In this paper, I seek to examine this darkness, this messiness and confusion, and to uncover how far it stretches: how much it reveals and how much it hides. I understand that this is a complex project, and I understand that I...
This article is based on a content analysis of the 17,811 Instagram posts made by all 534 members of the United States Congress who were seated for the duration of the first 6 months of the 115th session. I find that women are...
It is fair to assume that the average American knows how to use the library. They know how to maneuver inside, whether to borrow a book, access a desktop computer, sign up for a free group class, pay off a fine, or simply enjoy...
Redbone, an eminently successful 1970s Native American rock band, emerged in conversation with the cultural nationalist movements that produced what would become Native American and Indigenous studies and Chicanx studies. In...
When Hermann Broch began the work of completing and publishing his first major literary work, the trilogy Die Schlafwandler, in the early 1930s, French and English were the two languages into which he wanted his work to be...
In March of 2022, the Supreme Court addressed the “state secrets privilege,” which the government has repeatedly invoked in the post-9/11 era. This privilege is analogous to the common law attorney/client privilege, but courts...
Readers are introduced to the structure of the book, including a discussion of the topics in each chapter, as well as how the book may be integrated in an introductory physics course.
Chapter 2 serves as an introduction to the GlowScript VPython environment. The student is shown how to enter GlowScript via a browser. The student is asked to create simple programs, including ones that print, make shapes, and...
The Tuya-Kawdy region of northern British Columbia is well established as a place where glaciation and volcanism overlapped in space. However, no modern work has integrated observations from the region’s volcanic and glacial...
In chapter 3, the student is asked to program the motion of a ball with constant velocity, to plot the position with respect to time of the ball moving with constant velocity, and to simulate the motion of a ball undergoing a...
In chapter 4, students are introduced to the mathematics behind the Euler method, as well as the coding involved. Students are given code and then asked to modify it.
As higher education faces a complex and ambiguous future, it is imperative that institutions are well equipped with a cache of competent, talented and committed administrative staff members, and we need to be disciplined and...
In chapter 5, students are introduced to the kinematic equations describing an object undergoing a constant acceleration. Students are asked to write code simulating the flight of a projectile over level ground and sloping...
In chapter 6, students are introduced to the idea of a central force, the idea of a instantaneous acceleration (as opposed to average acceleration) and using the Euler method to determine the position and velocity of the...
In chapter 7, students are introduced to the concepts of center of mass, the impulse-momentum theorem, and conservation of energy. This is done by considering a binary star system, mass-spring system, and scattering in the...
In chapter 8, students consider again the motion of a comet around the Sun, but now consider torque and angular momentum. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation is introduced, as well as the cross product and how to code it in...
In chapter 9, students are introduced to the concept of Gravitational Assist, which is used to send probes to the outer planets and out of the solar system. Frames of reference are considered, as well as the energy of the probe...
This document provides a conclusion to VPython for Introductory Mechanics by Windsor A. Morgan and Lars Q. English. It includes the book’s bibliography as well as information about the authors.
The eukaryotic bZIP transcription factors are critical players in organismal response to environmental challenges. In fungi, the production of secondary metabolites (SMs) is hypothesized as one of the responses to environmental...
Cayo Cochino Pequeño (CCP) is a western Caribbean island with a surface area of only 0.64 km2 in the Cayos Cochinos Archipelago, Department of Islas de la Bahía, Honduras. It is relatively ecologically complex, with high...
Fetuses of many species, including humans, breathe during development. This fetal breathing aids in lung development, strengthens respiratory muscles, and is posited to fine-tune the neural circuitry that drives breathing....
For more information on the published version, visit Project MUSE's Website., Los Desheredados = The Destitute ; Alba = Dawn ; Tristeza = Sadness ; Alma = Soul ; Tiziano = Tiziano ; Dalí = Dali ; Kandinsky = Kandinsky, and...
For more information on the published version, visit Project MUSE's Website., Past, Mariana F. [Selected Poems by Davide Trame.] Serena: Poetry, Art and Criticism = Poesia, Arte y Critica 2 (2007): 38-49., and After = Después ;...
Past, Mariana F. [Selected Poems by Nathalie Handal.] Serena: Poetry, Art and Criticism = Poesia, Arte y Critica 2 (2008): 118-39., Tonight = Esta noche ; Blue Hours = Horas azules ; In Search of Midnight = En busca de la...
Past, Mariana F. [Selected Poems by Salah Al-Hamdani.] Serena: Poetry, Art and Criticism = Poesia, Arte y Critica 1 (2007): 176-91., For more information on the published version, visit Project MUSE's Website., and Distributif...
