Constitution Writing and Conflict Resolution

constitutions, Commonwealth, democracy, governance

My Mom: Modern Day Superwoman

First place winner in the Creative Non-fiction category of the 2018 Emerging Writers Contest. The essay describes the writer\u27s discovery of sign language through a childhood narrative

The Marine Cyanate Cycle

Cyanate (OCN-) is a reduced nitrogen compound with the potential to serve as a nitrogen and carbon source for marine microbes. Evidence from genomes and culture studies indicated that several marine cyanobacterial groups, including representatives of the globally important genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, might be capable of cyanate assimilation. However, prior to this study, the distribution, bioavailability, and production pathways of cyanate were unknown in natural systems due to the absence of a sensitive cyanate assay; and the ability of organisms to assimilate cyanate on relevant timescales was unknown because we lacked a suitable tracer for measuring uptake. I developed a cyanate assay to measure cyanate concentrations in estuarine and seawater samples, and then measured distribution at sites in the coastal western temperate North Atlantic (NA) and eastern tropical South Pacific (ETSP) including the Oxygen Deficient Zone. Cyanate concentrations ranged from below the limit of detection (0.4 nM) to 65 nM in natural samples examined to date. Cyanate was produced photochemically and in senescent diatom cultures, but cyanate was not detectable in wet and dry offshore atmospheric deposition. Using a custom-synthesized 13C15N-labeled cyanate compound, I also measured rates of cyanate uptake by natural microbial communities in the NA and ETSP. Cyanate N uptake ranged from undetectable (\u3c 0.02) to 13 nmol l-1 h-1 and was significantly higher than cyanate C uptake on all cruises. Cyanate N uptake was up to 10% of total measured N uptake at an offshore oligotrophic station in the NA but contributed a smaller fraction of total measured N uptake (\u3c 2%) at coastal stations in the NA and ETSP. The results of this dissertation indicate that: 1) cyanate concentrations are measureable in the marine environment and cyanate has a biological-like distribution in marine systems; 2) cyanate is taken up in surface waters, probably by phytoplankton; 3) cyanate is produced photochemically in sunlit waters and from degradation of organic matter throughout the water column or through direct release by phytoplankton; and 4) cyanate is consumed in the mesopelagic region probably by either conversion to ammonium and then to nitrate or by cyanate-supported anaerobic ammonium oxidation (cyanammox) in oxygen deficient waters

Genre trouble : embodied cognition in fabliaux, chivalric romance, and Latin chronicle

textThis dissertation examines the intersection between theories of body and of genre through the lens of cognitive science. It focuses, in particular, on representations of bodies in exemplars of fabliaux in Old French and Middle English, chivalric romance that feature the figure of Sir Gawain, and the Latin Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds. This dissertation establishes genre theory on cognitive-scientific ground by considering how embodied cognition influences both theories of genre and the representations of bodies. It argues that, rather than a container into which works fit, genre is a network of associations created in the minds of authors and audiences. This network finds expression in the bodies of characters, which differ across genres. It argues, moreover, that genre and bodies influence, in fundamental ways, interpretations of literary works. Finally, this work discusses the possibilities for future research using methods for quantitative textual analysis and data visualization common in the digital humanities.Englis

NURSE HOME VISITATION PROGRAM IN HAMILTON COUNTY, OH TO INCREASE MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES

