        item: #1 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1070
      author: Roberts, Constance
       title: A Landscape in Flux: Emily Carr’s Zunoqua of the Cat Village and the Moment of Colonization
        date: 2018
       words: 5175
      flesch: 61
     summary: The arrangement of the 1927 exhibition explicated the appropriation of First Nations culture as material for a new Canadian art by framing modern paintings with First Nations objects. It preserves the moment of destruction of First Nations culture as a result of white colonization in British Columbia.
    keywords: art; canadian; carr; culture; emily; emily carr; exhibition; group; nations
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        item: #2 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1123
      author: Fahey, Eva Lin
       title: Dalia in Mill River
        date: 2018
       words: 12
      flesch: 88
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 9, 201844 Dalia in Mill River by Eva Lin Fahey
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        item: #3 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1146
      author: Macfarlane, Dana
       title: Controversy Regarding the Obstetric Dilemma
        date: 2018
       words: 2417
      flesch: 45
     summary: Washburn laid out the obstetric dilemma as an explanation for human pelvic morphology variation, although the predictions made in this hypothesis have received criticism and have been met with conflicting evidence. Aisthesis Volume 9, 201827 Controversy Regarding the Obstetric Dilemma by Dana Macfarlane The evolution of human pelvic morphology has been extensively researched for several decades, with most studies referring back to an article published almost sixty years ago.
    keywords: dilemma; human; pelvis
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        item: #4 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1178
      author: Collar, Brett; Bikak, Marvi; Brown, Paul; Pitluk, Zachary; Adibuzzaman, Mohammad
       title: Second Largest Eigenvalue of the Transition Probability Matrix for the Markov Chain Constructed from the Arterial Blood Pressure Waveform is Not Correlated to Shock Index in Hemorrhagic Human Subjects
        date: 2018
       words: 3455
      flesch: 47
     summary: Of the selected cohort, patients who were administered pressors accounted for 5 of the 7 largest decreases in Markov chain mixing rate, as shown in Table 1 (see Appendix). For the GI bleeding data set, the patients were identified using ICD-9 code for GI bleeding, and an algorithm was applied to define the time for acute hypotensive episode from arterial blood pressure data.
    keywords: blood; correlation; data; markov; mixing; patients; pressure; rate
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        item: #5 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1184
      author: Tyrina, Anna
       title: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Articulation of the Black American Double Consciousness: Social Fact or Fiction?
        date: 2018
       words: 5164
      flesch: 53
     summary: The term ‘soul’ was used synonymously with consciousness both by idealistic psychologists and by the religiously orthodox W. E. B. Du Bois and the Articulation of the Black American Double Consciousness Aisthesis Volume 9, 201817 James McCosh, whose philosophy Du Bois has studied at Fisk. In this manner, Du Bois yet again shows the degree to which white and black Americans have W. E. B. Du Bois and the Articulation of the Black American Double Consciousness Aisthesis Volume 9, 201821 completely different social orders within society.
    keywords: american; black; consciousness; du bois; facts; owen; problem; veil; white
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        item: #6 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1188
      author: Laaninen, Mark
       title: The Complexity of Modernization: How the Genbunitchi and Kokugo Movements Changed Japanese
        date: 2018
       words: 3823
      flesch: 53
     summary: 6 Shimoda, “Tongues-Tied: The Making of a ‘National Language’ and the Discovery of Dialects in Meiji Japan,” 723. In fact, P.F. Kornicki argues literature changed more in the Tokugawa period due the introduction of the modern printing press than the Restoration and related movements.18 Many writers used their works to criticize the unabashed and rapid devotion to material progress that colloquial language represented, and by the 1890’s, a strong 12 Shimoda, “Tongues-Tied: The Making of a ‘National Language’ and the Discovery of Dialects in Meiji Japan,” 717. 13 Ueda Kazutoshi, “Kokugo to kokka to,” cited in Hiraku Shimoda, 721.
    keywords: genbunitchi; ideas; japan; japanese; language; meiji; movements
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        item: #7 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1194
      author: Marks, Taylour
       title: A Nation Divided
        date: 2018
       words: 10
      flesch: 69
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 9, 201843 A Nation Divided by Taylour Marks
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #8 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1205
      author: Fuson, Olivia
       title: Marie Antoinette's Sacrifice and the Fragmentation of French Femininity
        date: 2018
       words: 4911
      flesch: 48
     summary: The Trial, Distortion, and Legacy of Marie Antoinette Examining Marie Antoinette through her role as a sacrificial victim—instead of simply an unpopular monarch or a symbol of the bourgeoisie—we can finally begin to grasp the logic of the grossly unjust and, oftentimes, ridiculously heinous trial which sentenced her to death. For once we divorce the caricatures of Antoinette which persist in our memory from the woman herself, we can begin the historical task of resurrecting Marie Antoinette the individual and, hopefully, dismantling the misogynistic paradigms which her sacrifice perpetuated.
    keywords: antoinette; girard; marie; marie antoinette; revolution; rights; sacrifice; trial; women
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        item: #9 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1207
      author: O'Hara, Bridget; Nguyen, Hoa; Ward, Matt; Smith, Kelsi; Lumsden, Chris
       title: Encore: Music Education for Social Change
        date: 2018
       words: 12
      flesch: 60
     summary: Encore - Music Education for Social Change from City Sound Productions on Vimeo.
    keywords: encore
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        item: #10 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1213
      author: Fortmeyer, Sophia
       title: Why Can't I Find It?: Mining Transparency in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
        date: 2018
       words: 6372
      flesch: 33
     summary: While Zambian and Congolese governments and mining companies see value in transparent reporting, strategic interests take precedence, dictating the type and amount of data publicly available. Mining companies investing in Zambia and the DRC, in conjunction with state governments, engage in established initiatives to increase transparent regulation and address economic discrepancies.
    keywords: african; companies; core; countries; data; drc; governments; mining; reporting; resource; state; transparency; world; zambia
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        item: #11 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1216
      author: Aldridge, Sarah
       title: Criminalization and Discrimination in Schools: The Effects of Zero Tolerance Policies on the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Black Girls
        date: 2018
       words: 4241
      flesch: 47
     summary: Through the reformation of school discipline policies, such as the implementation of Restorative Justice practices in the classroom, Morris (2016) argues that As a locus of learning, our schools can serve a greater purpose than just indoctrinating our girls with the politics of surviving racial, class, and gender bias. Zero benefit: Estimating the effect of zero tolerance discipline policies on racial disparities in school discipline.
    keywords: girls; justice; law; pipeline; policies; prison; school; students; tolerance
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        item: #12 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1235
      author: Elzarka, Mohamed
       title: The Role of Religion in the Yugoslav War
        date: 2018
       words: 4656
      flesch: 56
     summary: With their new resources, the Ustase constructed concentration camps very similar to contemporary ones in Germany and Poland where they systematically killed ethnic Serbs en masse. Population dynamics and susceptibility for ethnic conflict: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    keywords: bosnia; conflict; croatia; milosevic; religion; role; serbian; serbs; war; yugoslavia
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        item: #13 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1240
      author: Miller, Julia
       title: Cortisol: The Stress Hormone
        date: 2018
       words: 11
      flesch: 80
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 9, 201843 Cortisol: The Stress Hormone by Julia Miller
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #14 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1244
      author: Mudd, David
       title: “I Hear America Singing”: The Relationship Between American Religion and Democratic Values in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
        date: 2018
       words: 5689
      flesch: 57
     summary: In American civil religion, pursuit of liberty is a transformative act that breeds holiness and creates new persons by bestowing them with civic virtue; it is this tradition that Whitman taps into and promulgates with his poetry. Aisthesis Volume 9, 20188 “I Hear America Singing”: The Relationship Between American Religion and Democratic Values in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass by David Mudd Ezra Pound, one of America’s most famous poets despite his confused relationship with the country, once declared that above all Walt Whitman was “America’s poet…He is America” (Pound).
    keywords: american; democracy; democratic; lincoln; nation; people; religion; walt; war; whitman; world
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        item: #15 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1252
      author: Nash, Jackson
       title: Photovoltaic Properties and Solar Cell Applications of Colloidal Quantum Dots
        date: 2018
       words: 3856
      flesch: 56
     summary: Even though only 0.1% of our primary energy comes from sunlight (Raval and Gupta, 2015), colloidal quantum dot solar cells have properties that can be tuned and utilized to enhance energy conversion. Colloidal quantum dot solar cells on curved and flexible substrates.
    keywords: cells; cqds; dots; et al; properties; quantum; synthesis
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        item: #16 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1265
      author: Murr, Ashley
       title: Glass Pozzolans in Marine Concrete
        date: 2018
       words: 2959
      flesch: 51
     summary: Ground glass is currently under intense scrutiny for its potential as a pozzolan in portland cement concrete, as it differs from other pozzolans due to its high alkali content. The high silica and alumina of ground glass has been suggested to reduce the chloride ion penetration in portland cement concrete (Omran & Tagnit-Hamou, 2015; Peyvandi et al., 2013; Du & Tan, 2017).
    keywords: cement; concrete; glass; marine; pozzolans; properties
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        item: #17 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1356
      author: Biographies, Author
       title: Author Biographies
        date: 2018
       words: 1374
      flesch: 44
     summary: Brett Collar is a junior at Purdue University, majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering. Author Biographies Aisthesis Volume 9, 201845 Dana Macfarlane is a senior honors student, graduating from Temple University with a B.A. in biological anthropology.
    keywords: engineering; honors; hopes; research; studies; university
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        item: #18 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1695
      author: Leibin, Madeline
       title: Crawford v. Marion County Election Board: An Assessment through the Frame of Democratic Theory
        date: 2019
       words: 4085
      flesch: 47
     summary: Furthermore, per Harper, the broader governmental promotion of “interest in civic responsibility” was not valid enough to override Fourteenth Amendment securities. That is, interpretations of Fourteenth Amendment guarantees can evolve to meet the evolved socio-political norms and ideals.24 While this argument for adaptive capacity is 21 Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964).
    keywords: board; county; crawford; election; indiana; state; u.s
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        item: #19 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1728
      author: Wong, Nicole
       title: The Terroir of Chinatown
        date: 2019
       words: 2687
      flesch: 70
     summary: The roots of Chinatown too are embedded in American soil and are not the same as those in Chinese soil, but the community of Chinatown has grafted its identities, values, and traditions to these American roots, so its members might adapt to a foreign land without losing the essence of their homeland. Aisthesis Volume 10, 201966 The Terroir of Chinatown by Nicole Wong The streets of Chinatown are wet with rain, dark with dusk, and empty.
    keywords: chinatown; parents; soil; terroir
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        item: #20 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1754
      author: Howard, Brianna
       title: Zoom
        date: 2019
       words: 155
      flesch: 61
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 10, 201965 Zoom by Brianna Howard Oil on canvas | January 2019 Throughout art history, the female nude has been an object of interest by painters and sculptures since the start of the Italian Renaissance. The traditional color palette and realistic style of the Renaissance are discarded in favor of a more expressionistic palette, emphasized through the sweeping brushstrokes.
    keywords: woman
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        item: #21 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1778
      author: Brown, Kacie
       title: Agenda-Driven Music in the Court of Louis XIV
        date: 2019
       words: 3470
      flesch: 61
     summary: He points specifically to the music in Louis XIV’s court serving as a distraction to otherwise rebellious nobles at Versailles and advancing the king’s portrayal as an absolute monarch.14 According to Donald Chae, Louis XIV used music as a kind of reward system for his subordinate nobles, “carefully [doling] out favors and [settling] debts in selecting which courtiers could participate in court entertainments. Louis XIV dans Le Ballet de la nuit (Art by Henri de Gissey, 1653.
