Dead Girls

Charlotte Edsall is a third year student at the University of Arkansas pursuing a Creative Writing major and a Philosophy minor . She feels that poetry is uniquely gifted at revealing the common thread that runs between all people, regardless of time or place. Her intention for her writing is to hopefully continue that work of revelation

The impact of genetic variations in bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is a devastating illness that affects the quality of life for millions of Americans. The current diagnostic system depends on an extremely subjective interview and can frequently result in an incorrect diagnosis and ineffective treatment. An improved, biologically based, classification system requires a thorough understanding of the genetic basis of bipolar disorder. This understanding has been hampered by the difficulty in diagnosing patients and by the heterogeneity of the illness. The number of linkage analysis studies and lack of organization have also added to the challenges involved in understanding the biological basis of the disorder. The Bipolar Disorder Genetics Database web application, located at http://www.bipolardisordergenetics.com, resolves the issue of organization, allowing researchers to quickly identify promising chromosomal regions that merit further investigation which will lead to understanding the functions of the affected genes and the impact of the various mutations. Understanding these functions will lead to significant advances in the areas of diagnosis and treatment. The intuitive web-based interface is a novel approach to creating a big picture view of our existing knowledge. The application will become the premiere resource for researchers and will assist them as they make significant advances in treating this illness

Imagication = Imagination + Education: What Fifth Graders Think About Arts Integration in Public Elementary Schools

During the 2011-12 school year, a fifth grade class in a diverse San Francisco public elementary school collaborated with the Arts Resources In Action (ARIA) program of the San Francisco Opera\u27s Education Department to create a teacher-guided opera. The students wrote the story, music and lyrics as well as designed and built the sets, props and costumes based on the American Revolution. The classroom teacher chose the topic of the American Revolution, and the students researched this historic event using literary, historical, visual, musical and theatrical methods of exploration and data gathering. Through the medium of opera, the program connected the teacher\u27s chosen curricula to the California State Standards. This dissertation studied the SFO ARIA program by observing the entire process for six months and conducting interviews with a focus group of 14 students, the classroom teacher, and two ARIA teaching artists. Significant to this study was the inclusion of student voice, an integral variable in implementation of the ARIA program. Few research studies of performing arts programs in schools lead with the voices and experiences of elementary school students. Data collected for this qualitative study included interviews with students and teachers, surveys, and six months of weekly classroom observations. This investigation aims to add to arts-education research that can deepen our understanding of student learning

Capturing Detroit through an Underground Lens: Issues of the Sixties Inside Pages of the Detroit Fifth Estate, 1965-1970

This thesis examines instances where traditioal publications depicted Detroit's Fifth Estate (FE) as a paper paper committed to promoting cultural indulgences in vogue during the 1960s as opposed to a tabloid dedicated to antiwar and civil rights causes. Time, a magazine that specializes in styling media images in its reporting and crafty enough in its coverage of current events that some critics believe the periodical had a role with shaping events that led to the Vietnam War, made use of stereotypes in a July 1966 article that purported to expose FE and four other papers with similar content to the nation. The article represented FE, its editor, and their readers as LSD enthusiasts. However, the facts suggest that of all publications of the era, the greatest LSD aficionado of the time is Time and Life magazine. According to Columbia Journalism Review, the Luce magazines, more than any other, provided more LSD coverage than the other publications servicing the country. Considering its volume of readership, significantly larger than FE, people learned about LSD in Time and Life rather than from a struggling, obscure underground newspaper. Nevertheless, by typecasting FE, its personnel, and its readership as drug fiends, Time, the Detroit Free Press,and the Detroit News could disparage the newspaper and discredit its dissenting content while projecting upon the underground its own guilt for using alcohol and nicotine products to subsidize the news they peddled to the American public. At the same time, traditional mass media’s disparagement of FE created hostility for its staff, the personnel becoming newsmakers while reporting the “news.” As a bystander to the movement, that is as a kid having observed andinteracted with people associated with this underground newspaper, my personal experience with them suggested these individuals were not the way mainstream media portrayed them in their content. I knew them as something other than a bunch of hippies getting high. They were very political, interested in being part of activist organizations changing the United States. Therefore, as news subjects engaged in different affiliations that comprised “the movement,” FE and its workforce were more than reporters; they also were witnesses providing testimony for “the newspaper of record in a movement people didn’t even know exited” (Ovshinsky 2008).Master'sSchool of Health Professions and Studies: Liberal StudiesUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/117703/1/Edsall.pd