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IC/BCC Bridge Program Report
No full textReport by members of the IC/BCC Coalition in support of reinstating a bridge progra
What's the Deal with Ethnic Studies?
No full textBrochure on Ethnic Studies, describing the discipline, advocating for its adoption, and a collection of existing courses that could count towards a progra
Gender Differences in Human Resource Management
No full textAs women’s presence in the workforce grows, there is more interest in assessing the differences in business decision making between men and women. This study uses unbalanced panel data collected from the Kauffman Firm Survey to examine how gender of business owners affects their human resource management decisions. This study does so in two ways: (1) by examining the effect of gender on providing employee benefits, and (2) by analyzing the effect of gender on tendency to downsize their workforce in bad economic conditions. This paper finds that women owners provide fewer benefits than men. In addition, this paper finds no difference in the downsizing decisions of men and women during economic downturns
Pricing Trend of Brand Name Anticancer Drugs: An Empirical Investigation from the Perspectives of Firm Strategies
No full textIn this thesis, I investigate the trend of prices of the innovative anticancer drugs approved by the FDA from 1996 to 2016. I focus specifically on firms’ long term pricing strategy in response to the market competition. I also study on the firms’ behavior of introducing newer versions as a way to combat generic entry (Duggan and Morton 2006). Using the data on the market list prices from January 1996 to March 2016 on different versions of anticancer drugs, I find that after generic entry, the price of newer version drugs rise significantly faster than the average rise of prices of drugs when first introduced. This study is the first attempt in the economics literature to describe the pricing trend of anticancer drugs
Finding Identity Within Online Communities: A Cyber-Ethnography of FTM YouTubers
No full textThis thesis examines FtM (female to male) transgender YouTubers, their relationships with Internet platforms, with each other, with their bodies, and with mass media. Exploring content uploaded by trans YouTubers, as well as interviews with three YouTubers (Liam Rutz, Chase Ross and Charles Thomy), this thesis examines how the unprecedented modes of presenting and viewing the body through digital self-representation and online community legitimize trans identities. Topics of community, narrative, (self-)representation/archival, vernacular, binaries, accessibility, legitimization, the gendered body in cyberspace, and cyber/auto-ethnography are explored through ethnographic data as well as literature. Findings suggest that self-representational digital media makes trans bodies, identities, and life experiences accessible to both trans and cis individuals
Sex: The Critical Truth - Stories of Rejection, Resistance and Self-Discovery
No full textSexuality. What about it matters so much? Why is it a crucial part of who we are as humans? Why are we defined by it? For this work I set about interviewing people about their sexualities, as well their ideas surrounding sexuality (i.e. heterosexual is the only acceptable sexuality). With a particular focus on non-heterosexual identities and practices, I was particularly interested in understanding the ways that people stick out from “normal” ideas of sexuality and sexual practices and how they navigated through moments of stigmatization or disapproval. The five people I interviewed and their stories make up the body of this work. For, the focus of this thesis, among others, was to empower and give voice to these five, their experiences and identities. But, this thesis also functions as a sustained critique of the way society understands and conceives of sexuality. The experiences of the five demonstrate that sexuality is a critical truth inscribed onto the human body. It acts as a powerful identifier. This Truth is then heavily controlled and regulated by society to ensure deviation from the heterosexual and exclusive path is minimized. Those who deviate from the path can either face a life of “deviance” and “abnormality” or make their own path forward. These paths though varied and unique bring liberation, resistance and self-awareness
Reciprocity and Mutuality of Social Support Across Cultures
No full textWe performed two studies designed to evaluate the effects of reciprocity and mutuality of social support across cultures on satisfaction with a personal close friendship as well as an evaluation of a simulated dialogue between two friends. In Study 1, we examined the role of reciprocity in determining relationship satisfaction, mental health, and self-esteem among European American (EA) and Asian/Asian American (AA) female friend pairs studying at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and the University of Pennsylvania. Each individual completed a series of measures about supportive behavior in the friendship, as well as questionnaires about communal orientation, relationship satisfaction, mental health, and selfesteem. The results indicated that there was a main effect of reciprocity and an interaction of culture such that EA participants were more strongly affected by reciprocity match, in line with previous supportive equity research. Study 2 examined the effect of mutuality on appraisals of support dialogues. Conducted on mTurk with participants from the United States and India, this study consisted of a prerecorded mutual or nonmutual dialogue and a series of evaluation questions, as well as a short narrative about a recent stressor and a series of culturally driven questionnaires such as the communal orientation scale. Results demonstrated supported the hypotheses that the Indians would score higher on measures of communal orientation than EAs and that overall impressions of mutual dialogues would be more favorable than those for nonmutual dialogues. There was found to be a main effect of dialogue support type and an interaction of culture such that EAs were found to be more affected by support type, contradicting the second hypothesis. These results are attributed chiefly to harmony values that are omnipresent in Indian lives
I Am Who They Want Me to Be: The Extent Portrayals of Moses in Film Document the Fragmentation of Institutionalized Religion in the United States
No full textOver the past few years biblical films have seemingly increased following the release of the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Since then, topics ranging from the life of Christ to the life of Noah have gone to the box office, yet some feature very different versions of the narrative they portray on the big screen. With Moses, the character has seen the big screen since 1923 in the United States until recently in 2016. However, the versions of the character differ greatly from each other, with the latter deviating the most from the biblical narrative. This work explores the differences and deviations present, arguing that the character’s evolution in film is a reflection of a fluctuating stance of American unipolarity and a documentation of the fragmentation of institutionalized religion in the United States. Due to the events of the Cold War, the 1956 film The Ten Commandments featured a Moses who was adamant in his values of freedom and empathy, reflecting the beliefs of patriotic Americans as well as documenting the presence of organized Protestantism present to support the conflict against the atheistic Soviet Union. Once that threat no longer existed, signaled with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, globalization began to emerge with the ascent of US hegemony. With the influx of ideas from all over the world as well as the spread of free market standards from globalization, the 1998 film The Prince of Egypt presents a Moses who is conflicted between his past life and his newfound life during a time when new ideas conflicted with old traditions. Furthermore, the spread of free market standards created a culture of consumerism, subjecting religion to the same rules as any other commodity in a free market, thus accelerating its fragmentation even more. The 2016 film Exodus: Gods and Kings portrays a Moses who is not only conflicted but also dubious of the divine, reflecting a time when the culture of consumerism ushered by globalization has turned religion into a selective characteristic. In this, the film and the character embody selective religious elements while portraying the narrative of the Exodus in a rational manner, thus visually presenting a film that embodies the fragmentation of institutionalized religion in the United States. The three characters evolve as American influence changes while also presenting the increasing conflict institutionalized religion faces in a globalized world
Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control: Applications to Economics
No full textIn this paper we will look at both discrete and continuous optimal control. We begin by going over some standard conditions for nding extrema from the calculus of variations. We then introduce constraints that allow us to connect these results to optimal control. Using these tools, we look at economic applications of both continuous and discrete optimal control. We apply continuous optimal control to a consumer's utility maximization problem and discrete optimal control to the Federal Reserve Bank's optimal interest rate policy