    keywords: court; king; louis; louis xiv; lully; music; xiv
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        item: #22 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1811
      author: Selva, Sanjna
       title: Through the Lens of Childhood: An Alternative Examination of the Armenian Genocide
        date: 2019
       words: 5184
      flesch: 36
     summary: This paper will therefore explore the lived experiences of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1922, experiences rife with trauma, characterized by loss, and inherently complex, under the shifting legal parameters that defined a tumultuous interwar climate. Genocide and the Transfer of Armenian Children,” recognized that the study of child transfer and recovery was indeed essential in understanding the history of human rights as it developed post-genocide.
    keywords: antoura; armenian; childhood; children; experiences; genocide; ottoman; panian; processes; watenpaugh
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        item: #23 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1830
      author: Gargagliano, Alyssa
       title: Altruistic Behavior in Primates
        date: 2019
       words: 5375
      flesch: 41
     summary: Current literature on primate prosocial behavior reflects conflicting or incomplete evidence for varying hypotheses, such as reciprocity, kin theory, cooperative breeding, and inequity, leaving the evolutionary foundation for this behavior poorly understood. This review paper explores the various proximate and ultimate factors influencing primate prosocial behavior and synthesizes an overarching hypothesis that functions to connect the current fragmented state of the literature.
    keywords: altruistic; behavior; breeding; inequity; primates; results; tolerance
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        item: #24 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1839
      author: Ellis, Emma Calhoun
       title: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Key Influences on a Continued Controversial Practice
        date: 2019
       words: 5872
      flesch: 45
     summary: Additionally, women who have undergone FGM/C often exhibit psychological issues, such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD (World Health Organization 2018; Vloeberghs et al. 2012). This review strives to explain why FGM/C continues to be practiced, specifically by women who have undergone the procedure themselves.
    keywords: community; et al; female; fgm; practice; procedure; type; women
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        item: #25 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1842
      author: Wright, Jaden
       title: Trading on Tax Avoidance
        date: 2019
       words: 4993
      flesch: 60
     summary: Specifically, I show that tax aggressive firms produce higher returns than less aggressive firms. I regress each portfolio against an asset pricing model to capture mispricing within tax aggressive firms.
    keywords: avoidance; firms; portfolios; returns; risk; tax
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        item: #26 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1846
      author: Karimi, Mateen
       title: The Socioeconomic Integration of Second-Generation MENA Immigrants
        date: 2019
       words: 6851
      flesch: 47
     summary: On variables of educational attainment and salary income, second- generation MENA immigrants surpass both non- MENA majority whites and non-MENA minority blacks (Table 1). Occupations, however, are still considered for purposes of assessing intergenerational mobility, since first generation MENA respondents who are not in the labor force can list their previously held occupation.
    keywords: blacks; generation; generation mena; groups; immigrants; integration; mena; mena immigrants; study; u.s; whites
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        item: #27 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1852
      author: Pack, Lydia
       title: A Not-So Beautiful Mind: A Review of the Genetics of Schizophrenia
        date: 2019
       words: 3722
      flesch: 52
     summary: This review will discuss why research on schizophrenic genes has been difficult, what genes have been found, how the current treatments are being revolutionized, and how to progress in this field. The heritability estimates of schizophrenic genes are approximately A Not-So Beautiful Mind: A Review of the Genetics of Schizophrenia Aisthesis Volume 10, 201940 eighty percent, meaning heritability has been shown to have a much greater effect than the environment (Jia et al., 2010).
    keywords: et al; gene; genetics; research; schizophrenia; symptoms
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        item: #28 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1856
      author: Walters, Mara
       title: Room to Grow: The Importance of Urban Greening
        date: 2019
       words: 4852
      flesch: 45
     summary: With the potential to mitigate negative impacts imposed by neighborhood risk, resilience can be understood to be a significant trait in urban children. Wolch et al. (2014) highlighted an important point in noting that the present method for implementation of urban green spaces is not entirely effective.
    keywords: children; development; environment; health; income; play; space; youth
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        item: #29 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1873
      author: Nekoonam, Rojina
       title: Ocean-Dispersed Drift Seeds in Relation to Beach Slope and Particle Size: Fine-Scaled Patterns on a Tropical Shore
        date: 2019
       words: 3457
      flesch: 65
     summary: The frequency distribution of seed size is shown in Figure 11a for all seeds of all species in the 20 samples (n=1049). Seed size was not independent of sediment size.
    keywords: beach; drift; sample; sediment; seeds; size; slope; species
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        item: #30 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1881
      author: Willis, Hannah
       title: Felis Catus: Harbinger
        date: 2019
       words: 2387
      flesch: 86
     summary: My lab’s PI begins to wax poetic on the virtues of trap-and-kill, and all I can think of is Mama Kitty and her kittens, plump and happy, sustained on cheap cat food and songbirds. Eyes flash, green-yellow and phosphorescent, and I’m hit with the unmistakable smell of cat.
    keywords: cat; cats; eyes; kittens; lake
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        item: #31 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1887
      author: Flick, Justin
       title: Hacking as a Metaphor: How #russianhacking Influenced Cybersecurity Discourse
        date: 2019
       words: 5443
      flesch: 48
     summary: Although there are many competing methods for rhetorical analysis, I find that metaphor analysis provides the unique benefits of both a) providing From Johnston and Warkentin (2010). Systematic metaphor analysis as a method of qualitative research.
    keywords: analysis; cybersecurity; hacking; individuals; metaphor; model; sentiment; technology; tweets; use
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        item: #32 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1902
      author: Bermas, Jakob
       title: Ode on a Birthday Card
        date: 2019
       words: 456
      flesch: 95
     summary: They will shoot the tires 78 yards away from corn snake freedom. Dear Son, Happy Birthday!
    keywords: snake
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        item: #33 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1908
      author: Ahmed, Madiha
       title: Ethnic Diversity in the Workplace: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
        date: 2019
       words: 4944
      flesch: 52
     summary: Work group diversity and group performance: An integrative model and research agenda.  Past research has shown support for adding ethnic diversity into the workplace, as well as addressing the arguments that are against it.
    keywords: bias; diversity; group; performance; research; workplace
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        item: #34 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1922
      author: Johnson, Addie
       title: Redefining Intimacy: Challenging the Margins, Boundaries, and Dimensions of Physicality and Emotionality within Interpersonal Relationships
        date: 2019
       words: 163
      flesch: 15
     summary: Composed of manipulated photographs through digital collage, scanned glass, and physically created analog and digital layered textures, the work explores the space and politics of physical figures within an image. It investigates and complicates the tension between physical anonymity and emotional sensuality and then reconciles the digital space through purposeful distortion.
    keywords: digital
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        item: #35 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1924
      author: Valentin, Julio Montalvo
       title: If Lubriel Were Still Around, Maya Angelou Would Be Our Wedding Singer
        date: 2019
       words: 215
      flesch: 86
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 10, 201970 If Lubriel Were Still Around, Maya Angelou Would Be Our Wedding Singer by Julio Montalvo Valentin Lubriel shook with fear of the sound and held my hand.
    keywords: bang
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        item: #36 of 163
          id: aisthesis-1933
      author: Henderson, Matthew
       title: Moisture Content Fluctuation in Minnesota Road Subgrades
        date: 2019
       words: 4964
      flesch: 55
     summary: Abstract: Fluctuation in subgrade moisture content of road subgrades is known to reduce the quality and lifespan of the driving surface. While precipitation’s impact is minimal and probably only affects small continuous water variations, groundwater can greatly change subgrade moisture.
    keywords: content; design; groundwater; march; minnesota; moisture; pavement; road; soil; subgrade; water
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        item: #37 of 163
          id: aisthesis-2067
      author: Authors, 2019 Aisthesis
       title: Author Biographies
        date: 2019
       words: 1731
      flesch: 48
     summary: Justin completed his undergraduate work at California State University, Chico in 2017, graduating with a B.S. in business information systems. Justin also volunteers as an assistant coach for the debate team at California State University, Sacramento.
    keywords: college; honors; research; school; student; time; university
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        item: #38 of 163
          id: aisthesis-2979
      author: Micán, Camila A.
       title: Systems of Oppression or Emancipation? Understanding the Colombian Education System Through Critical Education 
        date: 2020
       words: 5422
      flesch: 35
     summary: Schools in Colombia have to follow a national curriculum; however, higher SES schools have more #exibility to incorporate additional content and dierent pedagogies than schools in lower SES communities. By using programs focused on the development of leadership skills, higher SES schools prepare students to pursue positions of leadership inside and outside the country. !
    keywords: communication; education; individuals; march; perceptions; schools; ses; students
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        item: #39 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3008
      author: Nguyen, Katie
       title: Deviating from the Norm: A Queer Theory Analysis of The Picture of Dorian Gray
        date: 2020
       words: 6184
      flesch: 63
     summary: Campbell “was an excellent musician” and “played both the violin and piano better than most amateurs; in fact, it was music that had #rst brought him and Dorian Gray together—music and that inde#nable attraction that Dorian seemed to be able to exercise whenever he wished” (Wilde 170). Even as multiple characters in Dorian Gray experienced tragedies, attraction, and revelations, Wilde only re%ected his society’s views through Dorian’s death.
    keywords: basil; class; dorian; gray; henry; lord; lord henry; male; queer; wilde
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        item: #40 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3009
      author: Jayden Delanoy
       title: What Disparities Exist in the Compensation and Representation of Faculty in the Colleges of Business at Texas Public Institutions?
        date: 2020
       words: 6805
      flesch: 47
     summary: In attempts to overcome the stated limitations, institutions have been selected with variability in size and location, and data is gathered from university policies, the U.S. Census Bureau, NCES, e Texas Tribune, and several works on the history of women in higher education, gender gaps in college, and data analyses in the social sciences. is is a concern reinforced by the historical opposition faced by women and minorities in society, as well as the barriers faced in times of desired success or advancement dating back to the colonial era in the United States.3 e present study provides a history of the roles and advancement of women in higher education from the 17th to the 21st century.
    keywords: analysis; business; data; education; faculty; gender; representation; study; texas; universities; university; women
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        item: #41 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3047
      author: Sheth, Sohum
       title: Assessing Lyme Disease Relevant Antibiotics through Gut Bacteroides Panels
        date: 2020
       words: 5118
      flesch: 54
     summary: Limited information is known about Bacteroides MIC values of speci&c species (i.e. B. vulgatus, B. nordii, etc.) with respect to clinically relevant antibiotics for Lyme disease. Taken together, these results suggest that antibiotic X may prove to be a more eective drug in the treatment of Lyme disease, as the antibiotic suppresses Lyme bacteria while preserving gut Bacteroides.
    keywords: antibiotic; bacteroides; disease; gut; lyme; lyme disease; mic; microbiome; study
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        item: #42 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3068
      author: Mogavero, Taylor
       title: Sex and Length as Predictors of Vertical Movements in Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata)
        date: 2020
       words: 4982
      flesch: 63
     summary: #e results concluded that both male and female saw!sh spend more time in shallow depths over deeper depths, as expected from previous saw!sh literature (Carlson et al., 2014; Poulakis & Seitz, 2004; Simpfendorfer, 2001; Wiley & Simpfendorfer, 2010). Depth data were collected every four hours.
