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Collation Model for Ms. Codex 83: [Extracts from and commentaries on Liber bellorum Domini].
Get PDFExcerpts from and commentaries on the Liber bellorum Domini; contains articles 105-112, 192-195 and 142-148. Due to the date, this cannot be the Liber bellorum Domini of St. William of Bourges (1150-1209). Articles 105-112 and 192-195 concern the Albigensian crusade. According to the dealer\u27s description of the manuscript, much of this section might be quoted or derived from the Historia Albigensium of Pierre de Vaux-de-Cernay. Articles 142-148 (f. 24v-32r) concern the 8th-century martyrs Amelius and Amicus. According to the dealer\u27s description and Rudolf Hirsch\u27s notes, this was first printed in the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais, XXIV, 162-166, 169. Contemporary and later marginalia throughout, much appearing Spanish in origin, particularly of the 16th-17th centuries.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1143/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 761: [Cosmographies].
Get PDFFour ancient Greek cosmographies in Latin translation: Plato\u27s Timaeus translated and with a commentary by Calcidius, Aristotle\u27s De mundo translated by Ioannes Argyropoulos, Philo\u27s De incorruptione mundi probably translated by Lilius Tifernas, and Cleomedes\u27s De mundo translated by Carolus Valgulius.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1145/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1239: [Monastic ritual and Passion sequence].
Get PDFA portable monastic libellus, or partial ritual book, describing the administration of rites to an ill monk, the burial rites of a monk or layperson, and the prayers, chants, and processions associated with them; the libellus demonstrates the role of the monks in ensuring proper burial for members of the lay community. The punctus flexus punctuation and the inclusion of St. Hugh of Lincoln, the second-most prominent saint (behind Bruno) in the Carthusian Order, suggest that the manuscript belonged to a Carthusian monastery. The mentions of St. Jerome and St. Katherine of Siena suggest the manuscript may have been tied to the Hieronymites of Fiesole. Includes a hymn in square notation on 4-line staves in red ink (f. 22r-25r).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1153/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1101: Welscher Krieg etwas zamengeclaupter Neuzeytt ... [etc.].
Get PDFWork 1, the title of which refers to the Italian war, seems to concern the War of the League of Cambrai against Venice; a prefatory note and an opening rubric (f. 1v and 2r) appear to make reference to the treaty of Cambrai (tractat zu Camerich), which was concluded in 1529. The work seems particularly concerned with the role of Maximilian I, who is named at the outset of the text (f. 2r) and whose death on 12 January 1519 (f. 116r) is discussed in the conclusion; otherwise, dates referenced in the text are 1511 (f. 31r), 1512 (f. 37r), 1513 (f. 73v), and 1514 (f. 97r). Work 2, which is written in a more formal and possibly a different hand than the other 3 works, concerns a prophecy about the year 1400; it mentions Christians and Jews (f. 121r, 122v, 124v), an emperor (f.125r), and a campaign against Venice (f. 124r). Work 3 concerns the life of a certain ruler (Sophi) of Persia who died at the age of 33 (f. 134v); it mentions his intention to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem (f. 132v) and his belief in Jesus\u27s divinity, death and resurrection (f. 133r-133v). Work 4 is in the form of an imperial letter from Maximilian I; it touches upon matters pertaining to Christian belief (f. 135v), the Christian world (f. 135v and 137r), and Jerusalem (f. 136r and 137r). Works 3 and 4 may be related, since the closing of work 4 seems to allude to the deeds of Sophi (f. 137r).https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1150/thumbnail.jp
Bureaucracies of Removal: The Labor and Logics of US Immigration Courts
No full textWith the intensification of immigration enforcement, detention, and deportation in the United States in recent years, an ever-increasing number of immigrants find themselves in immigration court facing removal from the United States. As the site where immigration judges and prosecutors decide who will be deported and who can remain in the United States, the immigration court is an important, yet understudied, institution in the immigration enforcement bureaucracy. Situating this study at the intersection of sociolegal literatures on immigration enforcement, bureaucracies, and decision-making, each chapter of this dissertation focuses on how the judges, prosecutors, and immigration attorneys navigate the labor of removal in immigration court. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of these court actors, I link their bureaucratic working conditions, as well as varying professional norms, to the process and outcomes of immigration removal hearings. While illuminating the black box of immigration court workings, this project explicitly contributes to research on legal decision-making and the bureaucratic values revealed in the process of adjudicating the important public, civil, and criminal justice issue that is immigration in the United States
Crafting a Curriculum to Promote Adolescent Flourishing Through Photography
Get PDFSeeingHappy, a nonprofit organization that seeks to use photography to enhance happiness and flourishing, tasked a team from the University of Pennsylvania to develop a well- being curriculum targeting adolescents. This curriculum, Happiness + photography, is rooted in evidence that suggests engagement in the arts and humanities, specifically photography, contributes to well-being through a variety of mechanisms, namely: creating, connecting, noticing, reframing, and storytelling. In addition to targeting adolescent students, the curriculum is geared toward educators for use in the classroom. Experiential learning and personal reflection are central in each lesson plan. With this curriculum in hand, SeeingHappy is positioned to develop further insights about the connections between photography, happiness, and human flourishing, and to make meaningful contributions to the emerging field of the positive humanities
Collation Model for LJS 97: Eis ta Harmonika Ptolemaiou hypomnēma.
