Examining the Invisibility of Girl-to-Girl Bullying in the Schools: A Call to Action

It does not matter whether one is 13, 33, or 53 years old, but if you are female, chances are that other girls have bullied you sometime in your lifetime. Bullying is not the kind of abuse that leaves broken bones; rather, it is a dehumanizing experience that manifests itself in the form of rumor spreading, name calling, psychological manipulation, character assassination, and social exclusion. Female teachers who are former victims of girl bullies or who themselves have been complicit with girl-to-girl bullying, consistently casting a blind eye to this ritualized social degradation, allowing it to continue generation after generation. The purpose here is not to blame teachers, but rather to seek an answer to \u27What are the social or institutional forces that prevent adults in the schools from seeing what they may have experienced themselves?\u2

Analyzing Marriage Statistics as Recorded in the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1889 to 2012

The United States has been tracking American marriage statistics since its founding. According to the United States Census Bureau, “marital status and marital history data help federal agencies understand marriage trends, forecast future needs of programs that have spousal benefits, and measure the effects of policies and programs that focus on the well-being of families, including tax policies and financial assistance programs.”[1] With such a wide scope of applications, it is understandable why marriage statistics are so highly studied and well-documented. This thesis will analyze American marriage patterns over the past 100 years as documented in the Journal of the Statistical Association, noting the changes between overall trends and which variables are analyzed and providing historical context. I will be focusing on three primary areas of interest: childbearing and fertility, women, and race. [1] “Why We Ask Questions About... Marital Status / Marital History.” United States Census Bureau. Accessed March 10, 2022. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/

Truth Seeking

What does it mean anymore to be an informed citizen? To know the difference between fact and fiction? To know truth—something proven by facts or sincerity, accuracy, correctness, reality, integrity, and honesty. We currently find ourselves in a swamp of falsehoods, where Trump’s 8000 plus (as of February 2019) lies go unchallenged by his supporters and the ledgers of his adversaries fill volumes of fabricated truth, where blurring of fact and truth is so intense that media, universities, and science are no longer trusted sources of information, where purposeful misleading and lying becomes fashionable and ‘normalized.’ Truth has become an endangered species in America (Kakutani 2018)

We Change the World by Doing Nothing

The focus of this essay is on what I refer to as \u27bystander apathy.\u27 Bystanderism is the response of people who observe something that demands intervention on their part, but they choose not to get involved. I write this piece to shed light on this issue for others as well as for my own self-reflection - to understand more deeply why some people act against abuses of power and others don\u27t; why sometimes I act and sometimes I don\u27t. What are the forces, both internal and external, that work to keep us all from speaking against and standing up to injustice? In the end, the ultimate question that we all have to face is: If we do nothing, will we have changed the world

The Aesthetics Intersection Between Art and Journalism

Products delivered to consumers from the art world and journalism industry serve as poignant representations of how any given individual experienced personal and global events at any given time in history. Upon accepting art and journalism as opposite spectrums of the same historical documentation method, millions of everyday visuals can be reinterpreted through the philosophical lens of aesthetics. By constructing a database of pieces through history that embody the intersection between art and philosophy, we can begin to understand how people value objectivity and how information is designated as historically significant

Symposium: The Future of Reproductive Rights: An Embryo is Not a Person: Rejecting Prenatal Personhood for a More Complex View of Prenatal Life

This essay considers current claims for prenatal personhood after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It first explains how the Dobbs decision unnecessarily adopts a binary view of prenatal life, suggesting that the only option for courts and legislatures is to recognize prenatal personhood or deny protection for prenatal life. This ignores popular understandings that certain laws can and should protect prenatal life, especially where criminal or tortious actions are concerned, but not grant full legal personhood. The Dobbs decision also refused to draw meaningful lines about the value of prenatal life in different stages of development, giving states vast power to infringe on the rights of people who are or may become pregnant beginning at fertilization. The decision also invites reconsideration of the Court’s prior holding that the zygote-embryo-fetus is not a legal person protected by the Constitution and invokes natural and human rights language to support the broader project of the prenatal personhood movement. The essay then describes the history of prenatal personhood in the U.S., considering failed Personhood Amendments and the places where recognition of limited prenatal personhood has made inroads in the shadow of Roe v Wade. It then examines and critiques current arguments for expansion of prenatal personhood

Nonconfocal multimode resonators for masers

The case of a resonator composed of two concave spherical reflectors separated by an arbitrary distance is examined. The general problem of the electromagnetic field distribution over the nonconfocal aperture is first formulated by means of the Huygens principle. The solution of the resulting integral equation is obtained analytically in the highly nonconfocal limit. It was found that when the reflector spacing d is much larger than the radius of curvature b of the reflectors, the aperture field distribution is in the form of traveling waves. For arbitrary d/b, the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the lowest order mode is obtained by numerical solution using the IBM 7090 computer. The diffraction loss was found to increase rapidly when d→2b and a geometrical interpretation of this behavior is given. Furthermore, it was found that as the spacing departs from the confocal value, the apertures are no longer surfaces of constant phase. The optimum spacing for maximum Q of the resonator is also obtained