Overusing, Overposting, Oversharing, Subtitle (Some Things are Better Left Unsaid)

Through a sociological perspective, this piece attempts to further understand social media dynamics, particularly the concept of oversharing online through original data collection and sociological theory. Centered around a month-long Instagram study, the objective is to further understand what compels some young adult users to overshare, the consequences of oversharing online and how they effect the poster, their following and social media platforms generally. Recruited participants were instructed to follow and engage with Loren\u27s, an entirely faux persona created by the researcher, Instagram account where she frequently posted content most would label oversharing . While participants understood Loren was a fictitious character, solely created for research, they were instructed to engage with her account as authentically and closely to how they would if it actually appeared in their feed. Using data extracted from the account, along with responses from the follow-up questionnaire and known sociological theory, this paper analyzes varying perceptions and approaches to interacting with online oversharing as an attempt to further understand the entirety of the concept of oversharing on social media

Anti-quack literature in early Stuart England

PhDDuring the thirty years preceding the Civil War, learned physicians such as John Cotta, James Hart, James Primerose and Edward Poeton produced a stream of works attacking those who practised medicine without what they regarded as the proper training and qualifications. Recent scholarship has tended to view these as exercises in economic protectionism within the context of the ‘medical marketplace’. However, increasing attention has latterly been drawn to the Calvinist religious preferences of these authors, and how these are reflected in their arguments, the suggestion being that these can be read as oblique critiques of contemporary church reform. My argument is that professional and religious motivations were in fact ultimately inseparable within these works. Their authors saw order and orthodoxy in all fields - medical, social, political and ecclesiastical - as thoroughly intertwined, and identified all threats to these as elements within a common tide of disorder. This is clearest in their obsession with witchcraft, that epitome of rebellion, and with priest-physicians; practitioners who tended to combine medical heterodoxy, anti-Calvinist sympathies and a taste for the occult, and whose practices were innately offensive to puritan social thought while carrying heavy Catholic overtones. These works therefore reflected an intensely conservative worldview, but my research suggests that they should not necessarily be taken as wholly characteristic of early Stuart puritan attitudes. All of these authors can be associated with the moderate wing of English Calvinism, and Cotta and Hart developed their arguments within the context of the Jacobean diocese of Peterborough, where an entrenched godly elite was confronted by an unusually rigourous conformist church court regime. They sought to promote a particular vision of puritan orthodoxy against conformist heterodoxy; in light of the events of the interregnum, it seems likely that this concealed more diverse attitudes towards medical reform amongst the godly

Books or Knives: The Proof is in the Pudding

This research aims to analyze the effects of post-secondary business education, post-secondary culinary training, and/or personal characteristics on the success level of restaurateurs. This study attempts to give insight as to whether formalized business education and/or culinary training translates into higher performance when compared to enterprises where management develops on-the-job learned behavior. To achieve this objective, a qualitative case study was conducted on five local restaurateurs in one Southeastern market. Results show successful restaurateurs effectively management human resources, have prior industry experience, and outsource and/ or automate processes to achieve work-life balance

Choking Out Local Community Service Organizations: Rising Federal Tax Regulation and Its Impact on Small Nonprofit Entities

Article published in the Kentucky Law Journal

Book Review: Rewire for Wealth

Book Review: Rewire for Wealt

Marketing to Food Insecure College Students: An Investigation into the University of Mississippi’s Food Pantry

College students are documented to suffer food insecurity at a high rate, and student-run food pantries have aimed to alleviate some of this burden. However, these pantries operate inefficiently and struggle to adequately meet student needs. In particular, many students are unaware of the pantry or have barriers to use. Research has found that only 14% of food insecure college students use their campus food pantries. The objective of the following work is to improve future marketing for campus run food pantries, with a specific focus on the University of Mississippi’s pantry. In the last year, the University of Mississippi’s food pantry, now known as Grove Grocery, has undergone a period of growth and change. New services have been added, the leadership team has been expanded, and the pantry has fully rebranded. However, awareness of the pantry remains low. After spending a year as the pantry’s marketing director, it was clear that our marketing efforts were uninformed and ineffective. In order to gain additional insights, a cross-sectional survey was sent to Fall 2020 University of Mississippi students to collect data on food insecurity levels, demographics, awareness of the food pantry, and other relevant information. Confirming our expectations, the survey found 41.4% of the respondents food insecure, most students unaware of the pantry, and significant barriers to use, many of which could be addressed through marketing. The results of the survey were analyzed and used to create managerial recommendations about how to optimize marketing in the coming years. This plan contains general recommendations about advertisement content and a detailed outline of steps to take to raise awareness. Ideally, future marketing directors from Grove Grocery and other campus food pantries will be able to use these recommendations and the insights from the survey to help reduce campus food insecurity

Conditions for school reform : the views of urban high school teachers.

This study explores conditions that lead urban high school teachers to voluntarily participate in school-wide reform programs. The study is significant because of the leadership roles assigned to teachers by the current national and Massachusetts school reforms. Information was gathered through interviews with the teacher leaders of reform programs at three urban high schools in Eastern Massachusetts and a survey of all the teachers at the same schools. At the time of the study, each school was engaged in a reform project that incorporated recommendations from the leading national and Massachusetts reform reports. Six themes emerged from the interviews. The themes included: recognition of the social and academic needs of students; resources to meet the teachers\u27 immediate needs as well as the needs of the reform; time for teachers to participate and time for reforms to be implemented; opportunities for teachers to collaborate; teacher in-put in defining the problems and formulating solutions; and respect for teachers\u27 contributions. All full time teachers at three schools were asked to react to these six conditions. The teachers\u27 responses indicate that it is the collective impact and general climate created by the six conditions that influence their decisions to participate rather than any single condition. There is no significant difference between male and female respondents. Six recommendations are offered for future reform proposals. Reforms must make allowances for the collective histories of teachers and schools; address the most immediate needs of teachers; recognize the special concerns and interests of teachers regarding curricular, pedagogical, and student policies; provide a clear vision of their goals and the essential steps to reach those goals; and connect the research on school reform with the experiential base of teachers

Harmless Stories

A collection of short stories