Editorial Spring 2022

Abstract

My Project, The Celebrity Gangster: Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, will seek to understand the motives behind his goals and what he accomplished during his lifetime. A strong focus of the paper will be on the background and the rather exquisite life that Bugsy led. Bugsy’s wild and unpredictable life will provide as a crucial point of understanding as to how a mobster/gangster lived. Depictions within film/tv shows have often shaped most people’s understandings of mobsters and have formed countless myths. I will be utilizing various sources such as the Moffett Library, digital libraries, databases, and digitalized newspapers. The Moffett Library will provide a large amount of scholarly material related to the subject of crime in the twentieth century. Digital libraries will allow access to material not immediately available on campus. Both sources will be consistently used throughout the research paper as it will provide the core understanding of Bugsy along with this era of crime. The main focuses will be to provide an understandable yet enthralling paper that examines a point in American history that is often glossed over by movies and tv shows. perfect there is much more to be uncovered to fully understand the life of Bugsy. Bugsy retained a significant amount during his life over the decades would become polluted with misinformation. will a clear and concise understanding of the celebrity gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. and the design of preparation for a professional recording of solo piano music that heightens our awareness of human rights and social justice issues. This presentation will provide a verbal summary of her work plus a performance chosen from compositions selected for the recording. This research examines the relationship between consumers’ engagement in moral grandstanding behaviors -- the use of public discourse about morality- and/or politically-laden topics to self-aggrandize -- and their experience of downstream conflict. Over two studies employing the use of both experimental design and linguistic inquiry word count (LIWC), this research provides support for the context in which moral grandstanding is likely to occur and establishes the status-seeking motivation that underlies moral grandstanding behaviors as the mechanism through which grandstanders’ increased experiences of downstream conflict occur. Finally, this research provides evidence that consumers can self-regulate their moral grandstanding behaviors through interventions that provide them with education about moral grandstanding and its deleterious effects and asks them to consider alternative behaviors that might have a greater impact on the morality- and politically-laden topics about which they are passionate. (IRB: 20100801) propose a new design of a the and constraints of a horizontal wind The new design for a The aim of this project is to design a robust network of ground-based and air-based autonomous vehicles capable of efficiently accomplishing pseudo-intelligent tasks, including path-finding, obstacle avoidance, and collaborative problem-solving. The robots are two small four-wheeled robots and one quadcopter. Both ground and air vehicles are equipped with optical cameras in order to accept visual data from the environment and will be controlled using small, Raspberry Pi microcomputers. The network that this project designs is one where quadcopter will tracks the area of operation of the two robots, providing a top-down view of the field and revealing the locations of any possible obstacles, or other points of interest. A top-down view of the entire landscape provides significantly more information about the area than just the view from the perspective of the robots. The goal is to have the quadcopter communicate the information from this top-down view to the robots in order to facilitate the solving of a specific problem on the ground. This project will develop this network by first creating a simple simulation environment for the two robots with a top-down view. This simulation environment would be used for the researchers to solve these path-finding or obstacle avoidance problems by writing or applying algorithms on their own. Using the simulation environment, the researchers will apply a form of machine learning called reinforcement learning to train artificial intelligence (A.I.) agents to navigate these problems on their own at an acceptable level of efficiency. Objective: How might we as pioneers design a wagon with working wheels that can hold 5 lbs and travel 10 feet or more? Our 5th grade students here at Fain Elementary dove into the engineering design process to create a working model of a wagon used during western movement travel back in the 1800’s. In reading we studied about he western expansion and how the pioneers survived during this transition period. In science we studied weather patterns and how this affected their travel as all they had were their wagons for cover. In math the students studied geometric shapes and how they could utilize certain shapes with their belongings to be able to fit into their wagon as they only had little room to carry all of their personal belongings including food and furniture. A lot of thought process went into adding all the additional factors into this project. Working collaboratively with their groups they will complete this process and be able to present their knowledge, trials, errors and successes. The purpose of this study is to analyze rhetoric used by Latine to protest gendered cultural expectations and double standards within their families and to create a documentary-style podcast that makes these findings legible to a broader audience. These gendered expectations and double standards are upheld through machismo and marianismo. By highlighting the Latine experience with gender roles, it brings personal acknowledgment to Latines feeling powerless This research into teaching practices of writing educators began a decade ago and has explored different questions each year. To explore the question “Who’s Included?” we created a web based survey and distributed it by email through the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) mailing list; two AEJMC divisions list servs; three Brazilian academic organizations: Intercom, Compós, and SBPJor; the Chilean Association of Communication Research; and the Latin Association of Communication Research. We are using mixed-methods data analysis, consisting of descriptive statistics for closed-ended questions and thematic analysis for open-ended questions. We started by importing survey responses into NVivo and are in the process of coding them to see which areas of diversity are receiving attention from the professors. So far, race and ethnicity are the most reported areas with almost double the next closest frequency of mentions. Gender is second, specifically women and transgender writers and topics, and LGBTQ+ is the third most mentioned. There are multiple other areas reported such as economic status, religious affiliation (or, specifically, no religious affiliation), disabilities, immigrants, migrants, violence, and war. Our findings indicate that survey respondents see gaps in the diversity of their curriculum and that they are working to fill those gaps. Professors gave examples of writings and writers they are including in their curriculum and they shared ideas and program changes they are implementing in their classrooms. in context of mathematics pedagogy and content. PSTs to engage in such practice, PSTs must have mathematics methods courses that enable them to learn about and build on the cultural assets and identities that students bring to the classroom (Association of Mathematics Teacher 2017; One way to recognize culture in mathematical studies is by integrating multicultural children’s li terature to make connections between mathematics and students’ cultural experiences (Mendoza & Reese, 2001). The culturally relevant tasks encourage student engagement and participation through connections between mathematics and students’ cultural experie nces and inclusion of diverse student populations. This project thus aims to enhance educational experiences for PSTs by using multicultural picture books that give voice and agency to characters of color, engaging preservice teachers in giving children from diverse backgrounds messages of resiliency, creativity and strength situated in the context of mathematics. The research question for the study is: What are elementary PSTs’ experiences integrating multicultural literature with mathematical concepts to design culturally relevant mathematical tasks? Using an action research methodology and open coding, the results of the study demonstrate PSTs’ growth in awareness of and confidence in using multicultural texts to explore mathematical concepts along with their understanding of how the tasks elicited culturally relevant mathematical thinking with targeted concepts (e.g., multiplication, geometry, patterns). an is to a walking pattern trajectory in the workspace to the to the target joint based on an ideal human walking pattern scenario. To initiate the control experiments, a stand-alone feedback control system is also designed using two DC-motors with built-in encoders, a motor driver with dual motor speed control capability, and the Arduino microcontroller to implement a simple PID control algorithm. Plans toward the controlled, closed-loop operation are based on the initial performance results achieved with the new prototype, and possible improvement areas are addressed for the future work. project the purpose of designing a clutch and shifting mechanism for a formula-style car drive train. The project of the design and manufacturing of a full car The current study proposes the idea of a semi-automatic clutching system together with a mechanical gear shifting system. The concept is that while the gas pedal is being pushed down until a certain an