Both/And: Self-Authoring a Feminist Christian Identity

This article is my attempt to make sense of the conflicting, confusing, tumultuous journey of making peace with my religion and my commitment to social justice, particularly feminism. I frame my journey using Baxter Magolda’s (2001) model of self-authorship, connecting the development of my religious and gender identities to the learning, questioning, and eventual personalization of external messages. I weave Baxter Magolda’s model, my narrative, and existing scholarship together to present a framework by which self-authorship can be applied to understand the needs of a young woman experiencing spiritual struggle within Christianity. I then consider the limitations of such a framework given the lens of privilege attached to both my own narrative and the model of self-authorship as a whole. I conclude with recommendations for myself and other student affairs practitioners interested in engaging more deeply with this topi

Better Together: A Collaborative Approach to Graduate Student Affairs

As the student affairs profession evolves to better support the needs of graduate students, a re-building of the relationship between academic and student affairs is vital for the success of graduate student support programs. Rates of mental illness are extremely high in the graduate population, and this trend is closely related to elevated attrition rates in recent years. Universities are attempting to support their graduate students through this crisis via separate faculty- and student affairsled initiatives, which have been ineffective in addressing the needs of today’s graduate population. Partnering with faculty members will result in holistic interventions that support students’ needs both inside and outside of the classroom

A simple demonstration of corrosion cells

The objective is to reinforce and enhance the understanding of galvanic cells, anode cathode reactions and polarization phenomena. Complete instructions are given for laboratory demonstration to be performed by students

THE EFFECTS NCAA DIVISION 1 WOMEN SOCCER COACHES HAVE ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING OF THEIR PLAYERS: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

NCAA Division I college coaches interact with their players on a daily basis, sometimes more than once a day. Research has claimed that a coach-athlete relationship is a critical relationship when talking about psychological effects, and was even compared to that of a parent-child relationship (Sterling & Kerr, 2013). The importance of this relationship stems from the fact that coaches influence athletes’ lives in a plethora of different ways. A coach can influence the atmosphere in which an athlete performs; for example a motivational climate is said to be created by the coach from the perception of the athlete (Olympiou, Jowett & Duda, 2008). A coach’s role in an athlete’s life is not limited to simply the performance of the athlete or the environment in which the athlete is performing, but expands to the mental health, the psychological well being of the athlete because the actions of coaches and their relationships with athletes directly affects the athletes’ psychological needs and functioning (Felton & Jowett, 2013). The current research will examine the effects coaches have on the psychological well being of their players. From conducting this research, it was found that NCAA Division 1 women soccer coaches’ actions and words can have both a positive and negative affect on the psychological well being of their players that be carried on to the field as well as off

Comparisons of Three Global Models of Earth\u27s Magnetosphere During Quiet Geomagnetic Times

The Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) at the Center for Space Environment Modeling (CSEM) at the University of Michigan is a powerful tool for modeling space weather and space physics phenomena in the Earth-Sun system. The Block-Adaptive Tree Solarwind Roe-type Upwind Scheme (BATS-R-US), Ionospheric Electrodynamic, and Inner Magnetospheric models within SWMF can be coupled to assess a number of quantities related to the dynamics of the earth\u27s magnetosphere. The basic MHD model—referred in the work as the “Ideal MHD model”—in use is the coupling of BATS-R-US with IE, however IM models are being added to form a global MHD model. Currently, there are two different IM models for this purpose: the Rice Convection Model and the Comprehensive Ring Current Model. This paper assesses the differences between the three couplings and lays a foundation for future comparisons. Cross correlation values between coupling efficiency and cross polar cap potential and polar cap area are carefully considered in the comparison as are time variation plots of each of these values. Contour plots each hemisphere are made for each model and run time and are also considered in the analysis. These plots contain field-aligned currents and Hall and Pedersen conductivities over-plotted on the open-closed field line boundary and electric potential values

