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The Humblest Of Them All, Vibhustuti Thapa

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Contemplating Efficiency: Secular Mindfulness Practices From The Perspective Of Neoliberalism, Janina Misiewicz

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

No abstract provided.

Does Expectation Influence Relationship? A Mixed Methods Investigation Of Parental Expectation And Parent-Child Relationship Among Chinese Family Groups 期望是否會影響關係？華裔家庭中父母的期望對親子關係的影響之研究, Sharon Chiang, Sharon Chiang, Sharon Chiang

Education Dissertations

Abstract

Parental expectation, particularly among Chinese family groups, is understood to be formative upon their children’s identity, behavior in family relationships, educational success and decisions in career choices. China's long history of traditionalism in its social values, heavily based on Confucian philosophy of the family, bears this out. Significant social changes have happened in recent years due to political shifts, modernization, capitalization, immigration, and government population control policies. However, expectation is an element on which both academic study and educational research are rather limited. Current study has touched on the topic of parental expectation and raised some awareness ...

Gendering Of Leisure Forms And Its Impact On Women In Areas Of Conflict: A Case Study Of Jammu & Kashmir, Anusha Wani, Yana Azaad, Vedika Pillai

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

The situation of conflict in Kashmir has only been intensifying post-1989 and the most recent revocation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution has had multi-faceted implications on the whole country, changing the very rubric of Kashmir. The nature of the society within and outside the homes means they must reconcile with the demands made by the private-public sphere while altering it in the process. What is noteworthy is that not only have they faced up to the situation bravely, but dealt with the difficulties and personal tragedies with their personal subjectivities and experiences that have actually empowered these women ...

Piggybacking In? A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Argumentation Schemes, Harmony Peach

OSSA Conference Archive

In this paper, Douglas Walton’s Argumentation Schemes and corresponding critical questions are taken through Thomas Huckin’s (1997) Critical Discourse Analysis in order to further demonstrate that a schematic-pragmatic approach to argument evaluation needs to account for bias in and of itself. Building on the work of Audrey Yap (2013, 2015) and Ciurria and Al Tamini (2014) which demonstrates how the schemes have not addressed, and may even intensify, various disadvantages people with systemic identity prejudices face, Huckin’s approach offers additional nuance as to how these concerns can be exacerbated by the schemes. As the schemes have been ...

Danse Macabre: The Black Death Through The Global Health Lens, Dominic Ignatius Antinozzi

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

As we find ourselves amid a global pandemic it is pivotal to understand our past regarding medicine and its reaction to new threats. The Black Death outbreak of the fourteenth century catalyzed a major shift in medical thought across the Eurasian continent. As medical leaders and writers of the era attempted to understand and react to the death of millions, a conceptualization of disease came about. Coming to be known as Contagion theory, this novel conceptualization led to the many advances we have enjoyed in medicine over the past 700 years. This research explores sources written in the fourteenth century ...

For The Sake Of The Environment?: Policing And Control In Glacier Bay National Park, Cecilia Slane

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

In the years leading up to the creation of Glacier Bay National Monument in 1925, white scientists and explorers from the contiguous US began describing Alaska as a beautiful and awe-inspiring place - a change from its previous depiction as an empty expanse of land. They began lobbying for the Glacier Bay area to be preserved based on its value as a laboratory for scientific inquiry and as a place to be set aside for future generations to appreciate. However, the Tlingit people who lived in the area were not informed about the creation of the park, or even that Alaska ...

The Narration Of Art On Google Arts And Culture, Aishan Zhang

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

Google Arts and Culture (GAC, former name: Google Art Project) is a non-profit program within the Google Cultural Institute that provides open-access online exhibitions for users and shares technical tools with cultural institutions across the globe. This paper shows that digital museum platforms serve the study of art by introducing new possibilities for accessibility, functionality and diversity, but questions whether or not GAC adopts a diverse representation of global art. Two specific phenomena are highlighted to inform the discussion: the standardization of all arts and culture and the compatibility of two-dimensional art with the digitization processes. This paper argues that ...

What Is Enough?: Understanding The Ostracization Of Mixed People And How They Reaffirm Their Identity., Kiera Miles

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

As a mixed-race woman, and a person who has mixed identifying friends, I understand the constant struggle of having your identity being invalidated. Of never feeling acceptable enough of any one identity that I carry. It is due to this understanding why I decided to center my research around mix identity and the question of "am I enough" that I believe is present in mix identifying people; however, this question may change in variation from person to person but regardless it remains at the core issue.

In order to understand how fellow mix-identifying people navigate their identity, I plan to ...

The Unexplored History Of Brockton, Massachusetts’ Residential Racial Inequity, Brianna Bryson

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

How do the arguments made by Richard Rothstein in his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America apply to the metropolitan and suburban areas of Southeast, Massachusetts? To what extent were the Federal, Massachusetts, and local governments’ involved in maintaining residential segregation by race and economic class in Plymouth County Massachusetts, through the Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration? The topic of research for the project will investigate the government's role in creating residentially segregated communities in Southeast Massachusetts. Beginning with the “New Deal” policies carried out under FDR ...

