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The Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy\u27s Quest for Peace
No full textI am Seth Carpenter-Nichols. I became a History major two years ago after I switched from being a Theatre major for two years. In each history class, I look forward to expanding my expertise and sharing my knowledge on a given subject. Since I was in elementary school, I had a deep passion about history. When I was 9 years old, I could remember and name all the presidents. As I grew older, my knowledge grew on world leaders, dictators, political parties, presidential facts, and what each president had to go through during their time in office. My specialty is World War II and the Cold War that followed.
I decided to write about the Cuban Missile Crisis because it was one of the most exciting, stressful, and even the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War. Our country was on the brink of nuclear war, but President Kennedy prevented that from happening. He stood up to the Soviet Union and his war-mongering military staff to keep our country and the world safe. The aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis also changed the tide of the Cold War due to President Kennedy compromising and communicating peacefully with Nikita Khrushchev. In his excellent leadership, Kennedy changed the policy of aggression to peacekeeping
Babi Yar: A Closer Look at Holocaust in the Soviet Union
No full textAndrew Hakes is a senior at IPFW, majoring in History and minoring in Political Science and Psychology. Andrew is also working towards his Honors Certificate. This semester he will be studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and while there he will be conducting research for his Honors Project on Che Guevara. In order to study abroad, Andrew received the Honors Program Study Abroad Scholarship and the Generation Study Abroad Scholarship. Andrew’s interests in history are revolutions and Latin America during the Cold War
Combating an Independent Spirit: How the CIA’s Sense of Operational Autonomy Has Stymied Congressional Oversight
Get PDFKorey Nowels is currently an IPFW senior majoring in Social Studies Education. As long as he has been able to study those subjects in school, Mr. Nowels has had a profound interest in the study of the humanities and the social sciences. This interest has not only compelled him to learn more about these subjects through his course work, but has also influenced his choice of major. He hopes to instill in his future students an appreciation for history and social science similar to the one he possess, and by doing so, he hopes to impact his community in meaningful way
Eighth Annual Department of History Undergraduate Conference Program
No full textThe 8th Annual History Undergraduate Conference was held on Saturday, February 6, 2016 in the the Steel Dynamics Keith E. Busse IPFW Alumni Center. Fifteen History (and Biology, English, Psychology, and Women\u27s Studies) majors presented their research on a wide variety of topics
Digital Humanities \u26 Scholarly Communication: Outreach and Prospects
Get PDFAcademic Libraries of Indiana Scholarly Communication Committee leadership will provide an update on the activities of the committee, including a recently-held THATCamp, conference attendance at SPARC MORE, and a conversation on current topics in scholarly communication, such as open educational resources
Evaluating the Impact of an Academic Teacher Development Program: Practical Realities of an Evidence-Based Study
No full textThis study aimed to assess the impact of an entire academic teacher development programme at a Midwestern masters comprehensive university in the United States over a period of five years by examining changes in teaching and student outcomes of nine randomly selected programme participants. Researchers analysed syllabi, course evaluations, grade distributions, programme activity reports, interviews and vita, and concluded that the centre’s impact was greatest on tenure-track faculty who struggled with their teaching. Far more useful to future improvement, however, were the insights gained from reflection on study methods, the researchers’ emotional responses to their findings, their struggle to make sense of the data and grappling with the definition of ‘impact’. In this paper, the researchers share useful lessons learned and illustrate the difficulties inherent in evaluating academic development programmes, with a view to qualifying recommendations currently prevailing in the literature
From Social Anxiety to Interpersonal Connectedness: Relationship Building Within Face-to-Face, Phone and Instant Messaging Mediums
No full textThe present research examined whether social anxiety moderates the potential relationship between conversation medium and interpersonal connectedness. Hypotheses predicted that individuals with high social anxiety would demonstrate greater interpersonal connectedness following instant messaging conversations; whereas, individuals with low social anxiety would report greater interpersonal connectedness following face-to-face and phone conversations. Undergraduate participants (N = 165) were randomly assigned to one of three conversation mediums (face-to-face, phone or instant messaging) during which they engaged in an interaction with an unfamiliar partner. Participants completed a measure of social anxiety before the interaction and measures of interpersonal connectedness prior to and following the interaction. Results revealed that level of social anxiety is a significant contingent condition for the association between type of conversation medium and attitude homophily (i.e., a measure of interpersonal connectedness). For individuals with low social anxiety, scores on the attitude homophily measure were significantly lower in the instant messaging condition, compared to the face-to-face and phone conditions
Applied Strength of Materials for Engineering Technology
Get PDFThis edition has been superseded. Please see the current 13th edition (updated January 2018): http://opus.ipfw.edu/mcetid_facpubs/56/