Death Penalty vs. Life in Prison: A Cost Analysis

This poster was presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/student_posters/1008/thumbnail.jp

Euthanasia as a Caregiving Fantasy in the Era of the New Longevity

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Boomers: From Adorable Baby Bulge to #BoomerRemover

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UA1C11/43 Irene Gullette Photograph Album

Irene Daughtrey was born February 25, 1906 in Morley, Missouri to Charles and Minnie (Simpson) Daughtrey. The family moved to Kentucky shortly after her birth. She attended WKU and received her B.A. in 1929. She worked in school libraries in Crittenden and Muhlenberg Counties and the Lindsey Wilson Junior College. In 1953 she was named director of the Kentucky Bookmobile Project and was supervisor of School Libraries, Department of Education in Frankfort, Kentucky. She was married to Arthur Gullette. This photograph album covers Irene\u27s WKU years 1925-1930

Kumtor: Ein Lackmustest für den Bergbau in Kirgistan

Die Kumtor-Goldmine, das größte Vorkommen dieses Edelmetalls in Zentralasien und der wichtigste Steuerzahler Kirgistans, ist schon seit Beginn der Förderung 1997 Quelle von Auseinandersetzungen. Seit 2010 geht es bei den Konflikten in erster Linie um die gerechte Verteilung von Ressourcen. Befürworter einer Nationalisierung der Mine stellen dies jedoch als einen Kampf für die Souveränität des Landes dar. Die Regierung hat bei den Verhandlungen im vergangenen Jahr versucht, ihre Anteile an der Mine zu vergrößern, um mehr Kontrolle und größere Einkünfte zu erreichen. Während das Parlament darüber debattiert, wie das zu erreichen ist, sind für die Bevölkerung Protest und Gewalt zum Ventil für ihre Frustration über den sich hinziehenden Prozess geworden. Das aktuell ausgehandelte Rahmenabkommen ist ein Fortschritt, es muss aber noch endgültig abgeschlossen werden. Außerdem besteht nach wie vor die Notwendigkeit, sich mit den grundlegenden Problemen der durch den Abbau betroffenen Gemeinden und die fehlende Kommunikation zwischen den Anteilseignern auseinanderzusetzen. Ohne Lösung dieser Probleme werden Kirgistans Versuche, seinen Bergbausektor zu reformieren ihr Ziel weit verfehlen und in weiteren Konflikten münden

In My Nicaraguan High School: Giving Excluded Women and Men a Second Chance

When I went to Nicaragua for the first time during the Contra war, I had no idea that I would soon wind up helping a Nica friend start two literacy programs and then a Free High School for Adults. It opened in 2002, and now, only 15 years later, we have 1001 graduates, 54% women, 45% rural (mainly from subsistence farm families)--all of them excluded from the regular high schools for one reason or another: being pregnant, being a woman, turning eighteen,  working five days a week, or living too far from town without the ability to pay  bus fare. My real education came with theirs and is still going on, with no end in sight. What I wanted to know was how the teachers--all college graduates who were teaching in the high prestige regular high schools--figured out how to teach these people, many of whom had been out of school for decades and were unused to learning or scholastic discipline; many accustomed to being heads of households; some pregnant or carrying a baby to School for lack of child care or need to nurse; some drunk or exhausted early on Saturday mornings when classes began. The teachers told me their own stories, of overcoming prejudice and learning how to create a welcoming atmosphere. And the graduates told me THEIR stories, of what it took to succeed in those conditions, and how education--especially learning how to speak better-- transformed them, and they, in turn, transformed the entire culture and economy of the region