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Beyond the Numbers: Connecting Data Analysis to Cultural Roots
After about a year of analyzing Dominican identity from a social formation perspective, Lulu Moquete 男女操逼视频软件24, Mathematics, approached Associate Professor of Mathematics Emilio Fern谩ndez, PhD, with a dilemma that many students face as they head into their final year of undergraduate study男女操逼视频软件攚hat should she do after graduation?
Throughout Moquete男女操逼视频软件檚 time on Pace男女操逼视频软件檚 Westchester campus, Fern谩ndez has become a trusted mentor who shares many parallels with Moquete男女操逼视频软件攂oth have a deep-seated love of mathematics and critical thinking, and both are part of the Dominican diaspora living in the United States. It was these similarities, and Moquete男女操逼视频软件檚 eye on her future, that encouraged Fern谩ndez to suggest that she apply for the .
With the grant, Moquete worked alongside Fern谩ndez engaged in multi-level cultural analyses to explore the impacts of colonialism on people living in the Dominican diaspora (a term used to refer to Dominicans living outside of the Dominican Republic, often in the United States and Spain). Through the immersive analysis of multidisciplinary texts, Moquete investigated the social structures at work, as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of colonialism on Dominicans and society as a whole. Moquete and Fern谩ndez男女操逼视频软件檚 ultimate goal, as a result of this work, is to persuade the University to offer an introductory analytical course for students to understand the 男女操逼视频软件渇ormation and operation of culture.男女操逼视频软件
男女操逼视频软件淲hen Lulu became my mentee, I realized that she already had a lot of people teaching her math, so I thought, 男女操逼视频软件榃hat are the ways I can better serve her?男女操逼视频软件櫮信俦剖悠等砑䴘 said Fern谩ndez, noting his belief in the liberal arts notion of exploring a breadth of knowledge, rather than specializing solely in one topic. 男女操逼视频软件淎s fellow Dominicans, I didn男女操逼视频软件檛 have to think much about it. A lot of the challenges she faced were cultural issues, as when I was in her shoes.男女操逼视频软件
The Intersection of Data Analysis and the Humanities
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The project centered around the critical reading of three cross-disciplinary pieces of literature. The first was the Pulitzer Prize winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, a fictional story of a young Dominican boy living in New Jersey who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien.
男女操逼视频软件淚 felt that this book was going to be an easy read for Lulu,男女操逼视频软件 said Fern谩ndez, 男女操逼视频软件渂ecause if you男女操逼视频软件檙e a Dominican living in the diaspora and you happen to go to school, there is no way that you男女操逼视频软件檙e not going to find yourself immersed in this character.男女操逼视频软件
The next piece was more challenging: French Marxist Louis Althusser男女操逼视频软件檚 essay, 男女操逼视频软件淚deology and Ideological State Apparatuses.男女操逼视频软件 In it, Althusser argues that social institutions such as school, the church, and family have the capacity, through seemingly compulsory, albeit unconscious, rituals and customs, to promote a worldview of bourgeois domination.
男女操逼视频软件淎s a math student, reading this kind of essay was a very new thing for me,男女操逼视频软件 said Moquete. 男女操逼视频软件淚 just started taking it slowly and rewriting it in a way I could understand. I realized then that I was analyzing it like a data scientist would analyze quantitative data. This was me analyzing qualitative 诲补迟补.男女操逼视频软件
Moquete男女操逼视频软件檚 final reading was Black Skin, White Masks, a 1952 book by the French-Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon. Having served in the French Army and having experienced several hurdles as a Black medical student, Fanon男女操逼视频软件檚 doctoral thesis was rejected, as the faculty deemed it was not valuable to the field. After graduating medical school and solidifying his theories with the empirical evidence of his practice, he published his work. The book lays out a human-scientific approach to how colonialism imposes, defines, and replicates the psychology of the colonized. The book also engages in a systemic analysis and provides a historical critique of the effects of colonialism on the human psyche.
男女操逼视频软件淚t became very clear to me that, because she does not mainly study the humanities, Lulu needed very specific examples to connect to,男女操逼视频软件 said Fern谩ndez of selecting Fanon男女操逼视频软件檚 work. 男女操逼视频软件淭his book is more of a sociological, scientific analysis, so I thought this was the most applied theoretical framework that Lulu could utilize to begin to make sense of all of these texts.男女操逼视频软件
Their emphasis in employing these three vastly different texts was to contextualize both qualitative and quantitative data on the effects of colonialism. Fern谩ndez mentioned that the statistician and the sociologist often work separately男女操逼视频软件攖he statistician supplies the numbers, and the sociologist contextualizes them. His hope is for his students, in this case particularly Moquete, to understand the connection from both sides.
The Outcomes
This fall, Moquete presented her work to members of the Pace community at an event hosted by the Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences for students who participated in summer research programs. Fern谩ndez noted his pride in Moquete男女操逼视频软件檚 presentation, particularly in her ability to speak eloquently and analytically about information outside of her declared discipline, mathematics.
Moquete and Fern谩ndez have laid the groundwork for the course they hope will one day become a staple of social analyses at Pace, noting that conversations have begun to add their course to the academic catalog, a legacy that Moquete can leave at Pace even after she男女操逼视频软件檚 crossed the stage in May.
男女操逼视频软件淚 really hope that once this course is created, it can influence many other minoritized students to get involved in programs and departments like this,男女操逼视频软件 said Moquete. 男女操逼视频软件淵ou don男女操逼视频软件檛 usually see a lot of minoritized students in a math program, but I hope that in the future, more will know that they男女操逼视频软件檙e capable of being in programs like this.男女操逼视频软件
And as for her post-grad plans, her work with Fern谩ndez did, in fact, provide her with clarity on her next step: she plans to pursue a PhD in applied mathematics or data science.
男女操逼视频软件淗aving this mathematical background has helped me think more eloquently in a lot of different fields,男女操逼视频软件 Moquete said. 男女操逼视频软件淪o, imagine having a higher degree in that, how many more windows it would open for me to be able to see the world in a different way.男女操逼视频软件
Above all, Moquete will graduate with a life-changing connection with Fern谩ndez.
男女操逼视频软件淭he one topic that Lulu and I have never discussed in our hundreds of hours in my office or via email is math,男女操逼视频软件 Fern谩ndez said with a laugh.
男女操逼视频软件淚'm really glad that I've had a mentor like Professor Fern谩ndez, especially within the department,男女操逼视频软件 said Moquete, 男女操逼视频软件渢o help guide me through this experience of college and extend myself in ways I didn't know I could.男女操逼视频软件
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