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Judging Books By Their Covers: How Cover Design Influences Our Perception Of Books And Their Audience, Erika Schlenker Apr 2014

Judging Books By Their Covers: How Cover Design Influences Our Perception Of Books And Their Audience, Erika Schlenker

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

Readers judge books by their covers no matter how many times they are told not to. Though it may seem to go against the age-old saying, publishers wish for consumers to judge books based on cover appearances. However, covers sometimes fail to accurately represent the content and themes of their books and are unsuccessful at appealing to a wide audience. Specifically, critics in recent years are concerned that covers aimed at attracting a particular gender alienate the opposite sex before they’ve even considered the content. This issue of cover design leads people to believe that book covers possess gender as …

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Changing Methods, Changing Libraries: Making Digital Literacy Accessible For Undergraduate Researchers, Taylor Rebhan Apr 2014

Changing Methods, Changing Libraries: Making Digital Literacy Accessible For Undergraduate Researchers, Taylor Rebhan

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

This project was supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars Program in the Arts & Humanities at Hope College.

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Women's Philanthropy: Why Knowing General Trends Is Not Enough, Ivy Keen Apr 2014

Women's Philanthropy: Why Knowing General Trends Is Not Enough, Ivy Keen

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

Although women have engaged in philanthropy for centuries, their personal contributions have often been masked because their donations were given in their husbands' names. I argue that to fully understand a person’s actions, it is important to know the historical context in which they performed such actions because each historical time period has its own set of characteristics and challenges. By looking at the individual stories of women philanthropists, we can learn more about these women than from general trends. To support this claim, I looked at four general trends I saw expressed in women’s philanthropy: Influences from religion and …

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"Hoobla-Hoobla-Hoobla-How": Sound And Meaning In The Poetry Of Wallace Stevens, Kara Robart Apr 2014

"Hoobla-Hoobla-Hoobla-How": Sound And Meaning In The Poetry Of Wallace Stevens, Kara Robart

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

What role does sound play in the meaning of a poem? This project served as an investigation into the patterns of sound in the poetry of Wallace Stevens. I selected four of Stevens’ poems: “Infanta Marina,” “Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself,” “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour,” and “The Idea of Order at Key West.” I then studied these poems for patterns of rhyme, alliteration, consonance, assonance, etc. and recorded a number of readings of the poems performed by various students, professors, and writers. Comparing these readings offered valuable insight into the ways volume, emphasis, pause, …

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Más Que El Apoyo Académico: La Educación No Formal, Y El Programa Servicio País, Leah Ewald Apr 2014

Más Que El Apoyo Académico: La Educación No Formal, Y El Programa Servicio País, Leah Ewald

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

This investigation aims to analyze the operation and overall results of Servicio País Educación (SPE), an intervention-based program offered to primary, low-resource, municipal schools in Chile. SPE’s involvement in the schools Colegio Juan José Latorre and Escuela Municipal de la Pacífica of Valparaíso served as the primary case studies. Functioning from 2010-2012 as an after-school mentoring program aided by college-aged volunteers, SPE provided a non-formal educational environment for a select group of students coming from especially poor socioeconomic situations. These students often underperformed academically or exhibited behavioral issues in the classroom. The program not only provided individualized academic help, but …

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Hope College Abstracts: 13th Annual Celebration Of Undergraduate Research And Creative Performance, Hope College Apr 2014

Hope College Abstracts: 13th Annual Celebration Of Undergraduate Research And Creative Performance, Hope College

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

The 13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance was held on April 11, 2014 in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse at Hope College and featured student-faculty collaborative research projects. This program is a record reflective of those projects between the 2013-2014 academic year.

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Visualizing Piers Plowman, Heather Patnott Apr 2014

Visualizing Piers Plowman, Heather Patnott

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

The complex narrative structure of Piers Plowman, a fourteenth-century, visionary poem attributed to William Langland and surviving in three versions, provides a struggle for both students approaching the poem for the first time and scholars who have been studying the poem for years. Often the poem is divided into passus, meaning steps, and sometimes split into two sections, the Visio and the Vita. These divisions are based on manuscript markings, but scholars disagree about their validity. Another way to break apart the poem, one that doesn’t rely on manuscript markings that may or may not be a result of scribal …

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Program Booklet: 13th Annual Celebration Of Undergraduate Research And Creative Performance, Hope College Apr 2014

Program Booklet: 13th Annual Celebration Of Undergraduate Research And Creative Performance, Hope College

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

The 13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance was held on April 11, 2014 in the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse at Hope College and featured student-faculty collaborative research projects. This program is a record reflective of those projects between the 2013-2014 academic year.

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The Turn, The Cauldron, And The Scapegoat: A Study Of The Second Branch Of The Mabinogi Through The Mythological Theories Of René Girard And J. R. R. Tolkien, Rebecca Fox Apr 2014

The Turn, The Cauldron, And The Scapegoat: A Study Of The Second Branch Of The Mabinogi Through The Mythological Theories Of René Girard And J. R. R. Tolkien, Rebecca Fox

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

Myth has always captured the imagination of humankind, yet there is great disagreement among scholars over what these stories reveal about human nature. The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, a group of Welsh myths written down in the twelfth century, certainly are among the most enigmatic of the world’s stories. Like all myths, the tone of these four interrelated stories ranges from captivatingly beautiful to strikingly violent. This study attempts to interpret the Second Branch through the lenses of two very different theories of myth—those of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) and René Girard (b. 1923)—while keeping in mind other …

