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BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ARE SITE SPECIFIC IN SEDIMENT ACROSS COASTAL RECREATIONAL MARINE SITES IN THE FLORIDA KEYS.
No full textMarine bacterial communities in sediment can be an indicator of health and stability for the environments in which they reside. Previous studies have primarily focused on anthropogenic pollution in the form of wastewater or agricultural runoff. This study instead examines the impacts of human recreation across six sites in the Florida Bay and Western Atlantic: three beach sites, two reef sites, and a mangrove site. Travel restrictions enacted in the Florida Keys to prevent tourists from rapidly spreading COVID-19 in the summer of 2020 caused a drastic decrease in marine recreational activity in the area. Sediment samples were collected from each site and human presence levels (high, medium, and low) were assigned to each sample based on visually collected data. The bacterial community composition for each sample was determined through 16S rRNA gene sequencing and compared using Principal Component Analysis. Environmental data was also collected, and nutrient concentrations were determined. The PCA plot of bacterial community composition suggests that bacterial community compositions are site specific. Variability in environmental data was also shown to be site specific. Results also indicated that changes in human presence levels have no short-term, detectable effect on bacterial community composition in these sites
PROLIFIC MOTHERS AND ETERNAL SELF-SACRIFICE: REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN FASCIST GERMAN AND ITALIAN WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA
No full textThis thesis argues that there are important similarities and trends in the representations and treatment of women in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Both fascist regimes created gendered public and private spheres, used motherhood as a tool for expansion, and viewed women as subordinate and thus implemented policies that reflected this view. The time frame for this thesis is the early to mid-twentieth century, focusing specifically on the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy and the impact of World War II. Primarily government-produced images were used, mostly posters as well as some postcards and magazine covers. This thesis is organized based on broad trends found in the propaganda of “Woman as Mother” and “Woman as Home/Front.” One goal of this thesis is to highlight the role of government intervention in the development of gender norms and expectations. With a hope that this understanding will help people to challenge constricting binaries and expectations
EVALUATION OF POTENTIAL ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF HERBAL MEDICINES COMPARED TO ANTIBIOTICS ON HUMAN GUT MICROBES
No full textThis thesis evaluated the effect of modern antibiotics and traditional herbal medicines on bacteria isolated from the human gut. Antibiotics are medicines that are used on humans or animals to kill or slow down the growth of bacteria (Davies, 2017). Due to improper antibiotic usage, antibiotic resistance, the acquired ability of bacteria to avoid the antimicrobial effects of antibiotics, is becoming more prevalent (Davies, 2017). Resistance prevents antibiotics from clearing infections, creating dangerous bacteria such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, abbreviated as MRSA (Sakoulas, 2004). Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are problematic in our modern-day world (Sakoulas, 2004). When antibiotics are used incorrectly, more bacteria become resistant to newer antibiotics (Sakoulas, 2004). Typically to clear up infections broad-spectrum antibiotics are used first unless an exact antibiotic can be used (Talpaert et al, 2011). Broad-spectrum antibiotics are non-selective antimicrobials that kill off all the surrounding bacteria including beneficial bacteria (Talpaert et al, 2011). Despite this, antibiotics are overprescribed (Atlas et al, 2014; Talpaert et al, 2011). While extensive studies comparing the effect of herbal medicine and antibiotics in the human gut microbiome are yet to be done, some studies have shown promising results in vitro when herbal medicine is combined with antibiotics (Yang, 2005). My study compared the antibiotic and probiotic properties of known commonly used antibiotics and traditional herbal medicines. To make this assessment, I used Escherichia coli, a bacterium that is often found in large quantities inside the human gut microbiome (Leimbach, 2013). Some strains of E. coli can help regulate the digestive system although other strains are a known cause of the disease (Leimbach, 2013). I measured the effect of 7 common antibiotics and five herbal medicinal plants on E. coli isolated from human stools using antibiograms. Antibiograms showed large zones of inhibition for the modern medicine, while the herbal medicine showed little zones of inhibition such as in the safflower and persica extract (Fm7422 = 12mm zone of inhibition), while some herbal extracts such as the ruda-6 showed increased growth rate (Fm7422 = 20mm zone of growth). The experiment showed a potential antibacterial characteristic in some herbal extracts, while two herbal extracts promoted the growth of E. coli. These results indicate that there is a slight antibiotic resistance within the herbal medicines used, meaning there is potential to investigate them in combination with modern medicine to enhance effects and trying higher herbal doses. Some herbal medicines such as ruda-6 also promoted healthier growth in the gut, similar to a probiotic, giving insight to a different perspective of healing that involves inducing growth of beneficial bacteria instead of inhibiting growth. 人体肠道是一个小型的共生系统。它影响人、社区和环境的健康。传统药方和现代药方都用于治疗疾病。现有的研究显示草药中有少数抗菌剂。本实验证实草药有抗菌的效果，可是效果不及西药。另外，本实验也发现Ruda-6和金樱子均产生菌株的生长反应
THE CARDINAL: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING DURING A PANDEMIC
No full textThis thesis is the written documentation of a short film written, directed and produced by myself during the coronavirus pandemic of 2021. This thesis details the entire process involved with the creation of film from conception to release. The first chapter examines the pre-production of filmmaking, involving the writing on a script, drafting the first shot list, recruiting a film crew to work the set and casting the actors needed for the roles. The next chapter chronicles the filming process itself, day by day, explaining why decisions were made and how the film was shot and any potential conflicts that arose. The succeeding chapter discusses the editing process, the final stage the film must go through, and the typical process in which a film is polished and edited. The final chapter reflects on the project as a whole, delving into the successes and failures I encountered along the way and how I can improve my craft in the future. A detailed appendix containing the documentation of this project including the script, shot list, schedule and photos, can be found after the concluding remarks of this thesis
