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DeAngelo Garner Interview
No full textDeAngelo Garner (Class of 2019; M.S. 2019) was interviewed by Sriya Reddy via the Zoom internet-based video conferencing software on July 11, 2020. He was born in Portland, Oregon and moved to Dallas as a 2-year-old. Mr. Garner grew up in a quiet neighborhood with his older sister and parents in the suburb of Plano. His parents were in the ministry and he is a third-generation pastor child. Therefore, religion plays a large role in his life. His older sister went to SMU and this influenced his decision to go there as well. Mr. Garner went to SMU for both his undergraduate degree with majors in Corporate Communications & Public Affairs (CCPA) and Public Relations at the Meadows School of the Arts, and for his Master's of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) at the Cox Business School. He describes multiple professors who were his mentors, including Sandra Duhe, Steven Lee, and Owen Lynch. While at SMU, he participated in an internship with Dr. Lynch that addressed food insecurity in Dallas directly with community leaders. He also highlighted the influence of his Spanish professor, Angie Nozaleda; Kim Commerato, from whom he learned hands-on consulting experience; and Ebony Nelson, his academic advisor. Garner lived in the Service House, which he loved, and was in Rotunda Scholars, Mustang Bridge, the Voices of Inspiration Gospel Choir, and Student Senate. He also was a Resident Advisor, orientation leader and student director, along with other activities and jobs on campus. Although he did not experience significant racism himself, Mr. Garner described how racism affected other Black students along with how he was perceived by the SMU Police Department. Two of his biggest challenges were navigating his degree financially, with changing tuition packages, while working one or more jobs, and meeting academic requirements due to a confusing curriculum. He spoke highly of the MSBA program, during which he worked as a graduate assistant in Residence Life. He entered the job market during the COVID-19 pandemic and, at the time of the interview, had started a consulting business in conflict management as well as brand/content management, and moved to Portland
Correlates of Inter-Generational Transmission of Intimate Partner Violence
Get PDFIntimate partner violence is a prevalent phenomenon plaguing society, with its negative effects being propagated from one generation to the next. The author hypothesized that there exists a qualitative correlation between male children who witnessed adult males perpetrate violence against females in childhood and subsequent adult onset perpetration of violence against women. After conducting a meta-analysis of 44 peer-reviewed articles, the author found that: (a) children who witnessed interparental IPV manifested increased disturbed behaviors as well as cognitive and emotional impairment corresponding to the severity and frequency of the episodes witnessed; and (b) men who witnessed parental IPV were more likely to perpetrate IPV in their intimate relationships and have more positive attitudes towards abuse
Penn-Jersey Urban Peregrine Partnership Kid's Book
No full textThis activity booklet was developed as part of the educational component of the Penn-Jersey Urban Peregrine Partnership. Its main purpose is to promote awareness and increase understanding of the pergrine falcom's struggle for survival. The games, activities, and coloring pages are designed for children ages 3-10.A cooperative project between the NJDEP Division of Fish, Game, and Wildlife's Endangered and Nongame Species Program and Pennsylvania Game Commission and Pennsylvania Wild Resource Conservation Fund, through a grant by the William Penn Foundation
Becoming Jane: Subject and Narrative Formation through the Language of Suicide and Marriage in Charlotte Brontë’s *Jane Eyre*
No full textEnglish Department Honors Thesis.Scholars have understood Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a quintessential female Bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel, as ultimately a conservative work, since the marriage at the end of the novel appears to subsume and domesticate the rebellious, feminist actions of the eponymous protagonist. As both a Bildungsroman and a fictional autobiography, the novel, published in 1847, tracks the psychological development and maturation of Jane that allows her to become a productive citizen and the author of her own story. From the beginning of the novel, Jane is aware that she must actively cultivate herself as a subject to establish her place in society. This awareness complicates the conservative understandings of the novel, because it compels Jane to develop her narrative abilities so that she can determine her own fate and suggests that Victorian women can do the same. Both as the narrator and the protagonist, Jane uses language to differentiate herself from the “other” and to redefine what constitutes success and failure in her life. More specifically, she uses the language of suicide and marriage to describe failed and successful processes of development for herself and other characters throughout the novel, demonstrating her awareness of these developmental processes. Jane’s self-conscious development as both a subject and a narrator parallels Brontë’s blending of the Bildungsroman and autobiography. By tracking Jane’s development as both a subject and a narrator and demonstrating Jane’s awareness of this process through the narration of her own story, Brontë provides a model for Victorian women to assert themselves by becoming the authors of their own lives.College of Arts and ScienceVanderbilt UniversityEnglish Departmen
PENGUKURAN KUALITAS AUDIT: SEBUAH ESAI
Get PDFThis paper discusses audit quality issue. The issue becomes importantafter the fall of Andersen accounting firm, which is one of the biggestinternational accounting firms. To define audit quality, the author uses twoprimary dimensions from DeAngelo (1981b): competency and independency. Butunlike DeAngelo’s market approach, the author uses actual competency andindependency.Another issue is unit of analysis. Researchers should separate the workquality of an accounting firm and that of an auditor. This separation implies thatif competency is assumed to be constant, auditors working in big and smallaccounting firms are different only in terms of independency.It does not mean that this paper is complete enough to support auditingresearches to understand the whole audit quality measurement problem. Thepaper is expected to guide future researches examining audit quality byconsidering weaknesses of the existing measurement tools
Exploring the Intersection of Creative Practice Development and Second Language Acquisition in Adult Artists Professionally Connected to Seattle
Get PDFArtists’ voices are disproportionately being excluded from international discourse because current English language education does not adequately serve this population of learners. This study was conducted as a catalyst for inquiry into the most effective ways artists acquire English so as to inform the development of curricula and programs to address their language learning needs. This study’s theoretical framework is created by Long’s (1981) interaction hypothesis and Skehan’s (1996) theory of task-based learning. The author proposes that artists’ English language learning experiences would be more fruitful if they were patterned after the interactions to which they are accustomed in their professional art-making world as well as if they are centered around tasks that are also familiar from their professional training and practice. Piaget’s (1973) theory of social constructivism informed the methodology of this study.
