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Agricultural Policy In America: The Rise of Industrial Farms and the Emergence of Alternative Farming

America’s treatment of agricultural policy is unlike that of any other country in the world. After the Great Depression, the government, urged on by a strong lobbying force, began to implement strong policies aiding and regulating the farming sector. Massive intervention that started as a means of food security has developed into a system today that still leans on subsidies, grants and other means of support. Industrial agriculture, meaning farming done on a large scale with chemical inputs, has largely replaced the traditional methods practiced at the time of the post-depression subsidies. However, in recent years counter-industrial farming has emerged due to concern over the environmental and social impacts of industrial agriculture, including those farmers who dub themselves organic. Despite the newer distinctions in farming methods, most policy changes are politically driven and serve to represent various lobbying interests. This paper examines the policy that has led to America’s reliance of industrial scale agriculture including new technology like Genetically Modified seeds. This is followed by and analysis of the current policies impact on farmers, the environment and rural life in general. Finally, a conclusion is reached in terms of the negative consequences associated with the current policy propping up industrial agriculture. Several alternative movements are proposed as potential solutions to those problems yet the umbrella term sustainability is the best hope toward moving at a gradual rate toward a more economically and environmentally sound agricultural system

Development of a prototype plastic space erectable satellite Quarterly report, Dec. 1965 - Feb. 1966

Plastic space erectable satellit

Discovering the current opinions of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and questioning individuals towards the evangelical protestant churches

This research addressed the current opinions held by the LGBTQ community toward Evangelical Protestant churches. As a Pastor of a church that is concerned about this subject, the researcher developed and implemented a survey instrument that attempted to discover the over-all opinions, differences among sexual orientations in opinions, factors that encouraged and discouraged LGBTQ individuals’ involvement within Evangelical Protestant churches, and various levels of involvement by the participants in Evangelical Protestant churches. The researcher used the services of Survey Gizmo to distribute the survey tool amongst those self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning to complete the survey instrument. The survey instrument consisted of three sections, with each section having a different set of questions to specifically target the four research questions proposed in the research project. The results indicated that the overall opinion of the LGBTQ community is negative towards Evangelical Protestant churches and that there are no differences among sexual orientations regarding their opinions

“TRIBAL RIGHTS ARE IMPORTANT RIGHTS”: THE ORIGINS, TRAVAILS, AND IMPACT OF THE NANTICOKE LENNI-LENAPE TRIBE V. THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY

The purpose of this thesis was to study the lawsuit case of the of Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation V. John J. Hoffman and to showcase how modern-day racism ultimately led to their federal lawsuit in 2015. Racism and racist biases over Indian gaming has affected not just the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe, but tribes all over the country and has severely hindered tribes in the state and federal acknowledgment process. There are also other tribes that have had lawsuits over racial biases of Indian gaming, which will be discussed within the thesis. By using oral histories from tribal members and allies involved in the lawsuit, this thesis uncovers how these racial biases caused an almost forty-year battle with the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe and the State of New Jersey. This thesis also addresses the discussion of Native American sovereignty and the debate that has surrounded that term for centuries. As many Indigenous people view the word and definition of sovereignty very differently than non-Indigenous people, this discussion is important in this lawsuit because it brings up the issue if a body of government can give rights to a nation that were already inherently there. The modern-day racism on tribal nations, as this thesis will discussed, showed that the battle for equality and inclusion is far from over

MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS AS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING PREVENTION

Thousands of people are having their human rights violated as victims of sex and labor trafficking throughout the United States. Human trafficking prevention is a significant factor in combatting modern day slavery; however, there is a substantial lack of existing literature on the topic. As a result of previous research determining mentorship programs as a strategy to reduce juvenile delinquency, this study explores mentor programs as a preventative strategy for combatting human trafficking. This mixed-methods, exploratory study investigated what mentorship programs across the United States are doing to prevent children from becoming victims of human trafficking, and what still needs to be done within those programs to reduce human trafficking. The results of the online survey sent out to mentorship program staff and directors presented that most mentor program participants (83.3%) are not currently providing information about trafficking to mentees. Qualitative analysis of the study results demonstrate that mentorship programs need more education, more mentors, and an increased focus on human trafficking to prevent mentees from trafficking. The results of this study implicate that mentorship program staff should consider including trafficking awareness training for staff and mentors, as well as including an anti-trafficking curriculum in their program targeted toward mentees

Second-generation p-values: improved rigor, reproducibility, & transparency in statistical analyses

Verifying that a statistically significant result is scientifically meaningful is not only good scientific practice, it is a natural way to control the Type I error rate. Here we introduce a novel extension of the p-value - a second-generation p-value - that formally accounts for scientific relevance and leverages this natural Type I Error control. The approach relies on a pre-specified interval null hypothesis that represents the collection of effect sizes that are scientifically uninteresting or are practically null. The second-generation p-value is the proportion of data-supported hypotheses that are also null hypotheses. As such, second-generation p-values indicate when the data are compatible with null hypotheses, or with alternative hypotheses, or when the data are inconclusive. Moreover, second-generation p-values provide a proper scientific adjustment for multiple comparisons and reduce false discovery rates. This is an advance for environments rich in data, where traditional p-value adjustments are needlessly punitive. Second-generation p-values promote transparency, rigor and reproducibility of scientific results by a priori specifying which candidate hypotheses are practically meaningful and by providing a more reliable statistical summary of when the data are compatible with alternative or null hypotheses.Comment: 29 pages, 29 page Supplemen

Development of a prototype plastic space erectable satellite Quarterly report, Jun. - Aug. 1966

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