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Marijuana Legalization and Automatic Criminal Record Expungement
No full textTemple University. College of Liberal ArtsPolitical SciencePPL Policy Briefs provide concise summaries of policy-relevant academic research for policy makers and the public. This brief examines the automatic expungement for marijuana offenses
A Note From the Dean: Remarks Given at Temple Law Review Alumni Reception: Honoring Marcel Pratt, '09, City Solicitor of Philadelphia
No full textTemple University. James E. Beasley School of La
Feeding Temple Town: A Digital Project Exploring Food, Politics, and Community in North Philadelphia
No full textRussell Conwell’s experiment to educate the Philadelphian working man has grown into a massive university that has transformed the physical, social, and cultural environment of its surrounding North Philadelphia community. Temple University has carefully designed itself as an “urban university” and its presence and growth has had significant costs. Displacement, gentrification, and urban renewal projects have altered the neighborhood to make way for Temple. The relationship between university administration, students and faculty, and community members is negotiated through different avenues, one of which is through food. Food reflects class, culture, gender, labor, urbanization, and it acts as a unique lens into the negative and positive aspects of the new cultural landscape Temple has crafted. The stories shared in this project seek to highlight the hidden narratives that contribute to more visible events. It uncovers hidden labor, the importance of space, and the voices of protest. From the early stages of university development in the 1880s and heavier community presence to the modern-day food trucks, looking at the foodscape in Temple Town will demonstrate how the university and its students interact with the community and culture of Philadelphia and contribute to the image of an urban university. This digital project seeks to create an informative website that explores stories surrounding food on Temple’s campus using archival sources and oral histories. This paper concludes with a reflection and exploration of the next phases of the project.
Website link: https://sites.temple.edu/feedingtempletown/Histor
“Temples fit for Thee”: The Interplay of Holy Space, Time, Actions, and People in George Herbert’s \u3ci\u3eThe Temple\u3c/i\u3e
No full textIn contrast to previous academic work that focuses on one aspect of the temple image, this study will demonstrate that an understanding of Herbert’s worldview, specifically his theology with particular attention to the biblical image of temple, illuminates the interplay of temple images in The Temple in a way that embraces the beauty and intricacy of the work as a whole. The study begins by examining Herbert’s religious and literary milieu, continues by exploring the various biblical images of temple that include the tabernacle, Old Testament temple, Jesus as temple, Christians as temples both individually and corporately, and the fulfillment of the temple at the end of time, and concludes by demonstrating the continuity within these images as shown in Herbert’s poetry through the use of four categories common to all these temple images: space, time, actions, and peopl
An Architectural Investigation into the Relationship between Doric Temple Architecture and Identity in the Archaic and Classical Periods.
No full textThe predominant approach to the study of Doric temple architecture during the twentieth century has been the evolution model, which connects a temple’s design directly with its date of construction (Dinsmoor 1950; Lawrence 1996). Thus, the model allows temples to be dated to distinct decades, based upon their ‘key’ proportions, such as the length of the plan. B.A. Barletta’s (2011: 629) recent article entitled State of the Discipline: Greek Architecture discussed the need for constant reassessment of the proportions of Doric temples and their chronology, particularly in light of recent discoveries and new publications, suggesting that a reconsideration of the evolution model was now required.
In the same article, Barletta (2011: 630) discussed the growing trend amongst classical archaeologists towards analysing the social role of temples. With the exception of the temple sculpture, which has generally been studied separately (Marconi 2007; Østby 2009; Maggidis 2009: 92-93), the move towards a social understanding of the temple has had little effect upon the study of the buildings’ designs. Although a number of studies have begun to investigate the role of architectural design in conveying meaning (Snodgrass 1986; Østby 2005), the studies are limited, both chronologically and geographically, by the constraints of the evolution model.
Given the ‘mathematical’ image of classical architecture studies, and the subject’s “current lack of academic popularity” (Snodgrass 2007: 24), it is perhaps not surprising that a review of the evolution model and the social role of architectural design are long overdue. To this end, this study re-analyses the connection between date and design, demonstrating that a temple’s design was not entirely controlled by the date of its construction. Rather, temple design was affected by the sub-regional inter-group competition which was so prevalent in sanctuaries during the archaic and classical periods and the expression of identity on behalf of the different dedicatory groups
Prepping for PrEP: A Qualitative Study of HIV Service Providers’ Experiences in working with Women Who Inject Drugs (WWIDs)
No full textPurpose/Hypothesis: Women who inject drugs (WWIDs) are at elevated risk for HIV due to myriad factors including injecting drugs and engagement in sex work. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can reduce HIV risk when taken-daily and is indicated for use in this population. Few studies have explored barriers and facilitators to PrEP use in WWIDs despite the medication’s harm-reducing potential. As such, this study explored the perspectives of HIV service providers on PrEP care in WWIDs at a community-based syringe exchange. Methods: A purposeful sample of 10 HIV-service providers of WWIDs at a Philadelphian syringe exchange were interviewed. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim. Transcripts were read to develop a coding schema, coded, and analyzed by thematic analysis using the qualitative software, DeDoose. The Temple University IRB approved this study protocol number 25028. Results: Most participants were female (n=6), half were white, 20% were black, 20% Hispanic/Latinx, and 10% were multi-racial. Interviewees had a high-level understanding of harm reduction efforts in serving WWIDs. Barriers to PrEP for WWIDs included homelessness, gender stigmas, low socioeconomic status, mistrust in healthcare, PrEP and HIV misinformation. WWIDs can be empowered by emboldened patient-provider relationship, which may improve access and adherence to PrEP. To achieve empowerment, recommendations included bundling PrEP care with other services and female-focused events that may reduce HIV, PrEP, and help-seeking stigmas. Conclusions: Providers reported many barriers to PrEP use in WWIDs. Access barriers may be surmounted by linking PrEP-services with other health- and social services within a community-facing organization. PrEP adherence may improve when patients are empowered to surmount stigmas through PrEP education.Temple University. College of Public HealthSocial and Behavioral Science
From temple to house-church in Luke-Acts: a Lukan challenge to Korean Christianity
No full textThis dissertation examines the portrayals of the Temple, synagogue, and
house-churches in Luke-Acts to pose a Lukan challenge to the Korean church by using
a model of architectural space which is derived from social-scientific ideas originating
in anthropology, sociology and social psychology. The dissertation proposes the
relevance of the Lukan house-church to the Korean church today so as to transform
the latter's character in its architecture and use of space into the inclusive and
missionary one which is featured in Luke-Acts. The argument of the dissertation
begins with an exploration and defence of social-scientific method (Chapter 1).