Hamilton County Ohio currently has poor outcomes related to maternal and infant health, specifically among African Americans. Compared to the Healthy People 2020 goals, Hamilton County has higher rates of infant mortality, preterm birth, neonatal infant mortality, and conception within 18 months of previous pregnancies. These rates are disproportionate among African Americans. For instance, African American babies born in Ohio have higher infant mortality rate (14.3 per 1,000) prematurity as a cause of death (4 per 1,000) and neonatal mortality rate (9.2 per 1,000). These are compared to White babies in Ohio with infant mortality rate (5.1 per 1,000), prematurity as a cause of death (1.4 per 1,000) and neonatal mortality rate (3.4 per 1,000). Similar disparities among maternal health is seen between Black and White women. In order to address these disparities in maternal and infant health, we are proposing a 3 year evidence-based nurse home visitation program that will decrease modifiable risk factors that pertain to poor birth outcomes, decrease modifiable risk factors that pertain to child abuse and neglect, and to help with the parental life course in ways of helping maternal life development in education and the workforce, and decreasing rapid successive pregnancies. This nurse home visitation program has shown great success across the country and we hope to bring it to Hamilton County. Women in the program must be enrolled at or before 28 weeks of pregnancy, and will spend 60-90 minutes with nurses in the homes focusing on the six domains of home visitation (personal health, environmental health, life course development, maternal role, family and friends, and health and human services). Recruitment of participants will occur at the Hamilton County Health Department, Planned Parenthood, and the OBGYN offices of UC Health, Mercy Health and TriHealth. Process evaluations will occur during recruitment and implementation of the program. Outcome evaluations will include questionnaires and biometric data to access our goals of the program. Short term outcomes include having mothers complete the program, mothers receive adequate prenatal care, they deliver full term and appropriate gestational weight babies, and they have knowledge of relaxation and stress relieving techniques. Our medium term outcomes include increasing knowledge of proper prenatal care, increase the knowledge of proper childcare, and mothers better care for their children. Finally, our long term goals for this program include lowering the rates of maternal and infant mortality, lowering the rates of child abuse and neglect, and bettering the lives of the mothers

A Study about Satirical Novels of German Exile in the 1930s by Example of Irmgard Keun, Walter Mehring and Klaus Mann

