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The Civic Education Crisis And Its Effect On Young Voters, Caroline Duer
The Civic Education Crisis And Its Effect On Young Voters, Caroline Duer
Baker Scholar Projects
The civic education crisis is the most underrated crisis in the American education system. The voter turnout rates in America are very low and education policies are heavily focused on STEM. In my report I analyze the link between the quality of state education and youth voter turnout as well as the link between civics exams scores and youth voter turnout. As the civic education crisis grows, and national support for civics ebbs and flows, citizens, especially young people, are going to be the victims. When civic knowledge decreases, it is impossible for our government to function properly. Without the …
Who Uses ‘Them’?: Gender-Neutral Pronoun Usage Among Queer And Non-Queer College Students, Brandon Darr
Who Uses ‘Them’?: Gender-Neutral Pronoun Usage Among Queer And Non-Queer College Students, Brandon Darr
Baker Scholar Projects
In this project on language ideology, I designed a sociolinguistic study to investigate the relationship between language perception (what one thinks they know about language usage) and language production (how one actually uses language) via writing and speaking tasks designed to assess general pronoun usage given specific referents in both formal and informal contexts. The qualitative responses are categorized and descriptively analyzed across queer status based off participants’ background information.
Participants included 61 college students who were native English speakers and between the ages of 18 and 26. Based off a question collected on the background information sheet, 18 participants …
The 2015 World Expo Exposed: The Depiction Of Global Food Security, Sara A. Stein
The 2015 World Expo Exposed: The Depiction Of Global Food Security, Sara A. Stein
Baker Scholar Projects
The World Expo Milano 2015 “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” was the first World Expo to be themed around food. The central theme of the Expo questioned how the world can feed everyone in a sustainable manner. This research project was a case study of the World Expo that examined the central themes that different entities expressed as solutions to creating food security. The pavilions of different entities, such as countries, groups of countries, civil society organizations, corporations, and international organizations, were evaluated through participant observation. Pavilion Zero, the pavilion sponsored by the Expo that was designed to represent …