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Radical Self-Love: Being Your Own BFF and the Secret to a Fulfilling Life
No full textAttention to the self can often be forgotten in relationships as an individual seeks to please those around them. However the relationship with oneself must be properly fostered before relationships with others can fully flourish. This tenet holds true across time and disciplines from the teachings of both eastern and western philosophers such as Confucius, Aristotle, and Montaigne, to modern day self-help books. The examination of these foundational philosophical texts through the lens of modern feminism and self-love, allow for a greater depth of understanding the importance of self-love in building strong relationships and a more fulfilling life
Where is the Divide?
No full textThe division between platonic and romantic love is the division between a friend and a romantic partner; however, analyzing these relationships closer, the difference between platonic and romantic love in media and society is largely contested. Studying various classical philosophical texts and literature, this essay deconstructs this divided consensus and concludes that, while platonic love is founded in goodwill and romantic love in attraction, both facilitate relationships that support and better their participants. Unlike friendship, romance additionally garners a latent need to immortalize the relationship and a deeper expectation of vulnerability and loyalty, with its facet of sexual pleasure
Down the Drain: Stormwater Management effects on the Quality of the Westhampton Lake
Get PDFThis paper examines incidents of illicit discharges on the University of Richmond campus as outlined by the City of Richmond\u27s MS4 permit. Illicit discharges contaminate the Westhampton Lake by flowing from our storm drains directly into the Westhampton Lake. I detected incidents of illicit discharges by performing visual inspections as guided by numerous scholarly articles. The visual inspections were done with a special consideration of land use on campus. Along with the visual inspections, I inspected the storm drains during a dry weather event to find whether there was any flow during this period. In this study, I found several incidents of illicit discharges in the following area: animal feces, construction debris, litter, and flow on dry weather days. Animal feces, which adds E. Coli to water, was found throughout campus and especially near the Westhampton Lake where the geese reside. Construction runoff, which increases sediment, was found near Modlin, on New Fraternity Row, and near Marsh hall. Litter, which disrupts species and depletes oxygen, was found all around campus and even in a storm drain. Finally, I found one incident of dry weather flow near Weinstein Hall. The University of Richmond should improve education and regulation of these common incidents of illicit discharge to improve the quality of the Westhampton Lake.
Paper prepared for the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar/Geography Capstone.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Peter Smallwoo
Examining Millennial Attitudes Relating to Nonprofit Philanthropy
No full textIt is estimated that by 2052, a 6 billion of this sum will be directed toward the nonprofit sector. Currently the Greatest Generation and the baby boomer generational cohort are the largest segments of supporters for nonprofit organizations, both as volunteers and donors. As these generations die, the millennial generational cohort stands to inherit the largest generational shift of wealth ever. Because of this, it is imperative for nonprofit organizations to understand the millennial cohorts’ attitudes toward philanthropy. Following a comprehensive review of the existing literature, this study used interviews with nonprofit professionals to confirm if the prior findings that the millennial generational cohort is equally as likely to engage with nonprofit organizations as prior generational cohorts were valid. This study concludes that this is in fact the case; however, the millennial generational cohort has an expanded view of what it means to behave philanthropically and the motivations for engagement are different than those seen in prior generational cohorts. Dollars per donation were also reported to be much lower among this cohort, with millennials preferring to diversify donations to many different organizations. If this trend does not change as the millennial generational cohort enters a more stable phase of life, nonprofit organizations will potentially need to expand their donor bases or cut expenses. Strategies for cultivating this generational cohort as both volunteers and donors are outlined, taking into consideration the unique motivations for engagement among the millennial cohort. This study also found that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the differences in philanthropic behavior between generational cohorts to narrow, potentially allowing nonprofit organizations to no longer need to segment outreach efforts based on age demographics
Non-Profits and Living Wages
Get PDFNon-Profit organizations must find ways to divide their budgets between staff wages and program services, as well as paying their staff a living wage. Unlike for-profits who can increase prices for consumers when they need to increase staff wages, non-profits do not have this luxury. The goal of this project was to collect data on how non-profits manage their budgets and if they provide staff with living wages. A survey was sent out with a total of eight responses, giving a breakdown of various non-profit’s budgets and if they pay a living wage. Overall, seven out of eight non-profits pay their staff a living wage, however despite this multiple organizations are struggling with staff turnover and hiring new employees. Non-profits may need to do more than pay a living wage in order to keep staff, and hire quality employees. Based on this survey total compensation packages may be a better way to evaluate non-profit pay instead of wages, because the most of the non-profits reported paying above a living wage, but still reported struggling with keeping staff
Out of Sight and Out of Mind: Criminal Laws Disguised Moral Culpability Requirement
Get PDFLast spring, the Supreme Court of the United States made a little-remarked constitutional ruling in Kahler v. Kansas. Upon casual inspection, Kahler looks like a doctrinal dead-end. The petitioner asked the Supreme Court to recognize a due process right for mentally ill defendants to raise the M’Naghten right-and-wrong test of insanity, and the Court said, “No.” The petitioner’s failure notwithstanding, Kahler is not a barren vine. On the contrary, it is heavy-laden with new doctrinal insights for criminal law scholars.
The case deserves a thorough look—not for what it can teach us about constitutional contentions that the Court has rendered unviable for the foreseeable future—but for what the creative arguments written by the petitioner’s attorneys can teach us about criminal law. Specifically, the briefing in Kahler unmasks a cached moral blameworthiness requirement in criminal law doctrine, on the same plane as the canonical requirements of voluntariness, action, and mens rea, but buried over the last two centuries in the rules governing the insanity defense