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The Impacts Of Pension Privatization In Latin American: A Cross-Country Comparison Of Pension Reforms And The Introduction Of Individual Accounts. An Analysis Modeled After The Six Guiding Core Principles Of Social Security, Victoria Le Fraga
Senior Projects Fall 2017
Latin America was the world’s pioneering nation in the privatization of pensions. In 1981, Chile’s pension system underwent a reform making it the first country to replace a public defined-benefit pay-as-you-go pension scheme with a fully funded defined-contribution pension scheme based on individual accounts. This project assesses the impacts and results of pension privatization in Chile, Mexico and Uruguay. As indicators of a prosperous system, my analyses are made using the six core guiding principles of Social Security: i) Coverage; ii) Equal Treatment and Social Solidarity; iii) Gender Equity; iv) Adequacy of Benefits; v) Administrative Costs; vi) and, Financial Sustainability …
Chinggis Khan's Syncretic Steppe: How Tradition And Innovation Combined To Form The World's Largest And Most Diverse Nomadic Empire, Adrian Ramos
Senior Projects Fall 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Who Acts? Community Through Chance, Jonas Lh Kunz
Who Acts? Community Through Chance, Jonas Lh Kunz
Senior Projects Fall 2017
In this paper I will argue that sortition - choosing representatives by chance - could be a way of conciliating the disenchanted democratic citizens with their government. Current democracies suffer under what has been termed the democratic fatigue syndrome. Low voter turnouts, decreasing citizen participation, high rates of distrust and a subsequent rise of nationalist movements. But underlying this fatigue seems to be a general systematic problem, which Robert J. Pranger, Hannah Arendt and Max Weber identify as the politics of interests. These politics rely on competition, coalitions and assertive creativity, - en grow - they rely on power and …
Utilization Of Remittance For Transportation: A Case Study Of Moldova, Nicholas O. Kifyak
Utilization Of Remittance For Transportation: A Case Study Of Moldova, Nicholas O. Kifyak
Senior Projects Fall 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese: A Conversation To Make The Invisible Visible, Satwik Srikrishnan
They-See-(Desi)-Mac-N-Cheese: A Conversation To Make The Invisible Visible, Satwik Srikrishnan
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Trapped: A Performance Exploration Of The Illusion Of Confinement, Paul R. Presbrey
Trapped: A Performance Exploration Of The Illusion Of Confinement, Paul R. Presbrey
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Sometimes we build our own prisons and those prisons go through a crucial stage at which time, outside forces such as other people can help retrieve you from the depths of your own imprisonment. Unfortunately, these outside forces usually end up acting against you, sending a person deeper and deeper into the trap they laid for themselves. These outside forces or people usually do not know that they are contributing to the building of a person’s prison. These people act in direct response to something or even anonymously through things such as surveys. Most of the time people dance around …
"A Perfect Labyrinth Of Limitations": Confronting The Restrictions Of Societal Roles In James Baldwin's Fiction, Natalie Sophia West
"A Perfect Labyrinth Of Limitations": Confronting The Restrictions Of Societal Roles In James Baldwin's Fiction, Natalie Sophia West
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Narrating Arcosanti: A Utopian Project Considered Through Its Representations, Duncan William Routh
Narrating Arcosanti: A Utopian Project Considered Through Its Representations, Duncan William Routh
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Michael Faraday’S “Lines Of Force” And The Role Of Heuristic Models In Early Electromagnetic Field Theory, Nicolas Sandy Engst Matthews
Michael Faraday’S “Lines Of Force” And The Role Of Heuristic Models In Early Electromagnetic Field Theory, Nicolas Sandy Engst Matthews
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College
The City After: Crises In Contemporary New York Narratives, Rachel Peri Papert
The City After: Crises In Contemporary New York Narratives, Rachel Peri Papert
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The Longevity Of Religious Terrorist Organizations, William John Hughes
The Longevity Of Religious Terrorist Organizations, William John Hughes
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh
Remembering Elsewhere, Amelia Ernestine Walsh
Senior Projects Spring 2017
In my works, I tried very hard to create characters with unusual perspectives. I wanted to write from the point of view of children, while avoiding anything overly precious or intentionally naive. The trauma of aging, and eventually dying, are the themes for these works. I attempted to draw forth unusual and thought-provoking imagery that could successfully draw my reader into a constructed reality and, hopefully, draw them to less common questions we might ask regarding human nature.
Pericles Revived: Proposing Citizen Payments For Social Media Usage, Alexander Jason Breindel
Pericles Revived: Proposing Citizen Payments For Social Media Usage, Alexander Jason Breindel
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
6.000 Fathoms, Artemis Kotioni
6.000 Fathoms, Artemis Kotioni
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Mouse Vs. Machine: The Game, Cafferty Aiko Frattarelli
Mouse Vs. Machine: The Game, Cafferty Aiko Frattarelli
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Many modern video games built by big name companies are coded by a group of people together using, and possibly modifying, an already designed game engine. These games usually have another group of people creating the artwork. In this project, I coded and designed a video game from scratch, as well as created all the artwork used in the game. The player controls a mouse character who fights a variety of monsters. In order to create the complexity of the game, I implement basic neural networks as the enemy artificial intelligence, i.e. the decision making process of the enemy. It …
Spell For The Lost, Branford Hayes Walker
Spell For The Lost, Branford Hayes Walker
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Spell for the Lost is a novella of prose poems, constructed ekphrasticaly from generated symbols, with the intention of linking writing fiction and the process of magic-doing.
