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As Rudyard Kipling says in his poem “The Ballad of East and West,” “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” In the battle between East and West, the swastika gets pulled and ripped. It gets rotated and flipped back and forth. The West was introduced to the extreme hatred of the swastika; the East embraces the swastika as a symbol of unshakable faith. Hinduism is Hinduism and Hitler is Hitler; the two shall never meet. Jennifer Wernimont: I am a sophomore double major in Dance and Health Sciences. I am heavily involved with the clubs Dance/Theater and InterVarsity, and I work as a Madison Advising Peer through JMU. I am an advocate of coffee in the morning, football in the afternoon, cookie dough in the evening, and the beach whenever possible. I am passionate about writing in its most organic form and I love the idea that small factoids can grow into developed papers that people can find inspiration in. We were given amazing freedom in this assignment back in GWRTC103: we were told to write about writing. My brainstorming process took a while but my interest was piqued by a conversation I had with my sister, during which she noted that the swastika was originally used as a symbol of peace. I remember thinking that the twisted way it was perceived now was such a shame, and I recognized that I wasn\u27t shocked to hear about its double meaning. I was inspired to examine this concept further, and from that inspiration my paper grew. I had a lot of support from my professor, whose passion for thinking outside the box led me to explore formatting and sentence structure in ways I had never seen as appropriate for lengthy papers. I\u27m grateful for the opportunity I to learn so much in that class

My Manifesto Doesn\u27t Fit on This Bumper Sticker

The drive has turned into an opportunity for life lessons, and it seems true that “the best advice often comes in the smallest packages, and it doesn\u27t get much smaller than the pithy sayings plastered to the backs of Toyotas and Kias” (Jasheway-Bryant 46). This person is actively engaged in road conversation. Does her road conversation translate into actual conversation with people she knows? Does she live this active and engaged lifestyle? Of course she does, because a whole life can be stuck onto a bumper. Jennifer Wernimont: I am a sophomore double major in Dance and Health Sciences. I am heavily involved with the clubs Dance/Theater and InterVarsity, and I work as a Madison Advising Peer through JMU. I am an advocate of coffee in the morning, football in the afternoon, cookie dough in the evening, and the beach whenever possible. I am passionate about writing in its most organic form and I love the idea that small factoids can grow into developed papers that people can find inspiration in. During the process of writing this paper, my inspiration came from my wandering eyes on the road. I am interested in the different ways people express or define themselves through their choice of bumper stickers. I am also intrigued by the enclosing nature of stereotypes, and wanted to portray that in this sense of viewing the world in the repetitiveness of black and white. I suppose I see this paper as a challenge to myself and others to take risks in self-expression, removing the influence of the cookie-cutters that have been previously and inaccurately molded. I want readers to identify with the owner of that last bumper sticker, the one whose manifesto didn\u27t quite fit

Continent Comparisons with Research Tools

Students will be able to correctly organize the continents in order by their size (area), population, highest and lowest elevation, and percent of Earth’s mass

Federal law and American Indian identity

It has become increasingly clear that racial, ethnic, and political identities are critical issues for many peoples. This is especially true for indigenous populations within the United States and throughout the world. Due to their unique political relationship with federal governmental law and policy-making bodies, American Indian groups are constantly being defined by such institutions while concurrently defining themselves. Through anthropological assessments, such as linguistic analysis and historical particularism, I examine ways in which the United States federal government has changed its policy toward American Indian nations through processes of perceived identity. Law and policy are central in this assessment as the main forms of linguistic and cultural communication between the United States federal government and American Indian nations. Specifically, I analyze such communication through an examination of certain laws and policies with regard to historical and current federal definitions of who is legally considered Indian. This is executed through a dissection of issues such as race, ethnicity, and Indian nationhood. I also incorporate interviews and historical accounts in an attempt to more comprehensively convey how such issues affect daily life, images of the self, and alterations in national identity. I do not claim to define American Indian culture or insinuate that American Indian culture is invented. Nor do I claim that law and policy are the only avenues through which identity formation occurs. Instead, I assess the processes by which American Indians formulate their tribal/national identity through laws and policies, created by the United States federal government, directed towards such groups. I also analyze how these factors impact the contexture of their national identity in various ways. The analysis of identity processes is of crucial importance for many American Indian groups due to the fact that they are constantly required to assert and legitimize their identities to outside groups in order to retain and exert their sovereign positions

“Performing Archive”: Identity, Participation, and Responsibility in the Ethnic Archive