    keywords: data; depth; pectinata; pristis; saw!sh; sex; smalltooth; species; time
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          id: aisthesis-3096
      author: Mathur, Diya
       title: How to “Thread the Needle”
        date: 2020
       words: 1101
      flesch: 70
     summary: She excitedly agreed and arranged boxes of thread and spare cloth on the kitchen table, waiting, days before my arrival. Days passed and my internship ended.
    keywords: machine; mother; time
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        item: #44 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3130
      author: France, Katelyn
       title: “Anaphylactic Shocker!”: The Use of a Dynamic QR Code Medical Bracelet to Administer a Practice Epinephrine Auto-Injector During a Staged Medical Emergency
        date: 2020
       words: 4344
      flesch: 50
     summary: Abstract: Medical bracelets can save lives, but o!en lack the necessary information for appropriate medical care in emergency scenarios. is dynamic scannable-interface (QR code) medical bracelet is unique in its connectivity to Bluetooth and its aim in supporting bystanders (vs. medical professionals) in the case of a medical emergency.
    keywords: auto; bluetooth; bracelet; case; dynamic; emergency; injector; medical; qr code
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        item: #45 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3140
      author: Le, Annika
       title: Two Poems
        date: 2020
       words: 292
      flesch: -47
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 11, 202058 Two Poems by Annika Le Polydipsia Vietnamese words taste pickled in my mouth— saliva pools out from glands like rain gutters in a Saigon monsoon When I attempt to backbend my tongue into unfamiliar tones, my grandmother’s forehead furls into a question mark, and the uncles burst into contractions of synchronized laughter To me, the glyphs on letters look like ranges of mountains or falling tides that mimic the moon’s loop—they taste meaningless against my teeth On the Lunar holiday, we must wish New Year blessings in Vietnamese before she bestows the lucky red parcels— they sit under her elbow and against her ribs like armor: Chúc m!ng nm m#i What leaves my lips is a windstorm of whispers, misspelled mush, a lotus $ower without its seeds, my jaw now severed like the lost string of a guitar Again, the contractions of laughter, this time from the aunts and cousins, too—it descends from lips and pools on the tile I grab a sponge from the belly of the kitchen sink, and attempt to extract my mispronunciations from the $oorboards Plate of Plums Grandpa said to plant a plum pit and it will split the soil to sprout high Each evening, she cracks the blemished skin, gnaws away at yellow meat, and suckles the seed with her tongue till every pocket clears of $esh and it lays white like human bone in her palm With a toss, she whispers wishes and the ferns tuck the pit away into their pockets In early mornings, she checks her plot of land as though it’s a wristwatch but all that’s new are dabs of dew on grass blades from the sleeptalk of clouds.
    keywords: laughter
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        item: #46 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3150
      author: Sauer, Teresa
       title: Spiders in a Wreath of Orange and Poppy: An Analysis of 19th and Early 20th Century Marriage Laws through the Lens of Literature and Traumatic Insemination
        date: 2020
       words: 5795
      flesch: 61
     summary: As with Lily Bart, many women of the period were brought up only to be wives and were not taught the skills to pursue even the limited job options available to women. Abstract: American marriage laws in the 19th and early 20th centuries promoted a culture of oppression which was inherently detrimental to women.
    keywords: century; female; husband; love; male; marriage; orange; rossetti; siddall; women
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        item: #47 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3151
      author: Nityam Rathi
       title: The Past, Present, and Future of Renal Cell Carcinoma Treatment: A Systematic Review
        date: 2020
       words: 4713
      flesch: 49
     summary: Renal cell carcinoma patients who present with poor cardiovascular health are o&en administered Sunitinib in combination with drugs that moderate hypertension. Tumor B7-H1 is associated with poor prognosis in renal cell carcinoma patients with long-term follow-up.
    keywords: cancer; carcinoma; cell; cell carcinoma; patients; sunitinib; survival; treatment
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        item: #48 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3156
      author: Woodrow, Christina
       title: Indonesia Under the Radar: An Evaluation of the Archipelago’s Climate Challenges and Policy Response
        date: 2020
       words: 6029
      flesch: 43
     summary: http://www.mightyearth.org/heres-what- deforestation-looks-like-in-2019-and-what-we-can- do-about-it/ 37 Hurowitz, 2019 38 Bendix, 2019 39 Zoological Society of London Indonesia. (2019a). 40 Zoological Society of London Indonesia, 2019a 41 UNFCCC.
    keywords: change; climate; countries; emissions; energy; global; indonesia; land; people; radar; republic; technology; women; world
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        item: #49 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3176
      author: Johnston, Hannah
       title: Translation in Color, Form, and Tone
        date: 2020
       words: 295
      flesch: 63
     summary: Colors are assigned to each term of the sequence so that numbers with closer values are represented by colors closer to each other on the color wheel. ! e key areas of the development section are determined using the Fibonacci sequence.
    keywords: sequence
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          id: aisthesis-3342
      author: Weiss, Kaelan
       title: Novel Observations of Full-Depth Advection in Late Summer Lake Superior
        date: 2020
       words: 4749
      flesch: 57
     summary: Usually on the scale of 10-100 km across, these currents exist at all depths and contribute to horizontal variability of lake surface temperature (Ralph 2002). e temperature at 250 m depth from the SM site advanced in time by 48 hr is plotted in dotted-black on the right vertical axis.
    keywords: depth; lake; mooring; observations; site; superior; temperature; water
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        item: #51 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3343
      author: Murner, Kate M.; Hessler, Eric E. 
       title: The Effects of Difficulty and Individual Differences in Mindset on Persistence
        date: 2020
       words: 2824
      flesch: 55
     summary: Findings suggest individuals with more intelligence growth mindset recover better from failure, indicating higher resiliency. Results also suggest that growth mindset individuals have greater persistence following failure than their #xed mindset counterparts.
    keywords: intelligence; mindset; participants; persistence; puzzle
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          id: aisthesis-3345
      author: Johnston, Hannah
       title: Translation in Color, Form, and Tone (Fibonacci Recording)
        date: 2020
       words: 109
      flesch: 68
     summary: Stream Fibonacci Recording.WAV by Aisthesis | Listen online for free on SoundCloud SoundCloud JavaScript is disabled You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud Show me how to enable it Fibonacci Recording. WAV by Aisthesis published on 2020-06-16T22:27:04Z Users who like Fibonacci Recording.
    keywords: fibonacci
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        item: #53 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3346
      author: Aisthesis Authors and Artists, 2020
       title: Author Biographies
        date: 2020
       words: 1320
      flesch: 49
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 11, 202047 Author Biographies Diya Mathur is a junior at Vanderbilt University majoring in neuroscience and minoring in business. Annika Le is a third-year student at Seattle University, where she is majoring in creative writing and minoring in writing studies.
    keywords: honors; plans; research; student; studies; university
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        item: #54 of 163
          id: aisthesis-36
      author: Renner, Madison
       title: Alienation in Agriculture: How the Shamba System Promotes the Degradation of Kenyan Montane Forests
        date: 2017
       words: 3540
      flesch: 45
     summary: In the 1930s and 1940s, British authorities began allowing establishment of commercial tree plantations on formerly Kikuyu land to provide timber for building and firewood. In functioning montane ecosystems, native forests provide steady water supplies by storing water during rainy seasons and releasing it slowly into rivers during dry periods.
    keywords: agriculture; farmers; forest; kenya; kikuyu; land; shamba; system; tree
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        item: #55 of 163
          id: aisthesis-37
      author: Speight, Amelia
       title: What You Call Yourself?: Nothingness, Naming, Abjection, and Queer Failure in Toni Morrison's Beloved
        date: 2017
       words: 5185
      flesch: 63
     summary: Her master attempts to shame her for this choice, saying that “Mrs. Baby Suggs ain’t no name for a freed negro,” but how can he when she is the one acknowledging and existing in her own dehumanization and presenting to him her nameless nothingness as one of the consequences of slavery and his specific slave-owing? (167). Their chosen names “fail” in many ways, leading me to questions about how Baby Suggs and Stamp Paid resist a dominant narrative and instead find power in, as Jack Halberstam would say, “the refusal of legibility, and an art of unbecoming” (Halberstam 88).
    keywords: abjection; baby; failure; naming; power; queer; suggs
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        item: #56 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3709
      author: Ellerby, Petra
       title: May the Grass Grow Long: Hierarchy and Destruction in Ancient Mesopotamian Lamentation
        date: 2021
       words: 5907
      flesch: 59
     summary: They let another assume my duties, / And appointed an outsider to my prerogatives.5 The hardship of the sufferer recalls a terror of disorder housed within the loss of social place, social status. Through an holistic treatment of nine ancient Near Eastern literary works, I aim to provide a portrait of a key Mesopotamian conceit: the interaction of ruin and social order.
    keywords: city; enuma; gilgamesh; hierarchy; ibid; king; lines; mesopotamian; order; status; text
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        item: #57 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3717
      author: Hesterman, Meghan
       title: The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Long-Term Brain Development and Health
        date: 2021
       words: 3895
      flesch: 48
     summary: These effects impact brain development, behavior, and health. The impacts of ACEs on brain development are still apparent throughout adulthood, particularly the stress response system in relation to health.
    keywords: aces; brain; childhood; development; health; stress; system
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        item: #58 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3787
      author: Weltzien, Katherine
       title: The Role of SNP Research in Identifying Biological Mechanisms Underlying Generalized Anxiety Disorder
        date: 2021
       words: 2483
      flesch: 43
     summary: Identifying genetic variants linked to GAD aids in the develop- ment of hypotheses regarding which genes influence GAD risk and the mechanisms through which they do so. Fortunately, the benefits of such treatments would not be limited to GAD patients who have the SNPs at the SATB1 locus implicated in the study.
    keywords: anxiety; disorder; gad; snps
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        item: #59 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3797
      author: Pollard, Jessica
       title: What Is Happiness? A Study of Metaphoric Conceptualizations of Happiness in Poetry
        date: 2021
       words: 3910
      flesch: 50
     summary: One such classification happiness is a fluid in a container can be seen in the phrase “She was bursting with joy”3 and in the poem “The Trickle- down Theory of Happiness,” which says happiness falls down “to the pitchers and pails on the ground. In “Sonnet 10: I have sought Happiness, but it has been,” the poet said he had “sought happiness” but it was “baffling all pursuit.
    keywords: domain; happiness; lakoff; metaphors; poetry; poets; source
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        item: #60 of 163
          id: aisthesis-38
      author: Branstetter, Claire
       title: Are Refugees Integrating Successfully in Wichita, Kansas?
        date: 2017
       words: 6194
      flesch: 49
     summary: The federal government supports health services to Kansas refugees through the Office of Refugee Resettlement. I then employ social capital theory to explain refugee integration in terms of the relationships developed with other migrants, native-born citizens, and local institutions.
    keywords: asylum; capital; community; data; government; health; integration; kansas; refugees; resettlement; social; state; status; wichita
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        item: #61 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3805
      author: Meyers, Sara
       title: The One of Those Days: COVID-19 Feels
        date: 2021
       words: 337
      flesch: 75
     summary: It’s the same look and feeling of happiness that I yearned to feel once again, but could not conjure up the feeling for those three months. Fast-forward to Fall semester 2020, my classes were much more difficult, and it was harder to transition to taking them completely online, rather than in Spring 2020 semester, we were already some-what acquaintanced with our classes and what was expected of us.
