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More Than Just “Autism”: A Diverse Exploration Into Global Views Regarding Vaccinations
Get PDFThis is a diversity studies minor capstone project. This study looks at various groups attitudes to vaccines
Bars, banality, mierda and love: The struggle for (comm)unity in the Costa Rican film El regreso/The Return
No full textThis article explores how Costa Rican Hernán Jiménez’s El regreso/The Return (Jiménez, 2011) expresses a vision of community predicated on belonging, home, love and forgiveness reminiscent of the idea of a collective, revolutionary love in twentieth-century Central America. I argue, however, that the film’s idealistic vision contradicts itself by defining community through persistent images of bars and shit compounded by a pronounced sociopolitical disengagement. In turn, a fractured (comm)unity results, where social violence and inequality are perpetuated. This article places El regreso into dialogue with Laura Podalsky’s ideas on affect in Latin American cinema, Michael Billig’s banal nationalism and Julia Kristeva’s abject in order to explore how the film’s proposal might be reframed on more sustainable terms. The film’s world-view and affective appeal, I argue, also tangibly manifest via the Kickstarter campaign that funded the project
Well-Versed: Edith Jacobson’s Expressionism
No full textImprisoned by the Gestapo, German-Jewish psychoanalyst Edith Jacobson (1897-1978) managed to escape Nazism and successfully continued her psychoanalytic career in American exile. This essay is the second of two on Jacobson\u27s prison notebook, newly published under the title Gefängnisaufzeichnungen. Like the preceding essay, it assesses the interdisciplinary encounter of prison poetry with psychoanalysis, which illustrates the unique therapeutic capacity of poetry to ease pain in states of utter deprivation. It further embeds Jacobson’s literary creativity in the rich context of Weimar culture, focuses on pain’s capacity to enhance creativity, and unveils Jacobson’s deep awareness of literary commemoration and Expressionist innovation
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel
No full textIn the opening of the anthology, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel state that “as a collection of writing by trans people against capital and empire, this book attempts to piece together these multiple points of overlap between the subjective, interpersonal, and everyday modes of trans life, and the internalist horizons of the fights we are already engaged in” (2). This collection is firmly rooted in an anticapitalist and anti-oppressive praxis, and even includes some prominent trans trailblazers who are no longer with us, such as Sylvia Rivera, Lou Sullivan, and Leslie Feinberg
Enhancing Reading Comprehension in Middle School Classrooms Using a Critical Reading Routine
No full textTo learn challenging content, middle school students are expected to read and comprehend complex text. This poses challenges for content-area teachers whose classes typically include students with reading difficulties and disabilities who have a variety of literacy needs. Some students struggle to decode text while many students struggle with complex vocabulary and comprehending upper-level concepts. Teachers can use a variety of instructional methods to increase opportunities for students to engage with text to enhance their understanding of concepts and support reading comprehension. This article provides guidance on how teachers can implement a critical reading of text routine that includes peer-mediated instruction. Adaptations to this routine that teachers can use to address students’ differing needs within the same contentarea classroom are included. Resources are provided that teachers can use to differentiate and enhance implementation of the routine
Blockchain: A Literature Review
No full textBlockchain consist of ordered list with nodes and links where the nodes store information and are connected through a link called chains. This technology supports the availability of a publicly maintained ledger of transactions, first gaining mainstream attraction with cryptocurrencies. A myriad of other applications have emerged ever since. There has been a steady growth in the number of research conducted in this field; as such, there is a need to review the research in this field. This paper conducts an extensive review on 76 journal publications in the field of blockchain from 2016 to 2018 available in Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database. The aim of this paper is to present scholars and practitioners with a detailed overview of the available research in the field of blockchain. The selected papers have been grouped into 14 categories. The contents of papers in each categories are summarized and future research direction for each category is outlined. This overview indicates that the research in blockchain is becoming more prominent, requires more effort in developing new methodologies and framework to integrate blockchain. It is the need of today’s growing business that venture into new technologies like cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT)
