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Celebrating Slow Movement: Design Of A Sensory Experience Through An Intergenerational Platform, Asal Andarzipour

Theses - ALL

This thesis explores the intersections between wisdom, happiness, and aesthetics through intergenerational experiences of older adults and younger individuals. Parallel to this, I have researched the virtues of Slow Cooking, Slow Design, and the Slow Movement to address wellness needs throughout our world. The original solutions explored for balancing these values focused on mindful activities. Case studies of relationships within families in comparison with alternative communities, such as Eco-villages, have guided my research and revealed meaningful efforts that engage individuals with shared environmental and moral values. The final idea that I envisioned is, in essence, a form of sensory experience …

The Third World Women’S Alliance: History, Geopolitics, And Form, Ariane Vani Kannan

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation focuses on the work of the Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA), a women-of-color-led activist organization that maintained active chapters in New York City and the Bay Area between 1971-80. Drawing on archival research and qualitative interviews, I reconstruct how the group invoked, constructed, and circulated intersecting Third World histories and geopolitical analyses through political education, publications, and cultural events. In addition to this historical study, I seek to understand the ongoing presence of the TWWA in educational spaces through interviews with archivists and professors across disciplines. This project makes three contributions to the field of Rhetoric and Composition: …

Constructing And Applying Rubrics In College-Level Efl Writing Assessment In China, Chunhui Li

Theses - ALL

Assessment is a critical component in the teaching of writing and plays an important role in discovering and helping to address students’ writing difficulties. Therefore, it is essential for teachers to approach writing assessment in a reliable and valid way. Previous studies showed that assessment rubrics, used as a standard to describe performance evaluation, can help teachers effectively assess student writing. The reliability and validity of the use of rubrics for helping teachers in assessing writing fairly and improving students’ writing ability has received much research attention; however, less attention has been paid to teacher training in the area of …

Operating Outside Of Empire: Trading Citizenship In The Atlantic World, 1783-1815, Mark Dragoni

Dissertations - ALL

Operating Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815, looks at markets and ships as spaces for negotiation between merchants and the state. The dissertation follows the experiences of former British colonists in America who won independence and then immediately tried to find a way to get back into the British empire. For American merchants, such as Nicholas Low, William Constable, and Thomas Handasyd Perkins, the inconsistently-governed Caribbean provided an entry point to the greater British Atlantic and the markets of the empire. These merchants won access by exploiting the opportunities offered by environmental catastrophes, slave rebellions and …

Control As Multiple Agree, Deniz Satik

Theses - ALL

This thesis presents a new theory of control in which the control predicate establishes control between PRO and the controller by Agreeing with both of them and checking their semantics at a later point of the derivation. Each DP possesses its own index as a syntactic feature. As the predicate Probes for these two Goals, it keeps track of the indexes of the controllee and controller with the control calculus, a part of the narrow syntax. The calculus is sensitive to the semantics of these nominal phrases after transfer to LF. This derives subject control in (1), which Culicover & …

Religion In Contemplative Studies, Daniel J. Moseson

Dissertations - ALL

This project is about the new field of contemplative studies, a field that seeks to use “contemplative” practices, derived mostly (though not entirely) from religious traditions in academic settings, prominently including college pedagogy. First, this project seeks to understand how contemplative studies advocates persuade others (and themselves) that what they are doing is not “religion;” that is, how do they define "religion" in order to situate their own work as non-religious academic inquiry? Second, in the course of my textual and ethnographic research on contemplative studies, it has become apparent that this field adds to the growing rebuttal of religious …

Fierce: Black Queer Literacies Of Survival, Seth Davis

Dissertations - ALL

Influenced by Black feminist and queer scholars, my dissertation focuses on how Black and queer people have made interventions through language and performance to survive larger racist and homophobic forces. Despite critical scholarship on the literacies of both Black and queer communities, there has been limited research that brings together these two perspectives and bodies of research. The foundation of my study is based on audio/video interviews and participant observation: I interviewed participants from 2013 Washington, DC, Black Gay Pride and 2017 Harlem Pride, focusing specifically on their understanding of three terms: “reading,” “throwing shade,” and “pullin’ trade.”