    keywords: days
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        item: #62 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3817
      author: Jordan A. G. Jantz
       title: Syntax Influences and Effects: A Syntactical Analysis of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, and Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
        date: 2021
       words: 3667
      flesch: 57
     summary: Indeed, Orson Scott Card (1951-Present), author of Ender’s Game (“About Orson Scott Card”), cites Bradbury as a stylistic influence on his writing (Card, “Thoughts on Ray Bradbury”). Also similar to Card (and contrasting Bradbury), Sanderson’s text has a focus on exposition in addition to worldbuilding, for which Sanderson is well known.
    keywords: bradbury; card; ender; sanderson; uses; writing
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        item: #63 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3824
      author: Wink, Sophie
       title: Gandhi’s Role in the American Farm Workers’ Movement : How the Indian Activist Inspired an Agricultural Revolution a World Away
        date: 2021
       words: 2326
      flesch: 62
     summary: It is clear that César Chávez was inspired by Gandhi’s fasting because Chávez, too, utilized fasting in similar ways. What was so unique about Gandhi’s breed of rebellion, and what truly drew international attention, was the fact that this man was able to create a revo- lution that overtook the massive Indian subcontinent and effectively created a system of democratic rule, all without violence.
    keywords: american; change; chávez; gandhi; movement; violence
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        item: #64 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3829
      author: Rhodes, Amelia
       title: Are You Beautiful (Enough?): An Internal Monologue with Your Average High School Teenage Girl
        date: 2021
       words: 5305
      flesch: 87
     summary: Phantom notifications, the idea that when you’re addicted to social media, you think, you swear, you can hear notifications even when you don’t have any(Parnell). She was talking about body image and social media, how we filter the way we look online to fit the idea of a ‘perfect person.’
    keywords: ansley; instagram; jake; media; phone; pictures; time
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        item: #65 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3838
      author: Twomey, Grace
       title: The Chicken and the Egg of the Sylvia Plath Effect
        date: 2021
       words: 3788
      flesch: 57
     summary: While recognizing Plath’s many accomplishments unrelated to her mental health state, this paper will explore the Sylvia Plath effect, specifically focusing on correlation versus causation. The Sylvia Plath effect asserts that among all creative writers, female poets are more likely to suffer from depression than other writers.
    keywords: depression; kaufman; plath; study; sylvia; writers; writing
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        item: #66 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3847
      author: Brown, Sarah
       title: Alderozital Study Notes
        date: 2021
       words: 2844
      flesch: 73
     summary: Test subjects in Group A (001-050) were injected with 0.05 mg of Alderozital in the upper left arm, and subjects in Group B (051-100) were injected with 0.50 mg of Alderozital in the upper left arm. Human subject studies found symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abnormal blood count levels, fatigue, hair loss/thinning, cloudy vision, and nerve damage (Cancer Research UK).
    keywords: animal; day; group; research; study; subjects
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          id: aisthesis-3860
      author: Bathija, Sahil
       title: What Caused the Bloodless Reconquest? Understanding the Spaniards’ 1692 Negotiated Reentry into Pueblo Lands in the Aftermath of the Successful 1680 Pueblo Revolt
        date: 2021
       words: 3512
      flesch: 59
     summary: A council of many Pueblo communities, including the Hopi, Kewa, Pecos, San Filipe, Zuni, Jemez, and Cochiti, gathered to deliberate if things would really be different this time around as Ojeda claimed.35 When Vargas later arrived and toured Pueblo communities, he strikingly did so peacefully without firing a single shot— seemingly confirming the intentions reported by Ojeda.36 As Vargas toured from one community to another, he secured alliances with many as he went. Yet when the newly appointed governor Don Diego de Vargas returned to El Paso from his visit of Pueblo communities in 1692, the Cathedral of New Mexico’s bells announced to the people of New Spain what is widely known as the “Bloodless Reconquest.”3
    keywords: communities; ibid; ojeda; pueblo; reconquest; revolt; spaniards; vargas
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        item: #68 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3864
      author: Aliyah Noh
       title: Anxiety
        date: 2021
       words: 198
      flesch: 72
     summary: Even the creation of this piece was stressful, having knives hanging from my ceiling and balloons all over the floor. This piece was made for one of Drawing courses, however it was done in the basement of my home, without the use of a studio.
    keywords: piece
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        item: #69 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3871
      author: Camila Lee
       title: This is no rap
        date: 2021
       words: 295
      flesch: 73
     summary: And I let you see me as much As you let me see you while I’m blind Aisthesis 2 Volume 12, 2021 Running Header Text Aisthesis 3 Volume 12, 2021 Running Header Text This is No RapThis is No Rap By: Camila Lee
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #70 of 163
          id: aisthesis-39
      author: Lechtenberg, Luke
       title: The Debt-to-Threshold Effect On Output: A Country-Specific Analysis
        date: 2017
       words: 3558
      flesch: 63
     summary: To explain, if Chudik et al.’s findings hold, then countries without significant debt thresholds should have debt levels that are either falling or low. This paper reviews some of the theoretical and empirical economics literature on this topic, and unlike Reinhart and Rogoff (2010), who establish a general debt threshold for all countries, this paper establishes debt thresholds for individual countries through threshold regression analysis and supports the theory proposed by Chudik et al. (2015) that debt trajectory, not the level of debt, is what affects GDP growth.
    keywords: debt; figure; gdp; growth; threshold
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        item: #71 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3976
      author: Datta, Poorvi
       title: Voluntary Apnea
        date: 2021
       words: 132
      flesch: 84
     summary: You weep ocean and claw sand, self, foam and fury, scrabble for some semblance of seabed. Aisthesis 1 Volume 12, 2021 Voluntary ApneaVoluntary Apnea By: Poorvi Datta Have you ever been caught on the wrong side of the sea?
    keywords: sea
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        item: #72 of 163
          id: aisthesis-3979
      author: McLaughlin, Emily
       title: Poems of Feminine Healing
        date: 2021
       words: 205
      flesch: 66
     summary: But the snow never stops It continues to come Day after day Suffocating the life below it Until we realize We’ll never see flowers again Waves They come through like waves Terrible, ugly waves Which remind me of the pain you’ve caused The times I’ve been hurt By: Emily McLaughlin Former Playmates Old dolls in the basement Not played with since days of preteen shame Box reopened On an unexpected day in October Dusty and bruised Doubtful and ashamed Too big and too small Too smart but too dumb A sex doll crept into the toy box The Barbies watched and learned How to be a version of better they’ll never be Snow in October Childhood should fade away Like soft December snowfalls Which slowly cover autumn grass
    keywords: waves
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          id: aisthesis-40
      author: Maloney, Ean
       title: Gettier and the Problem of Induction
        date: 2017
       words: 4639
      flesch: 68
     summary: A second concern about strange knowledge cases concerns the concept of knowing as a consciousness state. Is justified true belief knowledge?
    keywords: data; gettier; knowledge; sense
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          id: aisthesis-41
      author: Fahkri, Christiana; Rudie, Lauren; Baker, Stephanie; Mann, Meredith; Bivens, Sarah; Spoonire, Laura; Ruble, Nichole M.
       title: A Methodology for Extracting Bone Marrow from Cadavers
        date: 2017
       words: 3005
      flesch: 60
     summary: Bone marrow was present in the femur, pelvis, and humerus of each cadaver throughout and upon completion of the project.   As such, a method for extracting bone marrow is needed to undertake a study of bacterial succession inside marrow cavities.
    keywords: biopsy; bone; decomposition; extraction; figure; marrow; pelvis; sampling
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        item: #75 of 163
          id: aisthesis-42
      author: Petters, Noah; Downs, Edward
       title: Perceptions of Women and Gaming: Exploring Implications of Intersectionality through Quantitative Analysis of Blog Comments
        date: 2017
       words: 7298
      flesch: 50
     summary: Conclusion The current study further builds upon past research concerning gender studies and videogames and provides two contributions: the content of study and findings. The text material first addressed the presence of sexism and harassment of women that leads to a hostile game culture and then mentioned the issue of diversity in game content and within the gaming community.
    keywords: comments; content; culture; female; games; gaming; gender; industry; intersectionality; race; study; white; women
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          id: aisthesis-4227
      author: Beard, David
       title: Editorial Board and Reviewer Biographies
        date: 2021
       words: 2027
      flesch: 45
     summary: He also holds a MM in Composition and a BM in Jazz Studies from Texas State University, San Marcos. Ray Langsten is Research Associate Professor at American University in Cairo.
    keywords: communication; duluth; health; minnesota; professor; research; studies; studying; university
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        item: #77 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4287
      author: Skroch, Tiffani
       title: Political Tolerance and Ideology: Ideology as a Determinant of Political Tolerance
        date: 2022
       words: 2487
      flesch: 48
     summary: Political Tolerance and Ideology: Ideology as a Determinant of Political Tolerance TIFFANI SKROCH Abstract This study examines whether or not political ideology is a strong determinant of political tolerance, as has been found in previous studies. Sullivan et al. (1979) have questioned these earlier studies of political tolerance – specifically citing Stouffer (1954) and the 1973 General Social Survey.
    keywords: ideology; level; study; tolerance
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        item: #78 of 163
          id: aisthesis-43
      author: Webster, Kaitlynn
       title: Reflection
        date: 2017
       words: 8
      flesch: 61
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 8, 201760 Reflection by Kaitlynn Webster
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #79 of 163
          id: aisthesis-44
      author: Jones, Lindsey
       title: Lying in an Alleyway
        date: 2017
       words: 11
      flesch: 64
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 8, 201761 Lying in an Alleyway by Lindsey Jones
    keywords: aisthesis
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          id: aisthesis-4572
      author: Macaluso, Eric
       title: The Hidden Lives of Non-Migrant Migrant Workers
        date: 2022
       words: 5648
      flesch: 59
     summary: I then compared the lives and health of dairy migrant workers to those who perform more transient work on fruit and vegetable farms as described by Seth M. Holmes, PhD, MD, in his book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Vaccination records and other health records are o%en missing for dairy migrant workers as well, making visits complicated and repetitive for the patient.
    keywords: community; dairy; farmworkers; health; healthcare; insurance; migrant; new; puerto; workers
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          id: aisthesis-4578
      author: Poisall, Madison; Daucourt, Mia C. ; Hart, Sara A. 
       title: Sibling Influences on Math Achievement
        date: 2022
       words: 4745
      flesch: 51
     summary: What is the overall role of older siblings in younger siblings’ academic achievement? Moreover, older siblings may display parent-like corrective behaviors like helping parents enforce family rules and setting an example for younger siblings (Amato, 1989), which could further emphasize the role model status of the older sibling in the younger sibling’s eyes.
    keywords: achievement; behaviors; child; math; math achievement; sibling; study; support
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          id: aisthesis-4587
      author: Brown, Kaira
       title: I'm Speaking : Gender and Interrupting Behavior During Oral Argument at the U.S. Supreme Court
        date: 2022
       words: 3140
      flesch: 55
     summary: E!ect of Lawyer Gender on Justices’ Interrupting Behavior Patton and Smith (2020) studied the di$erence between male and female lawyers’ speaking time and the interruptions they experience during U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments from 1979 to 2013. Between those same years, women made up between 22% and 33% of Supreme Court justices.
    keywords: court; gender; justices; lawyers; supreme; women
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        item: #83 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4593
      author: Wilhelmi, Abigail 
       title: Environmental Impacts of Contact Lens Waste
        date: 2022
       words: 4898
      flesch: 55
     summary: paper examines the evolution of plastic polymers used for contact lens material and discusses how current materials are contributing to plastic waste and microplastic contamination. To understand how contact lenses could be contributing to microplastic contamination, particularly in wastewater treatment plants, a review of the types of plastic used for contact lens materials will be discussed next.
