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Enforcement of Gun Control Laws and Minority Communities: Finding the Right Balance Between Public Safety and Limiting Mass Incarceration
Full text linkThis thesis is on the enforcement of gun control laws on minorities, and whether the enforcement of those laws discriminate against them. My research question is, “Does gun control still discriminate against non-white people?” I compared New York City and South Carolina. I wanted a liberal area with strict gun laws and a conservative area with loose gun laws. Those areas provided the necessary racial breakdown. I researched the statistics of people in prison for firearm violations in these areas and other crimes. I looked at the SAFE Act that was passed in NYC, and whether minority populations in prison increased after it was passed. I analyzed data from the NYPD, the SC Law Enforcement Division, and the SC Department of Public Safety. I used data from the NRA to see which gun control laws NYC and SC have. I predicted minority populations incarcerated would increase after the SAFE Act was passed, and there would be less minority populations incarcerated for gun crimes in SC than NYC. My findings were not what I expected. There were less Black people in prison for gun crimes after the SAFE Act was passed, and about the same for other minorities. There were lots of Black people arrested in SC for gun crimes, which was much higher than other crimes. This indicates 1) the SAFE Act is not discriminatory towards minorities, and 2) minorities are discriminated against with gun laws, including loose gun laws
Derek Walcott’s Omeros: How Effective Stories Benefit the Human Experience
Full text linkThis thesis offers a fresh perspective about the benefits of stories on the human experience when they are written, structured, and told effectively. To examine how stories inform us, Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros is deconstructed through the theoretical framework of narratology in the paper. The theory of narrative highlights how Walcott’s exceptional use of structure, language, characters, and themes educate readers about the past and present struggles of life on the island. In his poem, Walcott revisits the history of St. Lucia through the tale of local characters who feel dispossessed in a post-slavery/post-colonial environment.
Mieke Bal’s “The Point of Narratology,” Mark Freeman’s, “Why Narrative Matters: Philosophy, Method, Theory” and David Herman’s “Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind: Cognitive Narratology, Discursive Psychology, and Narratives in Face-to-Face Interaction”, explain how stories help readers form human connections whilst providing them with an opportunity to understand familiar and unfamiliar worlds that are imagined or real, in the past, present, or future. Through Walcott’s Omeros, this thesis expands on the idea that stories allow writers to transport their interpretation of identity and their experience of the self and otherness, as readers experience how Walcott uses storytelling, textuality, and expression to revisit unhealed wounds within himself and his people.Master ArtsEnglishCollege of Online and Continuing Educatio
WILDLIFE PRESERVATION BEHAVIORS 1
Full text linkHumans worldwide are contributing to the vast environmental degradation taking place on this planet and experiencing the consequences (USGCRP, 2018). As people find themselves victims of unprecedented flooding, fires, and drought, this researcher wonders about those who walked the Earth before and beside humans. Non-human animals, henceforth known as animals, are also suffering those consequences. According to the World Wildlife Fund, climate change is impacting life forms from coral and insects to mighty moose and elephants. It is becoming more evident as resources and ecosystems begin dwindling, that humans will be in greater competition with their animal brethren. “From the shrinking habitat of the polar bear to increased water scarcity driving human-wildlife conflict, these changes will become more pronounced in years to come” (WWF, n.d)
The United States in Afghanistan: How U.S. Foreign Policy in the “Graveyard of Empires” Paved the Road to the Present
No full textOver the course of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for influence and allies. Afghanistan was initially viewed as unimportant to U.S. interests and ignored. This caused the Afghans to turn to the Soviet Union for aid, loans, and military assistance. The U.S. reversed course and invested money and resources into the Central Asian nation, but the influence of Soviet-style communism spread through Afghanistan. A Marxist coup led to the Afghan-Soviet War of 1979-89, which caused the U.S. to invest heavily in covert operations to support the rebel Mujahideen. This support dried up after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, leading to the Afghan Civil War and the rise of the Taliban. Under the protection of the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization, al Qaeda, planned and launched multiple attacks against the U.S. After the September 11 attack, the U.S. reentered Afghanistan and spent the next twenty years fighting a war in which it had little interest. The September 11 attacks changed life in the U.S., as well as around the world, forever. The issues faced today, including instability in the Middle East, an ever-widening gap between political ideologies, and the retrograde of rights and liberties can be traced back to U.S. policy concerning Afghanistan from 1955-2001. This paper analyzes the missteps, connects them to the current issues, and identifies future potential calamities that can still be avoided.Master ArtsHistoryCollege of Online and Continuing Educatio
Destress for Success: A More SNHU Centered Approach
No full textHow can the pre-existing "Destress for Success" program be improved to better cater general-stress education and coping mechanism techniques to SNHU freshmen
Disabled Identities Revealed Through the Empiricism of a Quartet of Female Dramatis Personae: a Psycho-Social Autoethnographic Portrait
