The Colonial Marginalization of Filipino and Filipino American Soldiers in the US Army during World War II

This thesis analyzes the structural paradigms in place within American society as multifaceted tools of colonialism and how they impacted the experiences of minority and colonized soldiers in the United States Army during the Second World War. The history is analyzed through the postcolonial lens, observing factors in place such as; denial of place in history, identity, and recognition of service. The research questions that this thesis addresses are as follows: What are the colonial implications in the experience of Filipino and Filipino American soldiers experience during the Second World War? Are colonial soldiers treated as more expendable than white soldiers? How does the colonial relationship between the United States and the Philippines affect how we understand the colonial soldiers’ experience? By analyzing the histories of the segregated Filipino and Filipino American units of the Second World War and supporting literature that addresses the impacts of colonialism on the colonized, I will analyze aspects of the role of the minority and colonized soldier as a tool of the colonial empire. I argue that the colonial soldier is a paradigm of the United States military and colonial footprint of the country during the Second World War, prior, and up until the present. The perspectives of Orientalism towards minorities, colonialism and how it subjects the oppressed population, and subaltern realities for the oppressed minorities are the factors that make up the experience for the minority and colonized soldier. This thesis analyzes the colonial relations between the United States and the Philippines and the recruitment of colonized soldiers in the Second World War through the recruitment of Filipino American and Filipino soldiers for the war efforts in the global conflict through the historical documents and official United States government stances on the occupation of the Philippines and the Filipino people. Colonial constructions of the Filipino Other are also observed with many ideals and lenses from the work of Edward Said and Orientalism; specifically the relationship between policy/discourse and societal paradigms in which the Filipino culture and existence was otherized and targeted. The concept of the otherization of the Filipino American and Filipino is seen through the interviews conducted with family members detailing the hardship of their experience, the grassroot movements of the Filipino and Filipino American veterans in the plight for acquiring equal veteran status and medical benefits after having them revoked following the Rescission Act of 1946, and the removal of their contributions from the mainstream historical record of the conflict

Improving Support for Non-Japanese Students Bullied in Japan\u27s Elementary Schools

The purpose of this applied study was to solve the problem of bullying for non-Japanese students in an elementary school in Japan and to design strategies, interventions, and training to address the problem. This research study utilized a multimethod approach to investigate the problem of bullying through participant interviews, focus group research, and an online survey in order to identify solutions to the study’s problem. Data analysis strategies involved analyzing transcribed participant responses from interviews and focus group research, coding, and interpreting survey participant data. This research project required the researcher to meet, interview, and survey participants in Japan who shared their experience involving the bullying of non-Japanese students in a Japanese elementary school. Based on the responses and data presented in this study, teacher professional development, program guidelines, curriculum resources, and student support strategies were created to address the research problem

Contract Warranties and Remedies: A Comprehensive Survey of the Creation, Modification and Exclusion of Contract Warranties and Remedies for Attorneys and Contracting Professionals

This article discusses the types of warranties and remedies that are available by contract and by operation of the law. It also discusses how these warranties and remedies can be limited, waived, and excluded by contract language, actions of the parties, and operation of the law

PP-strict promotion and BB-bounded rowmotion, with applications to tableaux of many flavors

We define P-strict labelings for a finite poset P as a generalization of semistandard Young tableaux and show that promotion on these objects is in equivariant bijection with a toggle action on B-bounded Q-partitions of an associated poset Q. In many nice cases, this toggle action is conjugate to rowmotion. We apply this result to flagged tableaux, Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns, and symplectic tableaux, obtaining new cyclic sieving and homomesy conjectures. We also show P-strict promotion can be equivalently defined using Bender-Knuth and jeu de taquin perspectives.Comment: 39 pages, 14 figure

Comparative selectivity of various Salmonella typhimurium strains in targeting prostate cancer cells [abstract]

Abstract only availableRecent studies indicate that non-virulent strains of serovar typhimurium () have tumor-targeting activity. Indeed, S. typhimurium has been observed to selectively target cancer tissue by a ratio of over 1000:1. However, most of these studies focused on the cancer cell selectivity of one strain, the genetically modified VNP20009. One such study found that a single IV injection of VNP20009 produced tumor growth inhibition of 57-95% in mice. Another study conducted by Thamm and associates found that administration of VNP20009 results in detectable bacterial colonization of tumor tissue and partial anti-tumor activity in tumor-bearing dogs. However, VNP20009 was shown to be too toxic when given to cancer patients in phase I clinical tests. Scientists at Columbia's Cancer Research Center discovered an archival strain of (CRC1674) that destroys PC-3M prostate cancer cells without extensive lysis of the cancer cells, a factor thought to contribute to the toxicity of VNP20009. This project studies the comparative selectivity of four strains for prostate cancer cells. In order to study attachment to prostate cancer cells, shorter incubation times were used, up to a period of 4 hours. Invasion assays involved incubation periods up to 24 hours. To confirm distinct selectivity towards prostate cancer cells only, the study also included attachment and invasion assays using noncancerous prostate cells. We have discovered attachment after 5 minutes of co-incubation and are currently investigating long-term effects of co-incubation with prostate cancer and normal cell lines.Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Opportunity Progra