Permission To Play examines the use of Expressive Arts Therapy exercises as a method of staff development and team building, as well as facilitating interpersonal communication styles in a work environment. The project was conducted at a staff development retreat for the non-, Friends of Recovery:Delaware & Otsego Counties (FOR-DO). Staff from four branch locations participated in a two-hour workshop designed to provide education and an interactive experience to connect to build confidence around interpersonal communication. The presentation focused on five workplace communication styles, modeled after Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages. Staff members identified their preferred way to receive appreciation in the workplace The group then participated in an activity in which they made “Communication Creatures” using an art therapy technique that involves all participants in a fast paced, drawing activity. Once their Communication Creature was created, each person presented it to their peers. Utilizing an Expressive Arts Therapy technique of personification, staff were able to introduce their creature with their preferred communication style, as well as a name for their creature. This supported a playful and safe environment to discuss communication preferences in a way that invited laughter and broke down hierarchical formality. An additional art therapy exercise focused on communication and team building through storytelling and drawing. The staff was divided into small groups and were each given the same story to create a poster showing what the story was about. Each group was given a different communication challenge that made the group drawing more difficult. After debriefing about the project, team members shared that communication challenges and strengths that came up in the project mirrored those that came up in their day-to-day work. The group then brainstormed how to shift the challenges. Using Expressive Arts Therapy techniques within a staff development environment is an innovative approach for colleagues to address communication issues in a playful, creative way. This workshop can be duplicated and customized to offer a new approach to staff development within any organization or department.

During the Late Middle Ages warfare began to shift with new technology and social structure leading to a change in the way wars were fought. With the forming of the infantry and the gunpowder revolution the growth of professional armies became a necessity in the Late Medieval period. By evaluating the various types of warfare, such as infantry, cavalry, sieges, different armies, and their army composition, we can see how war changed in the time spanning the late medieval period.

PLACES Student Paper Award Winner (2023) (long paper winner). Baseball games draw tens of thousands of fans to a single stadium on game days. These individuals have different means of getting to the venue, but one of the most popular methods is using personal vehicles. These vehicles are known to produce many pollutants, including nitrogen oxides and certain volatile organic compounds that create ozone if they react in the air. This paper studies the impacts of Major League Baseball attendances on ozone Air Quality Index values between 2010 and 2019 in 27 American cities that host MLB teams. I follow Locke (2019), who found a statistically significant but negligible link between MLB attendance and ozone. I assess the robustness of this result by including three additional years’ worth of data as well as control variables for attendances at NBA and NHL games occurring in the same city, which could account for some of the additional ozone observed. The study finds that MLB game attendances have a significant but small impact on local ozone air quality values, with each additional thousand fans leading to an increase in ozone AQI of 0.013.

Center of Social Science Research Student Paper Award Winner (2022), (long paper winner). Psychopathy has been a widely discussed topic throughout movies and pop culture, especially in recent years, which portray psychopathy through the lens of a vindictive, cruel, and charismatic protagonist. Examples that come to mind may be well-known television media such as Dexter, Hannibal, or American Psycho (Berryessa & Goodspeed, 2019). Audiences' interests are piqued when watching a character so strangely and perplexingly emotionally detached, often committing a heinous crime that goes overlooked due to their sharp ability to hide their crime by tricking others into believing a superficial but charming front. Psychopathic individuals are often unrealistically idolized and idealized as endearing super-villains consumers feel themselves rooting for (Keesler & DeMatteo, 2017). Within the criminal justice system, individuals that score high on psychopathy are not always superhuman criminals with distinguished intelligence, able to evade all detection by the law. It is imperative to study the realistic components of crimes perpetrated by psychopathic offenders to discern between fiction and reality. Psychopathy has been related to violence and criminal tendencies, specifically homicide. Within the corrections system, psychopathy also operates differently during and after incarceration than fellow offenders scoring low on psychopathic tendencies. In order to define the association between psychopathic traits and the perpetration of homicide, it is important to discuss models and theories of psychopathy as a concept alongside the motivations and characteristics of psychopath-perpetrated homicide.

