifests, and how that violence is mediated through agricultural policies. Third, it demonstrates the power of mass nonviolent resistance as a strategic tool to confront State violence. And fourth, it explores the tension between reform and revolution. I argue that the farmers’ reformist demands do not sufficiently address the ecological harms and caste-based inequities that underpin India’s agrarian crisis. But the movement’s building of broad-based alliances across caste and class has opened the door to more transformative change
Don\u27t call them trash: Romance novels and their cultural relevance and academic legitimacy.
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Workforce Development Needs to Address Early Childhood Mental Health within the Childcare and Early School Years Setting
Get PDFSupporting infant and early childhood mental health is a vital component of school readiness, but suspension or expulsion from early childhood educational settings can have a lasting impact on a child. The Pyramid Model for Social and Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children (PM) framework and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) are two models to address preschool suspension and expulsion, while promoting young children’s healthy social emotional development. Both models require a qualified workforce. In Maryland, several initiatives are underway to address workforce development needs and to create pipelines of professionals trained in infant and early childhood mental health. These include statewide coordination of PM and IECMHC programming, the creation of new guidelines and pipelines for IECMHC service providers, workforce development, specific focus on equity within PM and IECMHC programs statewide, and an expansion of these efforts into early elementary school
The Effect of Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT) on Children who are Exhibiting Disruptive Behaviors within the Classroom Setting
Get PDFThe current study examined the impact of Teacher- Child Interaction Training (TCIT) on child behavior, teacher-student relationships, and teacher satisfaction within a general preschool setting utilizing a three-tiered approach. Participants included three preschool children without clinical diagnoses. A single subject nonconcurrent multiple baseline design was utilized across participants. Results suggest that TCIT is effective in reducing disruptive behaviors within the classroom and successful in improving the teacher-student relationship. TCIT is also considered socially valid based on teacher responses, which indicate that the intervention is acceptable and feasible within the general preschool classroom setting
Resilience Narratives amid Economic and Educational Inequalities Storied by Unemployed Young American Black Men
No full textThe objective of this qualitative narrative inquiry dissertation was to gain an understanding of how unemployed young urban American Black men negotiate economic and educational inequalities from resilience perspectives. The investigation took place in a long-standing disadvantaged Black community in a small suburban city in New York. The three participants were unemployed urban American Black male descendants of slavery in the United States, aged 18 to 35, who possessed personal experiences adapting and coping within economic and educational inequalities. Data collection consisted of in-depth narrative interviews, field notes, and reflexive journaling. In Chapters V, VI, and VII, each participant is represented by a brief description, a restoried biographical narrative with richly textured stories of life events negotiating resilience, an orientation of the narrative’s authorial voice or the predominant cultural discourse shaping and creating the perspective, and an analysis of two resilience negotiation experiences using Clandinin and Connelly’s three-dimensional narrative inquiry space framework elements, which consider temporality (continuity), sociality (interaction), and space (situation). Chapter VIII discusses the five narrative threads that emerged from collective interpretation and synthesis: recognition of tension, resolve, ongoing mentorship, strengthening social identity, and optimism and gratitude. The narratives and threads were positioned within Payne’s site of resilience theory for contextual observations. Study results recommend critical social analysis to aid in minimizing health disparities, entrepreneurial support, and helping unemployed young Black men become more resilient by encouraging self-awareness, establishing psychological and physical sites of resilience, and sustaining mentorship opportunities
The Lived Experience of Hospitalized Children
No full textMost children go through their childhood without ever being hospitalized. For a child, being hospitalized may be a disturbing and unfamiliar experience. The American Academy of Pediatrics and other pediatric institutions recognize the importance of parental presence for hospitalized children. Yet, not all parents are able to stay at their children’s bedside, let alone throughout their children’s hospital stay. What is it like for a child to be in the hospital when accompanied and when unaccompanied by a parent/caregiver? There is little research on this phenomenon, especially fore-fronting the experiences of children. A child’s voice needs to be held central to the discussion and offers insights that can contribute to meaningful nursing practice. The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore how parental accompaniment and absence shape a child’s experience of hospitalization in order to unearth the eidetic meaning of this experience. Twelve children were interviewed about their hospitalization experiences. The findings of this study are organized around the following themes: (a) participating in care; (b) being on the road to recovery; (c) being a kid, still; (d) being accompanied – having a familiar face; and (e) being unaccompanied – yearning but understanding. A phenomenological understanding of accompanied and unaccompanied hospitalized children’s experiences provides pediatric nurses with insight on how to support the patients and families under their care