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You, Me, and the Unknown: A Creative Exploration Into the Emotions We Feel About What We Don\u27t Understand
Get PDFI\u27ve always found the concept of fear and anxiety to be incredibly fascinating. As someone who grew up with extreme anxiety, I always wanted to rationalize it and figure out exactly why I felt that way. Anxiety is the inherent fear of the unknown and I wanted to know more about why we fear what we don\u27t understand, or in other cases, why we love it. I conducted a research project on our perceptions of the unknown that resulted in an experimental page layout print publication where I shared the participant\u27s views on the unknown through a visual storytelling medium
Our Body-Minds Are Not Apologies: How Systemic Oppression, Beauty Standards & Desirability Politics Impact the Body-Image & Sex Lives of Trans & Non-Binary People with Physical (Dis)abilities
Get PDFDue to the ableism, whiteness, and cisgender-heteropatriarchy in the US, people who are marked by racial, physical, neuro, and gendered differences are stereotypically considered to be less desirable. By applying a perspective informed by Disability Studies, Trans Studies, and Queer of Color Theory (including scholars like Eli Clare, Robert McRuer, Sonya Renee Taylor, Audre Lorde, Sami Schalk, Chris Finley, and Alicia Cox), I investigate how societal norms, beauty standards, and systemic oppression have disproportionately impacted the body-images and sex lives of trans and non-binary people with physical (dis)abilities. This thesis aims to shed light on the variety of ways in which we - as a society - can adapt to resist oppression by centering conversations of pleasure and joy in our lives, despite the ongoing violence and harm that minority groups are subjected to
The Pursuit of Productivity: A Marxist Analysis of How Frederick Winslow Taylor and Dr. W. Irving Clark Revolutionized the American Factory During the Early Twentieth Century
Get PDFIn 1911, two events occurred that laid the framework for a revolution in factory management; Frederick Winslow Taylor published his famous work The Principles of Scientific Management; and The Norton Emery Company hired W. Irving Clark to open a first-of-its-kind medical facility. Clark\u27s work should be understood as an extension of the scientific management that Taylor championed during the turn of the twentieth century. The factory served as a laboratory for men like Clark and Taylor to create new methods for increasing productivity while attempting to overcome contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production. By utilizing the work of Marx to comprehend the capitalist mode of production, this research provides an understanding of the motivations behind the work of Taylor and Clark. Both men were at the forefront of new systems of control which placed knowledge in the hands of management. Though not a well-known figure in the history of industrial medicine, W. Irving Clark was instrumental in the development of the field. By acknowledging his place in the historical record, we are left with a more comprehensive understanding of the development of both American occupational medicine and capitalism
Commercial Property Vacancies in American Cities
Get PDFThis paper examines the alarming impacts of the vacancy phenomenon on commercial properties across American during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase in remote work encourages people to work from home more frequently. This does not only lessen employees\u27 foot traffic to offices, but also disconnects the engagement of consumers and visitors to public areas, such as malls, stores, and other amenities. Many commercial properties have closed, shrunk their operating spaces, or reallocated for safety and security reasons. Reduction in occupancy rate among mentioned properties influences negatively on business owners, their associated partners, residents of the impacted areas, and the city government.
Incorporating evidence from research papers, news articles, and statistics, this study demonstrates the concerns of commercial property vacancies in downtowns and cities. The two noble studies about the Urban Doom Loop and the Donut Effect are two major explanations for the ramifications of surging unoccupied spaces and remote work. Vacancy properties are wasting resources and generating unpleasant outcomes to many business and life aspects. Recommendations and potential regulations have been proposed to improve the economic and social well-being
Talking Yourself Up: Multimodal Conversation Analysis of Status in an Improvised Setting
Get PDFA single-case analysis looked at two individuals performing a scripted exercise during an Applied Improvisational workshop. The analysis examined how performers modify their linguistic and embodied actions in order to perform an assigned status role. The analysis was undertaken to better understand how social status can be constructed in everyday talk-in-interaction. I first outlined the three major theoretical frames that are relevant to the analysis: Applied Improvisation as a pedagogical approach, the use of Conversation Analysis (CA) for the analysis of language in educational contexts, and the concept of status from a sociological perspective. I then present a single-case study, which employed multimodal CA to examine the linguistic strategies utilized in the construction of high and low status in a scripted exercise. The two performers seemed to have similar linguistic behaviors when performing status. Low status role assignments often saw performers producing more pausal phenomena, non-lexical markers, and restarts; and high statue role assignments often led to a greater frequency of creaky voice in utterance-final position. Gestural changes were also analyzed and their relationship to a given status assignment was examined. In the conclusion, the implications of these findings and the potential for improv as a context for future linguistic research are discussed
American Evangelicalism and the Status of Women: Biblical Interpretation, Politicization, and a Future for Secularism
Get PDFAmerican evangelicalism has positioned itself as a dominant force in social policy since the 1970s and has continued to grow over time. During Carter\u27s presidency, the Religious Right, a neoconservative political identity of fundamentalist beliefs, emerged with the intention to homogenize American culture by infusing literal interpretations of biblical Scripture with American exceptionalism. With the help of charismatic leaders like Billy Graham, the political manifestations of American evangelicalism\u27s fundamentalist beliefs have been solidified through conservative legislation and Christian demographic dominance in Congress and the Supreme Court. Women have been particularly burdened by evangelical institutionalization, as access to socioeconomic and political mobility in many regions is dependent on their proximity to Christianity, whiteness, and heterosexuality.
