On FOSTA and the Failures of Punitive Speech Restrictions

The Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) has provoked criticism from free-speech advocates, people involved in the commercial sex trade, everyday internet users, and scholars who deem the Act dangerous and ineffective. This Note helps to explain how such a controversial law came to be. Indeed, FOSTA is part of a legacy of failed attempts at reforming laws to comport with feminist goals—in this case, ending online sex trafficking and providing relief for sex-trafficking survivors, a group that consists largely of women and other marginalized people. But FOSTA, like its predecessors, fails to provide real relief to its intended beneficiaries. Instead, it falls into the trap of punitiveness by prioritizing punishing offenders over providing meaningful relief for sex- trafficking survivors. By shifting the focus away from punitiveness and toward actual aid, this Note proposes a solution that helps sex-trafficking survivors without endangering free internet speech, consensual sex workers, or others currently affected by FOSTA’s speech restrictions. This solution accords with both First Amendment doctrine and much of the feminist consensus on improving the lives of women, girls, and other marginalized communities

Street Life in London: Context and Commentary

This book is the first-ever in-depth analysis of the genesis, development and context of Smith and Thomson’s innovative publication. Now regarded as a pioneering photo-text and a foundational work of socially conscious photography – “one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium’s history” (The Photobook: A History) – Street Life in London did not achieve commercial success in its own time. In Street Life in London we see the start, but not the conclusion, of a conversation between text and image in the service of education, reportage and social justice.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/avc_books/1000/thumbnail.jp

Synthesis of the N4 Tetradentate Ligand

From the Washington University Office of Undergraduate Research Digest (WUURD), Vol. 12, 05-01-2017. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Joy Zalis Kiefer, Director of Undergraduate Research and Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences; Lindsey Paunovich, Editor; Helen Human, Programs Manager and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences Mentor: Liviu Miric

Tetracycline resistance gene tet(W) abundances in settled dust of North Carolina residences

As antibiotic resistance has become a notable public health issue, increasing studies have characterized antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) throughout environments with high risk for antibiotic resistance, particularly hospitals and confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). However, relatively little research has been devoted to studying ARGs in the residential home, where the risk factors for non-nosocomial antibiotic resistant infections may be assessed. This study tested for ribosomal protection tetracycline resistance genes tet(O), tet(M), tet(Q), and tet(W) using PCR on community DNA of 90 homes in North Carolina. Only tet(W) was detected. Using quantitative PCR (qPCR), the abundance of tet(W) per bacterial genome was determined, and outdoor sample subsets were found to correlate to total livestock density and bacterial families Clostridiaceae, Streptococcaceae, and Bacteroidaceae. However, the central result of this study was the detection of tet(W) in the majority of samples but of none of the other genes, contrary to studies that find both tet(W) and tet(M) throughout environments unaffected by human activity

Angels of Punishment and the Sword of God: Symbols of Justice or Tyranny?

It is the inherent ambiguity of the imagery in Genesis 3.24 and Matthew 10.34 that provides the focus of this article, addressing the theme of Sacred and Sacrilegious by investigating how these biblical passages were used to express negative apprehensions of God and Christianity. The poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Thomas Love Peacock, along with the artist J.M.W. Turner, take the sacred images of the Sword of God and the avenging angel, literal representations of the Glory of God, and reinterpret them in a sacrilegious manner.

Graduate Recital:Emily Morgan, Violin

Kemp Recital Hall Wednesday Evening March 5, 2008 6:00p.m

A study of the effect of the integration of children\u27s literature into the science curriculum on student understanding of scientific concepts

The effect of integrating children\u27s literature into the science curriculum on student understanding of science concepts was investigated. The study involved 354 third-grade students from 14 classrooms. Students in the traditional textbook group read and discussed the textbook on a certain science topic, performed a hands-on science activity or experiment on the topic, and were tested for understanding of that topic. Students in the literature group followed the same procedure but the textbook was substituted with science trade books. Student understanding was determined by collecting scores on district Performance Objective Assessments. Results were analyzed with a multivariate analysis using the participants\u27 2nd grade scores on the science Terra-Nova tests and classroom science teacher as covariates for all statistical comparisons of individual tests and overall results. Results show that students in the literature group scored significantly higher (p \u3c 0.10) than the traditional textbook group on three of the five P .0. tests. Overall results showed that students in the literature group scored significantly higher (p \u3c 0.03) than the traditional textbook group by 3 percent of the mean normalized score for all five tests (79.6 vs. 76.6). A teacher-made survey revealed that students prefer the literature-based science instruction to the textbook-based science instruction. These results imply that the integration of children\u27s literature can increase student understanding and enjoyment in science class

Junior Recital:Emily Morgan, Violin

Kemp Recital Hall Wednesday Evening March 24, 2004 7:30p.m