The impacts of control, racism, and colonialism on contemporary Aboriginal-police relations

Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are still treated differently in their interactions with the police. By analysing the histories of the New South Wales Police Force, policy, and Indigenous affairs, this essay seeks to analyse the multifaceted factors which have given rise to contemporary Aboriginal police relations

The United Churches of America: Post-Denominationalism, Theocracy, and Justice Systems

The purpose of this research is to the unify, organize and equip Christian churches to address the injustices of disenfranchised communities throughout the United States. This work calls for the 21st Century church to answer a charge to organize post-denominationally in an effort to expand the church’s reputation, reach and resources leveraged to address injustices. Upon identifying the identity crisis of the American church due to the vestiges of colonialism, this provides a totally different means by which churches can be identified beyond worship styles, liturgical idiosyncrasies and even biblical interpretations. Calling on the oneness that Christ invites the body of Christ into, this work pivots on several biblical passages that lead to Christian unity rather than denominational division. This work focuses on identifying the most disenfranchised, black and brown church communities. Another proposed solution of this research is to address the problems of injustice and religious disunity through a Pan-African movement that recentralizes the nucleus of the black church and black community to African continent. In an effort to reclaim African political philosophy and African cultural Theology yet remain on the American continent, this works suggests a unified, educational, entrepreneurial, church-based organization. The proposed artifact, United Churches of America, recognizes Christian ministries and organizations that are primarily centered in marginalized African-American communities

Implementing Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 Standard Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Local Area Networks (LANS) on a Laboratory Hardware Prototype

Wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) are extremely convenient, flexible, and easy to deploy. All LANs in which multiple hosts must access the same medium use a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol to coordinate channel access. The MAC is part of the Data Link Layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model. One MAC protocol in extensive use today is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standard. Since IEEE 802.11 devices are so prevalent in today s world, many researcher are exploring modifications and enhancements to the protocol. There are several well developed analytical and simulation models for IEEE 802.11 available to researchers, yet one significant obstacle remains: the lack of a means to obtain experimental data based on proposed protocol changes. Without real world experimental data, researchers lack the ability to test out their proposals in a real world environment. To fill this need, this thesis created a hardware prototype from which researchers can obtain experimental data about IEEE 802.11. This hardware prototype can now be used by researchers to gain real world data on their proposed modifications to IEEE 802.11