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Lightning Strikes the Axis: Century Storm Boats During World War II
Get PDFJanuary 1941 dawned with most of the world at war with Germany, Italy, and Japan. At the 1941 National Boat Show in New York, many boat building companies were absent because they were focused on producing boats for Allied forces overseas or the defense of the United States. The Century Boat Company was the only company that displayed a small boat used for warfare alongside its pleasure craft line. This model and others would later be credited with helping win World War II
Black Lives Matter, Black Culture Matters
Get PDFA poster for the exhibition Black Lives Matter, Black Culture Matters. The exhibition was originally scheduled to run August 18–November 21, 2020, but was extended to December 5, 2020.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_poster/1012/thumbnail.jp
The Anchor: November 4, 2020
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
Opus: Fall 2020
Get PDFAn issue of Opus from fall 2020.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/opus_2020s/1001/thumbnail.jp
How Do Resilience Resources Change in Response to Acute Stress?
Get PDFPeople respond to stress in a variety of ways. Resilience, or the ability to bounce back from adversity, is a common response (Bonanno, 2004). Because adversity is common, it is vital to further examine sources of resilience. There is a lack of knowledge related to resilience and everyday stress, thus, we intended to study the relationship between resilience resources and acute stressors. In particular, we wanted to test whether people with higher resilience resources experienced acute stressors as less stressful than others and whether self-ratings of resilience resources would change after exposure to acute stress. Participants are recruited through a student subject pool. Participants complete a pre-survey online containing multiple measures of resilience and other factors related to resilience. Five to 10 days later, participants come in to the lab and complete two acute stressors: a Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (Lejuez, Kahler, & Brown, 2003) and an autobiographical emotional memory task (Mills & D’Mello, 2014), as well as a survey, and a values affirmation task to mitigate distress (Meagher & Marsh, 2017). In the survey, we assess resilience with various measures including the Resilience Resource Scale from Julian and colleagues (under review), perceived stress (Cohen & Williamson, 1988), and other constructs (e.g., religiousness, health, depression, anxiety). We predict that resilience resources will correlate positively with measures of resilience, life satisfaction, optimism, coping, social support, personality, religious identity and involvement, emotional intelligence, and general health. In addition, we expect that resilience resources will be predictive of lower perceptions of stress in response to exposure to acute stress and that the resilience resource scores will not change as much as other measures of resilience after exposure to acute stress. This study will provide additional evidence on how resilience functions in people’s lives. A better understanding of resilience could be used to influence our mental and physical health, our stress and coping skills, and our satisfaction with life
News from Hope College, Volume 52.2: Winter, 2020
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Disability, Religiousness, & Spirituality
Get PDFPoliovirus, which is transmitted by a fecal oral route, caused worldwide epidemics in the 20th century, which peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, post-polio syndrome (PPS) is affecting polio survivors and is considered a secondary disability. Individuals who are affected by PPS experience new symptoms similar to those of polio that include weakness in muscles, fatigue, and pain from joint degeneration. Besides these physical symptoms, previous research indicates that polio survivors and PPS affected individuals experience multiple psychological detriments such as anxiety, fear, and depression which could be related to experiencing this secondary disability after recovering from polio. Previous research also indicates that being more religious and/or spiritual can relate to having better health outcomes. Given this research, we examined whether polio survivors or PPS affected individuals who are more religious/spiritual would have better health outcomes than non or less religious/spiritual people. Within our research, we considered multiple relationships involving disability and polio/PPS, religiousness/spirituality and disability, and religiousness/spirituality and polio/PPS. Our research proceeded in two stages: first, literature searches, and second, data analysis. We have completed a literature search of empirical medical and psychological literature as well as theoretical theological literature related to this question. The secondary analysis of data collected via interview and questionnaire in a sample of 189 post-polio patients produced initial results that indicated religiousness and spirituality were correlated positively with mental health and negatively with physical health. The relationship between mental health and religiousness/spirituality supported previous research. However, the relationship between physical health and religiousness/spirituality was unexpected and raises important questions about religiousness, spirituality and health in disabled and chronically ill people
Mechanistic Survey of Rhodium-Catalyzed Decarbonylation Reactions: A Kinetics Study
Get PDFThe kinetics involved in the reaction pathways of transition metal-catalyzed carbon-carbon bond activation reactions can provide key insights into the mechanism. Previous work has shown that pyridyl ketones undergo rhodium-catalyzed decarbonylation reactions. The determination of the mechanistic pathway of this reaction could allow for the knowledge necessary for exploring alternative reactivity. Utilizing in situ Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR), kinetic analysis of the decarbonylation reaction is being performed with various substituted pyridyl ketones. Initial rate constants will be used to compare the electronic effects of substituents, providing insight of the intermediates involved
Global Technologies: A Discussion Regarding the Digital Divide
Get PDFThe digital divide is a concept that explains the gap in technological access between the global north and south. The purpose of this study is to show how technology can be used to enact social change. This study has found that there is a positive correlation between less technological access and less social change. As such, this study will also discuss factors that limit countries’ ability to develop new technology. These factors include a country’s economic strength, their literacy and educational standards, infrastructure in place, and political organization