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The Territoriality of Parishes:: An Analysis of Law and Practice
No full textby Kelly A. Schaffer.Typescript.Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2019.Bibliography: leaves 98-103.Also available in microfilm
DARLING CLEMENTINE AND “THE SEMIOTICS OF BEAVERS”
No full textIt isn’t the abuse that kills. It’s the silence. This creative thesis includes two works—"Darling Clementine,” an excerpt of a novel manuscript, and “The Semiotics of Beavers: The In-Différant Girl and the Hierarchal Girl,” a hybrid creative/critical essay. In both works, a girl, one fictitious and one real, explores and survives incestual abuse. In a literary culture that continues to publish and herald the girl as victim as told through the eyes of a male writer, these narratives attempt to explore abuse and survival through a gender authentic lens. #metoo.Creative writingCreative Nonfiction, Critical Essay, Fiction, Hybrid Essay, Women's StudiesLiteratureDegree Awarded: M.F.A. Literature. American Universit
The Politics of Policing Political Violence
No full textThis dissertation examines the politics of policing in environments of political violence.Political scienceCriminologyextremism, intervention, policing, political violenceJustice, Law and SocietyDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Justice, Law and Society. American Universit
Shepherd Park, April 14, 2019, Image 10
No full textCommunity story mapping activity on the outside of the Truck
Information Literacy Simulations for Active Learning
No full textA presentation that was delivered in the Eleventh Annual Symposium, “Bridging the Spectrum: A Symposium on Scholarship and Practice in Library and Information Science” at the Catholic University of America in 2019
Forecaster inattention: measurement, determinants, and policy implications
No full textWorking Paper.Using individual forecasts from the U.S. Survey of Professional Forecasters during
1968-2014 and Consensus Economics for G7 countries during 1990-2014, we provide direct
econometric estimates of time varying inattention, defined as the common component in
forecasters’ inattentiveness when predicting many economic variables. Based on this measure,
we find that professional forecasters update their information sets every four months on average,
and they are less inattentive in periods of recession and high economic uncertainty. Through the
time varying structural vector autoregression model, we show that the same sized monetary
shock has more persistent real effects when the degree of inattention is high. Our findings
contribute to the literature on the transmission of monetary policy shocks and suggest inattention
as an additional explanation why policy might become less effective during recessions
Center-based early care and education and children's school readiness: Do impacts vary by neighborhood poverty?
No full textWorking Paper version, published in final edited form in: Dev Psychol. 2018 Apr;54(4):757-771.Neighborhoods provide resources that may affect children's achievement or moderate the influences of other developmental contexts, such as early care and education (ECE). Using a sample (N ≈ 12,430) from the 2010-2011 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort, merged with census tract-level poverty data from the 2008-2012 American Community Survey, this article examines associations between center-based ECE participation, neighborhood poverty, and children's academic skills and behavior at kindergarten entry. Findings suggest that children who attend center-based care in the year prior to kindergarten show higher math and reading scores across neighborhood contexts. Results provide limited evidence that neighborhood poverty moderates the associations between either Head Start or other types of center-based ECE participation and children's outcomes at kindergarten, with children in moderate-high poverty neighborhoods showing stronger positive associations between who participated in Head Start or center care participation and math and reading scores, respectively, compared to those participating in low-poverty neighborhoods. Research and policy implications are discussed
Ludy Grandas
No full textDC Low Wage Workers and Latino Immigrants: Histories That Matter:
The immigrant community in DC in general and the day laborers and Afro-Latinos in particular, unlike other groups, stand in plain sight, yet they continue to be invisible even as they embody the nowadays popular stereotype of an undesirable immigrant who, among other things, comes from Mexico, is undocumented, “steal our jobs”, and will unlikely assimilate into US society. Trabajadores Unidos de Washington, DC (TUWDC) has provided much needed respite for the day laborers through various programs intended to improve their everyday lives. The day laborer community is a key participant in the economic, social, political and cultural life of DC. As such, with the Humanities Truck, we intend to document “hard to count populations” (by the Census Bureau) specifically, day laborer and Afro-Latino immigrant lives. These communities are missing out on the benefits of policies, representation, investments and services—health, education, housing—associated with being counted; their living conditions and specific needs are often not known; the potential contributions are mostly ignored. By conducting research (archival and current), making short documentaries that trace the lives of day laborers and Afro-Latinos in DC, and itinerant exhibits and drop in the Truck interviews, these populations will have well deserved visibility amongst themselves and extended community. Also, this year, we will create the Teatro Jornalero/Day Laborer Theater, similar to the Teatro campesino popularized in the late 1960s by Luis Valdez. There is a lot of misinformation regarding rights and duties of the day laborers, the latest migration laws, housing, wage theft, or medical care. Having the Truck as a platform, the Teatro Jornalero presents a valuable opportunity to reach sometimes hard to reach audiences