Data was collected from six adult artists through participatory interviews. Participating artists originate from France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine. Their disciplines include glass sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, digital graphics, performance, sculptural installation work, and music. Results of the study support the author’s hypothesis. Participants described their most effective language learning experiences to be those in which they engaged with the language to reach artistic goals and engage in community. These experiences provide substantial motivation, transferability, and background knowledge to create a fertile context for language acquisition. The author’s conclusions suggest, among other things, that further research needs to be done to extend the scope of application of the results
A survey of blockholders and corporate control
Get PDFThe author surveys the empirical literature on large-percentage shareholders in public corporations, focusing on four key issues: the prevalence of blockholders; the motivation for block ownership; the effect of blockholders on executive compensation, leverage, the incidence of takeovers, and a wide range of corporate decisions; and the effect of blockholders on firm value. A central finding of this study is that there is little reason for policymakers or small investors to fear large-percentage shareholders in general, especially when the blockholders are active in firm management.Stockholders ; Corporate governance
Earnings management and corporate social responsibility
Get PDFBy drawing on stakeholder-agency theory and the earnings management framework, we
hypothesize a positive connection between corporate social responsibility and earnings
management. We argue that earnings management damages the interests of stakeholders.
Hence, managers who manipulate earnings can deal with stakeholder activism and vigilance
by resorting to corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices. Furthermore, CSR is a
powerful tool that can be used to garner support from stakeholders and, therefore, provides
an avenue for entrenchment to those managers that manipulate earnings, so as to reduce
significantly their chances of being fired. Finally, we expect that the positive connection
between corporate social responsibility and financial performance is negatively moderated
when combined with earnings management practices. We demonstrate empirically our
theoretical contention by making use of a database comprising 593 firms from 26 nations for
the period 2002-2004
Corporate governance and equity prices : evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Get PDFThe 1992 Czechoslavakia mass privatization program involving about 1,500 eneterprises and implemented through a voucher scheme with competitive bidding was a bold step in changing the ownership and governance of a large part of the economy. It represents a clear test case of one approach, and other countries may benefit from its lessons. At the time, much skepticisism was voiced about mass privatization: it would lead to diffuse ownership, and no effective corporate governance would result. But innovative forces led to the emergence of investment funds that collected much of the individuals'voucher points, leading to a much more concentrated ownership structure. It has been expected that this concentrated ownership would lead to improved corporate governance. But the jury is still out. So far, only limited and largely anecdotal evidence is available on the impact investment funds have on the way firms are being managed. Too little time has passed and too many shocks have occurred (for example, the split of the Czech and Slovak Republics) to expect to find discernible changes in corporate governance on measures of actual firm performance. An alternative approach is to investigate whether firms that ended up with more concentratedownership -- and possibly improved governance -- sell for higher prices, either in the last voucher round or in the secondary market since then. In a forward-looking financial market, one can expect prices to incorporate the effects of better ownership on future firm performance and associated dividends to shareholders. Put differently, one would expect that two firms with different shareholding structures, but otherwise identical, would trade at different prices -- with the firm with a more concentrated ownership, and presumably better corporate governance, trading at a higher price. On a cross-sectional basis, ownership structure may thus be significant in explaining (relative) share prices. The author explores this line of reasoning. Controlling for a number of firm and sector-specific variables: he finds: 1) Majority ownership by a domestic or foreign investor has a positive influence on firm prices. 2) Firms with many small owners have lower prices. 3) Ownership by many small scale investors makes it easier for any single investor to establish effective control, but such control does not necessarily translate into higher prices. The author also provides two possible explanations of why higher prices appear to be associated only with majority ownership by a single investor: he finds: 1) The corporate legal framework and the difficulty in collecting proxy votes in the Czech and Slovak Republics may prevent a small investor from making the necessary changes in the way firms are managed, thus keeping prices low; and 2) Commercial banks are both managers of invesment funds and creditors of individual firms. Funds managers may face conflicts of interest and not be interested in increasing the value of equity alone but also the value of credits. This could explain why prices are relatively lower for those firms in which investment funds have effective control.Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Environmental Economics&Policies,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research
A Review of Omacetaxine: A Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatment Resurrected
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