MJUR Issues

Editorial Board:

• Savannah Ball, Copy Editor
• Jamie Donahue, Operations Editor
• Logan Evans, Copy Editor
• Matthew Franciscovich, Co-Secretary
• Sobhi Kazmouz, Copy Editor
• Gunnar Leaf, Copy Editor
• Lily Lindner, Secretary
• Ashlyn Maher, Copy Editor
• Zoe Meyer, Publicity Editor
• Grant Miller, Assoc. Student Editor
• Luna Noofoory, Design Editor
• Hadley Smithhisler, Assoc. Editor Mentor
• Shannon Wilbourne, Assoc. Student Editor
• Hunter Wollwert, Coordinating Editor

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• Learning and Grade Orientation in Undergraduate Students
  • Kailey Meyer, Natalie Homa, and Kate Marley, Doane University, 2018

• Effect of a Life Skills-based Substance Abuse Prevention Curriculum on Social Competence in the Afterschool Setting
  • Je’Lynn Tiberi-Ramos, Truman State University, 2020

• Reflections on the Mainstreaming of Intersectionality: Critical Engagement and New Visions
  • Ian Seerung, Tufts University, 2020

• Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities in Alajuela, Costa Rica and Illinois, United States: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Sophia Slocum, Monmouth College, 2018

• Religiosity and Altruism: Exploring Religiosity’s Impact on the Altruistic Motivations behind Prosocial Behaviors
  • Nicola Etter, Cornell College, 2019

• The Effect of Sexism Exposure on Women’s Narrative Memories
  • Emily N. Odermatt, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2018

• The Doctor of the Rights of Man
  • Ian Armbruster, Monmouth College, 2019

• Write in Duggan for Mayor, but not on City Walls: Revanchist Responses to Graffiti in Detroit
  • Kirsten Walters, Carleton College, 2019

• A Physician’s Role: An Examination of the Patient-Physician Relationship
  • Rachel Jenkins, University of Kansas, 2018

Advisory Board:

• Francisco Angeles, Ph.D.
• Andre Audette, Ph.D.
• Marsha Dopheide, Ph.D.
• Hayley Hawthorne, Ph.D.
• Judi Kessler, Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary, Ph.D.
• Trevor Richards, Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts, M.Ed.
• Michelle Holschuh Simmons, Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig, Ph.D.

Amjad Karkout, MJUR Staff Support

Editorial Board:

• Isaac Willis, Coordinating Editor
• Madeline Dohleman, Copy Editor
• Jamie Donahue, Copy Editor
• Logan Evans, Assoc. Student Editor
• Daniel Hintzke, Operations Editor
• Amjad Karkout, Design Editor
• Lily Lindner, Copy Editor
• Stephanie Saey, Copy Editor
• Sophia Slocum, Publicity Editor
• Hadley Smithhisler, Secretary and Assoc. Editor Mentor
• Nhung Vu, Design Editor
• Haley Willits, Copy Editor
• Hunter Wollwert, Copy Editor

Front Matter:

• Front matter

Articles:

• “Competent, Capable, and Practically Dressed”: The Representation of Women in the Assassin’s Creed Series
  Stephen J. Fishbune, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, 2018
• The Enriching Possibilities of Mobile Translation: A Departure from Prevailing Theories
  Megan DeCleene, Lawrence University, 2017
• Limitations of Second-generation Korean Americans’ Ethnic Options: Strategy, Labor, and Reward
  Jinna Kim, Grinnell College, 2017
• Beloved: The Physical Embodiment of Psychological Trauma
  Janeen Selfridge, Duquesne University, 2019
• Make Syria Great Again? A Theoretical Case for the Transnational Cultural Transmission of Trump Support among Arab Americans
  Elias Shammas, Monmouth College, 2017
• Love as Divine Gift in Kierkegaard and Pieper: A Phenomenological Analysis
  Rashad Rehman, Western University, 2019
• Diversionary Theory of War: Levels of Domestic Conflict and External Use of Force
  Sylvie (Huahua) Zhong, Carleton College, 2019

Advisory Board:

• Francisco Angeles, Ph.D.
• Andre Audette, Ph.D.
• Jonathan Coley, Ph.D.
• Marsha Dopheide, Ph.D.
• Hayley Hawthorne, Ph.D.
• Judi Kessler, Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary, Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts, M.Ed.
• Michelle Holschuh Simmons, Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig, Ph.D.

