item: #1 of 190 id: elements-10050 author: Abate, Danielle Jean title: Classroom for Debate: When Students with Autism Succeed in Inclusive Classrooms date: 2018 words: 4291 flesch: 39 summary: Even when special education students have less severe limitations, the spending allocated to them is still greater than that for general education students, mere- ly because the student is documented as having a disability (Legislative Analyst’s Office, 2013). Only 15% to 40% of special education students are capable of completing their English Language Arts examination with a score of proficient or higher; in comparison, 40% to 70% of general education students are able to accomplish this feat (Legislative Analyst’s Office, 2013) (See Appen- dix). keywords: autism; classroom; education; environment; peers; students; teachers cache: elements-10050.pdf plain text: elements-10050.txt item: #2 of 190 id: elements-10323 author: Reilly, Rebecca Colleen title: “Do not kill them, lest my people forget”: Changes in Attitudes Towards Jews in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century England date: 2018 words: 3628 flesch: 56 summary: since economic reason- ing alone does not explain the treatment of the Jews in the latter half of the thir- teenth century, this essay also examines instances of anti-Jewish violence and suc- cessive plantagenet kings’ policies targeting the Jews, indentifying them as indicators or constructions of religious and national alterity. The later moral preaching discouraging intermarriage and interaction may have been a response to this behavior which, he points out, was either widespread or widely known.10 Attacks on Jews throughout Europe appear in records around the time of the First Crusade, but records from the time do not even seem to evidence a collective English awareness of Jews.11 The “blood libel” legend and accusations of ritual murder that emerge in the mid-twelfth century appear to have been a factor in increasing anti-Jewish attitudes, but it seems more plausible to read the incidences as symptom- atic instead of pathological. keywords: christian; england; english; ibid; jews; medieval; thomas; william cache: elements-10323.pdf plain text: elements-10323.txt item: #3 of 190 id: elements-10324 author: Burgess, Hailey title: Stratified English-Language Fluency in Jordan: Perpetuating class division and limiting socioeconomic opportunity date: 2018 words: 4847 flesch: 47 summary: Thus, severe disparities in English language education not only creates pockets of opportunity and wealth in the capital, but also excludes citizenry from already poverty-stricken and resource deficient outer governorates. English language education in Jordan: Some recent trends and challenges. keywords: amman; arabic; class; education; english; jordan; language; public; schools; students cache: elements-10324.pdf plain text: elements-10324.txt item: #4 of 190 id: elements-10325 author: Loos, Rachel title: Environmental Racism: Lead Tainted Water in Flint, Michigan date: 2018 words: 3473 flesch: 66 summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later analyzed over 7,000 children, and found that children who drank Flint water had a 50 percent higher risk of dangerously elevated blood lead levels than before the switch. Residents are understandably reluctant to drink the water from their taps again, and Governor Snyder has pledged to drink Flint water for 30 days to prove it is safe (Kennedy). keywords: children; environmental; flint; lead; levels; people; racism; water; web cache: elements-10325.pdf plain text: elements-10325.txt item: #5 of 190 id: elements-10326 author: Sabal, Matt title: The Market for Blood: Should Donations be Incentivized in the United States? date: 2018 words: 4486 flesch: 59 summary: hoWever, others find moral and ethical is- sues With paying Blood donors, and have concerns aBout hoW this could compro- mise the safety of donated Blood. Transfusion from donor blood will be much cheaper, readily available, and safe in the foreseeable future. keywords: blood; cash; donations; donors; drives; incentives; red; supply cache: elements-10326.pdf plain text: elements-10326.txt item: #6 of 190 id: elements-10327 author: Brown, Ashley Prescott title: Visual Metaphors for the People: Unpacking Sergei Eisenstein’s Pedagogy of the Russian Revolution Through Film date: 2018 words: 7777 flesch: 56 summary: Sergei Eisenstein, The General Line (Soviet Union: Sovkino, 1929). 20. quoted in Goodwin, Eisenstein, Cinema, and History, 50. 21. One critic hailed October as the “symphony after the étude of Potemkin;”35 Eisenstein again infused his film’s revolu- tionary quality with the motifs of its setting. keywords: bolshevik; cinema; eisenstein; fig; film; masses; metaphors; people; revolution; sergei eisenstein; shots; soviet; workers cache: elements-10327.pdf plain text: elements-10327.txt item: #7 of 190 id: elements-10328 author: Fox, Sophia title: Wonder Woman and Modern Feminism date: 2018 words: 3935 flesch: 57 summary: This cyclic relationship between feminism and Wonder Woman dem- onstrates both the popularity of feminism, as well as Won- der Woman’s permanent place within the movement. For generations, Wonder Woman has been a staple oF both the comic book industry and popular Feminist discourse. keywords: character; feminism; film; movement; movie; popularity; woman; wonder; wonder woman cache: elements-10328.pdf plain text: elements-10328.txt item: #8 of 190 id: elements-10332 author: Samir, Sara title: Relationship Between Salivary Cortisol, Self-Assessed Stress Levels, and Body Mass Index in High Achieving High School Adolescents date: 2018 words: 4801 flesch: 65 summary: While the relationship was not significant, it appears that both cortisol and BMI were negatively correlated, therefore participants who had higher cortisol levels generally had a lower BMI. It is often ob- served that over time, chronic stress contributes to higher “While the relationship was not significant, it appears that both cortisol and BMI were negatively correlated, therefore participants who had higher cortisol levels generally had a lower BMI.” table 5. keywords: adolescents; bmi; cortisol; et al; high; levels; participants; stress; study; weight cache: elements-10332.pdf plain text: elements-10332.txt item: #9 of 190 id: elements-10333 author: Mejia, Jorge Steven title: Venezuela in Crisis: A Backgrounder date: 2018 words: 4802 flesch: 51 summary: This collapse of Puntofijismo ran parallel with the emergence of an alternative political project of special relevance to contemporary Venezuela: Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarianismo. This duality, while seemingly contradictory, helps to situate contemporary Venezuela within its prior development (e.g., pacted democracy and a rentier economy), but also account for contingencies (e.g., Chávez’s 1999 constitu- tional reform and regime hybridity). keywords: chávez; crisis; december; democracy; hugo; maduro; oil; petro; politics; puntofijismo; regime; social; state; venezuela cache: elements-10333.pdf plain text: elements-10333.txt item: #10 of 190 id: elements-10542 author: Kennedy, Isabelle; McCabe, Molly; Rodgers, Katelyn title: Leveling the Ice: The Discrepancy Between Male and Female Athletics at Boston College date: 2018 words: 5395 flesch: 60 summary: some arTicles, such as women’s sporTs FoundaTion (2010) and carpenTer & acosTa (2005), ciTe lack oF Funds and media visibiliTy as To why women’s sporTs are noT as highly regarded as men’s sporTs. oTher arTicles, such as messner (2000) and nwlc (2012), explain ThaT The disproporTion in coverage oF men’s and women’s sporTs is based on socieTy’s expecTaTions oF women and The assumpTion Feminine“weaknesses” This paper examines The men’s and women’s ice hockey Teams aT bosTon college and deTails The issues surrounding Team schedules, Fan aTTendance, universiTy supporT, and media presence in an aTTempT To deTermine wheTher bc women’s ice hockey receives diFFer- enT levels oF supporT and invesTmenT From bc compared To The bc men’s hockey Team, and wheTher This diFFerenTial invesTmenT leads To a unique specTaTor experience ThaT may explain The lack oF specTaTor aTTendance aT bc women’s hockey games. keywords: games; hockey; investment; lack; spectator; sports; team; women cache: elements-10542.pdf plain text: elements-10542.txt item: #11 of 190 id: elements-14895 author: Elements; Sepe, Czar title: Ireland Reimagined: Grasping Historial Perceptions for the Decade of Centenaries date: 2022 words: 5158 flesch: 54 summary: Clearly, the notion of inclusion, as well as transnationalism and intersectionality in public commemoration, arose as a re- sult of a fear of conflict and Ireland’s past experiences with historical commemoration. Although the DOC was a complicated a3air in the Irish and Northern Irish political spheres, the decade accomplished great strides in an intersectional and interdisciplinary study of Irish history, whether from state- sponsored events or grassroots activism. keywords: century; commemoration; history; ireland; irish; northern; public; rising; war cache: elements-14895.pdf plain text: elements-14895.txt item: #12 of 190 id: elements-14907 author: Elements; Cohen, Caroline title: Food for Thought: Researching Nutrition's Mitigating Effects on the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease date: 2022 words: 4242 flesch: 63 summary: ,2 5-,+# %20 74%2!,!. ) # %,,$ © L.tak (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asian_Infrastructure_Investment_Bank_map.svg), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode +,2%’) '23',23 !#--,!'-,%& 0,)54! keywords: brain; diet; fat; mind; stress cache: elements-14907.pdf plain text: elements-14907.txt item: #13 of 190 id: elements-14909 author: Elements; Riherd, Will title: Neuromorphic Computing: Explaining how Projected SNN Training will Largely Impact our Interactions with Technology date: 2022 words: 4529 flesch: 53 summary: They will continue to outperform neuromorphic computing systems for conventional processing tasks. ,2 5-,+# %20 74%2!,!. ) keywords: chip; computing; future; intel; learning; loihi; neuromorphic; research; system; technology cache: elements-14909.pdf plain text: elements-14909.txt item: #14 of 190 id: elements-14911 author: Elements; Fu, Daniel title: The Continuing Containment: Evaluating the Trump Administration's China Containment Strategy on Eastern Regions and Beyond date: 2022 words: 15716 flesch: 53 summary: They have been shown to be highly precise, with a circular error probability (CEP) of less than fifty me- ters.58 In August 2020, China successfully tested the DF- 21D and DF-26B “carrier-killer” and Guam-killer” mis- siles in the South China Sea.59 Wang Xiangsui, a former PLA colonel, has stated that the missiles could hit a mov- ing target.60 Andrew Erickson estimates that China may have more than two hundred DF-26 missiles in its arse- nal.61 China’s strides in missile R&D has also led to the creation of the DF-5B liquid-fueled intercontinental ballis- “Having eliminated threats along its continental periphery, China has investigated significantly in bolstering its naval capabilities to counter U.S. maritime hegemony in the Indo-Pacific.” 77 ! In October 2020 for example, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Indonesia to find “new ways” of cooperation in the South China Sea.124 Lastly, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, recently authorized by the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), will see the U.S. allocate an additional 6 billion USD in military funding to bolster deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.125 EFFECTIVENESS AND CHINESE RESPONSES The Trump administration’s containment policy has not led to productive trade relations with China, stability in the Indo-Pacific, or more robust alliances. keywords: administration; american; asia; capabilities; china; china sea; chinese; december; defense; june; military; national; naval; navy; new; november; october; pacific; pla; policy; power; reuters; robert; ross; security; south china; states; taiwan; trade; trump; u.s; united; war cache: elements-14911.pdf plain text: elements-14911.txt item: #15 of 190 id: elements-14915 author: Elements; Cattich, Ryan title: The Digital Pandemic: Averting Negative Externalities of Disinformation Through Platforms date: 2022 words: 8509 flesch: 51 summary: *#61$ #$)'9!6 %$0(!' 230 !% '( * #$*%'*3+$ %'+1(!', #*(/$# * ,2 5-,+# %20 74%2!,!. ) keywords: act; companies; content; facebook; google; law; liability; misinformation; news; people; platform; policy; section; spread; twitter; users; youtube cache: elements-14915.pdf plain text: elements-14915.txt item: #16 of 190 id: elements-14923 author: Elements; Rostad, Thomas title: Let the Sun do the Work: Analyzing the Economic and Environmental Performance of Residential PV-battery systems in Massachusetts date: 2022 words: 7874 flesch: 52 summary: The “Lifetime NPV” model makes it very clear that government subsidies still play a crucial role in supporting the economic viability of PV battery systems in Massachusetts. The “Year One Energy Flows” model quantifies a household’s hourly energy flows over a year under three scenarios that use the same annual hourly electricity consumption profile: Baseline scenario represents a household with neither solar panels, nor battery system, Standalone PV scenario represents a household with solar panels, but no battery system, and PV-battery scenario represents a household with both solar panels and an integrated battery system. keywords: battery; capacity; costs; electricity; emissions; energy; grid; lifetime; net; npv; solar; standalone; systems cache: elements-14923.pdf plain text: elements-14923.txt item: #17 of 190 id: elements-14925 author: Elements; Lenahan, Christine title: Pronouns and Personhood: Exploring the Construction of Gender Identities from the Feminist Perspective date: 2022 words: 6067 flesch: 61 summary: Second, I will investigate the usage of gender pronouns on campuses in the United States. I will be drawing upon surveys and interviews conducted among first-year students, noting how gender pronouns are used within college orientation programs. keywords: binary; construction; gender; masculinity; men; pronouns; sex; society; woman cache: elements-14925.pdf plain text: elements-14925.txt item: #18 of 190 id: elements-14927 author: Elements; Morales, Taylor title: Raptus et Romaunce: Discussing the Incongruities of Chaucer and Feminism date: 2022 words: 5507 flesch: 60 summary: As the raptus statutes in England at the time were encompassing to the three di,erent facets of the term—sexual assault, abduction, and theft—when dealing with cases brought to the legal system, it is hard to retroactively pinpoint the exact o,ense that one Geo,rey Chaucer was found guilty of in his case of raptus against Cecilia Chaumpaigne in 1380. Touching on Sidhu’s comparison of William Langland to Geo,rey Chaucer when looking at their ability to use obscene comedy as a vehicle for political challenging, I would like to add that the reason Chaucer was more successful in his critique of the societal status quo— referring to the perceptions of women specifically— because of his physical proximity to London. keywords: chaucer; feminist; legend; poetry; raptus; romance; tale; time; women cache: elements-14927.pdf plain text: elements-14927.txt item: #19 of 190 id: elements-14939 author: Elements; Pender, Siobhan title: The Force on the Front: Analyzing the Police Sympathy for the Christian Front Movement in Brooklyn from 1938-1940 date: 2022 words: 4371 flesch: 56 summary: In New York, a significant number of policemen were Christian Front members or sympathizers, which resulted in a general disinterest in protecting the safety of Jews who were being attacked in the streets by these anti-Semitic, Christian Front gangs. As noted by Gene Fein in his dissertation, “[t]he arrest of the [Christian] Fronters [in NYC] gave Mayor LaGuardia enough political currency to address the charges of police laxity in anti-Semitic matters that plagued his o3ce since 1938…The mayor ordered investigations commissioner William Herlands to investigate police membership in the “In New York, a significant number of policemen were Christian Front members or sympathizers, which resulted in a general disinterest in protecting the safety of Jews who were being attacked in the streets by these anti-Semitic, Christian Front ganges.” 99 ! keywords: anti; brooklyn; christian; irish; members; new; police cache: elements-14939.pdf plain text: elements-14939.txt item: #20 of 190 id: elements-14941 author: Elements; Whalen, Maiya title: Someone Like Me: Exploring How Mentors Influence Sense of Belonging for Undergraduate Students of Color date: 2022 words: 3799 flesch: 57 summary: Person first, student second: Sta) and administrators of color supporting students of color au- thentically in higher education. Future Research Future research in race and sense of belonging among college students would benefit from exploring the impact of student mentors versus administrative mentors or the di)ering social rules that students of color have to follow. keywords: belonging; color; sense; students cache: elements-14941.pdf plain text: elements-14941.txt item: #21 of 190 id: elements-14943 author: Elements; Narayan, Nina title: Unmasking Medical Frauds: Exposing the Details and Implications of Illicit Trade in the Medical Sector date: 2022 words: 3455 flesch: 45 summary: Countries that encounter large amounts of counterfeit healthcare products risk discouraging foreign investment, thus limiting their potential for economic growth and opportunities for further innovation and development in the healthcare sector (OECD/EUIPO, 2020). Several facilitation policy strategies could prove helpful in decreasing the number of counterfeit healthcare products being exported. keywords: counterfeit; euipo; healthcare; impact; market; oecd; products; trade cache: elements-14943.pdf plain text: elements-14943.txt item: #22 of 190 id: elements-14945 author: Garrett, Katherine; Elements title: Legalizing Love: Understanding the Effect of Legalizing Gay-Marriage on Adoption Rates in the United States date: 2022 words: 2952 flesch: 59 summary: With this background information in mind, this brief examines adoption data from 2000 to 2017 in order to assess how the legalization of same-sex marriage—on a state and national level—increased adoption rates in the United States. For this analysis, the raw numbers of adopted children were converted into a logarithmic dependent variable in order to analyze how gay marriage changed adoption rates in the form of a percent change. keywords: adoption; legalization; marriage cache: elements-14945.pdf plain text: elements-14945.txt item: #23 of 190 id: elements-14947 author: Elements title: Elements Fall 2021 date: 2022 words: 30520 flesch: 57 summary: #& )-&/%( +%%$8&#($. !) If load exceeds PV production , the battery is discharged until either the excess load is met, or the battery reaches its minimum capacity: +#13&! 