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Political Trust: Nature or Nurture
Get PDFThis paper looked into the relationship between political trust, demographics (race and gender), and presidential election votes for 2012 and 2016. The purpose of this research was to see the baseline feelings of political trust in different demographics, as well as how those feelings of political trust changed depending on if they voted for in the winning candidate in the presidential election. Preliminary research has already been conducted on both of these topics; however, in this paper I sought to examine if an individual\u27s race or gender affected the extent of a person\u27s loss or gain in political trust when voting for the winning candidate in a presidential election. Using the NES dataset, political trust by gender, race, and 2012 and 2016 presidential votes were compiled. Then model estimations were put together using control variables for common confounding variable, such as age, religious attendance, and education. Overall, the findings showed a strong correlation between race and political trust. However, the paper failed to reject the null hypothesis in regards to whether or not race and gender affect the amount of political trust lost or gained when voting for the winning candidate in a presidential election. Meaning that race and gender have no statistically significant effect on political trust when voting for the winning candidate in a presidential election. This may have been due, in part, because of the small number of presidential election years used and more research should be conducted into this research topic
Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture
No full textVisual analysis is necessary for examining German-Jewish culture on an extralinguistic level. Whereas literary texts written in the German language are generally categorized as German literature, situating visual culture within a national or language-based framework can be more challenging. Take, for example, an oil painting of a dark-haired woman serving cocktails in a bar. What would make us consider such a painting “German,” “Jewish,” or “German-Jewish”? Images can operate either outside of language or in tandem with it, and images can also address audiences in different ways. If language is not an integral part of an image, other factors must be considered for us to read it as German, among them its creator, title, formal stylistic properties, subject matter, and production and reception history. Other factors affect how we see or recognize Jewishness in still and moving images, including how visual representations predispose viewers to perceive or feel toward Jews. Beyond this, we can also consider the extent to which images have the ability to reflect a specifically German-Jewish self-consciousness. [excerpt
Development and Validation of the Single-Item Mindfulness Scale (SIMS)
No full textMindfulness is a focused attention to and acceptance of present experiences. Although several reliable and valid multi-item measures of trait mindfulness exist, researchers may sometimes want a short and quick measure of mindfulness. In this project, we developed and validated the Single-Item Mindfulness Scale (SIMS) to assess trait mindfulness. We conducted eight studies involving 3,125 adult and adolescent participants. The studies consisted of cross-sectional, short longitudinal, and daily diary designs. We first developed the wording of the SIMS in Studies 1 and 2 and then examined the validity and reliability in Studies 3–8. The SIMS was found to be reliable and valid. It correlated with several multi-item measures of mindfulness at effect sizes in the medium to large range. It also correlated in expected ways with variables known to be related to existing multi-item measures of mindfulness such as self-compassion, anxiety, negative affect, positive affect, depression, neuroticism, empathy, prosocial behavior, and self-consciousness. Furthermore, it correlated positively with daily reports of mindfulness in a two-week diary study. Although existing multi-item trait mindfulness scales should be used, when possible, the SIMS is recommended in situations when time, question quantity, or researcher focus is constrained
Ecocinema Studies’ Multiverse: Hollywood, Indigenous Cinema, and More
No full textA few weeks ago, the quote above from a 2014 Facebook post cycled into my feed. It made me chuckle now, as it had then almost ten years ago. I remember that the student was writing about Her, the 2013 critically acclaimed Hollywood film about Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) falling in love with his virtual assistant Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). Apple’s Siri had just been launched on iPhones, and director Spike Jonze’s story sped us into an imagined near-future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) had evolved to be gorgeously sentient and emotive. Her was intentionally meant to raise ethical questions of what it means to have sentient machines and thus, what it means to be “human” in our present moment. [excerpt
