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A Ribbon of Quicksilver: Art and environment on the Kankakee River
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Abstract
There is an alarming rise in sand and silt content being deposited from Indiana into the Illinois side of the Kankakee River. This is caused by Indiana’s manipulation of the natural path of the river. This dangerous condition is made worse by the consequences of climate change. These grave realities are at times overwhelming and it can be difficult to know how to respond. Through artistic production including photography, mixed-media works, poetry, and prose, together with scientific field research, artists, scientists, and scholars have selected the Kankakee River as a case study in how art and science might provide a response. This interdisciplinary project seeks to re-imagine natural materials in fresh ways with hope that viewers engage the world around them with renewed reverence and care.
This Scholar Week 2021 presentation is a one year update into our two year collaborative Hippenhammer Grant project
Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon Britain: Cultural difference
Get PDFA role of historians is to distinguish between cultural groups. They must investigate the practices and artifacts in order to create a model. This model should accurately explain events such as celebrations, war, or in the case of Britain, cultural intertwining and invasion. Britain is an interesting case to study in the Middle Ages because of the amount of intermixing that takes place. Within the time period of a few hundred years, Britain had seen multiple different distinct people groups inhabit the island. This paper will focus on the major cultural differences of the two earliest invasions, the Romans and Anglo-Saxons, based on militaristic differences, societal differences, and daily life
Attitudes toward persons with intellectual disabilities in the public workplace.
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Disability advocacy agencies have been pushing for more community integrated employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID). This study’s aim was to investigate attitudes toward individuals with ID working in the public workplace. A sample of 131 undergraduate students at Olivet Nazarene University were randomly assigned to read one of two different scenarios. One scenario depicted an individual as the co-worker of someone with ID. The other scenario depicted an individual as a customer being helped by someone with ID. Participants then completed the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale Toward Persons With Disabilities (Findler, Vilchinsky, & Werner, 2007) to assess possible affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the scenario they were given. Participants also completed the Social Distance sub-scale of the Multidimensional Attitude Survey on Mental Retardation (Ouellette-Kuntz, Burge, Brown, & Arsenault, 2010) to assess the level of contact they would be willing to have with someone with ID. Results showed that attitudes toward individuals with ID working in the public workplace did not differ depending on the context of contact. While overall attitudestoward individuals with ID were moderately positive, those who had more positive attitudes toward people with ID working in the public workplace were more likely to be willing to have closer contact with an individual with ID
Student-Athletes’ Religious Beliefs, Religious Behaviors, and Religious Identity at a Christian University
Get PDFAthletics occupies an ambiguous place within the greater university mission, particularly at religious institutions. Intercollegiate sports programs may purport to reinforce the university’s aim to develop the whole person, but the nature of athletics can compromise student-athlete religiosity and well-being. Little research has focused on the religiosity of student-athletes and the potential implications for religious institutions. Our analysis features data from 884 senior students at a private, religiously affiliated, NCAA Division I university. Comparing student-athletes to non-athletes, we found that student-athletes scored higher than non-athletes on religious beliefs, religious behaviors, and sense of religious identity
