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Adult Statistical Word Segmentation Across Two Speakers, Hosung Kang
Adult Statistical Word Segmentation Across Two Speakers, Hosung Kang
2017 Undergraduate Awards
A finding reliably demonstrated in past research is that statistical learning mechanism facilitates the process of learning language. What remain poorly understood are the effects of multiple speakers in infants and adults learning a statistical artificial language. This study sought to examine the effects of two different speakers in adults because previous literature has suggested that infants lack the ability to segment words when the speech stream consists of two different speakers. Therefore, our experiment sought to understand if 1) adults could successfully segment words across two different speakers and 2) if they can generalize segmentation to a novel voice. …
The Pleasurable Pain Of Melancholic Solitude: Examining Rousseau’S Emotional Self-Indulgence In Reveries Of The Solitary Walker, Aleksander Franiczek
The Pleasurable Pain Of Melancholic Solitude: Examining Rousseau’S Emotional Self-Indulgence In Reveries Of The Solitary Walker, Aleksander Franiczek
2017 Undergraduate Awards
Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker celebrates self-indulgent emotion through the seemingly paradoxical state of melancholic solitude. Although useless in terms of its impact on the world, melancholy is a complex emotion with a deep introspective nature that can lead to the simultaneous indulgence in, and effacement of, the self. While Rousseau’s melancholic state can be understood as a retreat from the painful trials and tribulations of the public world, his self-imposed solitude encourages peace specifically through the inwardly focused indulgence of “reverie,” a seemingly purposeless solitary rumination encouraging self-knowledge. This essay explores the personal and pseudo-divine nature of Rousseau’s …
The Sounds Of Violence: Textualized Sound In Frank Miller’S Sin City And Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sam Boer
2017 Undergraduate Awards
Though graphic novels are slowly being accepted into the world of academic criticism, one fundamental aspect of the medium has been consistently ignored, dismissed, and ridiculed as a crude necessity: textualized sound. Visual onomatopoeias, most recognizably depicted as sound effects for gunshots, car chases, and the like, have a long history in the medium of comics. Though these textualized sounds may have originated as a device of necessity—a clumsy means of employing sound into a “mono-sensory medium” (to quote Scott McCloud)—the implementation of onomatopoeia in comics has become an integral device in defining an author’s style and heightening their work. …
W.B. Yeats: A Poet In A Destitute Time, Kristiana N. Karathanassis
W.B. Yeats: A Poet In A Destitute Time, Kristiana N. Karathanassis
2017 Undergraduate Awards
In the elegy titled “Bread and Wine,” Friedrich Hölderlin asks, “and what are poets for in a destitute time?” Drawing on the theories of Martin Heidegger, who addresses this very question in his essay “What are Poets For?”, I argue that the modernist poetry of William Butler Yeats offers an answer, as well as a demonstration. Through an analysis of “The Second Coming” (1919), “Sailing to Byzantium” (1926), and “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (1939) in the order of their publication, I reveal that as Yeats’ poetic career developed and transformed, so too did his understanding of, and relationship to, his …
Poetry After Mauschwitz: Holocaust Memory In Art Spiegelman’S Maus, Lauren Paparousis
Poetry After Mauschwitz: Holocaust Memory In Art Spiegelman’S Maus, Lauren Paparousis
2017 Undergraduate Awards
At a moment in time when the last of the Holocaust survivors will soon no longer be able to give their testimony directly, the writings of second-generation Holocaust survivors is instrumental to preserving their memory. Through his seminal and most controversial work Maus, Art Spiegelman comes to terms with his inability to fully know and accurately memorialize the Holocaust. As a second-generation survivor, Spiegelman engages with the problematics of Holocaust representation by weaving the difficulty of telling and knowing the Holocaust throughout his work. Maus sheds light on the way Spiegelman, and other second-generation survivors, cope with the present absence …
Necessary Affairs: Exploring The Relationship Between Indigenous Art And Activism, Jasmeen Siddiqui
Necessary Affairs: Exploring The Relationship Between Indigenous Art And Activism, Jasmeen Siddiqui
2017 Undergraduate Awards
Turning upon the assumption that art can, in fact, perform a function, and that its function is social, political, and/or cultural, this essay investigates the effectiveness of art as a form of activism. Not all art must be created with political intentions, but somewhere in the process, context, product, or interpretation of art lies social, political, and cultural value. Every work of art is a product of its time and place, and it is indicative of a relationship, sentiment, or occurrence in the artist’s life—and when that life belongs to a marginalized community, those relationships, sentiments, and occurrences take on …
“I Am No Woman, I”: The Myth Of Ganymede In Shakespeare’S Venus And Adonis And Marlowe’S Hero And Leander, Kristiana Karathanassis
“I Am No Woman, I”: The Myth Of Ganymede In Shakespeare’S Venus And Adonis And Marlowe’S Hero And Leander, Kristiana Karathanassis
2017 Undergraduate Awards
Epyllion poems, or little epics, functioned in Renaissance society as provocative, comedic, and deeply intertextual explorations of Elizabethan sexuality and gender. Venus and Adonis (1593) by William Shakespeare and Hero and Leander (1598) by Christopher Marlowe are widely recognized as seminal poems of this erotic genre. Through their engagement and experimentation with the titular characters and narratives from Ovidian classical mythology, both poems seem to present subversive explorations of heterosexual love and desire in the Renaissance. In apparent transgressions and reversals of Petrarchan love conventions, Adonis, the beautiful male youth, is feminine and sexless, while Venus—the love goddess herself—is aggressive …
Darwin's Universe: The Darwinian Foundation Of The Discipline Of Astrobiology, Andrea Holstein
Darwin's Universe: The Darwinian Foundation Of The Discipline Of Astrobiology, Andrea Holstein
2017 Undergraduate Awards
This paper explores the role of Darwin’s approach to the study of life in developing the core research program of astrobiology. Presently, there is little historical scholarship regarding the broad discipline of astrobiology, and, particularly, the relationship between the disciplines of biology and astrobiology. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that Darwin’s biological inquiry inspired further research into uncovering the origin and conditions for life in the universe, as well as how his research influences the modern astrobiological research program. This analysis of the impact of Darwin’s research on the discipline of astrobiology was accomplished by examining how …
Art History & Mass Media: The Role Of Architecture In Narrative, Jacqueline Grassi
Art History & Mass Media: The Role Of Architecture In Narrative, Jacqueline Grassi
2017 Undergraduate Awards
Art history and visual culture is portrayed by popular media in various contexts, from blockbuster to documentary, and approached through vastly different methods, ranging from the perpetuation of popular myth to academic commentary. A dichotomy arises between representations of art history from the perspective of scholarly research and the appropriation of art history as a source for creative inspiration. A veritable academic approach is perceived to depict an accurate, factual engagement with visual culture, yet large crowds bring commercial success to sensational re-imaginings of history, despite an awareness of a removal from historical truth. However, this notion that there is …