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The Evolution of Hip-Hop and its Impact on Popular Culture
No full textThe evolution of Hip-Hop has been a very dynamic and multifaceted journey. Its origins lies in the South Bronx during the 1970s. Curate by and for African and African Americans, its cultural expression stretched far beyond the unique style of the music; it included rap, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti art, and fashion. This once local phenomenon spread rapidly across urban communities and eventually global recognition as it resonated with other marginalized groups.
Hip-Hop’s impact has been incredibly significant and profound. Within the music industry, it has become a dominant genre by engulfing sales and becoming one of the most streamed genres in the world. Moreover, Hip-Hop and rap has provided a platform for artists to comment on social issues and challenge societal norms by, most often, sharing personal narratives.
Additionally, Hip-Hop has played a pivotal role in social and political movements, providing a background for movements such as the Black Lives Movement. The issues addressed within the genre has also inspired trends and important styles, such as shoes, makeup, and genre streetwear.
Summarily, the evolution of Hip-Hop has not only transformed the music industry, but also left an impactful imprint on American popular culture today. This genre of music transcends its confines, going above and beyond what it was ever thought to become.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2024/1033/thumbnail.jp
The Link Between Psychopathy and Empathy
No full textEmpathy is defined as a construct that is a result from conjointly operating both cognitive and affective processes and being the center of social awareness. Affective empathy involves the ability to experience the emotions of another while cognitive empathy involves the understanding of another’s emotional state (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2006). A lack of empathy is considered a fundamental aspect of the Dark Triad traits (Jonason et al., 2013). While this may be true, the relationship appears to be mainly with the affective component of empathy rather than the cognitive component (Wai & Tilipoulos, 2012). When looking at psychopathy and Machiavellianism, research has found both were correlated with higher levels of difficulty identifying and describing feelings along with external-oriented thinking and low levels of affective empathy (Jonason & Krause, 2013). We hypothesize that individuals who score high in psychopathy will score high in cognitive empathy and low in affective empathy acknowledging that individuals with psychopathic tendencies understand and can recognize empathy but cannot feel empathy introspectively. Over 150 college students participated in an online survey where they completed the Dirty Dozen measure of psychopathy and the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE; Reniers et al., 2011). Results and discussion will focus on whether our findings match previous research.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2024/1029/thumbnail.jp
Development of a Risk-Scoring System to Predict Car Insurance Fraud
No full textCar insurance fraud constitutes a substantial threat to insurance companies, resulting in significant financial losses. Proactive fraud prevention plays a crucial role in mitigating financial losses. Machine learning approaches are frequently used to predict car insurance frauds. However, the machine learning approach is often viewed as nebulous, posing challenges in interpretation, particularly in the realms of accounting and finance. In contrast, point-based scoring systems (like credit scores) are becoming more widespread in sectors such as healthcare and finance due to its easy interpretation. The objective of this study is to develop a simple risk score system for car insurance fraud that is easily understood. The scoring deviation framework used in disease prediction is adapted for car insurance fraud prediction. The scoring system generates a table containing points for each risk factor of insurance fraud. To evaluate the performance of the proposal, real-life data from a Kaggle dataset containing 15,420 records was utilized to train and test the model. This method not only examines scores but is also useful for insurance professionals to evaluate validity.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2024/1026/thumbnail.jp
The Portal to Self-Actualization: Coraline and The Hobbit as Adaptations of the Monomyth
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This paper examines the differences between Joseph Campbell’s concept of the hero’s journey, originating in Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces, and a more contemporary approach to the hero’s journey that focuses on a young, female heroine with steps coined by Deborah Duff in Individuation in Children’s Literature: The Child Hero’s Journey and Coming-of-Age. The comparison of the two texts acts as a bridge between J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, two seminal works of children’s literature that tell stories of very similar heroes embarking on vastly different journeys.In both Coraline and The Hobbit, the readers observe as the protagonists cross the threshold out of their world and into a world beyond their imaginations, which Kristen McQueen explores in “Liminal Space and Personal Identity in The Hobbit and Coraline”. As Coraline and Bilbo venture out on their missions they have the ultimate, unspoken goal of self-discovery wherein the concept of the hero’s journey works as a machine for a coming-of-age story, as explored by Peter Bray’s “The Hero-Journey, Hamlet, and Positive Psychological Transformation”.
