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Rushlight: Volume XIV, March 1869, No.2 (typewritten, MISSING)
No full textWheaton College (Norton, MA) student literary magazine
La Movida y heroína: una mirada a su desarrollo en el arte
No full textSubmitted as final work for HISP400 - Senior Seminar in Hispanic Studies focusing on Madrid in the 1980s.La dictadura de Francisco Franco que duró desde 1939 hasta 1975 estableció para la gente de España una existencia limitada. La agencia y libertad de los ciudadanos era determinada por los ideales de Franco y su régimen. Entonces, en 1975, cuando murió Franco, nació un sentido nacional de libertad, tanto emocional como política. El país entró a una nueva realidad en la que la gente recuperó su independencia democrática. Con esta realidad venía una sociedad que fomentó el auto-descubrimiento, la experimentación y subsecuentemente, el uso de la heroína.
Al mirar hacía atrás en este momento, es fácil interpretar una polaridad en hablar de la ‘buena’ y la ‘mala’ de los años 80 -- la ‘buena’ siendo la nueva libertad social que representaba la Movida, la ‘mala’ siendo los niveles epidémicos a los que llegó el uso de la heroína. Sin embargo, esta ‘buena’ y ‘mala’ no fueron tan separadas. De hecho, se desarrollaron juntos a través de la época, ambas incapaces de crecer como lo hizo sin el otro. Con esto, este ensayo analizará el crecimiento dual por etapas de la sociedad española junto a la epidemia del uso de la heroína durante los años 80, y más lejos -- como lo representa el arte de esta época
Examining Depression Symptoms With/Without Coexisting Anxiety Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia
No full text9 pages.Depression and anxiety are common in persons with dementia (PWD) and associated with poor outcomes. We explored frequency, pharmacologic management and mental health service use in PWD and depression symptoms with/without coexisting anxiety symptoms. The sample comprised 160 community-dwelling PWD in a trial to prevent development of aggression. Baseline data on depression and anxiety symptoms, psychotropic medications and mental health service use were examined. Regarding participants, 65 (41%) lacked clinically significant depression or anxiety symptoms, 45 (28%) had depression symptoms, 43 (27%) had depression and anxiety symptoms, and 7 (4%) had anxiety symptoms. Comorbid anxiety was associated with more severe depression symptoms. One third with depression symptoms and one half with depression and anxiety symptoms were taking an antidepressant. Mental health service use was very low, regardless of depression symptom severity or coexisting anxiety. Research needs to evaluate therapies for depressed PWD, but treatment of those with comorbid anxiety and depression is more urgent
"Sing gently as one": the effect of technology on experiences of belonging in virtual communities.
No full text83 pages; illustrations82 leaves : illustrations (some color).Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-61).The social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the need for virtual communities. Deemed “superspreaders”, choral singers have turned to virtual music making and have created subsequent virtual choir communities. In a music community, such as a choir or orchestra, participants may experience belongingness through music making. But can a sense of belonging be felt when this musical community and the act of making music occurs completely virtually? Prior research has addressed experiences of belonging within virtual communities, but experience of belonging within virtual music communities demands further research. This study explores how technology affects choir participants’ experiences of belonging within a virtual choir community, specifically composer Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir 6 – Sing Gently, which is composed of approximately 17,000 participants from 129 countries. To determine the degree of belongingness in Virtual Choir 6, choral singers who have participated in both in-person and virtual choirs were surveyed in order to compare their experiences in the two settings. The results showed that respondents were able to experience belonging in both in-person and virtual choirs through virtual ritualistic participation, as well as interactions facilitated through social media. These results extend applications of Collins’(2004) Interaction Ritual Chain Theory and Small’s (1998) concept of Musicking to the virtual context, and have positive practical implications for virtual music making and arts-based community engagement beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Snowfall-albedo feedbacks could have led to deglaciation of snowball Earth starting from mid-latitudes
No full text9 pages with color illustrations.Simple and complex climate models suggest a hard snowball – a completely ice-covered planet – is one of the steady-states of Earth’s climate. However, a seemingly insurmountable challenge to the hard-snowball hypothesis lies in the difficulty in explaining how the planet could have exited the glaciated state within a realistic range of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Here, we use simulations with the Earth system model MPI-ESM to demonstrate that terminal deglaciation could have been triggered by high dust deposition fluxes. In these simulations, deglaciation is not initiated in the tropics, where a strong hydrological cycle constantly regenerates fresh snow at the surface, which limits the dust accumulation and snow aging, resulting in a high surface albedo. Instead, comparatively low precipitation rates in the mid-latitudes in combination with high maximum temperatures facilitate lower albedos and snow dynamics that – for extreme dust fluxes – trigger deglaciation even at present-day carbon dioxide levels
Course Catalog 2021-2022
No full text489 pages.Courses offered at Wheaton College (Norton, Massachusetts) from 2021-2022
The Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection and the Limits of Inherent Immunity
No full text61 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-61).SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is the cause of a global pandemic that has infected 155 million people worldwide as of May 2021.1 SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped and spherical particle that contains a single-stranded positive-sense RNA genome. It is a beta-coronavirus (��CoV) belonging to the Coronavirdiae family. It originated in mammals, with the earliest documented cases being traced to bats.2 COVID-19 can spread through multiple forms of transmission but primarily spreads through respiratory droplets.3 SARS-CoV-2 enters the body and binds to the host’s ACE2 receptors. Once bound, TMPRSS2 cleaves and activates the viral spike protein.