2: -.1%&#$*, +%& 87-/-$$!&2 '2'$!, !(!&12 +.%:' ($!&%, ! keywords: + +; adoption; analysis; battery; battery systems; belonging; capacity; chaucer; college; color; costs; counterfeit; data; electricity; emissions; energy; gender; grid; impact; lifetime; massachusetts; mentors; metering; net; new; power; pronouns; pv system; rates; research; sense; sex; society; solar; standalone; states; students; system; time; trade; women; year cache: elements-14947.pdf plain text: elements-14947.txt item: #24 of 190 id: elements-14951 author: Elements; Riordan, Luc title: Wrestling with Giants: Probing the Pertinence of Antitrust Law for Big Law date: 2022 words: 6435 flesch: 58 summary: # %(5 *'! ,2 5-,+# %20 74%2!,!. ) keywords: antitrust; companies; data; facebook; market; microsoft; states; technology; united cache: elements-14951.pdf plain text: elements-14951.txt item: #25 of 190 id: elements-14955 author: Elements; Stebbins, Sean title: The Demon of the Belfry: Investigating the Evolution of the Penny Press and the Emmanuel Church Murders date: 2022 words: 10391 flesch: 60 summary: Papers also empha- sized Durrant’s supposed suggestion to Noble (before be- ing arrested) that they search for Lamont’s body together “in a house of ill-fame”—a brothel.13 In the early days of his case, the penny press established Theodore Durrant as a !#$%&' #()$* #* &'%#, ()$*#$# +,*& &'- .*/0'$*., 1893 (! Manager of San Francisco’s Alcazar theater W. R. Daily, reported The “Another visual assessment out of The Louisiana Populist depicted two versions of Durrant posing as Robert Louis Stevenson’s infamous villain Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, complemented by illustrations of a knife embedded in a skull” 50 !! keywords: april; church; durrant; emmanuel; francisco; herald; lamont; medical; murders; newspapers; penny; press; san; san francisco; williams; women cache: elements-14955.pdf plain text: elements-14955.txt item: #26 of 190 id: elements-15049 author: Elements title: Spring 2021 date: 2022 words: 56669 flesch: 57 summary: # $%&'# %( !# $&%(! *+%(*$ 5*! keywords: action; american; anti; antitrust; april; august; brain; case; century; china; chinese; christian; church; college; commemoration; companies; computing; content; data; december; defense; department; diet; durrant; e8ects; facebook; force; foreign; francisco; future; google; government; herald; history; intel; ireland; irish; journal; july; june; law; market; media; microsoft; military; misinformation; murders; national; naval; navy; neuromorphic; new; news; november; october; pacific; penny; people; policy; power; press; public; research; review; rising; robert; san; section; security; service; south; states; taiwan; technology; time; trade; trump; twitter; u.s; united; war; women; world; york cache: elements-15049.pdf plain text: elements-15049.txt item: #27 of 190 id: elements-8814 author: Nista, Danielle title: A Vigorous Affirmation of Life: Slaves in the Face of Dehumanization date: 2015 words: 8480 flesch: 76 summary: Although masters did try to appropriate slave songs and dances for their own uses, slaves still ended up with the upper hand, especially through their music, as seen in the case of the slaves sold south in Brown’s narrative. One important piece of the development of slave dances was the avoidance of crossing one’s feet be- cause “dancin’ ain’t sinful iffen de foots ain’t crossed. keywords: community; culture; dance; dancing; day; life; loc; masters; music; slaves; songs; way; wpa cache: elements-8814.pdf plain text: elements-8814.txt item: #28 of 190 id: elements-8815 author: Querusio, David title: From Mammy to Mommy: Michelle Obama and the Reclamation of Black Motherhood date: 2015 words: 3032 flesch: 61 summary: The tension be- tween Melissa Harris-Perry’s and Michelle Cottle’s views of Michelle Obama echoes years of distance between white and black feminisms, as white women vie to free them- selves from the very domestic sphere that black women struggle to enter. Harris, through Philyaw, argues that while white women were fighting for the right to pursue a career instead of motherhood, black women wanted the opposite. keywords: cottle; harris; motherhood; obama; white; women cache: elements-8815.pdf plain text: elements-8815.txt item: #29 of 190 id: elements-8816 author: Solomon, Michelle; Johnson, Alison title: New Research in Solar Cells: Urbach Tails and Open Circuit Voltage date: 2015 words: 4318 flesch: 65 summary: This, in addition to the tunability of absorption into the near infrared region should allow for an unprecedented increase in efficiency of photovoltaics, up to 66%.1 How- ever, experiment has not nearly reflected this theoretical increase, as quantum dot solar cells have only reached a maximum efficiency of 8.55%.2 Lead-halide perovskites, in contrast, have seen rapid prog- ress, up to the current confirmed record of 17.9%.3 Perovskites have a highly ordered crystal lattice that allows for good optical and electrical properties, but they are not unique in this characteristic. One way to mini- mize the cost is to decrease the amount of material by us- ing thin film solar cells. keywords: absorption; cells; dots; energy; quantum; solar; urbach; value; voc; voltage cache: elements-8816.pdf plain text: elements-8816.txt item: #30 of 190 id: elements-8817 author: Toto, Caitlin title: Behind the Veil: A Study of Chechen Black Widows' Web date: 2015 words: 5926 flesch: 63 summary: Also, Chechen women have more liberties than many of their Arab sisters living in re- gions where terrorism is present. rooTs of violenCe To understand the plight of Chechen female suicide bombers, one must first understand the Chechen War and the proximity of Chechen women to the horrific vio- lence between Chechnya and Russia. keywords: attacks; bombers; chechen; chechnya; female; iraq; organization; qaeda; suicide; terrorist; women cache: elements-8817.pdf plain text: elements-8817.txt item: #31 of 190 id: elements-8818 author: Tune, Harrison title: Positive Law vs. Good Intentions: The Legality of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger date: 2015 words: 3914 flesch: 53 summary: It is also worth noting that extensive and reactionary government involvement in areas such as ISP markets should be ad- vised against because of the dangerous precedent and in- centives that could be established as a result. As per antitrust statutes, this proposed transaction is cur- rently under review by the U.S. Department of Justice, which is responsible for the regulation of mergers that substantially limit competition in a given market.1 The De- partment of Justice considers two primary aspects con- cerning horizontal mergers — the lessening of competi- tion and the over-consolidation of market share that confers a monopoly.2 In the case of the merger submitted by the Applicants (Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable, Inc.), the Department of Justice considers the change in competi- tion caused when two companies in the same market merge and the increased market share they will control as both a Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (MVPD) and an Internet Service Provider (ISP). keywords: applicants; department; federal; isp; justice; market; merger cache: elements-8818.pdf plain text: elements-8818.txt item: #32 of 190 id: elements-8819 author: Asif, Saljooq title: Muslim Identity in 21st Century America: Ayad Akhtar's Works as Autobiography date: 2015 words: 9204 flesch: 70 summary: The perspective of the autobiographer, his very Self, is forced to be told through that of society and the Other – and Ayad Akhtar has done exactly that. CulTure Clash: ayad akhTar and his life as an ameriCan muslim Born in New York City and raised in Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, Ayad Akhtar always struggled with his identity and place in American society. keywords: akhtar; american; amir; autobiography; ayad; characters; ibid; interview; islam; islamic; life; muslim; public; self; time; works; world cache: elements-8819.pdf plain text: elements-8819.txt item: #33 of 190 id: elements-8820 author: Aldrich, Rachel title: Trauma, Fear, and Paranoia: Lost and the Culture of 9/11 date: 2015 words: 4324 flesch: 61 summary: If the experiences of the survivors on Lost are any indication, then it is clear that the anger and debates in American society will only serve to further endanger a country that is already living in a world of loss, terror, and trauma. Through the imagery employed, the topics discussed, and the gen- eral themes of the show, Lost is able to hold a mirror to the face of post-9/11 American society and provide a critique of how, if at all possible, Americans can change the reflection they see staring back at them. keywords: 9/11; american; events; island; society; survivors; trauma cache: elements-8820.pdf plain text: elements-8820.txt item: #34 of 190 id: elements-8821 author: Boboc, Paul; Centrella, Nick; DiRenno, Frank A.; Krasner, Tate; Pinsak, Samantha; Sangimino, Missa; Scollan, Margaret; Vladimirova, Stacia title: Elements Fall 2014 Issue date: 2014 words: 50346 flesch: 58 summary: When men either chose to adopt the feminine, passive role in the in- teraction, or submit other men to it, they flagrantly ignored the “proper” masculine behavior, and accordingly they were put under heavy scrutiny and regulations in an at- tempt to return things to the status quo. Leon Bat- tista Alberti, who focused mainly on the Florentine family, believed that a man “should do all that is proper to a man” while avoiding womanly activities, inherently contributing to the separation of distinct gender roles.12 Of course, one of the important tasks of a man that Alberti and other au- thors recognized was to be an authoritative figure to both women and other lower status men. keywords: act; analysis; artist; b13c; bone; case; cemeteries; cemetery; christian; collagen; community; dante; death; diet; eastern; elements; energy; europe; european; evidence; fall; family; fascism; fasting; fish; florence; food; gas; gazprom; history; human; hunger; ibid; individuals; international; isotope; italy; journal; kafka; killing; legion; leprosy; life; male; man; marine; marriage; masculinity; medieval; mediterranean; men; mes; new; norwich; ovid; policy; population; power; press; pyramus; renaissance; role; russia; samples; self; sodomy; terrorist; thisbe; timberhill; time; ukraine; university; use; values; violence; western; women cache: elements-8821.pdf plain text: elements-8821.txt item: #35 of 190 id: elements-8822 author: Balagtas, Richard; Dobias, Jen; Keeley, Sean; Marandola, Marissa; Martina, Michael; Short, Brandon; Trimes, Alexander title: Elements Spring 2014 Issue date: 2014 words: 39739 flesch: 60 summary: Nichol’s attack draws comparisons to Bertuzzi incident. Noted ESPN writer Scott Burnside began his article on Bertuzzi’s address as such: “If the rehabilitation of Todd Bertuzzi begins with words, let it not be said that he did not choose his words carefully, powerfully, as he starts down the uncertain road toward redemption.”69 keywords: actions; american; attack; benoit; bertuzzi; case; change; class; climate; collins; conflict; countries; david; day; death; die; elements; end; espn; euthanasia; games; georgia; hockey; human; hunger; hunger games; ibid; incident; international; katniss; law; life; march; medical; military; moore; new; nhl; order; ossetia; patient; people; power; public; right; russia; society; south; sports; spring; state; suffering; suicide; time; today; use; violence; war; way; world cache: elements-8822.pdf plain text: elements-8822.txt item: #36 of 190 id: elements-8823 author: Clasen, Trish; Cravens, Jacob; Dorney, Jordan; Evren, Christopher; Fitzpatrick, Christopher; Francois, Alexandra; Hoffarth, Alexander; Kent, Sam; Patch, Neil title: Elements Spring 2012 Issue date: 2012 words: 42985 flesch: 58 summary: RACIAL TENSION IN OTHELLO: INTIMATIONS OF LITERARY AND SOCIETAL PREJUDICE Neil Patch Investigating the function of race in Othello and late Renaissance Venice, downplaying its oft-cited role in this classic Shakespearean drama. Similarly, Emily Bartels describes how racism is a twentieth century construction, but racist ideol- ogy was already taking hold in pre-imperialist England.3 As “the Moor of Venice,” Othello seemingly takes on the iden- tity of being the sole minority figure in the city, or at least the symbol of racial difference. keywords: air; aschenbach; belfast; brabantio; budget; catholic; children; community; death; democracy; development; easter; economic; elements; ethical; faith; family; fatherhood; fathers; freud; government; home; house; housing; iago; ireland; irish; kierkegaard; knight; language; lichen; literature; mann; movement; namibia; nationalist; new; northern; northern ireland; othello; pearse; play; policy; politics; pollution; process; race; reagan; rising; roles; shakespeare; sites; society; species; spring; study; time; unionist; use; valera; venice; violence; women; work cache: elements-8823.pdf plain text: elements-8823.txt item: #37 of 190 id: elements-8830 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2015 words: 883 flesch: 43 summary: Copyright © 2015 by the Trustees of Boston College elements staff editor-in-chief marissa marandola managing editor frank a. direnno deputy editor ellen white layout brandon bavier, Senior Editor betty yunqing wang, Editor kelsey xizi zhang, Editor treasurer lydia orr humanities grace west, Senior Editor patty owens, Senior Editor jacob ciafone, Editor domenick fazzolari, Editor annie kim, Editor marie pellissier, Editor sciences corleone delaveris, Senior Editor saljooq m. asif, Editor david fu, Editor alex gilligan, Editor michelle kang, Editor alessandra luedeking, Editor jingzong yan, Editor nick yu, Editor faculty advisor elizabeth chadwick Dear Readers, thanks We would like to thank Boston College, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Office of the Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences for the financial support that makes this issue possible. keywords: boston; college; editor; elements; research cache: elements-8830.pdf plain text: elements-8830.txt item: #38 of 190 id: elements-8831 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies and Artwork Credits date: 2015 words: 811 flesch: 51 summary: list of artwork writer ayad akhtar © Wikimedia Commons 10 13 15 18 24 36 38 54 60 63 68 71 islamic cultural center in manhattan © Wikimedia Commons ground zero mosque protestor © Wikimedia Commons disgraced performance still © Geraint Lewis/Alamy chechen women © Wikimedia Commons corn shucking song © Wikimedia Commons slaves dance to music of banjo © Wikimedia Commons michelle obama © Wikimedia Commons lost title screen © Wikimedia Commons debris on rooftops near world trade center © FEMA Photo Library john sherman © Library of Congress comcast and time warner cable logos © Wikimedia Commons His writing has appeared in both The Heights, the inde- pendent student newspaper of Boston College, and Dianoia, the undergraduate philosophy journal of Boston College. keywords: boston; college; commons cache: elements-8831.pdf plain text: elements-8831.txt item: #39 of 190 id: elements-8832 author: Colorado, Rosa Maribel; Howarth, Jenna; Kovaka, Karen; Leverrier, Tiphaine; Martin, Zachary T.; Moradian, Sophia; Orr, Andrew; Varian, Brian title: Elements Fall 2011 Issue date: 2011 words: 44918 flesch: 57 summary: Just as the geometer would aim to describe the essential features of a triangle, the phenomenologist aims to describe the essential features of a type of conscious experience (e.g., perception).1 Descriptions of individual instances of the triangle might be interesting to the geometer, but the Although Cimino has been widely criticized for historical errors in the film, such as present in the Russian roulette scenes and in his caricature of North-Vietnamese brutality, his film holds a valuable place in the history of Vietnam War film because its primary focus is not the larger implications of the war, but rather the effects that it had on American soldiers. Vietnam War films can be categorized based on the level of conflict expressed in the films’ narratives. keywords: alzheimer; american; art; care; century; community; conflict; cult; death; dementia; directives; disease; donation; dura; d’evreux; elements; europos; experience; fall; family; film; frank; glass; history; ibid; iraqis; jeanne; jordan; life; light; lloyd; medical; memory; merleau; mithras; nature; new; order; organs; past; patient; policy; ponty; protocol; public; reflection; self; society; study; support; time; treatment; use; vietnam war; virgin; war; war film; way; women; work; world; wright cache: elements-8832.pdf plain text: elements-8832.txt item: #40 of 190 id: elements-8833 author: Boboc, Paul; Geron, Scott; Kent, Sam; Trilleras, Anna-Karina; Martis, Nicholas; Streitwieser, Corey; Luangrath, Narintohn; Uliano, Anthony title: Elements Fall 2012 Issue date: 2012 words: 42504 flesch: 54 summary: Plato’s mathematics, as expressed in his dialogue, is nei- ther sophistic nor practical.52 Plato, throughout his corpus, advocates for a new approach to mathematics, one whose divine ends and immaterial approach was unanticipated in Greek culture prior to the philosopher’s lifetime. Isocrates writes “[The philosophical arts] require much care, and are the task of manly and idea-filled minds” (17).61 Plato directly satirizes this claim in the Gor- gias when Socrates tells Callicles and Gorgias how he con- ceives of rhetoric (bear in mind that Plato created the word “rhetoric” (rhētorikē) in this dialogue to describe the ora- torical technē and contrast it to philosophy).62 Socrates claims, “It seems to me, Gorgias, to be a non-technical pursuit, but rather, one of the manly and guess-prone mind. keywords: aggression; apd; art; article; behavior; brain; century; concept; conduct; disorders; dream; dreaming; earthquake; elements; fall; field; geometry; gorgias; greek; history; ibid; individual; isocrates; jesuits; jeune; knowledge; libya; life; mathematics; memory; methodology; natives; nature; new; people; philosophy; plato; press; realism; reality; rem; research; response; rhetoric; rickert; school; science; shamans; sleep; states; studies; study; symptoms; time; united; university; word; work cache: elements-8833.pdf plain text: elements-8833.txt item: #41 of 190 id: elements-8854 author: Grant, Kaelin title: White Space: Reflections on the Poetry of Stephane Mallarme date: 2005 words: 6454 flesch: 78 summary: O N T H E P O E T R Y O F S T E P H O N T H E P O E T R Y O F S T E P H keywords: e n; e s; h e; l e; r e; t e; t h cache: elements-8854.pdf plain text: elements-8854.txt item: #42 of 190 id: elements-8855 author: McCutcheon, Erin L. title: Incorporados: The Art of Ana Mendieta date: 2005 words: 5241 flesch: 72 summary: Blocker and Mendieta (34) xvi Mendieta (171) REFERENCES Blocker, Jane, and Ana Mendieta. Where is Ana Mendieta? keywords: e r; e t; h e; o r; r t cache: elements-8855.pdf plain text: elements-8855.txt item: #43 of 190 id: elements-8856 author: Yaksich, Michael J. title: Consuming Queer: The Commodification of Culture and its Effects on Social Acceptance date: 2005 words: 7745 flesch: 70 summary: 1 V While cultural visi- bility is essential to a positive portrayal of gay individuals, the commodification of gay culture may perpetuate nega- tivity. 