MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC Drivers\u27 Licenses, Uniform Rules of the Road: Modify Procedures and Penalties Relating to Driving Under the Influence of Drugs or Alcohol

SB 489 initiates administrative suspension of drivers\u27; licenses for second time DUI violators. SB 487 increases penalties for habitual DUI violators and creates a crime of endangering a child by driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. HB 451 defines traffic accident which resulted in serious injuries or fatalities.; SB 579 allows a driver to reduce points on her license by taking a corrective course before eight points are accumulated. HB 1508 directs the Department of Public Safety to accept driver correction courses certified by other states. SB 524 adds an additional monetary penalty onto a conviction for DUI to help fund the Georgia Crime Victims Emergency Fund

MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC Drivers\u27 Licenses, Uniform Rules of the Road: Modify Procedures and Penalties Relating to Driving Under the Influence of Drugs or Alcohol

SB 489 initiates administrative suspension of drivers\u27; licenses for second time DUI violators. SB 487 increases penalties for habitual DUI violators and creates a crime of endangering a child by driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. HB 451 defines traffic accident which resulted in serious injuries or fatalities.; SB 579 allows a driver to reduce points on her license by taking a corrective course before eight points are accumulated. HB 1508 directs the Department of Public Safety to accept driver correction courses certified by other states. SB 524 adds an additional monetary penalty onto a conviction for DUI to help fund the Georgia Crime Victims Emergency Fund

“Not as She is” but as She is Expected to Be: Representations, Limitations, and Implications of the “Woman” and Womanhood in Selected Victorian Literature and Contemporary Chick Lit.

In this thesis, I address the influences of the Separate Spheres ideology on representations of women in both Victorian women’s literature and modern Chick Lit. I analyze three primary images of women – the Angel of the House, the Governess, and the New Woman, the relationships between these images and the Spheres ideology, and how modern images have been influenced by the social impacts of the gendered expectations within the ideology. Within each investigation, I include a discussion on works of literature including Charlotte Yonge’s The Daisy Chain, Jennifer Weiner’s Little Earthquakes, Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’s The Nanny Diaries, Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins, and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love. Through all of this, I argue that the typified representations are flawed, being defined and influenced by societal ideologies such as the separate spheres and how writers have attempted and continue to work through and past the ideology and its surrounding expectations while modern writing and the ideals within parallel those of their predecessors

Motion for Leave to File Brief of \u3cem\u3eAmicus Curiae\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eTVA v. Hill\u3c/em\u3e, No. 76-1701

Motion filed by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, requesting permission to file a brief of Amicus Curiae in the case of Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hiram G. Hill Jr., et al., heard by the United States Supreme Court in the October Term of 1977

Improving Critical Listening skills in EMT Students

Introduction: Although the importance of EMT students utilizing critical listening skills is apparent, there is little research focused on EMT students or EMTs and critical listening. Ensuring EMT students develop critical listening skills can be an asset that reaches beyond the goal of improving their education. It also has the potential to improve the quality of care they go on to deliver. EMTs may have the only verbal contact with the patient while they are still conscious, or with bystanders that witnessed the incident, or family members/health aides that can give vitally important information on the patient’s condition. If an EMT is not adept at critical listening, vital information may be lost, and the repercussions can be serious. This project was designed to determine whether EMT student critical listening ability and class performance would improve from engaging in critical listening exercises.Methods:  Critical listening exercises were emphasized during an EMT course by assessing student knowledge of the Patient Assessment module through two listening exercises modelled after the Ferrari, Lynch, and Vogel Listening Test that measures for critical listening skills. The Patient Assessment module was assessed twice within four weeks in a test-retest design.Results: The data analysis of a total of n = 51 students’ performance in the pre and post-assessments yielded positive results and showed students significantly improved their listening ability within the four-week period.  An overall score increase of 34.50 % was found between the pre and the post assessment results. Moreover, the data analysis showed that as the result of the listening exercises, students scored significantly higher in the section of the certifying exam that included critical listening exercises than in all other sections.Conclusion: The results suggest performing critical listening exercises and assessments can help EMT students properly develop critical listening skills and improve performance

Not all overlaps are equal: Social affiliation and rare overlaps of preferences

Shared preferences are a critical component of social attrac-tion. Knowing that someone likes the same things as you do isindicative of broader underlying similarities that support suc-cessful social partnerships. However, not all overlaps in prefer-ences are equally informative. Here we propose that the rarityof overlaps in preferences may be a particularly salient cue forsocial affiliation. We find evidence that people are sensitiveto the rarity of overlaps in preferences and affiliate themselves(Experiment 1) or predict others’ affiliations (Experiment 2)with potential social partners who share a relatively rare pref-erence. Because preferences provide information about bothwhat people know and what they like, we also tested the ef-fect of overlaps in knowledge (without taste) and overlaps intaste (without knowledge) to understand why we are drawn topeople who share our preferences