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"Where Do You Summer?", Michael Antonio Warren

Senior Projects Fall 2016

“Where do you summer?”

Through my senior project, I observe the historic stereotypes of the wealthy. Additionally, I investigate the way in which commerce capitalizes on the aspirations of many to identify with this small group. Architecture and apparel are the main subjects that I use in exploring this relationship.

Though it is not always a conscious process, our personal esthetic choices are often used to portray the lifestyle we have, or the lifestyle we want. A man wearing a suit may do so to signify that he doesn’t perform manual labor, while a man wearing flannel and denim may …

Establishing Public Banks To Address State And Local Government Fiscal Problems, Erind Disha

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Unlike the Federal Government, which has the unique legal power to issue a national currency, state and local governments (SLGs) depend on their revenue capacity for spending. Thus, the quality of public services provided by SLGs depends on adequate, stable funding and long-term commitments. This paper begins with an evaluation of the general fiscal condition of SLGs, meanwhile discerning specific budget areas that have become particularly distressed, such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure. Chapter 3 deals with how SLGs engage in municipal finance with private financial institutions. Finally, the fourth chapter presents how arranging a system of public banks across …

An Analysis Of The Fast Fashion Industry, Annie Radner Linden

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

The Devil Figure In Goethe, Boito, And Gounod, Shuang Yang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a worldwide famous master piece. It has been not only translated into many other languages, but also used as basis of other works such as opera, music piece, drama, movie and so on. After I read and watched Goethe’s Faust, Arrigo Boito’s opera Mefistofele and Charles Gounod’s opera Faust, I found that the drama’s protagonist is not the Faust what we think normally, instead it is actually another figure…

Injustice In The Water: Uncovering The Flint Water Crisis, Katherine Sopko

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

The Curation Of Worldviews, Jason Toney

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

On Elegance, Form, And Function: Exploring The Nexus Between Scientific Research And Movement Research, Naja N. Gordon

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Live performance is an inimitable opportunity for a transfer of energy between viewer and performer. Through movement, I attempt to provide a foundation for this transfer. At the heart of my practice is a deep curiosity about movement as it relates to energy, a truly indestructible force. Moreover, systems need energy in order to function. When I think of a dance as a system, or a collection of dancers on stage as a system, the energy that feeds them is the energy that makes a composition .There is kinetic and potential energy within physical practice, incandescent energy from the lights, …

The Holy Ghoul And Lalla: Bhakti And Medieval Poetics, Ella Kit Vandergaw Scott

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

The Dog In The Middle Ages, Luisa Barbano

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Reduction Ad Absurdum (Or About Freedom), David Leonard Mamukelashvili

Senior Projects Fall 2016

If I asked you what was your favorite book? Who was your favorite actor? Or which candy did you like the most? You would answer; furthermore support your response with reason. That reason would be the philosophical aspect of your response. However, even if I, also with reason, refuted your argument, there’d still be this spark of ‘just because’ in you, and that is what I want to dedicate my project to – that little sparkle of ‘just because’ – little inner faith, belief, and ambiguous attraction that we have towards things.

Philosophy asks for practice. It is something that …

Hannah Wilke And Reading Narcissism In Images, Kaitlyn S. Kester

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Observations On The Nature Of Translation: El Murmullo De Las Abejas, Gerardo Fuentes

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

“Realists Of A Larger Reality” Conceptualizing Creative Possibilities That Couldwork In Expanding Contemporary Human Rights, Amanda J. Beckley

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Goethe’S Faust And Nineteenth-Century Music: Liszt’S Faust Symphony, Mengying Wei

Senior Projects Fall 2016

This project talks about Liszt’s Faust Symphony based on Goethe’s Faust. It traces carefully through the score. After reading this project, the reader will get to know more about the Faust Symphony. As a composer, how does Liszt understand the Faust legend and how would he put a literary work into a musical composition.

Writing Unwritten: Reference, Opposition And Morality In Poe, Baudelaire, And Mallarmé, Matthew Abraham Woodard

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Dismantling The Illusion Of Otherness: An Authorial Study Of Lou Ye’S Spring Fever And Blind Massage, Ying Huang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Random Walks On Thompson's Group F, Sarah C. Ghandour

Senior Projects Fall 2016

In this paper we consider the statistical properties of random walks on Thompson’s group F . We use two-way forest diagrams to represent elements of F . First we describe the random walk of F by relating the steps of the walk to the possible interactions between two-way forest diagrams and the elements of {x0,x1}, the finite generating set of F, and their inverses. We then determine the long-term probabilistic and recurrence properties of the walk.

Envy-Free Fair Division With Two Players And Multiple Cakes, Justin J. Shin

Senior Projects Fall 2016

When dividing a valuable resource amongst a group of players, it is desirable to have each player believe that their allocation is at least as valuable as everyone else's allocation. This condition, where nobody is envious of anybody else's share in a division, is called envy-freeness. Fair division problems over continuous pools of resources are affectionately known as cake-cutting problems, as they resemble attempts to slice and distribute cake amongst guests as fairly as possible. Previous work in multi-cake fair division problems have attempted to prove that certain conditions do not allow for guaranteed envy-free divisions. In this paper, we …

Exploring Tournament Graphs And Their Win Sequences, Sadiki O. Lewis

Senior Projects Fall 2016

In this project we will be looking at tournaments on graphs and their win sequences. The main purpose for a tournament is to determine a winner amongst a group of competitors. Usually tournaments are played in an elimination style where the winner of a game advances and the loser is knocked out the tournament. For the purpose of this project I will be focusing on Round Robin Tournaments where all competitors get the opportunity to play against each other once. This style of tournaments gives us a more real life perspective of a fair tournament. We will model these Round …

Dismantling The Novelty And Mystery In Implicit Bias: A New Perspective, Ying Huang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Spaces Of Reality: Tsai Ming Liang And Re-Thinking Identity, Kyra G. Middeleer

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

Growth, Aria Elizabeth Smith

Senior Projects Fall 2016

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

My senior project installation, Growth, is an exploration in pushing the boundaries between domestic space and the natural world. It exists in a state of surreality; when the human desire to control, contrive, and conquer nature is met with the inevitable power of nature to overcome.

I have always been fascinated by nature and the creatures that inhabit it, and over time this passion has grown to become a large part of who I am. About four years ago, I began to keep aquarium fish and was immediately …

Titleless Home, Rigzin Wangyal

Senior Projects Fall 2016

My sculptures are representations of characters of home. The dimension between interdependence of form and formless, physical and nonphysical home, led me to look deeper into the nature of the act of defining and the unknown. Home will cease to exist if either physical or nonphysical home is omitted. There are no physical aspect of home without individuals forming ideas of a home. Likewise, there is no way of forming a home without the physical home for the individuals in which to be. We are creatures of form living in a physical world, while our mind and consciousness, which are …

Love Poems For Photographs And Other Writings, Erin Francis O'Leary

Senior Projects Fall 2016

This project is a collection of writings about photography that vary stylistically from traditional academic essays to more formally imaginative pieces. It is structured around the understanding of art criticism as not solely a passive response to the artworks on which it is focused, but as a productive and valuable artistic gesture that exists independently of its source materials. Art criticism, though concerned primarily with the external, can be understood (also) as an autobiographical effort.