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“Fast Food For The Filipino Soul”: Consuming Identity At Jollibee In Queens, Rebecca Gehman

American Studies Senior Theses

On February 13, 2009 in Woodside, Queens an estimated 4,500 Filipino- Americans formed a line outside in thirty five-degree weather. Braving the cold and a nearly four hour wait these Filipino-Americans were desperate for the first east-coast extension of Jollibee to open itʼs doors. The media that covered the opening attempted to understand what was behind this Filipino fervor, one New York Times article was titled “Fast Food for the Filipino Soul”. Filipinos told reporters they were desperate for a “taste of home.” But what is this “taste of home”? The Filipino owned and operated fast food chain serves hot …

Sistas In Sisterhood: Black Cultural Clubs In All Girls Private High Schools, Rachel Victoria Jones

American Studies Senior Theses

The main objective of the research project is to assess how Black cultural clubs in high schools influence the identity formation of the club members in terms of their conceptualization of race, analysis of race relations, and understanding for racialized experiences. This project specifically focuses on organizations such as the Black Ladies’Association that operates within a private all girls high school in the Washington, DC area. I interviewed past BLA members to collect their reflections on their experiences at their private predominately white high school. Their stories demonstrated how their club involvement enhanced their interactions with family, friends, and the …

Tending The Flowers, Cultivating Community: Gardening On New York City Public Housing Sites, Lauren Sepanski

American Studies Senior Theses

Residents of New York City public housing developments (NYCHA) who wish to garden may do so by planting their gardens on the community grounds of their housing development. This put them in a unique position. Though their gardens are on public grounds, their gardens cannot be considered to be “community gardens” in the common sense of the term, because their gardens are maintained by individuals with their own personal goals; yet, they are more than private home gardens, as the gardens are (and can only be) on community grounds. In order to find out why NYCHA residents garden, and how …

Sand, Sun, And Sex Tourism: What Really Happens During College Spring Break, Melissa Lee Brumer

American Studies Senior Theses

College spring break has become a popular event that lasts for a week or two each year in March. The partying and drinking that occur on the beaches of popular North American vacation destinations may seem unrelated to the prostitution found in Amsterdam’s red light district. What, if anything, do travelers to these two different destinations have in common? Recent scholarship has argued that it is necessary to expand the definition of ‘sex tourism.’ Scholars have also researched college students’ behaviors during spring break trips. These studies show that students engage in drinking and sexual behaviors that pose threats to …

“Maybe It Was Too Much To Expect In Those Days”: The Changing Lifestyles Of Barnard’S First Female Students, Jennifer Prevete

American Studies Senior Theses

In this thesis, I examine the lives of women who attended college during a time far less accommodating to their ambitions for higher education than today. From 1890 to 1920, some of the first females to attend college in the United States matriculated from single-sex institutions along the east coast. Existing discourse emphasizes the difficulties these women faced as they tried to pursue both career and family after graduation. Citing population studies of this time period, scholars suggest that an unusual number of college-educated women did not marry following their graduation or married at a later age. Aside from the …

An Important Year: Competing Images Of Womanhood In The Ladies’ Home Journal, 1919, Eva Krupitsky

American Studies Senior Theses

This thesis explores the two main images of womanhood found in the editorial and advertising contents of the Ladies’ Home Journal, a popular mass-market magazine from the early 20th century. My specific focus is on the year 1919 because several important events that affected American women were prevalent during this time. I place my research about the two images of womanhood in the magazine within the context of WWI’s end and the proximity of women to reaching voting rights. This is a transitional year during which both historical happenings can be discerned by looking “in between the lines” of …

The New Media Deal: Obama, The Information Age, And The Shadow Of Fdr, Grace Loughney

American Studies Senior Theses

This thesis project focuses on the ways in which American presidents use media to engage the public in political discourse and reassure the masses in times of economic crisis. In a comparative analysis of the different media and political rhetoric employed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1933 banking crisis and Barack Obama during the 2009 recession, I explore why Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” proved more successful than Obama’s imitations on YouTube and other media platforms in 2009. By engaging in media theory on how political discourse is shaped by the medium within which it is presented, as well as historical …

