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Interior Personas, Bryce Harper

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With this body of work, I attempted to truly get inside the human persona. People tend to wear a mask that they feel best represents what they think everyone wants them to be. They tend to hide or brush away important aspects of their personality in fear of persecution or rejection from others. I started with myself, looking inside to reconsider my own beliefs and how I portray myself to society. The combination of that photographic self-discovery and written journal entries came together in a series of self portraits that I felt were a true representation of who I really …

The Masquerade In Watteau And Marivaux, Alexis Redish

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The bourgeois French of the 18th century were characterized by a social code that required a certain manner of speech and action in the areas of dress, love, parties, and childhood. Following these rules rendered one elegant, charming, and elite, in addition to ensuring social success and proving one’s inner nobility. The comedic works of Marivaux and the breathtaking paintings of Watteau’s collection La Fête Galante eloquently summarize this mode of life. Under the guise of art and entertainment, Watteau and Marivaux, respectively, reveal the lifestyle and intentions of the bourgeois community in the same indirect manner by which that …

Mirrored Imbalance, Kate Shannon

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My photographs are almost always self-portraits, which has created a unique bond between me and the machine with which I will eventually make art. The camera becomes not just a tool, but a source to which I show myself completely with no inhibitions. In my work, my main concern is my physical appearance and its relationship to interior emotion (the outward vs. the inward). It is my hope that I communicate emotion through images of my body and, in turn, create a dialogue between me and my audience. It is my goal to create photographs that can communicate feeling without …

Taking On A Superpower: A Salute To The Women Of Vietnam, Jordan Wood

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Explaining the outcome of the Vietnam War has challenged diplomats, strategists, and politicians for three decades. Searching for reasons that such a small nation pushed a superpower from its borders, some have criticized U.S. policy, found errors in American strategy, and commented on the overall effort of the United States. Most, however, have ignored the real strength of the enemy: the female warriors. This group of women, comprising a large part of the Vietnamese nationalist force, assumed many different combat roles. Thousands who actively defended their homeland earlier against the French were more than ready to rid the country of …

A Letter Would Have Been Fine, Melanie Fee

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The Noise In The Room (Based On The Diaries Of Carolyn Taylor), Lauren Argo

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Migration Of The Butterfly, Todd Keisling

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This is an excerpt from a novella.

More Than A Game: The Legacy Of Black Baseball, Tara Moriarty

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Out of a segregated and persecuted black society, the Negro Leagues arose to provide a form of business, entertainment, and charity. The leagues served as a form of uplift within the race and as a tool to bring blacks together within their communities. In 1945, with the signing of Jackie Robinson to Montreal, baseball became a vehicle for integration. While Robinson broke the color line in professional baseball, he simultaneously broke the Negro Leagues. Black fans abandoned black baseball and turned to the Major Leagues to watch Robinson. Although the integration of baseball was the first major victory for integration …

On The Coexistence Of Freedom And Necessity, George Younger

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Fabricating Wigs For Madama Butterfly, Daniel Townsend

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Creating Kimonos For Madama Butterfly, Kiralyn Davison, Mathew Seckman, Daniel Townsend

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Drink From The Jar, Erik Tuttle

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Angry Banshee, Melanie Mcconathy

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Introduction To My Poems: Understanding The Soul In Tieck, Leibniz, Shelley, And Kleist, Tasha Pedigo

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Home, Amanda Doerrfeld

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This is a portion of a longer work that includes the story of Zoshia leaving her home and embarking on her voyage.

Revamping The Roles Of Women In Vampire Film Or Women Who Suck The Life Out Of You, Christy Freadreacea

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"Speak 'Em Fair": Discourse And Dissembling In The Jew Of Malta, Andrew Bozio

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Barabas, the title character of Marlowe's tragedy, is the embodiment of contradiction. Under persecution, he trangresses Christian norms in order to create his own identity, and yet, in the same instant, his antics make him the very monster of medieval legend. Hence the question arises: is Barabas' rebellion skillful enough to deconstruct Maltese (and English) anti-Semitism, or do his actions merely confirm the Jewish stereotype? In working toward an answer, in this paper I provide an introduction to the French philosopher Michel Foucault, using containment theory to create a theoretical framework for addressing the problems of representation in The Jew …

The Virago, Hermaphrodite, And Jan Gossaert: A Metamorphosis In Netherlandish Art, Heidi Caudill

