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Blameworthiness And Dangerousness: An Analysis Of Violent Female Capital Offenders In The United States And China, Courtney Lahaie

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

The United States and China represent two of the leading nations that retain the death penalty in both law and practice. Research suggests that judges’ sentencing decisions are based primarily on two factors, blameworthiness and dangerousness. Studies involving gender and sentencing in capital punishment cases tend to provide inconsistent findings. The current study uses case narratives to examine the direct and conjunctive effects of various factors on the sentencing decisions of violent female capital offenders in the United States and China. The findings suggest that the concepts of blameworthiness and dangerousness are distinctly defined in the United States and China. …

The Rhetorical Significance Of Gojira, Shannon Stevens

Graduate Research Symposium (2010 - 2017)

This project tackles the 1954 Japanese film Gojira, known to most Americans as Godzilla. By examining the strong emotions expressed in the film’s narrative, we can begin to understand better the experience of the Japanese survivor of World War II. Specifically, by studying the way the primary emotional responses to a war experience (guilt/anger, pain/suffering, and powerlessness/fear) are represented in the film it is possible to see how Gojira functions rhetorically to provide for the Japanese people a safe venue for post-war expression and healing.

Diagnosis Of Depression Among Hispanic Individuals--Appropriate Methods And Measures, Cassie Devore, Carolyn Nadeau, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Faith And Family: Images Of The Lutheran Church As Family In Erich Loest's Nikolaikirche, Bethanne Roberts, Sonja Fritzche, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Ba/Bfa Senior Critique Honors, Joyce Eichhorn Ames School Of Art

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Music Compositions Student Presentations, School Of Music

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Sexual Healing: Gender, Sexuality, And The Balance Of The Masculine And Feminine Creative Principles In The Healing Cult Of Asclepius, Aislinn Lowry, Nancy Sultan, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Lake Forest: A Community's Search For Perfection In The Progressive Era, Caitlin Carr, Robert Schultz, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Comfort Women: A Comparative Study Of Societal Origins, Ramya Kumaran, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Marriage Reforms In Communist China: A Successful Break With Tradition?, Emily Vock, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Nearer Neighbors: Unitarian Universalism, Liberal Protestantism, And Eclectic Faith-Assembly, Garrett Rapp, Robert Erlewine, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Only Dull Readers Escape: Navigating Contextual Frames In Stephen Crane's The Black Riders, Andrew Dorkin, Michael Theune, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

The Revolving Door: An Examination Of Sino-U.S. Trade Treaties After The Implementation Of The U.S. Open Door Policy, Catherine Hunter, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

U.S. Military Aid And Revolutionary Nationalism In China, Michael Kozak, Thomas Lutze, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Clash Of Expectations: The Receptions Of Shostakovich's Seventh And Eighth Symphonies In The Us And The Societ Union, Rosa Kleinman, Stephen Press, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Hypertension And Hispanics: Lower Incidence Or Missing Data?, Kelsey Farrell, Carolyn Nadeau, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Hispanics And Diabetes: Many Problems But Many Answers, Brooke Stevens, Carolyn Nadeau, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Barriers To Accessing The U.S. Health Care System For Hispanics, Patricia Troxell, Carolyn Nadeau, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Ulysses: The Human Bodyssey, Travis Williams, Daniel Terkla, Faculty Advisor, Kathleen O'Gorman, Faculty Advisor

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

"Among other things my book is the epic of the human body." -James Joyce Ulysses by James Joyce is a paragon of modernist literature. Taking place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, Joyce allegorically retells Homer's The Odyssey for the modern age. In a chart published in Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses: a Study, each of the eighteen episodes of Ulysses are shown to correspond to an episode or character of The Odyssey and, with the exception of three episodes, to a specific organ of the human body. Using this systematic diagram as my guide, …

Complete 2010 Program

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Soy Macdiva: Changing Perceptions Of Chicana/Mexicana Sexuality Through Corridos Hyphy, Jessica R. Lozano

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.

“Death, Goodness, And The Lost Daughter: The Homeric Hymn To Demeter And Carol Shields' Unless”, Aara Suksi

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This research examines how a reading of Unless, conditioned by a familiarity with the traditional Greek myth, creates new meaning from the old story pattern.

Odysseus In Democratic Athens, Aara Suksi

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This project explores the varied forms in which the early Homeric epic hero Odysseus re-appears in the culture of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.

Convergences Between Art And Physics, John G. Hatch

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

Historicity And Ecological Restoration, Eric Desjardins

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Traditional ecological restoration often relies on ideals of reversibility and balance of nature. I suggest that we should change these for a path-dependent view of natural processes. This conceptual shift also invites for philosophical and methodological revisions, such as favouring “futuristic” dynamic goals and alternative state models.

Idealization In Scientific Explanation, Robert Batterman, Nicolas Fillion, Robert Moir, James Overton

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Many phenomena pose interesting “fundamental” questions for both physics and philosophy of science. Understanding and explanation often seem to require non-Galilean, essential idealizations. But idealizations are false. This fact suggests that we need to give up on the view that truth is a necessary condition for explanation.

Never The Twain Shall Meet? Interspecialty Bioethics Education And Practice In Relation To Informed Consent For Surgery-Related Anesthesia, Kyoko Wada, Abraham Rudnick

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

The objectives of this research project are:

• Identify and analyze ethical problems concerning known practices regarding informed consent for surgery-related anesthesia
• Propose solutions to these problems, with a focus on interspecialty bioethics education

Conceptual Problems In Research Ethics, Charles Weijer

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

This poster addresses these issues:
• What good is medical research?
• What is owed to the study subject?
• When is research risk acceptable?
• How should we conduct research in developing countries?
• How should we conduct research involving communities?

Aristotle & The Tyranny Of Nature, John Thorp

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

Teaching And Learning Spanish In Second Life, Ana GarcíA-AlléN

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

It is generally assumed that the incorporation of new technologies in the process of language learning leads to better learning, but this is not always tested empirically. The primary goal of this study is to better understand student experiences and learning outcomes when using Second Life (SL) as a Teaching tool.