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Walking Titanic\u27s Charity Trail in New York City: Part One, Gramercy Park and Madison Square Park
Get PDFThis article combines insights form travel writing, history, and urban studies to explore the social welfare milieu of early twentieth century New York City and its connection to disaster relief efforts for Titanic survivors in 1912
Can Conducting a Talking Circle about a Sensitive Topic Increase Participation for Elementary Aged Learners?
Get PDFThis action research project investigated the effects of talking circles on student participation when engaging in sensitive topics. Researchers used 38-4th and 5th graders from two elementary classrooms. Both classrooms were located in Catholic schools. For the pretest phase, students were taught a series of controversial topics within the curriculum. To deconstruct the lesson themes, a traditional question, answer and discussion was employed. Researchers examined students’ participation, the quality of questions about injustice/justice that was raised and the students’ written statements about how they could make changes towards solutions. The strategy of using talking circles was implemented as a treatment. A second series of lessons concerning a controversial topic was presented. Students were directed to use the talking circle method to deconstruct themes in the lesson. Researchers again examined participation, the quality of questions about injustice/justice and students’ written statements about how they could make changes towards solutions. The researchers as teachers also reflected on their behavior and participation comparing a traditional discussion to the talking circle. The implementation of talking circles increased student participation, and the level of commitment to problem solving increased. The researchers as teachers also found that using the talking circle method was a more effective tool as it alleviated the role of teacher from expert to participant and facilitator. During the talking circle treatment, students communicated their opinions with civility. Researchers concluded that talking circles was an effective method for discussing sensitive topics for the 4th and 5th graders in this study. This corroborates the research on talking circles which has been implemented with older populations as much of the research begins with adolescent students. This research demonstrates that the method can be effective with younger populations and be an essential aid for teachers who may have difficulty presenting sensitive topics such as racism, death, gender differences, disability, immigration and slavery to younger students
Storied Feelings: Emotions, Culture, Media
Get PDFMass mediated emotional experiences are central to late modern subjectivity. Narrative storytelling creates public sites where audiences encounter and negotiate shared sociocultural circumstances rendered in aesthetic terms. Popular narratives move us by providing access, through felt recognition, to aspects of our emotional existence that would otherwise remain inexpressible. Using examples from film, this chapter explores how emotions as public events, constituted as part of collectively experienced social, cultural, and historical conditions, are enacted or realized through narrative media
Great South Bay, Long Island, New York Summer Water Quality Monitoring Program
Get PDFThe Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring (CERCOM) visits 11 locations in the Great South Bay from Memorial Day – Labor Day to monitor for dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, salinity, clarity and temperature. Students are trained and assist in CERCOM’s water quality data collection by research assistant Mr. Kyle Maurelli. This monitoring program has been conducted for the past 16 years. These parameters are critical in determining long term water quality conditions in Long Island estuaries
A Case Study of Teaching MBA Quantitative Analysis Online
Get PDFAdvancements in video capture and learning management systems (LMS) provide faculty with more tools than ever before to effectively teach quantitative business subjects to graduate students enrolled in blended and online courses. Students pursuing an MBA often come from diverse educational and professional backgrounds, with some continuing directly from undergraduate programs while others may be returning to school after spending years in the workforce. These students require instructional design that is both comprehensive and flexible to meet their various needs, accommodating the increasing preference for visual content delivery. Early in an MBA program, a course in quantitative analysis often serves multiple purposes including as a refresher of prerequisite knowledge areas, an introduction to graduate topics of management science, and a preparation for future courses in the curriculum. This case study paper describes the evolution of an MBA managerial quantitative analysis course using instructor-created videos and a modern LMS in both blended and online formats. The proposed model includes designing a consistent module structure, establishing a virtual classroom environment that extensively uses tutorial videos, setting appropriate course rules, and creating an effective assignment philosophy. The proposed best practices will allow this model structure to be used for other quantitative business courses
Digitalizing Art: Transforming Marketing Efforts
Get PDFThis research is part of a semester-long project where the undergraduate Business students from Molloy College pitch their business and marketing recommendations to a local non-profit. The theme emerges from a pedagogical philosophy that it is essential to learn the significance that business has upon society while working with a neighborhood non-profit. For example, having students enter into the business world where profit is a healthy by-product and is not the main focus toward today’s career development is critical in developing tomorrow’s ethical and social leaders. The learning activity leading to this learning outcome requires the undergraduate business students to experience this type of real-world project. The students are presented with an opportunity to study the most prevalent issues their assigned non-profit is facing and they are to collectively make a set of solution-driven recommendations that will ultimately lead to social good