Get PDFPorphyry\u27s commentary on about half of Ptolemy\u27s treatise Harmonics, focusing on harmonics and acoustics.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1116/thumbnail.jp
Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1170: Sermones de tribus partibus penitencie ... [etc.].
Get PDFCompilation of works on religion: work 1 is a sermon on penance, originally part of a larger collection of sermons; work 2 is a handbook about the sacrament of confession, also published under the title Confessio minor seu modus confitendi; work 3 deals with the state of religion, especially with regards to simony, during the early 15th century; and work 4, bound in separately and originally part of a larger manuscript, is also of a religious nature, and deals with proper behavior in a religious context.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1136/thumbnail.jp
PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT, INVOLVEMENT, AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS: PERSPECTIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SINGLE PARENTS OF ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN
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Purpose: The largest academic achievement gap in the U.S. is between African American and White students. Parental engagement and involvement are two key factors that influence academic success and may help reduce the achievement gap; however, traditional definitions and strategies used remain highly racially biased. The research supported two papers with aims of exploring (1) definitions of parental engagement and involvement and (2) barriers to and facilitators of parental engagement and involvement among African American single parents of elementary and middle school students. Methods: Employing a phenomenological design, this qualitative study used purposive sampling to recruit 15 African American single parents of elementary and middle school-aged children for participation in semi-structured interviews that explored participants’ definitions of parental engagement, the relationship of parental engagement to academic achievement, and barriers to and facilitators of parental engagement. Data was analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: Data analyses revealed four salient themes related to participants definitions of engagement and involvement: racist ideas and racist engagement, counternarrative development as an engagement strategy, effective parent-teacher communication, and cultural representation and inclusion. Data analyses revealed six salient themes related to barriers and facilitators: racism, intersectional stigma, single parent stress, African American representation, supporting diverse family forms, and accessible and equitable resources. Implications: The research findings suggested that school administrators and staff not only improve their lens of antiracist school practices, but also improve the parent-teacher communication process. In addition, schools should be intentional on integrating social justice, inclusion, and respect for diversity in policy development and school wide practices
User-Generated Collateral Data as Property: A Philosophical Argument for Implementing a Property Rights Framework for Data at the Global Human Rights Level
Get PDFThe advent of the digital age has borne a new economic ideology, termed “surveillance capitalism” by Shoshanna Zuboff, whereby technological corporations extract valuable behavioral insights from swaths of user-generated “collateral” data to amass profit. The employment of surveillance capitalist logic results in several pernicious harms to the individual and the collective. In this thesis, I argue that surveillance capitalism poses specific threats to freedom, autonomy, and distributive justice. Previous scholarship has conceptualized the right to data through the lens of privacy. However, I posit that a framework of property rights may be better suited to address surveillance capitalisms\u27 threats. I reference the landscape of data privacy laws, as well as a broader argument as to the global nature of cyberspace, to establish that privacy laws in isolation cannot remediate the harms resulting from surveillance capitalism. Subsequently, this paper makes two crucial arguments: first, that the injuries wrought by surveillance capitalism necessitate the designation of the “right to data” as a human right. Referencing the works of John Rawls, Charles Beitz, and Joseph Raz, I advance the claim that the right to data is justified by the same normative principles used to justify the existing practice of human rights. The second major premise indicates that property rights will adequately address surveillance capitalism’s threats to autonomy, freedom, and distributive justice. In the following sections of the thesis, I explore possible practical manifestations of the property rights framework and consider relevant objections to the argument