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Paul Williams: The Cage Mix
No full textDemystifying a largely misunderstood chapter in John Cage\u27s biographical narrative, this article explores the pivotal role architect and philanthropist Paul Williams played in Cage\u27s life, and for whom Cage named his famous magnetic tape composition Williams Mix (1952-53). Retracing the activities of both men, beginning with their earliest encounter at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1948, this investigation documents for the first time the extent of their mutually devoted relationship. Newly uncovered source material and photographs also reveal the valuable contributions Williams made as primary benefactor and mastermind of the intentional community called the Gatehill Cooperative (a.k.a. Stony Point), a place Cage called home for seventeen years (1954-71). There Cage developed a hunger for nature, wrote his widely read and influential book Silence (1961), and undertook some of his most significant musical projects
Nurses’ Perceptions of Caring for Jamaican Seasonal Workers on Mackinac Island, Michigan
Get PDFNurses of rural Mackinac Island, Michigan face challenges when providing nursing care for Jamaican seasonal workers. The Mackinac Island Medical Center offers emergency health care services to residents and seasonal workers of Mackinac Island, Michigan. However, the Island is limited in resources and nursing staff. There is little knowledge and research into exploring the perceptions and experiences of nurses caring for this unique culture of Jamaican seasonal workers. A project was developed to explore perceptions of local nurses that may lead to improved nursing care and policy change within the Mackinac Island Medical Center. A survey was created through SurveyMonkey to include open-ended questions about nurses caring for Jamaican seasonal workers at the Mackinac Island Medical Center. Data gathered from the survey was analyzed using constant comparative analysis. The analysis of data gathered from
SurveyMonkey resulted in three major themes. The three major themes include the following: Living conditions of Jamaican seasonal workers, Nursing challenges caring for Jamaican seasonal workers, and Improvements needed for nursing care of Jamaican seasonal workers. Eight sub-themes emerged from the major themes as the following: 1) Visa work status. 2) Medical chronic conditions. 3) Sub-standard housing of workers. 4) Workers lack of insurance and ability to pay. 5) Impact of cultural beliefs on nursing care. 6) Workers communication barriers. 7) Financial assistance needed. 8) Health education interventions needed
Women in Ukiyo-e
Get PDFKitagawa Utamaro’s Edo period prints (approx. 1770-1800) frequently feature prostitutes from Edo\u27s officially licensed entertainment and pleasure ward. These prints were by no means portraits—instead, they were closer to advertisements for the pleasure district. Utamaro erased individuality from these women, placing them into stereotypical roles or personalities to appeal to potential customers of the ward. Utamaro glamorizes the life of courtesans for profit; and in this blatant objectification of women, the stories of these women are lost and glossed over. Who were these women, and what did their daily life actually look like? How does Utamaro betray this in his idealized depictions
THE KNOCKDOWN OF RAB8 AND RAB11 PROTEINS ON THE TRAFFICKING OF DENGUE VIRUS AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS ON PUBLIC HEALTH
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The Multigenerational Transmission Process of Healing Social Cultural Wounds within the Black community: A Comprehensive Analysis
Get PDFThis article examines the multigenerational transmission process of healing social cultural wounds within the black community. A comprehensive research analysis of slavery, racial trauma and racism along with the events surrounding their existence in our contemporary society are explored. Revealed throughout this framework are the theories literature has posited as solutions to racial wounds such as the ‘black self-concept’, ‘Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome,’ ‘Bowen’s Multigenerational Transmission Process,’ ‘racialized disease narrative’ and the introduction of the “social cultural wounds’ concept. 15 recommendations are suggested for addressing the racial healing work within individual, institutional, and systemic healing. Current theory, models, scales assessment and guides that address the treatment of racial trauma are given as guides for clinicians to engage in deep cultural competence work
Gateways for Transformation
Get PDFBig life transitions, typically resulting from loss, can cause physical, emotional, and behavioral problems. Using a heuristic methodology, this article answers the question: Given polyvagal theory, how can yoga and depth psychology combine to support clients to make transitions more easily? Polyvagal theory hypothesizes that the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve, impacts impact many parts of the body related to physical and mental health. Breathing helps the vagus nerve function properly along with self-regulation, homeostasis, and the social engagement system. Yoga and depth psychology recognize the continuous cycles of life that exist in nature, the constancy of change, the aspects of the person that are unchanging, and the ability of both client and therapist to witness it all. To demonstrate the utility of combining yoga and depth psychology to heal the pain of transitions, a therapeutic program was developed and depicted graphically
Ignatian Leadership and Place-Based Learning
No full textIn An Ignatian Method of City Dwelling (2011) John M. Staudenmaier, SJ notes that “Ignatius teaches that prayer is geographical at its core.” On his own journey of leadership, Ignatius himself learned much about the lives of others, and of himself, through the particular places he visited (often for much longer than he intended). By focusing on a specific geography, place-based community engagement can foster Ignatian leadership as it encourages faculty, staff and students to journey with a community in their own home. Because this unique way of engaging the community emphasizes depth of engagement over breadth, it is an opportunity to better understand the history, future and current reality of a neighborhood, and to allow that place to transform one’s self. Place based learning encourages us to see a place with new eyes and discover important aspects of what it means to be an Ignatian leader with others
Ignatian Leadership in the Undergraduate Curriculum and Classroom
