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You don't know how it feels to be me: an exploration of those who belong to online groups and communities dedicated to student loan debt information dissemination and reform
No full textStudent loan debt has become a topic of great economic and social concern. With this debt surpassing 40,000 or less in debt and those who are above $40,000 in debt. This research has uncovered educational attainment differences with those who have less debt having generally earned only a bachelor’s degree whereas those who are more indebted holding master's degrees. Financially, statistical differences are found between yearly gross earnings, monthly savings, percent of monthly income to repay student loan debt, percent of max credit card debt, and FICO score category. Additionally found were differences in reporting to ignore health concerns, in stress levels, and in political behaviors and beliefs. Deeper exploration of these differences suggest that for each group different variables have influenced borrowing, monthly savings, ignoring health, stress levels, and political beliefs and behaviors. Discussion focuses on connections to previous research and explores some of the more unique findings, such as for the more indebted group enrollment in income-based repayment promotes ignoring health concerns. Recommendations and implications focus on the wider contributions to the field and future research suggestions.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01The student, Daniel Collier, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-14 at 09:26.The student, Daniel Collier, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-07-14 at 09:33.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-07-15 at 09:03.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9935 on 2016-11-10 at 12:20:39Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:27:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
The economic impact of College Football Playoff 2016
No full texttableOfContents: Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Study methodology -- 2.1. Survey respondents -- 2.2. Survey creation -- 2.3. Sampling and survey administration -- 2.4. Surveyor training -- 2.5. Survey procedure -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1. Estimation of visitor numbers -- 3.2. Visitor and media expenditure estimates -- 3.3. Organizational spending -- 3.4. Indirect and total economic impact -- 4. National championship game results -- 4.1. Direct visitor and media expenditures -- 4.2. Direct organizational expenditures -- 4.3. Induced economic impact of visitor, media and organizational spending -- 4.4. State, county and local sales tax impact -- 4.5. Total economic impact -- 5. Comparison of National Championship Game (2016) to BCS title game (2011) -- Appendix. A.1. Visitor questionnaireabstract: The 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship Game was held on January 11, 2016, in Glendale, Arizona. The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University was commissioned to conduct an economic impact assessment of the Game and events surrounding it, including the impact of direct and indirect visitor and organizational expenditures. This study utilized multiple research, survey and analytical methodologies. This report will outline the methodologies used and the results obtained in the study and the economic impactResearch Team: Michael Mokwa, Daniel McIntosh, John Eaton, Anthony Evans, and Kent Hil
Sarah Fielding: Satire and Subversion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
No full textThis study of Sarah Fielding (1710―68) is an original contribution to Fielding scholarship that has a dual purpose: to support those who are striving to re-introduce her to the modern literary landscape in an effort to restore her eighteenth-century literary standing, and to firmly establish Fielding as an early feminist writer. It is argued here that throughout her oeuvre Fielding challenged prevailing traditions that denied women a choice, particularly in education, employment and marriage. These themes are also considered in the political treatises of Mary Astell (1666―1731) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759―97), who are now widely recognised as feminist writers.
It is further argued that Fielding’s subversion in fiction of the English patriarchal system is underscored by her unorthodox performance in the literary arena. This is fully explored alongside her use of sentimentalism as a literary tool with which she challenges her seemingly inhumane society. Fielding’s interest in ‘the Labyrinths of the Mind’ (in modern terms, human psychology) will also be addressed as will her placement in the history of feminism and her placement in the sentimental novel tradition. Fielding’s performance as a literary critic will be compared with the few female authors who, like her, dared to publish literary criticism during her writing career. Accordingly, extracts from Fielding’s novels and her two critical pamphlets will be thoroughly examined.
