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Mental Illness and Creativity in the Selected Poetry of Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton
Get PDFOne should never underestimate the potential of someone who suffers from mental illness, as many individuals with mental illness can create great art. Madness, after all, can be seen as a sign of genius. The goal of this thesis is to show how mental illness and creativity are connected. Despite suffering bouts of madness, poets such as Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton displayed genius through their poetry. “Skunk Hour” by Lowell and, Sexton’s “45 Mercy Street” depict madness while displaying a deep understanding of poetic form
My Name is Barbra Public Relations Campaign
Get PDFBarbra Joan Streisand was born on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. She is an award winning actress, singer, director, and producer. Barbra began her career by performing at nightclubs and different theaters in the early 1960s. She soon signed to Columbia Records in 1963 and produced her debut album, “The Barbra Streisand Album. At that year’s Grammys she won her first of many Grammy awards for Album of the Year. She is extremely well-known for her singing ability and has released multiple albums, including “The Barbra Streisand Album,” “Je m’apelle Barbra,” “Streisand Superman,” and“Love is the Answer. In 1964 she began the role as of Fanny Brice in the musical, “Funny Girl.” The Broadway show was, and still is, a defining role for Streisand. In 1965 she won two Emmy Awards for her TV Program “My Name Is Barbra” for Outstanding Program Achievements in Entertainment, and Outstanding Individual Achievements inEntertainment. In 1968 she reprised her role as Fanny Brice for the“Funny Girl” movie, for which she won an Academy Award for best Actress in 1969. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she starred in multiple musical movies such as “Funny Lady,” “Hello Dolly,” “A Star is Born,” and “The Way We Were. She directed her first movies in 1983 for the film “Yentl,” in which she also starred as the leading role
Narcissistic Parenting and its Effects on Parenting Styles and Child Development
Get PDFNarcissism development in children has been a widely studied subject; however, little research has examined parental narcissism. There have been two specific studies that have researched narcissism in parents. Within these studies it was found that parental and child bonds are not ideal, which usually results in parents having low senses of well-being and satisfaction with their bond (Hart, 2017; Horton, 2021). For each of our studies, we explored how aspects of an individual’s growth and development are linked with parental narcissism. In Study 1, we investigated the link between both grandiose and vulnerable parental narcissism and the mental well-being and self-esteem of our participants. In this study, we found that vulnerable narcissism was linked to lower rates of self-esteem and well-being, while grandiose narcissism was not correlated with either. In Study 2, we examined the parenting styles of the narcissistic parent, where we discovered that both subtypes were linked to maladaptive parenting styles known as rejection and overprotection. In our final study, we analyzed the attachment styles of the adult child and found that both parental narcissism subtypes were linked to avoidant and anxious attachment. Our studies identified the negative effects that both subtypes have on the development of the adult child, which ultimately suggested that vulnerable narcissism is the more substandard subtype
Time Series Analysis of Major League Baseball Organizations’ Fan Attendance
Get PDFThroughout baseball’s rich and long history, fans have been one of the most integral parts of the game. However, in recent years, baseball has seen a decrease in fans, allegedly due to the pace of play, or the length of games. Baseball games can take up to four hours to complete, and in today’s fast-moving society where all information is at one’s fingertips, it is believed that baseball’s slower pace turns people away from the game. However, how true is that? The primary goal of this project is to build models to accurately forecast fan attendance for every Major League Baseball (MLB) team. With teams across the country with varying levels of success, can fan attendance be accurately predicted using time series analysis using fan attendance data from the 1988 to 2019 season. This range allows us to analyze 32 years of data for total fan attendance per season for all thirty teams. The 2020 and 2021 seasons were not used as fans were not allowed in stadiums during these years due to COVID-19. After creating time series models using the data, forecasts were made for the 2022 and 2023 seasons to determine the accuracy of the models
The Power of Storytelling and Memory in Ung\u27s First They Killed My Father, Haitiwaji\u27s How I Survived a Chinese \u27Reeducation\u27 Camp, and Park\u27s In Order to Live