The Cross-Bronx Double Cross: How The Cross-Bronx Expressway Has Affected Pediatric Asthma In The Bronx, Catherine Mcnamara

American Studies Senior Theses

This paper will address the effect that the construction of the Cross-Bronx Expressway, in conjunction with specific government policies and practices, has had and continues to have on the inordinately high rates of pediatric asthma in the Bronx. Existing research on the subject tends to take a very segmented view. There has been much research done in the individual fields of the history of the Cross-Bronx Expressway and the Bronx’s subsequent demographic change; more recently, studies have taken note of the Bronx’s high asthma rates, the effect of various pollutants on children’s lung function, pollution rates in the Bronx, and …

Fun, Fearless, Feminist?: Gender And Sexuality In Cosmopolitan, Gabriella Wilkins

American Studies Senior Theses

Magazines, like other forms of popular culture, impact our identities and perceptions of ourselves and of the society that we live in. In my thesis, I seek to draw a connection between a fashion and beauty magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Third Wave feminism. Criticism of the magazine has stemmed from the idea that Cosmo expresses contradicting ideologies and focuses too closely on women’s ability to please men. For my research, I look at the history and motives behind the Second and Third Wave movements and how they differentiate. Then, by considering and applying contemporary feminist theory, I deconstruct and analyze …

From Clayton Bigsby To Stuart Hall: Conceptions Of Blackness And Authenticity In Chappelle’S Show, Andrew O'Connell

American Studies Senior Theses

From the years 2003- 2006, perhaps no one played a bigger a role on the American comedy scene than did Dave Chappelle. From the first episode of his critically acclaimed Chappelle’s Show, in which he depicted Clayton Bigsby, a black, blind white supremacist, to his controversial exit from the show early into season three, Chappelle served as a lightning rod for attention both positive and negative. In this thesis, I argue that in his comedy portrayed on Chappelle’s Show, Dave Chappelle portrays an image of essentialized Blackness through the lens of the “urban Black American experience” as being …

“I Ran My Fingers Through Her Coal Black Hair To Cover Up My Sin” : Violence, Gender And Faith In 19th Century Appalachian Murdered Girl Ballads, Ariadne Blayde

American Studies Senior Theses

My thesis presents a literary and historical examination of the genre of songs known as “Murdered Girl ballads” in the canon of 19th century Southern Appalachian folk music. The Murdered Girl ballad, which tells the story of a young woman murdered by her male lover, became an archetypal narrative in Appalachian folklore in the 1800’s. In my research I examine some of the many Appalachian Murdered Girl ballads and the mountain society they sprang from, drawing connections between the lyrics of the ballads and three specific aspects of Appalachian mountain life: violence, gender roles, and religion. I argue that at …

Dansk Sammensluttet Ungdom—D. S. U. The Association Of Danish Youth, Erik Appel

The Bridge

This year, it has been exactly 10 years since the Association of Danish Youth clubs was initiated within the Danish Church. There most likely were Danish youth groups before 1902, but they had little or no connection with each other. They were missing the spur that unity can give and the strength to be found in solidarity.

The Danish-American Society (Dansk-Amerikansk Selskab), C .H. W. Hasselriis

The Bridge

The purpose of the Danish-American Society is summarized in concise form in its Constitution: to promote a reciprocal and better understanding of the Danish and the American peoples, to knit closer ties between these two nations, and to advance the interests of both.

The work of solving these tasks is still only in its infancy, so, consequently, this is not a history of the Society.

Independent Associations, Max Henius

The Bridge

In addition to the nationally-connected associations listed in the previous chapters, in some cities and towns where DanishAmericans live in large numbers, there are many scattered associations that have no structured national connection.

