Legalizing Corporate Political Speech: How Citizens United Laid the Groundwork for Corporations\u27 Right to Political Speech

The right to political speech is essential for democracy, but should corporations have the same rights as individual persons? In this presentation, Prof. Sebold explains how the US Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United determined that political speech extends to corporations and what that ruling may imply for US politics

How the Social Context of Bill Clinton\u27s Childhood Shaped his Personality: Using Oral History Interviews of his Childhood Peers and Relatives

Since individual personality plays an important role in presidential decision-making (Barber, 1972), then understanding the setting that impacted the personality is an important component in any understanding of a president\u27s personality. This study seeks to understand the setting that shaped the personality of William Jefferson Clinton. This case study was selected for two reasons: (1) there is a plethora of descriptive psycho-biographies of Clinton (Maraniss, 1995, Renshon 1996b, Post, 2006) and (2) there are oral history interviews from individuals who were part of Clinton\u27s familial and childhood peer networks. The interviews used for this study are part of the Clinton History Project, a joint oral history study by the University of Arkansas and The Miller Center at the University of Virginia

The Effects of the Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act on the Process of The Campaign Finance in the Presidential Nomination Process

The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act increased the individual donor limit to $2,000 per candidate per election and indexed the limit for inflation every two years. The primary research question guiding this study is how has the increase in the donor limit affected donor behavior. Answering this question should allow a determination to be made about how donors have responded to the increased donor limit. Understanding how donors responded to the doubled limit is important because it provides evidence on the intersection of wealth inequality and political influence. To answer the research question this study considers how the increased donor limit has changed patterns of participation among donors. The focus is on the preprimary period of the presidential race because it is the most important period to campaign fundraising and the stage that provides the sharpest control of several important political variables given no contest is held in this period and most candidates enter in this stage but few drop out before the start of the primary and there is usually no clear frontrunner. The evaluation covers the 2000 election, representing one period before the increase went into effect, and elections of 2004, 2008, and 2012, representing three periods after the increase went into effect. Descriptive and analytic statistics are used to determine if the increased limit is leading to a distortion in the distribution of donations and widening the gap between the bottom and top donors and states. The findings of this study should provide important information about how the donors responded to the law

Esplenectomias no hospital Florianópolis.

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Curso de Medicina, Florianópolis, 200

Desenvolvimento na creche de leitões refugos provenientes de “ama de leite artificial”

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências Agrárias. Curso de Zootecnia.Atualmente, na produção de suínos, o melhoramento genético está voltado para a seleção de matrizes de alta prolificidade. Assim, com o aumento de número de leitões ao nascer, existe a consequência de nascimento de leitões com baixo peso, aumentando casos de mortalidade e reduzindo ganho de peso diário. Na fase de creche, o estresse causado pelo desmame traz consequências como queda na imunidade e no desempenho desses animais. Os leitões de baixo peso, denominados refugos, sofrem maiores consequências frente ao desafio que a fase representa, levando um tempo maior para atingir o peso ideal de saída da creche. Portanto, o objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar o desenvolvimento de leitões considerados refugos e sua taxa de sobrevivência na fase de creche, quando previamente transferidos aos treze dias de vida ao equipamento “ama de leite artificial” comparado aos leitões desmamados diretamente da porca para a fase de creche. Foram avaliados leitões nascidos de 40 matrizes com ordem de parto variável, divididos em três tratamentos: Tratamento “Ama de leite” (TA), composto por leitões refugos transferidos para “ama de leite artificial”; Tratamento Controle (TC), composto por leitões refugos que ficaram com suas mães; Tratamento Natural (TN) com leitões de peso médio que permaneceram com suas mães. O desenvolvimento dos leitões foi mensurado através de pesagens, do nascimento ao final da fase de creche. Os leitões de cada grupo foram pesados individualmente ao nascer, na transferência, ao 10º dia pós transferência, na entrada da fase de creche, aos 21 dias de creche e ao final da creche (40 dias). Os dados de peso individual e ganho de peso diário foram avaliados através de análise de variância por meio de modelo estatístico que incluiu os efeitos de mãe (matriz) e peso ao nascer. O equipamento ama de leite artificial mostrou-se viável na sobrevivência de leitões refugos, visto que não houve ocorrência de óbitos de leitões instalados na máquina. Apesar de terem sido transferidos para a creche mais velhos do que seus pares, os resultados comprovaram que a ama de leite artificial foi fundamental para garantir ganho de peso coerente dos leitões na fase

Philosophy, \u3cem\u3eThe Federalist\u3c/em\u3e, and the Constitution

A Review of Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution by Morton Whit

Applying Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to Single-Member Offices

This Note questions whether an exemption for single-member offices is justified. Part I provides a brief overview of the Voting Rights Act and the types of discrimination in the political process to which it applies., Part I then reviews the decisions on single-member offices, including the courts\u27 attempts to define single-member offices. This Part concludes neither Congress nor the Supreme Court dictates an exemption for single-member offices. Instead, single-member offices should be open to challenge if they hamper the achievement of section 2\u27s goals. Part II identifies the goals of section 2 by developing a number of theories to give meaning to the opportunity to participate and elect language of section 2. This Part concludes the goal of section 2 is to bolster civic inclusion in the political process by eliminating the lingering effects of race discrimination. Part III then tests the exemption for single-member offices against the goal of section 2. This Note concludes that the exemption actually thwarts section 2\u27s goal and, therefore, single-member offices should be open to challenge under section 2. Finally, Part IV develops guidelines for applying section 2 to single-member offices

Lilacs, Cellar Holes, and the Courthouse: A Historian’s Reflections on Re-Creating Mount Desert Islanders

In this article Kimberly Sebold outlines the process by which historians reconstruct the lives of ordinary rural people—in this case, fishermen, carpenters, farmers, and farm-wives living on Mount Desert Island. Using a combination of archival research, archaeology, landscape interpretation, and common sense, Sebold and her colleagues paint a surprisingly detailed picture of these seemingly obscure individuals and the community in which they lived and experienced the joys and hardships of nineteenth-century Maine life. Dr. Sebold received her Ph.D. from the University of Maine in 1998. She is currently an Assistant professor of History at the University of Maine at Presque Isle

“Amid the Great Sea Meadows”: Re-Constructing the Salt-Marsh Landscape through Art and Literature

Salt marshes played an important role in northern New England agricultural from the colonial period to the twentieth century. While some coastal residents depended upon the natural grasses or salt hay to provide them with additional winter fodder, others transformed wetland into farmland through reclamation. The activities of salt marsh farmers created a whole new landscape which, ironically; late nineteenth-century artists and writers portrayed as the last vestiges of a “natural” landscape along the northern New England coast. Their paintings, photographs, poetry and stories established the salt marshes as an important part of coastal New England identity and aided the development of an idealistic world called “Olde New England.” Kimberly R. Sebold, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Maine in 1998