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Faithful Witness: A Sesquicentennial History of Central Avenue Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan, 1865-2015
No full textThe Information Literacy Imperative in Higher Education
Get PDFThis article contends that information literacy should be considered a standard component in a 21st century liberal education. It explores the role of libraries and librarians within this context while contrasting the Google it mentality with deep researching and critical thinking about information and the information-seeking process, both in libraries and in the free online environment
The Anchor, Volume 128.14: January 28, 2015
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor, Volume 128.13: January 21, 2015
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor, Volume 128.18: March 4, 2015
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
The Anchor, Volume 129.09: November 4, 2015
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
Transforming Or Restraining Rumination: The Impact Of Compassionate Reappraisal Versus Emotion Suppression On Empathy, Forgiveness, And Affective Psychophysiology
No full textWe tested the effects of practicing compassionate reappraisal vs. emotional suppression as direct coping responses to victims\u27 ruminations about a past interpersonal offense. Participants (32 females, 32 males) were randomly assigned to learn one coping strategy which immediately followed three of six offense rumination trials (counterbalanced). For both strategy types, coping (vs. offense ruminating) reduced ratings of negative emotion, decreased the use of negative emotion language, and reduced tension at the brow muscle (corrugator EMG). Only compassionate reappraisal coping (vs. offense rumination) immediately prompted greater empathy and emotional forgiveness toward the offender. Empathy ratings for the first coping trial mediated the relationship between strategy type and empathy ratings for the final rumination trial. Compassionate reappraisal strategy participants increased their empathy toward the offender while ruminating at the end of the study. Compassionate reappraisal participants (vs. emotional suppression) described coping (vs. rumination) with more positive language, and also had calmer cardiac pre-ejection period responses
Mission Monteverde: Mathematical Rainforest Modeling
Get PDFThe tropical rainforest is one of earth’s most diverse and dynamic ecosystems. Tree- or branch-falls in the forest can open gaps in the canopy, allowing light to reach the forest floor. Pioneer plants are adapted to take advantage of these conditions, sometimes emerging many years after being deposited as seeds. Light conditions change as the gap closes, impacting rates of growth and reproduction. For the past 30 years, sizes and reproductive outputs of individuals of six pioneer plant species have been measured along five transects in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve at Monteverde, Costa Rica. Each 500- meter transect was chosen to be representative of different conditions in some part of the cloud forest. To model the pioneer plant demographics, we classified canopy gaps by age and size and developed a matrix population model that accounts for the differing gap environments. We also created a stochastic matrix model of gap formation and regeneration to simulate the dynamics of rainforest canopy gaps. Combined, these models will allow us to simulate pioneer plant population dynamics in the changing forest environment, and to explore how reproduction and growth rate parameters, such as seed predation rates, impact pioneer population dynamics
Sex Tourism: The Industry of Buying Souls
Get PDFSex Tourism, the act of traveling from one’s nation of origin to another nation with the primary motivation of having commercial sexual relations, is a global issue. The sex tourism industry affects wealthy and poor nations. Sex tourism has a negative effect on sex workers, the societies of the home nations of tourists, and the destinations. The international response to sex tourism furthers the industry and rarely seeks justice for the victims. In some cases, international involvement only enhances the stigma against sex workers. Thailand and the Netherlands serve as two vastly different case studies to determine government intervention and the brothel’s power in the international business world. The findings showed that the emotional and physical abuse sex workers face at the hands of tourists are often ignored due to bribes, power positions, and laws that turn a blind eye away from foreigners