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Exploring The 'Food Motif' In Songs From The Irish Tradition., Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

Beyond Therapy: A Dramaturgical Look At Christopher Durang's Absurdist Play, Jennifer Layton

Linfield University Student Symposium: A Celebration of Scholarship and Creative Achievement

This research notebook (also known as a dramaturgy notebook) was created as a class project for an advanced Theatre History course. We were asked to choose one play to study throughout the semester with the ultimate goal of creating a dramaturgy notebook that would be usable for a production team were we to produce our show of choice. Having a great interest in Christopher Durang and his work, I chose to study Beyond Therapy. We were asked specifically to write a biography on our chosen playwright, a historical context essay, an essay about themes present in the show, and …

Celebration Of Learning 2014: Full Program, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Celebration of Learning

Full program of the 2014 Celebration of Learning at Augustana College.

Restorative Justice In Post-Conflict Areas, Nancy Montgomery, Hillary Hook, Hilary Murphy

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

This presentation sought to review the literature in regards to understanding international restorative justice efforts in conflict prone areas. After outlining a definition of restorative justice we explored its implementation in three different countries. First, we examined the historic precedence of indigenous sentencing courts in Australia. Second, we looked at current measures in Northern Ireland and their effectiveness. Third, we offered a predictive outline for the potential work in South Sudan. These case studies showed the past, present and future of restorative justice. With this knowledge we hoped that people would better understand the efficacy of restorative justice and recognize …

Public Transportation: Perceptions Of Filth Contributing To Poor Health, Dashka Bernard

Annual Undergraduate Conference on Health and Society

Public transportation vehicles such as trains or buses have a reputation as unsanitary. Many riders of public transit are concerned with the health risks they are facing in regards to contagion. Perceptions of cleanliness derive from public health historically, with class, morality, and good health tied together in the American public’s attitudes. Certainly, infectious disease and sanitation are directly correlated in many instances, such as in the highly overcrowded and dirty cities in the early twentieth-century United States. Those living in filthy conditions (particularly, lower class individuals) were not only prone to becoming ill, but also considered to be immoral …

Mainari, Farmari, Lumperjäkki, Piika : “Ethnic Identity” And Earning A Living In The Keweenaw And Nickel Belts To 1930, Peter Krats

Retrospection & Respect: The 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium of 2014

Job seekers in resource-based economic settings like the Keweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan and the Nickel Basin surrounding Sudbury, Ontario faced many challenges, from the dangers of the job to corporate domination to the “boom and bust” nature of inevitably limited supplies of even “endless” natural riches. Adding to these many challenges in both settings was the employer view that you were best suited to certain tasks.

This paper examines these expectations from “both” ends – how and why did employers see matters this way, and what did the “recipients” make of being cast in certain roles ? Did the …

Our Lives, Our Thoughts And Our Allegiance: New Immigrants And American Industry In 1914, Thomas Mackaman

Retrospection & Respect: The 1913-1914 Mining/Labor Strike Symposium of 2014

Through comparative analysis of the immigrant labor forces at work in iron mining in northern Minnesota, coal mining in Illinois, and steel milling in the Calumet region of Chicago and Gary, this paper addresses the forms of social distance separating and marginalizing new immigrants from American society and trade unionism that existed in 1914, the year that marked the end point of mass immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.

The “new immigration” was a labor migration that congregated its subjects overwhelmingly in what were called "unskilled" or "semi-skilled" forms of labor. Skilled work was largely, with certain variations, the preserve …

Why Don’T We Talk About It?: The Holocaust And Anti-Semitism In Jewish Made Comic Books, 1963-1989, Cameron Fontaine

Religious Studies Student Organization Undergraduate Research Conference

on of comic creators in the years it was active, this paper also examines the legitimization of comic books as both a literary and visual art form and the roles these comic book creators played in that struggle.

The Jewish immigrant experience and the legacy of the Holocaust were unpleasant themes not suited for the stringent guidelines of the Comics Code Authority established in 1954. While Jewish comic creators could not openly ignore these guidelines, these taboo themes were addressed using metaphor and allegory. The first key players in the 1960’s were Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, creators of The …

The Unwanted Immigrant: The Rise Of Californian Nativism From 1849-1860, Frank Anthony Bozich Iii

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

No abstract provided.