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A Chameleon Female Saint: Mary Magdalene’s Rhetorical functionale in Bohemian Good Friday Sermons from the Fourteenth Century
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Refinding the Object in Modern Fiction Studies
No full textGrounded deeply in psychoanalytic theories, the article illustrates how oral satisfactions of eating and drinking in The Garden of Eden connect with object relations in the understanding of character development. Also discussed: works by Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Patrick McGrath
Pebbles and Boulders: Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
No full textCasual essay connects Hemingway\u27s concise language and habit of disciplined observation to the compact tradition of haiku. Concludes with the Zen-like, mindful contemplation of Nick Adams in Big Two-Hearted River, which represents a highpoint of Hemingway Dharma
Measuring Geographic Sentiment toward Police Using Social Media Data
No full textUsing Twitter messages published online from October 2018 to June 2019, and opinion mining (OM) technology, the current study analyzes the geographic sentiments toward police in 82 metropolitan areas within the United States. Building on the frameworks of the neighborhood social contextual models, the construct validity of sentiment toward the police is assessed via its relationship with the features of various metropolitan areas. Results of the regression analysis indicate that the violent crime rate, racial heterogeneity, and economic disadvantage significantly affect sentiment toward the police. Our results suggest that opinion mining of social media can be an important instrument to understand public sentiment toward the police
Čhaŋnúŋpa uŋ Wólakȟota Káǧapi: Restoring Peace Through the Sacred Pipe: An Indigenous Perspective of Restorative Justice
No full textIncarceration and recidivism throughout the United States is disproportionately high for marginalized persons, with Indigenous people experiencing nearly double the national rate for incarceration. The high rates for incarceration and recidivism reflect the ineffectiveness of the current judicial system being used in the United States. Pre-colonization, Indigenous people around the world approached justice through a restorative lens, rather than a retributive one. This Banded Dissertation focuses on restorative justice and its theoretical underpinnings, Indigenous roots of restorative justice, and more specifically, the traditional law practices of the Lakota people and the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires). The Banded Dissertation consists of three scholarly products that focus on traditional, pre-colonial, Indigenous practices of law. The first product consists of a conceptual paper that offers definitions, values, theoretical underpinnings, and conceptual frameworks for restorative justice and its mechanisms, as well as offers an overview of Lakota values and a Lakota model for restorative justice. The second product consists of a cultural and postcolonial historiography that used a thematic analysis to identify ways in which Lakota people handled crime. The historiography was exploratory in nature and sought to provide an in-depth look at traditional law practices of the Lakota and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ people, as well as investigate whether Lakota values correlated with restorative justice values. The third product consists of a conference poster presentation on the conceptual frameworks of the Lakota restorative justice mode
Impacts of Caste Based Reservation System on the Lives of Scheduled Caste Engineers in India: A Case Study
Get PDFThis case study in the qualitative inquiry investigated the social and economic conditions of scheduled caste engineers in India who utilized affirmative action known as caste-based reservation program, to complete their Bachelor of Engineering studies and proceeded onto an engineering career. I selected seven scheduled caste engineers (five males and two females) as participants in this study. Data collection methods consisted of in-depth interviews, documents, and personal reflexivity journals. Data analysis generated two major themes. The first theme summarized the participants’ socio-economic conditions before they received affirmative action while the second theme portrayed their lives afterward. The study revealed the existence of discrimination, overall poverty, social stigma, and lack of economic and social opportunities before affirmative action. Their economic conditions improved after affirmative action, although their social situation—marred with stigma and discrimination—either remained unchanged or worsened. Social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), and critical race theory (Delgado & Stefancic, 2012) explained that the formation of social groups (lower versus upper castes) and the ordinariness of racism (normalization of the caste system) could lead to the participants’ unchanged social conditions. One major recommendation is for the government of India to continue affirmative action benefits to the scheduled castes with more focus on improving their social conditions. Future studies could investigate the impacts of caste-based reservation system on other professions such as teaching, medicine, and management