Editorial Board:

• Rachel Witzig, Coordinating Editor
• Kelci Foss, Copy Editor
• Daniel Hintzke, Copy Editor
• Abrafi Osei-Kofi, Copy Editor
• Diana Rubi, Copy Editor
• Stephanie Saey, Copy Editor
• Sophia Slocum, Copy Editor
• Riley Van Velsor, Copy Editor
• Haley Willits, Copy Editor
• Isaac Willis, Publicity Editor
• Sarah Lang, Publications Editor
• Cole Downey, Secretary and Treasurer
• Hadley Smithhisler, Assoc. Student Editor

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• Hume’s Pride or Our Prejudice? A New Take on Hume’s Love of Fame
  Nathan Porter, University of Utah, 2017
• Concerning Power: An Exploration of Character and Leadership in J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
  Brittany Andrews, Crown College, 2017
• MacIntyre’s Dependent Rational Animals: A Justificatory Framework for an Impoverished Moral Culture
  Kayla Morrow, Mount Saint Mary’s University, 2017
• Addressing the Inanimate: Apostrophic Address in W.S. Graham’s “Lines on Roger Hilton’s Watch”
  Garrett Jones, University of Central Missouri, 2017
• Depression and Purpose in Life among the War-Affected Population in Syria
  Hind Allouch, Monmouth College, 2016
• The Inviability of Narrow Mental Content
  Anja Wang, Knox College, 2017
• Escapee Veiled in a Secluded Suicide: Achieving Autonomy In Lin Yutang’s Moment in Peking
  Anesce Dremen, Carthage College, 2017
• Industrious or Iniquitous?: Virtue and Vice in the Colonial South Carolina Backcountry
  Matt Bersell, Monmouth College, 2016
• The European Refugee Crisis: Nationalist Backlashes within the European Union
  Rebecca Mendelsohn, Macalester College, 2017
• The American Refugee Camp: Detention Centers in the Current Refugee Regime
  Rachel Crane, Macalester College, 2016
• The Dow: Risk and the Return Paradox
  Anthony Peterson, Coe College, 2016
• Black Lives Matter: Pain, Protest, and Representation
  Austin Hoffman, University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015
• Evaluating the Impacts of Phragmites australis Pretreatment Methods on Biogas and Methane Production in Anaerobic Digestion
  Jacob Pelegrin, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, 2017

Advisory Board:

• Marsha Dopheide, Ph.D.
• Judi Kessler, Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary, Ph.D.
• Blake Nielsen, Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts, M.Ed.
• Brad Rowe, Ph.D.
• Michelle Holschuh Simmons, Ph.D.
• Tim Stiles, Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig, Ph.D.

Marie Prince, MJUR Staff Support

Editorial Board:

• Jade Luthy, Coordinating Editor
• Carlin Reinig, Copy Editor
• Anna Schnerre, Copy Editor
• Riley Van Velsor, Copy Editor
• Isaac Willis, Copy Editor
• Haley Willits, Copy Editor
• Rachel Witzig, Copy Editor
• Marian Hjelmgren, Publicity Editor
• Sarah Lang, Publications Editor
• Sara Stalter, Secretary and Treasurer

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• The Citizen Real and Imagined: Vaclav Havel’s “New Year’s Address to the Nation”
  Emily Royer, Macalester College, 2017
  
• Maximum Vertical Jump Height Improves after Two Miles of Running
  Haley N. Hicks and Melissa T. Parks, Drake University, 2015
  
