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Viewing The Covid-19 Resilient Skincare Market Through A Sociohistorical Lens: The Patterning Of Conspicuous Consumption Mediated By Marketing, Siren Chen

Senior Projects Fall 2020

The Chinese skincare market distinguishes itself with an inelastic consumer demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project employs the endogenous preferences economic framework and a sociohistorical lens to analyze the social forces that sustain the resilient beauty market. Through setting up a socially embedded framework for economic analysis, this project highlights the active role of marketers, which are omitted in mainstream economics, in fostering a bond between consumers and skincare products. With a comparative analysis of both the colonial and the COVID-19 pandemic contexts, this project demonstrates how marketers connect consumers to skincare products through reference to the system of …

Animals And People, Nikolas Slackman

Senior Projects Fall 2020

A novella detailing the end of photographer Eadweard Muybridge's life, after his return to Kingston-upon-Thames. His story is intercut with quotations and investigations into the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini, an ancient Albanian codebook.

Waves Upon The Sea: Accident And In Search Of Lost Time, Ethan Hosta

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

"She Believes She Is Herself, Which Isn't Complete Madness:" Becoming The Female Subject Through Womanhood As Relation, Isabel Rudner

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Pursuit Of Capital And Movement: Systemic Barriers To Housing Access For Refugees In Contemporary Germany, Lilian Wind O'Donnell

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Testing And Improving An Optimization-Based Digital Colorblindness Corrective Filter, Zachary Kenneth Mcintyre

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Computers often communicate essential information via color which is lost to colorblind users. In order to address this information loss, designers and computer scientists have created a variety of different correction methods to improve computer accessibility. One such method was created by Luke Jefferson and Richard Harvey in their 2006 paper, “Accommodating Color Blind Computer Users” which consists of a difference histogram, differences of key colors, optimization and interpolation to adjust images for specific types of congenital colorblindness. I have recreated their algorithm as well as their original test images. I then conducted extensive tests on challenging images to examine …

The Effects Of Social Media On Mental Health: A Proposed Study, Grant Sean Bossard

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Abstract

There are about 3.8 billion social media users around the world (How Many People…, 2020). How does social media use affect the mental health of its users? Excessive social media use has the potential to increase vulnerability to the development of psychological disorders, specifically increasing psychological distress, decreasing self-esteem, and increasing depressive symptoms. With social media use on the rise among people of all ages, it is important to understand the potential adverse effects so that usage guidelines and interventions can be developed. This is a proposed study to determine what the effects of using Instagram, Facebook, or no …

Bach To The Future: An Exploration Of Authenticity And Baroque Performance Practice Through Bwv 131 & Bwv 111, Megan Elizabeth Halm

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College. An exploration of historical performance practice through J.S. Bach's cantatas BWV 131 and BWV 111.

The Immigration Crisis Under The Trump Administration, Angelica Elizabeth Merino Monge

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Times Strikes Back, Nirobi Shakan Coleman

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Arts of Bard College

Untouchable Fullness: Male Friendship In The Novels Of Willa Cather And D.H. Lawrence, Caleb D. Ackley

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Penman Contra Patriarch: Reimagining The Central Conflict Of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Gabriel Beauregard Egset

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Narrative Control In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Liam Ainslie Mayo

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Concrete Thinking In Images: Art And Image As A Site For Meaning In Hannah Arendt’S Life Of The Mind, Scout Joy Etterson

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing of Bard College

How We Value Future Generations, Elias Connors Dorf

Senior Projects Fall 2020

This project examines how we value future generations. From looking at different ways we value future and present wellbeing we are able to see a tension that arises from having a high value on both. When looking at examples of ways we value future wellbeing we can see that if you value future wellbeing highly it will devalue current wellbeing. Then we look for a justification for valuing one over the other. This leads us into two ways of how we justify valuing either valuation of wellbeing and a discussion of the average and the classical principles of utility. We …

A Lust For Land: An Exploration Of Environmental Creation, Destruction, And Institutional Power In Ovid’S Metamorphoses, Miranda Kerrigan

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Differences In Visuospatial Attentional Distribution Between Synesthetes And Non-Synesthetes, Identified Through Covert Visual Search, Kirsten Helena Ostbirk

