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Everyday Life History Of The Soviet Laborer, 1920s-1930s, Brianna Lee Hutchins

Honors Projects

This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the daily lives of the Soviet Proletariat in the 1920s and 1930s. Both negative and positive outcomes of the policies implemented during this period are discussed regarding the growth and experiences of the working class. The discipline of everyday life history is explored and applied to this socioeconomic group. Work, education, home life, family structure, gender roles, and standard of living are the main subsets of daily life examined in this thesis. The research presented here concludes that the Soviet Communist Party considered itself an urban vanguard creating a proletarian serving state and …

Supporting First Generation College Students, Miguel Hoyos

Friends of the Adams Library First Year Research Prize

“College graduates without a college-educated parent have lower incomes and less wealth, on average, than those with a parent who has a bachelor’s or higher degree” (Fry, 2021). Nobody on my father’s side of the family has ever been educated past the high school level. My mother, on the other hand, graduated from college and now has her master’s degree. She is the reason why I am not a first-generation college student, and this is the thing that makes me so interested in the group. First I will talk about first-generation college students and their unique contributions to the college …

"Morality Sucks": The Final Generation In 1980s Horror Cinema, Lily Mae Bruscini

Honors Projects

The Final Girl term, created by Carol Clover, tried to identify the surviving victim as a virtuous and chaste girl, eventually masculinized in overcoming her killer. 1980s horror cinema portrays characters being plagued by normative society. The main cast of protagonists in these films are teens in late adolescence, and/or early adulthood. These teenagers are targeted because of their substance abuse, sexual tendencies, and their independence. As a way to explore Clover's theory of the Final Girl, this essay uses Lee Edleman's theory of reproductive futurism to understand the generational conflict through three selected films: A Nightmare on Elm Street …

Becoming Body In Euripides: Affect And Object In Bacchae, The Trojan Women, And Hecuba, Olivia Kulczycky

Honors Projects

In this thesis, I explore the material and immaterial flux of bodies in three plays by Euripides as they attempt to reach the Deleuzian body without organs (BwO). The first chapter, “Flesh,” focuses on the corporeal body of Dionysus in Bacchae as he transcends its boundaries to reach the BwO. The next chapter, “(No)Thing,” examines presence, absence, and elements in The Trojan Women, drawing attention to the role of affective breath. In my thesis’ final chapter, “Sound,” I analyze the sonic body of lamentation that Hecuba builds in Hecuba to territorialize herself with a refrain and deterritorialize herself to reach …

The Power Of Sound: The Positive Effects Of Music For Students With Autism, Julianne Elsie Svoboda

Honors Projects

Sound is a powerful force that can change the lives of many people. Individuals with Autism may struggle in different areas including various forms of communication, social skills, behavioral difficulties, and more. Vocal and/or instrumental sounds (music) can make a significant difference in how individuals on the spectrum make sense of the world and deal with their challenges. Music is an essential tool, an important educational element for students with autism, that must be provided as part of their education so that they may have better opportunities to blossom to their full potential. The power of sound is explored through …

Parenthetical Elsewhere(S), Nathan Thomas Veloso

Honors Projects

This creative project focuses on the grammatically interrogative, elusive and allusive sound, and the interrelation between landscape and language. Music and sound, not only in terms of musicality as a poetic device with potential for meaning, but sound as historical sound-vestige(s), runs throughout the collection, as does experimentation with form, syntax, foreign languages and etymology. The research portion of this project was grounded in movements such as French Symbolism, Anglophone Imagism, and Postmodern American Poetry, especially those considered to be experimental such as Susan Howe, Ronald Johnson and Gustaf Sobin.

San Francisco: A Love Affair, And Other Essays, Ellen J. Taylor

Honors Projects

My honors project is a collection of personal essays that focus on themes of place, identity, and interpersonal relationships. 'San Francisco: A Love Affair,' looks at the way one special place and cultural era can shape a life. 'Ballet is a Country' examines how an early path isn't always the one ultimately followed. In 'Our Truest Selves' I explore family relationships using the technique of midrash, an ancient form of Hebrew scriptural commentary that augments the main text with added insight. 'Wavelength' is a brief treatise on the profound differences, at least to my eyes, between the east and west …

In The Devil's Shadow: Sacred Agency, Cosmic Struggle, And The Cultural-Religious Clashes That Shaped Colonial New England, 1620-1693, Mark Laskey

Honors Projects

The diabolic portrayal of resident native populations featured prominently in the seventeenth-century colonial Separatist and Puritan worldview, with the Algonquian peoples cast as a corrupted race in the service of the Devil; a means by which God challenged religious complacency or chastised collective sin; and, in times of spiritual crisis and despair, a mortal threat to the "rule of saints" in the region. This study focuses on the real-world impact of the nonconforming Reformed Anglo-Protestant belief system and the resulting cultural-religious clashes that shaped New England's early colonial period.

