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Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women\u27s Graphic Narratives
No full textAn exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place-that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit. Victoria Aarons argues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with embodied memory: the way the body materializes memory. This monograph investigates how memory manifests in the drawn shape of the body as an expression of the weight of personal and collective histories. Aarons explores Jewish identity, diaspora, mourning, memory, and witness in the works of Sarah Lightman, Liana Finck, Anya Ulinich, Leela Corman, and more.
Memory Spaces begins by framing this research within contemporary discourse and reflects upon the choice to explore Jewish women graphic novelists specifically. In the chapters that follow, Aarons relates the nuanced issues of memory, transmission of trauma, Jewish cultural identity, and the gendered self to a series of meaningful and noteworthy graphic novels. Aarons\u27s insight, close readings, and integration of contemporary scholarship are conveyed clearly and concisely, creating a work that both captivates readers and contributes to scholarly discourse in Jewish studies, women\u27s literature, memory studies, and identity.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1190/thumbnail.jp
Will Power Africa Final Project Report
Get PDFThis report outlines the final design for the Will Power Africa 2022-2023 senior design team and how testing proved that the design meets each determined project requirement and constraint. The Will Power Africa team was tasked with designing a reliable and durable off-grid energy generation source to power an electric fence to deter elephants and provide charging capabilities for portable devices intended to be implemented in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe near Hwange National Park and along the routes of elephant herds. This design would allow the community to grow food protected from elephant raiding and increase general connectivity with easier access to device charging. The team’s design consists of the following subsystems; energy generation, energy storage, system protection, fence, and USB charging device. These subsystems culminate in our final design; a protective waterproof case enclosing a solar panel and lithium battery system powering an electrified fence with an electric fence energizer, 4 external USB outlets for phone charging, and a fan to keep the case cool. The fence is to be constructed in the final location and will be 60’x60’x14’ using wood poles and both high-tension offset electrified wires and spiraled hanging electrified wires.
Design choices were informed by similar design examples, research, and our project requirements and constraints. The project requirements included in this report reflect the final requirements as decided between the team, sponsor, and advisor. Especially in the initial stages of Fall 2022, these were fluid and changed in conversation and agreement with all parties as design plans progressed. Each requirement and constraint is addressed along with its associated test plan and results evaluated by acceptance criteria. Changes in test procedures and criteria and their reasoning are also noted with each requirement. The main changes from the Fall 2022 semester design plans and criteria include; a larger final battery, a greater energy-rated energizer, and a taller final fence planned.
Each project requirement and constraint is detailed further in the report but are as follows; Garden Protection/Elephant Deterrence, Phone charging capabilities, Autonomous overnight protection, Weather durability, Transport Durability, Commercial Flight Size Constraint, User Operation Ease, User Operation Safety, Solar Panel Adjustment and Efficiency, Academic Year Time Constraint, Remote Location Constraint, and Continuous Usage Operation. Testing concluded that our final design met all project requirements that we could test here in San Antonio. Some testing and requirements cannot be fulfilled until in the intended location including transport durability, final fence construction, and further user operation safety. User Operation Safety (or Instructions) Testing still needs to be done and will be included in the final presentation. The following section describes the design objectives, requirements, and subsystems in more detail.
Overall, the Will Power Africa team has created a functional prototype capable of fulfilling all of these requirements. Since all requirements and constraints were fulfilled, there are no immediate changes necessary. Future improvements to the design are expected with the new team beginning work on the project next semester, with specific focus on an alternative means of generating energy aside from solar power `. For the future team, we have provided manufacturing instructions as well as suggestions for improvements to future iterations of the Will Power Africa project
Stuck in the Past? Rumination-Related Memory Integration
Get PDFMemories connected to ruminative concerns repetitively capture attention, even in situations designed to alter them. However, recent research on memory updating suggests that memory for benign substitutes (e.g., reinterpretations) might be facilitated by integration with the ruminative memories. As a first approach, two experiments (Ns = 72) mimicked rumination-related memories with rumination-themed stimuli and an imagery task. College undergraduates screened for ruminative status first studied and imaged ruminative cue-target word pairs, and then in a second phase they studied the same cues re-paired with benign targets (along with new and repeated pairs). On the test of cued recall of benign targets, they judged whether each recalled word had been repeated or changed across the two phases (or was new in the second phase). When target changes were not remembered, recall of benign targets revealed proactive interference that was insensitive to ruminative status. However, when participants remembered change and the ruminative targets, their recall of benign targets was facilitated, particularly if they identified as ruminators (Experiment 1). When the test simply asked for recall of either or both targets (Experiment 2), ruminators recalled both targets more frequently than did others. These outcomes suggest that ruminative memories might provide bridges to remembering associated benign memories, such as reinterpretations, under conditions consistent with everyday ruminative retrieval
