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Holding the Spotlight When the World has Gone Dark
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic has had dramatic effects throughout the economy, but few industries have been hit harder than the performing arts. Theatres face unique challenges, including lost earned and contributed revenue, navigating virtual platforms, and how to sustain their audiences, who are distant both physically and mentally. This study seeks to explore the ways in which three mid-size nonprofit theatres work to overcome these challenges and adapt to the new and ever-changing landscape of live performance. At the same time, the Black Lives Matter movement and the demand for more equity across institutions of all types have placed additional social pressures on live performance venues. This has compounded the economic strain from the pandemic, as these venues seek to reinvent and revitalize their programs. This study compares fiscal concerns, organizational changes, programming innovation, and other strategies used to withstand the pandemic, while also examining an equitable path forward for these organizations
Slices of Life
Get PDFIn this collection we explore death, loss, joy, love, and life. “Smiles through tears has always been my favorite emotion.” (Steel Magnolias) And that’s what this is, smiles through tears. Everyone is slightly depressed, there are some happy moments in there. A lot of love, and a lot of friendship. Slices of life, little bite sized nuggets of stories I’ve used to mimic my own life
Memory of Wernher von Braun in Rocket City: The Historians’ Vergangenheitsbewältigung Challenge in Huntsville, Alabama, 1998-2010
Get PDFThis study investigates the conflict that often develops between historians who aim to reveal difficult history or correct a biased view of history and influential stakeholders who possess the agency to maintain historic silences or a skewed version of history. It examines the case in Huntsville, Alabama, when historians at the University of Alabama Huntsville mounted a campaign to inform the community of World War II events in Europe that preceded the immigration and relocation of a team of German rocketeers to establish a missile development program at the US Army’s Redstone Arsenal facility in 1950. Cold War successes made Space Race heroes of the team and an international celebrity of the team leader, Dr. Wernher von Braun. Their successes also put Huntsville on the world map and transformed a cotton industry town into a “city of knowledge.”
The study reviews the public programming that the university historians presented between 1998 and 2010 and evaluates the success of that informal education program based on evidentiary changes in public commemoration activities and corresponding commentary in the press. The fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 2019 served as the study’s test commemorative event.
Placing recent activity regarding the Von Braun Team and especially the team’s leader, Dr. Wernher von Braun, in context with their legacy in Germany, the study concludes that the Huntsville community is resistant to conform with the negative image of von Braun and his team that has migrated from Germany to much of the United States via the scholarly research and writing of Dr. Michael J. Neufeld, the world’s current expert on von Braun. This resistance may be the result of multiple factors, as the study shows, but Huntsville’s immovable memory of von Braun as heroic “father” of the city’s spaceflight industry is subject to negative change as knowledge of his Nazi past spreads and becomes internalized among the city’s leadership or, conversely, to positive reinforcement as his visionary reputation increases with the second Space Age that currently fuels growth in “Rocket City,” as Huntsville has been aptly branded
Parents of Children with Hearing Loss: Meeting Parents’ Needs and Concerns Through the Early Intervention Process
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to develop a deeper understanding of needs of parents of children with hearing loss during the crucial early years of a child’s life, to understand how those needs are met through birth-to-three Early Intervention programs, and to determine if parent identified needs align with the recommended practices for Early Intervention for children with hearing loss stated by the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) and the Joint Committee of Infant Hearing (JCIH). This study used a quasi-structured web-based survey with both closed and open-ended questions. Three themes emerged from this study: needs for supports for the parent, support for communication, and support for the child. Although parents’ felt that their needs were met in general, more than 70% of participants identified one or more unmet need. Additionally, parent needs aligned with the recommended practices, but there was a divergence between the reasonings or justifications of those needs between parents and the professional organizations. This study can support programs in ensuring that their programs are designed to meet the needs of specific families, further improving child outcomes through the birth-to-three Early Intervention process
Synthesis and Catalytic Applications of recyclable palladium-ionic liquid@Halloysite nanocomposites for Green Mizoroki-Heck Coupling Reactions
No full textThe synthesis of a recyclable palladium-ionic liquid catalyst encapsulated in Halloysite nano-scrolls has successfully been developed. The nanocomposite (Pd-IL@Hal) was prepared in an aqueous environment in which Pd(OAc)2 was reduced by ascorbic acid and capped with an ionic liquid grafted Halloysite. The Pd-IL@Hal catalyst was used in Mizoroki-Heck coupling reactions with the alkene, acrylic acid, and various aryl halides (in the presence of a base) to afford the resulting substituted cinnamic acid products. The catalyst was found to be efficient giving high yields under mild conditions. Pd-IL@Hal was easily recycled by filtration and washing with just the use of water. The catalyst was reused in varying reactions to test its recycled effectiveness. The synthesis of this nanocomposite as well as its uses and catalytic activity using green methods will be the focus of this presentation
Homeless Voices Across the Nation: How Government Assistance is Perceived to Support the Homeless Community
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Six subtopics are found throughout homeless-related literature including definitions of homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, policy, housing models, and COVID-19. Through conduction of 323 homeless lived experience surveys across 15 diverse cities in the United States, this research has found assumptions and conclusions between firsthand perspective and literature’s subtopics. A major gap in literature exists with the inclusion of lived experience, as this was routinely an emphasized response from the homeless population themselves. Alternate needs and solutions were proposed from the participants, which found general similarities to the subtopics and included significance of perceived apathy from politicians towards the homeless community. This research suggests a need for greater inclusion of lived experience in the policy making process, as well as throughout the literature for a more accurate depiction of what the population needs. The importance of such inclusion is vital due to the impact COVID-19 is projected to have on rising homeless population counts. While the six subtopics are critical to analyze throughout homeless-related research, the inclusion of lived experience is the largest gap, yet the most critical to fill in hopes of reducing homeless counts in the United States.
Keywords: homelessness, policy, homeless perspective, lived experienc
CAN MAN
Get PDFCAN MAN tells the story of a man tasked with identifying a room full of unlabeled cans without opening them. I explore the challenges of making a film with the production guidelines set forth during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it impacted the final film. I also discuss all that I\u27ve learned in the past five years I spent studying in the UNO Film and Theatre Department
Down at the Crossroads: Letters from the Regions of Myself
No full textA collection of eight epistolary nonfiction essays by Téo Chesney concerned with the challenges of understanding the intersections of their identity as a Brazilian, transmasculine, adoptee. The letters contend with constructing new meanings of family, race, gender, and belonging. Through evocative imagined scenes and childhood fantasies, this collection can truly be called a personal mythology
The Gravel In Her Voice
No full textThis work explores the relationship between oral poetry and written poetry, and is written with a heavy blend of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). This work seeks to interrogate the notion that there should inherently be a rigid dichotomy between written poetry and spoken word poetry, but rather aims to show there is a relationship of mutual seepage between the distinct entities. There is also an aim of interrogating the belief that within American English there are not a multitude of dialects that are, too, worthy of academic study and poetic focus. Upon defense, this collection serves as a language lighthouse, calling in and calling to home and the many shapes and sounds home takes