1 X Mike Feather stone explains that, rather than ac- cepting gay culture, lifestyles display their individuality and sense of style in the particularity of the assemblage of goods, clothes, practices, experiences, and appearance and bodily disposition they design regardless of stereotypes.x Commodification prefabricates culture into easy to con- sume products and images that allow the dominant culture to utilize stereotypes i n constructing lifestyles for consumption. keywords: c e; c o; c t; e n; e o; e p; e r; e s; g e; h e; m e; r o; s t; t e; t h; t r cache: elements-8856.pdf plain text: elements-8856.txt item: #44 of 190 id: elements-8877 author: Gilfeather, Lauren L. title: Teen Living Programs in Massachusetts: A Policy Analysis and Recommendations for Change date: 2005 words: 7420 flesch: 76 summary: Massachusetts (as well as states such as New Mexico, Rhode Island, Nevada, Georgia, and Texas) has allocated resources to Second Chance Homes, making a statewide commitment to serve young mothers who have no other place to go. i i Organizations such as SPAN and the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) have been actively encouraging the creation and expansion of Second Chance Homes because of the demonstrated ef- fectiveness of their programs. keywords: c e; e n; e o; e s; e t; h e; m e; o r; p r; r e; r t; t h cache: elements-8877.pdf plain text: elements-8877.txt item: #45 of 190 id: elements-8878 author: Gelmi, Caroline N. title: Staging the Nation: Theatricality in the Law date: 2005 words: 5687 flesch: 70 summary: I N T H E T H E A T E R , A N D T H E P R E S E N C E O F T H E A T R I C A L T H E A T E R P L A Y S keywords: e n; e s; h e; n t; r e; s t; t e; t h; t r cache: elements-8878.pdf plain text: elements-8878.txt item: #46 of 190 id: elements-8879 author: Irvine, Mark E. title: Long Shot: The Prospects for a Conversion to Euro Pricing in Oil Markets date: 2005 words: 4115 flesch: 79 summary: A N D T H E D O L L A R Oil exporters are unlikely to mobilize to change the cur- rency denomination of oil to euros in the short-term, be- cause of the structure and inertia inherent in oil markets and the euro's continued second tier status to the dollar. First, oil markets are highly institutionalized. keywords: e n; e r; e t cache: elements-8879.pdf plain text: elements-8879.txt item: #47 of 190 id: elements-8880 author: Speller, Heather K. title: Asian Americans and Mental Health: Cultural Barriers to Effective Treatment date: 2005 words: 7221 flesch: 62 summary: In reality, Asian Americans do experience mental illness and have an equally high, i f not higher, need for appropri- ate mental health services as any other racial or ethnic group. Studies have found that Asian Americans show increased utilization of mental health services when patient centers are specifically oriented towards Asian Americans. keywords: asian; c e; e n; e r; e s; e t; h e; l t; m e; n t; t h cache: elements-8880.pdf plain text: elements-8880.txt item: #48 of 190 id: elements-8881 author: McNamara, Julie B. title: Bilingual Lexical Organization date: 2005 words: 5417 flesch: 67 summary: First published in 1935 by J. Ridley Stroop, l x the task had college students perform different identifying tasks involving color naming words written in different colored ink on different colored backgrounds. the brain suddenly decides to treat English words as i f keywords: e n; e r; e s; e t; h e; o r; t h cache: elements-8881.pdf plain text: elements-8881.txt item: #49 of 190 id: elements-8882 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies date: 2005 words: 747 flesch: 53 summary: ERIN L. M C C U T C H E O N is originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey and is now a senior at Boston College. She hopes to attend graduate school after completing here education at Boston College, and she would also like to travel. keywords: boston; college; senior; work cache: elements-8882.pdf plain text: elements-8882.txt item: #50 of 190 id: elements-8884 author: O'Leary, Scott M. title: Sin, Despair, and the Other: The Works of Soren Kierkegaard date: 2005 words: 4737 flesch: 76 summary: Though despair is intricately linked with this dialectic of self, it must be considered primarily within the category of consciousness. x x m What delineates the stages of this scale is the level of concealment of the self as self. keywords: e r; h e; t h cache: elements-8884.pdf plain text: elements-8884.txt item: #51 of 190 id: elements-8885 author: Fischer, Kyle title: Reminiscing and Daydreaming: Investigating the Similarities Between Episodic Memory Recall and Imagination date: 2008 words: 4084 flesch: 74 summary: The error-prone nature of episodic memories as evidenced by false memory experiments 1 1 1 supports the theory of a synonymous relationship between what is currently conceived as episodic memory and imagination. Although the cues used in these past experiments would qualify in content as episodic memories, they are poor examples of the powerfully expressive nature of human episodic memory. keywords: o r; r e cache: elements-8885.pdf plain text: elements-8885.txt item: #52 of 190 id: elements-8886 author: Goek, Sara title: Irish Vernacular Poetry and the American Revolution: Irish Find Their Voice in Tomas O Miochain date: 2008 words: 5969 flesch: 73 summary: A N D R O L E O F T H E L A R G E L Y C A T H In late-i8th century Ireland, the population of the country comprised three main groups: Anglo-Irish elite, Protestant Dissenter, and Catholic. keywords: c e; d e; e l; e n; e o; e r; e t; h e; m e; n d; o r; r n; t h cache: elements-8886.pdf plain text: elements-8886.txt item: #53 of 190 id: elements-8887 author: Speece, Evan title: Abusive Tax Shelters: An Ethical, Historical, and Legal Analysis date: 2008 words: 6986 flesch: 64 summary: However, the issue of tax shelters blurs these seemingly distinct lines. Furthermore, the abusive appli- cations of tax shelters provide many financial incentives that elicit legal and ethical dilemmas for several classes of professionals. keywords: e l; e n; e s; e t; h e; l t; r e; shelters; t h; tax cache: elements-8887.pdf plain text: elements-8887.txt item: #54 of 190 id: elements-8888 author: Turova, Svetlana title: Drips, Scratches, and Strokes: The New Language of Expressionism from Edvard Munch to Willem de Kooning date: 2008 words: 5875 flesch: 74 summary: The Munch household was one of repressed anguish; in fact, Edvard Munch commented about his childhood, I was born dying. Heller, Edvard Munch: The Scream, 1972 (43) v. Heller, Munch, Edvard, 2007 vi . keywords: e n; e s; h e; r e; s t; t h; t r cache: elements-8888.pdf plain text: elements-8888.txt item: #55 of 190 id: elements-8890 author: Peterson, Caitlin title: Trans-Action Fees: Public Insurance, Medical Necessity, and Sex Reassignment Surgery date: 2008 words: 8579 flesch: 69 summary: Despite the fact that SRS procedures and associated hormone treatments can be very expensive on an individual scale, there are very few sex reassignment surgeries each year. D O T H E R E S T R I C T keywords: c e; e d; e n; e r; e s; e t; g e; h e; m e; n d; r s; s t; t r cache: elements-8890.pdf plain text: elements-8890.txt item: #56 of 190 id: elements-8891 author: Aste, Kristina title: Music as Mirror: Dante's Treatment of Music in the Divine Comedy date: 2008 words: 4939 flesch: 77 summary: Through this progression from anti-music to human music to celestial music, Dante effectively utilizes musical language to represent the various states of humanity's relationship with God. He saw music in the macrocosm and the microcosm, hence his musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis. Originally penned by Boethius in his Fundamentals of Music, thistripartite division was standard in medieval musical thought. keywords: e n; h e; n t; t h cache: elements-8891.pdf plain text: elements-8891.txt item: #57 of 190 id: elements-8892 author: Donohue, Bryce title: Root Root Root for the ??? Team: Franchise Free Agency and the Business of the NFL date: 2008 words: 6408 flesch: 72 summary: Under any of the workable tests for determining the situs of the franchise, the Court concludes that the Colts were 'gone' on March 30, This decision, when taken in conjunction with the decision of the California courts in the Raiders' case, shows the courts' consistency in treating NFL franchises as busi- nesses. The courts have played a major role in the regulation of franchise moves in sports and in the determination of whether owners' or fans' interests are paramount. keywords: e c; e n; e s; h e; n t; o r; r e; r t; s t; t e; t h cache: elements-8892.pdf plain text: elements-8892.txt item: #58 of 190 id: elements-8893 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies date: 2008 words: 558 flesch: 64 summary: C A I T L I N P E T E R S O N is a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program as of May 2008 with a major i n History and a minor in Latin American Studies. is a senior in the School of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. keywords: college cache: elements-8893.pdf plain text: elements-8893.txt item: #59 of 190 id: elements-8894 author: Kelly, Tim title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2008 words: 969 flesch: 68 summary: Elements, Undergraduate Research journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, Fall 2008 Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Service Building 103, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Printing: The materials presented represent the personal opinions of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Elements or the Boston College community. keywords: editor cache: elements-8894.pdf plain text: elements-8894.txt item: #60 of 190 id: elements-8895 author: Keegan, Nathan title: Call-and-Response: An Ancient Linguistic Device Surfaces in Usher's "Love in This Club" date: 2005 words: 6626 flesch: 72 summary: [These] responses may also indicate extremely powerful affirmation of what the speaker has said.wn In this we see the echoes of African and slave society: the call invites a responder to a conversational community, and the responder supports that community through his atten- tion and affirmation. [In response] Hey- The music video supports this assertion; when Where we at Polow? is uttered, the camera cuts to an unmanned DJ table. keywords: club; e s; h e; r e; rap; response; usher cache: elements-8895.pdf plain text: elements-8895.txt item: #61 of 190 id: elements-8896 author: Scullin, Christopher title: Judging Harshly: The Bush Doctrine in Practice date: 2005 words: 5853 flesch: 63 summary: At first glance, an explicit focus on each of these elements is rather new to United States foreign policy. The Doctrine correctly acknowledges that the main threat to U.S. interests is that of non-state or extra-state actors, most notably 'terrorist' organizations. keywords: bush; doctrine; h e; o r; r e; t r cache: elements-8896.pdf plain text: elements-8896.txt item: #62 of 190 id: elements-8897 author: Morris, Matthew title: The "Oklahoma City Plunder": Turner's Social Drama and Team Relocation date: 2005 words: 7805 flesch: 66 summary: Throughout the history of the four major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada, team relo- cation has been common practice for team owners. Most commonly, team owners (or ownership groups) wi l l claim that the conditions under which they are operating the franchise are less than favor- able for turning profits. keywords: city; e l; e n; e r; h e; l l; o r; s o; seattle; t h; team cache: elements-8897.pdf plain text: elements-8897.txt item: #63 of 190 id: elements-8898 author: Hughes, Alyssa title: Translation in the Culture War for Hawaii: The Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Hawaiian Newspapers date: 2005 words: 7262 flesch: 66 summary: x x n i After a failed attempt to control Ka Hoku Pakipika, Whitney estab- lished Ka Nupepa Kuokoa as a rival newspaper, hoping to undermine the influence of the native-run press. These elements greatly contributed to the popularity and influence of Ka Nupepa Kuokoa as a rival paper to Kalakaua's Ka Hoku Pakipika. keywords: e n; h e; hawaiian; l t; t h; t r cache: elements-8898.pdf plain text: elements-8898.txt item: #64 of 190 id: elements-8899 author: Brunner, Christopher title: Barrios, Gangs, and Enclaves: A Socioeconomic Reading of Luis Rodriguez's Always Running date: 2005 words: 5795 flesch: 73 summary: In Luis Rodriguez's memoir Always Running, Rodriguez describes a youth lifestyle of gangs, violence, and discrimi- nation. Using the prevalence of gang culture and violence i n the barrio, Rodriguez looks to paint the barrio as a neighbor- hood detrimental to the individual and to social psy- chology. keywords: e r; h e; rodriguez; t h cache: elements-8899.pdf plain text: elements-8899.txt item: #65 of 190 id: elements-8900 author: Maroshegyi, Christopher title: Exporting Citizens, Importing Remittances: The Developing World's Newest Strategy to Combat Poverty date: 2005 words: 6968 flesch: 67 summary: , x x i v Specifically, Adams finds that a particularly large amount of remittance income is spent on education i n receiving coun- tries, especially on the margin, where households receiv- ing internal and international remittances spend 45% and ELEM ENTS FALL 09 58% more, respectively, on education than do households with no remittances. Early studies did make strong arguments that remittance income was used mainly for consumption. keywords: c e; e s; h e; r e; r t; remittances; t h; t t cache: elements-8900.pdf plain text: elements-8900.txt item: #66 of 190 id: elements-8901 author: Barnes, Quintin title: Today's Russian Intelligentsia: A New Role in the Post-Soviet Political Order date: 2005 words: 6806 flesch: 59 summary: The identity of Russian intelligentsia is com- plex, and to explain its phase shifts and historical importance is difficult. The Soviet era drastically changed the traditional concept of Russian intelligentsia, clarifying the identity of this eclectic group. keywords: e n; e t; h e; intelligentsia; l e; l l; m e; n t; r e; t h; t r cache: elements-8901.pdf plain text: elements-8901.txt item: #67 of 190 id: elements-8904 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2005 words: 977 flesch: 58 summary: However, you, as Boston College students, have filled that box to burst- ing and extended education into the open world. The authors featured i n this issue of Elements have met their call as Boston College students to educate the person and extend the bounds of academia from abstraction into action. keywords: college; editor cache: elements-8904.pdf plain text: elements-8904.txt item: #68 of 190 id: elements-8905 author: Mooney, Tim title: A Raw Deal: Conflicts Over Tribal Sovereignty and Casino Proliferation date: 2009 words: 6715 flesch: 66 summary: Indian gaming is largely controlled by a federal statutory framework, leaving states i n a subor- dinate position i n negotiating the establishment of major casino enterprises within their own borders. Most scholars and politi- cians typically consider localities, states, and the federal government to be the constituent parts of Federalism keywords: e n; e r; e s; h e; m e; o r; s t; t e; t h; t r cache: elements-8905.pdf plain text: elements-8905.txt item: #69 of 190 id: elements-8906 author: Lagorio, Maria title: Women of Copley's Boston: Changing Gender Roles on the Eve of the American Revolution date: 2009 words: 7374 flesch: 72 summary: Copley Family features the seven members of Copley's fam- ily and glorifies his wife, Sukey, as its central figure. Both his in-laws and his mother remained loyal to the Crown throughout the Revolution, a sentiment that some- times concerned Copley, who tried to stay publicly neutral throughout his American career. keywords: c o; e n; e p; e s; e t; h e; l e; m e; o r; o s; r e cache: elements-8906.pdf plain text: elements-8906.txt item: #70 of 190 id: elements-8907 author: Sadd, William title: Sovietization of the Baltic States: Independence Negotiated, Then Stolen date: 2009 words: 7219 flesch: 73 summary: I O N By 1940, the Baltic States were firmly and decidedly trapped i n the doom of their own geo-strategic location. To be sure, the Baltic States were experiencing a Western type of institutional modernization and renovation. keywords: c e; e e; e n; e r; e s; e t; h e; l t; n t; o r; s t; t h cache: elements-8907.pdf plain text: elements-8907.txt item: #71 of 190 id: elements-8908 author: Wong, Nicole title: Canned Peaches and Chicken Parts: Postmodern Food in Don DeLillo's White Noise date: 2009 words: 8405 flesch: 74 summary: A19 91 exhibition at Bard College titled Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food i n American Art also explored the history of food i n American society through its depiction by American artists of the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies. Food carries cultural significance, and i n a search for how to find meaning i n the hyper-reality of post- modernity, food is used not only to ground characters as hu- mans, but conversely to emulate the metaphoric con- sumption of food as an acceptance of postmodern ideas and values. keywords: c o; e d; e l; e