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A Deep Dive into the Nazis’ Animal World: Facilitating the Holocaust through Symbolization
No full textThis paper examines the use of animal symbolism in Nazi propaganda as a tool to dehumanize Jewish individuals and facilitate the Holocaust. Through an analysis of propaganda posters, films, and literature, it highlights how Jews were consistently depicted as animals such as rats, cockroaches, and monkeys—symbols associated with filth, disease, and inferiority. These portrayals, often reinforced by explicit textual messages, stripped Jews of their humanity and encouraged widespread acceptance of their persecution and extermination.
By exploring the methods, extent, and consequences of this dehumanizing propaganda, the paper sheds light on the critical role of animal symbolism in shaping public perception and enabling genocide. It contextualizes these tactics within historical uses of animalization to justify systemic oppression and concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding and addressing the dangers of such symbolism to prevent similar atrocities in the future
Open Education Celebration Reception
No full textAffordability advocates are invited to our Open Education Celebration Reception! Celebrate Viking Teach Week, Open Access Week, and all of the hard work CSU faculty have done to promote textbook equity!
Enjoy refreshments, get some textbook affordability swag, and enter to win a prize!
Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Excellence and the Michael Schwartz Library
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There Was Such an Array of Circumstances Pointing to Defendant\u27s Guilt… : Shepard v. United States and the Dying Declaration as a Legal, Social, and Political History of People, Places, Times… and Utility
No full textIn 1933, the Court, in Shepard v. United States, limited the “dying declaration” exception to the prohibition against hearsay. Shepard has been cited over 500 times by courts of appeal, the decision appears in evidence casebooks, and scholars have challenged it as robbing the voice of victims. However, there has never been a legal history of the decision. The case arose from a criminal conviction that occurred in the last days of the “Roaring Twenties,” and the appeal transited through the courts in the first years of the Great Depression. The Court, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Benjamin Cardozo was just beginning to see challenges in the district courts against President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. Those challenges, unlike Shepard, would result in fractured opinions. Shepard’s trial focused more on dueling experts over the cause of Zenana Shepard’s death and her mental state than it did the dying declaration. Indeed, Zenana’s dying declaration came into evidence through a witness who spent a few minutes on the stand and, in comparison to the over dozen medical specialists and members of the military community, it was hardly any time at all. The validity of a legal history is in clarifying and illustrating the conditions of the trial and appeals, the participants in it, and the reason for the decision. Without the dying declaration, a retrial acquitted Shepard and one might think that the dying declaration was the difference between a conviction and an acquittal. But the conduct of counsel and the judge’s conduct in the first trial were also factors in his initial conviction. The legal history provides the background and context of the decision and, in doing so, also enables a view of American law and society, and, in particular, military society from almost a century ago
An Essay on Trailblazing With Service Animals Langer, Pilot, Bowie, and Izzie: Preserving Non-partisan Public Health and the Law
No full textA direct correlation exists among humans, their animals, and human health and wellness. This article will focus concisely on law students with disabilities and lawyers with disabilities and how they can be empowered to be trailblazers while remaining healthy and well. Salutogenic Model should be optimized by lawyers with disabilities working at the intersection of animal law, disability law, and public health law. Service animals have positive and salubrious impacts upon their handlers in several ways, including psychosocial health and wellbeing. The Grand Architect (or in my Cherokee tradition, great spirit ) continuously partners me with complicated but magnificent dog partners who shape my emotional, physical, and spiritual health and wellness. (This is to mention but three of the seven dimensions of health and wellness.) As one article has indicated, public health advocacy is essential for promoting disability rights and shaping policies that address the unique needs of people with disabilities. Disability law and public health law, policy, and research, should be harmonized thereby designing and implementing interventions to empower trailblazers with disabilities to be healthy and well, in spite of social ignorance or insurmountable social prejudice. Arguably, service animals is a powerful public health intervention
Mike Kaplowitz interview, 10 September 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, piano technician and business owner Mr. Mike Kaplowitz describes the history of Bill Kap Piano Company and his role as its second-generation owner. He discusses the business’s origins, the influence of his father, and the services the shop provides. He also comments on East Cleveland’s economic changes, community institutions, and ongoing revitalization efforts. The interview concludes with his views on public perceptions of the city and the importance of local engagement
HistoDX: Revolutionizing Breast Cancer Diagnosis Through Advanced Imaging Techniques
No full textBreast cancer is the second leading cause of mortality among women worldwide, highlighting the need for efficient histopathology-based screening methods for early diagnosis. This study introduces HistoDX, a deep learning framework to classify Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) using 277,524 histopathology image patches ( 50×50 pixels) from Paul Mooney’s IDC dataset on Kaggle, comprising No Cancer and IDC(+) classes. HistoDX employs a preprocessing pipeline with normalization, data augmentation, and class balancing via oversampling and weighted loss to address the class imbalance. A customized convolutional neural network, built on EfficientNetV2-B3 with additional layers, achieves 97% accuracy and a 0.91 ROC-AUC score on the test set. Validation on BreakHis (97% accuracy) and BACH (90% accuracy) datasets confirm generalizability, though detecting under sampled IDC(+) cases remains challenging. Low training and test losses underscore reliability. HistoDX empowers pathologists by enhancing diagnostic efficiency and minimizing subjectivity through effective class imbalance mitigation. Its robust performance across diverse datasets like BreakHis and BACH suggests readiness for clinical integration. Future research into advanced augmentation techniques, ensemble models, and whole-slide image analysis could further optimize accuracy, sensitivity, and scalability, paving the way for broader adoption in precision oncology
Addressing Health-Related Social Needs with Innovative Healthcare Spending
No full textKey objectives: To address the social determinants of health domains social and community context and neighborhood and built environment via Medically Tailored Meals, a nutrition intervention that includes home delivery, medical nutrition therapy and education, and frozen medically tailored meals provided by the non-profit partner. This intervention targeted Medicaid members exhibiting high healthcare utilization in conjunction with each individual\u27s risk of developing higher morbidity and mortality of existing disease due to co-existing food and nutrition insecurity. The populations served include people living with Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, HIV/AIDS, and End-Stage Renal Disease, among other conditions, whose burden is disproportionately felt by people of color