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School as a Potential Support System: The K-12 Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated People

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2024-April-15
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Schools do not support all students and sometimes contain policies that actively harm them. It is known that the school-to-prison pipeline, zero-tolerance policies, and other punitive measures impede students’ school experiences. At the same time, there are alternatives such as...

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Surreal Dollhouse

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2024-May-12
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"Surreal Dollhouse," by Jordyn Panzer is an immersive art installation exploring themes of identity and psychological introspection. Through a series of interconnected dollhouse rooms, Panzer engages viewers with surreal, dream-like elements that challenge perceptions of self and reality. The installation...

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Surreal Dollhouse

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2024-May-12
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"Surreal Dollhouse," by Jordyn Panzer is an immersive art installation exploring themes of identity and psychological introspection. Through a series of interconnected dollhouse rooms, Panzer engages viewers with surreal, dream-like elements that challenge perceptions of self and reality. The installation...

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The Bitter Cost of Sweetness: Terricide, Extractivism, and the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic in El Salvador's Sugar Cane Industry

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2025-April-30
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Chronic Kidney Disease of non-traditional causes is a major public health crisis in El Salvador, a leading global producer of sugarcane. The disease disproportionately affects agricultural workers without prior histories of diabetes or hypertension. This project theorizes that the epidemic...

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The Pressures of the Profession: Why Do Teachers Choose to Stay or Leave

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2024-April-20
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This qualitative study examines teacher satisfaction and teacher retention, and how that
affects teachers’ reasons to stay or leave the profession. The research question that guided my
study was: “How do the pressures of the profession affect teachers’ decisions to...

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The Pressures of the Profession: Why Do Teachers Choose to Stay or Leave

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2024-April-20
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This qualitative study examines teacher satisfaction and teacher retention, and how that
affects teachers’ reasons to stay or leave the profession. The research question that guided my
study was: “How do the pressures of the profession affect teachers’ decisions to...

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The Voice: Humanity's Unique Medium

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2024-April-19
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This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the human voice in the context of our current technological landscape. Through technologies such as music-based vocal pitch correction (AutoTune, Melodyne), and vocal synthesis (VOCALOID, SynthesizerV, Emvoice) the voice is seen as...

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The Voice: Humanity's Unique Medium

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2024-April-19
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This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the human voice in the context of our current technological landscape. Through technologies such as music-based vocal pitch correction (AutoTune, Melodyne), and vocal synthesis (VOCALOID, SynthesizerV, Emvoice) the voice is seen as...

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Word Play: An Interactive Response to Loneliness

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2024-May-12
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Like most people, I’ve struggled with loneliness and everything that comes with it. The depression, the anxiety, the social ineptitude, the non-interaction; I’ve seen it all, babey, and I wanted to make art in response. Not art that wallowed in...

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“Epistolary Mediation”: An Excursus on Lovelace’s Four Pronouncements of the Parenthesis in Letter 211 of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady (1747-48)

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2023-December-13
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