n; e r; e s; e t; food; h e; m e; n t; r t; s t cache: elements-8908.pdf plain text: elements-8908.txt item: #72 of 190 id: elements-8909 author: McGovern, Conor title: Gunpowder Empire: The Mighty Ottoman Military Outpaced date: 2009 words: 6130 flesch: 71 summary: Sir Steven Runciman acknowledges that earlier artillery had been un- able to damage solid masonry; it was not unti l Sultan Mehmet's foundries and the Hungarian engineer Urban devised a mighty cannon that would blast the walls of Babylon itself Here is the siege of Constantinople, the boldest expression of the might of the Ottoman military and the first example of Rogers' artillery revolution of the fifteenth century, when advances i n artillery technology caused it to become devas- tatingly powerful, thereby rendering old-style masonry for- tifications obsolete/1 Though gunpowder artillery had been i n use by both Muslim and Christian forces i n Europe prior to the siege of Constantinople, there is no finer example of the power of gunpowder against old style fortifications. keywords: h e; o r; r e; r t; s t; t e; t h cache: elements-8909.pdf plain text: elements-8909.txt item: #73 of 190 id: elements-8913 author: Gardner, Patrick title: The Disaster After the Disaster: The Evolution and De-Evolution of FEMA date: 2009 words: 7338 flesch: 75 summary: Witt first displayed his sharp foresight i n his response to the 1993 Midwestern floods, the first major test he faced as FEMA director. The report explains that FEMA officials could only meet about half of their designed responsibilities. keywords: e l; e n; e r; e s; g e; h e; m e; n t; s t; t e; t h; t r; t t cache: elements-8913.pdf plain text: elements-8913.txt item: #74 of 190 id: elements-8914 author: Minkoff, Michael title: Musical Time: An Intersubjective Relationship date: 2009 words: 4474 flesch: 79 summary: A musician would never initially question the existence of musical time—that which grounds a piece of music and helps it to unfold. As that is pieced together, the next step wi l l be deter- mining whether or not this understanding is an accurate representation of the nature of musical time. keywords: e r cache: elements-8914.pdf plain text: elements-8914.txt item: #75 of 190 id: elements-8938 author: Neumeier, Emily title: Early Koranic Manuscripts: The Blue Koran Debate date: 2006 words: 6351 flesch: 74 summary: Museum of Fine Art , Boston, visit to view Blue Koran folio. Some other examples in- clude a Koran in the Freer gallery with a light blue ground v i and a leaf at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Khalili col- lection that is dyed red with silver verse markers Of partic- ular interest is a Hafsid Koran manuscript endowed to the Mosque of Kasba in Tunis i n March 1405 by al-Mutawakkil, with silver ink on paper dyed in a range of colors from light brown to purple . keywords: blue; blue koran; h e; koran; o r; t h cache: elements-8938.pdf plain text: elements-8938.txt item: #76 of 190 id: elements-8939 author: Henderson, Tim title: Introducing Emotion: The Use of Emotion and Character in Presidential Speeches date: 2006 words: 5076 flesch: 70 summary: The divisions within America at this time need to be discussed i n relation to the second criticism of ad populum arguments, that they make a uni- fied audience out of a limited group. During the crucial opening moments of speeches to the American people, American Presidents often use emotion i n an attempt to influence their audience's views. keywords: e e; e n; e s; h e; r e cache: elements-8939.pdf plain text: elements-8939.txt item: #77 of 190 id: elements-8940 author: Smith, Brady title: After the Fall: Reevaluating Whiteness in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace date: 2006 words: 5740 flesch: 72 summary: i These read- ings, however, have by and large ignored the complexities of what is a profound and telling meditation on the mean- ing of whiteness in postcolonial South Africa. Yet, he qualifies this theory in another instance in which he sees violence as en- demic to black South Africa and not a product of the condi- tions under which it has existed for nearly 350 years: The real truth, he suspects, is something far more—he casts around for the word—anthropological—something it would take months to get to the bottom of months of pa- tient, unhurried conversation with dozens of people, and the offices of an interpreter. keywords: e s; h e; t e; t h cache: elements-8940.pdf plain text: elements-8940.txt item: #78 of 190 id: elements-8941 author: Roh, Emily H. title: A Preventative Approach to Malaria: Some Preliminary Considerations date: 2006 words: 4693 flesch: 70 summary: Like many other infectious diseases, malaria has had devastating ef- fects on both public health and the economy. It is not enough to sim- ply address the biological mechanisms of malaria, of the mosquitoes that spread it , or of its victims. keywords: malaria; p r; r e; r o cache: elements-8941.pdf plain text: elements-8941.txt item: #79 of 190 id: elements-8942 author: Cersonsky, Emily title: Don Quixote and the Liar's Paradox date: 2006 words: 4948 flesch: 78 summary: By the end of Don Quixote, it might be said that the reader and even Cervantes are ready to pro- claim with Don Antonio: May Don Quixote never be recov- ered! D O N Q U I X O T E A N D T H E L IAR'S P A R A D O X http://www.bartleby.com/113/1011.html http://Bartleby.com http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ESL0027 http://wwwshakespeare-online.com/keydates/playchron.html http://wwwshakespeare-online.com/keydates/playchron.html REFERENCES Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote. keywords: h e; reality; t h cache: elements-8942.pdf plain text: elements-8942.txt item: #80 of 190 id: elements-8943 author: Campbell, Nathaniel title: De Malorum Natura: Lucretius and the Nature of Evil date: 2006 words: 5158 flesch: 74 summary: Lucretius does, however, recognize that, while we cannot necessarily exer- cise control over natural evils, we can always exercise con- trol over human evils because they originate from our own actions. Human evils consitute graver evils in th ethics of Epicurean philosophy because human action, especially when armed with the tools of that philosophy, not only can more readily avoid them but can, and is the only agent that does, cause them. keywords: e t; h e; r e; t h; t u; u r cache: elements-8943.pdf plain text: elements-8943.txt item: #81 of 190 id: elements-8944 author: Sarno, Ann title: Mark Rothko: A Cross-Modal Approach date: 2006 words: 6184 flesch: 71 summary: This tragedy which Rothko hoped to commu- nicate through visual art is often experienced while listen- ing to music. Even before Rothko's time, painter Wassily Kandinsky yearned to replicate the emotional impact of music in his art. keywords: e n; e s; h e; o t; r e; r o; s t; t e; t h; t r cache: elements-8944.pdf plain text: elements-8944.txt item: #82 of 190 id: elements-8970 author: Ho Nam, Jeong title: Antioxidants and Gene Regulation: The Effects of Vitamins C and E on Estrogen Receptors date: 2006 words: 7131 flesch: 75 summary: I D E D E T E R M I D E D E T E R M keywords: cancer; cells; e n; estrogen; n t; r e; t r cache: elements-8970.pdf plain text: elements-8970.txt item: #83 of 190 id: elements-8971 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies and Artwork Credits date: 2006 words: 695 flesch: 63 summary: is a senior at Boston College with an Art History Major and minors in Fine Art and Hispanic Studies. He wants to thank them for giving h i m a great opportunity and thank his parents for support. is a sophomore at Boston College. keywords: college cache: elements-8971.pdf plain text: elements-8971.txt item: #84 of 190 id: elements-8973 author: Wiles, Gregory title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2006 words: 926 flesch: 59 summary: Impressionist exhibits continue to be the most popular at art museums. But many would even question whether or not wrapping the Reichstag in cloth constitutes art. keywords: art; college; editor cache: elements-8973.pdf plain text: elements-8973.txt item: #85 of 190 id: elements-8974 author: Hamilton, Matthew title: An Historical (Inter)dependency: Mexican Migration to the United States date: 2007 words: 6614 flesch: 68 summary: More United States immigrants claim Mexico as their homeland than any other national group... I O N More United States immigrants claim Mexico as their homeland than any other national group. keywords: d e; e c; e e; e n; e r; e s; e t; h e; n t; s t; t h cache: elements-8974.pdf plain text: elements-8974.txt item: #86 of 190 id: elements-8975 author: Bradley, Jr., David F. title: Hunger for Peace: Egypt's Economic Reasons to Seek Peace with Israel date: 2007 words: 5509 flesch: 74 summary: 5 0™ 1 A similar jump in United States aid took place after the signing of the Camp David Accords: from $1.0 billion in 1977 to $2.2 billion in i 9 7 9 . When in 1964 Egypt continued to favor the Soviet Union, as it was the su- perpower most likely to help foster pan-Arabism, the United States withdrew economic aid again from Egypt.x v Despite Nasser's efforts to make Egypt self-sufficient, the the Soviet Union for arms and on the United States and Arab countries for economic assistance. keywords: c e; e l; e n; e r; e s; s t; t e; t h cache: elements-8975.pdf plain text: elements-8975.txt item: #87 of 190 id: elements-8976 author: Fitzgerald, Caitlin title: Sexuality, Sickness, Silence: The Gay Man in Contemporary Irish Narrative date: 2007 words: 6933 flesch: 71 summary: The fact that Toibin includes a variety of gay characters i n the novel with a variety of life stories indi- cates a more complex representation of gay identity that, while it indirectly references gay sexuality, is not as reduc- tive and objectifying as Walshe alleges. ... while it indirectly references gay sexuality, [Toibin's representation of gay identity] is not as reductive and objectifying as Walshe alleges. keywords: e n; e s; e t; h e; n t; o r; r e; r r; r t; t h; t s cache: elements-8976.pdf plain text: elements-8976.txt item: #88 of 190 id: elements-8977 author: Sottile, Lauren title: The Act of Manumission: Correlations Between the Freeing of Slaves and Socioeconomic Status of Philadelphia Quakers date: 2007 words: 6829 flesch: 78 summary: The requirement of supporting freed slaves and restrictions on the sale of slaves led to pro- hibitive losses from manumission for most. The requirement of supporting freed slaves, often econom- ically unrealistic to artisans struggling to make ends meet, only added to the negative light shining on manumission. keywords: e e; e l; e n; e s; e t; h e; n s; n t; o r; r e; s t; t h; t o cache: elements-8977.pdf plain text: elements-8977.txt item: #89 of 190 id: elements-8978 author: Kraus, Rebecca title: Trans-Generational Trauma: The Zone of Indistinction After Auschwitz date: 2007 words: 8352 flesch: 80 summary: This applies par- ticularly well to children of Holocaust survivors: despite their disparate upbringings, they all say that they always knew that something was different in their family. Although the psychoanalysts do not mention children of Holocaust survivors as examples, this explanation resonates particularly well with their situation. keywords: c t; e n; e r; e s; e t; h e; n t; o r; s t; t h; t o; t r cache: elements-8978.pdf plain text: elements-8978.txt item: #90 of 190 id: elements-8979 author: Phillips, Dmitri title: A Wealth of Evidence: The Identity of the Man Commemorated at Sutton Hoo date: 2007 words: 6031 flesch: 78 summary: The Identity of the Man Commemorated at Sutton Hoo D 1 Chadwick may have had no doubt— shortly thereafter he wrote a paper defending his posi- tion—but others after h im have doubted this assertion, and it is still an unresolved question appearing at the head of most considerations of Sutton Hoo. keywords: e n; e s; h e; n t; o r; r e; s t; t h; t o; t r; t t cache: elements-8979.pdf plain text: elements-8979.txt item: #91 of 190 id: elements-8982 author: Flinn, Jessica J. title: World War II Cookbooks: Rationing, Nutrition, Patriotism, and the Citizen Consumer in the United States and Great Britain date: 2007 words: 7369 flesch: 82 summary: Food companies created many pam- phlets. For example, the September 1943 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, an American magazine, included numerous advertisements for pamphlets and booklets produced by food companies. keywords: c o; e n; e r; n t; o r; t h; t r cache: elements-8982.pdf plain text: elements-8982.txt item: #92 of 190 id: elements-8983 author: Cochrane, Marisa title: Perilous Petrodollars: The Effects of Oil Wealth on Democratization date: 2007 words: 3617 flesch: 70 summary: Despite the fact that these states have benefited immensely from global markets dependent on their black gold, a telling number of oil-rich states are not democratic.1 When it comes to the promotion of democracy, one cannot help but ask whether oil wealth is a blessing or a curse. I wi l l then address the argument that oil wealth weakens social mobilization and processes of modernization, which are important factors in democratization. keywords: o r; r e cache: elements-8983.pdf plain text: elements-8983.txt item: #93 of 190 id: elements-8984 author: Macdonald, Brad; Rife, Alexis title: Naive Juvenile Diamondback Terrapins: Kin Recognition in Controlled Encounter Experiments date: 2007 words: 5356 flesch: 78 summary: A C K T E R R A P I N S T R E A T E A C H O T H E R D These cups were placed in an incubator kept E L E M E N T S S P R I N G 07 at 80 degrees F on a 12-hour light/dark cycle. keywords: e n; r e; r o; r t; t e cache: elements-8984.pdf plain text: elements-8984.txt item: #94 of 190 id: elements-8985 author: Zipprich, Bernard title: Lessons in Sustainable Development: Monteverde, Costa Rica date: 2007 words: 3462 flesch: 69 summary: I V I D E I N M O N T E V E R D E W H E R E C O N S E R V A T L E D E V E L O P M E N T ! keywords: e n; e r; e s; h e; s t cache: elements-8985.pdf plain text: elements-8985.txt item: #95 of 190 id: elements-8988 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies date: 2007 words: 927 flesch: 62 summary: He is the executive editor and layout editor for The Observer, a biweekly student newspaper on the Boston College campus. B R A D M A C D O N A L D graduated from Boston College in 2006 with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Environmental Studies. keywords: college cache: elements-8988.pdf plain text: elements-8988.txt item: #96 of 190 id: elements-8990 author: Kraus, Rebecca title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2011 words: 610 flesch: 72 summary: U I N N , Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences BARBARA VI ECH N ICKI , Associate Dean for Finance and Administration I A L S C I E N C E S KERRY B R E N N A N , Senior Editor MAR ISA COCHRANE, Editor SUSIE C O N N O keywords: editor cache: elements-8990.pdf plain text: elements-8990.txt item: #97 of 190 id: elements-8991 author: Anderson, Brendon; Simon, Emily; Abbate, Andrew; Farnum, Matt; Lee, Han-sam; Herhold, Zachary; Keeley, Sean title: Elements Spring 2013 Issue date: 2013 words: 48928 flesch: 64 summary: Many British soldiers viewed it the same way—as a com- petition between two nations. These historians cite many government and BBC officials who had privately agreed that, “in circum- stances of national emergency ‘full government control’ over the BBC would be necessary.”7 keywords: administration; alcohol; baclofen; bbc; british; broadcasting; cinema; cocaine; control; corbeau; country; craving; culture; dependence; disorders; dopamine; effects; elements; england; film; fitzgerald; football; france; french; game; gatsby; gender; government; group; high; history; home; ibid; information; ireland; irish; jaebeols; korea; les; life; london; movie; music; new; news; nicholas; nick; occupation; people; percent; period; print; propaganda; public; self; society; soldiers; song; south; south korea; sport; sporting; spring; state; substance; sunday; system; times; treatment; troubles; use; vichy; war; way; web; world; world war; years; york cache: elements-8991.pdf plain text: elements-8991.txt item: #98 of 190 id: elements-8992 author: Pellissier, Marie; Lu, Tracy; Newhouse, James; Marinello, Claire; Sintobin, Emilie; Dorney, Jordan; Givens, Cameron title: Elements Fall 2013 Issue date: 2013 words: 47737 flesch: 62 summary: A maternity corset from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum indicates just how far a woman might go to preserve her shape during pregnancy: aside from lacing on the sides that could be loosened as the fetus grew, and gussets to accommodate a changing breast, this corset is still fully boned and does not sacrifice fashion for the sake of the pregnant woman or the unborn child.30 This refusal on the part of many women to give up fashionable dress even while pregnant generated many criticisms from doc- tors and dress reformers, who believed that the first duty of a woman was to be a wife and a mother, and so by lacing themselves tightly during pregnancy they were acting against nature itself. Editor WEB dESign gracE WESt, Senior Editor patty oWEnS, Senior Editor WEB dESign mikE hEnry, Senior Editor faculty adviSor ElizaBEth chadWick Contents MAKING CORSETS WORK: VICTORIAN WORKING WOMEN AND THE CORSET Marie Pellissier Unraveling the history and role of the corset among working women in the Victorian era FIGURES OF EXISTENTIALISM: A CYCLICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH PSYCHOLOGY Tracy Lu Assessing the reciprocal relationship between philosophy and psychology by examing the works of three of the world’s greatest writers “JES’ NEXT TO JESUS CHRIST”: SLAVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS ABRAHAM LINCOLN James Newhouset Examining the artful means by which ex-slaves criticized their Southern oppressors without endangering them- selves. keywords: abraham; accountability; african; american; art; artist; body; cambodia; carolina; century; chicago; class; class women; clothing; conflict; corset; culture; daily; davis; de kooning; death; ego; elements; face; fair; fall; figure; freud; history; human; hun; ibid; image; international; ivan; john; kooning; life; lincoln; loc; middle; midway; narratives; new; new york; north; order; painting; people; press; prisoners; right; roosevelt; sense; slavery; slaves; society; soldiers; south; time; tribune; university; use; victorian; violence; volume; war; white; women; work; working; world; world war; wpa; years; york cache: elements-8992.pdf plain text: elements-8992.txt item: #99 of 190 id: elements-8994 author: Richey, Matthew; Tareila, Andrew; Zatkowski, Ellen; Tracz, R. Brian; Key, Benjamin; Agredo, Sebastian N.; Martinez, Dianna Michelle; Murphy, Dennis F. title: Elements Spring 2011 Issue date: 2011 words: 42197 flesch: 63 summary: In his “Lesson” Mather stresses the qualities of a pious child or the ideal that other children should em- ulate. 