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The Death of Abortion: If Roe v. Wade is Overturned, Can the Right to Choose Be Upheld Under the Arguments Used to Establish an Individual’s Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide?
Get PDFTransformative Justice In Action: Designing a New Way Forward
No full textTransformative justice is a critical element in easing the transition of the formerly incarcerated back to the public sphere. Youth incarceration and recidivism rates can be reduced through skills training, mentorship and community connection
Sawyer Connect: Back to Business In Person, September 2001
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Syntax, Newsletter of the Suffolk University English Department, Issue 8, 2021
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2020 Suffolk University commencement program, Law School
Get PDFSuffolk University commencement programs detail the location, date, order of exercises, academic honors, speakers, administration, graduates, and other related information.https://dc.suffolk.edu/comm/1198/thumbnail.jp
Uprooting Medievalism: YA and the Future of Fantasy
Get PDFThis thesis looks at the development of the young adult neo-medieval fantasy genre, measuring famous works from the Medieval period against works such as Tolkien\u27s, to examine the impact of female protagonists and female authors on the genre and readers alike as neo-medieval fantasy continues to gain in popularity. Works examined include: Beowulf, Lanval, Le Roman de Silence, The Hobbit, Uprooted, and The Hero and the Crown
#ThisIsMe
Get PDFStudents need to feel seen, heard, and included in their law school community. This timely article explains how a #ThisIsMe exercise can foster students’ engagement, well-being, inclusiveness, and learning. It provides students and faculty an intentional opportunity to develop connections, community, and trust. The article explains the logistics of the assignment as well as the challenges and benefits. Students create a #ThisIsMe introduction video or a PowerPoint slide presentation that they will share with the class, answering questions or prompts about themselves. Students may be surprised by how much they have in common with others, how much they will learn about themselves, and how it may spark their curiosity to learn more about others in their class. Students’ answers to the prompts can also remind them of their resilience, grit, accomplishments, and relationships and interests outside law school. It sets the tone for the class, focusing on students as individuals and valuing the whole person. It also cultivates a common bond and trust. In addition, it helps students develop their communication and self-reflection and fosters creativity. Finally, the introductions accomplished through the #ThisIsMe assignment may lessen the nerves of the first day of class and replace them with some excitement. Long after the course is over, students may remember this assignment more than any other because of the connections, community, and trust that it fosters
Deference, Displacement, and Due Diligence in AIIB and World Bank Lending in India: The Amaravati Capital City and Mumbai Urban Transport Projects
Get PDFThe Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has invested almost one-third of its entire pan-Asian portfolio in India, which has quietly become the Chinese-led bank’s top borrower despite rising China-India tensions. Over the first half-decade of the AIIB, most of its projects were co-financed with other multilaterals, led by the World Bank, and applied their environmental and social policies, accountability mechanisms, and grievance processes. This empirical research paper traces the development of two projects in India involving AIIB and the World Bank: the ill-fated Amaravati Capital City Project in Andhra Pradesh, a cancelled co-financed project, and the ongoing Mumbai Urban Transport Project, Phase III, originally intended for co-financing but is an AIIB standalone after India’s negotiations with the World Bank met at an impasse. While the cases exhibit quite different examples of AIIB and World Bank’s partnership in (and with) India, both raise similar questions about AIIB’s accountability for environmental and social impacts of its projects—particularly where land acquisition is concerned.https://dc.suffolk.edu/rifellows/1002/thumbnail.jp
Clemency Hearing Raises the Question of Whether Massachusetts’ Courts Are Ready to Extend the Prohibition on LWOP Sentences Beyond Eighteen
Get PDFThis article explores the growing debate in Massachusetts surrounding the extension of the prohibition on life without parole (LWOP) sentences for individuals beyond the age of eighteen. The discussion is catalyzed by a recent clemency hearing, which raises critical questions about the state\u27s readiness to align with emerging scientific evidence on brain development and evolving standards of decency. The article examines the legal and ethical implications of extending juvenile protections to “emerging adults” aged 18 to 25, highlighting the potential for significant shifts in the state\u27s criminal justice policies. It also reviews the current legal landscape, the arguments presented during the clemency hearing, and the broader national and international trends that may influence future decisions by Massachusetts courts
Cyclical Change in the Sleep-Emotion Relationship
Get PDFResearch has begun to elucidate psychological processes involved in optimal sleep experience; the current study examines how sleep reciprocally relates to emotional valence and emotional arousal. To understand the nature of sleep-wake emotional cycles, the compatibility of sleep theory and dimensional emotion theory needs to be tested. The current ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study examines patterns that construct (a) emotion characteristics that predict sleep and (b) sleep components that predict emotion characteristics and their fluctuation. Longitudinal multilevel data was collected from 198 adult participants via an online platform. Participants completed a measure of baseline insomnia severity status. For up to 20 mornings and evenings, participants completed self-report measures of sleep (sleep onset latency and sleep quality) and emotion (circumplex arousal and valence). Order effect variability was controlled for through counterbalanced randomization. Data was analyzed idiographically using multilevel lagged regressed change score analysis, portraying discrete relationships between sleep-emotion EMA datapoints as oscillating over time. Iterations of sleep-emotion relationships were tested systematically to compare significant and non-significant predictions and relative impacts. Results indicated that good sleepers integrate their emotional experiences differently from how poor sleepers integrate their emotional experiences. For good sleepers, better sleep quality predicts robust experiences of positive valence the next day. Additionally, good sleepers exhibit circumplex emotional interaction between valence and arousal in the evening to encourage efficient sleep onset. Poor sleepers do not experience either pattern; instead, they experience disjointedness of sleep and emotional integration guided by heightened emotional arousal. A cyclical model of sleep-emotion circumplex integration is proposed and discussed in relation to assessment of insomnia, interventions for insomnia, and future directions for research. There is a strong line of research demonstrating a relationship between sleep and emotion (Babson and Feldner, 2015). Close relationship between sleep and emotion constructs has been shown to exist among people with both sleep and emotional disorders. Emotional issues are exhibited in sleep based disorders like insomnia disorder (Harvey, 2002; Harvey, 2009; Vanek et al., 2020) and parasomnias (Settineri et al., 2019). Episodic and chronic insomnia symptoms are also found to covary with wakefulness based emotional disorders like anxiety and depression (Harvey et al., 2011; Hellberg et al., 2019; Kloss & Szuba, 2003; Lancee et al., 2017; Mason & Harvey, 2014; Riemann et al., 2019). An empirical mystery remains regarding how core emotional components operate in tandem in a sample of healthy sleepers (Pettersson et al., 2013), and specifically what healthy emotional oscillation looks like. This question of the core components of sleep-emotion integration in subjective experience have not been tested. The current ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study therefore tests predominant circumplex patterns that integrate with sleep onset latency and sleep quality, two subjective bookends that support the integrity of the sleep experience and self-perception. In a study published by Psychological Bulletin in 2013, authors Kuppens, Tuerlinckx, Russell, and Barrett—Russell coined the circumplex emotional framework, comprised of subjective valence and arousal (Russell, 1980; Russell & Barrett, 1999)—discovered that idiographic representation of the emotional circumplex is essential for understanding wakeful well-being. Certainly, a focus on examining emotion in wakefulness is important for psychological science and clinical application; however, the emotion literature and sleep literature are too often mistaken to symbolize orthogonal sides of a coin that is intrinsically reciprocal. To date, it is unknown how idiographic circumplex emotional patterns operate to predict sleep and how sleep patterns operate to predict emotional experience