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Analysis of Water Pollutants Across Greater Omaha
Get PDFWater is a finite resource, and most water has the potential to become contaminated in sitting bodies. Health complications have an increased chance of occurring when these water sources have pollutants. Preventative and treatment methods are components of the legislation put in place to prevent concentrations from reaching levels capable of causing these ailments. However, sites sometimes fail to keep them under tolerated levels. This study is intended to examine if several locations across Omaha are keeping pollutants under legal concentrations and analyze any trends in the data. Locations (n=10) are sampled twice, with exactly two-weeks between collections. The water is stored in glass containers which are kept at room temperature from the time of collection until testing. Each water sample is tested twice, resulting in 40 total tests. The testis give concentrations in parts per million (ppm). Sites ranged from downtown to east of 204th Street in western Omaha. pH, hardness, and alkalinity vary throughout in tolerable ranges. Adams Park, Elmwood Park, Candlewood Reservoir, and Walnut Grove gave non-zero concentrations for at least one trial when excluding hardness and alkalinity. Despite detectable levels at these locations, none exceed the threshold enforced. The remaining locations have no detectable pollutant concentrations for this water kit. In line with reports put out by the Metropolitan Utilities District of Omaha, the results of this study indicate that Omaha’s water follows regulation and has very low, if not zero, concentrations of many of the major pollutants associated with discussions regarding water pollution
That Way: An Examination of Male Relationships in Film During the Hays Code
Get PDFThe Hays Code (1934-1968) influenced the construct of United States masculinity and the discourse surrounding masculine presentation between the 1920s to the 1960s. The Hays Code and World War II affected the culture surrounding male/male relationships in the United States. Previous research done by David Lugowski (1999) and Jeffrey Suzik (1999) shows that both World Wars led to crises of masculinity in which the hegemonic ideal of masculinity was restructured to establish men as providers and warriors, and Code-era films reflected the discourse. To understand the gender roles in the 20th century, I analyzed the Hays code, male bonds, war in relation to masculinity, and the representation of these topics in film. I applied this research to four films: Wings (1927), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Rebel Without a Cause(1955), and Midnight Cowboy (1969). My analysis revealed that that films about masculinity made from the 1920s to the end of the Hays Code in 1968 have consistently presented stories involving intimacy. The presentation of male bonds in Code-era films shifted from unabashedly intimate to defensively supporting the hegemonic ideal to avoid implications of queerness, thus obfuscating homosexual desire that was accepted (albeit coded) before the Hays Code
Implementing Instructional and Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Success in Art
Get PDFFor my honors capstone project, I taught a 3-week unit to my Art III class at a suburban high school in Nebraska. This unit covered concepts such as color theory, composition, and how to create the illusion of depth within a piece of art. This unit ended with the students creating a 24x30 in. painting of a space that was personal to them. The instructional strategies that I used throughout the unit included learning objectives, providing feedback, and nonlinguistic forms of representation. The assessment strategies I used included a pre and post-assessment at the beginning and end of the unit, full class critique, and the use of a rubric for grading. I found that these strategies of instruction and assessment proved to be effective because my students grew from an average score of 50% on their pre-assessment at the beginning of the unit to an average score of 85% on their post-assessment that was taken at the end of the unit
This Is Your Life Cycle: Analyzing the Impact of Graphic Organizers, Collaborative Learning, and Non-linguistic Representations on Student Learning
Get PDFThis capstone investigated the implementation of cooperative learning through turn-and-talks and the use of graphic organizers in a third-grade reading unit. The unit’s topic centered around a story titled “This Is Your Life Cycle” which talks about the life cycle of a dragonfly. Throughout the unit, the students completed a pre-test, multiple summaries using a graphic organizer, multiple formative assessments, and a post-test. Upon completion of the unit, I analyzed the data to determine the effects the strategies used had on students\u27 learning. Student data and performance demonstrated a possible link between an increase in student learning and the use of cooperative learning such as turn-and-talks as well as the use of graphic organizers to write summaries
Sentencing Leaders in U.S. ISIS Cases
Get PDFIn this study, we analyze available U.S. federal case files since 2014 with activities related to IS, collecting information on sentencing and demographics. We used multiple raters to code each defendant as a follower or leader based on predetermined criteria
Terrorist Exploitation of Emerging Geospatial Technologies
Get PDFSlides for the presentation presented at the ENVISION24 Conference Session 2: Panel: Extremist Use of Emerging Technology
Session 5 | Galvanizing Events: The U.S. Election Video
No full textVideo of Session 5 | Galvanizing Events: The U.S. Election consisting of: -Conspiracy Theories and Violent Extremism, Bettina Rottweiler, University College London (slides available here: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/envision/2024/session5/2/ ) -Surveys of Americans’ Acceptance of Politically Motivated Violence, Chris Bader, Chapman University (slides available here: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/envision/2024/session5/3/) -Tolerance for Violence toward Public Servants, Pete Simi, Chapman University (slides available here: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/envision/2024/session5/1/
Keynote: How Research Informs Governement
No full textNick Rasmussen, counterterrorism coordinator with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, discusses the current threat environment and the role academic research can play in informing policy at NCITE\u27s annual conference, ENVISION24. The conference was held June 25-27, 2024 in Omaha
Sam Howerton Discusses Takeaways from NCITE\u27s Annual Conference
No full textSam Howerton, Ph.D., chief scientist for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, shared his thoughts on NCITE\u27s research at the ENVISION24 annual conference