21 thE hIstorIEs of pharaoh amasIs “Endowed with permanent youth, Dorian’s life becomes a search for new sensations to mimic that first afternoon with Lord Henry.” keywords: amasis; barrie; children; crimes; dorian; dorothy; eckhart; editor; egypt; elements; fact; family; genocide; god; good; greek; heidegger; henry; herodotus; human; ibid; influence; international; law; life; like; lord; lord henry; mind; new; notes; novel; nuremberg; object; party; people; perception; plato; salem; sarah; sense; slavery; soil; soil party; soul; spring; states; things; time; trials; war; way; wilde; witch; world; zubiri cache: elements-8994.pdf plain text: elements-8994.txt item: #100 of 190 id: elements-8995 author: Brady, Alex title: Midfielders, MCs, and Mediascapes: Soccer and Hip-Hop's Global Hope for the Third World date: 2007 words: 6645 flesch: 64 summary: Soccer and hip-hop are both cultural forms that have proliferated in this new era; their mutual popularity speaks to the universal appeal of their romanticized image, namely that of marginalized peoples transcending social barriers through music and sport. Although they intend to display an admiration and affinity for hip-hop culture by these practices, their fascination seems to stem from prevailing and ultimately damaging stereotypes, namely the conception that hip hop style is di- rectly identified with phallic empowerment for both men and women, a consequence of Japanese racial attitudes to- ward American blacks. keywords: e c; e d; e l; e n; e s; e t; h e; m e; n d; o r; r e; t h cache: elements-8995.pdf plain text: elements-8995.txt item: #101 of 190 id: elements-8998 author: Perez, Celso Javier title: Mutuality and Pleasure: A Discussion of the Female Orgasm in Contemporary Catholic Sexual Ethics date: 2007 words: 5862 flesch: 70 summary: If, as Gudorf and Kelly sug- gest, sexual pleasure is good, and, as Pellaeur reports, mu- tual orgasms lead to intimacy and means of relationships that cannot be expressed otherwise, then depriving a woman of orgasm during the sexual act wi l l infringe on the place where faithful love and procreativity concretely flourishes. However, Gudorf explains that not only is the sex- ual relationship good, but sexual pleasure is good as well. keywords: e n; e t; l e; o r; r e cache: elements-8998.pdf plain text: elements-8998.txt item: #102 of 190 id: elements-8999 author: Brennan, Kerry title: The Right Paradigm for Puno: A Microfinance Case Study date: 2007 words: 5345 flesch: 66 summary: x l Recent coverage of microfinance programs has highlighted the social entrepreneurship aspect of microfinance and its newfound buzz factor within the financial community. More than that, it is difficult to distinguish whether impacts are the result of microfinance programs or other changes in the lives of bor- rowers. keywords: e n; e r; e s; e t; r o; t h cache: elements-8999.pdf plain text: elements-8999.txt item: #103 of 190 id: elements-9000 author: Trinh, Huy title: The Impossibility of Artificial Imagination: A Question of Genuine Consciousness date: 2007 words: 5422 flesch: 73 summary: Neither is it conceivable that programmers wi l l come up with an algorithm that can rep- resent imagination. wi l l be nothing more than a mirror mimicking the world as is and not as the world might be. keywords: e t; t h cache: elements-9000.pdf plain text: elements-9000.txt item: #104 of 190 id: elements-9001 author: Izzo, Jarret title: The Place and the Maker: Frederick Law Olmsted and His Boston Parks date: 2007 words: 8079 flesch: 68 summary: Great success followed their ac- claimed project in Manhattan and, following the Civil War, the Olmsted & Vaux firm developed park space in Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, and other, primarily northern, cities. Distinguishing Olmsted's park design is primarily an ad- herence to a comprehensive site plan and a unified vision of park space. keywords: boston; city; design; e n; h e; l l; new; olmsted; park; s t; space; t h cache: elements-9001.pdf plain text: elements-9001.txt item: #105 of 190 id: elements-9003 author: Yiannopoulos, Alex title: Husserl's Logical Investigations: The Phenomenological Revolution date: 2007 words: 6672 flesch: 62 summary: One of the seminal texts of the modern era, and indeed a text that would influence the course of Continental philos- ophy throughout the 20th century, is Husserl's Logical Investigations. Conceived in part as a response to what Husserl termed psychologism, the view that the truths of logic are derived from the facts of psychology, the Logical Investigations1 were a pivotal moment in the history of Western philosophy. keywords: derrida; husserl cache: elements-9003.pdf plain text: elements-9003.txt item: #106 of 190 id: elements-9004 author: Lagaard, Soren title: A Tradition of Racism: The French National Front date: 2007 words: 6280 flesch: 75 summary: x l A number of other movements, such as Organisation Armee Secrete (OAS), continued the trend and gave FN leader Le Pen one of his first forays into politics during the 1960s. French anti-immigrant leader Le Pen gets more support: poll. 2006. keywords: e n; e s; h e; r e; s t; t e; t h cache: elements-9004.pdf plain text: elements-9004.txt item: #107 of 190 id: elements-9005 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies date: 2007 words: 534 flesch: 56 summary: graduated from Boston College in May 2007 with a B.A. in Political Science and concentrations in International Studies and French. graduated from Boston College in 2007 with a B.A. i n English and a minor in History. keywords: b.a; college cache: elements-9005.pdf plain text: elements-9005.txt item: #108 of 190 id: elements-9008 author: Kenny, Daniel title: Microbicides: A New Frontier in HIV/AIDS Prevention date: 2008 words: 4048 flesch: 74 summary: I S E A S E S H A V E L O N G B E E N A T A B I C I D E S , H O W E V E R , G I V E S T H E M H O P E . keywords: e s; h e; r e; t h cache: elements-9008.pdf plain text: elements-9008.txt item: #109 of 190 id: elements-9009 author: Hubele, Michelle title: Lessons in Devotion: A Convergence of Christian and Hindu Religiosity date: 2008 words: 6123 flesch: 75 summary: He explained the significance of such devotion in a way that permitted his advaitic understanding to still be true: Whatever you do, do without egotism, that is without the feeling ' I am doing this.' In the instance of Christianity, the concepts of devotion found in the margas of Bhakti, Karma, and Jfiana offer the possibility of deepen- ing Christian devotion. keywords: e s; h e; r e; t h cache: elements-9009.pdf plain text: elements-9009.txt item: #110 of 190 id: elements-9010 author: Smyth, Jacquie title: Transcending Traditional Gender Boundaries: Defining Gender Roles Through Public and Private Spheres date: 2008 words: 5286 flesch: 74 summary: Daniel Boyarin observes i n his Unheroic Conduct that Jewish women have enjoyed rather astonishing freedom, probably a result of their active role i n business and other public professions. While Christian women may have aided in the education of their children, they rarely wrote down their lessons for their progeny; instead, they relied on their children to pass on lessons to future generations. keywords: e n; e r; g e; h e; n d; t h; t r cache: elements-9010.pdf plain text: elements-9010.txt item: #111 of 190 id: elements-9011 author: Mooney, Timothy title: The Morality Test: An Ancient Perspective on Personal Virtue and Patriotism in Public Life date: 2008 words: 3444 flesch: 80 summary: I T Y T E S T http://www.bartleby.com/73/ I N T E R E S T T O T H E C I T Y , A L C I B keywords: e r; e s; h e; s t; t e; t h cache: elements-9011.pdf plain text: elements-9011.txt item: #112 of 190 id: elements-9012 author: Fox, Aleah title: Varying Patterns of Mutation: Measuring the Universality of Regional Mutation Rates date: 2008 words: 8260 flesch: 81 summary: I N S E C T S , T O D E T E R M A T E S T A B L E 1 : P E A R S O N C O R R E L A T keywords: e n; e s; h e; o r; r e; t e; t h cache: elements-9012.pdf plain text: elements-9012.txt item: #113 of 190 id: elements-9013 author: Schermerhorn, Katie title: A Faith that Does Justice: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala date: 2008 words: 5758 flesch: 67 summary: Truth commissions focus on political forgiveness, or the public response to a collective offense. Political jus- tice is often omitted in the increasingly popular implemen- tation of truth commissions; an exposition of the truth alone is not sufficient. keywords: c e; e n; e s; e t; h e; r e; s t; t h; t r; t t cache: elements-9013.pdf plain text: elements-9013.txt item: #114 of 190 id: elements-9015 author: McMahon, Sean title: A Confluence of Conservative Principles: Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party, and 1990s Welfare Reform date: 2008 words: 5510 flesch: 74 summary: Though writing about the general philoso- phy of welfare programs, Piven and Cloward predict the sort of paternalism that is so prevalent i n the debate over how to operate welfare systems. A further examination of the Republican Party's principles surrounding welfare reform and how their views influenced the reform is necessary. keywords: e o; e r; e s; h e; o r; t h cache: elements-9015.pdf plain text: elements-9015.txt item: #115 of 190 id: elements-9016 author: Firth, Melanie title: Race Relations and the Ideology of Domesticity: A Study of the Women's Antebellum South date: 2008 words: 7098 flesch: 77 summary: Similarly, slave women had certain social standards to which they were required to adhere. Since they had few legal rights in southern states, slave women were required to be completely submissive to their masters and mis- tresses. keywords: e e; e l; e n; e o; e s; e t; h e; n t; r e; t h; t r; t s cache: elements-9016.pdf plain text: elements-9016.txt item: #116 of 190 id: elements-9017 author: Wendel, Paul title: Overcoming Ignorance: The Case for a Moral Imperative to Combat Global Poverty date: 2008 words: 6103 flesch: 64 summary: Section four discusses Pogge's argument that affluent individuals need to change their moral mindset to see that combating world poverty is a moral imperative, not a mere preference. Singer uses an analogy of a small child drowning in a pond and a person choosing not to wade into the pond to save the child because he does not want to get his shoes and pants wet to criticize affluent na- tions for failing to give more internationally to alleviate global poverty: If we do this when people are in danger of dying of starva- tion and when there are agencies that can, with reasonable efficiency, turn our modest donations of money into lifesav- ingfood and basic medicines, how can we consider ourselves any better than the person who sees the child fall in the pond and walks on?xix The reasonable ease with which aid can be given interna- tionally on behalf of affluent individuals makes contribut- ing—in Singer's view—not just an act of charity, but an act of moral duty. keywords: e n; e r; o r cache: elements-9017.pdf plain text: elements-9017.txt item: #117 of 190 id: elements-9021 author: Valdez, Alexandra title: Mit Brennender Sorge: An Exegesis on the Encyclical to the Third Reich date: 2008 words: 12021 flesch: 96 summary: I n the same paragraph, the encyclical ident i f ied one m o r e o f the four marks o f the C h u r c h : unity . To the priests, Pius X I sent words o f congratulat ions a n d support for the i r faithfulness i n t imes o f t r i a l . keywords: c h; e n; e r; g e; h e; h o; h u; m e; n d; o r; o t; r c; t h; t r; u r; u t cache: elements-9021.pdf plain text: elements-9021.txt item: #118 of 190 id: elements-9022 author: Sheridan, Christopher title: Frege and Wittgenstein: The Limits of the Analytic Style date: 2010 words: 12092 flesch: 97 summary: Briefly, the f o r m a l corre lat ion consists i n ascr ibing f o r m a l n o t a t m u s t c o n f o r m to stan- dards o f proper use. keywords: e n; e r; g e; h e; m e; n t; o r; o t; t e; t h cache: elements-9022.pdf plain text: elements-9022.txt item: #119 of 190 id: elements-9023 author: Eighan, Erin E. title: Illuminating a Culture, a History, a Tradition: Conceptual Blending in the St. John's Bible date: 2010 words: 12962 flesch: 94 summary: i n the v i - sual grids o f p o s t m o d e r n works . Not least a m o n g these controversies is the apparent confl ict between the scientific roots o f th is m o d e o f analysis keywords: c o; e d; e n; e r; e t; h e; l e; l l; l t; m e; m o; n d; n t; o f; o r; o t; r n; s t; t h; t m; t r cache: elements-9023.pdf plain text: elements-9023.txt item: #120 of 190 id: elements-9024 author: Williams, Amber; Hake, Dr. Laura title: Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals: What They Are, What They Do, and Where to Find Them date: 2010 words: 13462 flesch: 91 summary: i o n w i t h sex, alcohol, or drugs may become m o r e l ike ly at an earlier age . A T A R E R E L E A S E D I N T O T H E A I R A C T U A L L Y D O . keywords: c h; c t; e n; e r; e t; h e; h o; l e; l l; m e; m o; n d; n t; o f; o r; o t; r m; r t; s t; t h; u m; u r cache: elements-9024.pdf plain text: elements-9024.txt item: #121 of 190 id: elements-9025 author: Guittard, Alex title: Iran and the Nixon Doctrine: American Arms and the Rise and Fall of the Shah date: 2010 words: 7899 flesch: 92 summary: i n the area and was m o r e t h a n a m a t c h for the c o m b i n N E A N D T H E R O A D TO R E V O keywords: e n; e r; e t; h e; m e; n d; n t; o n; o r; t h; t r cache: elements-9025.pdf plain text: elements-9025.txt item: #122 of 190 id: elements-9026 author: Ulbrich, Shane title: The Truth in Things (And Love in the World): Accessing the Natural Law's Metaphysical and Theological Foundation date: 2010 words: 6706 flesch: 70 summary: Some seek a return to traditional wisdom, often connected to religious conversion, in which natural law seems to play an important, i f unclear, role. Such a philosophical climate does not much countenance appeals to natural law. keywords: e n; e r; e t; h e; n t; t h; t r cache: elements-9026.pdf plain text: elements-9026.txt item: #123 of 190 id: elements-9027 author: Smith, Kitsy title: Expanding Waistlines: A "Nutrition Transition" in China date: 2010 words: 5603 flesch: 75 summary: AS T H E W O R L D H E A L T H O R G A N i n e , therefore, the wi l l ingness o f parents to give c h keywords: h e; t h cache: elements-9027.pdf plain text: elements-9027.txt item: #124 of 190 id: elements-9028 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies date: 2010 words: 576 flesch: 55 summary: She wrote Hormone-mimicking Chemicals: What They Are, What They Do, and Where to Find Them with Dr. Laura Hake of the Biology Department for the Ethics and Sustainability Conference held by the Jesuit Institute here at Boston College. This article is dedicated to her late grandmother, Mary Ann Eighan, for her endless love, kindness, and support. p.!, f x c. u ; T A R • is a member of the Class of 2011 in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston College. keywords: college; sciences cache: elements-9028.pdf plain text: elements-9028.txt item: #125 of 190 id: elements-9031 author: Swofford, Kate title: Victor Horta's Vision: Art Nouveau, Fusion of Function and Form date: 2010 words: 9997 flesch: 94 summary: i n Paris, b u t resided for m o s t o f his l For example, the levels that extend o f f the cen- tra l staircase vary. keywords: h o; n d; o f; o r; r t; t h cache: elements-9031.pdf plain text: elements-9031.txt item: #126 of 190 id: elements-9032 author: Georescu, Vlad title: Mentira y Honor: Los temas del teatro espanol en el Siglo de Oro date: 2010 words: 4570 flesch: 74 summary: Aunque Dios era superficialtnente la autoridad mas alta, habia otro sistema de creencias, el de la honra, considerado mas sagrado por los ciudadanos de entonces M E N T Pedro Crespo, al recibir las noticias de la llegada de los soldados espanoles en Zalamea, pide a su hija Isabel y la su prima Ines que se escondan en el desvan de s u casa Hoy han de venir a casa / soldados, y es importante, / que no te vean. keywords: alvaro; como; con; crespo; del; don; duque; esta; honra; juan; las; los; mas; mentira; para; pedro; por; que; siglo; sus; una cache: elements-9032.pdf plain text: elements-9032.txt item: #127 of 190 id: elements-9033 author: Grandmont, Megan title: The Power of Her Voice: Music and Patriarchal Politics in Frances Burney's Cecilia date: 2010 words: 11375 flesch: 95 summary: i c p lot w i l l n o t leave her alone w i t i o n o f w o m e n is keywords: e n; e r; h e; m e; o r; o t; t h cache: elements-9033.pdf plain text: elements-9033.txt item: #128 of 190 id: elements-9034 author: Zimmermann, Zach title: Film as History: Fellini's La Dolce Vita as a Historical Artifact date: 2010 words: 11547 flesch: 96 summary: i n th is new Rome consists o f b o r e d o m and false idols . i m w i l l consider and reflect o n the n e w Rome. keywords: e l; e n; e r; h e; l l; m e; m o; n d; n t; o f; o r; o t; t e; t h; t r cache: elements-9034.pdf plain text: elements-9034.txt item: #129 of 190 id: elements-9035 author: Koniares, Katherine title: Hearing the Classes: A Study of Cochlear Implantation and Socioeconomic Status date: 2010 words: 9359 flesch: 93 summary: E U S E D T O I D w h o received a PCI l ived i n households f r o m the highest K I D category (>$35,ooo), a n d m o r e t h a n 7 0 % o f patients w i t h a PCI came f r o m fam- ilies w i t h an annua l keywords: e d; e n; e t; h e; m e; n d; n t; o r; r e; t h cache: elements-9035.pdf plain text: elements-9035.txt item: #130 of 190 id: elements-9036 author: Gilman, Alexander title: Cunning Folklore: The Meaning of "Superstition" in Early Modern Europe date: 2010 words: 11960 flesch: 93 summary: For m o s t o f the lengthy Despite f o l l o w i n g the arc o f his predecessors i n m a n y ways, Bourne actually ends, rather t h a n cont inues , the dis- cussion o f magic pract i t ioners . keywords: h e; o f; o r; r e; t h cache: elements-9036.pdf plain text: elements-9036.txt item: #131 of 190 id: elements-9037 author: Williamson, Katherine title: Guercino's Erminia: A Gifted Painting's