African Muslim Slaves: Literacy And Arabic Narratives, Ruba Bouzan

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

This thesis examines African Muslim slaves and their Arabic writings that influenced their enslavement. The first part of my research considers the historical context that weaves two American presidents together with their distant interaction with Muslim slaves. It also discusses three prominent Muslim slaves in American history: Ayyub bin Suleiman, Abdul Rahman Ibrahima, and Omar ibn Said. Throughout the discussion of the lives of these three men, I analyze their Arabic writing and their use of mimicry throughout, and the ways in which this influenced their patrons‚Äô views of them. The second part explores their differing levels of Arabic literacy …

"When Will My Reflection Show Who I Am Inside?": Queering Disney Fantasy", Macie Lee St. Jacques

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

In this thesis, I argue that the treatment and seemingly progressive representation of gender and queer identity in Disney films serves merely as a form of baiting to modern audiences, a baiting that suggests Disney wants to be understood as having embraced the ideas of progressive feminism and "homosexually-inclusive" ideologies, only to undermine and disavow them with a "bait and switch" narrative maneuvering that undercuts the film's ostensible message. I analyze and interpret the ways in which "classic" Disney animated features represent gender and sexual identity binaries through a close reading of Bambi (1942), Mulan (1998), and Frozen (2013).

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Between The Axe And The Anvil: Internal Reconstructions Of Modern Subjectivity In Alfred DöBlin's Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Zachary Lopez

Honors Projects

Berlin, Alexanderplatz holds a unique place in literary history; for despite being considered one of the major Gro√üstadt‚Äîor big city‚Äînovels of the modernist period, it has largely been forgotten. Between the Axe and the Anvil: Internal (Re)constructions of Modern Subjectivity in Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an essay that grapples with the problem of subjectivity within the city‚Äîa problem that is peculiarly similar to the novel‚Äôs, as both seem to have been lost amidst the buildings and crowds of Weimar Berlin. By reading the text as a dialectic between the social pressures of modernization and the spatiality of the city, Berlin, Alexanderplatz …

Riveting Vietnamese And American Culture Through Jewelry Alchemy, Thoa Kim Dichiara

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

My research involves a deep exploration of the visual and material language found in jewelry throughout history as it relates to deep social, cultural, and personal ideologies. I rivet my Vietnamese and American culture through jewelry alchemy while exploring my identity, sculpting and preserving the four sacred animals of Vietnam. I create boar head chains, the last animal in the Lunar Zodiac, and emerge unapologetically with crowns that proudly pronounce myself. I arrive at my altar with heirloom pendants and brooches, and lastly honor my family history with wearables that feature salt clusters and family gold. This body of work …

Alternative Strategies For Family History Projects: Rethinking Practice In Light Of Indigenous Perspectives, Tommy Ender, Meredith L. Mccoy, Leilani Sabzalian

Faculty Publications

Genealogy and family history projects can be an excellent way to foster students' sense of identity and connectedness to their heritage and relatives. Such activities can help students develop pride and knowledge in their identities and personal histories. Because knowledge of family histories is often valued within Indigenous communities, and central to many Indigenous social, cultural, and diplomatic traditions, such projects have the potential to be a meaningful form of culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogical practice. This article begins with a brief literature review on the value and practice of using family history projects in social studies/history classrooms. Following this …

"I Did Not Plant The Seeds Too Deeply": Intergenerational Trauma And Shame In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, Grace Ann Kimmell

Honors Projects

When trauma‚Äôs genesis is in societal racism or the patriarchal power structure, it can leach its way into our intimate family relationships. Those damaged relationships can in turn create a profound loss or division within the self, as Freud explains in ‚ÄúMourning and Melancholia.‚Äù The trauma victim has lost what a parent or family should be and the security that comes with feeling accepted and loved. If trauma begins with systemic racism and sexism and gets passed down intergenerationally, what is its effect on a black female child‚Äôs identity? Is this trauma survivable? What is necessary to recover? My thesis …

An Investigation Of Form And Function In Greek Pottery, Kyra L. Garabedian

Honors Projects

This work investigates the relationship between form and function in Greek Pottery. Vessels are recreated in different ways that experiment with tipping the scales between form and function.

Mad Men, Troubled Mothers, And Scarred Children: Representations Of Traumatic Parent-Child Relationships In Mad Men, Katarina Dulude

Honors Projects

The television series Mad Men is fraught with traumatic parent-child relationships. The thesis examines three central characters from the Draper family--Don, Betty, and Sally--and their various defense mechanisms. Through the use of psychoanalytic and trauma theory, it determines why certain characters succeed in confronting and recovering from their trauma while others do not.

Discursive Incitement To Violence, David Robert Posman

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

Analysis concerns various discursive techniques employed by FOXNEWS.COM in 2008/2009 (the null) and 2016/2017; whether or not those techniques increased with the executive voice influence of Donald J. Trump in 2016/2017; and any associations with hate crime statistics as gathered by the FBI.