    keywords: contact; contact lens; lens; lenses; material; microplastic; plastic; recycling; waste; water
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          id: aisthesis-4596
      author: Barrett, Emma; Campbell, Charles
       title: An Investigation of Telkwa Coal Limited’s Proposed Tenas Project Coal Mine and the Potential Financial Impacts on the Bulkley Valley and Wet’suwet’en First Nation
        date: 2022
       words: 5793
      flesch: 45
     summary: TCL can address Wet’suwet’en social capital by prioritizing internal understanding of Wet’suwet’en traditional knowledge and social structures. Also, Wet’suwet’en social capital can be addressed by 72 An Investigation of Telkwa Coal Limited’s Proposed Tenas Project Coal Mine Aisthesis Volume 13, 2022 Canadian governmental entities. !
    keywords: capital; coal; community; economy; industries; land; limited; project; tcl; telkwa; tenas; wet’suwet’en
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        item: #85 of 163
          id: aisthesis-46
      author: Mulhall, Brenna
       title: The Romanticization of the Dead Female Body in Victorian and Contemporary Culture
        date: 2017
       words: 5000
      flesch: 70
     summary: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who also depicted dead and dying young women in his artwork and poetry, romanticized female death in his poem, “The Blessed Damozel,” in which the male speaker imagines his love in heaven. Although many male artists and writers of the Victorian Age used and exploited dead and dying women through their work, Elizabeth Siddall and Christina Rossetti used their art forms as a way to challenge the exploitation of dead women as artistic inspiration.
    keywords: body; death; dec; fig; lady; rossetti; shalott; women
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        item: #86 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4602
      author: Rodgers, Maggie
       title: Eye of the Beholder
        date: 2022
       words: 224
      flesch: 59
     summary: Use of magazine clippings, book clippings, personal drawings, graphic novel clippings, etc. !is work is meant to highlight society’s view of women and femininity, specically analyzing how women are subjected to constant and unspoken observation in their daily lives. e goal of the piece is to invoke thought about the role of women as objects of the male gaze, and further illustrate how the male gaze has become present in virtually every aspect of society.
    keywords: women
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        item: #87 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4605
      author: Romero, Jacob
       title: Color Me White
        date: 2022
       words: 167
      flesch: 70
     summary: Color Me White (2021) Colored pencils and oil pastels on bristol paper 4 x 5 inches Children of Mexican immigrants grow up in an incredibly unique environment in the United States. ! I grew up consuming media focused on white people, and on top of that, my culture put lighter-skinned Mexicans as the beauty standard.
    keywords: people
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        item: #88 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4635
      author: Hawkins, Vanessa
       title: Music-Color Synesthesia: A Historical and Scientific Overview
        date: 2022
       words: 4909
      flesch: 49
     summary: e deaf in this way will be able to see the music of the ears, the blind to hear the music of the eyes, and we who have both eyes and ears will enjoy music and colors better by enjoying them both at the same time.14 Castel conceived an instrument known as the color organ, in which each key produced not only a rich sound but also a dazzling hue.15 He even dreamed of having the music of an opera painted out on the walls of a room; to have concerts live on through color a)er the music fades away.16 While Pythagoras and Newton approached the link between music and color from a scientic standpoint (which is a logical conclusion, as both sound and light are composed of waves), Castel’s perspective was to nd an emotional connection between the two. e condition was not even a respectable scientic subject until the end of the nineteenth century, following the research of a few pioneers in the eld.21 In 1881, Eugen Bleuler and Karl Bernhard Lehmann conducted the rst comprehensive study of synesthesia as young medical students in Switzerland.22 Blueler himself was a grapheme-color synesthete.23 A)er recognizing Bleuler’s quality as unique, the two scientists began an investigation of this quality in their family members, eventually branching out to an inquiry into other sensory associations with a larger sample size (596 people, 17 Maria Konnakova, “From the Words of an Albino, a Brilliant Blend of Color,” Scienti!c American, Springer Na- ture, February 26, 2013, https://blogs.scienticamerican. com/literally-psyched/from-the-words-of-an-albino-a- brilliant-blend-of-color/https://blogs.scienticamerican. com/literally-psyched/from-the-words-of-an-albino-a- brilliant-blend-of-color.
    keywords: brain; color; color synesthesia; concept; consciousness; curwin; history; ibid; music; perception; synesthesia; theory
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        item: #89 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4652
      author: Duckworth, Emily
       title: Medical Necessity Reimagined: Cosmetic Surgery through the Lens of Capabilitarianism and Resourcism
        date: 2022
       words: 5738
      flesch: 48
     summary: Abstract: !is project seeks to investigate the circumstances in which cosmetic surgery can be deemed medically necessary based on competing political theories of justice. ! e literature review is focused on outlining various approaches to conceptualizing health, medical ethics, and medical necessity, and I explain the dierences in resourcist and capabilitarian interpretations of medical necessity and their application to cosmetic surgery.
    keywords: ability; approach; capabilities; ethics; health; human; justice; medical; necessity; people; procedures; surgery
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        item: #90 of 163
          id: aisthesis-47
      author: Rawwas, Lulua
       title: The Genetic Relationship between Leaf Margin Regulation and Vascular Patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana
        date: 2017
       words: 2558
      flesch: 47
     summary: Along with its specificity for plant kinases and its distinct sequences, this trait distinguishes ICK1 from animal CDK inhibitors, suggesting that ICK1 represents a divergence of plant cell cycle regulation from other eukaryotes. The final shape of the leaf is in part determined by varying rates of cell growth along the developmental axes (Kalve et al. 2014).
    keywords: arabidopsis; auxin; cell; et al; leaf; plant
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        item: #91 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4726
      author: Shraddha Patel
       title: Enhancing Melatonin Secretion: The Methodical Consumption of Tryptophan from Whole Cow’s Milk to Regulate Sleep Quality in Individuals Aged 18-30 with Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder
        date: 2022
       words: 5742
      flesch: 52
     summary: Changes in Sleep Quality rough Chrono- nutrition Because research suggests that the e!ectiveness of dietary components can be associated with intake time, then milk consumed within 2 hours of a DSPD patient’s desired sleep time could yield a net improvement in sleep quality and morning functionality on the following day because of the patient’s susceptibility to changes in bodily hormones. Studies on chrono-nutrition indicate that dietary components absorbed by the bloodstream can alter the circadian schedule of melatonin secretion from the pineal gland, and the timed consumption of tryptophan-abundant foods, such as whole cow’s milk, can consequently spike melatonin levels before a DSPD patient’s desired sleep time and promote circadian rhythm advancement.
    keywords: dspd; individuals; levels; melatonin; milk; patients; quality; sleep; time; tryptophan
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        item: #92 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4732
      author: Williams, Ann
       title: The Chinese Diaspora in South Africa: The Gray Area
        date: 2022
       words: 5271
      flesch: 58
     summary: Chinese South Africans today, then, do not trace their ancestry to these groups, but to independent migrants that began to trickle into South Africa in the early 1870s from Guangdong Province (Park 2012). Chinese South Africans largely believed that the Group Areas Act would be detrimental to their very livelihood and existence in South Africa, and community leaders and CASA appealed to authorities for an exemption to the Group Areas Act through individualized permits, which were considered and granted based on merit.
    keywords: africa; apartheid; black; chinese; community; diaspora; park; people; south; south africa; white
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        item: #93 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4734
      author: Duggar, Allen
       title: Let Every Land Their Tongues Employ: Ritualized Democracy among Shape Note Singers
        date: 2022
       words: 5135
      flesch: 63
     summary: ey are shape note singers preparing for four hours of music making. ! e songs will be recorded for the minutes, entering them into the public record for the event, and the anecdotes from past singings, biographical tidbits on the composers and great singers, and testimonies of spiritual connection with the music, having been ritually o$ered to the community, will then come to make up the conversations for future singings across the country, broadening their reach from the individual to potentially the entire community of shape note singers.
    keywords: democracy; music; note; sacred; shape; singers; singing; square
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        item: #94 of 163
          id: aisthesis-4738
      author: Minu-Sepehr, Ava
       title: When the Moon Took Maman Lila, It Took Me, Too
        date: 2022
       words: 217
      flesch: 92
     summary: e moon watched her leave and did not intervene. In her mouth was scarlet Persian, like paint.
    keywords: curb
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          id: aisthesis-4855
      author: (2022), Vol. 13
       title: Author and Artist Biographies
        date: 2022
       words: 1305
      flesch: 50
     summary: Charles Campbell is a rst-year Presidential Scholar and honors student at Florida State University. Emma Barrett is a freshman Presidential Scholar and honors student at Florida State University studying anthropology and international a!airs.
    keywords: honors; research; student; studies; time; university
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        item: #96 of 163
          id: aisthesis-49
      author: Stolerman, Katherine
       title: The American Eugenics Movement: A Study of the Dispersal and Application of Racial Ideologies
        date: 2017
       words: 6003
      flesch: 46
     summary: While I contend that all four frames of reference are valid and valuable for gaining a thorough understanding of American eugenics, I propose that the first three frames can be understood as subsets of the racial nature of the movement. Additionally, California—the state that singlehandedly sterilized half of all the people in the U.S. who underwent the procedure before WWII—republished Nazi propaganda and arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits to support American eugenics in the late 1930s (Black, 2003).
    keywords: american; eugenicists; eugenics; germany; hansen; king; movement; people; race; states; sterilization; united
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        item: #97 of 163
          id: aisthesis-50
      author: DeJoy, Joshua
       title: Deus, sive Natura: Substance and Determinism in Spinoza’s Ethics
        date: 2017
       words: 2757
      flesch: 52
     summary: In Part III, Proposition 2, Spinoza causally collapses the mind and body—that is, he notes that they are both caused by God (or Nature)—and thereby removes a place for the will to exercise any independent role in determining human action (Spinoza 279). But the fact is that Spinoza is made a testing-point in modern philosophy, so that it may really be said: You are either a Spinozist or not a philosopher at all.
    keywords: determinism; god; nature; spinoza; substance
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        item: #98 of 163
          id: aisthesis-51
      author: Krastins, Sara
       title: The Feminist Essentialism of Mark Twain: Eve as the Empowered Feminine
        date: 2017
       words: 3542
      flesch: 62
     summary: Following the initial feeling of betrayal, suffragists were once again let down by their leaders in 1870 when “the The Feminist Essentialism of Mark Twain: Eve as the Empowered Feminine Aisthesis Volume 8, 201727 fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed, granting the right to vote to Black men, with no mention of women” (Gianoulis), fifty years before women would be given the right to vote. In addition to his outright activism and outspoken nature in favor of women, Twain also used his writing, specifically The Complete Diaries of Adam and Eve, to positively represent women in the literary sphere.
    keywords: adam; eve; naming; twain; women
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        item: #99 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5195
      author: Ellerby, Petra
       title: Alternate Arbitrios: Status, Justice, and Decline in Chapters I-XVIII of The Second Part of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha 
        date: 2023
       words: 6228
      flesch: 53
     summary: As is true of Quixote's $rst volume, the conduct of Don Quixote himself serves to structure these assorted explorations, though a number of incisive assessments also stem from each episode's more peripheral inhabitants.5 In accordance with this overarching claim, close readings of a few critical passages will be combined with an inquiry into the opinions expressed by Cervantes (as narrator), Don Quixote, and the wife of Quixote's squire.
    keywords: arbitrios; cervantes; don; elliott; ibid; knight; perception; quixote; self; spain; status; teresa; virtue
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          id: aisthesis-52
      author: Sezer, Yusuf
       title: The New Nuke?
