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"A Truthful Accounting Of Events": The Roles Of Linguistic Strategy, Narrative, And Performance In United States Asylum Hearings, Celia Feldman
"A Truthful Accounting Of Events": The Roles Of Linguistic Strategy, Narrative, And Performance In United States Asylum Hearings, Celia Feldman
Senior Projects Spring 2012
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The Choice Of The People: Direct Legislation, Abortion Policy, And The American Democratic Ideal, Madelin Siedler
The Choice Of The People: Direct Legislation, Abortion Policy, And The American Democratic Ideal, Madelin Siedler
Senior Projects Spring 2012
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Welfare Versus Stability In "Stabilizing An Unstable Economy": A Minskyan Growth Model, Stergios Mentesidis
Welfare Versus Stability In "Stabilizing An Unstable Economy": A Minskyan Growth Model, Stergios Mentesidis
Senior Projects Spring 2012
The paper focuses on Minsky's financial fragility hypothesis incorporated in a growth model and investigates whether an inherently unstable economy can be stabilized by a big and proactive government. Using dynamical systems theory and expanding a supply-driven growth model developed by Lin, Day and Tse (1992), the paper explores how different government spending programs and financing paths can affect the growth, as well as the stability of a capitalist economy. The results and implications of the new frameworks are analyzed, using analytical and numerical methods of bifurcation, to examine the dependence of optimal government intervention on the economic environment. The …
"I Is An Other": An Exploration Of The Development Of Childhood And Adolescent Self-Concept, Jessica Lebovits
"I Is An Other": An Exploration Of The Development Of Childhood And Adolescent Self-Concept, Jessica Lebovits
Senior Projects Spring 2012
A multidisciplinary project that combines original empirical research with an analysis of two Modernist novels, The Waves by Virginia Woolf and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
The Environmental And Cultural Effects On The Conquest Of Mexico, Tristan Siegel
The Environmental And Cultural Effects On The Conquest Of Mexico, Tristan Siegel
Senior Projects Spring 2012
In this work I examine the environment and cultural attitudes of Mesoamericans, specifically the Mexica (Atzec), and how these factors played a role in the Conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes. I begin by examining Mesoamerican agriculture, lithic technology, and metallurgy. I conclude by examining how these factors played out in the Conquest.
Comparison Of China And Japan’S Economic Development In The Semiconductor Industry, Rundong Ke
Comparison Of China And Japan’S Economic Development In The Semiconductor Industry, Rundong Ke
Senior Projects Spring 2012
While Japan marked its success in surpassing the U.S. to dominate the semiconductor industry in 1986, the Chinese semiconductor industry transformed from a small sector into a global competitor. This thesis tracks and compares the developmental histories of this industry between China and Japan and analyzes the differences in government policy, economic systems, comparative advantage and trade policy in both countries, in order to ascertain the two countries’ industrial development strategies and governments’ impacts on the semiconductor industry. This analysis finds that Japan’s development strategy targeted a knowledge- and capitalintensive industry (semiconductor industry, in this case) by providing preferential assistances …
The Impact Of Ptsd On Veterans’ Family Relationships: Mechanisms Of Distress And Available Treatments, Adam D. Lamotte
The Impact Of Ptsd On Veterans’ Family Relationships: Mechanisms Of Distress And Available Treatments, Adam D. Lamotte
Senior Projects Spring 2012
When veterans return home from war with PTSD, the disorder can have detrimental effects on their close family relationships. Researchers have proposed different mechanisms underlying the distress experienced by partners and children of veterans with PTSD in the hopes that these mechanisms can be targeted in treatment. The purpose of this project is to review and synthesize the current literature on these mechanisms of distress, as well as the treatments that have been designed to address them. This review examines several key factors that account for veterans’ relationship distress, including the important factors of intimacy and aggression. Due to the …
"Till Death Do Us Part:" White Weddings And Marriage In Contemporary Ritual, Brieze Levy
"Till Death Do Us Part:" White Weddings And Marriage In Contemporary Ritual, Brieze Levy
Senior Projects Spring 2012
No abstract provided.
The Heart Of Light: Rights, Justice, And Representations Of History And Conflict In The Congo, Nion T. Mcevoy Jr.
The Heart Of Light: Rights, Justice, And Representations Of History And Conflict In The Congo, Nion T. Mcevoy Jr.
Senior Projects Spring 2012
In this paper I explore different representation of history and conflict in the Congo, through the lens of the Kony 2012 video released by Invisible Children. I look at the means and ends of representations, and what they tell us about rights, and justice.
The Glutamate Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia: Assessment Of A Novel Antipsychotic In Zebrafish Larvae, William Vitale
The Glutamate Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia: Assessment Of A Novel Antipsychotic In Zebrafish Larvae, William Vitale
Senior Projects Spring 2012
The glutamate hypothesis is a new theory of schizophrenia which proposes that deficient glutamatergic transmission at the NMDA receptor underlies the positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms of the disorder. In addition to tracing the development of the glutamate hypothesis in depth, this senior project presents a study investigating the effects of a novel antipsychotic in zebrafish. Zebrafish are an emerging model of several CNS disorders, including schizophrenia, and it has been demonstrated that NMDA-R antagonism induces motor hyperactivity in zebrafish adults and larvae. Previous research supports an ability of typical and atypical antipsychotics to reverse these motor effects in zebrafish …