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Seeking Asylum In A Modern Society: Global Responses To Latin American Migration, Rebecca Dickinson May 2021

Seeking Asylum In A Modern Society: Global Responses To Latin American Migration, Rebecca Dickinson

Senior Honors Projects

The United States is no stranger to asylum seekers and refugees. The most famous seaport in the country houses a 305-foot-tall statue of a woman bearing a torch with words from the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus etched at her feet: “‘Give me your tired, your poor, /Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’”[1] The Statue of Liberty is a symbolic representation of open arms to immigrants from all walks of life. But if everyone is welcome, why do so few actually gain entrance?

US interventionism policies in the 20th century have defined the lives of millions …


Advanced Proficiency For Advanced Cultural Topics Spa 418, Joanna Burkhardt Feb 2021

Advanced Proficiency For Advanced Cultural Topics Spa 418, Joanna Burkhardt

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Senior Seminar Across Languages And Cultures Lan 420, Joanna Burkhardt Oct 2018

Senior Seminar Across Languages And Cultures Lan 420, Joanna Burkhardt

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Conversational Chinese Ii Chn 122, Joanna Burkhardt Sep 2018

Conversational Chinese Ii Chn 122, Joanna Burkhardt

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Conversational Chinese Iii, Joanna Burkhardt Sep 2018

Conversational Chinese Iii, Joanna Burkhardt

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Conversational Chinese I Chn 121, Joanna Burkhardt Sep 2018

Conversational Chinese I Chn 121, Joanna Burkhardt

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Conversational Chinese Iv Chn 124, Joanna Burkhardt Sep 2018

Conversational Chinese Iv Chn 124, Joanna Burkhardt

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Global Language Studies, Joanna Burkhardt Sep 2018

Global Language Studies, Joanna Burkhardt

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La Barbe: Feminine Beards And Other Mysteries Of French Grammatical Gender, Robin F. Keller May 2013

La Barbe: Feminine Beards And Other Mysteries Of French Grammatical Gender, Robin F. Keller

Senior Honors Projects

Grammatical gender in French language is one of the biggest guessing games for a native English speaker. Why a table is feminine and a book is masculine is a question that plagues those learning French as a second language. In French, all nouns have gender, masculine and feminine. The complication: only a small percentage of the nouns are assigned gender semantically leaving the remaining which are assigned gender seemingly arbitrarily. For English native speakers, the distinction of these basic parts in a foreign language is not a natural skill. The simple fact that nouns are either feminine or masculine is …


Répétez S’Il Vous Plaît !: L’Enseignement De La Compréhension Auditive Dans La Salle De Classe, Jordan M. Bessette May 2012

Répétez S’Il Vous Plaît !: L’Enseignement De La Compréhension Auditive Dans La Salle De Classe, Jordan M. Bessette

Senior Honors Projects

Foreign language acquisition is a subject of increasing importance in today’s world, acting as the backbone of international relations, trade and communication. In addition, through examination of a foreign culture and language, individuals can come to appreciate philosophies and values other than those pertaining to their own society. However, the difficulty and apparent uselessness of the subject material in the “here and now” dissuades many students from continuing language acquisition after obligatory general education requirements have been fulfilled. Through examining acquisition theories and factors which affect students’ motivation to continue second language acquisition; I developed a strategy in order to …