Moving Toward Global Feminism: Consciousness of Borders and Implementing Angry Feminism

In this Thesis, I argue that in order to get to global feminism, there must be a consciousness of borders, such as racism, islamophobia, sexism, etc, and there must be an implementation of angry feminism to combat patriarchal systems. In Chapter One: Moving Toward A More Global Feminism, I introduce theorists Said, Djebar, Spivak, and Mohanty, to lay the groundwork for understanding those borders. In Chapter Two: Under The Western Gaze: An Example of One Arab-American Woman\u27s Experience in the United States, I examine Laila Lalami\u27s The Other Americans and apply the theorists\u27 ideas from Chapter One: Moving Toward A More Global Feminism. In Chapter Three: Angry Feminism in the Arab World: An Inspiration for Women in the United States, I argue that feminist activists in the Arab world are making great strides toward global feminism, and their activism and implementation of what I term angry feminism can be inspirational for women living in the United States. In order to get to a more global form of feminism, borders must be transcended and anger must move to the forefront

Comparison of avian and non-avian reptile digestion on small mammal remains and the implications for palaeoecological interpretations.

Small mammals are a uniquely important group in understanding paleoecology due to their restricted habitat and sensitivity to changing environments. The use of small mammal fossils has been widely documented in taphonomical and paleontological research, mainly in the form of owl pellet analysis. However, few studies have focused on other animal clades, though a small number have examined digestive damage due to mammals and reptiles. Research presented here examines digestive modification of small mammals caused by various species of snakes, a previously unresearched taxa, compared to previous work done on owl pellets. This study lays out a systematic approach for sample collection from snake remains as well as detection and characterization of digestion modification using stereo microscopy. Comparisons of snake remains to owl remains shed light on community dynamics in ancient small mammal assemblages. Preliminary analysis of owl pellets and snake fecal remains suggest a significant difference in the destructive capacity between the two digestive systems with snakes causing extreme modification and owls causing light modification

Barriers and Facilitators to the Recruitment of Underrepresented Populations in Health Research: A Narrative Review

Aims: To identify barriers and facilitators to recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations into health research and propose evidence-based strategies to attenuate the barriers and foster the facilitators. Background: Health promotion research is designed to identify sustainable strategies that enable people to live a healthier lifestyle. To identify strategies that are effective for a diverse group of people, research must include a diverse sample that is representative of the population. Researchers frequently struggle with recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in healthcare research, yet without adequate representation, identification of effective health promotion strategies is lacking. Methods: PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases were searched to identify literature regarding recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations into health-related research. Results: A total of 13 quantitative and qualitative articles were reviewed. The primary barriers to recruitment and retention included mistrust of researchers, lack of communication, and inadequate representation of the underrepresented population among the research team. Facilitators included development of community partnerships, benefits for self and community, and involvement in planning of the research. Conclusions: Evidence-based strategies that address barriers and facilitators to underrepresented populations’ participation in health research should be addressed to promote recruitment and retention. Relevance to clinical practice: The findings guide the development of strategies as researchers plan health promotion and disease prevention interventions for underrepresented populations

Investigating Diatom Community Dynamics in Tobler Creek: A Recovering Agricultural Stream on Milledgeville’s Beloved Andalusia Farm

Protecting the biological and ecological integrity is one of the major goals of the Clean Water Act. Agricultural processes can degrade stream ecosystem health by introducing nutrients, causing tolerant taxa to proliferate and outcompete sensitive taxa. Reference streams serve as comparisons to streams with questionable ecological status, with reference criteria being set based off of the 25th percentile of streams per ecoregion. Middle Georgia falls within region IV and ecoregion IX, with criteria set for total phosphorus and total nitrogen as 0.037 mg/L and 0.69 mg/L, respectively. Diatoms, a group of algae with cell walls composed of glass, serve as sensitive bioindicators which respond to varying environmental conditions. In this study, our study site is Tobler Creek, on the site of Andalusia Farm. Andalusia Farm served as a 41- hectares cotton plantation to cattle farm to hay farm and finally was donated as a museum in 1980. In 2022, it was declared a National Historic Landmark by the National Parks Services. Based on water quality monitoring in 2011, Tobler Creek did not meet reference criteria for nutrients, but did in 2022. Diatom community metrics showed significant increase in water quality in response to nutrient recovery. Additionally, diatom-specific metrics indicated increase of tolerant taxa to degradation driven by sedimentation. While limiting nutrients can improve trophic status of a stream, other factors like soil erosion can negatively impact aquatic ecosystems

Increasing Rhythm Notation Reading Readiness and Ability in Grades K–5: A Literature Review of Selected Articles

An internalized sense of steady beat, also referred to as pulse, is the foundation of essential musical skills in kindergarten through fifth grade (K–5). Early childhood and elementary music educators should focus their instruction on building steady beat and rhythm skills during the optimal developmental learning period prior to age seven. This is necessary to equip students for future musical understanding and growth. A foundational sense of steady beat and rhythm is necessary for sight reading readiness of both rhythm and melodic notation, and is seen as a predictor of future success in instrumental and vocal studies beyond elementary school. The connections between various elementary music activities needed to establish a necessary understanding and feeling of rhythm are explored by various authors highlighted in this literature review poster presentation. Following an overview of the importance of early intervention, the material is organized in the format of a K–5 teaching progression from internalizing steady beat to reading rhythm notation

Help Me Help You: Impact of Outreach on Recruitment and Client Engagement

The purpose of this research is to determine how much outreach is too much outreach when recruiting students to Georgia College Graduate Programs. Within the College of Business and Technology we track inquiries and applicants as well as tracking the outreach that is conducted within the office. The outreach tracking, being updated weekly, is intended to watch for potential impact on our conversion rates. The process being researched is that we will find the point at which outreach increasing conversion rates might plateau, and if ever it were to go down due to “too much” outreach. We will be tracking inquiries from Fall 2022 semester through the beginning of Spring 2023 and conduct how much outreach (i.e., Emails sent, phone calls, cards mailed) it takes to move an inquiry to an applicant and if there is a point where there has been too much outreach and applicant numbers start to decline

Alex in Wonderland (or A Clockwork Tour) + Whale Watching

Lewis Carroll’s (Charles Dodgson’s) Alice stories (1865, 1871) and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange (1962) remain some of the most linguistically inventive works of English literature. Yet despite their shared fondness for creative wordplay—and due, perhaps, to the stylistic differences of their respective film adaptations—Carroll and Burgess are rarely considered side by side. While some of the parallels between their works can no doubt be traced to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake—which took inspiration from Carroll and which Burgess, in turn, translated into Italian—the similarities between the Alice stories and A Clockwork Orange are significant enough in themselves to merit attention. Beginning with a biographical comparison of Dodgson’s and Burgess’s backgrounds, this critical-creative essay explores the way the authors’ religious upbringings and intellectual pursuits influenced their creative work. The essay then examines the way that both books use their “coming-of-age” structure as a vehicle through which to explore the power of creative wordplay. As linguistic outsiders in their respective worlds, both “little Alice” and “little Alex” find freedom from the limitations of the adult world through creative expression. By tracing the cycles of growth apparent in both protagonists, we can observe that the narratives also lend themselves toward a liberating stance on language that is of interest to writers, readers, and language enthusiasts of all stripes

Music Technology in the classroom by Zandra Bell-McCroy

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Communicating with stakeholders- with Mr. Robert Burton

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