Mother Goose for the Graveyard Girl: A Collection of Poetry

Mother Goose for the Graveyard Girl is a collection of poetry that navigates mental illness and body image through the imagery of fairy tales

Promoting Resilience and Preventing Sexual Offenses in Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review

Maltreatment is often experienced in adverse environments during childhood. Children who survive maltreatment demonstrate protective and risk factors that impact the developmental pathway to lifelong outcomes. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify the factors that impact the pathway between surviving childhood sexual abuse and committing a sexual offense. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse may possess protective factors that are important towards their ability to function and have positive lifelong outcomes. For survivors of childhood sexual abuse, it is important to identify the protective factors essential to positive lifelong outcomes and resilience. Educating professionals on important protective factors for survivors of childhood sexual abuse can improve screening tools and interventions. This would be to provide effective treatment that supports the protective factors to decrease the likelihood of lifelong negative outcomes. Without interventions and screening tools effectively supporting protective factors, risk factors can overcome and impact the pathway to committing a sexual offense. With this in mind, educating professionals on identifying the risk factors is important in order to provide them on screening tools and in interventions for effective treatment. A systematic review research design was used to analyze 19 articles that met inclusion criteria. The articles were analyzed in the results section to identify the protective factors that survivors of sexual abuse experience, and the risk factors that could potentially impact the pathway to an outcome of committing a sexual offense. The discussion demonstrates assumptions in which factors impact the pathway between surviving childhood sexual abuse and committing a sexual offense. The need for future research is suggested to further understand the factors between the pathway of surviving childhood sexual abuse and committing sexual offenses

Promoting Resilience and Preventing Sexual Offenses in Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Systematic Review

Maltreatment is often experienced in adverse environments during childhood. Children who survive maltreatment demonstrate protective and risk factors that impact the developmental pathway to lifelong outcomes. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify the factors that impact the pathway between surviving childhood sexual abuse and committing a sexual offense. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse may possess protective factors that are important towards their ability to function and have positive lifelong outcomes. For survivors of childhood sexual abuse, it is important to identify the protective factors essential to positive lifelong outcomes and resilience. Educating professionals on important protective factors for survivors of childhood sexual abuse can improve screening tools and interventions. This would be to provide effective treatment that supports the protective factors to decrease the likelihood of lifelong negative outcomes. Without interventions and screening tools effectively supporting protective factors, risk factors can overcome and impact the pathway to committing a sexual offense. With this in mind, educating professionals on identifying the risk factors is important in order to provide them on screening tools and in interventions for effective treatment. A systematic review research design was used to analyze 19 articles that met inclusion criteria. The articles were analyzed in the results section to identify the protective factors that survivors of sexual abuse experience, and the risk factors that could potentially impact the pathway to an outcome of committing a sexual offense. The discussion demonstrates assumptions in which factors impact the pathway between surviving childhood sexual abuse and committing a sexual offense. The need for future research is suggested to further understand the factors between the pathway of surviving childhood sexual abuse and committing sexual offenses

The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction

While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today

Is Ginger an Effective Treatment for Moderate or Severe Dysmenorrhea in Females Over The Age of 18?

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this selective EBM review is to determine whether or not ginger is a safe and effective treatment for moderate or severe dysmenorrhea in females over the age of 18. STUDY DESIGN: Review of three randomized controlled studies. All three studies are published in English between 2009-2013. DATA SOURCES: Three randomized placebo controlled studies found using PubMed and Medline. OUTCOMES MEASURED: The outcomes that were measured were severity of pain, duration of pain, change in symptoms, and change in severity. This was done by using a visual analogue scale, 5-point Likert scale, Wilcoxon’s rank-sum test, and verbal multidimensional scoring system. RESULTS: The first study, the Jenabi study showed that 29 subjects, 82.85%, reported improvement in their dysmenorrhea symptoms compared to 16 subjects, 47.05%, in the placebo group determined by the five-point Likert scale. In the second study, Ozgoli et al study showed that 62% of subject showed improvement using ginger capsules via a verbal multidimensional scoring system, as compared to 66% of patients using ibuprofen respectively. The third study, Rahnama et al study showed that the ginger group reported 11 hours less pain duration as well as 3 cm less in severity of pain than the placebo group, measured by verbal multidimensional scoring system and visual analogue scale. No serious adverse events were noted in any of the three studies. CONCLUSIONS: Based on these three trials, ginger is a safe and effective treatment for moderate or severe dysmenorrhea. Each study showed improvement of symptoms or showed it to be as effective as NSAIDs without any serious side effects when using ginger

The Navajo Cultural Immersion Project

It was nearly dark. We found the turnoff near the garbage trucks. The directions included landmarks such as the second fence, the sheer cliff,\u27\u27 the dump. Following the rutted dirt road, we passed the dump and turned left toward what looked like buildings. After crossing a treacherous, high. earthen dam (with no water behind it) we found only deserted shacks and the remains of a large corral at the base of a magnificent sheer red rock wall. Recrossing the dam, we continued another two and one-half miles and came to a slanted wash behind a hillock which held a small barn and two residential buildings (one having been unfinished for some years). About a hundred sheep lay asleep packed into a corral. We parked the van and knocked on the door of the small house. Upon entering, we met Monica Damon (seemingly a strange Indian name-we found later that she was a descendant of an Irish cavalryman and a Navajo woman): she dressed very traditionally, and spoke no English. We spoke no Navajo. The house consisted of two rooms and a bathroom. Since there was no running water or electricity, the bathroom only acted as a storage area. We made our hellos and introductions (very awkwardly, because of the language barrier), and then sat around a blazing pot-bellied stove. The heat was intense. Few words were spoken. A little uneasiness was apparent

The Pierre-Niobrara Unconformity In Western Nebraska

The Pierre-Niobrara unconformity, one of several significant unconformities in the Cretaceous System of the Western Interior region, has not generally been recognized. Detailed correlation of electric logs of a large number of wells in western Nebraska provides evidence of its existence. Isopach maps of the beds occupying three identifiable stratigraphic intervals - a redefined Niobrara Formation, an unnamed uppermost Niobrara unit, and an unnamed basal Pierre unit, which includes the Ardmore Bentonite - provide recognizable geologic patterns that permit reconstruction of the stages of development of the unconformity. The upper part of the Niobrara Formation has been truncated in several areas of western Nebraska. Truncation is most pronounced in northwestern Nebraska, where the unnamed uppermost Niobrara unit, elsewhere more than 100 feet thick, is entirely absent. Throughout much of western Nebraska, however, such truncation is subtle and not easily recognized. The unnamed basal unit of the Pierre Shale consists of silty shale and bentonite. Although discontinuous, it attains a thickness of more than 60 feet in at least one locality. Early Pierre topography appears to have been structurally controlled, uplands tending to coincide with uplifts. The basal Pierre unit is especially well developed in two south-southwest-trending troughs which appear to coincide with synclines. The silty shale well may be of fluvial origin, having been derived from the Niobrara strata of adjacent uplands. Detailed mapping and analysis of unconformities, such as the one between the Niobrara and Pierre Formations, enables the geologic history of the Cretaceous Western Interior region to be interpreted more fully