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Group Membership And Its Adverse Psychological Effects In The Ox-Bow Incident, Casey Plach, '15
Group Membership And Its Adverse Psychological Effects In The Ox-Bow Incident, Casey Plach, '15
Outstanding Gateway Papers
This paper examines and analyzes the causes and motivations of groups in the book The Ox-Bow Incident.
Studium And Punctum: The Duality Of Photography, Karen Thul '15
Studium And Punctum: The Duality Of Photography, Karen Thul '15
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What defines greatness? What element can change something from being mildly interesting to extraordinary? Details, emotion, back-story, and message can all add to the power of a photo, but these are all reasonable answers to define something unreasonable. Recognizing something powerful is instinctive, which makes it hard to define. Barthes gives some guidance to this process by separating the vaguely interesting from the piercingly wonderful. Through studium and punctum, images are separated into these categories, allowing the viewer to analyze images with acute precision. What makes this interesting? Why do I care? These questions are slowly answered by looking …
The Grimm Brothers As Editors, Blair Wright '15
The Grimm Brothers As Editors, Blair Wright '15
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In almost all circumstances, copying the work of others has a strongly negative connotation. In fact, from a very early age, children begin to understand the consequences of mimicking others’ original ideas. It is not uncommon for a little girl to sneak across the street with a neighbor to pick flowers even though her parents had specifically instructed her to stay in their own yard. Upon confrontation, this little girl will likely defend herself by saying, “Well, Jessica was doing it too!” The little girl’s parents would then say, “Will you always just do what Jessica does? If Jessica jumped …