This thesis will first analyze common points of oppression towards women as inspired from biblical interpretations of the Old Testament and the Christian portrayal of God. Then, I will examine the consequences of white American evangelicalism as a dominant political identity on the status of women and their access to social, political, and economic capital. Additionally, it will present various legislative and judicial decisions by state and federal governments rooted in traditionalist doctrine that substantially disenfranchise women, queer and people of color. Last, it will explore the future of evangelicalism and possible avenues of social and political reform to establish a more--or completely--secular state
Native American and First-Nations Canadian and Physical PFAS Accumulations: A Literature Review
Get PDFNative communities\u27 exposure to anthropogenic Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS: Forever Chemicals ) are not demographically or geographically evenly distributed. Those who live near or on contaminated land or water are the most likely to accumulate dangerous amounts of PFAS that may have serious health consequences (Tribal PFAS Working Group 2021). Areas that tend to be most contaminated include landfills, airports, and military bases. Often Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities are placed near these sacrificial zones due to historic and current policies that segregate and marginalize people and families to polluted lands creating great environmental injustices (Dixie). In this thesis I will discuss 14 articles that delve into PFAS bodily accumulations in Native communities North of the 60th meridian in the U.S. and Canada and will come to understand that food and general practices deeply effect PFAS accumulation from community to community. Though there is overlap in some of the data found in this review, generalized understandings about Native peoples\u27 bodily accumulations of PFAS in the region are hard to determine, and should be approached cautiously. I therefore conclude that to truly understand PFAS in Native communities, first-foods, first-medicines, and drinking water need to be tested. Native food, medicine, and water sovereignty should be centered, and Native leadership is paramount
Using an Online Assessment Tool to Teach Authentic Assessment to Early Childhood Teacher Candidates
No full textEarly childhood teacher candidates (TCs) need preparatory experiences using authentic assessments to inform their instructional practices with rural learners and their families. The shift to virtual field placements in response to COVID-19 restrictions pushed faculty in teacher preparation programs to reimagine how to engage TCs in meaningful experiences using authentic assessments with children and families. This study explores how TCs experienced authentic assessment practices using an online assessment management system, Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System Interactive (AEPSi), during virtual field experiences. Fifty-five undergraduate and graduate TCs from 11 universities completed a 45-item survey about their experience. Teacher candidates articulated knowledge and skills aligned with best practices underpinning authentic assessments. The virtual learning environment created opportunities for faculty to reimagine practices for promoting TCs’ understandings of assessment in early childhood special education contexts. We discuss implications for training TCs in rural areas to use authentic assessment
Oregon State Rank Assessment for Chambers\u27 Paintbrush (Castilleja chambersii)
Get PDFOregon state conservation status assessment for Chambers\u27 paintbrush (Castilleja chambersii) using NatureServe methodology, 2024
Rupturing \u3ci\u3eSilence(s)\u3c/i\u3e: Memoir of a Voice
No full textRupturing Silence(s): Memoir of a Voice is a dynamic book-length essay, or a memoir of voice, built of fragments mirroring the snapshots of memory we hold onto in moments of voice and voicelessness. These moments are confined in a conversation of fragmented vignettes portraying the ways in which we are silenced, physiological and psychological reasons for those silences, and their rupture. This project follows the intersections of my interests in science and philosophy, as well as my experiences with cPTSD and neurodivergence. I hope to open a conversation about how we can hold space for the voice, the silence, the blurriness that lives between, and the ways in which we heal from rupture