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An Algorithmic Approach To Detect Non-Injectivity Of The Partial Borda Count, Jazlyn Johnson

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Voting is how we elect today’s voices, faces, and leaders in our country. It is argued to be a very essential right we have as a people. A voter votes, by listing their preferences. Their preferences are relating the candidates to one each other (i.e. whether they prefer candidate A to candidate B or if they are indifferent between the two). There are many different social choice functions that can be used to calculate the results of an election. This project glances over the theory of Condorcet, Borda, Arrow, and Young, all of whom had a great impact on voting …

Understanding Greek Unemployment: Is Greece's Nightmare Over ?, Dionysis D. Tzortzis

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This senior project talks about the unemployment problem of Greece, and examines the conditions of Greek unemployment for the last 25 years. In this project I traveled through the years from 1995 to today, I wrote down the statistics, trends, and projections for the future of unemployment in Greece. In this project I attempt to answer the question, Is Greece’s Nightmare Over which is something difficult to answer. In this project, I review historical decisions by the Greek governments over the years and its consequences regarding unemployment. In order to understand the problem of Greece we need to first understand …

In Fear We Trust: Anxious Political Rhetoric & The Politics Of Punishment, 1960s-80s, Stella Michelle Frank

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

母语/Mothertongue, Janine Sun Rogers

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Prevention Through "Deterrence": How The United States Border Patrol Uses Violent Rhetoric And Policy To Engage In Necropolitics, Tess E. Hamilton-Ward

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Come Closer, Elektra Campbell Babian

Senior Projects Spring 2019

A cool breeze travels up my arm as I let my body sink into the couch. The fan pointed in my direction muffles the surrounding noises, yet I can still hear the grandfather clock tick. I hear the back screen door of the house continuously open and close from the hot wind creeping in from the backyard. The front door opens and a bright beam of sunlight followed by a slap of heat hits my body. My father enters the door frame backlit and appears like an anonymous silhouette, but I know it’s him. He says something to me as …

Inside The Fault Lines Of The Heart: The Poetics Of Exile In The Works Of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, And Etel Adnan., Shahong Jeanou Billault-Lee

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

From Urumqi To Heart Mountain: A Comparative Study Of Forced Internment Befalling Two Peoples, Eight Decades And Two Continents Apart, Caroline Paris Gluck

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Nietzsche And Expressionism: The Neue Mensch In Kafka, Kaiser, And Strauss, Marion Stoll Adams

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Nietzsche's Übermensch and the Expressionist Neue Mensch are two difficult, cryptic, and contradictory ideas. This project compares the Neue Mensch to the Übermensch through the process of transformation, in hopes of better understanding both concepts. The following chapters are an analysis of Franz Kafka’s short story “Das Urteil”, Georg Kaiser’s play Von morgens bis mitternachts, and Richard Strauss’ opera Salome. Through a side-by-side reading of Expressionist literature and Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra, we can see how the Expressionists expanded upon, and experimented with, the concept of the Übermensch.

"Dragging The Net Of Estrangement": Poetics Of The Sea In Elegies Of The Mediterranean, Shiraz Aryan Fazli

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Look Out, Not Up: Union Survival In The Wake Of Janus Vs. Afscme, Cooper T. Slack

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Becoming Biophilic Beasts, Nat Tereshchenko

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This project seeks, by way of experimentation with a poetic and lyrical register, to embody in its form and content the expression of the interrelated and co-constitutive relationship between human beings and other animals. It addresses through its form the limitations of philosophy and of traditional notions of rational argumentation in order to expose ways in which such methods of writing about ethics in regards to animals have fallen short of addressing that which brings us close to animals, allows us to touch and be touched by them, and ignites us to act according to a kind of felt and …

A History And Analysis Relevant To The Us Border: A.K.A. "Fuck The Border”, Cole Rainey-Slavick

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Borders are proliferating throughout the world today; dividing the core from the periphery, racially excluding vulnerable peoples, and facilitating the exploitation of labor. But, it has not always been like this. Borders were once limited only to a small scattering of city states, and even these borders looked little like those of today in terms of their enforcement or function. Where do borders come from? What do they do? What social forces produce and alter them? What is the history of the US border? What is the border …

Constructing The Transsexual: Medicalization, Gatekeeping, And The Privatization Of Trans Healthcare In The U.S., 1950-2019, Erin Gifford

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This project details the medicalization of gender variance in the United States that began in 1950, both in medical discourse and popular culture, and analyzes how this phenomenon has impacted the contemporary landscape of trans healthcare, paying particular attention to issues of access and autonomy.

Medea In Latin Literature: Victim Or Assassin?, Natasha Chamia Acosta

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

It Will Depend On Where The Question Is Used: Freud On Dreams In The Light Of Wittgenstein On Images, Matteo Waldinger-White

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

An exploration of Freud's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis conducted in the light of Wittgenstein's suggestions about seeing and image appraisal in Part II, Section Xi of Philosophical Investigations.

