Generalized Dirac monopoles in non-Abelian Kaluza-Klein theories

A method is proposed for generalizing the Euclidean Taub-NUT space, regarded as the appropriate background of the Dirac magnetic monopole, to non-Abelian Kaluza-Klein theories involving potentials of generalized monopoles. Usual geometrical methods combined with a recent theory of the induced representations governing the Taub-NUT isometries lead to a general conjecture where the potentials of the generalized monopoles of any dimensions can be defined in the base manifolds of suitable principal fiber bundles. Moreover, in this way one finds that apart from the monopole models which are of a space-like type, there exists a new type of time-like models that can not be interpreted as monopoles. The space-like models are studied pointing out that the monopole fields strength are particular solutions the Yang-Mills equations with central symmetry producing the standard flux of $4\pi$ through the two-dimensional spheres surrounding the monopole. Examples are given of manifolds with Einstein metrics carrying SU(2) monopoles.Comment: 32 page

New York Oneida: Land Claims, Federal Policies, State Intervention, and Casino Development

This paper examined the relationship between Oneida land sovereignty and their self-determination in establishing the Turning Stone Casino. The paper reviewed general trends in Oneida history with the state of New York, focusing on federal policies aimed at American Indian communities, and the legal cases that the Oneida have brought against New York and the federal government. The study extrapolated that historic cases involving political, legal, and land sovereignty issues prepared them for the fight over their casino’s admittance on Oneida land. The paper then addressed the reoccurring battles with the state of New York over the legality and jurisdiction of gaming procedures and financial oversight

It Hastened What We All Fought For, the End of the War: General Sherman\u27s Campaigns through Atlanta, Georgia, and the Carolinas and How They Impacted the Civil War

“It hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war: General Sherman’s campaigns through Atlanta, Georgia, and the Carolinas and how they impacted the Civil War” is my collection of research of the importance of Sherman’s campaigns through Atlanta, Georgia, and the Carolinas to bring the end of the war. My project is in fulfillment of the History 451: Proseminar within the requirements of a Bachelor’s Degree in history. My thesis paper covers those three campaigns and their importance in bringing the Civil War to an end. I have used primary and secondary evidence to provide facts and to support the importance of Sherman in the Civil War. Although Sherman’s role is a controversial topic of morality and necessity, I tried only to provide evidence and discussion for how it helped lead the Union to a victory on April 9, 1865. My goal was to offer analysis of 1864 and why Sherman’s marches were required.. Grant could not secure a victory around Richmond, Confederate forces attacked Washington DC and through all this a rising Pro-Peace Democratic Party led by former General, George McClellan threatened the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. It was not until General Sherman’s success at Atlanta that hope shone in the Union. From Atlanta and throughout Sherman’s remaining campaigns, he famously brought the war to Southern civilians making the war not only a physical war, but a psychological one as well. Sherman’s efforts against the Confederate forces and the Southern morale were imperative so the North could rise victorious in April, 1865

From Bison to Cattle: The Ecology of the Southern Plains 1500-1750

Bison made their home on the Southern Plains for millennia. However, their migratory patterns began to shift in the 17th and 18th centuries. My research investigated what caused this drastic shift and how it had far reaching effects on the ecology of the Southern Plains. Using archives from two prominent Catholic priests, I began to piece together why the bison left the Southern Plains. Rather than focus on the Europeans as the main players, I instead focused on the Indigenous peoples, the animals, and the land as the centralized actors in this project. I discovered that the introduction of cattle by the Spanish missions was the leading factor. As the cattle quickly consumed the resources, the bison had to find additional inhabitable spaces. Their swift departure from the Southern Plains resulted in upheaval for the Indigenous inhabitants and the ecology of the Plains themselves

Predictors of Adolescents’ Interest in Stem Majors and Careers

Advanced Research Winner 2019: The United States currently faces a shortage of qualified workers in fields related to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The first critical step in preventing the labor shortage in STEM is understanding the factors that guide adolescents toward STEM pursuits. Drawing on Eccles’ expectancy-value theory (EVT), the current study aims to identify factors that are relevant to adolescents’ interest in STEM majors and careers. Data were collected from 629 adolescents (Mage = 16.09). Participants attended a high school in northern California and predominantly identified as Asian American (82% of the sample). Preliminary analyses revealed that adolescent boys had higher STEM self-expectancies than did adolescent girls, whereas there was no gender difference in STEM values. Consistent with expectations, multiple regression demonstrated that STEM self-expectancies and values accounted for a significant amount of variance in participants’ interest in STEM majors and careers. STEM value was an especially strong predictor; adolescents tended to be most interested in STEM pursuits when they were also high in STEM value. Moderation analyses showed that the association between STEM value and interest in STEM majors and careers was stronger for girls than for boys. As a whole, this study’s findings suggest that valuing and enjoying STEM pursuits during high school could be an important antecedent of pursuing a STEM major and a STEM career later in life

Youth Culture in Great Britain: The Effect of the Rapidly Growing Universities 1963-1968

Emerging Scholar Winner 2019: This essay focuses on the growth of higher education in Great Britain during the 1960s, specifically, the effect of the Robbins Report on the growth of the universities. The purpose of this essay is to create a correlation between the new universities in Britain and the height of youth culture in the sixties to the growing political activism and involvement of young people in Britain. The research includes what was brought to higher education by the Robbins Report, what the pop cultures and counter-cultures of the time in Britain looked like, and how youth people thrived in this culture and created a political culture that was used for activism of rights, further reflected upon in the essay. The essay, which expresses multiple opinions of historians about whether there is a correlation between new universities and youth cultures, further delves into the opportunity of new curriculum, new opportunity for women, and further expanses on youth cultures to include a sexual counter-culture and a movement of music, which helped show the difference between higher education and youth culture. The use of the differences of the two factors helps create a correlation between the mixture of university life and youth culture, that hence created a politicization of young people in Great Britain. This new political youth, driven by the new universities and sixties culture created political activism that was seen in the sixties British youth

Julia Margaret Cameron\u27s Photographs as Paintings

This paper argues that in order to better understand the photographic techniques, and compositional choices employed by Julia Margaret Cameron, one must analyze them in terms of the language of paintings. By using photography to stage painterly tableaus, Cameron blurred reality and fiction, the result of which is the equalization of all those she photographed, be they famed Victorian poets or female maids

Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond

Creative Works Winner Most of us know Nevada beyond the Strip. It’s a place of houses, of shopping plazas, of movie theaters, and grocery stores. A place of hotels that are also places of work. A place of basins, ranges, vistas, and nature. A place of personal history. For Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond, curators Lauren Paljusaj (ENG BA ‘20) and Anne Savage (CFA BA ‘22), draw on photographs found in UNLV Special Collections to uncover the intimate visuality of a Nevada of past centuries. The exhibition focuses on how the imaged built landscape of early 20th century Southern Nevada (Paljusaj) and candids and personal snapshots of 1910s Las Vegas (Savage) allow us to interpret the past in light of who we are today. It also shows how artists utilize research archives and the bottomless fascination of material memory to respond to historical artifacts