This essay is an effort to reflect on the theoretical underpinnings and implications of both our three-month process and its product. In particular, we would like to consider how our digital book both publishes an archive and allows authors and readers to “perform archive” or enact “liveness” with the materials therein. We also want to use this as an occasion to raise questions regarding the liberal discourse of digital access that seems at times to overshadow opportunities for critical intervention at this moment of digital-archive fever. In particular, we want to bring the insights of critical race and ethnic studies to reorient the issues of archival agency, as well as consider the ways in which recent paradigm shifts in the archival practice with respect to Native American materials can contribute to the discussion in the digital humanities about issues of cultural representation and its relationship to scholarly design

Crystal structure of subunit VPS25 of the endosomal trafficking complex ESCRT-II

BACKGROUND: Down-regulation of plasma membrane receptors via the endocytic pathway involves their monoubiquitylation, transport to endosomal membranes and eventual sorting into multi vesicular bodies (MVB) destined for lysosomal degradation. Successive assemblies of Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport (ESCRT-I, -II and III) largely mediate sorting of plasma membrane receptors at endosomal membranes, the formation of multivesicular bodies and their release into the endosomal lumen. In addition, the human ESCRT-II has been shown to form a complex with RNA polymerase II elongation factor ELL in order to exert transcriptional control activity. RESULTS: Here we report the crystal structure of Vps25 at 3.1 Å resolution. Vps25 crystallizes in a dimeric form and each monomer is composed of two winged helix domains arranged in tandem. Structural comparisons detect no conformational changes between unliganded Vps25 and Vps25 within the ESCRT-II complex composed of two Vps25 copies and one copy each of Vps22 and Vps36 [1,2]. CONCLUSIONS: Our structural analyses present a framework for studying Vps25 interactions with ESCRT-I and ESCRT-III partners. Winged helix domain containing proteins have been implicated in nucleic acid binding and it remains to be determined whether Vps25 has a similar activity which might play a role in the proposed transcriptional control exerted by Vps25 and/or the whole ESCRT-II complex

Wear and Care Feminisms at a Long Maker Table

Although there is a deep history of feminist engagement with technology, the FemTechNet initiative (a feminist collective of which we are both a part) argues that such history is often hidden and that feminist thinkers are frequently siloed. At the same time, initiatives to promote critical making, acts of “shared construction” in which makers work to understand both the technologies and their social environments, often exclude women and girls from hacker/makerspaces that require both explicit permissions and access to implicit reserves of tacit knowledge. Even attempts to provide superficial hospitality can inflict microagressions on those who feel excluded from the sites of technology. When these bastions for tinkering under the hood promote “pinkification” with hyper-feminized projects and materials empha - sizing servility, consumerism, or beauty culture, the results are often counterproductive. Take, for example, Google’s recent “Made with Code” effort, which emphasized accessories and selfies as projects appropriate for girls. Even the otherwise admirable “Girls Who Code” site tends to rely on the default design schemes of stereotypical gender typing, including a curling cursive script for section heads, a color palette dominated by a rose-pink, and the iconography of sisterhood and empowerment in the graphics and scrolling images.https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/1004/thumbnail.jp

Getting Familiar with Mapping

Students will identify characteristics of maps and learn how to use tools to make and analyze them

Picky eating in preschool children:associations with dietary fibre intakes and stool hardness

It has been suggested that constipation may be associated with picky eating. Constipation is a common condition in childhood and a low intake of dietary fibre may be a risk factor. Differences in fibre intake between picky and non-picky children and its relation to stool consistency is currently not well-understood. Children enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children identified as picky eaters (PE) were compared with non-picky eaters (NPE): (1) to determine dietary fibre intake at 38 months; (2) to investigate whether any difference in dietary fibre intake was predictive of usual stool hardness at 42 months. PE was identified from questionnaires at 24 and 38 months. Usual stool hardness was identified from a questionnaire at 42 months. Dietary intake was assessed at 38 months with a food frequency questionnaire. Dietary fibre intake was lower in PE than NPE (mean difference –1.4 (95% CI –1.6, –1.2) g/day, p<0.001). PE was strongly associated with dietary fibre intake (adjusted regression model; unstandardised B –1.44 (95% CI –1.62, –1.24) g/day, p<0.001). PE had a lower percentage of fibre from vegetables compared with NPE (8.9% vs 15.7%, respectively, p<0.001). There was an association between PE and usually having hard stools (adjusted multinomial model; OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.07, 1.61; p=0.010). This was attenuated when dietary fibre was included in the model, suggesting that fibre intake mediated the association (OR 1.16, 95% CI 0.94, 1.43, p=0.180). Picky eating in 3-year-old children was associated with an increased prevalence of usually having hard stools. This association was mediated by low dietary fibre intake, particularly from vegetables, in PE. For children with PE, dietary advice aimed at increasing fibre intake may help avoid hard stools