• Towards a New Lexicon of Fear: A Quantitative and Grammatical Analysis of pertimescere in Cicero
  Emma Vanderpool, Monmouth College, 2017
  
• Lines in the Sand: The Strategic Culture in the Afghan Taliban
  Elliot Averett, Macalester College, 2015
  
• Doing It a Different Way: Young Queer Women’s Aspirations for Achieving Family
  Emily Scotto, Carleton College, 2015
  
• Exploring the Suppressed Territory of the Third Reich Art World: Judith in the Twentieth Century
  Savannah H. Dearhamer, Coe College, 2016
  
• The Third Place Experience in Urban and Rural Coffee Shops
  Stephanie Saey and Kelci Foss, Monmouth College, 2018

Advisory Board:

• Marsha Dopheide, Ph.D.
• Judi Kessler, Ph.D.
• Ashwani Kumar, Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary, Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts, M.Ed.
• Emily Rollie, Ph.D.
• Brad Rowe, Ph.D.
• Hannah Schell, Ph.D.
• Tim Stiles, Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig, Ph.D.

Editorial Board:

• Mackenzie Mahler, Coordinating Editor
• Carly Abbott, Copy Editor
• Jade Luthy, Copy Editor
• Heather Malone, Copy Editor
• Libby Meyer, Copy Editor
• Drake Decker, Publicity Editor
• Corbin Beastrom, Publications Editor
• Rachel Witzig, Secretary and Treasurer

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• Illustrated Everyman: Sherlock Holmes and Professional Class Identity in the Strand Magazine
  • Dana Sly, Grinnell College, 2015
• School Choice as a Method of Reducing the Achievement Gap: Comparing the Effectiveness of Desegregation Programs and Charter Schools
  • Winona Weindling, Carleton College, 2014
• The Poetic Mind: Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge on the Imagination
  • Alexandra Kulik, Lake Forest College, 2015
• Arun Kolatkar and Narrating the Bilingual Position
  • Chase Mowery, Monmouth College, 2014
• “Algo es Algo”: Poverty Fosters Local Support for Medical Voluntourism in Guatemala
  • Luisa Amelia Rodriguez, Carleton College, 2016
• Sacred Groves and the “Jungle Whitefolks Planted”: The Dynamic Symbolism of Trees in Beloved”
  • William J. Terrill, Monmouth College, 2014
• Free Irrationality in Moral Choices
  • Minji Jang, Carleton College, 2015
• “And What Say the Living?”: An Examination of Public Discussion of Anatomical Dissection Prior to the Doctors’ Riot of 1788
  • Carmen Niemeyer, Lycoming College, 2014

Advisory Board:

• Alexandra Bomphray, Ph.D.
• Judi Kessler Ph.D.
• Lars Jorgen Kristiansen Ph.D.
• Ashwani Kumar Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts M.Ed.
• Tim Stiles Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig Ph.D.

Editorial Board:

• Sara Frakes – Editor in Chief
• Carly Abbott – Copy Editor
• Lauren Becker – Review Editor
• Keri Hannie – Copy Editor
• Mackenzie Mahler – Publication Editor
• Chase Mowery – Copy Editor
• William Terrill – Review Editor

Front Matter:

• Front matter

Articles:

• Apologia in the Steroid Era: How Athletes Respond to Steroid Allegations
  • Ryan Riebe, Ripon College, 2014
• Relativistic Jets Emanating from a Black Hole Due to the Acceleration by the Magnetic Field Generated by the Accretion Disk
  • Adrien Saremi, University of Alabama-Huntsville, 2014
  • Jared Johnson, Monmouth College, 2014
• Israel’s Economic Motives for Colonizing the West Bank
  • Joshua Tenenbaum, Beloit College, 2014
• The Rhetoric of the Physician-Assisted Suicide Movement: Choosing <Death> Over <Life>
  • Alecia Pasdera, Ripon College, 2014
• Jane Austen: Shaping the Standard of Women’s Education
  • Elizabeth McElligott, Wartburg College, 2013
• Evaluation of Ayer’s “Symposium: ‘Can There Be a Private Language?’”
  • Drew Nevitt, Macalester College, 2014
• Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging: An Introduction
  • Alex Brooks & Mike Stees, Monmouth College, 2013

Advisory Board:

• Judi Kessler, Ph.D.
• Lars Jorgen Kristiansen, Ph.D.
• Anne Mamary, Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts, M.Ed.
• Hannah Schell, Ph.D.
• Tim Stiles, Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig, Ph.D.

