Verge 5 (2008-2009)

Auni Husted, “Street Baptism, Machismo and Inner-City Street Culture:
Purity and Danger among Contemporary Chicano Gangs in Los Angeles”

Holly Roland, “The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital: A Moral Architecture“

Lucie Ferguson, “The Customer Commodity: An Analysis of Power Relations Between Companies and Consumers“

Courtney Conklin, “Industrial Agribusiness: Economic Solution or Environmental Disaster?“

Emily Blatter, “Chant Down Babylon: the Rastafarian Movement and Its Theodicy for the Suffering“

Vanessa Keen, “Havin’ Fun With Supersize Stereotypes: McDonald’s Online Marketing Campaign“

Chelsea Shields, “A Public Affair: The Politics and Perspectives of Homosexual Identity throughout Early Modern and Modern Dutch Society“

Daniel Barker, “Hamilton’s Principle and Lagrangian Mechanics“

Kevin Cournoyer, Veronica Kemeny, and Allie Lipson, “The Implications and Repercussions of Parental Divorce on College Students and their Recent, Current and Future Romantic Relationships Goucher College“

Christina Belter, “The Modern Musical:
Recent trends and the narrowing gap between Broadway and the West End“

Margaret Samuels,“The Production of Si from SiO2 via the Ball-Milling Technique“

In This Issue

West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Collapse and Future Impacts on Sea Level Rise – Driven Migration on the United States Atlantic Coast

“Sea levels along the United States Atlantic Coastline will rise an additional 10 to 12 inches by 2050 with specific amounts varying regionally, mainly due to land height changes. Areas along the United States Atlantic Coast are most vulnerable to sea level rise due to the low-lying topography, high economic value, and relatively high storm frequency.”

“There are two major causes of global sea level rise: increased melting of land-based ice, such as glaciers and ice sheets, and thermal expansion caused by warming of the ocean. However, there is one specific event that poses the most immediate threat of a large rise in sea levels: the potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.”

“The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the potential collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to contribute to sea level rise for a long period of time and will test the adaptive capacity of humanity.”

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