The American Alt-Right is a 21st-century phenomenon and growing movement that originated on the internet. The movement is often expressed through the use of symbols and ideas. In the past few years, the Alt-Right has immersed themselves in an alternate reality as they create their own truths inconsistent with actuality. Our nation is engulfed in political tension, extremism, and even violence amid an epistemic crisis. The Alt-Right has developed explanations for various social and political events, even claiming that members are "Red-Pilled" into another reality. This is increasingly evident in recent events such as the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Insurrection. Even though Far-Right and white supremacist groups attended the event, most attendees arrested at the insurrection were not members of Far-Right organizations. In this study, I attempt to reveal what compelled these members to participate in an alternative reality. I also seek to make sense of the event and explain how this alternate reality sustains itself through borrowing ideas from American culture and creating symbols and ideas that are unique to the movement. I will achieve this by evaluating the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Insurrection through a series of Parler videos documenting the event. I will then use my findings to conclude how the Alt-Right has become enveloped in a self-sustaining alternate reality.

Rehabilitation programs with animals in prisons have become more popular across the United States Furst, (2006). Rehabilitation programs have been recognized for helping reduce recidivism and increase mental health (Furst, 2015; Furst, 2006; Smith, 2019; Jasperson, 2010; Cooke et al., 2014; Cushing et al.,1995; Bachi, 2013; Loeffler, 2016; Mercer et al., 2015; Ormerod, 2008) In addition, to all the mental benefits, the inmate's outlooks on life changed and gave them meaning to their lives (Ormerod, 2008; Hauge et al., 2014; Bachi, 2013; Jasperson, 2010; Furst 2006). Studies have been conducted to see how and why these programs are successful in their rehabilitation programs. In this review, the effect of the companionship of animals and inmates' wellbeing. Those inmates who participated in the rehabilitation programs will be less likely to recidivate and have a better mental mindset.

The intersection between one's path in life and the educational experience they are allocated is dependent on the race of the child and their class level. The school-to-prison pipeline is "a disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems" ("School-to-Prison Pipeline"). In America, students from disadvantaged backgrounds are hindered and even forced into a pathway leading to incarceration due to failing public schools, zero-tolerance policies, and policing school hallways.

For the past five semesters I have had the privilege to be a part of the creation, hard work and continuation of SUNY Oneonta Academic Research Journal. As the last founding member and creator of SOAR Journal, I have served on the editorial board as the marketing and communications editor for two semesters, and I am graduating as the coordinating editor of three semesters. It is my honor to have been a part of the SOAR Journal editorial board, and to work so hard on something that offers many opportunities to my peers and future undergraduate students. My role on the editorial board has been rewarding in many ways and has given me an inside look to appreciate and understand scholarly publication. I have developed many skills and have applied my experience from SOAR Journal to all of my academic endeavors. As I graduate, and depart from SUNY Oneonta, I know SOAR Journal will prosper and continue to expand in the hands of the next editorial board

What is Dissociative Identity Disorder? The American Psychiatric Association characterizes dissociative identity disorder as “the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the individual’s behavior, accompanied by an inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness” (Ringrose, 2012, p. 3). Rather than the emergence of numerous distinct personalities, dissociative identity disorder is characterized by identity fragmentation; thus, it is important to understand the structure of the personality of an individual diagnosed with DID (Ringrose, 2012).

The date is September 20, 1973, 30,472 spectators and ninety million people across the world were glued to their televisions to watch Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs compete in a coveted tennis match at the Astrodome for a cash prize of $100,000. The match was a spectacle at its time as King defeated the 55-year-old Riggs in three straight sets. Although a plethora of matches before and after this have been coined “a battle of the sexes,” this match is regarded as a critical milestone for second-wave feminism. In this paper, I will be comparing the 1973 Battle of Sexes match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs to the 2017 film “Battle of the Sexes”, on which it is based. In my analysis paper, in addition to comparing the two pieces of media, I will be discussing the momentous events of both the film and the real events of the match and discussing why Battle of the Sexes is important in terms of gender equality in sports