Bond Price Reaction to Being Placed on Credit Review: Does Ownership Concentration Matter
Get PDFBoth financial academics and financial practitioners have explored the issue of how bond prices react to credit rating agency (CRA) ratings actions. While one would expect a positive price reaction if a bond is put on credit review for an upgrade and a negative price reaction if placed on review for a downgrade, the evidence has been choppy and mixed. Results were dependent on whether the bond issue was placed on review for an upgrade or downgrade and if the bond had a subsequent ratings change. The research issue to be addressed here relates to how bond ownership concentration relates to issuer monitoring intensity. Apriori, one would expect if the bond holdings of the issuer are concentrated, a rating review would have less of a price impact given the “ratings lag” (the time lag between the news that resulted in the ratings review). In other words, if, in fact concentrated holdings is indicative of monitoring intensity, a rating review would be viewed as “old news” and therefore not be as price impactful
Understanding Group Dynamics in DIR-Based Improvisational Music Therapy with Autistic Children
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to describe the group dynamics of Autistic children in a developmental, individual difference, relationship-based improvisational music therapy group, understand how those dynamics manifested, and to observe changes over time. The primary data source was archived clinical videos from the first, middle, and last sessions of one clinical year. A qualitative content analysis using the Music Therapy Group Improvisation Analysis Model involved a cyclical process of listening, writing descriptive narratives, and analyzing those narratives to develop meaning categories describing the group dynamics. The group dynamics of each session were described individually, and after a process of comparison and recategorizing, the overarching group dynamics were outlined. The first session had four themes: stability, individual initiations, working together, and differentiation. The middle session had six themes: fragmentation, conflict and resolution, client control, music therapist control, holding, and emotional expression. The final session had five themes: differentiation, music therapist bridging communication, music therapist modelling, joining musical play, and stability vs. instability. When compared and synthesized, the overarching themes included: stability and structure, differentiation and conflict, togetherness, therapist roles, and client roles. In this study, clients became more interactive with the therapist and each other over the course of the group. Greater musical collaboration was fostered through the differentiation and conflict, and the clients’ expanded ways of interpersonal relating indicated the potential benefits of group music therapy for Autistic children
The Experience of Female Veterans’ Transitioning to Post—Active— Duty Health Care
Get PDFProblem Statement: Female veterans are growing in record numbers and are the fastest growing segment of the veteran population in the United States(U.S.). After discharge from the military, female veterans face a difficult challenge in finding quality, efficient, and gender-specific health care following active duty. The growing number of female veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities has highlighted gaps in access to care and quality of care for female veterans. Methodology: Interpretive phenomenology was used to better understand the meaning of 11 U.S. female veterans’ experiences. Semi-structured telephone interviews and the analytic approach of Martin Heidegger (1962) permitted the exploration of contextual aspects of participants’ lives and the in-depth meaning of their experiences. Results: The results of this study reflect the needed areas for further health education and the advice from the participants for all female veterans to be advocates for themselves when attaining health care following active duty. The findings in this study have important implications for women’s health care providers and policy makers within both the VA and civilian health care systems related to screening, barriers to care and knowledge deficits of female veterans on how to attain post— active— duty health care. Conclusions: The females in this study had varied reintegration experiences to both the VA and the American medical system. Although the VA offers a variety of services for transitioning veterans, this study promotes additional specific health programs before and after transitioning out of the military
Housing Market Follows Elongated Supply Cycle
Get PDFThe housing market has followed its own elongated supply cycle for more than two decades. Housing market supply-side indicators show that the massive overbuild of new homes during the housing boom set in motion an extended period of underbuild that is still ongoing nearly ten years after the recession ended. This paper proposes a new metric to gauge the health of the housing market from the perspective of supply, with an eye toward predicting future construction activity. The metric adds yearly overbuilds and subtracts underbuilds during the past two decades, indicating whether the housing market is in balance. The analysis shows that the housing overbuild during the boom period reached nearly two and a half million units, but the subsequent underbuild has more than eliminated the housing surplus, leaving the market in short supply today