## Inhaltsverzeichnis ## I "Was ist da komisch?" Satire und NS-Exilliteratur ## II Theoretische Überlegungen 1\. "Er springt wirklich sehr gut übern Stock": Die Figur des Untertanen und Kleinbürgers 1.1 Zur Geschichte literarischer Kleinbürgersatire 1.2 Aggression und Unterwürfigkeit: Kleinbürger und Nationalsozialismus 1.3 Deutschland auf dem "Sonderweg"? Ursachen des Verlusts humanitärer Orientierung 2\. Empörung über eine gestörte Ordnung: Die satirische Schreibweise in der NS-Exilliteratur 2.1 Zur Definition des Begriffs "Satire" 2.2 Weit eher Schmerz als Witz: Lachen über den Nationalsozialismus 3\. Heimgeholt? Die deutsche NS-Exilliteraturforschung 3.1 Die Rezeptionsgeschichte der NS-Exilliteratur 3.2 Ducken, Mitlaufen, Herrschen: Kleinbürgerkritik als Motiv der NS- Exilliteratur ## III "Unerhört gebliebene Propheten": Der Bund Freie Presse und Literatur (BFPL) ### 1\. "Wie lange muß man schweigen, einer Idee zuliebe?" Die Gründung des BFPL ### 2\. Die Gründer des "Bundes Freie Presse und Literatur" 2.1 Konrad Heiden: "Prüfungsfall der Emigration" 2.2 Leopold Schwarzschild: "Das Ende der Illusionen" 2.3 Walter Mehring: Kultur und Kritik sind eins 2.4 Hans Sahl: "Das Exil im Exil" 2.5 Klaus Mann: "Geschworener Feind aller Eclats" ## IV Untertanen, Außenseiter und Mitläufer: Romananalysen ### 1\. Germanische Urnatur und westliche Zivilisation. Walter Mehrings Roman Müller: Chronik einer deutschen Sippe (1935) 1.1 "... gegen alle Dogmen zu ketzern": Der Satiriker Walter Mehring 1.2 Entstehungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Müller-Romans 1.3 Der Aufbau des Romans 1.3.1 "... und Euch zum Trotz": Satire und Wirklichkeit 1.3.2 Verinnerlichter Untertanengeist: Der Typus "Müller" 1.4 Das Lehrbuch als "Lehrdichtung": Die Erzählhaltung in Rahmen- und Binnenhandlung 1.4.1 Die Rahmenhandlung 1.4.1.1 Der Schreibanlass 1.4.1.2 Der zweifache Quellenfund 1.4.1.3 Der fiktive Ich-Erzähler "Mehring" 1.4.2 Die Binnenerzählungen 1.4.2.1 Der Moritatencharakter der Binnenerzählungen 1.5 "Don Quichote des Rassenwahnes": Der Protagonist Dr. Armin Müller 1.6 Die Erfüllung des "Müller-Zukunfts-Wunschtraumes": Untertanenmentalität und Totalitarismus 1.6.1 "Les vicissitudes bourgeoises" - Das "müllersche"Wesen der Deutschen 1.7 Deutsche Geschichte, umgeschrieben. Rassenideologie und "preußische Legende" ### 2\. Kalkulierte Einfalt und der Verlust demokratischer Öffentlichkeit. Irmgard Keuns Roman Nach Mitternacht (1937) 2.1 Verniedlicht, missverstanden, angeeignet: Die Rezeption der Werke Irmgard Keuns 2.2 "Deutsche Wirklichkeit": Die Rezeption des Romans Nach Mitternacht 2.3 Der Aufbau des Romans 2.3.1 Irritierte Chronistin: Satirische Perspektivierung und Ich-Erzählweise 2.3.2 "Sanna", eine Pikara? 2.3.3 Kleinbürger - Untertanen und Schelme 2.4 "Das Äußerste an Mode und Glanz": Öffentlichke= it als Inszenierung 2.4.1 Der Besuch des "Führers" 2.4.2 Der Tod des "Bertchen Silias" 2.4.3 Frauenphantasien: "Tant Adelheid" 2.4.4 Neudeutsche "Wallfahrtstätte": Das "Amt für öffentliche Ordnung" 2.5 Relikte bürgerlicher Gefühlskultur: "Liska Moder" und "Betty Raff" 2.6 Zeit zu schweigen: "Heinis" öffentlicher Selbstmord ### 3\. Verkümmerte Subjektivität und die Freiheit des Narren. Irmgard Keuns Roman D-Zug dritter Klasse (1938) 3.1 "Fühllose Narren und unzeitige Empfindungen": Der Roman D-Zug dritter Klasse 3.2 "Besser und schöner als alle anderen": Die Erzählhaltung 3.3 Halb Kleinbürgerin, halb Närrin: Die Protagonistin "Lenchen" 3.4 Norm vs. Normalität: Satire und die Subjektivität des Außenseiters 3.4.1 Die Figur "Tante Camilla" 3.4.1.1 Der Brustpanzer, Garant der Innerlichkeit 3.4.2 Parodie statt positiven Gegenbilds 3.4.2.1 Das Motiv des Wahnsinns 3.4.2.2 Das Motiv der Welterlösung: "Tante Camilla" 3.5 Außenseitertum und Ideologiekritik. Der Außenseiter \- Antagonist des Kleinbürgers ### 4\. Deutsche Kulturtradition und das säkularisierte Böse. Klaus Manns Roman Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere (1936) 4.1 "Auf der Suche nach einem Weg": Der Literat und Publizist Klaus Mann 4.2 Mephisto: "Satire auf den Streber" 4.3 Künstler oder Schmierenkomödiant? Das Schauspielermotiv 4.3.1 "Vorspiel 1936": Eine Gesellschaft von Komödianten 4.4 Pose, Ehrgeiz, Scham: Der Protagonist "Hendrik Höfgen" 4.4.1 Einfluss und Dummheit: "Höfgens" Helfershelferinnen 4.4.1.1 Erbin des Großbürgertums: "Barbara Bruckner" 4.4.1.2 Die "berufsmäßige Sentimentale": "Lotte Lindenthal" 4.4.1.3 "Entschlossener Zynismus": "Nicoletta von Niebuhr" 4.5 Gute Mimen, schlechte Mimen 4.5.1 Die Normfiguren "Otto Ulrichs" und "Hans Miklas" 4.5.2 "Macht, Hinkender, Fleischberg": Das Führungstriumvirat 4.6 Die literarischen Parodien 4.6.1 "Geschichten der Verirrung": "Theophil Marder" und "Benjamin Pelz" 4.6.2 "Juliette", Femme fatale des Fin de sicle 4.7 Schalk, Beelzebub, Verführer? "Hendrik Höfgen" in der Rolle des "Mephistopheles" 4.7.1 Mephisto, "Faustisches" und die "verspätete Nation" 5\. "... daß nicht ungehört uns das Wort, das wir liebten, entgleite" - antitotalitäre Satire heute ## V Literaturverzeichnis Primärtexte Exilliteraturforschung Zur satirischen Kritik des Nationalsozialismus Satire- und Komiktheorie Literaturwissenschaft/Überblicksdarstellungen Zu einzelnen Autoren Historische, soziologische und philosophische Untersuchungen Nachschlagewerke Dokumente