The Bedouin in Arabia: A Nomadic Success
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the lifestyle of Bedouin tribes in Arabia prior to the rise of Islam. It looks closely at how Bedouin tribes were able to coexist alongside pre-Islamic settlements and secure a dominant position in Arabia. Specifically, this paper covers the Bedouin\u27s practice of pastoralism, tribalism, and militarism, and explains how Bedouin tribes were able to secure and maintain a dominant position in Arabia despite the pressure of neighboring settlements
Traditional Chinese Poems, “The White Blossom” and “Agony Unfurls,” as well as the Finished Parts in The Martyrdom of Chen Zi-Ang, a Film Screenplay, and “Shadows of Phoenixes” in Scarlet Tears on a Golden Branch, a Novel (華夏傳統詩〈素華〉與〈抽怨〉、電影劇本《陳子昂殉道記》已成之部、小說《金枝紅淚》中〈凰影〉已成之部)
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Chen Zi-Ang (courtesy name Bo-Yu, 659–700 CE) was a medieval Chinese author, poet, scholar, twice-prisoner, and a martyr. It has been a devotion of the Daoist and the Chinese folk religions to venerate him as the Holy Land Patron of the Shu Area (Sichuan) and his hometown, Shehong. During his brief life, Chen reverently practiced the cultural-spiritual lineage of Confucianism and was a devout follower of the Daoist religion. He was also a long-term manifester of the Chinese cultural-spiritual archetype of the warrior. Earning his doctorate in 684 CE, he served in a number of minor official roles, including as an imperial librarian. With his spirit of “courage, fierceness, and frankness (West China Urban Daily), he declared that “I do not care even if I am to be killed ten thousand times,” and “the lonely and frank are subjected to the hatred from the massive evil,” while repeatedly risking torture and execution to express his disagreement with “the brilliant ruler and the tyrant” (Li Gu-Yin and Peng Hua-Jie) Empress Wu Zetian on such issues as torturers, the use of torture, the sufferings of the impoverished, the need for political reform, the excessiveness of religious construction programs, and the calling for the release of innocent prisoners. Falsely accused of having a political connection with those who were subverting the government, with his illness and infirmities he spent well over a year in a prison where he experienced “brutalities” (Zeng Jun) first-hand. Several years later, while severely ill, the effects of political persecution led to him being carried into several malicious interrogations and getting arrested again, resulting in him being “harmed to death” (Du Fu) in prison. As this book researches and indicates, his wife, Madam Gao, appeared to have passed away shortly after him, which seemed to have strong correlations with Chen’s martyrdom.
Like a Blossom, a Sword, and a Meteor: The Impassioned Battles, Incarcerations, and Martyrdom of Chen Zi-Ang is an interdisciplinary and intermedia book co-authored in Traditional Chinese by Chen Zi-Ang and Rivolia Chen Xiao-Yu (2000 CE–), a poet, as well as an author, a scholar, an English translator, and an organizer of cultural-spiritual China activities who also translates this entire book into English. While being enriched by the Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc, Jehanne d’Arc) studies, memorials, and cultural-spiritual embodiments in America and France, this book is divided into three main parts in its best attempt to present Chen Zi-Ang, a “tragic and heroic figure (Ou Li-chuan) whose soul lives on for eternity. The first part is a biography and a chronology of Chen Zi-Ang that prodigiously integrates the accomplishments of contemporary American psychology on such topics as physical appearance and psychology, physical appearance and society, and personality and developmental psychology. The second part chronologically offers all of Chen Zi-Ang’s 127 preserved poems, a prose-poem, a note, and selected prose in English translation and the Traditional Chinese original. According to Wen Yiduo, some of these poems are praised as “crystalline, limpid, pure, cool, and luminous”; some are “of the profundity and vastness of waters, the loftiness of mountains, and the coolness of autumn breezes”; and some are “transcendent, profound, extending to the remote, lofty, and archaic.” The third division presents the finished parts of Rivolia Chen Xiao-Yu’s film screenplay with Chen Zi-Ang as the protagonist, The Martyrdom of Chen Zi-Ang, as well as her novel, Scarlet Tears on a Golden Branch, with Madam Gao as the protagonist, in English translation and Traditional Chinese original. With his literary-intellectual sophistication and erudition, Chen Zi-Ang the martyr devotedly, passionately, and diligently combated against the absence of learning, the lack of skills, unfairness, injustices, and tyrannies. It has been one of Rivolia Chen Xiao-Yu’s crucial efforts to co-author this book with Chen Zi-Ang and to spread it massively around the whole world during her best endeavors to carry on the mission of Chen Zi-Ang.