For more information on the published version, visit Project MUSE's Website., Past, Mariana F. [Selected Poems by Steve Gehrke.] Sirena: Poetry, Art and Criticism = Poesia, Arte y Critica 1 (2009): 66-93., and Michelangelo's...
Winston, Robert P. 'A Duty to Care': Denise Mina's Garnethill Series. Clues: A Journal of Detection 26, no.2 (2008): 64-78. and Social institutions like the medical professions and the police should protect women, but Denise...
For more information on the published version, visit Mathematical Association of America's (MAA) Website., Richeson, David. A-Tweeting We Will Go: Building a Professional Network with Twitter. MAA Focus 37, no. 3 (2017):...
For many Oklahomans, Lake Thunderbird is familiar landscape. A manmade body of water in the center of the state, this reservoir and the surrounding forests have drawn naturalists, boater, bicyclists, campers, fishermen, and...
There have been many attempts to pin down exactly what makes certain things humorous. The goal of this paper is to review some of the main theories of humor, and to offer an alternative theory of what makes things funny. That...
Farrell, Amy. Academia's Anti-Fat Problem. Bitch Media (blog). June 6, 2013. https://bitchmedia.org/post/academias-anti-fat-problem, "Dear obese PhD applicants: if you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't...
Dan Schubert is a professor of Sociology at Dickinson College., For more information on the published version, visit Amazon's Website., Brown, Richard Harvey and J. Daniel Schubert. "Academic Knowledge and Political Power in...
This study examines the impact of service-learning on undergraduate students enrolled in Social Foundations of Education at a private liberal arts college in the mid-Atlantic region. Findings suggest that students developed a...
In late 1949 city officials stretched a banner that read 'SEVASTOPOLIANS! What have you done for the restoration of your hometown ' across one of the most heavily travelled streets in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. It...
The relationship between acculturation and health behavior change is complex. Little research has focused on acculturation and perceptions of health-related risks. This study investigated acculturation and risk perceptions of...
Autobiographical memories are never isolated episodes; they are embedded in a network that is continually updated and prediction driven. We present autobiographical memory as a meaning-driven process that includes both...
Jackson, David P., and Ming-Hua Chang. Acoustic Levitation and the Acoustic Radiation Force. American Journal of Physics 89, no. 4 (2021): 383-392. https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1119/10.0002764, For more information...
Across the West and Toward the North compares how photographers in Norway and the United States represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed,...
For more information on the published version, visit Taylor & Francis Website., How or in virtue of what does any one particular action differ from another? Available views on the issue of action individuation tend to emphasize...
Structural and geomorphic analyses of the Fila Costeña thrust belt in southwest Costa Rica indicate active thrusting within the inner forearc. The Fila Costeña exposes three major thrust faults that imbricate the late Tertiary...
Inquiry-based undergraduate laboratories provide the opportunity to engage students in a research experience that improves scientific thinking, but such activities can be difficult to develop and implement due to limited time...
Published as: Erlingsson, Úlfar, and John MacCormick. Ad hoc Extensibility and Access Control. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 40, no. 3 (2006): 93-101. This author post-print is made available on Dickinson Scholar...
For more information on the published version, visit Macmillan's Website. Address has also been published as: -Su, Adrienne. Address. In American Poetry: The Next Generation, edited by Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels,...
Weight stigma diminishes wellbeing and contributes to inequities across multiple domains. A 2020 report by the UK eating disorder charity Beat highlighted several ways that obesity prevention public health campaigns can...
Bair, Sarah. Addressing Writing Standards in a Social Studies Context: A Unit Newspaper Project. Journal of the Middle States Council for the Social Studies 1, no. 2 (2005): 19-23. and The article discusses the effects of...
For more information on the published version, visit MAA's (Mathematical Association of America) Website., Bowen, Jennifer, Mark Kozek, Pamela Pierce, and Jennifer Schaefer. Advice for First-Year Seminar Instructors. In...
I focus in this article on Florentine texts from the sixteenth century in which the authors describe intense affective responses to the Last Judgment (and Michelangelo the artist), and the relationship these responses bear to...
For more information on the published version, The Poetry Foundation's Website. and Su, Adrienne. After the Dinner Party. Poetry Magazine December (2016): 256....
Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson College., Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s Spectator markets itself to readers as a diurnal regimen of moral and spiritual self-formation: by consuming the paper each...
Afya- Centro holístico da mulher (Afya- Women’s Holistic Center) is holistic healing center and non-governmental organization located in the neighborhood of Alto do Mateus, João Pessoa, state of Paraíba, Brazil. The...