        date: 2017
       words: 1901
      flesch: 52
     summary: As such, the development of major cyber weapons by developed nations could in fact pose a similar situation to that of the nuclear arms race of the Cold War; developed nations could use cyber weapons as deterrents. However, there are a few critical differences between cyber weapons and nuclear weapons that make them particularly dangerous to world peace.
    keywords: cyber; obama; systems; weapons; world
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        item: #101 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5274
      author: Gill, Ainsley
       title: The Not-So Livable Forest: An Environmental Autobiography
        date: 2023
       words: 4117
      flesch: 57
     summary: More delays, denials, and victim-blaming in Elm Grove lawsuit. Additionally, though the e%ort is not as far reaching nor as intensive as that following Harvey, a small subset of the Kingwood community has demonstrated their own belief in Elm Grove’s indispensability as they continue to show up to help muck out #ooded homes and began the rebuilding process once again.
    keywords: community; development; elm; environmental; grove; harvey; homes; houston; kingwood; ooding
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        item: #102 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5291
      author: Hermann, Greta
       title: The Effects of Fiber Arts on Mental Health: Happiness, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Regulation
        date: 2023
       words: 5147
      flesch: 61
     summary: In addition, the ndings of the present study observing relatively high scores for emotional regulation across all types of ber arts shows a great versatility and variety that, in addition to choosing ber art type, yarn type, colors, and patterns (Hartz & #ick, 2005), would be e!ective in art therapy. However, when answers for “why you learned your ber art” were recoded, there was a large communal theme, suggesting that if someone learned through a community, then they are indirectly part of a community, even if they are not currently active in a “real” ber arts group.
    keywords: arts; ber; cra$ing; et al; happiness; health; self
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        item: #103 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5294
      author: Nguyen, Lily
       title: Don't Fight the Power: Expressions of Nationalism and Patriotism in Chinese Hip-Hop Lyrics
        date: 2023
       words: 6281
      flesch: 51
     summary: Additionally, artists used the theme of unity di%erently in nationalist/patriotic songs, with unity being used as imagery of a family in patriotic songs, and in nationalist songs, unity was almost exclusively used to refer to the One-China policy. e case of Chinese patriotic songs.
    keywords: artists; china; chinese; government; hip; hop; lyrics; nationalism; patriotism; rev; songs
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        item: #104 of 163
          id: aisthesis-53
      author: Thompson, Hannah
       title: The Regeneration of Renal Tissue
        date: 2017
       words: 4279
      flesch: 45
     summary: Identifying these animal models and understanding kidney morphogenesis has allowed The Regeneration of Renal Tissue Aisthesis Volume 8, 201735 for advancements in the growth of kidney cells through human pluripotent stem cells.1, 8, 9, 10 Stem cells are currently being explored in both human and animal models. These MSCs restore the structure and function of damaged renal cells.
    keywords: blood; cells; development; function; growth; kidney; nephrons; regeneration; renal; stem; tissue
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        item: #105 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5304
      author: Oleschuk, Samantha
       title: Architectural Site and Imagined Landscape: The Foundation Lore and Perpetuated Mythology of the Round City of Baghdad
        date: 2023
       words: 5865
      flesch: 54
     summary: Abbasid capital is referred to as Madinat al-Mansur (City of al-Mansur), Madinat al-Salam (City of Peace), al-Zawra’ (the bent, or the crooked), and al-Madina al-Mudawwara (Round City). ! “General plan of Round Baghdad,” from Saba Sami al-Ali and Nawar Sami al-Ali, “Images of Round Baghdad: An Analysis of Reconstruction by Architectural Historians,” 2016.
    keywords: abbasid; baghdad; caliph; city; construction; foundation; mansur; plan; round; site
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        item: #106 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5345
      author: Conrad, Isaac
       title: Cross-Cultural Comparison of Climate Change Opinions, Beliefs, and Risk Perceptions in Morocco and the United States
        date: 2023
       words: 7374
      flesch: 53
     summary: 2.2 Survey Design A$er demographic and consent questions were answered, participants completed a series of 18 questions targeted at climate change opinions and audience segmentation. Findings indicate that Moroccans are more likely to believe in climate change, perceive risk from climate change, support bold climate policy, and discuss climate change with their immediate social circles.
    keywords: americans; climate; climate change; moroccans; morocco; opinions; risk; states; survey; united
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        item: #107 of 163
          id: aisthesis-54
      author: Grosso, Katherine
       title: Everything's OK
        date: 2017
       words: 2427
      flesch: 95
     summary: Eventually, her father would lift his dark eyes from the paper— Lily shuddered as she felt Garrett’s eyes on her, sizing her up the way they often did. Garrett turned away from him, and Lily felt her muscles relax and a small sigh escape her lips.
    keywords: brian; garrett; lily
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        item: #108 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5405
      author: Podolsky, Sophia
       title: The Martyrdom of Carole Lombard and the Release of To Be or Not to Be (1942)
        date: 2023
       words: 5291
      flesch: 67
     summary: is essay departs from the previous literature by examining how the death of star Carole Lombard shortly before the ! Martyrdom of Carole Lombard and the Release of To Be or Not to Be (1942) by Sophia Podolsky A woman walks into the Gestapo headquarters from stage right, dressed in a white gown with her hair beautifully coi#ed.
    keywords: carole; joseph; lombard; lubitsch; maria; nazi; pressbook; release; tura; war
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        item: #109 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5415
      author: Riedl, Jenna
       title: they told us we could be weightless (they lied)
        date: 2023
       words: 208
      flesch: 63
     summary: I concentrate primarily on themes of the body, particularly the queer and female body, and how bodies struggle to simply exist in the world without being judged, edited, restricted, degraded, or demonized. As we try to create a world where bodies are considered worthy of respect in their current state, not just in some future, unattainably perfect state, I think it is crucial for people to imagine the euphoric calm that comes from existing without the need for justication or apology.
    keywords: weightless
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        item: #110 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5419
      author: Markley, Sam
       title: State Legislation’s Impact on LGBTQ+ Student Wellbeing in U.S. Schools
        date: 2023
       words: 6636
      flesch: 50
     summary: Not only do teachers serve to actively address victimization in the moment, but LGBTQ+ teachers may passively serve as role models and present a safe space for LGBTQ+ students. Further, improved feelings of safety being correlated with inclusive curricula may be due to LGBTQ+ students feeling represented but may also be a result of other students engaging with the curricula and developing tolerant viewpoints.
    keywords: bills; gender; health; legiscan; legislation; lgbtq+; parents; school; state; students; teachers; youth
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        item: #111 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5421
      author: Kinsella, Madeline
       title: The Effects of Colostrum Quality on Health and Development of Dairy Calves
        date: 2023
       words: 5903
      flesch: 54
     summary: This measurement of solids has been shown to correlate with IgG levels, fat, protein, and lactose within dairy calf blood samples (Buranakarl et al., 2021). The authors believe that we may be able to find a greater significant increase in average Brix scores with a more comparable sample size to our sample size of Brix score samples taken while the reusable pitcher procedure was upheld.
    keywords: blood; brix; calf; calves; colostrum; dairy; days; development; health; quality; scores
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        item: #112 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5422
      author: Held, Katherine
       title: Defending ESG Fiduciary Duty
        date: 2023
       words: 4150
      flesch: 54
     summary: ESG Returns !e largest component of the Nineteen’s points of contention is that ESG Portfolios have lower returns than a standard portfolio. By investing in ESG companies, investors are mitigating the risks their clients could encounter if they do not include ESG considerations.
    keywords: act; advisers; client; company; duty; esg; fiduciary; investment; nineteen; return
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        item: #113 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5428
      author: Roher, Sallianne
       title: Analysis of Novel Unknown D. melanogaster Mutation trex
        date: 2023
       words: 6844
      flesch: 57
     summary: Further, using BLAST bioinformatic analyses, wild-type and trex gene sequences and protein products were compared to analyze the molecular nature of trex. When mutated, as in trex flies, vestigial is unable to perform its normal function and we see phenotypically abnormal wing formation.
    keywords: cross; dna; flies; gene; melanogaster; mutation; progeny; sequence; trex; type
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        item: #114 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5535
      author: Biographies, Author and Artist
       title: Author and Artist Biographies
        date: 2023
       words: 1228
      flesch: 47
     summary: As a member of University Honors at UMD, he served as President of the University Honors Student Association and was the recipient of the 2023 Zenith Award. Ainsley Gill is a sophomore and College Scholar at Vanderbilt University from Houston, Texas.
    keywords: honors; member; research; student; university
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        item: #115 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5536
      author: Swenson, Sierra S.
       title: The Relationship between Cognitive Function and Bilingualism in Young Adults
        date: 2023
       words: 4284
      flesch: 43
     summary: e current study aims to determine whether bilingual participants demonstrate higher cognitive functioning by result of their performance on neuropsychological working memory tasks. ! Comparisons in task performance were statistically tested, and contrary to expectations, performance of monolingual participants were marginally higher than those of bilingual participants in terms of task accuracy with the TMT-B, p=0.56.
    keywords: bilingualism; brain; function; language; participants; research; study; tasks
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        item: #116 of 163
          id: aisthesis-56
      author: Park, Jianna Jihyun
       title: Confessions I
        date: 2017
       words: 316
      flesch: 95
     summary: Blue jellyfish breathes in; water gravitates toward the marred heart She breathes out, and lets out a black hairball Collapsing bridge slow dives into the abyss Aisthesis Volume 8, 201749 Night falls like wine stain.
    keywords: drip
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          id: aisthesis-57
      author: Editoral Board, Aisthesis
       title: Vol. 8 (2017) Author Biographies
        date: 2017
       words: 1569
      flesch: 50
     summary: Katherine Grosso is a senior at Fairfield University, studying nursing. Sara Krastins is a senior at Fairfield University, where she is president of the Nu Tau chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
    keywords: honors; research; senior; student; studies; university
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        item: #118 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5912
      author: Bittner, William
       title: At Night
        date: 2024
       words: 1962
      flesch: 84
     summary: Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II plodded to the pulpit. ! Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II began his speech with a message about peace.
    keywords: barber; reverend; william
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        item: #119 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5936
      author: Cox, McKenzie
       title: Reading Proficiency and Teacher Retention in Mississippi
        date: 2024
       words: 5487
      flesch: 57
     summary: Increases in Teacher Pay e state legislature passed the largest raise for public school teachers in the state’s history in March of 2022, with an average $5,151 increase (Ballard and Breazeale, 2023). Keywords: Mississippi education, education policy, reading pro!ciency, teacher shortage, literacy reform Aisthesis Volume 15, 202468 Reading Pro!ciency and Teacher Retention in Mississippi by McKenzie Cox Introduction e New York Times called it “e Mississippi Miracle” (Kristof, 2023).
    keywords: education; funding; mississippi; policy; program; public; reading; school; state; teacher
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        item: #120 of 163
          id: aisthesis-5964
      author: Ziegler, Johanna
       title: Urban Horror Settings in the Works of Lovecraft and LaValle
        date: 2024
       words: 2208
      flesch: 54
     summary: e issue that arises, however, is when more than one author, across more genres than merely horror, begins to link racist fears to the same elements, like urban settings. While Lovecra# creates urban fear through a combination of cramped buildings and crowds of people of color, LaValle writes the exact opposite: urban fear is orderly neighborhoods and a vigilant community of white people. !