Story of Italian Power Culture date: 2010 words: 9293 flesch: 97 summary: x i m that the power o f w o m e n should n o t be underes t imated . A N D I N T E R P R E T keywords: e n; e r; h e; m e; n d; n t; o l; o r; t h cache: elements-9037.pdf plain text: elements-9037.txt item: #132 of 190 id: elements-9039 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Artwork Credits date: 2010 words: 339 flesch: 85 summary: u s / A l a m y PARISH OF SAN JOSE © Corbis DE LA BARCA © H u l t o n Archive/Getty Images DRESS REHEARSAL OF 'DON JUAN, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA' BY TIRSO DE MOLINA © Q u i m Llenas/Cover/Getty Images ECSTASY OF SAINT CECILIA BY RAPHAEL © L I S T OF A R T W O R K LAEKEN ROYAL GREENHOUSES WINTER GARDEN DOM E, BRUSSELS © Chris Baker/Alamy HOTEL SOLVAY BY VICTOR HORTA, BRUSSELS, 1894. keywords: corbis cache: elements-9039.pdf plain text: elements-9039.txt item: #133 of 190 id: elements-9057 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2015 words: 804 flesch: 41 summary: This issue of Elements explores the implications of disruptive innovation in a variety of contexts, in an attempt to reconcile the vestiges of the past with the realities of the present. Even as disruptive innovation transforms some fields beyond recognition, lingering remnants of obsolete structures inhibit essential changes in oth- ers. keywords: college; elements; innovation cache: elements-9057.pdf plain text: elements-9057.txt item: #134 of 190 id: elements-9058 author: Marandola, Marissa title: Author Biographies date: 2015 words: 843 flesch: 52 summary: evan goldstein graduated from Boston College cum laude with a B.A. in Theology and a minor in Philosophy. She studied Biology at Boston College, and was part of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program as well as the Biology Department Honors Program. keywords: college; program; research; school cache: elements-9058.pdf plain text: elements-9058.txt item: #135 of 190 id: elements-9060 author: Schneider, Allison title: Uber Takes the Passing Lane: Disruptive Competition and Taxi-Livery Service Regulations date: 2015 words: 8865 flesch: 61 summary: This social benefit portends additional attributes that appear to be bolstering adoption.40 This, along with other social motivations such as not needing a parking space, are signs that Uber customers see lifestyle benefits beyond simply having an alternative to taxi or livery services, which is a powerful driving force in Uber’s penetration of the marketplace. A survey commis- sioned by the City of San Francisco revealed that there is a shortage of taxi services, which affects the overall use of the public transportation system. keywords: business; cities; city; driver; livery; n.p; new; nov; oct; ridesharing; service; taxi; time; transportation; uber; web; york cache: elements-9060.pdf plain text: elements-9060.txt item: #136 of 190 id: elements-9061 author: Calhoun, Doyle title: A Grammar of Punctuation in Poetry: Modern Computational Linguistic Perspectives date: 2015 words: 3177 flesch: 39 summary: Punctuation is not a necessary (or very common) feature of human language: not all speech communities have written language, and not all written languages have punctuation. Such particularities of literary punctuation include its: rhetorical force, aesthetic or visual dimension, meta-physical qualities, allusive potential, and effect on meter. keywords: language; linguistics; poetry; punctuation; studies; use cache: elements-9061.pdf plain text: elements-9061.txt item: #137 of 190 id: elements-9062 author: Vazquez, Maria title: Latino Masculinity: Underlying Factors in College Persistence Levels date: 2015 words: 5947 flesch: 54 summary: The concept of family can be a dou- ble-edged sword, providing extensive support and positive involvement for Latino male college students, but also de- manding a level of commitment that often interferes with college persistence.8 The complex topic of Latino male college persistence in- volves the interrelation of a variety of systems and factors. “Investing in higher education for Latinos: Trends in Latino college access and success.” keywords: college; education; family; gender; help; latino; male; masculinity; men; participants; persistence; seeking cache: elements-9062.pdf plain text: elements-9062.txt item: #138 of 190 id: elements-9063 author: Walker, Alec title: Dissent in the Wirtschaftswunder: Historical Memory and the German Student Movement date: 2015 words: 4062 flesch: 54 summary: As a student-produced pamphlet described, the protestors were objecting to a leader who had “been shown to have tortured and murdered hun- dreds of politicians, journalists, students, and workers” — a despot who embodied every authoritarian tendencies.22 However, despite various accounts of police brutality and the murder of student activist Benno Ohnesorg, the pro- testors remained peaceful, establishing themselves as the antithetical, historically aware opposition. The movement’s antiauthoritarianism, its main mode of leaving the stric- tures of the university, was also historical in nature, calling into question not only their current leaders, but also the regimes of Adenauer and the Third Reich and what they saw as their repressive tendencies — seeking to engage more with the public and bring it to awareness.25 Rather than a movement of divisive violence, Rudi Dutschke, the SDS, and the students in general sought a universal “coalition of workers and students in the organi- zational form of [revolutionary] councils.”26 keywords: dutschke; germany; history; movement; power; revolution; society; students cache: elements-9063.pdf plain text: elements-9063.txt item: #139 of 190 id: elements-9064 author: Tank, Allyson title: A Biological "Arms Race": APOBEC3F Diversity and its Influence on Lentiviral Resistance date: 2015 words: 8007 flesch: 61 summary: host a3 proteins (triangles) incorporate into a budding virion, and then interfere with the process of reverse transcription in the target cell to prevent further viral replication. Further mutagenesis studies will reveal whether any of these sites play a role in SIV restriction, or whether it truly is another virus altogether that has provided the selective pressure on rhA3F. In addition, the sooty mangabey, crab- eating macaque, and pigtail macaque A3F clones have not been fully characterized in terms of their susceptibility to various Vifs. keywords: a3f; clones; doi; hiv-1; host; macaques; primate; proteins; restriction; rhesus; species; vif; virus cache: elements-9064.pdf plain text: elements-9064.txt item: #140 of 190 id: elements-9065 author: Shapiro, Benjamin title: Cartographers in the Caribbean: Economics and Mapping in the Colonial New World date: 2015 words: 4673 flesch: 52 summary: cartographers in the caribbean Economics and Mapping in the Colonial New World benjamin shapiro introduction As a region of tropical islands and countless waterways, the Caribbean represented far more than just a pictur- esque landscape for exploration to those who lived there during the eighteenth century. The islands themselves even reflected these dif- ferences to an extreme degree; on islands like Jamaica and Cuba, lush tropical forests dominated the landscape and contrasted sharply with the islands of the sandy and flat Bahama archipelago.1,2 Exoticism, to most Europeans, remained a very broad term at this time, but the consensus on its definition seems to include foreign flora, fauna, climate, societies, and language. keywords: atlas; caribbean; european; ibid; islands; jefferys; maps; plate; region; trade cache: elements-9065.pdf plain text: elements-9065.txt item: #141 of 190 id: elements-9066 author: Goldstein, Evan title: Performing Redemption: Metzian Theology in the Art of Kendrick Lamar date: 2015 words: 7141 flesch: 62 summary: The sin Lamar confronts is not the abstract, onto- logical sin of the dominant Christian tradition of theo- logical anthropology, but rather a social condition of “dy- ing of thirst,” described in the second half of the two-part track. Instead, following Benja- min, Metz re-articulates faith as a “praxis in history and society” that struggles to speak about God from the under- side of modernity.8 In this paper, I read Kendrick Lamar’s “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” as a performance of dangerous memory.9 keywords: death; dying; kendrick; lamar; life; metz; sin; theology; thirst; track; verse cache: elements-9066.pdf plain text: elements-9066.txt item: #142 of 190 id: elements-9067 author: McCaffrey, Olivia title: Neither Red Nor Blue: The Influence of Independent Voters in Massachusetts date: 2015 words: 3995 flesch: 50 summary: the prevalence of independent voters in massachusetts The percentage of Independent voters in Massachusetts has increased during every presidential administration since that of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953-1961. massachusetts is a perfect microcosm through which to explore the influence of independent voters. keywords: candidates; commonwealth; election; independent; massachusetts; party; republican; voters cache: elements-9067.pdf plain text: elements-9067.txt item: #143 of 190 id: elements-9068 author: Larrabee, Catherine title: Inherited Injustice: Stigma and Gender Discrimination as Barriers to AIDS Prevention in India date: 2015 words: 3294 flesch: 56 summary: As Cecilia Van Hol- len notes, “While the government of India has made prog- ress increasing the availability of prevention of mother-to- child transmission of HIV services, only about one quarter of pregnant women received an HIV test in 2010, and about one-in-five that were found positive for HIV received interventions to prevent vertical transmission of HIV”.10 Despite the successes of PPTCT, the majority of HIV-posi- tive pregnant women in India remain vulnerable to verti- cal transmission. Further- more, a study of pregnant women in western India sug- gests the following: “[A woman’s] HIV risk perception seems more influenced by her socio-demographic status and her couple relationship than by her level of HIV-related knowledge… the significant factors identified in this study point out to the fact that risk perception and hence risk reduction among pregnant women, and probably overall women within stable heterosexual couples, must go far beyond imparting knowledge about HIV and must address the more deep-rooted issues such as partner communication, domestic violence, alcoholism, and lack of education among women. keywords: aids; hiv; india; pptct; transmission; women cache: elements-9068.pdf plain text: elements-9068.txt item: #144 of 190 id: elements-9069 author: Calhoun, Doyle; Goldstein, Evan; Larrabee, Catherine; McCaffrey, Olivia; Schneider, Allison; Shapiro, Benjamin; Tank, Allyson; Vazquez, Maria; Walker, Alec title: Elements Fall 2015 Issue date: 2015 words: 51373 flesch: 56 summary: The concept of family can be a dou- ble-edged sword, providing extensive support and positive involvement for Latino male college students, but also de- manding a level of commitment that often interferes with college persistence.8 The complex topic of Latino male college persistence in- volves the interrelation of a variety of systems and factors. “Over the next few years, if Uber and other such services do re- duce the need for private vehicle ownership, they could help lower the cost of living in urban areas, reduce the en- vironmental toll exacted by privately owned automobiles … in a january 2015 protest, portland taxi drivers demanded that city leaders make ridesharing companies play by the same rules as cabs and town cars. keywords: a3f; aids; analysis; business; caribbean; city; college; death; doi; dying; education; elements; factors; fall; family; figure; future; gender; german; help; history; hiv; human; ibid; independent; india; jefferys; journal; kendrick; lamar; language; latino; life; massachusetts; metz; movement; n.p; new; participants; party; pptct; proteins; punctuation; research; restriction; rhesus; ridesharing; role; service; social; society; species; state; students; studies; study; success; support; system; taxi; theology; thirst; time; transmission; transportation; uber; university; vif; virus; voters; web; women; work; world; york cache: elements-9069.pdf plain text: elements-9069.txt item: #145 of 190 id: elements-9283 author: Johnson, Katelyn title: The Dirt and The Bees: The Epidemiology of Neonicotinoids date: 2016 words: 4288 flesch: 62 summary: The concentrations of CLO in Stroubles creek do not correlate to any particular contami- nator in the way that TMX concentrations reflect the loca- tion of the cornfield. The soil was air dried, sieved through a 2 mm sieve, and then ground for the incubation study for TMX transformation. keywords: clo; concentration; creek; neonicotinoids; samples; sediment; soil; tmx; water cache: elements-9283.pdf plain text: elements-9283.txt item: #146 of 190 id: elements-9296 author: Panariello, Natalie title: On the Wrong Side of the Tracks?: Ethical Considerations of the Needle Black Market date: 2016 words: 3377 flesch: 67 summary: Since the late 1980S, needle exchange programS (nepS) have been great reSourceS for intravenouS drug uSerS (iduS), aS they provide both clean needleS with which iduS can inject aS well aS baSic health ServiceS, including hiv teSting and counSeling. In some cities, there even exists self-policing where sellers hold each other accountable for distributing clean needles. keywords: clean; drug; exchange; health; idus; michael; needles; philadelphia cache: elements-9296.pdf plain text: elements-9296.txt item: #147 of 190 id: elements-9298 author: Butron, Juliana title: A Climate of Inaction: Limitations of a Relational Understanding of Morality date: 2016 words: 5807 flesch: 53 summary: Aspects of climate change inaction find their roots in sim- ilar behavioral fossils. Reducing gReenhouse gas emissions is the only way to mitigate the consequences of climate change. keywords: authority; change; climate; environmental; global; group; morality; sharing; trolley; understanding cache: elements-9298.pdf plain text: elements-9298.txt item: #148 of 190 id: elements-9299 author: Heine, Jennifer title: Two Separate Persons: Ethnicity and Identity in Trollope's Phineas Finn date: 2016 words: 4048 flesch: 59 summary: According to Patrick Lonergan’s “The Representation Of Phineas Finn: Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Series And Victorian Ireland,” “Phineas’s nationality has been ignored because of Trollope’s statement that he believed it was a ‘blunder’ to make his hero an Irishman… it is disappointing that Phineas’s nationality has been ignored or dismissed by literary critics. Jane Elizabeth Dougherty contrasts this in “An Angel In The House: The Act Of Union And Anthony Trollope’s Irish Hero,” claiming that the opposite effect can be discerned: Because Trollope himself called attention to the “blunder”… many of these critics have examined the importance of Phineas’s ethnicity to the story… Clearly, critics have not yet reached a consensus on the tricky subject of the ethnicity of Phineas Finn, and its effects on the characterizations, composition, trajectory, and reception of Trollope’s… novel.3 One can conclude, though, that Phineas’s Irish heritage was originally intended to improve upon the novel’s hero. keywords: anthony; character; finn; ireland; irish; phineas; trollope cache: elements-9299.pdf plain text: elements-9299.txt item: #149 of 190 id: elements-9300 author: Kabacinski, Christopher title: Who Would Hire a Blind Poet?: Blindness in the Eyes of Stephen Kuusisto date: 2016 words: 7122 flesch: 62 summary: It’s been five years Since I was paired with this dog Who, in fact, is more than a dog – She watches for me.101 What follows is a description of “[their] twin minds [going] walking” in New York City.102 Kuusisto and Corky navigate the city’s well-travelled paths and its landmarks in an un- expected and mythical manner. Kuusisto was born in March 1955 with “retinopathy of prematurity,” and has been considered “legally blind” since childhood.30 Moving from the myth-worlds of Oedipus and Tiresias, from the powerless place of the disabled man, Kuusisto positions himself “in the normal … in the everyday. keywords: blindness; body; bread; disability; everyday; kuusisto; language; light; man; masculinity; poems; visual cache: elements-9300.pdf plain text: elements-9300.txt item: #150 of 190 id: elements-9301 author: Luedeking, Alessandra title: Titan of Terror: A Personification of the Destroyer of Worlds date: 2016 words: 2482 flesch: 58 summary: Godzilla’s de- structive acts are never gratuitous; the audience is never invited to admire and derive enjoyment from Godzilla’s “‘If we keep on conducting nuclear tests, it’s possible that another Godzilla might appear somewhere in the world, again.’” Crew MeMber of Daigo fukuryu Maru reCeiving treatMent (courtesy of wikimedia commons) 86 ElEmEnts : : spring 2016 tremendous feats of destructive might. The reduction to “stupid, bestial, even pestilential subhuman caricatures on the enemy” made it easier to tolerate the prospect of mass killing other human beings.6 Indeed, in his private diary, President Harry Truman, in reference to the planned use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki commented: Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop this terrible bomb on the old capital or the new” [in reference to Kyoto and Tokyo]…I know that Japan is a terribly cruel and un- civilized nation in warfare…because they are beasts…7 The superiority complex espoused by the United States ex- tended to its occupation of Japan from 1945-1952. keywords: film; godzilla; japanese; nuclear; war; world cache: elements-9301.pdf plain text: elements-9301.txt item: #151 of 190 id: elements-9302 author: Moretti, Rebecca title: The Psychological Puzzle: Contributing Factors to the Top-Down Politicization of Intelligence date: 2016 words: 2032 flesch: 45 summary: What allows policymakers to exploit ambiguous intelligence is not primarily the intelli- gence itself, regardless of its ambiguity, but rather the psy- chological predilections that prevent them from accurately appraising the information. Policymakers need intelligence to make decisions, while the intelligence community derives significance from its ability to Provide Policy makers with reliable information. keywords: intelligence; leaders; policymakers; politicization cache: elements-9302.pdf plain text: elements-9302.txt item: #152 of 190 id: elements-9303 author: Diep-Nguyen, Arthur title: Dreibens Modulo 7: A New Formula for Primality Testing date: 2016 words: 3237 flesch: 77 summary: In other words, one would have yet another method to determine the number of dreibens of length n divisible by 7. 