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Why Not Both Nature and Nurture: Using Behavioral Genetic Markers as Sentencing Factors
Get PDFOn the evening of July 1, 2013, Amos Wells was upset that his pregnant girlfriend, Chanice Reed, would not answer his calls. He then drove to where she, her mother Annette, and ten-year-old brother Eddie, lived. After arguing with Chanice and yelling at the top of his voice in a “bone-chilling scream,” Wells retrieved a handgun from his Chevrolet Tahoe parked in front of the house, and shot Chanice in the front yard as she screamed, “No, no, no.” Her mother then tried to bat the gun away before he shot her too. Further shots were heard before Wells finally drove off. [..
Analyzing Audio/Visual Data in the Digital Humanities
Get PDFThe Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities reconsiders key debates, methods, possibilities, and failings from across the digital humanities, offering a timely interrogation of the present and future of the arts and humanities in the digital age.Comprising 43 essays from some of the field\u27s leading scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive collection examines, among its many subjects, the emergence and ongoing development of DH, postcolonial digital humanities, feminist digital humanities, race and DH, multilingual digital humanities, media studies as DH, the failings of DH, critical digital humanities, the future of text encoding, cultural analytics, natural language processing, open access and digital publishing, digital cultural heritage, archiving and editing, sustainability, DH pedagogy, labour, artificial intelligence, the cultural economy, and the role of the digital humanities in climate change.
From this chapter: We offer an observation, perhaps even provocation: DH is undergoing an A/V turn. The combination of access to data either through digitization or born-digital sources alongside advances in computing from memory to deep learning is resulting in a watershed moment for the analysis of audio and visual data in the field
Automatic identification and classification of portraits in a corpus of historical photographs
No full textThere have been recent calls for an increased focus on the application of computer vision to the study and curation of digitised cultural heritage materials. In this short paper, we present an approach to bridge the gap between existing algorithms and humanistically driven annotations through a case study in which we create an algorithm to detect and and classify portrait photography. We apply this method to a collection of about 40,000 photographs and present a preliminary analysis of the constructed data. The work is part of the larger ongoing study that applies computer vision to the computational analysis of over a million U.S. documentary photographs from the early twentieth century
University of Richmond Magazine - Winter 2022
Get PDFThe University of Richmond\u27s Alumni Magazine was first published as The Alumni Bulletin in 1936 and continues to this day as the University of Richmond Magazine
Safe at Home: Addressing Virginia\u27s Housing Policy Concerns in a Pandemic
Get PDFThis article examines the crisis of eviction that exists in the Commonwealth
of Virginia and the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted
the particular vulnerability of low-income and minority communities.
Zoning policies, financing practices, limitations on tenants’ rights, and other
legal structures built into the Virginia Code underscore issues of systemic
racism that exacerbate the lack of affordable housing and instability of rental
opportunities. The article provides a highlight of recent legislation passed by
the Virginia General Assembly that seeks to address some of these concerns
Goodwill, Virtue, and Visions for the Future: Friendship in 21st Century America
No full textFriendship is a universal experience for humans that has been studied by philosophers for centuries. Although the modern world is far more technologically advanced than ancient civilizations, many of the teachings of ancient philosophers are still relevant today. Throughout history, there have been several beliefs held consistently by multiple scholars across different cultures and time periods. For example, Aristotle, Confucius, Montaigne, and Cicero all agreed that lesser forms of friendship that are based on pleasure or utility are destined to fail. Additionally, despite most relationships shared between people aligning more with the idea of having several acquaintances rather than a singular individual that shares your mind and heart, most renowned philosophers agree that humans have the potential to experience true friendship based on goodwill and virtue.
This essay attempts to answer the question of whether or not true friendship based upon goodness and virtue is possible in 21st century America. By analyzing the parallels between the teachings of famous philosophers and the themes of modern social movements, books, and art, this essay intends to determine why the philosophical notions of friendship have not been particularly successful in American society. Additionally, this paper aims to provide a potential solution to the lack of goodwill in 21st century America that has been responsible for thousands of people’s suffering for generations