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Ernest Hemingway And Alice Walker: Branding The Great American Writer, Shari Stiell-Quashie Jan 2016

Ernest Hemingway And Alice Walker: Branding The Great American Writer, Shari Stiell-Quashie

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Ernest Hemingway and Alice Walker: Branding the Great American Writer discusses how Public Relations efforts have shaped the work of 20th century authors, Alice Walker and Ernest Hemingway through their respective stories The Color Purple and The Old Man and The Sea. The tactics of this field have created two of the most prominent literary figures of our time, writers who have both produced timeless works and summoned a global audience to pay close attention to their work. Understanding how this attention is garnered is vital to recognizing the way authorship is created, shaped, and consumed by the reading …


U.S. Route 9, Emily Frances Mcinerney Jan 2016

U.S. Route 9, Emily Frances Mcinerney

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Stanza My Stone: On The Death Of God And The Nature Of Poetry, Ariella Joann Kust Jan 2016

Stanza My Stone: On The Death Of God And The Nature Of Poetry, Ariella Joann Kust

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Following Racialized Motherhood From The Plantation To The Courtroom, Rachel Greer Parker Jan 2016

Following Racialized Motherhood From The Plantation To The Courtroom, Rachel Greer Parker

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Competition, Corporatization And Culture: A Contrast Of Person-To-Person And Online Video Gaming Communities In America, Jeffrey Miles Rossen Jan 2016

Competition, Corporatization And Culture: A Contrast Of Person-To-Person And Online Video Gaming Communities In America, Jeffrey Miles Rossen

Senior Projects Spring 2016

My Senior Project is an exploration of contemporary competitive Video Gaming culture in the United States. Through a comparison of Person-to-Person gaming communities and Online gaming communities, I aim to elucidate the social nuances in these gaming communities and how they have created such vastly contrasting cultures.


“The Whole Damn System Is Guilty As Hell”: An Analysis Of Social Movements, Social Media, And The Ongoing Fight For Racial Justice In America, Hannah Ray Taylor Jan 2016

“The Whole Damn System Is Guilty As Hell”: An Analysis Of Social Movements, Social Media, And The Ongoing Fight For Racial Justice In America, Hannah Ray Taylor

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Smokin' Out The Truth: An Early History Of Southern Barbecue, Morgan Vivianne Di Santo Jan 2016

Smokin' Out The Truth: An Early History Of Southern Barbecue, Morgan Vivianne Di Santo

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College


"Fruits Are Ripe, We Are Fresh": The Rapper, The Emcee, The Cypher And The Participatory Spectrum Of Hip-Hop, Peter Heyer Anchel Jan 2016

"Fruits Are Ripe, We Are Fresh": The Rapper, The Emcee, The Cypher And The Participatory Spectrum Of Hip-Hop, Peter Heyer Anchel

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College


Viewing The Whale: Space, Time, And The Imagination In "Moby-Dick" And Comics, Garrett Sterling Bond Jan 2016

Viewing The Whale: Space, Time, And The Imagination In "Moby-Dick" And Comics, Garrett Sterling Bond

Senior Projects Spring 2016

In defining ‘comics’ as a genre in his groundbreaking Understanding Comics, scholar Scott McCloud considers images in narratives more generally as operating within a representative space between the storyteller and the objects they describe. This project extracts from comics a structural theory of reading as a subjective visual experience, by comparing the framing of images in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick with that in works of graphic narrative, primarily Richard McGuire’s Here, Chris Ware’s Building Stories, and Matt Kish’s Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page. In order to consider comics as works of narrative, McCloud emphasizes the …


“Nothing But Blows”: Herman Melville And The Contagion Of Authority, Conrad Irving Brittenham Jan 2016

“Nothing But Blows”: Herman Melville And The Contagion Of Authority, Conrad Irving Brittenham

Senior Projects Spring 2016

In Chapter Thirty Six of Moby Dick, “The Quarter Deck,” captain Ahab rallies the Pequod’s crew behind his hunt for Moby Dick, met with no opposition other than from the ship's first mate, Starbuck. After heatedly bickering for some time, Ahab mentions in an aside, “Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs. Starbuck now is mine; cannot oppose me now, without rebellion” (168). What follows is Starbuck’s “tacit acquiescence” to Ahab’s demands. Though it is unclear exactly what the “something” is that comes out of Ahab’s nose, it is clear that this one-track-mind captain …


Pawns: Value Perception, Need Diversity, Soraya Jo-Anna Cain Jan 2016

Pawns: Value Perception, Need Diversity, Soraya Jo-Anna Cain

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.


The History And Democratization Of Men's Lacrosse, Samuel Woodward Funnell Jan 2016

The History And Democratization Of Men's Lacrosse, Samuel Woodward Funnell

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College


Unusual Lavas, Caily Begley Herbert Jan 2016

Unusual Lavas, Caily Begley Herbert

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College


"Disreputable Houses Of Some Very Reputable Negroes": Paternalism And Segregation Of Colonial Williamsburg, Nora Ann Knight Jan 2016

"Disreputable Houses Of Some Very Reputable Negroes": Paternalism And Segregation Of Colonial Williamsburg, Nora Ann Knight

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This project attempts to intertwine the intentionally separated narratives of the foundation of Colonial Williamsburg and the narrative of Williamsburg's black community.


Into The Parlor: The Persona Of Mark Twain As Architect And Satirist Of The Genteel Tradition, Morgan Ariel Oppenheimer Jan 2016

Into The Parlor: The Persona Of Mark Twain As Architect And Satirist Of The Genteel Tradition, Morgan Ariel Oppenheimer

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College


The Crown Of Life, Thatcher Kupple Snyder Jan 2016

The Crown Of Life, Thatcher Kupple Snyder

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Castles In The Air: Thoreau's Theory Of Mind, Harry Deneen Trask Jan 2016

Castles In The Air: Thoreau's Theory Of Mind, Harry Deneen Trask

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.