Contributors

The Bridge

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The United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church In America: A Brief Overview Of Its History And Activity, P. S. Vig

The Bridge

“The United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America” is the name of an organization of congregations and pastors who are among those Danes who have immigrated to America, and who desire to hold firmly to the faith in which they were baptized, to remain in that church to which they have belonged since childhood, and who want to support the effort to preserve that faith in their adopted land and pass that heritage on to their children. This goal is not attainable except by mutual work, sacrifice and effort. “The United Church,” as we are now used to saying in …

The Danish-American Press, Mads Henningsen

The Bridge

A half century ago, the split between Danish and Norwegian in the United States was not as sharply delineated as it is now. The two nations’ work and interests overlapped on many points. Thus it was a Danish man, Claus Lauridsen Clausen, who was the first pastor among the Norwegians in America. This same man began in 1853 the publication of the magazine “Emigranten” [The Emigrant], which addressed both Norwegian and Danish readers. This magazine still exists as “Minneapolis Tidende” [The Minneapolis Times] and is one of the largest and most widely-distributed Norwegian-American magazines. In 1847, a Danish man in …

Annual Report Of The Risd Fleet Library 2011-2012, Fleet Library, Carol Terry

Annual Reports

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A Missional Theology Of Spiritual Formation, Dwight J. Zscheile

Faculty Publications

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Occupy Wall Street, Urban Play And The Affirmation Of Crisis, Fred Landers

Journal of Urban Culture Research

Since Occupy Wall Street's beginnings in September, 2011 on the streets of downtown New York City, play has been key to the success of this protest against corporate destructiveness and irresponsibility. In the initial weeks, Occupiers used play on the occasion of crisis to imagine a future beyond the exploitation of the 99% by the 1%. Having fun while taking responsibility attracted new Occupiers in large numbers and rapidly expanded the Occupy movement to more than 800 cities in the U.S. and worldwide. The author and groups of his friends, using a playful form of activism called Urban Play, improvised …

The Asian Renovation Of Biracial Buddy Action: Negotiating Globalization In The Millennial Hollywood Cop Action Film, Philippa Gates

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

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Extended ‘Stop And Search’ Powers In Australia: A Challenge For Relations Between Police Officers And Citizens, Daniel Baldino, Martin Drum

Arts Conference Papers

This paper will provide an investigation, both theoretical and empirical, into the use of ‘stop and search’ powers in Australia. It will provide a detailed analysis of the legislation, its impact and the implications surrounding ‘stop and search’ powers in Western Australia and, in part, Victoria and the United Kingdom. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Perth, October 2011) has also provided a unique opportunity to study a range of special policing laws and potential problems.

Reexamining The Place Of Public Confession Of Sins In A Reformed Context., Matthew John Webber

CTS Master of Theology (ThM) Theses

A dangerous tendency plagues the scripturally mandated practice of confession within many mainline Christian churches. The danger is that the theological thrust of the practice has been ignored or compromised in such a way that the manner in which confession is practiced ignores fundamental elements which underlie the need for confession, specifically public confession performed before one's fellow believers. It is especially evident that the confession of one's sins, which once took place in pubic before the ecclesial body, has seen a significant amount of change within the Reformed context. The focus of this essay is to identify the theological …

Our Silent News, Winter 2012

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Lesson Plan: Civil Rights: "May I Speak" (Grades 6-8), Alice Hill-Black

Project Documents

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Lesson Plan: Mount Pleasant: Yesterday Meets Today (Grades 9-12), Nikita Z. Greer

Project Documents

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Lesson Plan: Through Their Own Words (Grades 9-12), Scott Garapic, Pam Craig

Project Documents

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Lesson Plan: Oral History Project 9/11 (Grades Pre-K-5), Zakiyyah Bergen

Project Documents

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Lesson Plan: Oral History (Grades 6-8), Anna Gregory

Project Documents

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Lesson Plan: We Wish You A Merry Christmas And Special Christmas Desserts (Grades Pre-K-5), Cynthia Braun

Project Documents

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