Remittance Securitization As An Alternative Source Of Finance For Cuba, Oscar Valdes Viera Ms
Remittance Securitization As An Alternative Source Of Finance For Cuba, Oscar Valdes Viera Ms
Theses - Graduate Programs in Economic Theory and Policy
In this paper we propose to leverage remittances as an alternative source of finance for the Cuban economy through one particular financial innovation—remittance securitization. This instrument has been successfully used in a number of developing countries to mitigate the risks associated with lending to a developing nation. We show how the structure of the remittance securitization for the particular case of Cuba would also mitigate those risks and could potentially allow Cuba to access capital markets at lower costs and longer terms than its sovereign credit rating would otherwise allow.
A Street Photographer’S Toolbox: Techniques And Technologies In 20th Century American Street Photography, Jacey Cole Mossack
A Street Photographer’S Toolbox: Techniques And Technologies In 20th Century American Street Photography, Jacey Cole Mossack
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Producing Meaningful Work: An In-Depth Study Of Domestic Workers And Stratified Reproduction, Leigh Marie Taylor
Producing Meaningful Work: An In-Depth Study Of Domestic Workers And Stratified Reproduction, Leigh Marie Taylor
Senior Projects Spring 2017
The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of how domestic workers are able to find resistance within their work place. Using eleven in-depth interviews with women working as domestic workers in New York City, this project contributes to the extant literature regarding domestic workers and stratified reproduction. I examine how domestic work is shaped by the intersections of race, class, gender, and citizenship status. These factors contribute to the conception of domestic work as low-skilled labor as well as the denigration and poor treatment of workers on the job. Though workers often have to sustain poor treatment …
Beyond Homographies: Exploration And Analysis Of Image Warping For Projection In A Dome, Kai Joseph Malowany
Beyond Homographies: Exploration And Analysis Of Image Warping For Projection In A Dome, Kai Joseph Malowany
Senior Projects Spring 2017
The goal of this project is to provide multiple approaches for warping a flat image tofit the curvature of a geodesic dome, to be presented as an immersive, Augmented Reality (AR) environment. This project looks to develop an algorithmic method of warping any image to fit perspective distortion for a dome-like surface. Despite fairly common usage in planetarium methods and other such shows, there is very little documented method that would allow for the warping of images to fit a curved projection surface. The methods will be explored include using Processing, OpenCV, and fisheye image filters. In addition to the …
Blasian And Proud: Examining Racialized Experiences Amongst Half Black And Half Japanese Youth In Japan, Helen Itsel Aracena
Blasian And Proud: Examining Racialized Experiences Amongst Half Black And Half Japanese Youth In Japan, Helen Itsel Aracena
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Plus One, Sofia Marta Ortiz
Plus One, Sofia Marta Ortiz
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Why Didn't The Arab Spring Spread To Eritrea? How Mass Suppression And Fear Can Successfully Prevent Dissent, Winta Amanuel Mehari
Why Didn't The Arab Spring Spread To Eritrea? How Mass Suppression And Fear Can Successfully Prevent Dissent, Winta Amanuel Mehari
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Tainted Ideals: The Rise And Fall Of The Tupamaros, Jennifer Ann Dufau
Tainted Ideals: The Rise And Fall Of The Tupamaros, Jennifer Ann Dufau
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Public Discourse And The Securitization Of Conflict, Gilda Raizel Edelman
Public Discourse And The Securitization Of Conflict, Gilda Raizel Edelman
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Debt-Based Justice: Systematizing Human Valuation Through The Lens Of Criminal Justice, Patrick Holmes
Debt-Based Justice: Systematizing Human Valuation Through The Lens Of Criminal Justice, Patrick Holmes
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The State And The People: Human Rights In Russia's Apolitical World, Benjamin Richard Lorber
The State And The People: Human Rights In Russia's Apolitical World, Benjamin Richard Lorber
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Thin Blue Seam, Sebastian Anton-Ojeda
Thin Blue Seam, Sebastian Anton-Ojeda
Senior Projects Spring 2017
This performance began as an exploration of liminal spaces in the context of a post-modern world. The lines between a suburban, consumptive society, fraught with binaries and thresholds while on the fringes of nature, were what interested me the most. However, this line of thought quickly took me to far more ancient places, to a view of nature driven by animism and pervaded by spiritual introspection. In Celtic Ireland, to give an example, every stone and river is witness to a myth. The Celts of the old world as described by anthropologist Marie-Louise Sjoestedt are constantly straddling the line between …
Portraits Of The Most Sane, David Leonard Mamukelashvili
Portraits Of The Most Sane, David Leonard Mamukelashvili
Senior Projects Spring 2017
The project discusses Géricault's Portraits of the Insane and interprets them as his self-reflective works, interpreting the series as the projections of artist's socio-political views.
Catching A Glimpse: A Directorial Investigation & Collaboration On Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space, Jaquan Keiandre Beachem
Catching A Glimpse: A Directorial Investigation & Collaboration On Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space, Jaquan Keiandre Beachem
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.