“I’M Real I Thought I Told Ya”: Developing Critical Media Literacy Through U.S. Latinx Digital Media Representations, Solange T. Castellar

All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores how audiences engage with U.S. Latinx media representations through the practice of critical media literacy. I interrogate how media consumers construct critical media literacy through interacting with U.S. Latinx figures on digital media platforms, particularly on the social-media app, Twitter, and the user-generated video content platform, YouTube. Throughout this thesis, I argue that users on these platforms who engage with U.S. Latinx pop culture figures, like Jennifer Lopez and Belcalis Almanzar (Cardi B), read, digest, and comprehend a variety of multimedia images, texts, or videos, and that this engagement becomes an accessible form of ...

Desexualizing Queer Identities: Methods To Validating Non-Sexual Romantic Attraction And Relationships, Unnati Patel

All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There is an increase in the negative views of queer and LGBT+ people in America, and I argue that it is, in part, due to the sexualized connotations of, and sexual association with, queer and LGBT+ identities. Innocuous acts by queer or LGBT+ people, such as being an out school teacher or holding hands in a public space, is enough for non-LGBT+ people to become uncomfortable to varying degrees and, sometimes, even cause verbal abuse or violence. When we look at queer or LGBT+ representation through the possibility of queerness, and by reading representations of queer and LGBT+ romantic attraction ...

Communication Competence Training Within Minority-Owned Small Businesses, Shirleena Racine Baggett

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Business ownership is imperative in correcting economic issues for demographic groups subjugated to discrimination, inequality, poverty, and other harmful disadvantages. This project supports the idea that building communication competence within minority-owned small businesses and nonprofit organizations, will significantly increase achievement of long-term sustainability and success. The solution is not only creating communication training tailored for minority entrepreneurs, but to allow access in feasible and tangible ways. This study begins by defining communication and explaining its function to assist in moving past the narrative of communication interaction as “talking and listening,” but instead a concept rooted in logic, theoretical analysis, and ...

Enacting Gaia And Slow Violence In Fabrice Monteiro’S The Prophecy Series, Isadora Italia

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

No abstract provided.

"Tree Thinking": The Rhetoric Of Tree Diagrams In Biological Thought, Carolyn R. Miller, Molly Hartzog

Poroi

Tree-like visualizations have played a central role in taxonomic and evolutionary biology for centuries, and the idea of a “tree of life” has been a pervasive notion not only in biology but also in religion, philosophy, and literature for much longer. The tree of life is a central figure in Darwin’s Origin of Species in both verbal and visual forms. As one of the most powerful and pervasive images in biological thought, what conceptual and communicative work has it enabled? How have the visual qualities and elements of the tree form interacted with biological thinking over time? This paper ...

Art Of The Cadaver: Spiritual And Secular In The East And West, Wanyan Ma

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

How does the image of the decrepit dead body manifest itself in art? Enlightenment thought had problematically conceived of Europe as at the forefront of knowledge while the rest of the world lagged behind. Christ's body is the original cadaver in Western images, but around the seventeenth century the trend of more secular understandings and depictions of the dead body arose. European anatomical knowledge was also making its way to East Asia around the same time. Non-Europeans were presumed to either lack the investigative spirit or more sinisterly, lack the skill. However, Japanese Buddhist art of the kusozu, or ...

Queer And Neurodivergent Identity Production Within The Social Media Panopticon, Jamie Logan

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

In And Outside City Walls: Medieval Jewish Communities And Rulership In German Cities, Zoë Schwartz

2020 JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

As one would expect, Jewish life within the German Kingdom in the high middle ages (1000-1300 CE) was fraught with instability. The micro-history of specific Jewish communities has been undertaken by historians in the past, but the Jewish experience within multiple cities has yet to be compared. Due to the diversity of German city authority structures, the restrictions and privileges put upon the community were diverse. How these laws effect the daily life of the Jewish community was subject to the gentile authority of bishops, for those inhabiting bishop-cities, or the Emperor directly, for those living in free imperial states ...

Through The Lens Of Koreans: The Influence Of Media On Perceptions Of Feminism, Neha Cariappa

Master's Projects and Capstones

Regardless of country and culture, the media has the power to influence the opinions and perceptions of its viewers. This project evaluates specific Korean movies—and the reactions of South Koreans to gender representations in films that are considered “feminist”—along with the variety show genre, which also tends to reinforce gender stereotypes and imbalances. With these media representations as a framework, this research explores the impact of the internet in forwarding feminist views along with unearthing the reactions of Koreans. Given the anonymity of the internet and social media, these platforms allow for honest expression and counterpoints to sexist ...

Purposefully Forgetting: Surveying San Diego’S Founding Narrative During The City’S Bicentennial Celebrations Of 1969, Noah Pallmeyer

Keck Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellows

The city of San Diego owes much its success and prosperity to the “victories associated with colonization.” This quote comes directly from the current National Park Service description of the San Diego Presidio. This project turns to the 1969 bicentennial celebrations of San Diego’s founding. This was a rhetorically powerful period in San Diego’s historical remembrance. This project argues that native and other marginalized populations were not properly considered in the narrative of San Diego’s founding during these celebrations. To understand why and how these populations failed to be properly considered, this project turns to the narratives ...