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Shedding Light On Illuminated Manuscripts Of The Anglo-Saxon Age: An Investigation Into The Life And Illustrations Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephanie Emanuele Apr 2014

Shedding Light On Illuminated Manuscripts Of The Anglo-Saxon Age: An Investigation Into The Life And Illustrations Of J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephanie Emanuele

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

For decades, the work of J.R.R. Tolkien has fueled investigations in medieval studies due to his incorporation of Anglo-Saxon themes in his writing. A fact unbeknownst to some readers is that Tolkien was also an avid artist, and the illustrations that accompany many of his pieces are evidence of how medieval culture influenced his life. The scope of this research project includes gaining a general understanding of the Middle Ages, as well as a history of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and their illuminators. This paper will explore Tolkien’s inspirations as a writer and artist, and conclude with a comparison of his illustrations …

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The Tolkien Guide To The Literary Phenomenon Of Fan Fiction, Amanda Palomino Apr 2014

The Tolkien Guide To The Literary Phenomenon Of Fan Fiction, Amanda Palomino

13th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance (2014)

As the Internet is playing an increasing role in our lives and consciousness, literary scholars are now entering the conversation on how technology has impacted the way we think about and experience literature. New trends in digital literature such as the extraordinarily popular phenomenon of fan fiction—web-based fiction written by amateur fan-authors who build upon already established characters, settings, and plotlines—have created quite the controversy, causing us to re-examine many concepts, from the roles of readers and writers in the creative process to how we define literature itself. Does fan fiction have a place in the literary world or is …

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The Anchor, Volume 127.22: April 9, 2014, Hope College Apr 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.22: April 9, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.21: April 2, 2014, Hope College Apr 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.21: April 2, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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Opus: Spring 2014, Hope College Apr 2014

Opus: Spring 2014, Hope College

Opus: 2010-2019

An issue of Opus from spring 2014.

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The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 24.01: Spring 2014, Geoffrey Reynolds, Justine Bailey, Amanda Palomino Apr 2014

The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 24.01: Spring 2014, Geoffrey Reynolds, Justine Bailey, Amanda Palomino

The Joint Archives Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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News From Hope College, Volume 45.4: April, 2014, Hope College Apr 2014

News From Hope College, Volume 45.4: April, 2014, Hope College

News from Hope College

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Learning Outside The Rules: Lessons From The Past, Eric L. Mann Apr 2014

Learning Outside The Rules: Lessons From The Past, Eric L. Mann

Faculty Publications

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The 1876 Centennial Exposed: How Souvenir Publications Reveal Contrasting Attitudes Of Race And Gender In The Post-Bellum United States, Hope Hancock Mar 2014

The 1876 Centennial Exposed: How Souvenir Publications Reveal Contrasting Attitudes Of Race And Gender In The Post-Bellum United States, Hope Hancock

Mellon Scholars' Works

The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated not only the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence but the industrial innovation and reuniting of American society after the Civil War. Using two rare books about the Exhibiton, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition, 1876 and The Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition by James Dabney McCabe, Jr., this project compares the portrayal of women and African Americans in the late 19th-century United States.

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Fatal Wave, Geoffrey D. Reynolds Mar 2014

Fatal Wave, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Fatal Wave is an article concerning the July 1938 seiche that happend in Holland, Michigan and north to Muskegon, Michigan along the Lake Michigan eastern shoreline, taking several lives in its wake.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.18: February 26, 2014, Hope College Feb 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.18: February 26, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.17: February 19, 2014, Hope College Feb 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.17: February 19, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.16: February 05, 2014, Hope College Feb 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.16: February 05, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.14: January 22, 2014, Hope College Jan 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.14: January 22, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.13: January 15, 2014, Hope College Jan 2014

The Anchor, Volume 127.13: January 15, 2014, Hope College

The Anchor: 2014

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 23.04: Winter 2014, Charlyn Pelter, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Jillian Nichols Jan 2014

The Joint Archives Quarterly, Volume 23.04: Winter 2014, Charlyn Pelter, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Jillian Nichols

The Joint Archives Quarterly

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2014-2015. Catalog., Hope College Jan 2014

2014-2015. Catalog., Hope College

Hope College Catalogs

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News From Hope College, Volume 45.3: December, 2013, Hope College Dec 2013

News From Hope College, Volume 45.3: December, 2013, Hope College

News from Hope College

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The Anchor, Volume 127.12: November 27, 2013, Hope College Nov 2013

The Anchor, Volume 127.12: November 27, 2013, Hope College

The Anchor: 2013

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Anchor, Volume 127.11: November 20, 2013, Hope College Nov 2013

The Anchor, Volume 127.11: November 20, 2013, Hope College

The Anchor: 2013

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

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The Joint Archives Of Holland Celebrates 25 Years Of Service, Geoffrey D. Reynolds Nov 2013

The Joint Archives Of Holland Celebrates 25 Years Of Service, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

This year marks the twenty-fifth year since the founding of the Joint Archives of Holland (JAH) as a cooperative program at Hope College. Since then, the staff, comprised of dozens of students, dedicated volunteers, a secretary, and professionally trained archivists, have collected, processed, preserved and given access to thousands of feet of archival resources to countless researchers around the world. Prior to the 1988 founding of the JAH, over three decades of archival work by volunteers and part-time staff had been done at Hope College, Western Theological Seminary, the Netherlands Museum and City of Holland, to pave the way for …

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