    keywords: horror; lavalle; lovecra; red; settings
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          id: aisthesis-5982
      author: Burjas, Karam
       title: Literature Review: Security of the LGBTQ+ Community in Lebanon 
        date: 2024
       words: 3258
      flesch: 44
     summary: Social Stigma and Risk Factors Exploring the social roots of stigma, entwined with religious dynamics, is an important component of the research on LGBTQ+ security in Lebanon. e plight of LGBTQ+ individuals transcends geographic boundaries.
    keywords: community; health; individuals; lebanon; lgbtq+; literature; research; security
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          id: aisthesis-6019
      author: Flores, Chantelle
       title: A Fusing of Horizons: Approaching Rosenberg’s “American Action Painters” Through a Hermeneutical Lens
        date: 2024
       words: 4417
      flesch: 46
     summary: Although Harold Rosenberg is not credited within main hermeneutic publications, his argument of “painting as event” presents a perspective on one’s encounter with art common with the progression of literary hermeneutical thought.1 By analyzing Rosenberg’s “American Action Painters” through hermeneutic and constructivist literary theories, one can #nd relevancy of Rosenberg’s work in the present day and in the work of literary criticism and theory. O!en, Rosenberg’s “American Action Painters” is viewed without the addition of an audience, but Christa Robbins argues that Rosenberg’s “American Action Painters” should be viewed within the habituses of socio-political thought Rosenberg was inherently a part of and the audiences he commonly interacted with.
    keywords: action; action painters; american; art; event; painters; rosenberg
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        item: #123 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6023
      author: Karg, Lily
       title: Pigment and Geochemical Markers of Past and Present Cyanobacterial Presence in the Southwestern Lake Superior Region
        date: 2024
       words: 5929
      flesch: 44
     summary: Both of these independent studies by Baustian et al. (2020) and Hobbs et al. (2021) substantiated that despite natural interferences, pigments served as useful molecular markers with long-term monitoring and considerate examination of sedimentary records in site-speci!c interpretations. As mentioned previously, work by Baustian et al. (2020) had also investigated an array of damaging anthropogenic stressors on the Great Lakes region.
    keywords: bay; bloom; carbon; cyanobacteria; et al; fig; lake; pigment; presence; present; siskiwit; superior; water
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        item: #124 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6043
      author: O'Donnell, Kathryn
       title: Environmental Uses and Pathogenic Potential of Paenibacillus lautus
        date: 2024
       words: 3746
      flesch: 44
     summary: P. lautus Prevalence in Ticks Another environmental source of P. lautus is within ticks (Loong et al. 2018; Canpolat and Biterge- Sut 2019). P. lautus demonstrates pro!ciency in the degradation of cellulose and diesel, resistance to high temperatures and heavy metal exposure, bio!lm and endospore formation, and persistence in various digestive systems.
    keywords: diesel; et al; lautus; paenibacillus; species; switching
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        item: #125 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6047
      author: Taylor, Elizabeth
       title: Preying on Predators: The Role of International Regimes in the Overexploitation of Shark Species
        date: 2024
       words: 6565
      flesch: 45
     summary: Multispecies Politics When discussing shark conservation through the lens of the commons, shark species are labeled as a “resource.” Furthermore, the international community has contributed to this overexploitation of shark species by building upon negative shark imagery created by the media and perpetuating capitalist ideals that drive overexploitation in global fish markets.
    keywords: commons; conservation; fisheries; fishing; governance; human; international; multispecies; overexploitation; shark; shark species; species
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        item: #126 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6050
      author: Longren, Benjamin
       title: The Fall of the Establishment Clause: Bias & Originalism in the Supreme Court
        date: 2024
       words: 3596
      flesch: 56
     summary: Recent controversial cases such as Carson v Makin, Dobbs v Jackson, and Kennedy v Bremerton have shown a distinct divide in Supreme Court rulings. ! e Supreme Court has slowly but surely been moving towards a pro-religion stance. !
    keywords: clause; court; establishment; supreme; u.s
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        item: #127 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6058
      author: Wang, Kelly
       title: Impact of Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reforms in China’s Modernization
        date: 2024
       words: 6138
      flesch: 52
     summary: e investigation not only provides insight on the shortcomings of Deng’s economic reforms and their implications for China’s future development, but also evaluates the “no democratization, no modernization” claim of Chinese student protestors in 1986.8 Overall, this investigation contends whether economic reform alone is su%cient for a country to “modernize.” !is investigation consulted the works of experts on the history of modern China such as Jonathan D. Spence and Ezra F. Vogel, alternative perspectives on 5 Vince Cable et al., “From Deng to Xi: Economic Reform, the Silk Road, and the Return of the Middle Kingdom” (LSE IDEAS, May 2017), https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/ publications/reports/deng-xi, 1. 6 Barry Naughton, “Deng Xiaoping: ! Mao Zedong’s authoritarian rule, intended to rejuvenate the nation, instead le China not only in extremely poor economic condition, but also with horri#c memories from the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.3 Upon coming to power, Deng Xiaoping was intent on maintaining the one-party state established by Mao.
    keywords: china; chinese; deng; deng xiaoping; development; economic; modernization; new; press; reforms; xiaoping
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        item: #128 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6078
      author: Hamel, Krista
       title: Construction vs Deconstruction
        date: 2024
       words: 202
      flesch: 45
     summary: Painted with water-mixable oils, this piece was built up layer by layer, relying on an alla prima painting technique, which allowed for the bright vibrancy of the colors and textural elements to shine through. !is technique of slowly building up layers also re#ects further upon the question of construction and its relation to intention. is piece speaks to the juxtaposition between what we as a human species consider to be construction and “progress” versus what construction means for the native species that work in a harmonious rhythm with each other.
    keywords: construction
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        item: #129 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6084
      author: Jones, Andy
       title: Carpentry
        date: 2024
       words: 108
      flesch: -10
     summary: the word of the day is “deconstructing” everyone in book club is reading something new I’m still checked out with that poem I read about a missing cat, a mother’s love, a night that becomes less lonely when the howling creatures feel understood I made a discovery, there’s this rotted hole underneath my ribs— a giant maw with splintered teeth, all the more perfect to bite down on the little girl inside of me and shake her until she starts to understand the state of her future I’ll rebuild this body better the second time around Aisthesis Volume 15, 202479 Carpentry by Andy Jones
    keywords: andy jones
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        item: #130 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6085
      author: Butler, Cliff
       title: A Tale Told by Many Other Names: Films of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
        date: 2024
       words: 4189
      flesch: 62
     summary: Whether her Romeo is found in Richard Beymer (Tony, West Side Story, 1961), Leonard Whiting (Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, 1968), Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo, Romeo + Juliet, 1996), Joseph Fiennes (William Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love, 1998), James McAvoy (Gnomeo, Gnomeo & Juliet, 2011), or in Ansel Elgort (Tony, West Side Story, 2021), he always replies to be called only love, and never again be Romeo (or by what other name he happens to carry) Originally published in Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2, 2001, pp.
    keywords: act; film; juliet; romeo; shakespeare; story; william
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        item: #131 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6090
      author: Peschek, Allison
       title: Rainbow Stag Snacktime
        date: 2024
       words: 310
      flesch: 65
     summary: Rainbow Stag Snacktime (2023) is a linocut relief print that was created to celebrate the life of a Rainbow Stag Beetle (Phalacrognathus muelleri). Additionally, Rainbow Stag Snacktime is an experimental take on the use of texture, layering, and color.
    keywords: stag
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        item: #132 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6205
      author: Biographies, Author and Artist
       title: Author and Artist Biographies
        date: 2024
       words: 1429
      flesch: 49
     summary: Kathryn O’Donnell graduated cum laude with biology departmental honors and University Honors designation from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2024, with a BA in biology and a minor in history. Karam Burjas is a junior honors student at Temple University majoring in global studies with a concentration in global security.
    keywords: honors; program; student; undergraduate; university; writing
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        item: #133 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6546
      author: Ledoux, Rachel
       title: Rewriting Racism with Prager University: How the Modern Political Propaganda Outlet is Shaping Global Slavery Curricula within the American Educational System
        date: 2025
       words: 4484
      flesch: 51
     summary: e United States is known for having especially brutal slavery when compared to countries like Brazil and South Africa,7 largely as a result of the lackluster legislation regarding the treatment of enslaved individuals by their masters and continued generational enslavement for the children of enslaved people. e United States is now tasked with repairing its portrayal of slavery in the educational sector, lest the true legacy of slavery be lost forever.
    keywords: education; history; modern; prageru; racism; slavery; states; system; united
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        item: #134 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6560
      author: Skenderian, Sedona
       title: Impermanence
        date: 2025
       words: 1771
      flesch: 91
     summary: e house watched them standing in front of it, their prideful faces re#ecting o$ the window's glass like an image re#ected o$ an eye. e house was once again clean.
    keywords: couple; house
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        item: #135 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6588
      author: Smith, Ansel
       title: The Cost of Education: A Summary of Financial Transactions of Enslavement at the University of Alabama
        date: 2025
       words: 3145
      flesch: 61
     summary: e documents were created by enslavers under an institutionalized system through which African Americans were reduced to monetary value and labor value, referred to by names assigned by enslavers. Content Warning: !is paper contains references to documents in which African Americans are bought, sold, and referred to as chattel. !
    keywords: alabama; history; people; transaction; university
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        item: #136 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6612
      author: Jenness, Rachael
       title: Friend, Foe or Franco?: Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Propaganda in WWII Spain
        date: 2025
       words: 4603
      flesch: 55
     summary: 2 Paul Preston, Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain (London: William Collins, 2023), Preface; according to Paul Preston, a more accurate translation of this term would be “the %lthy Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik concubinage.” conation, Freemasonry threatened the control of the Catholic Church through its secrecy and radical secular ideals, and therefore the very foundation of Spanish society. Peman and Tusquets were convinced it was their duty to warn Catholics about the dangers of their Jewish neighbors.23 #e works of these two writers during the Spanish Civil War belied the revival of a dangerous political trend in Spanish society: the tendency to conate the international Jewish community with all of Spain’s enemies.
    keywords: franco; jews; judeo; masonic; propaganda; spain; war; world
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        item: #137 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6622
      author: Heinzerling, Mallory; Nunez, Estephania D.
       title: Neuromuscular Deficits Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Require Increased Duration of Rehabilitation in Collegiate Athletes
        date: 2025
       words: 2695
      flesch: 34
     summary: In order for rehabilitation to be comprehensive, it needs to include tasks for restoration of neuromuscular control and performance.2 To adequately reeducate the neuromuscular processes of the body, neuromuscular control de!cits need to be addressed throughout the stages of rehabilitation, and following return to sport. Despite advancements in surgical techniques and rehabilitation, reinjury rates remain a large concern with a considerable number of these instances attributed to neuromuscular de!cits.
    keywords: athletes; cruciate; de!cits; ligament; neuromuscular; rehabilitation; return; sport
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        item: #138 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6644
      author: Laurin, Samantha
       title: Postures and Perceptions: Expansive and Contractive Postures on Perceptions of Power and Likeability
        date: 2025
       words: 6625
      flesch: 46
     summary: Gender and the embodiment of power postures. Expansive postures are often linked to dominance and power, while contractive postures are associated with approachability.
    keywords: body; gender; likeability; participants; perceptions; poses; postures; power; women
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        item: #139 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6656
      author: Lindsey Hoffman
       title: Preventing Language Deprivation Syndrome in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: A Focused Intervention in Philadelphia's 19144 Zip Code
        date: 2025
       words: 6228
      flesch: 56
     summary: Addressing a lack of sign language exposure for Deaf children could improve their social, emotional, and cognitive developmental trajectories. Oralist and auditory approaches to language for Deaf children can negatively a!ect their developmental trajectories (Murray et al., 2019).
