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Turning pain into published research paper Paul because, after a sophomore year of taking AP classes, she Anjali Paul, a 2023 graduate had experienced severe back of Sewanhaka High School, pain. Several doctors failed to turned her back pain into an diagnose her problem, and she important research project on finally saw a chiropractor, who stress levels in Asian adoles- determined that it was caused by stress. cents. Paul then found a MyersPaul’s AP Capstone research Briggs survey online, and creatpaper, titled “The ed her own stress effect of the thinking s u r ve y, s e n d i n g and feeling preferthem out to 11the n c e s i n M ye r s g rade Asian stuBriggs Type Indicadents across Nassau tor (MBTI) on perCounty and receivceived stress levels ing 48 usable in Asian adolesresponses. cents,” has been pubH e r t e a c h e r, lished in the prestiGeorge Tsolekas, gious International ANJAlI PAUl described Paul as Public Health JourSewanhaka High “intelligent, deternal. School graduate mined and tenaI n i t i a l l y, P a u l cious.” found research indi“She was detercating that Asians perceive more stress than other mined, she was independent, she races, with correlations between made sure she’d reach out to the Myers-Briggs thinking/feel- cover her bases,” Tsolekas said. Paul found no conclusive eviing scale — which quantifies how people perceive the world dence of a correlation between and make decisions — and stress the Myers-Briggs thinking/feellevels in adults. Her research ing scale and stress, but her projpaper, which she completed in ect left open many variables that her junior year, addressed the could be explored in future question of whether the scale research. “I had to go above and beyond corresponds to stress in Asian to explain my topic thoroughly,” adolescents. The research hit home with CoNtiNueD oN pAge 8
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Safety improvements from a $550,000 traffic study to be approved by the Nassau County Legislature in August will focus on Dutch Broadway. Above, a digital speed indicator is just one of the improvements the road may see.
Improving Dutch Broadway, again
County tapping $550,000 for safety upgrades By REI WolFSoHN Intern
Nassau County’s public works, finance and rules committees look to make a $550,000 investment in a traffic study to make Dutch Broadway in Elmont safer for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists. A $150,000 bond and the rest of the capital expense must still be approved by the full Legislature on Aug. 7, but the investment has support. “Improving the safety of Dutch Broadway for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists is an essential priority for my constituents, and I am very gratified that we are able to deliver improvements that will protect residents and
elevate our quality of life,” Carrié Solages, the legislator for the 3rd District, said. Activist and organizer Mimi Pierre-Johnson said she felt that this traffic study should go a bit differently than previous ones. “When they’re doing traffic studies, they need to talk to people like myself and those of us who are on the ground,” Pierre-Johnson said. “We are the ones using traffic lights and the street. We understand what’s happening in our community. It’s always after the fact that we found out about the traffic study. That’s the thing that I would like to see changed about traffic studies. Let’s talk to the community, have a town hall. Our tax dollars would be better spent, because when things happen we CoNtiNueD oN pAge 5