Chapter 2 begins with a history and analysis of Korean Christianity which raises
problem surrounding its use of architectural space, before setting out a socialscientific
model of architectural space, which is then applied to contemporary Korean
church architecture. Challenging current understandings of a positive Lukan attitude
toward the Temple, this study proposes in Chapter 3 that Luke had a negative
understanding of the Temple in that it was an oppressive institution characterised by
segmented spaces which divided the people of God and thus showed its illegitimacy in
relation to the saving plan of God in Jesus. The dissertation next proposes in Chapter
4 that first-century synagogues were subsidiary Temple spaces which were extended
to most parts of Mediterranean world from the central sanctuary in Jerusalem, and that
Luke portrays the synagogues as similar to the Temple. Contrary to the Temple and
synagogue, the house in Luke-Acts expresses the inclusive salvation of the gospel
which incorporates a variety of people regardless of social status, gender, age and
ethnic origin (Chapter 5). In this interpretation, the house-church is represented as an
inclusive space accessible without institutional constraints. In the Gospel, it serves to
express the Kingdom of God into which sinners are invited to enter through meals and
to be incorporated into a fictive-kinship group created by Jesus. In Acts, the house is
not only a locus of Christian meetings in which the social relationships, characteristic
of family, are practised to enhance and legitimise the social identity of Jesus'
followers, but also the modus operandi of Christian mission through which the Christ-movement
spreads throughout the Mediterranean world. This study concludes with an
Epilogue containing brief suggestions for changes in Korean church architecture and
use of space based on these Lukan insights, which have the potential radically to
transform Korean Protestant Christianity
Essay: Will America Reinvent Itself? The Patent Pendulum And Patent Reform In 2011
No full textTemple University. James E. Beasley School of La
Examining the Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Neural Responses to Executive Control
No full textPrevious research has shown that neighborhood disadvantage is strongly associated with internalizing behaviors, or negative behaviors directed towards oneself (Leventhal & Brooks-Gunn, 2000). Such behaviors have also been linked to altered neural responses during executive control as well as abnormalities within the anterior cingulate cortex (Karlsgodt et al., 2017; Marusak et al., 2016). However, it remains unclear whether neural responses during executive control mediate the effects of the neighborhood environment on internalizing behaviors. To investigate this issue, we used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD Study), which contains longitudinal assessments of brain and behavior from over 10000 adolescents (N = 11876). We hypothesized that neural responses to executive control mediate the effect of the environment on internalizing behaviors, providing insights into the underlying mechanisms of these associations. The primary region of interest was the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), a key region for executive control and working memory. We used data from the stop-signal task, which measures inhibitory control and captures dynamic responses within the executive network. Results indicate that there is an association between neighborhood disadvantage and internalizing behaviors even when accounting for any mediation, but the dACC itself does not mediate this relationship. This approach aims to deepen the understanding of how environmental factors and brain activity intersect to influence adolescent mental health.Temple University. College of Science and TechnologyBiolog
Transformation and growth : the Davidic temple builder in Ephesians
No full textThe focus of this thesis is on the way in which the theology of the author of the Epistle to the Ephesians is both shaped by and shapes the appropriation of OT texts and themes, especially in Eph 2:11-22. This reveals an overarching theme, not only in 2:11-22, but in the whole letter, of the Davidic scion who builds his new temple consisting of Jews and Gentiles together. The creation and growth of this new humanity is expressed using temple imagery and by appropriating OT texts that are concerned with the eschatological pilgrimage of the Gentiles to Zion.
Ephesians is concerned with the transformed walking that is inherent to membership of the Messiah’s people. It is further concerned that this corporate entity should function as God’s dwelling place on earth; unity and loving relationships therefore being the burden of Ephesians’ paraenesis. This entire process is summed up at the gateway to the letter’s paraenesis in the phrase “learn the Messiah.” The discipleship thus conceived is about much more than (but not less than) individual transformation. The temple/dwelling place theme imparts a corporate dimension to growth that is crucial if the Messiah’s people are to function as they ought. This functioning is given further definition, however, by the expansionist element introduced by the temple theme and texts, as well as the framing of membership of the Messiah’s people in explicitly covenantal terms.
Ephesians may thus be seen as a letter whose purpose is to induct believers into the privileges and responsibilities of the Messiah’s new humanity, to give them the self understanding that they constitute corporately the new temple and to convince them that the manner of their “walking” is the means by which the unity and integrity of God’s dwelling place is both expressed and maintained
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