    keywords: children; community; deaf; deprivation; hall; health; hearing; language; sign; states; united; years
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        item: #140 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6671
      author: Wang, Jason
       title: Horyuji of the Southern Capital
        date: 2025
       words: 193
      flesch: 59
     summary: Drawn during the Covid lockdowns that stopped travel between East Asia and the United States, this drawing scroll depicts Horyuji Temple in Nara, Japan, the oldest extant wooden structures in the world, in an environment of steep cli!s and lonely pine trees reminiscent of the Yellow Mountains in Anhui Province in China. Although the $ve-story pagoda and the kondo of Horyuji serve as the main subject of the drawing, I also added a three-story pagoda on each end to reference the two pagodas at Taima-dera temple located south of Horyuji.
    keywords: horyuji
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        item: #141 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6687
      author: Turkiewicz, Natalia
       title: Carotid Dissection: A Stroke of Insight into Safer Work Conditions
        date: 2025
       words: 7681
      flesch: 48
     summary: Thrombolytic drugs such as clot busters are given to patients who are having an ischemic stroke. In certain cases, carotid artery dissection can heal on its own, but other times it leads to compromised blood flow to the brain.
    keywords: april; artery; blood; carotid; carotid dissection; conditions; dissection; image; left; march; n.d; patient; risk; stroke; symptoms; volume; work
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        item: #142 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6699
      author: Ella Hansen
       title: Golden Shovel / Write Anything About Nothing
        date: 2025
       words: 144
      flesch: 93
     summary: nd between pink blooms on the deck that call circling bumblebees and their stripes. Addressed to You, Simon Shieh by Ella Hansen
    keywords: middle
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        item: #143 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6736
      author: Shah, Aashka
       title: Historical Redlining Practices: Influences on Rising Contemporary Infant Mortality Rates in Richmond, Virginia
        date: 2025
       words: 5894
      flesch: 49
     summary: e purpose of this study was to analyze the e#ects of historical redlining on infant mortality rates in Richmond, Virginia. e redlining status of all the neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia was analyzed to $nd patterns related to infant mortality, and infant mortality rates were found to be signi$cantly higher in previously redlined neighborhoods due to less access to resources, worse environmental conditions, and racial disparities.
    keywords: birth; et al; health; holc; infant; mortality; neighborhoods; rate; redlining; richmond; white
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        item: #144 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6737
      author: Hillary Sotomayor
       title: Reproductive Coercion: A Systematic Review
        date: 2025
       words: 5935
      flesch: 42
     summary: Reproductive coercion has been de#ned within medical parameters; however, an explicit de#nition for reproductive coercion in American legal frameworks has proven to be more complex. Ultimately, reproductive coercion remains a neglected issue, despite the strides that policies like VAWA have made to address barriers to reproductive healthcare access and protect reproductive rights.
    keywords: abuse; coercion; contraception; control; law; partner; pregnancy; reproductive; states; survivors; vawa; violence; women
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        item: #145 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6741
      author: Segall, Avery
       title: Assembling Disassembly: An Exploration of Normativity, Gender Performativity, and Assemblage Theory
        date: 2025
       words: 3824
      flesch: 50
     summary: rough this process, gender identity itself becomes a reied construct instead of a means for self-description, and is consequently restrictive. !is essentialized construction of identity—in this paper, gender identity specically—is harmful because it limits the intelligibility of the vast variety of human experiences. !
    keywords: assemblage; butler; gender; identity; queer; theory
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        item: #146 of 163
          id: aisthesis-6872
      author: Author and Artist Biographies, 2025
       title: 2025 Author and Artist Biographies
        date: 2025
       words: 1289
      flesch: 54
     summary: Avery Segall is a current senior at Seattle University, set to graduate magna cum laude in June 2025. Rachel Ledoux is a !rst-year honors student at Simmons University, where she is double majoring in political science and economics within an accelerated public policy graduate program.
    keywords: honors; research; student; time; university
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        item: #147 of 163
          id: aisthesis-746
      author: Editoral Board, Aisthesis
       title: Author Biopraphies
        date: 2017
       words: 993
      flesch: 52
     summary: Huls is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Matthew McDermott- Matthew McDermott is a Junior at the University of Minnesota Duluth studying Civil Engineering.
    keywords: duluth; minnesota; time; university
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        item: #148 of 163
          id: aisthesis-770
      author: Davis, Benjamin
       title: Education, Oppression, and Democracy: A Philosophical Approach to Educational Inequity
        date: 2017
       words: 6509
      flesch: 49
     summary: Could technology in the classroom provide the means to a more egalitarian society?4 Does closing the achievement gap address the major arguments linking public education with democracy and democratic processes? My reflections on the educational philosophies of John Dewey and Paulo Freire shed light on the issues of educational (in)equality and the achievement gap in public education, and on genuine social (in)equality, of which educational (in) equality is one part.6 As debates about No Child Left Behind and the Common Core suggest, education reformers today are asking numerous questions: What is the best way to close the achievement gap?
    keywords: achievement; democracy; dewey; education; freire; learning; oppression; process; public; society; students; teachers
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        item: #149 of 163
          id: aisthesis-774
      author: Huls, Leah
       title: Shakespeare’s Use of Romantic Relationships: Western Romanticism Causing Inaccurate Readings and Misinterpretations
        date: 2017
       words: 4312
      flesch: 62
     summary: Rosaline, the woman to which Romeo refers, is the object of Romeo’s affections despite her denial of him, and Romeo cries to Benvolio that he is “out of her favour where I am in love” (1.1.161). This article argues Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing show Shakespeare uses women and their various attributes as a means to an end for men, an end other than romantic love.
    keywords: benedick; century; juliet; love; romeo; shakespeare; women
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        item: #150 of 163
          id: aisthesis-781
      author: King, Jessica
       title: The Violence of Heteronormative Language Towards the Queer Community
        date: 2017
       words: 4178
      flesch: 48
     summary: This is a form of heteronormative language violence, as it can cause asexuals to be pushed away from the broader queer community because their deviance from the heteronormative standard may not be as immediately obvious as, for example, a homosexual transgender person’s might. Heteronormative language violence in the courtroom is not, of course, restricted to transgender individuals.
    keywords: bisexuals; community; gender; identity; language; queer; violence
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        item: #151 of 163
          id: aisthesis-782
      author: McDermott, Matthew
       title: The CCR Rule‘s Impact on Electric Utilities
        date: 2017
       words: 3703
      flesch: 46
     summary: This paper provides an overall summary of the history, make up, controversy, and implementation of the new CCR Rule so that members of the engineering community can gain a better understanding of the new regulation. Therefore the new CCR Rule (or simply the Rule) will need to be fully embraced.
    keywords: ccr; ccr rule; coal; environmental; epa; rule; waste
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        item: #152 of 163
          id: aisthesis-783
      author: Murawski, Bailey
       title: Zequanox: A Potential Solution to Zebra Mussels
        date: 2017
       words: 3161
      flesch: 64
     summary: Abstract: Zebra mussels are an invasive species that are very harmful to the environ- ment and therefore cost society a considerable amount of money. Most of the previous attempts to eliminate zebra mussels were either ineffective or caused damage to other organisms.
    keywords: control; mortality; mussels; treatment; water; zebra; zequanox
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        item: #153 of 163
          id: aisthesis-784
      author: Neukircher, Hannah
       title: Application of the LIT Model to General Strain Theory, Situational Anger, and Social Networks: An Assessment of Condition Influences
        date: 2017
       words: 2981
      flesch: 54
     summary: Agnew’s (1992) GST only looks at individual anger, and the instrument used to test anger management and leadership skills only contains two questions asking about personal leadership skill responses and four measures of anger about individual reactions. Because the study of the LIT model did not examine the influence of specific leadership skills and specific measures of anger, the exact effect of the LIT model on anger management is unable to be determined.
    keywords: anger; leadership; model
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        item: #154 of 163
          id: aisthesis-785
      author: Pederson, Caitlin
       title: Muscular Dystrophy: Stem Cell Therapy
        date: 2017
       words: 3544
      flesch: 51
     summary: Besides ethical concerns with stem cell treatments, there are also health concerns. Dystrophin acts as the shock absorbers for muscle cells and prevents fibre damage of the muscles; without this protein the muscles wear out.2
    keywords: cells; dystrophy; muscle; stem; treatment
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        item: #155 of 163
          id: aisthesis-786
      author: Prozinski, Rachael
       title: The Controversy of Intercollegiate Sports
        date: 2017
       words: 3242
      flesch: 62
     summary: Many student athletes carry the mindset that their primary academic goal is to “just pass” (Cosh & Tully, 2014). Athletes have little time to pursue a The Controversy of Intercollegiate Sports Aisthesis Volume 7, 201645 competitive degree; therefore, many student athletes achieve degrees that are less notable or worthy to get them a job after college (Rheenen, 2013).
    keywords: athletes; minnesota; schools; sports; university
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        item: #156 of 163
          id: aisthesis-787
      author: Shorter, Patricia
       title: The Beekeeper
        date: 2017
       words: 1826
      flesch: 86
     summary: Even her eyes appeared metallic, shining a blue that was too silver, too penetrating, as she watched Iliana from a distance, never making eye contact, but still ever knowing the child’s position. Iliana loved the bees.
    keywords: deborah; eyes; iliana
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        item: #157 of 163
          id: aisthesis-788
      author: Trenberth, Tahnee
       title: A War in the Sky
        date: 2017
       words: 680
      flesch: 73
     summary: Next, as if on cue, drops of rain plunk down from the increasingly blackening clouds. Massive cumulonimbus clouds suddenly begin to swallow up the baby-blue summer sky, casting an eerie shadow of gloom over every bit of land that it engulfs.
    keywords: air; sky
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        item: #158 of 163
          id: aisthesis-792
      author: Cerny, Stefnie
       title: Joy
        date: 2017
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 7, 201653 Stefnie Cerny Joy
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #159 of 163
          id: aisthesis-793
      author: Cerny, Stefnie
       title: Vertigo
        date: 2017
       words: 7
      flesch: 78
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 7, 201654 Stefnie Cerny Vertigo
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #160 of 163
          id: aisthesis-794
      author: Kuchibhatla, Sreekar S.
       title: Flying Past the Everest
        date: 2017
       words: 11
      flesch: 87
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 7, 201655 Sreekar S. Kuchibhatla Flying Past the Everest
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #161 of 163
          id: aisthesis-795
      author: Kuchibhatla, Sreekar S.
       title: Synchrony
        date: 2017
       words: 8
      flesch: 82
     summary: Aisthesis Volume 7, 201656 Sreekar S. Kuchibhatla Synchrony
    keywords: aisthesis
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        item: #162 of 163
          id: aisthesis-796
      author: Kuchibhatla, Sreekar S.
       title: The Creator
        date: 2017
       words: 9
      flesch: 80
     summary: The Creator Sreekar S. Kuchibhatla Aisthesis Volume 7, 201657
    keywords: aisthesis
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          id: aisthesis-797
      author: Editorial Staff, Aisthesis
       title: Welcome to Aisthesis
        date: 2017
       words: 342
      flesch: 42
     summary: Launched six editions ago as a print journal highlighting the best of undergraduate Honors student work, Aisthesis now continues as an annual journal created on-line by students in the University of Minnesota Duluth Honors Program. We hope you enjoy these pieces of undergraduate work and encourage undergraduate Honors students (or recently graduated Honors students) to submit in the future.
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