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The Anchor, Volume 132.10: November 14, 2018
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 132.12: December 5, 2018
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
Copyright and Fair Use for Graduating Studio Art Majors
Get PDFThis lesson was designed as a part of a seminar for art majors preparing work for their Senior Show and is intended to inform students preparing to begin careers as practicing artists or art educators. The lesson incorporates a short lecture on copyright and fair use, a class discussion about copyright and artistic practice based on preparatory readings, an in-class research exercise of art copyright case studies, and student presentations on their findings and opinions. In addition to raising awareness of copyright and the CAA Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, this lesson is particularly apt for helping students grapple with the ethical complexities surrounding the artistic use of other artists’ work
Media Outlets and Black Lives Matter on Twitter
Get PDFThe Black Lives Matter movement was started in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. The movement has gained a lot of momentum through social media outlets, such as Twitter, using the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. This project looks at the portrayal of the movement through the usage of the hashtag on Twitter, specifically from 2015 to 2017 by two major news source accounts, CNN and Fox News. We chose these two news sources in order to gain perspective from both sides of the political spectrum, as CNN is, from our perspective, more left-leaning, and Fox News is more conservative. We chose a percentage of tweets from each account pertaining to Black Lives Matter and looked at retweets, likes, and responses for each tweet. Our group created operational definitions for the various themes that stood out in the original tweets and the responses by the news sources in order to gauge a general understanding of the representation of the Black Lives Matter movement by the public on Twitter. Based on the operational definitions that we assigned to the content of each tweet for both CNN and Fox News, this project aims to determine sentiment responses from these news sources pertaining to Black Lives Matter in order to critique the fact that the difference in the presentation of opinions affect viewer opinion and response
Development of Wireless Sensing Unit for Environmental Noise Monitoring
Get PDFLocations with large amounts of environmental noise can raise stress and blood pressure, as well as decrease productivity, for all peoples subjected to it. In order to better quantify these noise levels, it is important to fully understand the patterns and levels of noise through data collection and analysis. Wireless sensor networks offer one method for autonomously gathering and processing levels of noise pollution in densely populated areas. In this study, a wireless sensing unit (WSU) was developed that was capable of collecting and transmitting noise data. This WSU was comprised of a Teensy microcontroller development system, a sound detecting board, and an XBee wireless transceiver. In order to capture the auditory range that a human can hear, the WSU had to sample at 20kHz, resulting in a large accumulation of data that must be stored locally and eventually transmitted. Due to the constraints of the system, it was found that nodes would spend approximately eight times longer transmitting data than collecting data, making this not scalable for long time periods or large sensor networks. In order to limit this amount of transmitted data, on-board signal processing techniques of the noise signal were explored
Developing a Google Chrome Extension to Improve Online Readability
Get PDFThe content of online articles, as well as distracting images and advertisements, can threaten a student’s ability to retain critical reading information, especially a student with a reading or learning disability. Articulus is a Google Chrome extension that allows users to easily read online articles by replacing difficult words on a webpage with less difficult synonyms and by removing distracting advertisements, allowing students to easily read material at a level that is closer to their reading level. After studying readability metrics, the researchers created and extensively tested the Carnahan-Gelbaugh metric to determine the difficulty of online articles. After analyzing the difficulty of a page and determining what words are above a student’s set level, Articulus passes the original word through several checks to determine the best possible synonym. The researchers studied methods for maintaining grammatical and contextual accuracy when choosing synonyms, and pass the original word through a User Synonym List, Grade Sight List, Developer Synonym List, and then finally through an external knowledge source (Collin’s Thesaurus) to choose the best synonym that is appropriate in the context of the original sentence and less difficult than the original word. The researchers worked with two parapros from Black River Middle and Elementary School in Holland, Michigan, who are currently using the product to help students with disabilities understand online reading more easily; the researchers hope that future developments and improvements could expand beyond the scope of their original client to help any student struggling with online reading
Student Learning in Online Chemistry Textbooks
Get PDFRising textbook prices are pushing both students and professors to consider alternatives to the traditional textbook. The online medium is promising because of reduced prices and additional interactivity. One possible solution is an open textbook, which is freely available online. One feature of the online medium is that references within a textbook can be linked, and students can click these links to move easily between topics. The research performed here uses Google Analytics website traffic data to see how the over 2,000,000 visitors per month use intertext links (links to other parts of the textbook) on the 20 most popular pages. Specifically, patterns of use for intertext links were investigated and the insight gained is applied in the form of design principles for continued development of LibreText ChemPRIME textbook and other future online textbooks
Gratitude Predicts Hope and Happiness: A Two-study Assessment of Traits and States
Get PDFGratitude is the appreciation of a gift received; happiness is the enjoyment of a present good; and hope is the desire for a valued future. Two studies investigated gratitude as a predictor of hope and happiness. In Study 1, hierarchical regressions (N = 181) revealed that trait gratitude exceeded other constructs (forgivingness, patience, self-control) in predicting trait hope and happiness. In Study 2, we experimentally tested the impact of a gratitude-related writing intervention on state hope and happiness. Participants (N = 153) first wrote about a current, meaningful, hoped-for outcome and completed state hope and happiness measures. Participants were randomly assigned to either (a) gratefully remember a past hope that had been fulfilled or (b) a control condition. The grateful remembering condition (vs. control) prompted significant increases in state hope and happiness, commending grateful remembering as a practice that can bolster present happiness and hope for the future
Understanding the Role of Religious Comfort and Strain on Depressive Symptoms in an Inpatient Psychiatric Setting
Get PDFUnderstanding the role of religion in mental illness has always been complicated as some people turn to religion to cope with their illness, whereas others turn away. The overarching purpose of this study was to draw on quantitative and qualitative information to illuminate ways in which religiousness might be associated with changes in depressive symptomatology in a spiritually integrated inpatient treatment program. This repeated measures mixed method study examined the relations among religious comfort (RC), religious strain (RS), and depression in an inpatient psychiatric sample. Adult inpatients (N=248; Mage = 40.78 years; SD = 18.97) completed measures of RC, RS, and depression at pre- and post-treatment. Focusing on patient responses to open-ended questions regarding spiritual perspectives on their mental illness, qualitative themes were deduced via content analytic coding procedures to further clarify quantitative findings. Autoregressive cross-lagged panel models were used to test potential reciprocal influences among RC, RS, and depressive symptomatology between admission and discharge. Scores on RS decreased, whereas scores on RC increased. At both intake and discharge, depression was inversely associated with RC and directly correlated with RS. In addition, RC on admission was inversely associated with depressive symptom severity at discharge, whereas RS on admission did not predict later depression. Religious affiliation was also positively associated with RC. This is the first study to document a direct association between RS and depression, along with an inverse association with RC, in an inpatient psychiatric sample