Editorial Board:

• William Terrill – Editor in Chief
• Lauren Becker – Copy Editor
• Alex Brooks – Copy Editor
• Sydney Couch – Public Relations Editor
• Sara Frakes – Publication Editor
• Jessica Jones – Copy Editor
• Kaylin Smith – Copy Editor

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• Algiers, Abu Ghraib, and the Persistence of Torture
  • Kristine Gift, Coe College, 2013
• Hashemites and Zionists: The Post-War Anglo-Arab Relationship and the Failure of the One State Solution
  • Andrew Wickersham, Huntington University, 2015
• Beer Commercials: A Contradiction in Communication
  • Michelle Matter, Ripon College, 2011
• Effects of Group Size and Composition on Interactive Behaviors of Wild African Elephants in Tarangire National Park
  • Abby Guthmann, Lawrence University, 2014
• Ethnoarchaeology among the Maasai: Subsistence and Faunal Remains in Northern Tanzania
  • Robert Cermak, Albion College, 2014
• Traditional Families: Parents and Children in the Qur’an as interpreted by Kathir, Qutb, and Qaradawi
  • Sarah Fritsche Grinnell College, 2013
• Paradise Lost: The Indeterminate Eve
  • Amanda Muledy, Lake Forest College, 2013

Advisory Board:

• Judi Kessler Ph.D.
• Kevin Roberts M.Ed.
• Hannah Schell Ph.D.
• Tim Stiles Ph.D.
• Fred Witzig Ph.D.

Editorial Board:

• Alex Holt – Submissions Editor
• Jessica Jones – Copy Editor
• Ian Smith – Copy Editor
• Kaylin Smith – Publication Editor
• Whitney Wehrle – Public Relations Editor
• William Terrill – Copy Editor

Front Matter:

• Front Matter

Articles:

• “Why do you think there is only one God?”: A study of traditional Maasai believers and Christian Maasai living near Tarangire National Park
  • Abigail Beneke, Lawrence University
• Discriminating Facial Emotion: Neural Pathways in Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Anushka Patel, Carleton College
• Digital Device Detectors: Effective Detection and Recognition of Radio Signals Generated by Digital Devices
  • Thomas Foulkes, James Foulkes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Not at the Centre of a Diamond: How the Paradoxical Relationship Between Reality and Imagination Works in Wallace Stevens’ “Esthetique du Mal”
  • Jacqueline Deskovich, Monmouth College
• Telling Time with Termite Mounds: Termite mound declination, azimuth, and structure in Tarangire National Park
  • Erin Frankson, St. Olaf College
• Sarah’s Laughter as Her Lasting Legacy: An Interpretation of Genesis 18:9-15
  • Kristine Gift, Coe College
• The Drug War and State Failure in Mexico
  • David Pedigo, Beloit College
• Effects of Triffid on Prunus Americana and Surrounding Rhizosphere
  • Colleen Zumpf, Monmouth College
• Attitudes Toward Work Flexibility Across Generations
  • Juan-Ita Effiom, Domonick Fields, Alyssa Lynne, and Phoua Xiong, St. Olaf College

Advisory Board:

• Simon Cordery Ph.D. – History
• Judi Kessler Ph.D. – Sociology
• Kevin Roberts M. Ed. – English
• Hannah Schell Ph.D. – Philosophy & Religious Studies
• Fred Witzig Ph.D. – History