When comparing Duff’s text against Campbell’s text in conjunction with readings of both The Hobbit and Coraline, a clear relationship emerges-- both Campbell’s concept of the hero’s journey and Duff’s amended hero’s journey concept that outlines the journey of young female heroines reveal deep truths about gender bias as a mechanism for tropes in coming-of-age literature.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2024/1000/thumbnail.jp
Exhibition Aerial View
No full textExhibition Entrance view with all panels shown.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/etds_mfa_images/1023/thumbnail.jp
Cover Designs
No full textBooklet, Trifold, and Business card showcasing Videntis products.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/etds_mfa_images/1036/thumbnail.jp
Videntis.org: Contact Us
No full textDigital file of website design for the Contact Us page layout for Videntis.org Join us on our mission to transform education through creativity and innovation. Whether you’re an educator looking to incorporate graphic design into your curriculum or a supporter of our vision, we invite you to join the Videntis community and be a part of the change. Thank you for visiting Videntis. Together, let’s shape the future of education!https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/etds_mfa_images/1052/thumbnail.jp
A Comparison of Instructional Methods for Teaching APA Skills
Get PDFWriting is highly important for college students, and they will need to conform to the formatting of the writing styles used in their classes. One style required of many students is the American Psychological Association (APA). Students often make errors when formatting references using APA Style. Although various instructional strategies have been used to teach these skills, some methods take a long time to achieve minimal increases or are cumbersome to implement in some learning environments. Behavioral skills training (BST) is an empirically supported method for teaching skills that involves providing the learner with written and verbal instructions, modeling, practice opportunities, and feedback until a predetermined mastery criterion is met. This teaching strategy is easily adaptable to most learning environments and individualized based on learner performance. However, no study has examined the use of BST to teach APA Style. Thus, the present study compared the effects of written instructions and BST on APA reference skills using a multiple baseline across behaviors design. Five undergraduate students were recruited as participants. They were asked to complete a demographics survey, a quiz, and reference tasks that assessed their ability to format a reference list item. Next, participants received written instructions that detailed the steps for correctly formatting a reference list item. If participants did not reach the mastery criterion in this condition, we conducted BST until participants could correctly format a reference list item at 90% correct responses or above. Participants completed a post-training and maintenance session approximately 1 week and 4 weeks after the initial session, respectively. Written instructions were effective at teaching most of the formatting steps. During the post-training and maintenance sessions, slight decreases in percentage correct were observed. The results of this study suggest that less intensive methods, not more, are all that is necessary to teach APA referencing skills. We also discuss future areas for research
The Interaction of Sodium Fluoride and Sodium Selenate on the Developmental Toxicity to Xenopus Laevis and Ambystoma Maculatum Embryos
Get PDFAmphibians play critical roles in the environment\u27s wellness. Fluoride (F) is a widely existing environmental pollutant. It is commonly known for being added to drinking water and as a topical dose on teeth. Selenium (Se) can be found in organic and inorganic forms in nature. Many different fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, and fungicides contain sodium selenate in them. The range selenium has between deficiency and toxicity is narrow, meaning excess exposure could cause various adverse effects in aquatic organisms. Xenopus laevis is a standard model for developmental toxicity due to being minimal maintenance, cost efficient, and having transparent embryos. Xenopus makes an acceptable model for estimating the developmental effects of chemicals on native amphibians. Ambystoma maculatum is a non-endangered native species to Alabama making it an acceptable salamander to compare to Xenopus. The objective in this study is to determine the interactions effects on developmental toxicity of sodium fluoride, sodium selenate, and 3 mixtures combinations on amphibian embryos. The assay uses serial dilutions to expose various concentrations to frog embryos. The assay lasts 96-hours holding 20 embryos in small petri dishes per replicate. Assays for Ambystoma lasted 12-days holding 10 embryos in large, deep petri dishes per replicate. Assays were also performed to determine the developmental effects to different exposure times and lengths to 100 mg/L sodium selenate. Mortalities were counted for each day. Mortalities and malformations were counted on the last day of the assay and embryo length were measured. Means, standard error, probit analysis (LC50 and EC50(malformation)), ANOVA and Bonferroni’s post hoc test were calculated using Systat. The teratogenic potential was calculated using the formula LC50/ EC50(malformation). Isobole diagrams were used to determine if the chemicals showed synergism, antagonism, response addition, or concentration response. In Xenopus, the overall LC50, EC50 for NaF and Na2SeO4 was 603.37, 819.42 and 30.41, 15.13 respectively. The mixtures showed a combination of response addition and synergism at different combinations. In Ambystoma, the overall LC50, EC50 for NaF and Na2SeO4 was 540.39, 862.26 and 53.06, 69.21 mg/L respectively. The mixture showed response addition. In both Xenopus and Ambystoma, malformations such as stunted growth, edemas, loose gut, hemorrhages, bent notochords, and kinked tails were seen in both selenate, fluoride, and mixtures. Overall, these assays show the usefulness of the Xenopus embryos as model species for native amphibians. Xenopus embryos showed to be more sensitive to 100 mg/L sodium selenate at different developmental stages than accumulated exposure
Design Citizen Fifth Insert (Back)
No full textA flat view of the back of the fifth insert included within the Design Citizen bookhttps://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/etds_mfa_images/1069/thumbnail.jp