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Toxic Veganism: Food Politics, Whiteness, and Sustainable Imaginaries in Southern California

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Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

This article includes information gathered by research from the two authors themselves as well as their publications, but it also sites other articles that have been pulished by other researchers in the field.

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Semper Fi: Always Faithful

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What parts of the film did you find most persuasive and compelling? Why?

The most persuasive/ compelling parts of the film include narratives of the family members of those affected with cancer. One of the more emotional segments included the death of a Marine that the film had been following.

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Figure1

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How is data visualized?

Verified members can post pictures of patient's, tests, equipment, or images as long as there is not patient identifying information. All members of figure one are encouraged to comment and discuss the condition or test in the picture.

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Compassion Protocol: Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants

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Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.

The article's main idea is supported by the use of statistics, historical analysis, and personal anecdotes of immigrants going through the system.

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Sonja D. Schmid is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech. Her area of expertise is in the history of technology, science and technology policy, and social studies of risk. Specifically, Schmid researches the history and the organization of nuclear industries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. With respect to emergency response, Schmid has studied how agencies and personel have responded to nuclear disasters.

A recent article Schmid has written: Schmid, Sonja D. "What If There's a next Time? Preparedness after Chernobyl and Fukushima - A European-American Response." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. N.p., 01 July 2016. Web. 05 Sept. 2016.

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Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitalism, and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I looked further into governmental relief policies after disasters, mental health policies in regard to emergencies, and New Orleans current state.

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Health and Emergencies: Syllabus

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How was the study funded?

This study was funded by Grants-in-aid for the Cancer Control Policy from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Miriam Ticktin received her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, and an MA in English Literature from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Ticktin is now an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility.