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Community-Based Disaster Risk Management And Covid-19: How Local Ngos In Latin America Adapted To The Pandemic, Emily Pugh Jan 2021

Community-Based Disaster Risk Management And Covid-19: How Local Ngos In Latin America Adapted To The Pandemic, Emily Pugh

CMC Senior Theses

The global COVID-19 pandemic posed new challenges for communities across Latin America: lack of access to potable water and food, loss of jobs and lack of access to technology now needed for children to attend school. By interviewing different leaders of NGOs throughout the continent, I was able to find out how local NGOs were adapting their typical activities to help their communities face these new and worsening challenges. While the NGOs in this study do not primarily focus on disaster relief, each adapted their initiatives to deal with the current needs of the community they serve. Some were able …

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Reimagining The Black Body Through Portraiture: Interpreting The Functional And Societal Roles Of Photography And The Reconstructive Power Of Camera Technology And Photographic Images For African American Self Image, Robert Cain Jan 2021

Reimagining The Black Body Through Portraiture: Interpreting The Functional And Societal Roles Of Photography And The Reconstructive Power Of Camera Technology And Photographic Images For African American Self Image, Robert Cain

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis addresses the multiple ways in which the medium of photography, and specifically the portrait photograph, enabled African Americans to visually contest degrading portrayals of blackness and reclaim stolen agency in producing depictions of self throughout the media and popular culture. The societal reverberations of camera technology on the emergence of black photographers like Richard Samuel Roberts, James VanDerZee, and Gordon Parks are analyzed, and the images taken by these artists are read against a history of racist stereotypes, reconsidered for their aesthetic contributions to the art world, and interpreted within the tradition of African American photography. A brief …

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“The Spirit Of Revolution:” The Impact Of Rum On The Formation Of The United States, Charles Streator Jan 2021

“The Spirit Of Revolution:” The Impact Of Rum On The Formation Of The United States, Charles Streator

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis explores the impact of rum, be it the distillation, consumption, or trade of it, upon the formation of the American Revolution and the desire of American Colonists for independence. Through the analysis of three distinct subfactors: rum as an economic force, rum as a political tool, and the cultural and societal impacts of the rum trade and its subsequent removal from the American ethos, this project contends that rum as a commodity became a driving factor in the creation of the United States. While much has been written on the roles of stamps, sugar, and tea in the …

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A Feminist Re-Imagining Of Participatory Planning, Elena Castellanos Jan 2021

A Feminist Re-Imagining Of Participatory Planning, Elena Castellanos

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis presents the benefits of feminist epistemologies in exposing current unjust structures hindering spatial justice in the urban planning process. I explore three main questions: (1) how do urban planners’ and designers’ biases shape American neighborhoods’ physical and social landscape?, (2) why traditional government or private planning approaches historically chose not to encode community-making functions into their frameworks for community input?, and (3) does a substantively inclusive and equitable urban planning project require a rigorous context-based understanding of people?. Additionally, I investigate what a participatory planning process that embraces feminist epistemologies would look like, a practice that prioritizes epistemically …

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The Joy Of Listening: Three Voices In The Poetry Of Wisława Szymborska, Mimi Thompson Jan 2021

The Joy Of Listening: Three Voices In The Poetry Of Wisława Szymborska, Mimi Thompson

CMC Senior Theses

One of the greatest feats that a poet may achieve in his or her lifetime is to develop a voice so characteristic of themself, it would be impossible to confuse it with that of any other poet. Polish-speaking and non-Polish-speaking scholars alike have agreed that the voice of 1996 Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska is utterly distinct, despite the fact that her poems explore a wide range of topics and are told from multiple narrative perspectives, rarely featuring herself through any personal details. How, then, is it possible for hundreds of poems, each with their own narrator, to still be “heard” …

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Honesty And Love In Plato's Symposium, Cheng Rui Yap Jan 2021

Honesty And Love In Plato's Symposium, Cheng Rui Yap

CMC Senior Theses

Plato’s account can be understood in two sections, his critical method, which prioritizes true nature over false praise, and his account of Love. This paper is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the importance of the critical spirit and explains his praise of honesty and truth. The second section describes the nature of Love as virtues of passion. In the third section, I criticize Plato for going against his virtues of passion because of his bad passions, disinterest and malice.

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On The Wrongs Of Fake News, Samuel Fiske Jan 2021

On The Wrongs Of Fake News, Samuel Fiske

CMC Senior Theses

While fake news has become a hot political issue in the past years, it presents novel and apolitical philosophical problems that are often neglected. This paper explores the epistemic and moral wrong of fake news, drawing on work from Immanuel Kant, Seana Shiffrin, and Miranda Fricker to explain exactly why fake news is so problematic. I argue that creating and sharing fake news violates Kant’s Categorical Imperative because it cannot be willed into a universal law and because it fails to respect rational agents as ends in themselves. I also argue that fake news presents distinct epistemic harms as it …

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Didactic Democracy: Rethinking The Roles Of Individuality, Political Freedoms And “Cultural Values” In The Process Of Development, Sabrina Hartono Jan 2021

Didactic Democracy: Rethinking The Roles Of Individuality, Political Freedoms And “Cultural Values” In The Process Of Development, Sabrina Hartono

CMC Senior Theses

Working off of Amartya Sen’s “Development as Freedom,” this paper challenges the conception of political freedoms and their instrumental, constructive and intrinsic roles in the development of society. I explore how identity formation is not as individualistic as Sen implicitly assumes in his framework. Using Elizabeth Anderson’s work on the importance of community in developing an individual identity, as well as incorporating ideas from Marx and Somers, I argue that there is strong reason to believe that Sen’s emphasis on the instrumental and constructive roles of political freedoms is exaggerated. I challenged Sen’s conception of the intrinsic value of political …

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The Effect Of Politicians, Racism, And Corporations On The Opioid Epidemic In New Hampshire, Rachel E. Young Jan 2021

The Effect Of Politicians, Racism, And Corporations On The Opioid Epidemic In New Hampshire, Rachel E. Young

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Shakespeare’S Deviation From His Predecessors: Aligning "Romeo And Juliet" With Italian Renaissance Marriage Culture, Tara Lynn Hohn Jan 2021

Shakespeare’S Deviation From His Predecessors: Aligning "Romeo And Juliet" With Italian Renaissance Marriage Culture, Tara Lynn Hohn

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

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Multimedia Of The Mind: Digital Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary Acquisition, Parker C. Ayotte Jan 2021

Multimedia Of The Mind: Digital Rhetoric And Interdisciplinary Acquisition, Parker C. Ayotte

Honors Theses and Capstones

Multimodal digital narratives are currently in the spotlight for acquisition into the digital humanities. The narrative form is emerging with great research interest, the form having no previously established traditions. This research paper attempts to define the nature of multimodal digital narratives and their implementation into modern society. Specifically, the paper addresses the digital rhetoric appropriated by multimodal digital narratives and how it translates into modifying perceptions of society. This multimodal digital rhetoric is then explored in the context of digital activism and education, formative social discourses the augment societal perceptions. Digital rhetoric is utilized to augment a user’s reality …

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Filmcasters, Antonio Coffee Jan 2021

Filmcasters, Antonio Coffee

Capstone Projects

In this project I cohost a podcast with Nicolas McKay and Christopher de La Rosa about movies and history. We are exploring what we can learn from movies and providing another way for the public to engage with history. Throughout our first eight episodes we have analyzed seven different movies and had one interview with a historian doing working with similar themes. Through these first seven episodes we have been able to talk about the Texas Borderlands, the history of Broadway, the Cold War, P. T. Barnum, Japanese response to nuclear testing, Hollywood censorship laws, and Rudyard Kipling. While exploring …

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Radical Rattlers: A Narrative Of Latino Students At St. Mary’S University In The 1960’S, Edgar Velazquez Reynald Jan 2021

Radical Rattlers: A Narrative Of Latino Students At St. Mary’S University In The 1960’S, Edgar Velazquez Reynald

