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Justice for Islands that Suffer Most: Stacy-ann Robinson
Get PDFRobinson grew up in Jamaica and has seen the destruction levied on the island by extreme storms. A human geographer and assistant professor of environmental studies at Colby, Robinson has also seen firsthand the challenges faced by Jamaica and places like it as they try to obtain resources needed to cope with the brunt of climate change
The Colby Echo (March 3, 2022)
No full textPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly; 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present
“They Were Planning on It”: Recasting the 1967 Buffalo Uprising as a Student-Driven Insurgency
No full textThe past two decades have witnessed a critical re-analysis of the many African American urban “ghetto revolts” of the 1960s and 1970s. This paper analyzes one of the one hundred fifty-seven violent incidents of the “Long Hot Summer” of 1967, the Buffalo Uprising (June 26 – July 1, 1967). Building from recent research which indicates this incident had deeply political overtones, this work demonstrates the student-driven nature of the five-day rebellion, and the internal collaboration participants engaged in during their violent and non-violent activities. Drawing upon personally conducted interviews, interviews from 1967, newspaper testimony, and various publications, this new understanding complicates the current scholarly knowledge of this particular violent upheaval, as well as larger implications in understanding the northern thrust of the Black Liberation Movement
Infill Development: A Contested Solution to California’s Crises
No full textInfill development has become a contested term regarding California’s perpetual housing crisis, the state’s fight against the ever-important climate emergency, and its efforts toward improving large social injustices. To define the contested term, infill development is the development or redevelopment of land that has been underutilized, in terms of being overlooked, abandoned, or left vacant, compared to the parcels surrounding the property, both directly abutting and within the more general locality. Regarding this concept and its trending nature, state and local governmental agencies, residential real estate developers, researchers, activist groups, and residents have each created their own narratives, taking up strong pro- or anti-infill development stances. Some of these actors have proven infill to be a successful concept in some instances, but there are numerous barriers and outcome-related concerns that complicate the matter and often produce adverse effects. This thesis examines the actors, published literature, and outcomes pertaining to California\u27s infill movement on a state-wide scale before closely analyzing the San Francisco Bay Area. The processes and outcomes of infill development are inherently local and therefore much more nuanced than various actors proclaim them to be. Infill development is certainly not a panacea, nor is it an unjust and wholly adverse process. Thus, infill should be classified solely as another strategy of development that, when used properly, can be an effective tool in improving California’s many critical situations
Investigation of the LonB Protease as a Key Regulator of Carotenoid Production in Haloferax volcanii
No full textCarotenoids, an important class of organic molecules used in a variety of industries, are produced by a wide selection of plants and microbes. Extraction from biological sources is energy-intensive so most carotenoid production is done via organic synthesis. The halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii may provide an excellent solution for sustainable carotenoid production since cells are easily lysed in water. Previous work in our lab revealed that increasing the expression of crtB, a gene encoding the carotenoid-synthetic enzyme phytoene synthase, resulted in high levels of carotenoid production but slowed the growth. However, we isolated a spontaneous mutant of this strain with high carotenoid production and a normal growth rate. Therefore, the overproduction of carotenoids may be possible without compromising growth rate. This mutant has a crtB encoding a phytoene synthase with a C-terminal truncation. Our current hypothesis is that crtB overexpression slows growth by saturating the essential LonB protease, known to play a role in controlling carotenoid production through degradation of phytoene synthase. The phytoene synthase in the spontaneous mutant may have lost its ability to be bound by LonB and thus does not affect growth when overexpressed. We have placed the LonB gene under the control of an inducible promoter to test whether significant differences in growth rate and carotenoid production are observed when LonB is overexpressed in strains with wild-type or mutated crtB. Our findings are consistent with our hypothesis that slow growth is caused by the diversion of LonB away from essential cell processes that it is involved in
She had a Bok to Print, and it was her own Case : Elizabeth Cellier\u27s Malice Defeated as a Critical Contribution to 17th-Century Political Discourse and Postwar Pamphlet Culture
No full textBorn in London, England during the 1640s-- the peak of the English Civil War-- Elizabeth Cellier was no stranger to political and religious conflict. Rumors flooded the seventeenth-century newsstands: not only was King Charles II a Catholic-apologist who favored the tiny Jesuitical faction over the Protestant majority, but he refused to allow Parliament to check his monarchical power. By 1680, the legislature was actively attempting to disrupt his line of succession by preventing the heir presumptive, the Duke of York, from ascending the throne. Ignited by this Exclusion Crisis, several known Protestant tricksters --Thomas Dangerfield, William Bedloe, and Israel Tonge, and Titus Oates-- began accusing innocent Catholics of plotting to murder the King in order to install his brother (the Duke) instead. One Papist caught up in the conflict was Cellier, an openly-Catholic midwife living on Arundel Street in London. Put on trial for supposed treason, she was sent to Newgate Prison for thirty-two weeks-- all the while questioned by a panel of mysogenistic chancellors, judges, and prosecutors over her supposed participation in the plot. Though most defendants in her position would not have possessed the legal acuity (nor guile) to outsmart their seasoned opponents in court, Cellier was different. Defying heteronormative expectations, she quoted from the legal treatises of Sir Edward Coke, discredited the Prosecution\u27s star witnesses, and outmaneuvered nearly every Trepanning question delivered to her on the stand. Against all odds, she had won her case-- proving that women could challenge the tyrannical state and live to tell the tale.
This thesis is a deep analytical study of a pamphlet she published following her trial, entitled Malice Defeated. Switching seamlessly between forms and rhetorical styles, the thirty-two page document is a multifaceted defense-- simultaneously an archive of facts from her case, a petition to end the mistreatment of inmates at Newgate Prison, a justification of her conversion to Catholicism, and a dramatic retelling of her testimony in court. While Cellier\u27s non-heteronormativity makes the pamphlet a unique springboard for gender analysis, it is equally-important to recognize the work as a critical contribution to pamphleteering in a broader sense. The midwife\u27s animadversive and bibliographic choices demonstrate a desire to 1) participate in the greater political discourse, and 2) add to a growing corpus of ephemera being produced during the aftermath of the Civil War. This thesis contextualizes Malice Defeated within the literary conversation, and analyzes the way in which its physical format (ex: font choices, margin size, paper quality, etc.) allow Cellier to guide readers\u27 interpretation of the words on the page
NFT Sneaker Marketplace Design, Testing, and Challenges
No full textThis paper introduces the preliminary background and implementation of the NFT sneaker marketplace. Specifically, we build sneaker NFTs on top of ERC-20 within the Ethereum network and use a top-to-bottom design mechanism. Our website performs well in its functionality, compatibility, and performance. We discuss possible future steps for security implementation. In particular, we recommend using a cold wallet for clients\u27 transactions and implementing multi-signature contracts to avoid spoofing and repudiation. Introducing the sneaker NFT marketplace will vastly reduce the costs of transactions and delivery time in the physical sneaker marketplace. We hope investors in the physical asset space can find a faster, easier, and cheaper way to trade physical assets
The Colby Echo (September 29, 2022)
No full textPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present