When someone is infected by SARS-CoV-2 their immune system works hard to fight the invader. The immune response produces antibodies and virus-specific memory T cells, such as CD4+ and CD8+.4 The antibodies that are produced during this response are believed to provide a certain level of immunity against future infection. The extent to which a person is immune is unknown and the duration for how long the SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies are present is unclear. This meta-analysis aims to study the reinfection cases of SARS-CoV-2 and to identify the likelihood of a reinfection event occurring, which is a step towards understanding immunity in SARS-CoV-2.Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.a Viruses -- 1.b Origin of Viruses -- 1.c Hypotheses of Viral Evolution -- 1.d Discovery of Vaccinations -- 1.e Relative Size of Viruses Discovered -- 1.f Benefits of Viruses -- 1.g Hershey-Chase Experiment -- 1.h Viruses Break the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology -- 1.i RNA-dependent RNA polymerase -- 1.j SARS-CoV-2 Background -- 1.k SARS-CoV-2 Virion Structure --1.l SARS-CoV-2 Attachment and Entry to Host Cell --1.m SARS-CoV-2 Genome Replication -- 1.n Modes of Transmission --1.o SARS-CoV-2 Testing -- 1.p Viral Mutation --1.q SARS-CoV-2 Immunity -- Methods -- 2.a Study Design -- 2.c Exporting Data from Excel to RStudio -- Results -- 3.a Comparing Sample Data to the Control Groups -- 3.b Infection Interval Data -- 3.c Biological Sex and SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection -- 3.d Symptomatic Outcome of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection -- 3.e Logistic Regression of Patient Characteristics --3.f Summary -- Discussion -- Conclusio
The Bloody Chamber: Investigating and Adapting Bluebeard as a Feminist and Jamaican Fairytale
No full text202 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-63).The thesis opens with an essay discussing the evolution of the fairy tale Bluebeard and its continued legacy in modern adaptations which diversify and racialize the commonly accepted fairy tale standards. Examining Helen Oyeyemi’s Mr. Fox and Renée Ahdieh’s The Wrath & the Dawn, the essay analyzes how modern authors use Bluebeard as a touchstone for exploring modern social codes and problems. The essay is followed by a 120-page novella offering a new Bluebeard retelling which reimagines the tale as a post- slavery story set in Jamaica with Black characters. The novella explores the legacy of slavery—its madness, violence, and trauma—on Winston, the male protagonist and wealthy landowner in the Bluebeard role, who marries Femi, a biracial servant on a neighboring plantation, who shares an inner strength equal to Winston’s.The Bloody Chamber:
Contemporary Bluebeard Adaptations --Addressing Feminism and Race -- Mr. Campbell, a Novella by Olivia Jame
Chaucer’s Missing Manuscripts.