Normally Fluent Preschoolers\u27 Response to Linguistic Complexity

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effect of linguistic complexity on the speech of normally fluent preschoolers. Participants were 4 normally fluent children between the ages of 4; 2 and 4; 11 (years;months). Bernstein-Ratner and Sih (1987) was replicated and extended. The participants were encouraged to imitate a total of 136 utterances, or 34 utterances embedded in four different story contexts. These 136 utterances represented ten different levels of complexity from simple active affirmative declarative up to center-embedded relative clause types of sentences. After all utterances were imitated, the child was then asked to retell the most recent story to their mother to examine the type of disfluency elicited. Each of ten utterance types, ranging in linguistic complexity, was analyzed on the average number of sentence errors and on the types and frequencies of disfluencies based on complexity. Rand-order correlations found significant relationships between the increasing complexity of an utterance and the production of an error (r=.879, p=.00) and when it was correlated with the number of other disfluencies (r=.714, p=.01) and total disfluency (r=.62, p=.028). Findings support the hypothesis that the production of disfluencies increases as utterance complexity increases

“But I Only Wanted Them to Conform”: A Detailed Look into the Initial Cohort of Girls at the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls between 1873 and 1884

For the past four years, as part of a group of currently and formerly incarcerated scholars, we have researched the “inmates” and staff at the Indiana Women’s Prison during the institution’s first decade. Then known as the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, the facility was located near downtown Indianapolis on Randolph and Michigan Street. We focused on a key constituent of the Indiana Reformatory for Women and Girls: the girls themselves, heretofore voiceless and uninvestigated. Our primary sources include the annual reports of the reformatory and the original registries for the girls during the survey period of 1873–1884. Contemporary news articles revealed in-depth details, particularly regarding an investigation launched in 1881 concerning allegations of severe physical abuse on the part of the staff committed against the women and girls. We have also derived information from books and articles written by traditional and current scholars, which provide background on the reformatory movement in the 19th century, particularly regarding juveniles. This information allows us to draw a verbal picture of what the average girl looked like coming into and going out of the facility. We give an account of their days, revealing an extremely strict work and education regimen to which they were forced to adhere. They also received vocational training in domesticity, which was used, in part, to prepare them for being sent out of the prison via the ticket-of-leave system. We will also expound on the evidence of cruelty and abuse that were disguised as love and reformation

Nearer, My God, to Thee: Religion in Executed Persons' Last Statements

This study aims to answer three questions: does religiosity increase with the amount of time spent on death row as indicated by religion in the person’s last statement; what themes occur in the religious last statements; and what can we learn about religiosity based on the different mechanisms employed by the religious and nonreligious statements? Using available data from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, I perform a content analysis on all 409 last statements of persons executed between 1982 and 2014. Using interviews with death row chaplains and the theory of theodicy, I conclude that religiosity does not increase with the amount of time spent on death row, but serves as one of two important mechanisms to make meaning out of time on death row and to transcend their impending death.Bachelor of Art

Excessive Post- Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC) Following a Twenty-Minute Submaximal Cycle Test

According to McArdle et al. (2015), Excessive Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC) computes the total oxygen consumed in recovery minus the total oxygen consumed at rest during the recovery period. According to McArdle et al. (2015), VO2 mL/kg/min is defined as maximal oxygen consumption. According to McArdle et al. (2015), respiratory exchange ratio (RER) is the ratio of carbon dioxide produced to oxygen consumed under rest and steady-state conditions with little reliance on anaerobic metabolism. According to Dr. et al. (2004), EPOC is also known as O2 deficit and was used as a measure of anaerobic metabolism during exercise. According to McArdle et al. (2015), there are two forms that are used to help determine EPOC for exercise and recovery: active recovery and passive recovery. Active recovery is defined as ‘cooling down’ or ‘tapering off’ and passive recovery is where an individual usually lies down presuming that total inactivity reduces the resting energy requirements and thus ‘frees’ oxygen to fuel the recovery process (McArdle et al., 2015). During this study, the individual performed a passive recovery. V̇O2 is the maximal oxygen consumption that an individual utilizes during an intense exercise (McArdle et al., 2015). Heart rate is the number of times the heart beats per minute which is based on the number of contractions of the ventricles. Pulmonary Ventilation (VE) describes the process of moving and exchanging ambient air with air in the lungs (McArdle et al., 2015). The purpose of this study was to determine if EPOC could be assessed in a 20–32-year-old college student 10 minutes after a sub max cycling test is performed. It was hypothesized that EPOC can be assessed 10 minutes after a submaximal cycle test is performed.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/exercise-science-research-proposal-posters/1138/thumbnail.jp