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Synesthesia is a condition whereby sensory stimuli evoke unusual additional sensory perceptions and experiences, and can be identified through a visual search task. Grapheme-colour synesthetes have shown increased efficiency in visual search tasks, which some have hypothesized is a result of synesthetic colours drawing attention to the target stimulus, and have likened it to a weakened “pop-out” effect. Visual search has also been used to measure visuospatial attentional distribution, and findings from this method have supported the gradient model of attention, which proposes that cognitive resources are the most concentrated centrally in our visual field, and taper off, such that …

A Machine Learning Approach To The Perception Of Phrase Boundaries In Music, Evan Matthew Petratos

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Segmentation is a well-studied area of research for speech, but the segmentation of music has typically been treated as a separate domain, even though the same acoustic cues that constitute information in speech (e.g., intensity, timbre, and rhythm) are present in music. This study aims to sew the gap in research of speech and music segmentation. Musicians can discern where musical phrases are segmented. In this study, these boundaries are predicted using an algorithmic, machine learning approach to audio processing of acoustic features. The acoustic features of musical sounds have localized patterns within sections of the music that create aurally …

Revolutionaries In Form: The Russian Futurist Poets In The Cultural Politics Of The Early Soviet Union, 1917-1928, Noah Wurtz

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Use Of Virtual Manipulatives In Teaching Sorting Algorithms, Olivia Witanowska

Senior Projects Fall 2020

This project builds an online tool for users to practice tracing sorting algorithms on a virtual set of cards. Sorting algorithms are crucial to computer science. Visualization of such algorithms can aid in cementing the concepts. The purpose of a virtual manipulative is to create a similar effect of a physical manipulative but on a digital platform so that it is more accessible than its physical alternative. This project is motivated by the educational adjustments needed to be made during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. By building off of a previous Deck of Cards project, an algorithm to check a user’s …

The Development Of A Collaborative Tool To Teach Debugging, Samuel Ramaley Furr

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Debugging is rarely formally taught, despite being used by programmers every day. Research indicates that it is valuable to teach debugging, and suggests that teaching it collaboratively may be maximally effective. The goal of this project is to create a collaborative debugger. The debugger aims to be the ideal platform to teach and learn debugging. This paper briefly reviews relevant literature covering teaching debugging and teaching programming collaboratively. Most of the paper is devoted to the design of the collaborative debugger.

Asteraceae, Rachel G. Lyons

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Nostalgia For Glaciers, Luke Burton

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

From Colonial Agriculture To Community Resilience: A History Of The United States Gulf Coast, 1718-2005, Olivia Champion Johnson

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Hasta Que Haya Justicia: Responses To The 2014 Forced Disappearance Of The Students Of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, Olivia Mozdzierz

Senior Projects Fall 2020

This paper examines responses to the 2014 forced disappearance of 43 university students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero by Mexican authorities and criminals working together, for reasons that remain unknown. Rather than accept the losses as yet another consequence of official corruption and impunity, Mexican civil society rebelled. The people sustained protests, enlisted the support of international organizations, and exposed the government’s crimes and attempted cover-up. This study concludes that, despite the failure in the following years to locate the missing and bring the perpetrators to justice, the victims’ families and their allies demonstrated their power to hold the government to account …

Immediate Pleasured Justice, Akobi Hylton

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to the Division of of Social Studies at Bard College

Square Peg Problem In 2-Dimensional Lattice, Nathan M. Matsubara

Senior Projects Fall 2020

The Square Peg Problem, also known as the inscribed square problem poses a question: Does every simple closed curve contain all four points of a square? This project introduces a new approach in proving the square peg problem in 2-dimensional lattice.

To accomplish the result, this research first defines the simple closed curve on 2-dimensional lattice. Then we identify the existence of inscribed half-squares, which are the set of three points of a square, in a lattice simple closed curve. Then we finally add a last point to form a half-square into a square to examine whether all four points …

From Holy German Art To Degenerate Art: Nazi Ideology And Opera, Jingyi Zhou

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

This Has To Meme Something: Social Polarization And Internet Memes, Adrianna Lyn Candor

Senior Projects Fall 2020

I am analyzing the ways in which memes function on social media, as a reflection of culture. Do memes fulfill a role of expression for people's identities and cultures in society? If so, how do they fulfill that role for various groups of peoples, and what are the implications?

Eternity In Art: The Embodiment And Transcendence Of Time In Proust And Messiaen, Yichun Wu

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.