Hidden Voices, Alexandra Sydney Ashe

Honors Projects

A series of short stories told from the perspective of various animals, each with its own unique voice. All share the similar theme of animals pondering their place in the natural world that they inhabit alongside their human counterparts.

Fair Trade: The Successes And Failures As Seen Through The Sustainable Development Goals, P. Alison Macbeth

Honors Projects

In this paper I seek to understand fair trade as a social movement and the relationship of fair trade to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals created by the United Nations. I look at the history of the fair trade movement in the context of alternative trade organizations and the sustainability movement during the precipitous rise and stature of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the 1990s. I analyze the growth and scalability of fair trade in the U.S. since 2015 through three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 1: Ending Poverty; SDG 5: Gender Equality; and SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and …

Perpetual Weapons, Samantha Rose Lowder

Open Books -- Open Minds: All Submissions

"Perpetual Weapons" is a research paper that explores gun violence in the context of Tommy Orange's /There, There/ and connects it to the ever-growing relevance of gun-related crimes throughout the United States.

Maritime Culture: The History, The Music, And Confronting The Gender Divide / One And The Same, Edward Isaiah Hopper

Honors Projects

This Honors Project examines the presence and results of the gender divide in maritime culture through a research paper focusing on maritime history in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, as well as a song cycle, "One and the Same" for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra utilizing a popular belief of the time regarding women and superstition to construct a narrative. This paper analyzes historical sources and sea shanties to observe how women have been represented in maritime history and culture

Incorporating The Critical Music Framework: An Autoethnographic Reflection, Tommy Ender

Faculty Publications

I articulate an autoethnographic narrative of using different songs to counter dominant interpretations of gender, class, immigration, slavery, and education in the secondary social studies classroom. Framing it as the Critical Music Framework, the practice of using music addressing social issues and historical representations of women and people of color provided students with reflective learning opportunities. The resulting conversations illustrate the importance of music not just on the personal but also the academic aspects of individuals.

Penguin Films And The Environment: The Triumph Of Happy Feet And The Trouble With March Of The Penguins, Alexander Tum

Friends of the Adams Library First Year Research Prize

Excerpt: "By portraying the existence of humans, emotionally influencing young viewers, and encouraging the audience to think about progressive solutions, Happy Feet does more to raise awareness on issues surrounding penguins and the environment than March of the Penguins . Although the objective of March of the Penguins is not to promote environmental consciousness, it squanders its valuable platform as a blockbuster film by ignoring the plights faced by the penguins it idealizes. If there is one thing that both Happy Feet and March of the Penguin s do well, it is that they compel audiences to reflect on our …

The Juxtaposition Of Film Education: Explorations For Implementing A Film Curriculum In Public Schools, Maria Zapasnik

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

This thesis is based on the belief that film should be treated with the same respect and inclusion that the fine arts receive in public school curricula. Also, this thesis is based on the belief that as technology and media expands in our society students should be further prepared to work in a world that utilizes this technology. This thesis is approached from personal and professional interests in both the film and art education fields and investigates whether film classes should be more present in public schools’ curricula and, if so, what are some of the best ways to offer …

The Evolution Of The Spinster: Austen And Woolf's Single Women Characters, Naomi Stewart

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

This thesis explores the single woman's situation in the 18th and 19th centuries. It examines changes to the role of the woman in these times, and what has not changed.

Other Worldly Glimpses, Jordan Payeur

Honors Projects

For my honors project, I decided to develop my series of short stories to reflect the different types of worlds that are built within the fantasy genre. Modernly, the terms “low fantasy” and “high fantasy” have begun to be defined as the subgenres of fantasy. These two terms have been debated, some writers and/or readers having slightly different opinions on what each encompasses. In general, low fantasy is defined as a world in which there are fantastical elements, but the story takes place within the world we live. High fantasy, on the other hand, is a world imagined by the …

Love, A Friend, Christine Quiroz

Honors Projects

Table Of Contents

Love, a Friend

Consumption

Obsessive Empathy

Words

Generations

Unstable

To the Man Who Received My Broken Heart

Phoenix

Dawn

Roses

Listen girl,

Titles

Take What’s Yours

US

Letter From My Brain to My Heart

Ideas That Count: Palcus 2020 Census Coloring Activity - Galo, Palcus Mpc

The Make Portuguese Count in the Classroom™ Census 2020

No abstract provided.

Ideas That Count: Palcus 2020 Census Coloring Activity - Community, Palcus Mpc

The Make Portuguese Count in the Classroom™ Census 2020

No abstract provided.

Portuguese Lesson Plans: Várias Actividades Censo 2020, Us Census Bureau, Iplws Ric

The Make Portuguese Count in the Classroom™ Census 2020

No abstract provided.