Complex Personhood as the Context for Intimate Partner Victimization: One American Indian Woman\u27s Story

This qualitative case study explores one American Indian (AI) woman’s experience of intimate partner violence and the subsequent murder of her abusive partner. The lens of complex personhood (Gordon, 1997) has been applied as a method for understanding “Annie’s” multiple identities of AI woman, victim of intimate partner violence, mother, and convicted felon. The aim of the current case study was to uncover implicit and explicit meanings embedded in the experiences of moving from a victim of IPV to an off ender by applying a framework of hermeneutic phenomenology as the methodology. Three relational themes emerged from the interview data: “Getting out of Hand,” “They’re in my Footstep all the Way Now,” and “What’s a Miranda Right”? Lastly, this article begins an exploration into the complex link between victimization and off ending as it applies to one battered woma

Libraries, schoolrooms, and mud Gadowns: formal scenes of reading at East India Company stations in India, c. 1819–1835

The East India Company began to establish lending libraries for soldiers at its stations in India from about 1891 and, by the early 1830s, the majority of those responsible for the day-to-day operation of these institutions were keen to stress their beneficial effect upon the readers who frequented them. In a series of reports that were written at this time station chaplains and commanding officers emphasised that reading was having a positive effect upon the men’s behaviour. What also emerges from these reports is evidence of a contemporary belief that the ‘setting’ in which reading took place determined the degree to which the activity was beneficial

Assessing the Effectiveness of Extensive Green Roofs at Improving Environmental Conditions in Atlanta, Georgia

Green roofs can be an effective mitigation strategy to offset the environmental impact that urbanization has on the environment. The roof area for the city of Atlanta and for the Georgia State University campus was used to compare the effectiveness of green roofs at removing pollutants, abating stormwater runoff, and reducing the urban heat island at different scales. Results show that the warmest part of the city is the urban core with a mean of 33.5°C, which is also the area of the city with the highest percentage of impermeable surfaces at 91%. At the GSU scale, green roofs can reduce land surface temperature in the urban core up to 2.62°C, remove up to 73 kg of atmospheric pollutants annually, and reduce stormwater runoff by up to 32.3% annually. Results were less significant at the Atlanta scale due to the large amount of vegetated surfaces that already exist

The Changing Role of the School Psychologist in Response to Intervention

Traditionally, school psychologists have used the I.Q. discrepancy model to measure academic achievement versus student academic ability in order to determine if the student may be eligible for special education services under the category of specific learning disability (SLD). With the reauthorization of IDEA 1997 in December 2004, new policies under Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) were signed into law and became effective July 1. 2005. While the use of the I.Q. discrepancy model is permitted, technically adequate assessments and researched based instructional practices must also be in place and student progress recorded before students can be diagnosed with a SLD. Response to Intervention (RtI) has been presented as a means to provide scientifically researched based strategies and assessments to struggling students before the SLD diagnosis can be determined. RtI is a general education initiative that can provide early intervention strategies to all learners, and assist students in a general education environment. RtI may prevent the need for special education services for many students who would be diagnosed with a specific learning disability. This qualitative phenomenological study will examine the views of three veteran school psychologists and their beliefs in what the role the school psychologist has been and will be with the implementation of RtI. Participants will discuss how that role may change as the use of the discrepancy model becomes secondary in the identification of SLD. The traditional role of the school psychologist will be examined using historical data to provide insight into the conventional use of the school psychologist. The evolution of school psychology from its philosophical roots in philosophy through the present day acceptance of school psychology as a science and a profession will also be researched

Free Exercise of Religion: A Luxury Our Nation Can No Longer Afford?

Employment Division v. Smith, 110 S.Ct. 1595 (interim ed. 1990)

Employment Experiences Of Black And White Veterans With Service-Connected Disabilities

ABSTRACT EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AND WHITE VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES by SHARON YVONNE MURPHY May 2014 Advisor: Dr. Khari Brown Major: Sociology Degree: Doctor of Philosophy The study examined the association between race and employment experiences among Veterans with disability to determine if employment experience differed for White and Black Veterans in the labor market. The research revealed typical characteristics of employment experiences, which suggest that work is completed at multiple levels, based on multiple factors and it is shaped by maintenance of historical discrimination and challenges, demographic and socioeconomic factors often beyond the control of the minority Veteran. For instance, this research found that historically Black Veterans with disabilities reported different employment experiences in the labor market. They reported that they received limited healthcare, have higher rates PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) diagnoses, experienced higher poverty, illness and injuries, which affected their civilian labor market participation (Kuzy, 2004). These Black Veterans with disabilities reported lower employment when compared to their non-Black counterparts. Data from the 2007 Veterans Employability Research Survey (VERS) assessed the experiences of Black Veterans with disabilities compared to the employment experiences of non-Black Veterans with service-connected disabilities to understand their employment experiences. Finally, using the segmentation market theories to explain the different experiences of White and Black Veterans with service-connected disabilities in the labor market this study determined that many veterans with service-connected disabilities, primarily minority and African American Veterans traditionally have employment experiences within the lower-tiers of the labor market. Despite social demographics patterns, educational history and military rank, branch and time in the service, which might have exposed Black Veterans to training and opportunities, race continued to influence the overall employment experiences of Black Veterans with service-connected disabilities when compared to White Veterans with service-connected disabilities