Engines of Abolition: The Second Great Awakening, Higher Education, and Slavery in the American Northwest.

Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award - Individual Non-Freshman category, grand prizeCitation: Thomas, T. (2016). “Engines of Abolition: The Second Great Awakening, Higher Education, and Slavery in the American Northwest." Unpublished manuscript, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.Charles SandersThe essay “Engines of Abolition: The Second Great Awakening, Higher Education, and Slavery in the American Northwest” analyzes the link between religious revivalism, higher education, and abolitionist tendencies in the states of the former Northwest Territory. It will argue that fired with the moral mandates of the Second Great Awakening, institutions of higher learning founded by evangelical abolitionists often became centers of anti-slavery sentiment. In the years prior to the American Civil War, universities, colleges, and seminaries founded during the Second Great Awakening developed a number of characteristics that profoundly influenced the course of the abolitionist movement. This essay relies on newspaper articles, university-sponsored histories, writings by Southern intellectuals, sermons from revivalist ministers, lectures from university professors, and autobiographies from prominent participants in the Second Great Awakening

Seeing the light – finding the poetic content of design objects

This paper presents the process and initial results of a research through design project attempting to understand the poetic qualities of design objects. This exploration forms part of a PhD study addressing design artefacts as poetic objects - objects that both embed and conjure memory, association and imagination. The research examines the ways in which design objects can be poetic and how designers actively and knowingly use objects to poetic effect. It is proposed that the poetic content of design artefacts can be located on a continuum ranging from the experiential - relating to how we perceive things - to the reflective and cultural. What unites these levels is the capacity of design objects to reveal and change our way of looking at things. The practice uses the design of lighting as a vehicle for exploring the poetic meaning of designed objects more generally. Starting with the notion that lights do more than provide light, the current phase of practice examines the ways in which luminaires can mediate how we perceive and experience light and explores, in particular, the more nuanced and ephemeral qualities of light that escape conscious attention

Hybrid Rocket Engine Ignition and Control

Control of a hybrid rocket engine is dependent upon a robust system capable of executing commands at precise times. In order to accomplish this, hardware systems must be in place to control the flow of a pressurized gas and provide feedback to launch site personnel. Through the use of solenoid valves and wireless transceivers, control over the thrust of a rocket can be accomplished. In order to understand this information and provide a user-friendly interface to complete this, a launch control module is used. Through the combined capabilities of the two system it becomes possible to test and launch a hybrid engine rocket in a safe and efficient manner

Airway Management Techniques and Their Affect on Neurologically Intact Survival in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart begins beating in an uncontrolled, unsustainable fashion that does not allow for adequate circulation of blood to perfuse the brain or sustain life. One of the variables in OHCA is airway management. Many of the EMS protocols across the world put a heavy emphasis on endotracheal intubation as the mainstay of securing an airway. While a successful intubation is certainly the gold standard, it takes time and has a considerable failure rate in the pre-hospital environment. This raises the question; In an adult patient who suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest and who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempts from EMS providers (P), is prehospital placement of an advanced airway device (I) superior to the bag-valve-mask (C) when comparing rates of neurologically intact survival(O)

This life we take: The case against capital punishment

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Experimental taxonomy of some members of the Teesdale flora

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IDENTIFYING SAND BLOW VENTS AND OTHER SUBSURFACE GEOLOGICAL FEATURES USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY

Aerial photographs suggest the presence of numerous sand blows in southern Arkansas but few of the sites have been investigated. Limited work involving trenching, conductivity surveys, and cone penetration tests verify the presence of sand blows in two locations, Ashley County and Desha County. A third location in Lincoln County, called the Phenix site, has received little attention. In the study, ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity survey (ER) have been used to investigate sand blow vents at the Morgan site located in Ashley County and the Phenix site. Nine sand blow vents were detected in total but wet weather conditions diminighed data quality at the Phenix site, illustrating the advantage of conducting surveys under dry conditions. Use of GOR and ER removes most of the guesswork involved in detecting and documenting the presence of sand blows and reduces the time and expense involved in experimental trenching

Not in my Occupation: An Examination of Occupational Identification and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviour

Workplace identification has been investigated as a predictor of unethical pro-organizational behaviour (UPB), a form of unethical behaviour that primarily benefits the organization. While there have been fruitful findings for organizational identification, there is currently a lack of understanding for how other sources of identification influence this relationship. I sought to investigate whether occupational identification, defining oneself as a member of an occupation, would negatively moderate the relationship between organizational identification and UPB in an ethical decision-making study utilizing a sample of 193 accountants. Similarly, to past research, I hypothesized that moral disengagement would be a mediator in the model. Results indicated an unexpected negative non-significant relationship between organizational identification and UPB. Furthermore, occupation identification was negatively related to UPB, but not significant. I also unexpectedly found a significant negative mediating effect of moral disengagement. This research adds to the literature regarding whether identification relates to unethical behaviour

Parent, Child, and Context Factors and Interactions as Precipitants to Child Battering

A random sample of the literature on child battering and interviews with parents who had battered their child was content analyzed. From paragraph themes which indicated causality for child battering, the presence of seven causal dynamics in child battering was noted. The causal dynamics included three factors (parent, child and context) and the interactions between and among the factors. All of the causal dynamics were found to exist in the interviews, literature and separately identified segments of the literature which delineated events immediately preceding an incident of battering. It was concluded that a strong possibility existed that all of the factors and interactions existed in reality. The parent-child and parent-context interactions were shown to be important causal dynamics in child battering. The possibility of the parent-child-context interaction being an important causal dynamic was suggested. A dichotomy between personal troubles of milieu and public issues of social structure for causal dynamics involving the context factor was found to be useful in conducting the content analysis. The dichotomy also yielded interesting results regarding the two aspects of the context factor. Based on all of the results, two theoretical models of child battering were presented. The ‘chain’ model viewed the child and/or the context interacting only with the parent to cause battering. The ‘triangular’ model viewed all of the factors interacting with each other to cause battering. Both models represented an open system rather than a closed system. The need for addressing preventative assistance to all of the causal dynamics at the same time, rather than focusing on an individual factor or interaction, was advanced. Characteristics of the individual factors and interactions contained in the models were speculatively suggested