Siglen Irmgard Keun Klaus Mann Walter Mehring Anhang: "Aus dem Statut: Zweck des Bundes Bund freie Presse und Literatur"Die Dissertation behandelt selten rezipierte, in satirischer Schreibweise verfasste Romane aus dem NS-Exil der dreißiger Jahre. Es sind Romane, die nach den Voraussetzungen der Nazi-Herrschaft suchen. Sie weisen einer Gesinnungslosigkeit, die selbstverschuldeter Schwäche entspringt, ein hohes Maß an historischer Verantwortung zu. Die Exilromane stehen in der Aufklärungstradition deutscher Kleinbürgersatire seit Georg Christoph Lichtenberg und Heinrich Heine. Begriff und Bild des "Untertanen", wie ihn Heinrich Manns Roman skizziert, belehnen alle untersuchten Exilsatiren. Der Figur des Untertanen, des potenziell faschistischen, für antidemokratische Ideologie empfänglichen Kleinbürgers, werden schöpferische Charaktergestalten gegenübergestellt, Außenseiter, Schelme. In diesen Norm setzenden Figuren verkrusten sich bürgerliche Idealvorstellungen. Das kleinbürgerliche Denken des Untertanen ist als Schwundstufe bürgerlicher Existenz zu begreifen, die Nonkonformisten, indem sie bürgerliche Tugenden im Extrem ausleben, als die Gesinnungslosigkeit herausforderndes Gegenstück. Einen offen der Ratio im emphatischen Sinne abschwörenden Gegner wie den Faschismus zu verlachen scheint auf den ersten Blick töricht. Doch ermöglicht das Lachen, unter Aufhebung reflexiv logischen Verhaltens, überhaupt auf die Realität gewalttätiger Willkür zu reagieren und den Widersinn, das Factum brutum NS, zunächst einmal als gegeben wahrzunehmen ? jenseits eines bloßen Verstummens. In allen von mir untersuchten Werkgeschichten wirkt das Exil politisch radikalisierend. Am Ende eines solchen auktorialen Bewußtwerdungsprozesses steht nicht, wie zuweilen behauptet wurde, automatisch der Volksfrontgedanke. Der satirische Gestus ist eher einer der individualistischen Dogmenfeindlichkeit, gespeist aus Skepsis und Pessimismus. Doch wenn das provisorische Ich der Kritik in der Satire noch einmal einen Standort der Perspektive findet, dann nur auf Kosten der Fortschrittsidee selbst. Die Romane legen offen, was der Nationalsozialismus der Literatur abfordert - die Aufwärtsbewegung der Kultur, des Geistes, der Zivilisation zu leugnen. Die satirischen Exilromane sind als das demokratische Gegenstück zum sozialistischen Widerstandsroman zu begreifen. In seiner jeweiligen Verarbeitung offenbart das Motiv Kleinbürgerkritik den Dissens des Satirikers zur KP-Strategie.This dissertation focuses on satirical novels which were written in exile in the 1930s during the Nazi period and were only seldom received by readers and critics. The novels embody a search for the conditions that gave rise to Nazi rule and attribute a considerable portion of the responsibility to a widespread lack of principle which led people to zealously fell in line with whatever was prevalent at the time and which was the result not of material privation but of personal weakness, for which the people themselves were to blame. These novels written in exile are in the tradition of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Heinrich Heine's enlightening satires on petit bourgeois life. All the satires studied avail themselves of the concept of the "Untertan", or subservient subject, which Heinrich Mann outlined in his novels. It would seem that the satirical type of the potentially fascist petit bourgeois with leanings towards anti-democratic ideology can only be described ex negativo. Consequently, the weak personality of the subservient figure is confronted with more creative characters, with outsiders and rogues. These standard figures embody encrusted bourgeois ideals. If the petit bourgeois thinking of the main protagonists is to be seen as an atrophied stage in bourgeois existence, then the non-conformists must be regarded as extremes of this, both corresponding to and challenging the others' lack of principle. At first sight it would appear to be imprudent to deride an opponent such as fascism, which openly and emphatically renounces reason. Yet by neutralising logical behaviour, laughter enables one to react to the arbitrary use of power and accept the existence of absurdity. By means of laughter emotion cajoles reason into tolerating the brutal fact of Nazism. In all the works I have examined, exile has the effect of promoting political radicalism. Yet the "Volksfrontgedanke", or popular front concept, is not necessarily the outcome of such a process of developing awareness on the part of the author. The satirical gesture is more one of individualistic hostility to dogmatism nurtured by scepticism and pessimism. If the provisional ego of criticism is to regain a standpoint in satire, then only at the price of the idea of progress. These novels clearly show what National Socialism demanded of bourgeois literature \endash a denial of any upward trend in culture, intellectual pursuit, civilisation. These satirical novels can be regarded as a companion piece to the Socialist novel of resistance. Whatever way it is rendered, the motif of "a critique of the petit bourgeois" reveals much the same dissension as that of the satirist towards the strategy of the Communist Party. Any such left-wing bourgeois thinking came to an abrupt end with the accession to power of the National Socialists in 1933