No full textThis article: (a) describes the (Ignatian) Leadership Minor structure and curriculum for undergraduates at Creighton and (b) suggests how to embed principles of Ignatian leadership into undergraduate classrooms whether or not “leadership” is the explicit focus. First, I explain how the Leadership Minor was created specifically to embrace Ignatian Leadership and describe the required courses in terms of their learning objectives and related assignments. Second, I illustrate how principles of Ignatian leadership could be used in other undergraduate classrooms, offering additional units including Ignatian Charisms, the Examen, Downward Mobility/Living Simply, and Discernment that includes a “Personal Manifesto” based on Pedro Arrupe’s Fall in Love and Dean Brackley’s vocation to love and serve
Parental Nutrition Health Literacy
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Parental Nutrition Health Literacy and Children’s Health
Problem: The problem identified in the following study is that overweight and obesity is associated with comorbidities that contribute to chronic diseases such as depression, decreased academic performance, type 2 diabetes, cardiac disease and others (Allesio, 2018; Barlow & Expert Committee, 2007). Demographics reveal obesity prevalence among children and adolescents to be 18.9% in the lowest income group, 19.9% in the middle-income group, and 10.9% in the highest income group (CDC, 2018). School and home environments are especially influential in affecting school-age children’s health behaviors (Luesse, Paul, Koch, Contendo, & Marsick, 2018). The PICO question is, “Will the nutrition literacy of parents of school age children in a low- and a high-income community be improved after a nutrition education intervention?”.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify trends in nutrition health literacy among parents of diverse backgrounds. The trends identified may assist in the direction of future studies in order to implement tools that will improve the nutrition knowledge of parents. This information will translate into practices that will benefit the nutritional health status of their children. If these healthy practices are implemented into the family routine, the children will reduce their basis for chronic diseases that are nutrition related and that begin early in development.
Goals: The goal is to improve the nutrition literacy of parents because health literacy of parents is directly related to their BMI’s and this is predictive of their children’s BMI’s (Morrison, Power, Nicklas &Hughes, 2013).
Objectives: The objectives of the project include the use of a nutrition literacy survey (NLit), with known validity and reliability to assess if an education intervention improved nutrition literacy of parents. By implementing nutrition education to parents, they will have increased awareness of the health consequences of poor nutritional behaviors.
Plan: The plan is to provide and advocate for nutrition literacy programs for parents in all communities through public venues in cooperation with community partners, especially in at-risk areas.
Outcomes and Results: The pre-and post-nutrition education intervention surveys were analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics that were run using IBM SPSS software. There was an aggregate sample of 30 obtained for the study. The outcome and results of this study are very positive based on the statistical analysis generated. The paired-sample t-test of the aggregate samples shows a pre-and post-intervention mean of correct answers of 30.12 and 34.27, respectively with a sig. (two-tailed) p-value of .000. We reject the null hypothesis for the aggregate group. H0: (t=-2.752, p=.000). This indicates that the means are statistically different and there was an improvement in overall nutrition-literacy scores after the nutrition education intervention. Individual results from each group show improvement in the post-education intervention surveys as well. The Cronbach’s alpha statistic was .929 for the study which indicates excellent internal consistency
A BACKBONE ORGANIZATION FOR DENVER BASED ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS 5280 FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Get PDFEnvironmental injustices in Denver follow the same patterns that are seen throughout the country, which is that low-income People of Color are, relative to White people, disproportionately impacted by poor air and water quality, food deserts, displacement, and a phenomenon known as urban heat islands. The literature review conducted for this proposal revealed that despite the 2019 U.S Census Bureau indicating that Denver is 80.9 percent White, 29 percent Latino, and 10 percent Black, neighborhoods with predominantly Black and Latino residents are the neighborhoods experiencing environmental injustices in Denver.
For this project proposal, a literature review was conducted along with interviews with three Denver-based environmental organizations and one backbone organization based out of Boulder. Interwoven into this project design are also observations that the author has made as the result of being born and raised in Denver, the author’s experiences completing a field placement with the backbone organization that was consulted with for this project, and observations made by the author while working in two of the neighborhoods that have been indicated as being at high risk for becoming urban heat islands.
Denver has numerous environmental organizations with individual mission statements, but ultimately these organizations want Denver to be an environmentally healthy city for its current residents and future generations. In the nonprofit sector, both throughout the country and in Denver, individual organizations often work on large-scale systemic issues and then report on their progress as individual entities. Collective impact represents a paradigm shift for the nonprofit sector’s traditionally more individualistic approach to solving problems. A collective impact initiative brings partners from multiple sectors together to solve large scale systemic issues, such as environmental justice issues. Brining partners from multiple sectors together is critical because systemic problems are the result of multiple sectors. A collective impact initiative brings key actors and their expertise together to solve the problem at hand.
This project proposal concerns the creation of an organization called 5280 for Environmental Justice (5280 EJ), which is a backbone organization, designed to support a collective impact initiative in Denver whose mission would be to end environmental injustices in Denver. 5280 EJ will work as the nervous system that supports and brings together partners from multiple sectors to mobilize and advocate for systemic change in order to put an end to Denver’s environmental racism