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In this paper, I examine the origins of the 1516 painting The Metamorphosis of Hermaphroditus and the Nymph Salmacis by the artist Jan Gossaert. Because there are no known representations of the myth in post-classical European art before Gossaert’s version, the existence of the painting provokes questions about its patronage, background, and possible implications. Derived from the myth of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the focus of the work is on the physical struggle between a male and female figure. The artist casts these individuals into the roles of victim and aggressor, with the female as the dominant character. …

Art, Attention, And Consciousness: An Experiment In Experiential Painting, Ben Drewry, Johannes Kohler

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A “transformation of perception” is investigated by looking both at the interrelationship among art, attention, and consciousness and by looking into their common origin. The role attention plays in consciousness is considered. A new model of consciousness is summarized that claims that attention is the primary factor in creating consciousness, and posits a prereflective self prior to all perceptual experience. This model is compared to states of pure consciousness described by Eastern sages, and the role attention plays in achieving those states is examined. Our experiment in experiential painting is described, and we then attempt to tie together the three …

Antitheatricalism And The Movement Of Sexual Difference, Andrew Bozio

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On Lust, Joe Hall

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“Sometimes I Wish The Sun Would Just Explode:” Squidbillies, The Animated Hillbilly, And The Cultural Myth Of Appalachia, Kayla Rae Whitaker

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Nietzsche Contra Wright: On Becoming What You Are, Jordan Rodgers

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Robert Wright’s recent book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, is concerned largely with the ethical implications of recent evolutionary science, and espouses a form of utilitarianism as the ethical theory that should naturally follow evolutionary insights into human psychology. This paper challenges that notion, with constant reference to the work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, on the basis that such an ethical theory places far too little emphasis on the individual as such, and is tantamount to a form of nihilism. This paper also argues that, while seeking for the happiness of other people is a good thing, our …

Four Months In France: An Illustrated Journal, Henry David Hicks

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Writing Moonlight: An Analysis Of Beethoven’S Piano Sonata Opus 27 No. 2 In C Sharp Minor, Andrew L. Lynch

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An analysis of the first movement of one of Beethoven’s most popular sonatas, the Moonlight Sonata, by a chemical engineering major who is a relative outsider to music. Analysis proceeds systematically: line by line and stanza by stanza. The goal of this analysis is elucidation of Beethoven’s methods for producing the atmosphere of haunting desire which pervades the piece.

Alben W. Barkley: Harry S. Truman’S Unexpected Political Asset, John Ghaelian

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1880s Day Dress, Corey Gregory

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Autopoiesis: Self-Creation In Nietzsche, Andrew Crown-Weber

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A recurrent theme in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is his imperative that we must create ourselves. Though this theme of self-creation runs throughout the entirety of his published works, Nietzsche neither fully articulates in one place the processes and guidelines by which such self-creation could occur, nor does he fully resolve the paradoxes inherent in this concept. This paper attempts to distill from these fragments a coherent interpretation of both how we can and why we should, despite (or, paradoxically, because of) our many external and internal constraints, fashion ourselves the way an artist shapes a work of art.

The Opening Chapters Of: Only A Game, Andrew Crown-Weber

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These are what may turn out to be the first chapters of a novel tentatively called “Only A Game,” which could possibly be finished some time in the future, maybe. At present this book-to-be deals with the life of a young man who is addicted to one of the few new drugs to be discovered this century: massively multiplayer online role-playing games. If you are unfamiliar with this digital scourge, have some time on your hands, and haven’t eaten recently, I recommend Googling the term for an eye-opening experience. I won’t spoil all the many surprises and twists and intrigues …

The Perfect Machine: The Reason Behind The Anatomical Studies Of Leonardo Da Vinci, Amanda M. Cothern

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The legacy of Leonardo da Vinci is most often characterized by the works of his brush — however, there is more to Leonardo than what meets the art lover’s eye. His notebooks overflow with scientific studies, the most amazing of which are his detailed drawings of human anatomy. Scholars have long assumed that Leonardo dissected corpses in order to better represent the human form in his painting. In this paper, I counter that assumption, making the following points:

1. Leonardo’s anatomical findings did not significantly influence his painting.
2. Leonardo was an accomplished scientist and engineer.
3. Leonardo applied his knowledge of physics …