Effective transitions for Year 8 students

With increased choice and flexibility in the curriculum at Key Stage (KS) 4, Year 9 students will be required to make decisions that could have implications for their future progression and career choices. The provision of good quality information, advice and guidance (IAG) from Year 7 onwards is, therefore, crucial. This project aimed to establish the extent to which current careers education and guidance (CEG) provision in Years 7 and 8 is effectively equipping students with the key skills they need to make realistic choices and successful transitions in Year 9. The research indicated concerns around the decision making skills gaps, variable quality of experiences, the role of mediation of key information, and the potential for personalised support

Attitudes and Perspectives Towards Undocumented Immigration in the United States

Undocumented immigration has been a historically controversial political topic in the United States and under the Trump Administration. This study aims to look at attitudes towards immigration in the context of whether perception is related to ethnicity or rests on moral belief. It is hypothesized that individuals who score more conservative on the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) are more likely to reflect more anti-immigration beliefs than individuals who score more liberal. It is expected that individuals who have read the Mexican vignette will reflect more anti-immigration beliefs than individuals who have read the Swedish vignette or ethnically ambiguous vignette

Reconstruction Embattled: The Memphis Race Massacre of 1866 in the Press and Tennessee\u27s First Year of Interracial Democracy.

The racial violence that occurred in Memphis, Tennessee on the first three days of May 1866 was no sudden accident. Following the abolition of slavery and the fall of the Confederacy, race riots and racial violence in general intensified as a result of fluctuating race relations in southern states whose social hierarchies were built upon the degradation and supposed inferiority of blacks. The Memphis Massacre of 1866 was one such expression of white anger and bitterness over the disenfranchisement of former Confederates, the increasing numbers of educated, wealthy blacks coming into Memphis, and the disturbance of the old status quo in Tennessee. The violence that erupted through the streets of Memphis resulted in the brutal deaths of dozens of African American men, women, and children. The massacre itself, as well as the shattered state of race relations in Tennessee, grabbed the attention of the entire country and ushered in legislation that would, for the first time, act as a stepping stone for later movements toward full equality and freedom for blacks in the southern United States. Memphis, a city divided and broken after the war, became the center of the most sensational event since the surrender of the Confederacy one year prior. By analyzing reactions to the Memphis Massacre through the use of newspapers from 1866 from different regions of Tennessee, this act of racial violence can be used as a window through which to view post-Civil War race relations in the state of Tennessee

Selling the Country’s Secrets: Willa Cather’s Eco(self)criticism in My Antonia and The Professor’s House

This study considers Willa Cather\u27s ecological consciousness as a writer of place, particularly in My Antonia and The Professor\u27s House. In these two works, Cather\u27s narrative distance provides her with the room to investigate the relationship between humans and their environments. Jim Burden, Godfrey St. Peter, and Tom Outland all exploit their environments to greater or lesser extents based on their way of seeing the world, which Cather draws attention to through her careful characterization and narrative distance. In each narrative, Cather forces readers to recognize the environmental consequences of egocentric vision, and the way such vision can be sustained through fictionalizations of place. Furthermore, by crafting main characters who are also writers of place, Cather call into question the role of authors in either protecting or destroying the environments about which they write, indicating Cather\u27s own awareness of her responsibilities as a writer of the Nebraska prairie during a time of rapid industrial expansion