Book Description in Traditional Chinese Original:
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陳子昂（字伯玉，公元659年－700年）乃中世華夏（英文：Medieval China；又稱中古中國等等）文人、詩人、學者、兩度入獄者、烈士。道教信仰與民間信仰之一，是尊陳子昂為射洪土神與蜀土神。在其短暫人生中，陳子昂奉儒學，而虔信道教，並長期演繹華夏文化與精神中，俠之原型。公元684年，陳子昂進士及第，為秘書省正字等小官。陳子昂秉「勇猛直率」（《華西都市報》語）精神，自云「不顧萬死」，宣告「孤直者，眾邪之所憎」，屢冒酷刑、殘殺之險，就酷吏酷刑、貧民生存危機、需要政治改良、宗教營建工程過量、請釋清白獄囚等等議題，諫「明主與暴君」（李古寅、彭華杰語）武則天。因受與「逆黨」政治有染之不實指控，陳子昂以病弱之軀，入獄年餘，親歷獄中「暴虐」（曾軍語）。數年後，陳子昂病重期間，再因政治迫害，數遭抬走惡意審問，再度被捕，在獄「遇害」（杜甫語）。如本書所考：不久，陳子昂妻高氏，像亦隨之而去，其身故之因，看來與陳子昂殉道，有重大關聯。
《如花如劍如流星：陳子昂之奮戰、被囚與殉道》乃綜合學科、綜合媒介之書，由陳子昂烈士與詩人、文人、學者、英譯者、華夏文化與精神活動組織者——陳瀟玉（公元2000年－）以傳統華文合著，並由陳瀟玉英譯全書。本書分三主體，又從美國、法國之貞德研究、紀念、文化與精神演繹中，汲取養分，以英譯文與傳統華文，勉力呈現「悲劇英雄」（歐麗娟語）陳子昂之永生精魂：其一，大量融入當代美國心理學，在形貌與心理、形貌與世情、人格與心理方面之成就，立陳子昂傳及年譜；其二，編年英譯現存一百二十七首陳子昂詩、並一賦、一帖、文選，又錄陳子昂之傳統華文原作；據聞一多所析，陳子昂詩有「晶瑩爽朗」者，有「泓崢蕭瑟」者，有「超曠高古」者；其三，陳瀟玉以陳子昂為主角之電影劇本《陳子昂殉道記》，並以高氏為主角之小說《金枝紅淚》，已成部分之英譯，與傳統華文原作。陳子昂烈士以其文采學問與勇毅，虔誠奮戰，抗擊不學、乏術、不公、不義、暴政；與陳子昂合著並在全世界廣傳此書，亦是陳瀟玉勉力繼承陳子昂之志業，關鍵努力之一
APPC Minutes – September 13, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, September 13, 2022
The Effects of Social Globalization on Access to Abortion
Get PDFWhat effect does social globalization have on access to legal abortion? I contend that social globalization positively influences access to legal abortion. This is because mechanisms of social globalization such as gender parity, internet access, freedom of the press, and civil liberties all have a significant effect on access to abortion. Therefore, as countries become more socially globalized, access to legal abortion will increase. Using cross-national time-series data for the period 1997-2011, I test the relationship between social globalization and access to legal abortion. I find support for the hypothesized relationship. In light of the state of abortion rights around the world today, with many countries expanding abortion access and others restricting it, it is important to examine what factors contribute to whether a country will guarantee access to legal abortion. My findings suggest that increased social globalization contributes to this and plays a significant role in guaranteeing access to abortion worldwide
Academic and Intellectual Life for Gettysburg College Women, 1960-1980
Get PDFThe women of Gettysburg College, students and faculty, faced unique barriers in their academic life from 1960 to 1980. The college was making curricular and calendar changes to benefit all students, women, but was slower to fix the inequities facing women. First, women had a harder time getting into Gettysburg College, due to a 2:1 sex ratio in admissions that required women to have higher qualifications than their male counterpoints. Some women also struggled to convince family members that college mattered to them rather than just being an expensive way to acquire a marriage match. Once there, women were expected to work towards very limited career paths–to become nurses, teachers, or secretaries. Continuing education in graduate school was not impossible for women, but it was considered odd and unnecessary work. Female faculty members faced hiring discrimination, tokenism, and opaque promotion policies. Despite these challenges, many women found ways to support each other in achieving a positive experience at Gettysburg College that would lead them to a bright future
JCCTL Mailer – February 21, 2022
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