98 ElEmEnts : : spring 2016 conclusIon While we are still far from determining whether the set of prime dreibens is finite or infinite, our exploration of dreibens modulo 7 has cast much light on the problem. We can perform similar calculations for An where n ≡ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (mod 6), thereby allowing us to quickly find An for any n. Hence, we can easily determine An for any n, allow- ing us to rule out many composite dreibens. keywords: mod cache: elements-9303.pdf plain text: elements-9303.txt item: #153 of 190 id: elements-9305 author: Quigley, Katherine title: Convict the Deviant: Masculinity and Rape in Early America date: 2016 words: 9399 flesch: 57 summary: itself.40 The rape of a white woman by a black man indicated a sense of manly independence that was highly threatening to white men living in a race-based hierarchy.41 When reviewing Arthur’s narrative, one must understand his actions within the context of the slave system that Ar- thur actively rebelled against. Americans saw British soldiers as rapists and, like black men, they were overrepresented in print accounts of rape.66 The rape of innocent American “In his warning, Arthur connected his fate to racial power dynamics, as he blamed his own rebellion for his execution.” 20 ElEmEnts : : spring 2016 women and girls by the lecherous agents of a corrupt po- litical system was a powerful tool that Americans used to justify their disregard for British authority.67 While this may not have been the prime motivation for Young’s con- viction and execution, this unforgiving image of British soldiers nevertheless impacted how members of the jury and public thought of Robert Young. keywords: america; arthur; century; early; life; man; men; narratives; rape; rapists; sex; sheehen; young cache: elements-9305.pdf plain text: elements-9305.txt item: #154 of 190 id: elements-9306 author: Park, Daniel; Lee, Yoon-Shin (Clara) title: Divisions Dissected: A Deconstruction of Boston College's "Asian Bubble" date: 2016 words: 5526 flesch: 46 summary: It is a phe- nomenon where Asian students on campus unite and form a unique community, a sub-culture that can seem rather exclusive to students on the outside. This may be due to one of two reasons: 1) Groupthink affects upperclassmen who are a part of the Asian community to respond AsiAn students in clAss (source: publicdomainpic- tures) 67 dIVISIONS dISSECTEd positively, or 2) Directly experiencing the Asian community contradicts the negative perceptions surrounding the community, leading upperclassmen to have more positive perceptions. keywords: american; asian; bubble; campus; community; identity; students; survey cache: elements-9306.pdf plain text: elements-9306.txt item: #155 of 190 id: elements-9308 author: Marandola, Marissa; Wang, Betty title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2016 words: 1313 flesch: 35 summary: Daniel Park and Clara Lee examines a similar struggle between definition and identity in “Divisions Dissected” by focusing on the notion of the “Asian Bubble” and its impact on the experience and self-perceptions of Asian American students at Bos- ton College. staff Editors-in-chiEf Marissa Marandola BEtty (yunqing) Wang Managing Editor anniE KiM dEputy Editor alEssandra luEdEKing trEasurEr ashEr (sEungWan) Kang layout Xizi (KElsEy) zhang, Senior Editor ElisE hon, Assistant Editor shuang li, Editor thao vu, Editor huManitiEs JacoB ciafonE, Senior Editor isaBElla doW, Senior Editor siErra dEnnEhy, Editor ciaran dillon-davidson, Editor social sciEncEs sydnEy applE, Senior Editor MichEllE Kang, Senior Editor Erica keywords: boston; college; editor; elements; journal; research cache: elements-9308.pdf plain text: elements-9308.txt item: #156 of 190 id: elements-9309 author: Marandola, Marissa; Wang, Betty title: Author Biographies and Artwork Credits date: 2016 words: 1565 flesch: 49 summary: [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The TyBUrn GalloWs © Wikimedia Commons 18Th cenTUry Trial © Wikimedia Commons redWood Tree © By User:Jyekrang (Own work) [Public domain], Tiresias appearinG To Ulysses © Henry Fuseli [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 19 man on Trial © Wikimedia Commons creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons dia Commons Wikimedia Commons org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons via Wikimedia Commons main], via Wikimedia Commons 54 52 OEDIPUS AT COLONUS © Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust keywords: arts; boston; college; commons; domain; wikimedia cache: elements-9309.pdf plain text: elements-9309.txt item: #157 of 190 id: elements-9353 author: Gawlick, Natasza title: Thank You for the Music: Musical Activities as Therapy for Autistic Children date: 2016 words: 2873 flesch: 51 summary: EffECTs of musiC ThEraPy on ChildrEn WiTh auTism As previously mentioned, music therapy can have profound effects on building interpersonal relationships and increasing emotional expression, particularly in autistic children. The researchers evaluated five target behaviors: joy, emotional synchronicity, initiation of engagement, compliant re- sponse, and no response.7 Kim, Wingram, and Gold found that the frequency of joy events steadily increased over the course of 12 sessions in music therapy conditions, whereas joy events remained stable at zero in toy play sessions.8 Similarly, children initi- ated engagement with the therapist more in music therapy than in toy therapy. keywords: autism; children; movement; music; study; therapy cache: elements-9353.pdf plain text: elements-9353.txt item: #158 of 190 id: elements-9354 author: Blaisdell, Max title: Tunisian Exceptionalism Or Constitutional Timing: A Comparison Of Democratic Transitions In The Middle East date: 2016 words: 7594 flesch: 46 summary: the ArAb Spring proteStS were greeted with euphoriA, but the reSulting inStAbility, SectAriAniSm, And extreme violence in SeverAl middle eAStern StAteS hAve led Some to believe thAt the toppled dictAtorS mAy hAve been the leSSer of two evilS. while tuni- SiA’S SucceSSful democrAtic trAnSition lookS like An AnomAly in itS current regionAl environment, egypt AlSo Achieved A SignificAnt hiStoric mileStone when it elected preSident morSi in free electionS. however, hiS Short tenure And egypt’S broAder fAil- ure to democrAtize promptS queStionS AS to how democrAtic trAnSitionS cAn Succeed After dictAtorShipS. by compAring the tuniSiAn And egyptiAn democrAtic trAnSition proceSSeS, the Article SeekS to elucidAte the cAuSeS of the difference in outcomeS of the proteStS in theSe two StAteS. new politicAl ActorS Secondly, I examine existing theo- ries of democratic transition, ranging from modernization to institutional theory. keywords: arab; democracy; democratic; east; egypt; egyptian; elections; islamists; middle; military; new; press; theory; transition; tunisia; university cache: elements-9354.pdf plain text: elements-9354.txt item: #159 of 190 id: elements-9371 author: Leddy, Madeline T. title: Myth Or Truth: The Apollonian And Dionysian In The Death Of Ivan Ilyich date: 2016 words: 2255 flesch: 59 summary: Its mortalIty. Myth or truth The Apollonian and Dionysian in The Death of Ivan Ilyich madelIne leddy In The Birth of Tragedy, author Friedrich Nietzsche analyz- es the beginnings of Greek tragedy in order to reflect on the nature of human society, particularly that of Western thinking. In his novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy exemplifies the consequences of glorifying the Apollonian at the expense of the Dionysian by portraying the slow and demoralizing death of his titular character Ivan Ilyich. keywords: apollonian; death; dionysian; ivan cache: elements-9371.pdf plain text: elements-9371.txt item: #160 of 190 id: elements-9377 author: Flythe, Benjamin R. title: Dreams and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Klimt's Beethoven Frieze date: 2016 words: 4749 flesch: 61 summary: The German artist Max Klinger had very recently completed a monumental, polychrome sculpture of the composer and, “intent on being the first venue for the statue’s display, the Secession approached Klinger and proposed to venerate his masterpiece with a new, avant-garde style of exhibition…”8 Their proposal made use of the unique opportunity afforded them by the Secession building; called “Tempelkunst,” they offered to feature Klinger’s Beethoven in a space specially constructed so as to highlight the piece, paying homage both to the art- ist and Klinger himself—all the while highlighting, of course, the art of the Secessionists.9 It is my suggestion that Klimt’s contribution to the fourteenth exhibition, the infamous Beethoven Frieze more so than nearly any of Klimt’s prior or later works, is one that provides an abso- lutely critical key to understanding the psycho-sexual crisis that contributed to the artist’s radical shift in style. [Be embrac’d, ye millions yonder!/ Take this kiss throughout the world!/ Brothers—o’er the stars unfurl’d/ Must reside a loving Father.]”10 Ernst Stöhr, a painter and lesser-known Secession artist, evidently helped Klimt devise the program of the Beethoven Frieze—and he almost certainly wrote the foreword to the exhibition’s pro- gram.11 Having little to do with Beethoven himself “as an historic figure or spiritual leader,”12 Stöhr’s description of the Beethoven Frieze’s content from the exhibition program presents a fin-de-siècle interpretation of the composition of the Ninth Symphony and reads as follows: The three painted walls constitute a coherent sequence. keywords: art; beethoven; female; frieze; gustav; klimt; music; new; secession; vienna; work cache: elements-9377.pdf plain text: elements-9377.txt item: #161 of 190 id: elements-9380 author: Kim, Clare title: The Blindspot: Asian Misrepresentation In Orange Is The New Black date: 2016 words: 3138 flesch: 60 summary: Big Boo objectifies Soso as she labels her as “the hot one of the Asian persuasion,” reinforcing the often fetishized por- trayals of Asian women in the media.13 This hyper-sexual- ized depiction of Asian women upholds the phenomenon of what is often referred to as “yellow fever”, which is large- ly problematic in that “it doesn’t see [Asian] women as fully-formed individuals, but as the living embodiment of offensive stereotypes. keywords: asian; black; chang; oitnb; orange; race cache: elements-9380.pdf plain text: elements-9380.txt item: #162 of 190 id: elements-9435 author: Caswell, Violet title: Meeting Henry Hills: Printer To The King's Most Excellent Majesty date: 2016 words: 5507 flesch: 64 summary: “At the Dwelling House of Mr. Henry Hills,” Evening Post, May 29, 1712, iss. “At the Dwelling House of Mr. Henry Hills.” keywords: book; henry; henry hills; hills; james; king; london; printer; printing cache: elements-9435.pdf plain text: elements-9435.txt item: #163 of 190 id: elements-9439 author: Sullivan, Sarah K. title: Extralegal Violence: The Ku Klux Klan In The Reconstruction Era date: 2016 words: 7924 flesch: 66 summary: When studying statistics involving Ku Klux Klan violence, it is necessary to note that many outrages went unreported. 41 ExtralEgal ViolEncE Whites supported Ku Klux Klan efforts in controlling black labor. keywords: black; committee; justice; klan; klux; klux klan; ku klux; lynching; man; murder; reconstruction; violence; white cache: elements-9439.pdf plain text: elements-9439.txt item: #164 of 190 id: elements-9448 author: LeDoux, James title: Extra Point Under Review: Machine Learning And The NFL Field Goal date: 2016 words: 4561 flesch: 58 summary: The result is a model that learns its own features, as opposed to other models which are constrained to the features that a user feeds them. Model 3: Home Field Advantages For model 3, I regressed all of the previously mentioned variables as well as the individual stadium dummies on field goal outcomes in order to see which home fields were the most significant. keywords: data; field; game; goal; kicker; logistic; model; regression cache: elements-9448.pdf plain text: elements-9448.txt item: #165 of 190 id: elements-9449 author: Chou, Lindsey title: Our Lady Of Impossibility: Gendered Standards In Islam And Christianity date: 2016 words: 3687 flesch: 69 summary: Given the acceptance of menstruation as “defil- ing,” the conflation of Mary’s virginity with her worth, and the reduction of her identity and value to being the obedi- ent owner of a uterus, it becomes clear that the ways in which we affirm Mary matters are framed within the rules of what matters most for men. She is, by her essence, sacred.15 The melding of this standard set by Fátima with that of Mary blurs the boundaries between Christian and Islamic expectations for women. keywords: islam; islamic; mary; muhammad; print; women cache: elements-9449.pdf plain text: elements-9449.txt item: #166 of 190 id: elements-9453 author: Kim, Soyeon title: Alternative Truths: The Construction Of Narratives In The Rodney King Trial date: 2016 words: 10324 flesch: 59 summary: Yet, the video of King’s beating in 1992 was the first time that the problem of po- lice brutality appeared on the national radar, though many black people contend that this problem of police brutality existed long before 1992 and that the Rodney King case was only the first time it was caught on tape.7 Thus, the local and national outrage at the verdict was unsurprising: the video “clearly” showed that the beating was a case of police brutality, that excessive force was used against Rod- ney King, and that King consequently suffered a multitude of injuries—and yet, all four policemen in the Rodney King case were not convicted. Thus, rather than a whole that represented one thing—i.e., the police brutally beating Rodney King— the video became a series of distinct images and events, from the police’s perceived signs of aggression from King, to the police making the reasoned decision to contain this threat, to the strikes with the batons themselves.28 These still images made King appear more active than in the video, and therefore gave the jurors an illusion of move- ment and power to King, which they were quick to believe due to their ideology. keywords: beating; defense; discourse; images; jurors; king; law; narrative; officers; police; prosecution; rodney king; trial; video cache: elements-9453.pdf plain text: elements-9453.txt item: #167 of 190 id: elements-9581 author: Wang, Betty title: Author Biographies date: 2016 words: 1069 flesch: 50 summary: violet CasWell Violet is a senior at Boston College majoring in History and minoring in Theology and international studies. Max worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life while at Boston College. keywords: art; boston; college; studies cache: elements-9581.pdf plain text: elements-9581.txt item: #168 of 190 id: elements-9582 author: Wang, Betty title: Artwork Credits date: 2016 words: 396 flesch: -15 summary: List of Artwork The visiT of The angel gabriel To The virgin mary © Simone Martini [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 10 12 16 20 28 29 30 30 32 33 The egypTian revoluTion in Tahrir square © Maged Helal, https://flic.kr/p/9kxiFH, via Flickr muhammad preaching To his followers © [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons free Tunisia © Wassim Ben Rhouma, Free Tunisa, https://flic.kr/p/9eK3fo, via Flickr Pallas athena, 1898 © Gustav Klimt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons PhilosoPhy (destroyed), 1900 © Gustav Klimt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons PreParatory study for JurisPrudence, 1897-98 © Clark Art Institute, https://flic.kr/p/68S8qU, via Flickr JurisPrudence, 1903-1907 © Gustav Klimt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Beethoven frieze (“the hostile Powers”), 1902 © Gustav Klimt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons the kiss for the whole world, 1902 © Gustav Klimt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Com- mons ScreenShot of the video of rodney king’S beating © ATOMIC Hot Links, Los Angele’s three day Shoot, Loot & Scoot 1992 (Rodney King beating) https://flic.kr/p/5K1etA, via Flickr rodney king caricature © Cass Anaya, https://flic.kr/p/bGLrCz, via Flickr la riotS caricature © ATOMIC Hot Links, Los Angele’s three day Shoot, Loot & Scoot 1992, https://flic.kr/p/5K1fr3, via Flickr 40 50 50 70 78 86 91 Calling for equality in the la riots © ATOMIC Hot Links, Los Angele’s three day Shoot, Loot & Scoot 1992 (Man’s inhumanity to man), https:// flic.kr/p/5K5Vhf, via Flickr 93 lisT of arTWork Children gathered for a musiC lesson © Admin keywords: domain; wikimedia cache: elements-9582.pdf plain text: elements-9582.txt item: #169 of 190 id: elements-9583 author: Wang, Betty title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2016 words: 933 flesch: 40 summary: Wang Managing Editor anniE KiM dEputy Editor alEssandra luEdEKing trEasurEr ashEr (sEungWan) Kang layout Xizi (KElsEy) zhang, Senior Editor ElisE hon, Assistant Editor sEWon (Jason) oh, Editor huManitiEs JacoB ciafonE, Senior Editor isaBElla doW, Senior Editor laura casado, Editor EMily tang, Editor social sciEncEs sydnEy applE, Senior Editor MichEllE Kang, Senior Editor BEnJaMin fErri, Editor asad pasha, Editor natural sciEncEs david fu, Senior Editor JEssica Bolduc, Editor JunghWan KiM, Editor MEdia & puBlicity annE donnElly, Senior Editor MadElinE gEorgE, Assistant Editor WEB Editor MinKi hong, Senior Editor officE ManagEr Billy huBschMan faculty advisors Thanks We would like to thank Boston College, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Office of the Dean for the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences for the financial support that makes this issue possible. keywords: college; editor; elements; issue; journal cache: elements-9583.pdf plain text: elements-9583.txt item: #170 of 190 id: elements-9603 author: Howe, Emma title: Limitations of Secularization and Western Feminism In the Arab World: Religion, Culture, and Identity date: 2017 words: 7752 flesch: 44 summary: One such significant effect of the dominant “representa- tions” of Western feminism is its likeness to imperialism in its view of particular third world women. in order to adequately address this issue, it is crucial to exam- ine the context in Which these Western theories Were initially developed, taking into account the developmental and