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Quixotes, Quacks, and Laughing Philosophers: Humor and Intellectual Authority in the Long Eighteenth Century
No full textQuixotes, Quacks, and Laughing Philosophers: Humor and Intellectual Authority in the Long Eighteenth Century recovers the fascinating and forgotten story of John Elliot (1747–1787), a novelist, physician, mad scientist, pioneering optical theorist, criminal lunatic, and Gothic antihero whose life and work illuminate a strange new history of science, medicine, law, and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Am I on Earth?: Immanence, Transcendence, and Religion in Kink Experience
No full textKink is not a religion, however it is in relationship with religion. Kink has something to say about and to religion. In this dissertation, I combine interviews from community partners and fieldnotes from participate observation from the kink communities in Saint Louis, Missouri and the Dallas/Fort-Worth Metroplex to analyze the relationships between kink practices, kinksters, and the Kink Community with religion.
While kinksters and the Kink Community mostly consider kink and religion adversaries, or in the least, incompatible practices and belief systems, religion offers kinksters a framework to understand, articulate, and organize their kink identities and roles as individuals and as a Community in meaningful ways. In the field of religious studies, kink provides a schema to consider ‘religion’ outside of religion and it also offers new approaches to evaluate ‘religion’ inside of religion.
I use John Sarrouf’s model of “essential tensions” to demonstrate the requisite role of immanence and transcendence in kinksters’ understandings and experiences, as well as in the functioning of the Kink Community. In kink, immanence and transcendence are separate principles and epitomize different experiences that are never quite separate. They must exist together and they must be antagonistic toward one another. Through this tension, immanence and transcendence stabilize each other as well as everything around them. This dissertation will reveal how and why immanence and transcendence are functioning in this way, why it’s related to religion, and what it says about religion
Presenting Rewards With Effective Pacing To Heighten Engagement
No full textThis thesis (1) builds a theory of rewards as a pacing device by synthesizing principles of games and theatre and (2) posits that linear regression can model engagement. The paper aims to establish a preliminary empirical basis for both by gathering data from an original video game. It covers the theory’s application to the game and other essential considerations in the design process
Dependability of Cognitive Vulnerability Measures Relative to Personality, Internalizing Symptoms, and Trait Affectivity Across Two Time Intervals
No full textCognitive vulnerabilities (CVs) are important constructs for developmental psychopathology, intervention research, and clinical nosology. However, the validity and utility of these constructs is called into question when evidence of psychometric properties is inadequate. To date, evidence of dependability, or correlations of scores on a trait measure across timepoints when true change is highly unlikely, is underdeveloped in the field of cognitive vulnerabilities. With a large sample of undergraduates, the present study evaluated the dependability of five commonly used CV measures, relative to personality, affect, and symptom measures, and then compared dependability estimates across one-week and one-month intervals. Inadequate dependability of all four trait CV measures (i.e., BFNE, ASI, RRS, DAS-A) was demonstrated, whereas the symptom-like CV measure (i.e., ATQ) had acceptable dependability. Further, equivalent dependability across the two intervals for the BFNE and RRS supports the conceptualization of fear of negative evaluations and rumination as trait constructs. The ASI and DAS-A failed to demonstrate equivalent levels of dependability across the two different time intervals, which challenges the assumption that anxiety sensitivity and dysfunctional attitudes are successfully assessed as traits. Meanwhile, the ATQ demonstrated a substantial decrease in test-retest correlations over time, consistent with its conceptualization as a symptom-state. Current findings indicate CV measures do not reliably capture respondents’ general levels of the target construct. Future investigations into sources of transient error will inform advancements to trait assessment of CVs and, in turn, improve the interpretability, validity, and replicability of research on CVs
Dissecting the Frog: How a Meme Explains the Westlaw/Lexis and Generational Divide
No full textOne of the most controversial elements of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris was a drag show during the opening ceremony that allegedly parodied Christianity by recreating Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. A legal meme emerged showing both images side by side, labeling da Vinci’s painting “Westlaw” and the drag show “Lexis.” In this article, I explain why this meme is funny by showing how the differences between Westlaw and Lexis+, and legal minds’ attitudes towards those differences, offer fascinating parallels to this controversy. Westlaw’s print-focused, grid-oriented organization and aesthetic might appeal to the trained legal mind, but Lexis’s emphasis on discrete information and keyword searching might make the database more appealing to new attorneys and law students who are increasingly unfamiliar with print resources. By embracing the beauty of something new and unfamiliar, attorneys of any age can improve themselves and their profession
The Problem of Purpose in Corporate Law
No full textFor the last half century, shareholder primacy has reigned as the dominant definition of corporate purpose, as to both the purpose of individual companies and corporate law more generally. Recently, however, the Business Roundtable, the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law: Corporate Governance, and many business and legal academics have developed new answers to explain why we have corporations, and the ends to which their massive economic powers should be directed. This Essay endeavors to reframe the focus of the debate beyond purpose itself into the realm of actual governing power. In order to be meaningful, purpose needs governance. While an expansion of corporate purpose to consider the interests of corporate stakeholders would be a positive development, that change will not make a difference unless governance is also restructured to accommodate those stakeholders. We need to undertake the complicated but ultimately rewarding work of restructuring corporate governance if we want to replace shareholder wealth maximization as our orienting economic principle
A Pastoral Music Response In Support Of The Universal Apostolic Preferences Of The Society Of Jesus
No full textThis thesis establishes the relationship between Catholic congregational song and the apostolic work of the Society of Jesus. The Society of Jesus is currently at the halfway mark of their ten-year plan guided by the Universal Apostolic Preferences (UAPs). These UAPs focus on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, marginalized communities, young people, and caring for the earth. Currently, there are no resources that exist that promote the UAPs through the lens of liturgical music. It is the hope that the suggested hymns, whether sung in the community or individually, deepen the spiritual journey of the participants as they explore the tenets of the UAPs and act upon the values they espouse
Defense Use of Digital Discovery in Criminal Cases: A Quantitative Analysis
No full textRecent criminal court reforms have required prosecutors to provide defense attorneys with broader and earlier discovery of evidence. For these discovery reforms to fulfill their aims of improved fairness and efficiency, defense attorneys must take advantage of the evidence disclosed by the prosecution. Prior studies suggest, however, that a range of factors, including low pay and high caseloads, impede effective defense representation in general. If similar factors hinder defense attorneys from reviewing discovery, discovery reforms would fail to meet their goals, and defendants would receive substandard representation. The recent adoption of digital evidence platforms by local jurisdictions allows us to study whether defense attorneys consistently fulfill their duty to review discovery. Analyzing data from digital evidence platforms used in felony cases in four Texas counties between 2018 and 2020, we examine whether and when defense attorneys fail to access evidence disclosed by the prosecution. We find that a substantial number of defense attorneys never access the discovery. The access rate varies by county, offense seriousness, attorney category, attorney experience, and file type. Drawing on review of prior scholarship and Bayesian analysis of the data, we discuss plausible interpretations of these variations