Get PDFThis thesis studies memoirs by survivors of the Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979), the on-going genocide of the Uyghur Muslims in Chinese reeducation centers, and the prison-state of North Korea. These current or past genocides share the goal of controlling certain groups of people or eliminating those the government cannot control. Fortunately, there are the lucky few who survive these genocides, and some have published memoirs about what they experienced. Loung Ung’s memoir First They Killed My Father shares what her life was like when the Cambodian Genocide occurred when she was just five years old. At this young age, Ung already had to face the hardships of war. From never having enough food to eat to the constant fear of her loved ones being brutally killed, Ung was robbed of a childhood, and her memoir traces her journey from innocence to experience. Gulbahar Haitiwaji’s memoir How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp exposes the Uyghur Genocide occurring in China at this moment. Haitiwaji is one of the few Uyghurs to tell the story of what is happening in the Xinjiang region of China. Currently, Uyghurs in Xinjiang are being forced into Chinese reeducation camps with the purpose of completely stripping them of their culture. After a trip to visit her family, Haitiwaji found herself trapped in one of these detention centers and her memoir describes both what she experienced and what it was like to see the place she once called home be destroyed. Similarly, Yeonmi Park’s memoir, In Order to Live, shares her life in and escape from North Korea. Park lived in North Korea until she escaped at the age of thirteen. In North Korea, she had no freedom at all. Every day she was being manipulated by government propaganda and was told the sacrifices she was making were for the betterment of the whole country. However, she was one of the many starving children who was often left to take care of herself. At thirteen she and her mother began their two-year journey to South Korea. However, all of their problems did not suddenly disappear once they left North Korea. Ung, Haitiwaji, and Park faced some of the most traumatic experiences one can imagine, and Ung and Park were only children at the time. Their stories detail what they and their families endured: starvation, torture, and family separation. Though each of these women faced different events at different points in time, what they share is perseverance, bravery, and the will to survive. Memoirs like Ung’s First They Killed My Father, Haitiwaji’s How I Survived a Chinese ‘Reeducation’ Camp, and Park’s In Order to Live emphasize the power of storytelling and give the reader a better understanding of the events being depicted, and how these events affected those lucky enough to survive
Smile For the Camera: Patterns of Mammal Abundance in Great Hill Forest Through Four Years of Camera Trapping
Get PDFSnapshot USA is a nationwide camera trapping project aiming to determine biodiversity and abundance of animal populations across all 50 states. Since 2019, participants have used camera traps to document wildlife every September and October, coinciding with animal activity patterns and North American academic year starts. Understanding biodiversity through long-term monitoring is an important topic to study, because the knowledge obtained can help track populations and better understand wildlife responses to disturbances. Since Snapshot USA participants use the same methods and trapping season, the information we collect can be directly compared to other Snapshot USA locations. At Great Hill Forest in Bridgewater, MA, our Snapshot USA array has used 8-10 unbaited cameras each year, spaced at least 100 meters apart, during September and October, starting in 2019 and continuing to present. For this study, we are focused on four years of data on wild mammals (humans, domesticated mammals, and birds were removed from the data set). We estimated relative abundance for each species detected using a relative abundance index (RAI), and explored the changes in RAI over time. Over four years, we detected 15 species of terrestrial mammals. Most species were detected every year, however one species (striped skunks) were only detected in one year (2020). Our most abundant mammal was the eastern gray squirrel and in all four years, eastern gray squirrels, eastern chipmunks, and white-tailed deer were consistently the top three most abundant species. Interestingly, gray fox abundance was high in 2019 and 2020, but nearly zero in 2021 and 2022, while red fox showed the opposite pattern. This suggests replacement of gray foxes by red foxes, perhaps due to competition for food. This thesis documents these and other patterns in mammal abundance at one location, and we have outlined several potential follow up studies: (1) to compare the patterns at our site to other Snapshot USA locations within New England to check for consistency; (2) generate hypotheses to explain the fluctuating patterns we uncovered, and test those using ecological modeling approaches. (3) explore local patterns of seasonal abundance using the larger Bridgewater data set of continuous camera trap monitoring since September 2019