Full text linkDramatists have always built upon pure psychological foundations for character development. The intrinsic qualities associated with humanity impel subjective thoughts, insights, and interpretations on consciousness and introspection. There have been a plethora of protagonists and antagonists to illustrate this argument. In particular, the following four female personas exemplify motifs of affliction, dereliction and social ostracism: Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller from The Miracle Worker, Sarah Norman from Children of a Lesser God, and Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie. These characters are detailed and contrasted through an autoethnographic perspective culminating in the universal theme of psychosocial survival. The cognitive processes, sensibilities, and visceral tendencies of these disabled female characters rouse exploration. Orphaned, blind, and institutionalized, Annie Sullivan overcame egregious cruelties through fervency for an education. With indefatigable exertion, her first job was teaching a deaf, blind, and mute Helen Keller, an exile from humanity, appropriate behavior and basic communication skills with the ultimate goal of language and its significance. The pedagogy process becomes a quagmire of violent tantrums and thwarted efforts. Analogously, Sarah Norman is also a defector from humanity. A version of a misanthrope, Sarah rejects the hearing world with its condescending nonconformity to the language, culture, and values of her world, the deaf world. Laura Wingfield also disengages humankind with a penchant for escapism tethered to an incandescent menagerie of unicorns. What is most intriguing about all four personas is the dramatist’s distillation of the human experience, in particular, their social and psychological adaptation and resignation as an affirmation of their inured reality.Master ArtsEnglishCollege of Online and Continuing Educatio
Academic catalog spring 2021 online programs
No full textThe SNHU COCE catalog features information for online and continuing education and College for America programs such as the academic calendar, admission and financial aid information, an overview of tuition and expenses, different types of academic support services, academic program descriptions, and standards and regulations
Deep space
Full text linkA detailed breakdown of effects and techniques used to create the film short Deep Space.
This is a film and animation project created using Adobe After Effects taking the viewers
on a conceptual journey through the solar system. Techniques include track mattes,
compositing, roto scoping, creating planets from NASA planet scans, 3d space, particle
acceleration, and creating a theoretical black hole. (Author abstract)McCormick, B. (2021). Creating a deep space adventure. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.ed
Instant insanity: Uniqueness and existence of solutions
Full text linkThis mathematics research project will probe into the game Instant Insanity, a classic puzzle which involves stacking four cubes whose faces are covered in four colors. This research will attempt to answer four questions: how to solve one specific puzzle layout, how to generalize a solution method that solves other layouts to the puzzle, which conditions lead to the existence or non-existence of a puzzle solution for a layout, and which conditions lead to the uniqueness or non-uniqueness of a puzzle solution for a layout. Research methods include the use of directed graphs, combinatorial objects such as necklaces, multi-sets for categorizing solutions, and the probabilistic analysis of data. This project will illustrate important mathematical concepts such as equivalence classes and pigeonhole principle. It will also offer insights into what makes a puzzle challenging. (Author abstract)Richards, M. (2021). Instant insanity: Uniqueness and existence of solutions. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.ed
Motivation, mind-wandering, and rhythmic response: An area under the curve extension analysis of metronome response task performance
Full text linkSeveral models of sustained attention have been used to explain declines in performance
related to motivation and mind-wandering. Specifically, the opportunity cost theory
predicts that changes in motivation may insulate cognitive resources and minimize mindwandering tendencies (Esterman & Rothlein, 2019). A recent study (Brosowsky et al., 2020) expanded on this theory using a rhythmic response task, further providing evidence that, over time on task, motivation and mind-wandering are negatively associated. Since motivation levels and changes in motivation may differ, the current study extends these findings by classifying subsamples of participants based on motivational differences to examine changes in performance. Using area under the curve (AUC) calculations (Pruessner, et al., 2003), such as AUCg (the overall change over time) and AUCi (the magnitude of change over time), overall motivation and the magnitude of change in motivation was calculated. A k-means cluster classification analysis was then used to create artificial groups based on both AUC values. This allowed for the investigation of differences in task performance and mind-wandering based on these groupings. Mixed design ANOVA analyses yielded a significant Block x AUCg motivation interaction effect on omission rate (F(3,441) = 3.979, p = 0.01) and a trend for a main effect of group (F(1,147) = 3.395, p = 0.07) on task variability. These main findings provide evidence that individuals with higher overall motivation may not experience performance deficits to the same degree that those with low motivation appear to. Further, the magnitude of change in motivation may only exhibit differences regarding mind-wandering tendencies. (Author abstract)Brau, J.M. (2021). Motivation, mind-wandering, and rhythmic response: An area under the curve extension analysis of metronome response task performance. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.ed