consequential failures of the “secularization the- sis,” as Well as the construction of Western feminism and its limitations in the mus- lim World. keywords: arab; berger; feminism; islam; islamic; muslim; new; religion; secularism; secularization; western; women; world cache: elements-9603.pdf plain text: elements-9603.txt item: #171 of 190 id: elements-9604 author: Park, Zackary Tajin title: Characterization of LL25X, a Newly Isolated Anti-SIV Monoclonal Antibody, to Determine Binding Specificity date: 2017 words: 5308 flesch: 65 summary: Ligation of LL25X into Backbone Vector pCEP4 DNA gel electrophoresis of 2 µL of the double digested backbone vector pCEP4 and 2 µL of the double digested LL25X PCR product was performed on 1% agarose gel for 1 hour. Western blotting also re- vealed that monoclonal SIVmac239 antibody LL25X binds specifically to ectodomain SIVmac239gp41 of Env glyco- protein SIVmac239gp140. keywords: dna; gel; kpni; ll25x; pcep4; sapi; vector cache: elements-9604.pdf plain text: elements-9604.txt item: #172 of 190 id: elements-9605 author: Sullivan, Caitlin M. title: An Economic Analysis of Incarcerating the Elderly date: 2017 words: 4908 flesch: 48 summary: The following table demonstrates the significantly lower instances of disruptive behavior among elderly inmates as opposed to various other categories of inmates.20 Although this elderly population has the lowest likelihood of exhibiting destructive behavior (to themselves or to others), this group is at a high risk for victimization within prison systems, second only to inmates with mental illnesses. Even with the advent of some of these early release programs, there are thousands of elderly inmates with no hopes of seeing freedom in the limited time on earth that they have left. keywords: age; costs; crime; incarceration; inmates; justice; prison; prisoners; release; sentences; states cache: elements-9605.pdf plain text: elements-9605.txt item: #173 of 190 id: elements-9606 author: Wills, Breck; Gan, Samina; Mindlin, Jordan; Sheerin, Patrick title: India to U.S. Migration Case Study date: 2017 words: 6093 flesch: 52 summary: So although there is room for some counteracting factors, there is an overall initial loss felt by India due to the emigration of high skilled workers to the United States.46 Possibly, the only way to reconcile this in their economy is if these In- dian immigrants were to return. Today Indian migrants are the number one recipients of temporary high skilled H-1B visas. keywords: brain; h-1b; immigrants; immigration; indian; percent; program; states; trump; u.s; united; workers cache: elements-9606.pdf plain text: elements-9606.txt item: #174 of 190 id: elements-9609 author: Cormier, Haley Sierra title: A Pageant Politicized: Women’s Liberation, Miss Black America and Intersectionality in 1968 date: 2017 words: 5856 flesch: 54 summary: The women’s liberation protest and Miss Black America thus individually garnered attention for their critiques of the official Miss America Pageant, but did the women in- volved in these contemporaneous protests (and, by exten- sion, other followers of their respective movements) sup- port each other’s goals? The fact that historical scholarship has been influenced by misrepresentative print media accounts of the 1968 women’s liberation and Miss Black America protests— accounts that arose, as I have demonstrated, through omission and framing—underscores the importance of considering journalistic conventions when analyzing press coverage as a primary source. keywords: america; black; black america; feminist; liberation; miss; miss america; pageant; protest; women cache: elements-9609.pdf plain text: elements-9609.txt item: #175 of 190 id: elements-9614 author: D'Altrui, Elizabeth Mary title: Bottle Water Bans: How can we curb the thirst for bottled water? date: 2017 words: 6758 flesch: 67 summary: Bottled water, for example, serves as the emergency source of drinking water when the public water system becomes contaminated.51 Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the utility must notify resi- dents of such contamination so that they can switch to bottled water or purify their tap water.52 For example, in Flint, Michigan, the city’s water supply was contaminated with “toxic levels of lead and iron,” making unfiltered wa- ter unsafe to drink.53 In an effort to help the community of Flint, organizations were sending shipments of bottled wa- ter. as the demand fOr bOttled water has increased, the damaging effects Of un-recy- cled plastics and the pOllutiOn created in the making Of the plastic bOttles have greatly harmed the planet. keywords: ban; beverages; bottled; consumption; health; ibid; plastic; policy; tap; university; washington; water cache: elements-9614.pdf plain text: elements-9614.txt item: #176 of 190 id: elements-9615 author: Coscia, Monica Lynne title: Justice, Truth, Crime, and Punishment: The Brothers Karamazov Jury Trial date: 2017 words: 4054 flesch: 57 summary: On the other, he expresses ambivalence towards Rus- sia’s movement in the direction of Europeanization, popu- lism, and intellectualism.2 Dostoevsky birthed The Brothers Karamazov in 1880 during this turbulence, just fourteen years after Czar Alexander II instituted a distinctly West- ern judicial system in Russia, which included public hear- ings and jury trials. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), 696. 23. keywords: dmitri; dostoevsky; ibid; karamazov; russia; trial; truth cache: elements-9615.pdf plain text: elements-9615.txt item: #177 of 190 id: elements-9616 author: Black, Sabrina B. title: Writing in a Surveillance State: Otherness in Christa Wolf’s What Remains date: 2017 words: 3247 flesch: 59 summary: In this way, the use of otherness in relation to the state reveals the dynamic of apprehension and unease that plagued GDR authors as a result of surveillance, impairing their exercise of moral authority. ”26 Life in a surveillance state has caused the narrator “The use of otherness in relation to the state reveals the dynamic of apprehension and unease that plagued GDR authors as a result of surveillance, impairing their exercise of moral authority. keywords: gdr; narrator; stasi; state; surveillance; wolf; writers cache: elements-9616.pdf plain text: elements-9616.txt item: #178 of 190 id: elements-9617 author: Baranko, Kyle title: Behavioral Economics at Point of Payment and its Implications in Buenos Aires, Hanoi, and Cape Town date: 2017 words: 3592 flesch: 43 summary: Residents of Buenos Aires, Hanoi, and Cape Town en- gaged in informal commercial transactions have done so out of necessity, not by choice; their plight to make ends meet through personal relationships and informal net- works is not a sign of empowerment but rather marginal- ization by globalization’s potent market and political forc- es. Lack of security services is the defining concern among merchants and consumers conducting commercial trans- actions in the former South African townships. keywords: author; economy; government; hanoi; level; payment; security; trust cache: elements-9617.pdf plain text: elements-9617.txt item: #179 of 190 id: elements-9623 author: Barnhardt, Carly title: Rethinking Images of Disability through Laura Swanson’s “Anti-Self-Portrait” date: 2017 words: 1757 flesch: 48 summary: Swanson resists traditional images of disability, and in do- ing so, avoids the role of “spectacle” in her own image and reverses the power relations of staring in photography, re- claiming what Garland-Thomson calls “the social ritual of staring at disability.”11 “Swanson resists traditional images of disability, and in doing so, avoids the role of ‘spectacle’ in her own image...” 29 Averting the gAze EndnoTEs 1. keywords: body; disability; garland; swanson cache: elements-9623.pdf plain text: elements-9623.txt item: #180 of 190 id: elements-9936 author: Wang, Betty title: Masthead and Editor's Note date: 2017 words: 1048 flesch: 39 summary: staff Editor-in-chiEf AnniE Kim mAnAging Editors sydnEy ApplE BEtty (yunqing) WAng dEputy Editors AlEssAndrA luEdEKing AndrEA riccA trEAsurEr JEssicA Bolduc lAyout Xizi (KElsEy) zhAng, Senior Editor ElisE hon, Senior Editor AsAd pAshA, Assistant Editor sEWon (JAson) oh, Editor yAhyA yusuf, Editor humAnitiEs JAcoB ciAfonE, Senior Editor isABEllA doW, Senior Editor JonEssA st. lEWis, Editor sociAl sciEncEs Billy huBschmAn, Senior Editor michEllE KAng, Senior Editor JAcquElinE chiu, Editor nAturAl sciEncEs dAvid fu, Senior Editor JunghWAn Kim, Editor JosEphinE pAndJi, Editor mEdiA & puBlicity rAchEl loos, Senior Editor JuliA BuBEn, Assistant Editor WEB Editors minKi hong, Senior Editor KEvin chEn, Assistant Editor fAculty Advisor JAson cAvAllAri Dear Readers, In light of the current political, social, and cultural turmoil in which many countries around the world find themselves, it has become increasingly im- portant for academic research to posit questions that strive for truth and progress. keywords: article; college; editor; elements; research cache: elements-9936.pdf plain text: elements-9936.txt item: #181 of 190 id: elements-9937 author: Wang, Betty title: Table of Contents date: 2017 words: 300 flesch: -242 summary: Contents TRIAL AND ERROR: THE MALLEABILITY OF TRUTH IN THE CONVICTION OF DMITRI KARAMAZOV Monica Coscia Contrasting truth and justice in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamzov 11 19 27 31 THE POINT OF PAYMENT: A COMPARISON OF COMMERCIAL BEHAVIORS ACROSS REGIONS Kyle Baranko Investigating how informal systems of exchange perpetuate inequality in Buenos Aires, Hanoi, and Cape Town AVERTING THE GAZE: AN ANTI-SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE DISABLED FEMALE BODY Carly Barnhardt Reimagining traditional representations of disability in Laura Swanson's Peggy Lee BRAIN CIRCULATION: A CASE STUDY OF HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRATION FROM INDIA Samina Gan, Jordan Mindlin, Patrick Sheerin, Breck Wills Exploring the mutually beneficial nature of the H-1B visa program for both the United States and India 71 65 53 43 A PAGEANT POLITICIZED: THE RISE OF INTERSECTIONAL ACTIVISM IN 1968 Haley Cormier Analyzing how print media contributed to the divide between the Women’s Liberation and Black Nationalism movements of the 1960s CURB THE THIRST: EFFICACY OF BOTTLED WATER BANS IN REDUCING PLASTIC WASTE Elizabeth D'Altrui Analyzing the economic costs and benefits of bottled water consumption as well as policy options to disincentiv- ize plastic use WRITING IN A SURVEILLANCE STATE: OTHERNESS IN CHRISTA WOLF’S WHAT REMAINS Sabrina Black Discussing a totalitarian state's ability to alienate the artist in the context of East Germany THE ROAD TO A CURE: CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW HIV ANTIBODY Zackary Park et al. Elucidating the properties of LL25X to further development of an effective HIV-AIDS Vaccine 91 CONFRONTING CULTURAL IMPERIALISM: LIMITATIONS OF SECULARIZATION AND WESTERN FEMINISM IN THE MUSLIM WORLD Emma Howe Challenging the applicability and universality of the Secularization Thesis AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES LIST OF ARTWORK 105 110 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF INCARNATED ELDERLY Caitlin Sullivan Exposing America’s inefficient incarnated elderly 81 keywords: contents trial; water cache: elements-9937.pdf plain text: elements-9937.txt item: #182 of 190 id: elements-9939 author: Wang, Betty title: Author Biographies and Artwork Credits date: 2017 words: 1847 flesch: 44 summary: cosT-BeneFiT analysis © Curtis-Murphy et al., via The Evans School Review, https://depts.washington.edu/esreview/wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2014/07/2014-Ban-the-Bottle.pdf. 57 54 9 an artistiC rePresentation of the arabiC Word for she “hiya” ©Mahmoud Tamman, via Behance, https://www.behance.net/MT90.96 university of vermont Per CaPita shiPments of bottled beverages ©Berman et al., via American Journal of Public Health, http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/ AJPH.2015.302593. via Policonomics, http://www.policonomics.com/pigouvian-tax/. PerCentage of various beverages shiPPed to 8 CamPus loCations ©Berman et al., via American Journal of Public Health, http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/ AJPH.2015.302593. keywords: april; college; commons; economics; studies; wikimedia cache: elements-9939.pdf plain text: elements-9939.txt item: #183 of 190 id: elements-9950 author: Lester McSweeney, Maura title: Setting the World Aflame: Divestment, Ethics, and Jesuit Identity at Boston College date: 2018 words: 6369 flesch: 59 summary: Church Teaching on Climate Change Now that the apostolic constitution of Catholic universities has been laid out, I will examine the papal encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home and its implications for a university like Boston College. The norms of canon law applicable to Catholic universities and the ethical investment guidelines that were formerly on the Boston College endowment web page are both salient elements of Father Monan’s legacy at Boston College and of his contribution to the Catholic church as an institution. keywords: boston; boston college; catholic; college; divestment; fossil; fuel; heights; ibid; universities; university cache: elements-9950.pdf plain text: elements-9950.txt item: #184 of 190 id: elements-9951 author: Shen, Weija Vicky title: Oppression and Suppression: The Lingering Controversy Surrounding the Meaning of the Battle of Okinawa in Japanese Memory date: 2018 words: 7248 flesch: 55 summary: Kyle Ikeda, Okinawa War memory: transgenerational trauma and the war fiction of Medoruma Shun, Routledge, (Abingdon and New York, 2014), 1-3. 39. By looking specifically at the making of an “Okinawa Spirit” in the Corner Stone of Peace, this chapter hopes to present the conflicting nature of Okinawa war memory—hence, Okinawa identity—through an analysis of Okinawa writer Medoruma Shun’s Droplet in the context of the 90s “memory boom” and its repercussions in the post-memory revisionist era. keywords: asia; battle; history; identity; issue; japan; japanese; journal; medoruma; memories; memory; new; okinawa; ota; pacific; peace; war cache: elements-9951.pdf plain text: elements-9951.txt item: #185 of 190 id: elements-9954 author: Casey, Myles Francis title: Consciousness in Re-Presentation: Towards a Cross-Textual Definition of “Différance” date: 2018 words: 2846 flesch: 46 summary: différance and the authority of pres- ence Most famously presented in his aforementioned essay, “Différance” (1968), Derrida’s articulation of différance is ubiquitous throughout the large cannon of work that he produced over the course of his academic career. This shorT piece aTTempTs To offer a parTial eluciDaTion on some key Themes of Jacques DerriDa’s 1968 essay, “Différance.” keywords: consciousness; derrida; différance; levinas; presence cache: elements-9954.pdf plain text: elements-9954.txt item: #186 of 190 id: elements-9955 author: Stone, Lindsay title: Food for Thought: How Food and Economics Intersect in Rural Ecuador date: 2018 words: 5546 flesch: 46 summary: The availability of both new foodstuffs and new socioeco- nomic hierarchies, which were established after the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, also led to a decreased con- sumption of many traditional foods. Ultimately, as a result of socioeconomic influences and Ecuador’s history of colonization, repression, and class- stratification, food in Ecuadorian society can be seen to function in a semiotic manner, endowed with meaning according to cultural signification and its dissimilarity from other foods. keywords: camacho; country; diet; ecuador; food; levels; malnutrition; population; rural; sierra; weismantel cache: elements-9955.pdf plain text: elements-9955.txt item: #187 of 190 id: elements-9956 author: Morales, Luis A title: New England Watersheds: A Data Driven Portrait of Water Pollution in the North Eastern United States date: 2018 words: 5503 flesch: 66 summary: A line plot of average monthly silica levels in Hubbard Brook stream water from WS6. Its original purpose was studying the effects of acid rain on stream waters and their surrounding terrestrial environ- ments. keywords: chloride; levels; line; r^2; sodium; value; water cache: elements-9956.pdf plain text: elements-9956.txt item: #188 of 190 id: elements-9957 author: Noonan, Regina Theresa title: Gendered Terrorism: The Link Between Sex and Organized Violence date: 2018 words: 5387 flesch: 56 summary: ScholarS cite religion, foreign occupation, economic deStitution, and lack of opportunity aS reaSonS for terroriSm, but gender and maSculinity are nearly abSent from the converSation. examining the taliban in pakiStan and afghaniStan and the proviSional iriSh republican army (pira) in northern ireland demonStrateS how maSculinity eStabliSheS the phySical SpaceS that radicalize men and exclude women. keywords: gender; ibid; madrassas; masculinity; men; pakistan; radicalization; society; taliban; terrorism; women cache: elements-9957.pdf plain text: elements-9957.txt item: #189 of 190 id: elements-9962 author: Pressman, Fisher Wallace title: The Art of Citizenship: Roman Cultural Identity in Cicero’s Pro Archia Poeta date: 2018 words: 3600 flesch: 54 summary: While this does not necessarily detract from his overall dis- cussion on what makes someone culturally Roman, one must consider the type of person Cicero believed capable of being Roman. In the beginning of the oration, Cicero focuses on cultural and literary pursuits to broaden Roman cultural identity and emphasizes the bonds between the artes and humanitas. keywords: archia; artes; cicero; citizenship; humanitas; identity; literature; poeta; pro; roman cache: elements-9962.pdf plain text: elements-9962.txt item: #190 of 190 id: elements-9965 author: Field, Isabella title: Reading Between the Bars: Brain Science Suggests New Considerations for the Legal System date: 2018 words: 4683 flesch: 43 summary: Even in situations where a defendant on trial appears irrefutably guilty, society should still be responsible for routinely examining biological and/or environmental factors that may have contributed to predisposition to criminal behavior. This experimental evidence suggests that people who display characteristics associated with an- tisocial personality disorder have an increased risk for criminal behavior, possibly due to their lack of empathy. keywords: april; behavior; brain; empathy; individuals; justice; people; society; system cache: elements-9965.pdf plain text: elements-9965.txt