Capstone Projects

In the 1960s, St. Mary’s University saw an increase in Latino enrollment and a shift in student political attitudes from confidence in established politics in the early 1960s to radical activism at the end of the decade. The transition occurred as students engaged with the Civil Rights movement and then the Chicano movement. St. Mary’s distanced itself from radical forms of protest, as best exemplified by the formation off campus of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) off campus, arguably the lynchpin of the Chicano movement in San Antonio. Attempting a reconciliation, St. Mary’s declared the 1969-1970 school year The …

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The Cobalt Oral History Project:Reflections On A Near-Century Of Archaeology, Glory Turnbull Jan 2021

The Cobalt Oral History Project:Reflections On A Near-Century Of Archaeology, Glory Turnbull

Capstone Projects

The CoBALT (Coastal Bend Archaeological Logistics Team) Oral History Project is a series of interviews conducted by Glory Turnbull featuring CoBALT members Bill Birmingham, Ben McReynolds, Frank Condron, Jud Austin, and Rickey Ramseur. CoBALT is a group of citizen archaeologists that protect archaeological sites and excavate in the Coastal Bend of Texas, primarily in the town of Victoria. CoBALT’s history is previously unrecorded, but features heavily in these interviews, in addition to information about Coastal Bend archaeology from the 1950s to present. The members of CoBALT have excavated, surveyed, or collected at nearly all of the archaeological sites in Victoria …

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Portrait Of Brother As A Tractor At The Equipment Sale, Samatha Leigh Futhey Jan 2021

Portrait Of Brother As A Tractor At The Equipment Sale, Samatha Leigh Futhey

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 67-68

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Seneca Falls: Halloween Weekend 2016, Before The Election, Nancy Mccabe Jan 2021

Seneca Falls: Halloween Weekend 2016, Before The Election, Nancy Mccabe

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 5

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Early Cretaceous Swims Up To The Bar, Lesley Wheeler Jan 2021

Early Cretaceous Swims Up To The Bar, Lesley Wheeler

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 123

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Hungry America And The African Solution: How Hippopotami Nearly Fed America, Tyler Dennis Jan 2021

Hungry America And The African Solution: How Hippopotami Nearly Fed America, Tyler Dennis

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 39-46

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Justice For Breonna Taylor, Alan Atkins Jan 2021

Justice For Breonna Taylor, Alan Atkins

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 59

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White Knight, Derrick Harriell Jan 2021

White Knight, Derrick Harriell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 72

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"I Don’T Want To Be A Priest. I’D Rather Be A God": An Interview With David Kirby, Alex Quinlan Jan 2021

"I Don’T Want To Be A Priest. I’D Rather Be A God": An Interview With David Kirby, Alex Quinlan

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 30-49

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Cloud Cover, Laurie Rachkus Uttich Jan 2021

Cloud Cover, Laurie Rachkus Uttich

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 48-49

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I'Ll Tell You What Helped, Melissa Crowe Jan 2021

I'Ll Tell You What Helped, Melissa Crowe

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 86-87

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Physical, Jennifer Davis Michael Jan 2021

Physical, Jennifer Davis Michael

Nelle (literary magazine)

p. 110

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It Came From Beyond The Snow, L M. Davenport Jan 2021

It Came From Beyond The Snow, L M. Davenport

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 51-68

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Nelle 4 (Complete Issue), Nelle Staff Jan 2021

Nelle 4 (Complete Issue), Nelle Staff

Nelle (literary magazine)

No abstract provided.

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American Crow, Caroline Myers Jan 2021

American Crow, Caroline Myers

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 11

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From A Cold Location To A Cold War: The 8147th Army Unit’S Mountaineering Instructors, Kallee Knox Jan 2021

From A Cold Location To A Cold War: The 8147th Army Unit’S Mountaineering Instructors, Kallee Knox

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 17-23

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Pawpaw Fruit, Caroline Myers Jan 2021

Pawpaw Fruit, Caroline Myers

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 97

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Decomposition, Claude Blair Jan 2021

Decomposition, Claude Blair

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 96

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