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A Comparative Analysis of Gender Violence
No full textThis week on War News Radio, reporter Anna Weber takes a comparative look at the widespread crisis of femicide in Latin America. Recent protests across the region have sparked new media coverage and legislation in an attempt to combat gender discrimination. Anna interviewed two sexual harassment prevention organizations, one in Peru and one in Argentina, in order to learn their different methods to raise sexual harassment awareness
The Rise of French: An Examination of Latin's Influence upon Middle French through Analysis of Christine de Pizan's Treatises
No full textIn the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the vernacular Middle French began to be used more\ud
extensively as a language of prestige over Latin, which had been overwhelmingly the scholarly\ud
lingua franca as well as the official language in law, politics, medicine, and science. Part of this\ud
linguistic shift involved the elevation of French by latinization practices performed by\ud
translators, clerics, and writers seeking to capture the full meaning of the Latin and impose more\ud
formal structure upon Middle French, as well as to make French into a more serious and\ud
prestigious language. Christine de Pizan, a French author of the late fourteenth and early\ud
fifteenth centuries, provides an excellent case study for the use of Latin to elevate Middle French\ud
as a language of prestige. Sociolinguistically, her choice to write in Middle French over Latin\ud
shows a calculated choice to make her work more accessible to her intended audience of women,\ud
who were literate in the vernacular, but not in Latin. Her use of latinisms, or latinization\ud
processes shows an attempt to elevate her own French so that her writing may be taken seriously\ud
by her academic peers
Ammonia Heat Capacity Data (example problem)
No full textThis is a sample data set for ammonia heat capacity as a function of temperature, used as an example in Appendix B of Joshua Schrier, "Introduction to Computational Physical Chemistry" (University Science Books
Data for Problems—Appendix B, Introduction to Computational Physical Chemistry
No full textThese are datasets for end-of-chapter problems in Appendix B of J. Schrier, "Introduction to Computational Physical Chemistry" (University Science Books
Voices on Climate Change
No full textThis week on War News Radio we bring you two voices: one returning and one new. In order to expand the scope of our work we collaborate with fellow reporters at Yatsani FM in Zambia and are starting to share content from United Nations Radio
Chicana Language and Identity in a Primarily White Institution
No full textPast research has shown that prejudice persists towards speakers of English with an\ud
accent (Lippi-Green 2011), non-standard English dialects (Mendoza-Denton 1999), and even\ud
borrowed words pronounced in their language of origin (Carr 2014). These findings beg the\ud
question: what effect does language discrimination have on day-to-day speech? Furthermore,\ud
very little research has been conducted to understand the speech patterns of individuals in\ud
environments where they are not a part of the majority racial or ethnic population. When these\ud
two factors are combined, the threat to speakers increases as their languages lose value in certain\ud
communities. In this study, I analyze the effect of both of these elements, language prejudice and\ud
social environment, on Chicana speech.\ud
This study explores the language use of a group of four female Mexican-American\ud
students within different spaces at Swarthmore College, an elite, private, small liberal arts\ud
college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. As an academic setting where non-standard dialects are\ud
not always welcome, the menace of language discrimination is present and an issue that\ud
marginalized students often encounter. Despite the obstacles, this group of speakers formed their\ud
own speech community, where they freely employed mixed codes and varieties of Spanglish, in\ud
order to navigate the complexities of their identities through their language.\ud
Building upon previous work, this study specifically analyzes the language use of one\ud
Mexican-American/Chicana speech community, including cod eswitching amongst speakers in\ud
regards to borrowed Spanish words, and the effects of different environments on phonetic\ud
realizations in Chicano/Mexican-American speech. Additionally, this work connects to some of\ud
the deeper issues that their language use reveals - including identity, heritage, and belonging
1997 HOLA Newsletter, Lo De Hola 2
No full textFebruary 1997 HOLA newsletter of IC and HOLA social events, conferences, workshops, academic and contact informatio
Swarthmore and Woodrock Join Together for Drug Resistance Program
No full textNews Article on a symposium held at Swarthmore, hosted by HOLA and featuring high school students from the Woodrock Drug Resistance Progra
1992 Letter to Professor Friedman for Transportation to Kennett Square ESL Program
No full textLetter to Professor Friedman to expand transportation for students to Kennett Square as volunteers in an ESL program for migrant worker