Webliography of African-American Champaign-Urbana

This Lab Note reflects one part of a year-long project called eBlackChampaign-Urbana. Our interest here is to provide better access to the dispersed documentation of local African-American history and culture in ChampaignUrbana, using digital technology to aggregate and enliven historical and contemporary information. Although this webliography focuses primarily on substantial, in-depth texts documenting local African-American life, we are also aggregating into the eBlackCU.net website URLs for local African-American websites, facebook pages, photographs, newspaper clippings, flyers, posters and other ephemeral documentation of Champaign-Urbana's Black heritage.published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

Cross-species referential signalling events in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)

Referential gestures are used by a signaller to draw a recipient’s attention to a specific object, individual or event in the environment. These gestures have received much research attention in relation to human and non-human primates with great apes being shown to possess impressive gestural repertoires. Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) meanwhile provide an ideal non-primate candidate for investigating referential signalling due to their unique relationship with humans that centres on non-verbal communication with frequent interaction. Here we observed 37 pet dogs in their own homes. Owners recorded 242 videos containing 47 potential referential gesture events. We analysed those recordings to reveal evidence of 19 referential gestures performed by domestic dogs during everyday communicative bouts with humans, showing that the gestures conform to the five features of referential signalling. Our study exposes impressive gesturing abilities in a non-primate mammal; especially when viewed in the context of the cross-species rather than intraspecific communication

PEER VICTIMIZATION IN JAY ASHER’S THIRTEEN REASONS WHY

Peer victimization is a common issue in literary works. This study is conducted in qualitative approach of analysis of peer victimization and how it impacted the main character through the narratives in the Thirteen Reasons Why novel. The goal of the study is to analyze how Peer Victimization impacted the main character, Hannah Baker which is described using the theory of Peer Victimization by Finkelhor (2012) and the interpersonal theory of suicide by Joiner (2005). The result of this study shows that Hannah Baker is the victim who experienced all kinds of violent behavior caused by her peers including physical violence, sexual victimization, and psychological/emotional victimization. This study also shows suicide is one of the impacts of Peer Victimization that happens in the novel resulted from the thwarted belonging and perceived burdensome that the main character felt which produce the desire for ending her life. The effects of peer victimization vary on different cases and suicide is one of the prevalent solutions chosen by the character that depicted in literary works