The central …

To Plow A Lonely Furrow: Indigenismo And Mapuche Politics In Chile, 1920-1960, Henry John Stegeman

Dissertations - ALL

This study examines Mapuche political organization in Chile from 1920-1960 through the lens of transnational indigenismo. In that period, politicians, academics and social reformers across the Americas were questioning how to incorporate indigenous populations into modern national states. While many historical accounts of similar phenomena in other countries have drawn categorical distinctions between indigenismo (as a movement led by white elites) and indigenous activism (led by Indians themselves), this work places the two phenomena side-by-side to explore connections between them. That approach shows that collaboration, periodic conflict and strategic alliance making were important components of indigenous politics in Chile. It …

History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity In The Postwar Hollywood Epic, Thomas Jefferson West Iii

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation focuses on the mid-20th Century historico-biblical epic—a film genre that flourished within Hollywood from 1949 to 1966 and which took as its subject the depiction of the ancient world—and reads this body of films as a mode of historical engagement. I argue that the historico-biblical epic takes the pressure of the terrifying possibility of the end of human history engendered by the atomic bomb and transmutes this into a series of dialectics, between agency and powerlessness, embodiment and transcendence, desire and punishment, imperial zenith and nadir. While antiquity seems to offer the modern world the ability to escape …

Ryan Mewhorter, Voice: Junior Voice Recital, Ryan Mewhorter

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Juelin Zhao, Piano: Graduate Piano Recital, Juelin Zhao

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Jurang Kim, Violin: Graduate Violin Recital, Jurang Kim

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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That's Why I Stay: Tyme Baez, Composer, Tyme Baez

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Sasha Turner, Mezzo-Soprano: Student Recital, Sasha Turner

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Resisting Borders, Resisting Control Examining The Multiplicity Of Identities In A Map Of Home And The Girl In The Tangerine Scarf, Zainab Abdali

Honors Capstone Projects - All

In this project I examine identities as they are expressed through the use of language in the novels A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar and The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf. Both novels are coming-of-age narratives of two Arab and Muslim-American female protagonists that depict their exploration of identity as they undergo experiences of war, migration, displacement, and racism in their respective contexts. I explore the protagonists’ negotiation of identity in the face of familial and societal pressure to conform to clearly demarcated categorizations of identity, arguing that the protagonists recognize clear borders between identities as …

Kit Yee Tang, Piano: A Graduate Recital, Kit Yee Tang

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Theta Chapter Of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Concerto And Aria Winner's Concert: Tommy Nakashima, Violin; Sonia Richman, Flute; Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra; James Tapia, Director, Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra, Setnor School Of Music, James Tapia, Tommy Nakashima, Sonia Richman

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Kexin Pan, Violin: Graduate Recital, Kexin Pan

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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David Lee, Piano: A Graduate Recital, David Lee

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Crouse Chorale; Hillary Ridgley, Conductor, And Concert Choir, Dr. Jose "Peppie" Calvar, Conductor, Crouse Chorale, Setnor School Of Music, Hillary Ridgley, Concert Choir, Setnor School Of Music, Jose Calvar

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Celebration Of Popular Music: Dr. David H. Knapp, Director, David Knapp

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Garrett Mitchell, Viola: Junior Viola Recital, Garrett Mitchell

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Lena Wu, Soprano: A Graduate Recital, Lena Wu

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Syracuse University Saxophone Ensemble; Dr. Diane Hunger, Director, Syracuse University Saxophone Ensemble, Setnor School Of Music, Diane Hunger

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Manuela Baranik, Voice: Senior Voice Recital, Manuela Baranik

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Tommy Nakashima, Violin: Violin Graduate Ii Recital, Tommy Nakashima

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Shanshan Zhang, Mezzo-Soprano: Student Recital, Shanshan Zhang

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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Geofrey Cua, Violin: Violin Grad Ii Recital; The Early Works, A Syracuse Premiere Of Under-Performed Works By Eastern European Composers, Geofrey Cua

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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The Mana Quartet, Mana Quartet

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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