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St. Paul's Indian Burial Mounds, Paul Nelson May 2008

St. Paul's Indian Burial Mounds, Paul Nelson

Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Young Love, Legacy Eyes-Of-The-Moon Russell May 2008

Young Love, Legacy Eyes-Of-The-Moon Russell

English Honors Projects

“Young Love” explores the meaning of love and youth within a contemporary framework. At what point did young love lose its projected verdure, stepping away from the sphere of the naïve, the candied, the untouched, into a darker, more monstrous and sullied realm, resembling its actual antonym—hate? Where is the divide? It is this intricate discourse which simultaneously revolves around and shatters the concept of “young love”. This work investigates the symbolic migrations between the many worlds that compose one’s identity, and the emotional and psychological landmarks that are integral parts of coming into one’s socio-sexual being.


Colonizing Voices In Maurice Ravel's "Chansons Madécasses", Anna M. Sutheim May 2008

Colonizing Voices In Maurice Ravel's "Chansons Madécasses", Anna M. Sutheim

Music Honors Projects

The composer Maurice Ravel described his three-song cycle Chansons madécasses as containing "a new element, dramatic -- indeed erotic, resulting from the subject matter of [Evariste] Parny's poems." This paper explores the disparate and sometimes conflicting 'voices' -- of cultures, of instruments, of ideologies – arising from the depictions of exoticism, racial violence, gender and sexuality within both music and text. These 'voices' and the conflicts of which they speak are also examined in the context of Ravel's overall oeuvre, with an emphasis on his career-long preoccupation with the exotic in art.


The Art Of The Pink Nun: Evangelical Christianity And The Performance Of Capitalism, Sonia M. Hazard May 2008

The Art Of The Pink Nun: Evangelical Christianity And The Performance Of Capitalism, Sonia M. Hazard

Religious Studies Honors Projects

The Pink Nun is an underground feminist performance artist, chastity advocate and pious evangelical Christian. In her artwork, the Pink Nun ironically deploys the methodologies and visual vocabulary of late American consumer capitalism, such that the evangelical Christian values of chastity and sexual purity become products to be bought and sold. In this unorthodox appropriation of capitalism, the Pink Nun finds an alternative way to preach her message, engage a self-announcing secular culture, and perhaps ultimately “harvest souls.” I argue that religion here does not perform in a conventionally “religious” way; it may be manifest more subtly, entwined with and …


The Geometry Of Intuitions: Reconsidering Kantian Constructivism, Michael Mcnulty May 2008

The Geometry Of Intuitions: Reconsidering Kantian Constructivism, Michael Mcnulty

Philosophy Honors Projects

The role of visual methods in geometry is puzzling. Though diagrams can make a geometric theorem immediately evident, current rules of proper inference suggest that diagrams are mere heuristics-simply aiding in the psychological digestibility of a proof. Securing a justificatory role for visual methods involves describing how inference from a diagram guarantees the universality and the a:priority of a geometric theorem. Such an analysis is provided in Kant's synthetic a priori account of geometry. In this paper, Kant's theory is explicated and subsequently defended from attacks related to modern advances in predicate logic, relativistic physics, non-Euclidean geometry and formalism.


The Origins Of Nonsense: An Analysis Of Bo'ri'va:R Sap In Khmer, Stephanie Farmer May 2008

The Origins Of Nonsense: An Analysis Of Bo'ri'va:R Sap In Khmer, Stephanie Farmer

Linguistics Honors Projects

No abstract provided.


Orgolhs, Paratge, And La Gentils Toloza: Imagining Community In The Song Of The Cathar Wars, Elizabeth Johnson May 2008

Orgolhs, Paratge, And La Gentils Toloza: Imagining Community In The Song Of The Cathar Wars, Elizabeth Johnson

History Honors Projects

The Albigensian Crusade in Occitania (1208-1229), which targeted the Cathar heretics as well as their orthodox compatriots, impelled an otherwise disparate set of Occitan noblemen to unite in opposition to the invasion. This newfound cohesion gave birth to an Occitan political community whose members were united by common fears, goals, and virtues. Through my analysis of the second portion of the chanson de geste, The Song of the Cathar Wars, authored by an anonymous poet sympathetic to the Occitans, I suggest the emergence of this Occitan community based upon (1) the portrayal of the French crusaders as well as the …


Visible Civility, Maeve Kane May 2008

Visible Civility, Maeve Kane

History Honors Projects

No abstract provided.


Mysticism, Whimsy And Obscurity In Benjamin Britten's Sacred And Profane: Eight Medieval Lyrics (Op. 91), Daniel Pickens-Jones May 2008

Mysticism, Whimsy And Obscurity In Benjamin Britten's Sacred And Profane: Eight Medieval Lyrics (Op. 91), Daniel Pickens-Jones

Music Honors Projects

No abstract provided.