No full text94 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-94).Introduction -- Methodology -- Hg, El, Cp, and Ha4 Manuscript Files -- Detailed Explanation of Full Text Sources for Cp, El, Ha4, and Hg -- Wife of Bath’s Prologue Files -- Lemma and Milestone Reference Lists -- Manuscript and Variant Choice -- Full Texts Analysis -- Full Texts Filler Text Location Reference -- Full Texts Tale Order Reference -- Canterbury Tales Fragment and Group Label Reference -- Full Texts and Lemma -- Full Texts and Variants -- Full Texts th Character String Lemma -- Full Texts th Character String Variants -- Full Texts that Lemma -- Full Texts that Variants -- Full Texts the Lemma -- Full Texts the Variants -- Full Texts thou Lemma -- Full Texts thou Variants -- Full Texts with Lemma -- Full Texts with Variants -- Full Text Comparisons Summary -- De Hamel Comparisons -- Hg de Hamel Tale Order and Booklet Reference -- De Hamel Rolling Windows Milestone Legend -- Hg de Hamel Analysis Introduction -- Hg de Hamel and Lemma and Variants -- Hg de Hamel th Character String Lemma and Variants -- Hg de Hamel the Lemma and Variants -- Hg de Hamel with Lemma and Variants -- Hg-El de Hamel Comparisons Introduction -- Hg-El de Hamel and Lemma and Variants -- Hg-El de Hamel with Lemma and Variants -- De Hamel Comparisons Summary -- Wife of Bath’s Prologue Comparisons -- WBP Filler Text Location Reference: -- WBP and Lemma -- WBP and Variants -- WBP th Character String Lemma -- WBP th Character String Variants -- WBP that Lemma -- WBP that Variants -- WBP the Lemma -- WBP the Variants -- WBP thou Lemma -- WBP thou Variants -- WBP with Lemma -- WBP with Variants -- WBP Analysis Summary -- Conclusion -- Table of Abbreviations -- Table of Figures -- Works Cite
Queer Desire, Nature, & Myth in Ecopoetry
No full text104 leaves.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104).Nature is often a compelling source for poetry, and has been since the Romantic era. The relationship between humans and nature has always been complicated, and has been further complicated by the Anthropocene, the era of geologic time where significant human impact on Earth’s environment has come to the forefront of knowledge; particularly with the acknowledgement of anthropogenic climate change and environmental damage. In this project I am attempting to explain the influence of ecopoetry on my poetic style, form and content. I am also exploring primary drivers for my poems, including queer desire, and mythological figures and themes. In my poems, all of these things fit together, and I am analyzing the relationships between the influences that have dominated the pathways my poems have taken, including exploring ecocriticism, the work of distinguished poets, and close readings of my own poems. Ecocritics Lynn Keller and Timothy Morton, along with the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, offer together a framework that can be used to navigate ecopoetry and its large but personal areas. For many poets the best way to explain emotion is through nature; and the best way to explain nature is through emotion. Poetry is a strong vehicle for combining those two approaches. With the background of the personal and impersonal, the vast and the small, the natural and the artificial, seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum meet together in ecopoetry, which is something I am accessing in my own poetry.
I have read several books of poems that fall into the realm of ecopoetry and unique poetic voice, namely Nature Poem by Tommy Pico, Sea Change by Jorie Graham, feeld by Jos Charles, The Trees The Trees by Heather Christle, Poemland by Chelsey Minnis, and Styrofoam by Evelyn Reilly. Pico and Charles have a queer background to their nature-themed poems, which makes them all the more relevant to my project. Graham, Christle, and Reilly are poets with unique voices that are writing into the space of the Anthropocene, not necessarily from a queer perspective but from a deeply personal perspective. Minnis’s poetry draws on distinctly personal experiences to create a space of jarring images with more modern and urban imagery, which makes for an interesting comparison to the other work I have read and to my own work.
For my poetry, nature has always been a vehicle to express emotion and desire. When I first began to write poetry in high school, I began with imagery of vast objects like the ocean and celestial bodies in outer space. Vastnesses like these seemed to be the only places I could give myself for the depth of feelings I was just beginning to tap into, in terms of my mental and social development, and the discovery of the fluidness of my identity as a queer person. It was all very overwhelming, and it felt almost too much to go into detail about the reality of my situation and the impressions of the world around me. It was easier to sink into spaces that are far away and distant, and unknown, like how I felt about myself at the time. When I first came into my poetic voice, I was also drawn to love poems, as many poets are. My love poems had the desired subject as a clearly defined person, often of fictional making to stand in the place of a real person, as there were feelings I did not yet know how to realize in my own life. I shied away from my desire, especially desires for other women, and for my own gender fluidity; I had a great fear too of reckoning with my queerness while still being attracted to men, and seeing myself as not quite a woman. I was not yet ready to explore the complications and nuances of myself, and my world. The language I used was more plain and direct, but the subject matters were held at arm’s length.
Since then, my use of nature in my poetry has evolved into something else. I began to focus on visceral nature imagery, like dewdrops on leaves, and petals crushed underfoot. I made detailed observations of my direct surroundings. The language I used had to change to accommodate much smaller pieces of a larger picture, and very specific moments and impressions that were unique to me, and yet still part of something greater. I began to shape language around details, as a way to capture my specific emotions or observations. At times smaller images would be contrasted with larger, more abstract “natural” concepts as characterized by Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects, which will be explored later in detail. I would say that I was writing about hyperobjects vaguely when I first started writing poetry, without knowing what they were or comparing them to smaller points. Hyperobjects and awareness of the Anthropocene became present in my work when including larger concepts of climate change, environmental damage, changes in water chemistry, and species loss, and those are just the concepts tied to ecology and environmental science. I experimented with the poetic concept of ‘dailiness’, or journalistic poetry that makes the everyday more profound. Writing every day, I began to form my own style as a deeply personal catalog, using language I would often use just to talk to myself. This imagery and background for my poems came to the forefront and became a wealth of material for me to tap into. Even still, any encounter with the external world provides some inciting moments for me to work with. As an introverted person, being outside and in nature alone provides an opportunity for reflecting and a space to process difficult emotions, to live in them, and to heal