Huge In France: Explaining French Underperformance In The International Box Office, Jay D. Rosenstein

Senior Projects Spring 2019

In the face of near complete American dominance of the global film industry, the French have adopted a number of policies to protect their domestic industry. This project provides a history of public intervention in the French film industry, a theoretical framework to explain American dominance and the possibility of French competition, and finally an empirical evaluation of the French policy of public intervention. It finds significant evidence that public spending has a depressing effect on the size of movies on the upper end of the budget spectrum, but perversely that increasing the proportion of public spending on film increases …

Faulty Vision And Political Realism, Quinn F. Lewis

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This project responds to and expands upon Sheldon Wolin’s magnum opus, “Politics and Vision.” It critiques Wolin’s unnecessarily fragile conception of democracy, as being by nature “ephemeral,” and thus fundamentally non-institutional, by comparing it with the more pragmatic, realist approaches of two historical organizers, Saul Alinsky and V.I. Lenin. The project uses Wolin’s insightful analysis of the state of American politics under late capitalism, to ask, “What is to be done?” exploring the possibilities of organizing and political realism for the Left in the current day.

"Does Victory In This Clash Mean So Much To You?" : Translating Power In Three Plays Of Aeschylus, Stephen Patrick Dwyer

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

The Role Of Unpaid And Alternative Labor On Organic And Sustainability-Oriented Farms, Abigail Avital

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Organic and otherwise ecologically sustainable farming methods are generally known to be more labor intensive, largely due to the lack of synthetic herbicides and pesticides. The ways in which such a labor demand might be met has not been the focus of many studies.There is some evidence that suggests that forms of unpaid or reduced pay alternative labor might help meet this extra demand on small sustainable farms. Using a content analysis of thirteen farmer interviews in Upstate New York, this paper will review the possible roles of unpaid and alternative labor on organic farms, as well as their potential …

A Test Of Obedience Or Patience? A Modified Replication Of “Nothing By Mere Authority” By Haslam Et Al. (2014), John J. Machen

Senior Projects Spring 2019

After Milgram’s infamous experiments and their subsequent ethical critiques, social psychologists have been challenged to search for ways to learn more about the psychology of destructive obedience while still holding true to modern IRB standards of participant protection. One of the ways in which this has been attempted is through the invention of newer and safer paradigms of the Milgram task, perhaps the best known of which would be Jerry Burger's (2009) partial replication of Milgram’s voice-feedback experiment. Five years later, a team of researchers devised a completely new obedience task, the simplified premise of which was to have naive …

Decisions, Decisions: A Look At Government Decision-Making In Response To The Threat Of Terrorism, Casey Ann Witte

Senior Projects Spring 2019

In this paper, an exploration of how governments make decisions is presented. The policy decisions surrounding four separate terrorist incidents in Spain and Great Britain are analyzed using prospect theory, and other concepts from game theory in order to demonstrate the decision making process of policy makers. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the decisions of governments are influenced by their own specific histories and policies that were used in the past. It is shown that governmental decision making is influenced by previous experiences with terrorism, and that governments learn from previous mistakes.

Salta, Socorro, Gabrielle Alexis Reyes

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This collection of stories, written in a mix of English, Spanish, and Italian, details the journey of a first generation college student. The first part of the collection deals with what it is like growing up with two immigrant parents in South Central Los Angeles. The second part focuses more on the conflict between the traditionally of immigrants and the role of women in society. The third part presents a personal break from this mentality with the expressed interest in the Italian language.

Curious Spawn In The Hotbed Of Thought In Theogony, Will R. Kettner

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Amplifying The Voices Of The Muted: Reinterpreting Rival Representations Of Mexican And Central American Migrants And Refugees In American Migration Discourse, Katherine Marie Hopper

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

The Open Boat, Nanda Jean Vashti Fogle

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

A Translation Of Letters By Louis-Antoine De Bougainville: The Seven Years War (1756-1759), Angela Paquette

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Environmental Philosophy: From Theory To Practice, Chase D. Williams

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Edo In The Manga World: Appare Jipangu! And Early Modern Japanese Literature, Parker Christian Cassidy

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This project offers a complete translation of the first volume of the Japanese manga Appare Jipangu! by Yuu Watase. An essay that examines the relationship between the manga's own content and the literature of the Edo period, and an exploration the author’s intentions behind having her story set in that particular time follows the translation. With the historical content in the manga and the general format of manga, the translation of Watase’s work created more intense challenges in naturalizing the original Japanese, some requiring new methods of translation to be utilized. Watase calls her manga an “Edo-style” comedy, and many …

Examination Of United States Housing Data And The Racial Wealth Gap Case Study Of Westchester County, Ny, Ezekiel Nana Demasio

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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