Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation

[Excerpt] “In the 1950s and 1960s, the southern states struggled to respond to the civil rights decisions being issued by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the new civil rights laws being passed by Congress. The judicial battleground for this perfect storm of evasion and massive resistance was found in the “old” Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which encompassed the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In the “old” Fifth Circuit, a minority of liberal appeals court judges—sympathetic to the civil rights movement—used all legal and administrative power at their disposal to make sure that the federal district and appeals courts were complying with the U.S. Supreme Court’s mandate in Brown v. Board of Education. In their ground-breaking book A Court Divided: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Politics of Judicial Reform, political scientists Deborah J. Barrow and Thomas G. Walker carefully examined the political behavior of these aforementioned liberal appeals court judges and found evidence that Elbert Parr Tuttle, the Fifth Circuit’s chief judge from 1960 to 1967, was manipulating, or “gerrymandering,” the assignment of appeals court judges to both three-judge district court panels, and three-judge appellate court panels to guarantee that the panels had at least two liberal judges who would enforce the Supreme Court’s desegregation rulings.

Wycliffite Influence in an Age of Political and Religious Turmoil: A Reassessment of Jack Upland, Friar Daw\u27s Reply, and Upland\u27s Rejoinder

Jack Upland, Friar Daw’s Reply, and Upland’s Rejoinderparticipate in the development and transmission of poetic visions, depicting a world in decline in which friars play a central role. Jack Upland, a Wycliffite prose treatise written between 1390 and 1400, attacks friars as vanguards of Antichrist. Friar Daw’s Reply is a point-by-point fraternal response to Jack Upland written in alliterative verse, composed in either 1419 or 1420 and by a member of the London Blackfriars. Upland’s Rejoinder, a verse rebuttal written in the margins of Friar Daw’s Reply, dates to approximately 1450 and was composed by a Lollard sympathizer. Known as the “Upland series,” these poems respond to nearly two centuries of Latin antifraternal writing including the proto-reformation efforts of William of St. Amour, Richard FitzRalph, John Wyclif, while also following in the secular poetic tradition of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower, who wrote against friars and the decay of human society

Rising While Black: A Qualitative Study on Black-led Gentrification and Socioeconomic Mobility in Central Harlem

Nationwide cities are working to revitalize urban spaces and to slow and reverse the trend of suburban flight. Schools and neighborhoods are at the heart of this mission, with some arguing that education policy is housing policy. Essentially, where there is segregated housing there is segregated schools and that economic and racial diversity in schools is a consequence of economic and racial diversity in neighborhoods. For minority children, living and going to school in mixed-income and racially diverse populations leads to better economic success in adulthood than when minority children live and go to school with majority low-income and high-minority populations. This research has influenced both housing and education policy to support the development of mixed-income and racially diverse schools and neighborhoods. As such policy and practice continues to encourage gentrification, including that of black gentrification, what role does the black gentrifying population play on neighborhood and school equality for low-income black students? Herein lies the objective of the present research. While existing research addresses the role of class on educational equality for low-income black students, it does so without specific scrutiny of the role of the black middle-class on education and neighborhood equality for low-income black students.Thus, the following research questions: (a) how can black gentrification impact education equality for low-income black students?; (b) if controlled for income, does race matter in obtaining educational equality?;(c) how can urban planning impact mixed income black neighborhoods and schools? This research used face-to face in-depth interviews and focus groups to evaluate experiences, perceptions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes about the research topic

Myself and Others [pre-kindergarten]

This unit addresses the Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guideline “Child identifies similarities and differences in characteristics of people.” At the conclusion of this unit, students will know that people are different from one another, people share some characteristics, personal characteristics can be physical or behavioral, and we can describe or name characteristics of people. Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between self and others, identify physical similarities and differences between others, and identify unique characteristics about themselves

Ki Peppers in a Senior Composition Recital

This is the program for the senior composition recital of Ki Peppers. This recital took place on May 1, 1994, in the McBeth Recital Hall in the Mabee Fine Arts Center

Personal Safety [pre-kindergarten]

This unit addresses the Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guideline “Child practices good habits of personal safety.” At the conclusion of this unit, students will know that we should always try to make safe choices, safety is everyone’s responsibility, and rules help keep us safe. Students will be able to identify safe and unsafe choices at school; give examples of safe and choices at home, on the street, and in vehicles; and practice safe behaviors at school (with occasional reminders). Specific areas of safety addressed include school, street, fire, vehicle, and animal safety and safe people vs. strangers

Creating a Malware Analysis Lab and Basic Malware Analysis

In tying together information learned in the Information Assurance program at Iowa State this paper goes over an introduction to malware, basic malware analysis, and setting up a manual malware analysis lab. Malware is malicious software that causes harm. The average malware will have 125 lines of code. Generally, malware consists of 3 components: a concealer, a replicator, and a bomb. Malware is classified based on its nature and functionality. The 3 most common we see are viruses, worms, and Trojans. Malware generally falls into two categories based on its target: mass malware and targeted malware. Four general stages of malware analysis are manual code reversing, interactive behavior analysis, static properties analysis, and automated analysis. The paper goes over basic static and basic dynamic analysis. It briefly touches on advanced static and advanced dynamic analysis to cover 3 of the stages above. Sandboxes are covered and Cuckoo is talked about to cover automated analysis. Setting up a malware analysis lab is talked about as a physical lab or a virtual lab can be set up. Steps are given to use VMWare Workstation Pro to set up a manual malware analysis lab, getting a Microsoft Windows virtual machine, and installing Fireeye’s flare-vm on it. In closing, some work that can be expanded on and done in the future is discussed

The one to one future: building relationship one customer at a time

The One to One Future revolutionized marketing when it was first published. Then considered a radical rethinking of marketing basics, this bestselling book has become today\u27s bible for marketers. Now finally available in paperback, this completely revised and updated edition--with an all-new User\u27s Guide--takes readers step-by-step through the latest strategies needed for any business to compete, and succeed, in the Interactive Age. Most businesses follow time-honored mass-marketing rules of pitching their products to the greatest number of people. However, selling more goods to fewer people is not only more efficient but far more profitable. The One to One Future is a radically innovative business paradigm focusing on the share of customer--one customer at a time--rather than just the share of market. Authors Don Peppers and Martha Rogers reveal one to one strategies to: • Find the 20 percent--or 2 percent--of your own customers and prospects who are the most loyal and who offer the biggest opportunities for future profit; • Collaborate with each customer, one at a time, just as you now work with individual suppliers or marketing partners; • Nurture your relationships with each customer by relying on new one to one media vehicles--not just the mail, but the fax machine, the touch-tone phone, voice mail, cell phones, and interactive television. Leading-edge companies such as MCI, Lexus, Levi Strauss, and Nissan Canada, and thousands of smaller enterprises, have already adopted the one-to-one perspective. The strategies outlined in this book work just as well--often even better--for small companies, from two-person accounting firms to flower shops to furniture stores