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Constant velocity (CV) joints have a long history of development. They are designed to transmit angular velocity from one axle shaft to another when they are not collinear. The Union College Baja racing team decided to use CV joint axles as outboard drive shafts (half shafts), which deliver the power from the engine to the wheels, in the 2023 car. Due to the geometries of the joints' components, they are difficult to manufacture without specialized equipment. Therefore an axle assembly was ordered. However, it was very difficult to find a CV axle to purchase and without a car it is near impossible to test. Dynamic analysis is a useful tool which could be used to study potential selections and whether they would fail.

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The Declaration of Independence states that the government’s power is derived “from the consent of the governed.” Despite this grand sentiment, however, it has been up for debate for over two hundred years as to who should be permitted to participate in American democracy. The Fifteenth Amendment’s passage in 1870, while technically banning racial discrimination at the ballot box, was circumvented as the era of Jim Crow was ushered in. Literacy tests, character attestations, violent intimidation, and other obstacles disenfranchised most Black southerners until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was passed. Section 5 of the Act, which required states with histories of voter discrimination to seek federal approval before implementing changes to election administration, served as the first line of defense against suppression efforts for decades. This changed dramatically with the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which rendered Section 5 unenforceable. This thesis investigates the impact of Shelby across the country, studying the rise in various tactics used to limit access to the ballot box for minorities. It posits that every American should have the right to vote easily and without significant burdens. The VRA proved that federal oversight is the most effective way to protect this right. For this reason, it is imperative that Congress passes the For the People Act (H.R. 1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, as both pieces of legislation will protect Americans against recent and ongoing attacks on voting access.

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We conducted a study to test our hypothesis that racist language and blame related to the COVID-19 pandemic might have a negative impact on Asian Americans' sense of belonging in the United States. We presented Asian American participants (total<em> N</em> = 271) with a non-racist or racist language flier, paired with a low blame or high blame passage of text with fabricated statistics about how much the average White American blames Asian Americans for the COVID-19 pandemic. We predicted that participants in the racist language and high blame condition would report greater perceived increases in prejudice since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, greater discomfort when interacting with White Americans, greater fear, greater negative esteem, and lower sense of belonging compared to participants in the non-racist language and low blame condition. Generally, there were small to weak effects of language/blame condition on our dependent variables. However, we did find that greater perceived increases in prejudice since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic were strongly associated with lower sense of belonging, greater discomfort, greater fear, and greater negative esteem suggesting that the increases in prejudice Asian Americans feel have negatively impacted their lived experiences in the United States since the start of the pandemic.

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In John Bigelow papers

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