A LABORATORY OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: NATIONALISM AND POVERTY RELIEF IN WORKING-CLASS, IRISH CATHOLIC GRIFFINTOWN, MONTREAL
No full textThis thesis examines the Irish Catholic working-class ethnic enclave of Griffintown in Montreal, Quebec, during the height of the progressive movement in North America, 1890 through 1920. Using both original archival research and secondary sources to build upon history, anthropology, and urban studies, I argue that within Canada, poverty reform in Griffintown embodied the progressive focus on urban, industrial poverty, including the clash and collaboration between elite reformist goals and working-class survival tactics. I emphasize the different nationalisms motivating poverty relief: state-based nationalism for elite progressive reformers, and ethnicity-based nationalism for Irish Catholics in Griffintown. My first chapter contextualizes the environment of progressive reform and poverty relief in Montreal within which Griffintown became a central locality of change. My second chapter narrows my focus to progressive and grassroots poverty assistance within Griffintown, where industry and poverty were concentrated more than anywhere else in Montreal. My third chapter examines the case of the temperance movement within Griffintown, which encompassed the complicated interplay of progressive reform, religious charity, and working-class political organization, as well as undercurrents of nationalism and modernity
DEVELOPING STEWARDSHIP IN THE HOUSING MARKET
No full textThe cooperative housing framework provides a marginal solution to the affordable housing crisis and relevant environmental concerns. They are capable of reducing monthly payments and environmental burdens. Members develop a collective stewardship over their environment. Cooperative housing is owned and democratically operated by their residents, granting the stakeholders a direct say in the actions of their housing environment. Giving members similar agency to traditional individual homeowners encourages a longer term perspective in shorter term leases, and in less cost prohibitive ways. Stakeholders are enabled to advocate on their own behalf and collectively which incentivizes adequate maintenance, attention, and consideration for non-financial benefits and burdens
“The Story I Tell, the Self I Create; Understanding Transnational Indian Identity Through a Kaleidoscope of Lenses: Literature, Theatre, and Ethnography”
No full textThis thesis is interested in transnational identity; someone who is connected to more than one nation state either socially, politically, or culturally. One is an insider and an outsider no matter where they are. I question that dynamic as I come to terms with my American identity and my Indian biological roots. Chapter 1 focuses on In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh, and his quest to follow the physical and paper trail of an enslaved Indian figure from the 12th century. Ghosh describes his struggles to obtain resources for his research, which parallels own inability to gain access to archives about the Lambada people. I turn to Saidiya Hartman’s critical fabulation to fill in the gaps left behind by the archive. How does one write a story about an encounter with nothing? Hartman and Ghosh use these methods in a literary way, but I elect to apply it to theater. Chapter 2 is a script transcribed from interviews I conducted with my family about their time in India, and surrounding my complicated adoption story. The play is meant to be a one-person show, and has a critically fabulated section to reconcile the gap I from the archives. Chapter 3 describes the practical examples of Anna Deavere Smith, who I used as a model for my one-person show and inspiration for my stylistic choices. I took into account the performance theories of memories and embodiment as discussed in Diana Taylor’s The Archive and the Repertoire. The conclusion of my thesis includes future project ideas. Once COVID-19 has lifted globally, I plan to travel to India to meet my biological family. My aim is to use ethnographic methods to understand their traditions, their customs, and their way of life
THE CREATION OF A PROGRAM: DO LESSONS BASED IN ACTIVE LEARNING ENSURE UNDERSTANDING OF PERSONAL FINANCE CONCEPTS AMONG UNDERSERVED YOUNG ADULTS IN NEWTOWN, FLORIDA?
No full textResearch on financial literacy has not found a method to effectively teach young adults, economically underprivileged individuals, and their intersection, how to manage and develop their personal finances. This work builds the foundation for a method to test course efficacy in helping underprivileged young adults better understand intelligent personal finance management. In this course, active learning is achieved by making the students the center of their learning experience in that they will make decisions throughout modules based on the life they see realistically for themselves. This paper contains the research and design of the course, course material, survey material, and the proposal and plan for funding. This research has the potential to set financial literacy course design on a more efficient track for underprivileged young adults
OFF TO THE MOTHER COUNTRY: COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EMPOWERED MOTHERHOOD BY WINDRUSH JAMAICAN TRANSNATIONAL MOTHERS
No full textFollowing its massive losses in World War II, Great Britain passed the British Nationality Act of 1948 to fill the pressing need for labor. This act was instrumental to the progression of migration and reform laws because it claimed all citizens of Great Britain’s colonies as British subjects. With their newfound status, commonwealth citizens from all over began to migrate to Great Britain for labor opportunity and social mobility, including Jamaican transnational mothers. These unsung heroes of Great Britain’s rehabilitation migrated from Jamaica to Great Britain during the years of 1948 to 1971, and, as a result of their migration, left children in Jamaica. These mothers were forced to navigate three different forms of motherhood: Jamaican, English, and transnational. Through the use of an oral history interview with a Jamaican transnational mother, an oral history interview with the child of a Jamaican transnational mother, and archival data, I worked to answer the following question: How do Jamaican transnational mothers who migrated from Jamaica to England during the years of 1948 to 1971 define motherhood? Drawing from Yosso’s theory of community cultural wealth, I show that these mothers used Caribbean cultural capital, social capital, resistant capital, and familial capital, to navigate Great Britain’s hostile environment, construct, and then enact their own form of motherhood: Empowered Motherhood. This research reveals the ways in which black women’s voices are silenced in history and the impact of colonialism in how we currently define family