An updated biography of Fielding that is also included here will provide evidence for a further claim, that her fiction is autobiographical in part. A comprehensive account of Fielding’s performance as a literary critic forms the final chapter of this work. It is the first full-length examination of her contribution to the genre and includes an appraisal of her recently unearthed critical pamphlet entitled A Comparison Between the Horace of Corneille and The Roman Father of Mr. Whitehead (1750) that is yet to be formerly attributed to her. Ultimately this study of Fielding will go far beyond what has previously been written about this remarkable eighteenth-century author, particularly regarding her feminist activity
Poetry, Community, Translation
No full textPoetry can unite and estrange us. In this event, poets and translators Vahni Anthony Capildeo, Christian Hawkey and Daniel Tiffany, will read a selection of their poetry and offer their reflections on the proximity and alienation of other people’s voices or even one’s own; on the sense of never quite being at home in language; and on the potential of poetry to open up not only habitable and shareable spaces but also haunted and unbridgeable distances. Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo FRSL is Writer in Residence and Professor at the University of York, an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and Charles Causley Trust Poet in Residence (2022). A Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction, Capildeo’s interests include traditional masquerade, silence, plurilingualism, and the poetics of place. The most recent of their eight books and nine pamphlets are Like a Tree, Walking (2021), which was a Poetry Book Society choice, and Gentle Housework of the Sacrifice(forthcoming). Capildeo is a contributing editor at PN Reviewand a contributing adviser for Blackbox Manifold. Current research (also facilitated by Pembroke College, Cambridge, 2021) centres on silence. Christian Hawkey has written several full-length poetry collections: The Book of Funnels, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Citizen Of (Wave Books), and most recently: Sift (2021). He’s published numerous chapbooks, as well as the widely reviewed and celebrated cross-genre book Ventrakl (2010). A collaborative bi-lingual erasure made with the German poet Uljana Wolf, Sonne from Ort (2013). A selection of Ilse Aichinger’s short prose, Bad Words, translated with Uljana Wolf, appeared in 2019 (Seagull Books). His own work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He is currently at work on a co-translation (with Marouane Zakhir) of two books by the Moroccan philosopher Abdessalam Benabdelali. Daniel Tiffany is the author of six collections of poetry, published variously by Wesleyan, Omnidawn, Noemi, and Action Books. In addition, five volumes of his literary criticism, including Toy Medium (2000) and Infidel Poetics (2009), have appeared over the last two decades, from presses such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago. His translations from French, Greek, and Italian have appeared in various journals, and he is a recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, as well as the author of the entry on ‘Lyric Poetry’ in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
Ms. Neely Terrell, RWWL AUC, March 2012
No full textThis video is a conversation with Ms. Neely Terrell. Ms. Terrell talks about her book, "Super Singles Activate". Anthony Kinsey and Jahnesta Horney, AUC Woodruff Library, are the interviewers
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Rural life in English poetry of the mid-eighteenth century
No full textThis thesis examines several mid-eighteenth century poems, assessing their portrayal of rural life, its literary and historical significance, and the aesthetic and ideological issues it presents. An introductory essay on developments in rural poetry sets the scene for two extended essays. The first essay is a comparative reading of the subject of rural labour in three poems: James Thomson’s The Seasons (1726-44), Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour (1730, 1736) and Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour (1739). The viewpoints of a professional poet (Thomson), a farm labourer (Duck), and a working woman (Collier) are compared in relation to kinds of work all three address as well as to individual labouring subjects. The responses of the three poets to such related issues as folk traditions, forms of charity and other ‘compensations’, are also compared. Some surprising similarities as well as instructive differences are located; and an interesting picture of idealistic and realistic, male-oriented and female-oriented attitudes to labour and labour-related themes emerges
Theoretical Perspectives on Resource Tax Design
No full textThe importance and complexity of petroleum and hard minerals operations is matched by the importance and complexity of finding effective ways to tax them. Many of these challenges arise in other activities too (exhaustibility of deposits being the main exception), but they take such extreme form in relation to resources as to have led to a proliferation of creative instruments and analytical methods. This paper reviews the challenges for tax policy in dealing with the resource sector, the principal instruments used, and some of the central design issues.natural resources, resource taxation, non-renewable resources
Ultrastructure of oligochaete cocoons and polychaete tubes suggest an evolutionary link
No full textDespite divergence of several hundred million years, polychaetes and oligochaetes produce tube-like structures. Specifically, polychaetes secrete protective dwellings and/or brood tubes for reproduction, while oligochaetes secrete egg cases or cocoons. Cocoon secretion in oligochaetes is preceded by hypertrophy of glandular Type-II and Type-III cells in a specialized epithelial region, the clitellum. Histological data from the polychaete Phragmatopoma caifornica identified parapodial cells similar to clitellum Type-II cells that may be responsible for the tube sheath that lines the worm’s “sandcastle” home. Further, tubes and cocoons appear to display similar physical properties. Both remain stable when challenged against thermal extremes of heat and cold, proteases and chaotropic agents. Additionally, ultrastructural aspects of tubes and cocoons appear related. Oligochaete cocoons comprise a fibrous cocoon wall sealed at each end with an operculum (i.e., glue-like plugs). Likewise, the polychaete tube sheath from P. californica comprises fibrous shards similar to that observed in the cocoon secreted by Erpobdella obscura. These observations may suggest that the secretory cells and biomaterials that characterize oligochaete cocoons are transformative, and were derived from an ancestral, tube-dwelling polychaete that acquired the ability to seal the ends of its tube.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Anthony M. Ross
Energy levels increase while survivability decreases as temperature rises across Drosophila species
No full textIn response to changes in temperature, organisms that are adapted to survive cold temperatures implement thermoregulatory systems that adjust their growth, locomotion, reproduction, and other physiological functions. We predict species that have been isolated in an extreme environment will have thermoregulatory and compensatory mechanisms increasing their tolerance to survive adverse conditions. For example, in ice worms, an increase in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels has been associated with cold tolerance. The recycling of Adenosine monophosphate or adenosine monophosphate (AMP) regulates adenosine diphosphate (ADP) levels. Thus, the degradation of AMP by AMP phosphatase (AMPP) and AMP deaminase (AMPD) controls the levels of ATP. We use Drosophila species endemic to different environments to study how changes in temperature affect them. Drosophila species thrive in different environments on the globe, thus providing a system to answer evolutionary questions about temperature adaptation. To test these mechanisms, we used D. melanogaster a temperate, widely distributed species, a D. funebris strain native to Alaska, and D. mojavensis a cactolaphilic species. We measured ATP levels, survivability and mobility of these flies at a diverse range of temperature points. Species-specific differences in tolerance to these abnormal temperatures were observed.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Daniel Anthony Rickett
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