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Burden, Alexa Michelle Wolf

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Burden

A Short Film by Alexa Wolf – Artist’s Statement

“So many winters, hundreds and hundreds of winters, and a gray man…walking from settlement to settlement…staring in through windows at the firelight and a joy and a burning life he would never be able to touch, never even be able to feel…”

- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

It is humbling to remember the beginning. A vague memory of a subplot in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, with no clear reason as to why it chose that moment, almost precisely a year ago, to return to my conscious thoughts. …

Songs Of The Last Philosopher: Early Nietzsche And The Spirit Of Hölderlin, Sylvia Mae Gorelick

Senior Projects Spring 2013

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

Galois Representations From Non-Torsion Points On Elliptic Curves, Matthew Phillip Hughes

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Working from well-known results regarding l-adic Galois representations attached to elliptic curves arising from successive preimages of the identity, we consider a natural deformation. Given a non-zero point P on a curve, we investigate the Galois action on the splitting fields of preimages of P under multiplication-by-l maps. We give a group-theoretic structure theorem for the corresponding Galois group, and state a conjecture regarding composita of two such splitting fields.

Suffering For Salvation: Nikolai Klyuev's Poetics Of Brotherhood And Deliverance, Michael Victor Gluck

Senior Projects Spring 2013

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

Aristotle, Wittgenstein And Beholding Categories, Samuel Jonathan Shapiro

Senior Projects Spring 2013

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

Time, Distance, And Epic Memory In The Tempest, Andrew Nathan Kaplan

Senior Projects Spring 2013

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

The Rule That Proves The Exception: A Constitutional State Of Emergency In The United States, Benjamin Salvatore Difabbio

Senior Projects Spring 2013

A study of states of exception in constitutional law, this project proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, providing for limited derogations of constitutional rights under declarations of emergency. The project begins with an analysis of US Supreme Court case law dealing with limitations of constitutional rights (e.g. suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the freedoms of speech and press) during periods of crisis, such as war or the threat of war. This discussion demonstrates the perils of precedent in normalizing the exception in the absence of a constitutional state of emergency. The second chapter …

“Follow Your Heart” – Chinese Urban Post-80 Mothers’ Expectations For Their Children, Wenjie(Rena) Chen

Senior Projects Spring 2013

It has been 35 years since the Chinese government first introduced the One-Child Policy in 1978 to control the rapidly growing population. The first generation born after the policy was instated are mainly only children and are usually referred to as the "post-80" generation. As they are stepping into their thirties and becoming parents, the current project explores their expectations for their children, with a focus on urban post-80 mothers' expectations for their children's freedom of choice and how these expectations are different from those of the previous generations. A telephone survey was conducted with 82 urban mothers from four …

Southeast Asia's International Production Networks: Implications For Macroeconomic Stability, Abigail Eliana Zwick

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Using the case of five Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines - this paper examines the relationship between participation in international production networks and the volatility of export values in small, open developing economies. The region’s growth has been driven by the electronics and automotive industries over the past two decades, industries that rely on a system of intra-regional intermediate goods trade. While these countries diversified out of the agricultural industries in part to reduce volatility, there is evidence that they face new volatility risks in the new industries, as a result of dependence on …

Corporeality, Sophia Rose Klafter

Senior Projects Spring 2013

I have my mother’s light eyes, my great grandmother’s round nose, and my grandfather’s gift of gab. From my father, I have inherited the rare neuromuscular disorder, Charcot Marie Tooth disease, which he was born with.

Because of this, I have had to view things other people took for granted from a different perspective. Since childhood, I have had to be sharply observant of my surroundings—details such as little grooves in the pavement or uneven brick on the sidewalk could make the difference between a pleasant outing and a catastrophic fall.

This need to develop an acute awareness of my …

Texting The New Habitus: (Re)Producing And Negotiating Practices And Expectations Of The Texting Medium, Daniel Kyoungshik Park

Senior Projects Spring 2013

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

The Trickster Cycle, Rron Karahoda

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Pieces: Form And Ephemera, Louise Cooper Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2013

As with anybody, I am not a singular self but one constructed of ever-shifting parts. This constant state of flux is expressed in the play of paint and canvas, lending the act a seriousness wherein images and ideas emerge and co-exist. I do not know what will happen in advance and finish at the same speed that I start so that there is no precious moment. The object is always in a state of transformation. A story or specific narrative is secondary to the need to leave a trace. At times, the image is completely external from me. My work …

Finding The Intrepid, Eve Swords Alpert

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Finding the Intrepid

Presented here are territories designed for leisure and enjoyment, the transient occupants thereof, and my attempts to understand what draws the two together. From a certain distance, recreational areas appear to take on religious connotations. Disney World, the Lincoln Memorial, and Niagara Falls are sites of pilgrimage for millions every year. Travelers hope to transcend the everyday. In a world of uncertainties, where one is alternately plagued by rapid changes and dreary repetition, pilgrimages offer a glimpse of the eternal.

A tear shed at a boy-band concert resembles a divine encounter. Coins dropped into the Lost River …

Life In Samsara: Torment, Torture And Tolerance In Buddhist Hell, Maya Shari Maclaughlin

Senior Projects Spring 2013

This project is about Buddhist hell. It discusses time, location and the community in hell through images and text.

Sleep Frequency, Rebecca M. Wagner

Senior Projects Fall 2013

I have three main interests as a sound artist. They are 1) field recordings 2) the physics of a sound wave and 3) how sound resonates within, around, by, and through us. My library of sounds is comprised entirely on my own field recordings, collected since I was 13 from several countries. Although my first recordings were captured long before I had ever heard the term musique concrete, I consider myself a contemporary musique concrete artist, making electronic music composed of natural sounds, altered, edited, or distorted, then translated to the ears through creative means.

In my moderation show …