Genocide as Warfare & the Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare Infrastructure

This case study examines the relationship between genocide by attrition and modern warfare through the lens of Gaza’s health infrastructure. Drawing on Martin Shaw’s framework of genocide as a form of war and Geoff Bowker’s concept of infrastructural inversion, the thesis analyzes how healthcare infrastructure can become strategic targets and instruments of structural violence. The study is structured in three parts: (1) the policies and practices of the Oslo Process (1990s–2000s), which imposed restrictions on movement and medical supplies; (2) the material constraints produced by the Blockade and Iron Wall (2007–2014); and (3) the direct targeting of healthcare infrastructure (2014–2024), during which hospitals were transformed into overcrowded shelters, mass graves, and traps for displaced civilians. By focusing on health infrastructure as the unit of analysis, the thesis illustrates how systems of care become sites of attritional violence. Using public health data, human rights reports, news media, and historical documentation, the study demonstrates how artificially imposed constraints contribute to indirect mortality and the long-term degradation of collective survival. This research challenges the conventional focus on immediate mass death within genocide studies. It argues that material conditions may act as a driving force of the genocide processes

Challenges Perceived by Cooperating Teachers when Supervising Student Teachers in Agricultural Education

Cooperating teachers face challenges when supervising student teachers. This study aimed to identify perceived challenges by secondary agricultural educators when supervising a student teacher from West Virginia University\u27s Agricultural Education and Extension department. The cooperating teachers were asked to identify perceived challenges that their student teachers encountered along with the challenges they encountered as a cooperating teacher. The study also aimed to discover how significant the cooperating teachers felt those challenges were and how frequently they occurred with student teachers they had. Using a descriptive research modified Delphi study the population was able to list the challenges and express the significance and frequency of those challenges. The results from all three phases produced different challenges that cooperating teachers perceived. Phase II produced 14 challenges related to the student teacher and three challenges rated to the cooperating teacher. These included discipline procedures, content knowledge, preparation, time management, and time commitment to the student teaching experience. The three challenges cooperating teachers identified themselves encountering were related to needed materials and time commitment associated with being a student teacher in the agricultural education field. Based on the results of the study department faculty is able to address them before sending student teachers out. The study also opened other windows for research

Chargrilled Icarus' Wings

This paper looks at the myth of Icarus and his father Daedalus, specifically the likelihood that the wax in Icarus' wings would have melted during his flight. It has been found that it would have taken between about 42 and 67 minutes for the wax to melt, and the distance from the sun would have played no part; In essence, his father warnings were meaningless and he would have also fallen to his death

Lumberjacking Minecraft Style

This paper seeks to prove or disprove an element from the videogame Minecraft: is it possible to knock down a tree by punching it? The model used showed that the tensile strength of an oak tree was far too great for it to be plausible for this to happen. However, on further investigation it was found that the model was flawed and an improved model was needed before a definite conclusion could be made