Fung, Helene H., Yuan Wan Ho, Rui Zhang, Xin Zhang, Kimberly A. Noels, Kim-Pong Tam. Age Differences in Personal Values: Universal or Cultural Specific? Psychology and Aging 31, no. 3 (2016): 272-286., For more information on...
Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and...
Parties are central agents of democratic representation. The literature assumes that this function is an automatic consequence of social structure and/or a product of incentives derived from electoral competition. However,...
Agricultural lands are vital to food security, which is imperative to the “no global hunger” objective of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Global food security is at risk from climatic change related increased...
The scholarship surrounding social change within movements is largely geared toward studying heated moments of contestation and their ability to spark social and systemic alternatives. But in order to fully understand their...
The weeds that are present in the landscape of the Dickinson College Certified Organic Farm, play a vital role in the agroecosystem that is created through human manipulations. The farm managers spend a great deal of time...
This paper tested competing arguments that foreign aid can substantially aggravate the patterns of underdevelopment in previous British colonies. I followed the Center for Global Development in taking into account Amartya Sen’s...
Philosophers, theologians, and average people have debated the definition of a person for a long time. This thesis explores the ideas of an ethnic group that has not been adequately explored. The Akan people from southern and...
For more information on the published version, visit Routledge's Website., Commins, David D. “Al-Manār and Popular Religion in Syria, 1898-1920.” In Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World: Transmission, Transformation,...
If you're a fan of the British TV show Sherlock, you might be interested to hear that the lead actor in that show, Benedict Cumberbatch, will be starring as the legendary English scientist Alan Turing in a movie to be...
Tullio Pagano is a professor of Italian at Dickinson College., Introduction in English (by the translator):
Pirandello in this short story portrays his mockery of the blind following industrialization. With that we also see...
This paper reports on telephone surveys of bar and restaurant managers in Cumberland and Perry Counties (Pennsylvania) regarding their practices around the promotion and sale of alcoholic beverages. Survey questions focused on...
Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM). Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring Annual Report 2017 (2017) . and The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) is a community-based science organization housed...
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, as European nations consolidated their empires across much of the world, humanitarians began to debate what separated free labor from coercion. There was little agreement...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Ethos's Website., Donna Bickford is the Director of the Women's and Gender...
For more information on the published version, visit Archetype Publication's Website., Thibodeau, Alyson M., John T. Chesley, Joaquin Ruiz, David J. Killick, and Arthur Vokes. "An Alternative Approach to the Prehispanic...
Infestation with the gastrointestinal nematode Haemonchus contortus in small ruminants, such as sheep and goats, can cause farmers severe economic losses and endanger animal welfare. Adult H. contortus attach to the stomach of...
Crispin Sartwell is an American philosopher, an iconoclast, and an anarchist. He also teaches philosophy, political philosophy, and art theory and aesthetics at Dickinson College. He was a student of Richard Rorty and has been...
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Erich Korngold turned to writing two works that he hoped would serve as a bridge back to his former world of concert music. The first was his Violin Concerto, which he had...
The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men , Spider-Man , and Smallville in the early 2000s through the...
A traveling salesman in 1923 conned the Osage community and the federal government into giving him thousands of dollars to start an American Indian Steamship Company - he almost got away with it., Truden, John. "The American...
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., Bair, Sarah. American Sports, 1910-1919. In Encyclopedia of Sports in America: A History from Foot Races to Extreme Sports, edited by Murry R. Nelson,...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Marine Corps University Press's Website., When Barack Obama designated the...
The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is...
This article explores the role of memory within Schoenberg's Gedanke Manuscripts and its musical encoding in A Survivor From Warsaw, his 1947 Holocaust cantata. In the Gedanke Manuscripts human memory serves as analogy for...
English, Lars Q., A. Zampetaki, P.G. Kevrekidis, K. Skowronski, C.B. Fritz, and Saidou Abdoulkary. Analysis and Observation of Moving Domain Fronts in a Ring of Coupled Electronic Self-Oscillators. Chaos 27 (2017): e103125....
A soap bubble on the end of a cylindrical tube is seen to deflate as the higher pressure air inside the bubble escapes through a tube. We perform an experiment to measure the radius of the slowly deflating bubble and observe...
Dickinson College Health Studies Senior Seminar students partnered with Sadler Health Center (Carlisle, PA) to identify barriers that patients face in keeping their children up to date with vaccinations and wellness visits. The...
Coal-tar-based sealcoats have been identified as a significant source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollutants. The concentrations and source profiles of PAHs in seal-coat samples from two commercial lots in...