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Doubles And Reflections: Sentiment Analysis And Vladimir Nabokov’S Pale Fire, Catherine Perloff

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

In his novel, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov uses a non-linear narrative composed in three parts: Foreword, Poem, and Commentary, apparently written by two distinct authors, John Shade and Charles Kinbote. Storylines appear to be separate at surface level yet work in interconnected ways at a deeper level. The novel deals with life after death, the story arc of a disguised, exiled king, and provides meta commentary on the art of commentary. The text was tricky to analyze without sentiment analysis principally because of its seemingly disjointed structure. Thus, there’s a bit of irony in that we found a repeated structure …

Analyzing Popular Music Using Spotify’S Machine Learning Audio Features, Noah Amsterdam

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

The modern ability to stream music using services such as Spotify, Pandora, and Apple music has revolutionized how it is consumed. There is now more music accessible at our fingertips than ever before in history. As someone who has played an instrument their whole life and with some music theory knowledge, I always strive to better understand what I’m listening to. This motivated me to dive into finding out how music is quantified, specifically on Spotify, and what makes up people’s musical taste. I will be approaching music tastes from 3 angles: Spotify, music critics, and my own analysis and …

Can Gpt-2 Replace A Sex And The City Writers’ Room?, Alasia Destine-Defreece, Samara Handelsman, Talia Light Rake, Ally Merkel, Gracie Moses

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Someday, in the not-so-distant future, will the writers’ room be replaced by artificial intelligence? This poster was created by a group of actors and writers who were curious about the role artificial intelligence could play in the future of television writing. In the first stage of this project, we prompted GPT-2 with the opening lines of a scene from the television show Sex and the City, and had GPT-2 finish the scene. We filmed the three best GPT-2 generated scenes, and screened these scenes for our “AI for the Humanities” class, along with a filmed version of the original Sex …

Lost In Translation: Using Sentiment Analysis To Analyze Translations Of Homer’S Odyssey, Erin Shaheen

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

For my final project in AI for the Humanities, I knew that I wanted to examine the creative role of translators in classic literature. I ran three different translations of Homer’s The Odyssey through Syuzhet.R, a sentiment analysis tool that has grown increasingly popular in the Digital Humanities field. Syuzhet tracks the emotional arc (also called “emotional valence”) of a text by giving each word a different score. For example, on a scale of -1 to 1, “terrible” might score -1 and “amazing” might score 1. A more neutral word like “okay” would score closer to 0. I chose translations …

Using Machine Learning To Predict Mlb Success Based On Milb Performance, Alexander Gow

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

In 2017 alone Major League Baseball organizations spent a combined 492 million dollars on acquiring new, young, talented players through the draft or signing international free agents. The effectiveness of an MLB organization’s scouting department is pertinent to ensuring future success. Due to the highly volatile nature of professional sports, identifying a predictive and measurable statistic(s) associated with success among players would be valuable. Furthermore, a team’s ability to quickly and correctly identify players on their Minor League affiliates that will have a positive impact at the Major League level can give them an advantage over other teams. For this …

Guns In D.C. Appellate Court: Sentiment Analysis On Opinions From The Court Of Appeals For The D.C. Circuit, Grace Peterson, Jon Chun, Katherine Elkins

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

No abstract provided.

Generating 3d Sculptures Using A Recurrent Neural Network With Long Short-Term Memory, Nick Downey

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Sophisticated generative models have been some of the most obviously impressive achievements of AI in the past decade. Indeed, AI has approached or achieved human-level performance in a variety of domains, with a particular focus placed on artistic disciplines. Because writing a value function for this kind of model is effectively impossible, these models are notoriously difficult to evaluate. My aim was to create such a model, and in doing so elucidate the characteristics of successful generative AI and explore how generative models can be adapted successfully to new domains. And more broadly, I hoped to create a model capable …

Creating Art Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Henry Abbott

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

I set out to explore how artificial intelligence generated artwork compares to human created artwork. Using CycleGANs, my goal was to create art, and then conduct a Turing Test in order to determine whether or not one could distinguish between A.I. and human art. Using this test, as well as my own observations, I planned to analyze where CycleGANs succeeds in creating art, as well as where it struggles. Following this analysis, I thought more about what the results mean for art moving forward, and if artificial intelligence can truly create art.

Student Misreading: Obstacle Or Opportunity?, Brita M. Thielen

Student Scholarship

Review of The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature. By Gary Weissman. The Ohio State University Press, 2016. 219 pages.

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence In Texas By Monica Munoz Martinez (Review), Brent M. S. Campney

History Faculty Publications

In The Injustice Never Leaves You, Monica Munoz Martinez provides an outstanding analysis of the racist violence that Anglos used to control ethnic Mexicans in Texas. Building on the work of other historians, including Benjamin Johnson, Nicholas Villanueva, William Carrigan, and Clive Webb, she discusses, for instance, the burning of Antonio Rodrıguez by a mob in Rocksprings in 1910 and the rampage by Anglo lynch mobs and Texas Rangers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in 1915, a massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of ethnic Mexicans.

The Influence Of The Law In American Literature And Culture, Emily Johnson, Steven Hamelman

Honors Theses

This piece explores the relationship between law and its influence within American literature and the overall culture. Themes of discrimination, corruption, greed, advocacy, and incriminating evidence, present in the analyzed texts and films, greatly plays into the American public’s perception of their judicial system. Is it truly the law influencing American literature and culture, or is it the sentiments of the masses influencing the legal field itself? This work aims at analyzing this question, while also making a point to explain what American citizens can do with such influence and knowledge.

