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The American Public Library Building: A Social History And Feminist Critique, Shirley J. Lincicum
The American Public Library Building: A Social History And Feminist Critique, Shirley J. Lincicum
Honors Papers
This paper seeks to place the development of the American public library building in its social and historical context from 1876 to 1950 and to present a preliminary feminist analysis of the public library as a building type. Like all social constructs, architecture reflects the values and rituals of its makers. Too often in America we reduce architecture to its functional and technological components and do not recognize the social implications of the built environment we create and inhabit. Though technology has played a major role in determining the shape of our physical environment, social forces have also been very …
Foreign Debt Rescheduling And Private Investment In Ldcs, Zeeshan Hasan
Foreign Debt Rescheduling And Private Investment In Ldcs, Zeeshan Hasan
Honors Papers
This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between foreign debt and repayment problems on investment behavior in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). It is primarily motivated by earlier studies which have found empirical evidence of such a relationship, but did not attempt to incorporate it into a theoretical model which could shed light on the functioning of developing macroeconomies. An effort will be made to address this possibility by modeling the determinants of private investment in LDCs in a way that will allow an examination of the effects of high external debt and repayment problems on private investment. This will be …
Classifying Gilbert And Sullivan, Joshua Rutsky
Classifying Gilbert And Sullivan, Joshua Rutsky
Honors Papers
The musical comedienne Anna Russell once said that it seemed to her that everywhere she was traveling, there was always someone in the process of staging a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. While she was joking, her claim is not that far from the truth. Until the D'Oyly Carte Company ceased its operation in February 1982, due to termination of its government funding, a professional company devoted solely to producing these shows existed in England. In the United States, amateur Gilbert and Sullivan societies abound; even at Oberlin College, Gilbert and Sullivan operas have been presented nearly every year for a …
Spaces Between: Towards Depolarized Readings Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Bethany Suzanne Schneider
Spaces Between: Towards Depolarized Readings Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Bethany Suzanne Schneider
Honors Papers
Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl is a text which, written in a culture divided between polarities of race and gender, has continued in the 130 years of its reception to traverse a landscape of mutably yet continually divided racisms and sexisms, changeably yet continually cloven raced and gendered identities. The text itself, due to the legally and socially constructed polar ontologies of race and gender in 19th century America, is tom between what can be said and what can't, what is true and what is false, what is black and what is white. The "tears" …
Say What I Mean: Metaphor And The Exeter Book Riddles, Sarah L. Thomson
Say What I Mean: Metaphor And The Exeter Book Riddles, Sarah L. Thomson
Honors Papers
The Exeter Book riddles are a heterogeneous collection, and at first glance it seems they have little III common beyond the riddle format and the final teasing challenge, "Say what I mean," or "Say what I am." The riddles range in length from a few lines to over a hundred, in tone from the religious to the mundane to the obscene; their subjects can be as specific as a butter churn or as broad as creation itself. One crucial similarity, however, does unify the riddles: all (well, almost all) are built around underlying, unstated metaphors. These metaphors-- such as a …
Using Fourier Transform Analysis To Extract Information From The Shapes Of Folded Layers, Thomas Billiard
Using Fourier Transform Analysis To Extract Information From The Shapes Of Folded Layers, Thomas Billiard
Honors Papers
Objective methods of fold shape analysis are nessesary to better understand the behavior of folds and the folding process. I examined two methods of analysis, and used a method based on the Fourier Transform to show that the method based on the Fourier Series was insufficient for identifying shape characteristics of aperiodic natural fold trains. I also showed that the Fourier Transform method accessed information that was inaccessable using the Fourier Series method.
Capital Flight And Exchange Restrictions, Kazi Zhain S. Hasan
Capital Flight And Exchange Restrictions, Kazi Zhain S. Hasan
Honors Papers
Many less-industrialized countries (LIC's) maintain exchange restrictions in order to ration foreign exchange. This is the only way to support an overvalued domestic currency without exhausting foreign exchange reserves. Such rationing allows authorities to restrict unwanted imports (generally speaking, any imports which compete with domestic industries), and also to monitor foreign investments. But some investment flows can be hidden from this monitoring system, just as the trade in smuggled goods is hidden. Foreign investments can be purchased with foreign currency acquired without the knowledge of domestic monetary authorities- for example, foreign currency purchased on a black market, or export receipts …
Factors Effecting Bangladesh Jute Prices, Naeem Mohaiemen
Factors Effecting Bangladesh Jute Prices, Naeem Mohaiemen
Honors Papers
I will look at the factors that effect jute prices. This is important for several reasons. Since sudden changes in the price of jute are unanticipated by the individual farmer, they are adversely affected if they produce the same amount of jute each year but suddenly receive lower prices for it. Jute prices are also important factor in Bangladesh's development. If overall production remains stable, but prices suddenly drop, revenue fluctuates. In trying to aid the jute industry, there have been two arguments frequently repeated in Bangladesh. One is that, jute growers need to bring sudden supply shocks to a …
Social And Political Discourse In America: The Civil Republican Revival In American Legal Theory And The Critical Theory Of Jurgen Habermas, Daniel Hope
Honors Papers
The challenge for me then, and the question that gave rise to this thesis, was how can the value of Foucault’s insights into the functioning of power within discourse be salvaged given the critiques levelled by Hartsock and Habermas? That is, how can we link Foucault’s analysis of the insidious and all-pervasive nature of power with actual political structures that facilitate and direct its application, and how does this application then affect the functioning of political structures? In attempting to answer this question I have integrated what I see to be two complementary fields of analysis: the critical theory of …
"As If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit And Stare": A Gaze Of A Viewer/Reader In Psycho And To The Lighthouse, Stephanie Hunt Hegstad
"As If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit And Stare": A Gaze Of A Viewer/Reader In Psycho And To The Lighthouse, Stephanie Hunt Hegstad
Honors Papers
At the end of Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, the figure of Norman Bates (or maybe the figure of his mother--at this point, the distinction is fogged) hugs a blanket around him as he sits in his prison cell, staring, perfectly still except for the movements of his eyes, the expressions on his face, the slight movement of his head. He stares directly at the camera, the audience, while the phantom voice of Mother explains her trouble with her son ("he was always--bad"). The camera does not shift angles during this scene to relieve us of this penetrating gaze, but …
Testing For Speculative Bubbles In Foreign Exchange Markets, Akila Weerapana
Testing For Speculative Bubbles In Foreign Exchange Markets, Akila Weerapana
Honors Papers
Foreign currency speculation has always been a well publicized topic that has captured the attention of people who have not formally studied economics. It is also a topic that has captured the attention of researchers in International Finance because speculative bubbles have often been considered as a possible explanation for the excess volatility of exchange rates. An examination of past studies reveals that different methods have been used by researchers to test for the existence of speculative bubbles in major currencies over the period from 1970-1984. In this paper, I will apply three methods which have been used in the …
Resistance And The Possibility Of Freedom: Foucault, Merleau-Ponty And Subjectivity In Tension, Joshua Ziady
Resistance And The Possibility Of Freedom: Foucault, Merleau-Ponty And Subjectivity In Tension, Joshua Ziady
Honors Papers
Charles Taylor chose to begin his 1984 critique of Michel Foucault with the phrase "Foucault disconcerts." This seems to be a most appropriate choice of words. Reading Foucault changes the way one looks at things. His work, both in style and content, subtly erodes assurances and certainties, leaving one with the feeling of standing at the edge of a cliff in complete darkness with the knowledge that there is something out there without being able to grasp that something-yet without fear of falling off the cliff. The reader is left with an unexplainable gap in understanding where before there was …