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Collage Magazine. Words, Concepts, and Creativity at Lake Forest College.
No full textCollage Magazine represents the cultural and linguistic diversity within the Lake Forest College community, providing an opportunity for students of any language other than English to use their abilities in a creative medium. The magazine also encourages any member of the College community (students, faculty and staff) to express in words his or her cultural perspective
Varieties of Sympathy for the “RAF” in Germany: When Terrorism Was Cool
Get PDFTerrorism has flooded the international stage with radical ideologies and spectacular explosions, kidnappings and assassinations. It has left fear, loathing and heaps of innocent bodies in its wake. But this was not always the case. There was, once upon a time, when terrorism was “cool!” Drawing from sociocultural and geopolitical events in post-war Germany, I examine how West German citizens in the 1970s were able to sympathize with a leftist terrorist organization known as the Red Army Faction. I aim to examine the sympathetic tendencies toward terrorist organizations in the 1970s by studying specific subgroups of the sympathetic German public in this ear into: hyperactive, active, passive, hyper-passive, and the disassociators. The findings shed light on how sociocultural and geopolitical events, especially as reported by the media, influenced sympathetic audiences of this terrorist organization
Keeping and Killing: Six Conversations on the Complex Nature of the Human-Animal Relationship
Get PDFThis thesis examines the complexity of animal-human relationships in the contemporary United States, drawing on literature, science, and philosophy to explore the various ways that humans keep animals in captivity, such as in the instances of pet-keeping, animal research, and animal agriculture, while also having to kill them. By examining these ways of interacting with animals, an inherent duality within human consciousness is exposed. Humans both do and do not want to take responsibility for their actions regarding animals, often times resulting in humans telling themselves stories that make them feel more comfortable with these conflicting desires. The final chapter explores hunting and is used as an example of how humans can better confront this confusion toward animals. By acknowledging this duplicity of consciousness, humans are better able to confront the confusion that they feel towards animals and how this affects animals’ lives and deaths
Anna Fifhause
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Zachary Klein
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Youth Enterprise Models For Refugee Settings
No full textWhile many children face independence at a young age due to war and political disputes, their economic opportunities are limited. Youth enterprise includes workforce development to enhance knowledge, skills, and attitudes for productive work. Through partnerships among business, government, and other organizations, training activities can fill the youth skills gap. Enterprise development guides young entrepreneurs in starting and operating businesses with organizational skills and technical assistance. Microfinance activities include financial literacy learning along with loans and savings programs. In Uganda, rather than depending on humanitarian assistance, many refugees operate their own businesses resulting in current and long-term social and financial benefits
Shyness and boldness in squirrels: risk-taking while foraging depends on habitat type
No full textWhen foraging, animals must balance their energy needs with the risk of being exposed to predators. Habitats vary in predation risk, and we expect individuals to vary in shyness and boldness when foraging in different environments. We assessed the foraging behavior of gray squirrels in forest, country and urban habitats, and at varying distances from a potential threat: a human observer. We found that the interaction between habitat type and threat distance affects squirrel behavior: forest squirrels were the shyest and urban squirrels were the boldest, but the boldness of country squirrels depends on the distance of the potential threat
Rape Culture and Perceived Victim Responsibility, Control, and Distress in Verbally Coercive Situations
No full textVerbal sexual coercion is sexual assault without physical force. This study will examine how macrosystemic beliefs affect the perception of sexual situations in which verbal sexual coercion occurs. Within a series of scenarios in which verbal sexual coercion occurs, the perpetrator will hold beliefs regarding his behavior that reflect cultural scripts supporting a rape culture. These beliefs will be reflected by statements within each scenario explaining why Liam believes his behavior is justified due to his status as an athlete or a college guy. The type of verbal sexual coercion will also be manipulated and will include social coercion, interpersonal coercion, and threatened physical coercion. It is hypothesized that the perceptions of rape culpability, victim control, and victim distress will differ based on manipulating the type of verbal sexual coercion that occurred. It is also hypothesized that the perceptions of the three types of verbal sexual coercion will vary based upon whether or not the perpetrator justified their actions using rape myth statements related to being an athlete or a college student
Trust between white-staffed organizations and black communities
No full textFood Lovers is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide agricultural job training to the homeless and formerly incarcerated, as well as provide access to affordable produce. This research examines the role that trust has played in the relationship between predominantly White-staffed Food Lovers and the predominantly Black residents of “Timberland Park” in Chicago. Through interviews with residents, this research explores issues related to historical disenfranchisement, the role of institutions/enforcement, and race as it relates to how trust is effectively established (or not) by community-service organizations in predominantly Black communities