Surfacing Assumptions in Source Selection: Situating Critical Reading in First-Year Information Literacy Instruction
Get PDFMultilingual Pantanal and its decay
Get PDFHistorically, the Pantanal wetlands were inhabited by diverse ethnicities belonging to various linguistic groups, including Bororoan, Arawakan, Tupian, Gauicuruan, and Zamucoan, as well as some isolates and unclassified languages. Numerous ethnic groups disappeared without leaving any records of their languages, leaving behind only a list of ethnonyms. A point of confluence of different peoples that also circulated in other major South American areas, the Pantanal was a place with high linguistic diversity. Trade networks surrounded and permeated the area, as described in the earliest accounts by Portuguese and Spanish colonizers. As Indigenous groups were affected by colonial disputes over labor and territorial control, these networks and linguistic distributions were disrupted. Several local groups were totally extinguished or assimilated. While multilingual interactions began to deteriorate with the conquest of the lower Paraguay River region, new regional configurations also emerged, such as the alliance between the Mbayá/Kadiwéu and the Guaná/Terena. We provide an overview of the Pantanal’s linguistic diversity and describe interactions among diverse ethnicities with a well-established trade network during the arrival of the first conquistadors. One objective of this study is to elucidate the historical interchanges among Pantanal Indigenous groups. Additionally, we aim to analyze the impact of colonization on the region’s multicultural fabric and its subsequent disintegration
Polar Cap Saturation and its Effect on Coupling Efficiency During Geomagnetic Storms
No full textCoronal mass ejections (CMEs) and co-rotating interaction regions (CIRs) are two common types of solar wind disturbances that can drive geomagnetic storms and create space weather hazards. It is known that geoefficiency, or the efficiency of energy coupling, is one of the key differences between CMEs and CIRs. Further, the polar cap potential scales approximately linearly with the solar wind parameters in general but saturates under special conditions, including some geomagnetic storms. To look for the relationship between geoefficiency and polar cap saturation, I study the energies involved in 12 CME-driven geomagnetic storms and 10 CIR-driven geomagnetic storms from solar cycle 23. The coupling efficiencies are calculated from the solar wind input energy and the energy dissipated through ring current injection, ionospheric Joule heating, and auroral particle precipitation. The results are used to investigate the effect polar cap saturation may have on regulating energy coupling during geomagnetic storms
Felicissima Matrum: The Construction of Maternal Identity in Ovid\u27s \u3cem\u3eMetamorphoses\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eFasti\u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFAfter finally gaining control of Rome as princeps, Augustus was tasked with both ushering in a new era of peace and a new imperial form of government. To contrast the masculine world of war that he sought to leave behind, Augustus turned his attention to mothers and used them in imperial ideology and imagery as symbols of prosperity and morality. This was supported through his moral legislation, which brought tangible, legal benefits to motherhood in addition to the benefits of status that were more loosely and implicitly defined. The transition to monarchy also brought attention to mothers as the importance of succession was more important than ever and imperial women’s proximity to power stirred existing anxieties about feminine threats to power. In this context, Ovid composes the Metamorphoses and Fasti, and in this thesis, I examine the ways in which Ovid specifically acknowledges and disrupts Augustus’ construction of maternal identity as a stable symbol of peace and prosperity. In the Metamorphoses, Ovid confronts the pressure placed on women to become mothers by exploring the transgressive mothers of myth. In particular, I argue that this is accomplished through a focus on names and titles, especially that of mater and a woman’s given name. In the Fasti, Ovid takes on the paradoxical visibility and power of mothers at this time through the imperial family by concentrating on the upright founding mothers of Rome. Ovid achieves this through structure, namely by positioning mothers in the narrative to consistently undercut and overshadow men. In this way, the poems work together to address both realities of mothers at this time while also challenging Augustus’ efforts of control and stability
StegoCraft: Information Hiding in Minecraft
Get PDFIn this thesis, we explore the use of Minecraft as a platform for steganography, which is the practice of hiding a secret message within another, outwardly plain message. Specifically, we investigate how different Minecraft systems, such as textures, in-game user interfaces, and buildings, can be used as a cover for hiding secret messages. To demonstrate these techniques, we created a custom adventure map that showcases various methods for distributing secret information within Minecraft. Our research highlights the potential of Minecraft as a powerful tool for steganography, offering a unique platform for securely exchanging secret messages in an environment where regular cryptographic methods may be prohibited. Through our investigation, we hope to highlight the growing amount of platforms that can be used to distribute information, and how they could be used to increase security and privacy