Institutionalizing Protest Art: Agitprop and OFF-Biennále Budapest
No full textOver the last decade, an increasing number of art institutions worldwide have showcased exhibitions of protest art. In 2016, the globally ambitious exhibition Agitprop at the Brooklyn Museum offered a look back at the early twentieth-century struggle for social justice in Europe and the United States. Across the Atlantic, the OFF-Biennale Budapest was inaugurated in 2015 as a curatorial initiative to combat the stronghold of the current Hungarian national conservative government by refusing any support or affiliation with governmental offices and organizations. Using these examples, this chapter seeks to explore what constitutes activist art in specific cultural, social, and political contexts, and whether exhibitions in museums and art institutions provide a valid platform for furthering the activist causes underlying socially and politically committed art practices
Effect of GDP Per Capita On Dietary Decisions Internationally
No full textThe goal of this project is to analyse and understand how GDP per capita affects an individual’s dietary decisions. A total of nine countries were used in this project which included, China, Japan, United States, Iceland, United Kingdom, France, New Zealand, Canada, and South Korea. The dependent variable being analysed was the % vegetarian population in each country and the independent variables included nominal GDP, GDP per capita, annual GDP growth rate, population size, meat consumption (kg/capita), and unemployment rate. To analyse the data a regression analysis was done. Degrees of freedom was 182 with all the independent variables, with the exception of GDP per capita, showing a negative relationship to the dependent variable. To account for heterogeneity of each country a fixed effect regression model was done which showed GDP per capita having a negative relationship with the % vegetarian population in each country, and it was statistically significant at the 1% level. Omitting all other independent variables, GDP per capita was analysed for its role on dietary decisions. A regression model without fixed effect was compared to a regression with fixed effect. Results concluded that other factors such as culture or geographic location play a much bigger role in an individual’s dietary decision
Synthesis and Radical Scavenging Activity of Chromene-Hydrazone Hybrids
Get PDFOxidative stress results from an overabundance of reactive oxygen species in the body, including free radicals, that can damage cells and DNA. Due to the increasing prevalence of oxidative stress-based diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, inflammation, dermatitis, and cancer, there is a growing need for the development of new antioxidants. In this study, sixteen hybrid molecules containing two known antioxidant moieties, hydroxy chromene and hydrazone, were synthesized and evaluated for free radical scavenging activity. Synthesis of the chromene hydrazones was achieved in two steps: 1) base-promoted chromenylation of 2,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde with 3-methylbutenal to yield 2H-2,2-dimethyl-5-hydroxy-6-formylchromene, and 2) condensation of the chromene with substituted benzohydrazides and benzenesulfonyl hydrazide. The hydrazones were purified by column chromatography or recrystallization, and characterized by NMR and IR spectroscopy. The antioxidant capacity of the chromene and chromene hydrazones (0.125 mM) was determined by the DPPH assay. In this assay, the radical diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) is reduced by the antioxidant, resulting in a decrease in absorbance at 515 nm, observed by UV-Visible spectroscopy. Most of benzohydrazone derivatives showed 10-30% radical scavenging activity, compared to butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), which showed 81% inhibition. In contrast, the sulfonylhydrazone derivative showed comparable (77%) activity to BHA
Youth Bulge in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Theoretical Discourse on the Potential of Demographic Dividend vs. Demographic Bomb
Get PDFWith the continued globalization of economies and culture, more development theorists have begun to shift their attention to a generational phenomenon called the youth bulge. This phenomenon has led to literature by political scientists, sociologists, and security theorists who study potential conflict or development for which a youth bulge may ultimately be a catalyst. Traditionally, the majority of youth bulge research has focused on the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. This theoretical discourse focuses on six Sub-Saharan African states that have a present youth bulge and attempts to provide development discussions on three of them. The analysis aims to forecast whether Nigeria, Burundi, and Sudan have a tendency to move towards a demographic dividend or demographic bomb in the future. Content analysis from the lenses of modernization, dependency, and world-systems theory are used while considering the measures of GDP per capita, unemployment of youth, fertility rates, and political stability/ absence of violence