Guia Prático, Álbuns Para Piano By Heitor Villa-Lobos: A List Of Piano Pieces By Level Of Difficulty With Stylistic Annotations, Verena Benchimol Abufaiad

Theses and Dissertations

The Guia Prático, Álbuns Para Piano is a collection of fifty-nine piano pieces distributed in eleven albums that reveals not only the active role played by Heitor Villa- Lobos in music education in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s, but also his unique compositional style. The purpose of this study is to provide a list of the fifty-nine piano pieces of the Guia Prático, Álbuns Para Piano by level of difficulty and with stylistic annotations. This study is also intended to equip piano teachers with information so they can practice informed pedagogy with their students and to expose students to …

Introduction: Cities As Ways Of World Making, Curtis Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Role For Empathy In Decolonizing Aesthetics: Unlikely Lessons From Roger Fry, Ivan Gaskell

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Artist and art historian Roger Fry used Paul Gauguin’s 1896 painting, Poèmes barbares, to advertise his 1910 exhibition, Manet and the Post-Impressionists. In Vision and Design (1920), Fry promoted the so-called “primitive” art of Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa as depending on unmediated perception that he associated with the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Although Fry’s assumption of an “ultra-primitive directness of vision” on the part of African makers ignores their own mediating conventions, his reliance on the Vischers’ notion of empathetic connection enhances the possibility of regarding the cultural products of peoples foreign to the percipient with what Paul C. …

Rattlers Remember - Stmu Oral Histories With Scott Sleder, Kacey Diaz

Rattlers Remember

In this interview, Scott Sleder shares his experience catching pokemons around various locations of St Mary’s University, including iconic landmarks such as the Bell Tower. Sleder describes the process of capturing different Pokemon characters and reflects on the personal benefits that this activity can provide.

Challenging Voting Rights And Political Participation In State Courts, Irving Joyner

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract forthcoming

Still Writing At The Master’S Table: Decolonizing Rhetoric In Legal Writing For A “Woke” Legal Academy, Teri A. Mcmurtry-Chubb

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

When the author wrote Writing At the Master’s Table: Reflections on Theft, Criminality, and Otherness in the Legal Writing Profession almost 10 years ago, her aim was to bring a Critical Race Theory/Feminism (CRTF) analysis to scholarship about the marginalization of White women law professors of legal writing. She focused on the convergence of race, gender, and status to highlight the distinct inequities women of color face in entering their ranks. The author's concern was that barriers to entry for women of color made it less likely that the existing legal writing professorate, predominantly White and female, would problematize the …

The Remarkable First 50 Women Law Graduates Of St. Mary’S University: Part One, Regina Stone-Harris

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract forthcoming

Global Issues In Graphic Novels [Fine Arts], Jessica Boehman

Open Educational Resources

This assignment falls within Fine Arts’ Intermediate Studio Elective and is a final deposit for Global Learning Core Competency and Oral Communication Ability. The students are primarily advanced majors. Students will work on this assignment over the course of several weeks as it is scaffolded throughout the semester. It is worth 10% of the final grade. This assignment was modified during the course of the Global Learning Assignment workshop, and was built during Fine Arts’ Learning Matters! Mini Grant. During this grant process, Fine Arts revamped global assignments to better meet the rubric. We worked together in our grant team …

A Midsummer Night's Dream Rehearsal, University Of North Florida

UNF Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream rehearsal photo for production in Ponte Vedra, Florida

A Midsummer Night's Dream In Ponte Vedra, University Of North Florida

UNF Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream

A still from UNF's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Ponte Vedra showing the prologue with Puck.

Bibliography For Hispanic Heritage Month, Hakeem Wakil

Library Displays and Bibliographies

An informative display recognizing Hispanic & Latino Culture, History, & Heritage in the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.

Digging Into Durable Books, Joshua Matthews

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"In his excellent essay about why people ought to read old books, C.S. Lewis recommends that all readers should read them as much as they do contemporary ones."

Posting about broadening our literary experiences from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/digging-into-durable-books/

Pharoah's Story: The Decision-Making Power Of A Leader, Priscilla J. Dubose-Wood

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Research, Monte Sahlin, Erich Baumgartner

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

Leading In The Third Space, Steven D. Reece

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

For nearly two millennia, Jews and Christians have struggled to interact with each other and engage in meaningful dialogue. The tragedy of the Shoah only deepened and enlarged the chasm that exists between these two faith groups. How can this fracture be healed, and reconciliation or even dialogue emerge? This article explores the work of The Matzevah Foundation in its efforts to create a nexus within the liminality of a Jewish cemetery in which Jews and Christians may mutually interact and cooperate as they care for and restore Jewish cemeteries in Poland. By examining acts of loving-kindness, Jews’ and Christians’ …

When Perception Is No Longer Reality: Leading Beyond The Limitations Of Yesterday's Certainties, Peter Edward Burch, Erich Baumgartner

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

Much is known about why people in North America do not attend church. Peter Burch, a Baptist minister, decided to find out how these reasons apply to the Pacifica community of California, a suburb of San Francisco; but he took his research one step further. He also wanted to know how church members perceived the reasons for non-attendance in their community. In the process, he was in for a surprise that led him to discover the fundamental attribution error in action. When he grouped the reasons given by non-attenders and compared them with perceptions of church members, he discovered that …

Rethinking The Role Of Aging Pastors In Ministry, Petr Cincala, Allison Sauceda

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

Review Of A Failure Of Nerve: Leadership In The Age Of The Quick Fix (10th Anniversary Revised Edition), By E. H. Friedman, Marcos F. Bomfim

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving And Ministering To People With Addiction, By Jonathon Benz With Kristina Robb-Dover, Tracy Anderson

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.