Continuing the Evolution: Why California Should Amend Family Code Section 8616.5 to Allow Visitation in All Postadoption Contract Agreements

This Comment argues that California should continue the evolution of its statutory scheme by: (1) allowing and enforcing visitation terms in all adoption agreements that meet the statutory requirements of voluntariness and the best interests of the child, and (2) requiring that the consent process inform all birth parents of the possibility of these agreements

Normative, validation, and reliability studies of the Nine-Hole Peg Test scores with children

The purpose of this study was to establish norms for fine motor dexterity skills on elementary school children five to ten years old and conduct reliability and validity studies utilizing the Nine-Hole Peg Test. Sample included 1,020 students in ten elementary schools in the Las Vegas area. As children got older, their fine motor speed increased. Significant gender differences were indicated in dexterity in all ages, but only in the dominant hand. Moderately high test-retest reliability and high interrater reliability were obtained. Strong correlation between the NHPT and Purdue Pegboard Test scores provided concurrent validity of the NHPT. Significant difference in dexterity scores between regular and special education groups provided construct validity evidence. Students provided with demonstration and verbal directions showed faster dexterity speed than those with only verbal directions. This study has supported the Nine-Hole Peg Test as an effective screening tool for fine motor dexterity in school-age children

A Follow-Up Study of Business Education in the Public High Schools in the State of Washington

This research study is undertaken to make a comparison of the current status of business education with previous studies to provide educators with information which they may use in making projections for future business education programs in the secondary schools of Washington