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"You Know Your Voice Is Kind Of Nice When Your Mouth Isn't Screwing It Up.”, Jennifer Anne Grant Mar 2013

"You Know Your Voice Is Kind Of Nice When Your Mouth Isn't Screwing It Up.”, Jennifer Anne Grant

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

We watch movies, mostly for the mind-blowing special effects, extraordinary actors and actresses, and/or the unforgettable stories, but when do we ever remove the visual and just listen to the scripts or embrace the noise? In my work, I stray from the visual studies and draw that which I hear. I am interested in capturing the visual formation of words that become noise as they build up in my memory. As the mouths group together, so then does all of the character dialogue, ultimately resulting in incoherent noise.

Through growing up around parents who started an audio visual business, I …


Chinese Language Mobile App, Tara Marie Sripunvoraskul Mar 2013

Chinese Language Mobile App, Tara Marie Sripunvoraskul

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

This project uses the ARIS platform to create immersive language tutorials in Chinese that are developed by students to increase participation and engagement to bridge the gap of learning the material to be used in real-world situations


Catharsis, Deborah Elizabeth Rule Mar 2013

Catharsis, Deborah Elizabeth Rule

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

For this event, I participated by submitting my fiber art research piece, which consisted of small embroidered statements of apologies.


Virtus Et Oratio: Masculinity And Rhetoric In Early Imperial Rome, Bethany Nicole Good Mar 2013

Virtus Et Oratio: Masculinity And Rhetoric In Early Imperial Rome, Bethany Nicole Good

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

In ancient Rome, an elite man had to have virtus, or manliness, to be considered a true man, a vir. Many factors determined whether a man was seen as having proper virtus or not. Rhetorical skill seems to have played a role in the construction of gender for men in early imperial Rome. My project explores the relationship between rhetoric and gender in this period of time. Textual analyses of works from the early Roman Empire provide evidence for how descriptions of speech were used to suggest whether a man had virtus or not. Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria offers …