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Family Values Don\u27t Stop at the Rio Grande... : Can the Republican Party Convert Hispanic Voters?
Get PDFAs the Hispanic community becomes increasingly important in American politics there are competing views about whether they can be converted to the Republican Party. One perspective argues that Hispanics’ religion and traditional social values makes them natural constituents of the Republican Party. Alternatively, Hispanics are primarily concerned about issues promoting their well-being, while topics such as moral values or religion are private. I use a novel approach to test whether traditional social values might attract Hispanic voters to the Republican Party. Using exit poll results for ballot propositions on moral issues from Arizona, Colorado, and Florida I find weak evidence that traditional values will convert Hispanics to the Republican Party. Instead, the results indicate that traditional social values issues reinforce the polarization between the two parties
Measuring the impact of the Victory Cup Initiative through Ripple Effect Mapping (REM)
Get PDFThe Victory Cup Initiative (VCI) is a pitch competition and accelerator for nonprofits in Central Florida. This work investigates the experiences of organizations that have participated in the program as well as the overall impact of VCI on the nonprofit ecosystem in the Orlando area. Our study is based on Ripple Effect Mapping (REM), a community-based participatory methodology that captures both the direct impacts and the broader ripples of a program over both short and long-term scales. Our results show that nonprofit participants benefitted from growing their storytelling skills, networking within the community, and advancing personally
The Effects of Dance on People with Disabilities
Get PDFDance can be used as therapy and fun for those in the disability community. A quarter of adult Americans live with some form of disability, but there are not many dance programs that include them. This paper looks at an inclusive dance studio in Orlando, FL that serves children and adults and analyzes the benefits gained from participating in an inclusive dance program. To study this, parents of students and paraprofessionals who work with Chance 2 Dance, whether Chance 2 Dance comes to their organization or they recommended students to the studio, were interviewed. These interviews were analyzed thematically. A major benefit to students, parents, and paraprofessionals gained was the development of community and relationships with others who participate in Chance 2 Dance programming. Other benefits include improvements to physical aspects, socializing, self-expression, and enjoyment
Decolonizing Climate Discourse and Legitimating Indigenous Wisdom: Toward an Ecosystemic Episteme
Get PDFDevoted to redefining western capitalist epistemologies through recognition and acceptance of Indigenous wisdom in modern sociopolitical structures, I use this paper to expose theoretical and material flaws in western neoliberal capitalism as an implicitly colonial knowledge system incapable of sufficiently addressing the climate crisis. Here, colonialism is broadly understood as ideological and/or material practices of exploitation and domination within social, cultural, economic, and ecological frameworks. Colonialism, in this paper, is further characterized by having particular philosophical commitments to notions of binarism, individualism, and consumerism which reveal capitalism’s structure and function as neocolonial by nature. Most evidently, today’s global climate crisis reveals such implicitly colonial assumptions and material consequences of western capitalist knowledge which continue to harm human and non-human cultures globally. For this reason, research on- and subsequent collaboration with- nonwestern, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist approaches to climate mitigation is vital to critiquing and transforming systems of social and ecological domination. Holistically, Indigenous resistance offers a theoretical and physical space to actualize such transformations
Teaching Safe Dog-Greeting Skills with Parents and Children
Get PDFDog-bites pose a significant problem for children’s and dogs\u27 abilities to live an enhanced life. The majority of dog-bite incidents are to children between the ages of 5 and 9 years old and often dogs are euthanized for the crime (Wilson, Dwyer, & Bennett, 2003). There is limited research on a behavior analytic dog-bite prevention intervention that is both effective and generalizable to the natural environment. Yankelevitz et al. (2019) examined a six-step dog-greeting protocol to teach children how to greet unfamiliar dogs appropriately, but following acquisition the dog-greeting skills generalized poorly to the natural environment. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate if caregiver involvement when teaching children the same six dog-greeting steps would aid in the generalization of the skill to the natural environment. Mothers were trained using behavioral skills training (BST) and taught their children the six-step greeting protocol to mastery. Overall, all parents behavior met mastery criterion of 100% across all phases, despite one parent requiring a booster session. Parents also increased their child-dog supervision during both in-home and community observations compared to prior the intervention. Children met the mastery criterion of 80% for all phases and the rate and duration of unsafe dog approach behaviors both in the home and community observations decreased after intervention