Women in the War: A Gendered Analysis of Media Coverage of the Russian-Ukraine War
Get PDFIn recent years several commentators have observed the trend of mainstream media ignoring and distorting women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflicts. Both in the reporting and the wider discourse about conflicts, women tend to be cast less as political actors and more as helpless victims, often paired with children in accounts of war incidents. Carolina Marques de Mesquita (2016), in her study of media coverage of recent wars and conflicts, observed that while major media outlets tend to represent the scale of violence in a conflict through the harm and death inflicted on women, they are otherwise often neglected. This contention sets the backdrop for our study that aims to explore the Russian-Ukraine War from a gendered lens. We examine the coverage of the ongoing conflict in four news outlets to see whether or not they reflect the established pattern of gendered representations of war. Our analysis reveals, by and large, persistence in the pattern of coverage of the war that corroborates the charge that media reportage of conflict tends to underrepresent women and distort their involvement in wars through narrow role characterizations
Peripheral and Gender Perspectives: The Russia-Ukraine War and Africa’s Response and Impact
Get PDFFollowing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most African countries avoided open alignment with either Russia or Ukraine, favoring a wait-and-see approach until the situation’s consequences for African households, energy security, and the agricultural sector became more evident. Using the nexus between world systems and dependency theories as an analytical tool, this study examines how African governments have responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the continent has been affected by the war. This examination is accomplished via a qualitative analysis of primary data such as reports issued by independent international organizations, think tanks, and media houses. Furthermore, the analysis is complemented by secondary sources such as media reports and expert crisis analysis. This study argues that although Africa as a continent and African women in particular, by virtue of occupying the periphery of world politics, have been marginalized in decision-making regarding the war, they have nevertheless been negatively impacted by the war. Lacking agency in world affairs, the continent has responded to the war in a disjointed way without considering the voices and input of African women, who are increasingly bearing the brunt of the global impact of the war. Consequently, Africa, led by patriarchal leadership via the African Union (AU), has struggled to abide by its continental charter principles of noninterference and remain committed to its tradition of nonalignment in international affairs. The continent has not been impervious to the negative impact of the conflict because of its structural dependence on countries in the global core. Politically, the war has resulted in further marginalization of the continent and its women due to the continent’s lack of agency. Economically, the conflict has led to rising energy costs, inflation, and food insecurity, all of which disproportionately affect African women. Socially, the conflict has disrupted the academic life of African students in Ukraine, with women students particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence. The research calls for the inclusion of more African women’s voices in decision-making at the AU, as African women and girls bear the brunt of most global crises such as war
Muller v Oregon: Reassessing Protective Legislation
Get PDFAlthough the Progressive Era has drawn the attention of countless scholars, few historians have deeply investigated one of the most important Supreme Court cases of the era, Muller v. Oregon (1908). It was not until the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1972 that scholars seriously considered the case. The failure of the ERA brought a surge of scholarship from the field of history, law, sociology, psychology, and communications. This historiography examines the reemergence of interest in Muller v. Oregon in the years following the ERA’s failure. In addition to examining the increasing interest of scholars, this historiography also considers the method in which secondary school educators should teach the Muller case. Should Muller be taught as a triumph of progressivism or as a setback for women’s rights? This historiography considers the important changes Muller brought to the Supreme Court’s decision-making process as well as the damaging legacy left in its wake. As the United States appears to move toward revoking protective legislation for a woman’s reproductive rights, Muller v. Oregon, deserves to be studied by students and scholars alike