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The Boricua Dialogues: Puerto Rican Identity In Conversation & Photography, Jonathan Borton

Honors Theses

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La Llorona In Nuevomexicana Poetic Narratives: Reflections On Writing And Memory, Sutherland Jaramillo

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This paper focuses on poetic narratives that consider the folklore figure of La Llorona. I argue that contemporary nuevomexicana poets are responding to regional narratives as a way of challenging traditional structures of the lore and female archetypes to reclaim the identity and voice of the figure of La Llorona. Through literature that considers structure and archetype of the lore, Chicana feminist theory, and spectral theory, this essay surveys a selection of poems: “La Llorona Speaks” (2018) by Mercedez Holtry, “Una Carta de Amor de la Llorona” (2011) by Jessica Helen Lopez and “La Llorona” (2018) by Joanna Vidaurre-Trujillo. Through …

Nietzsche’S Death Of God And The Slave-Revolt In Morality, Ryan Haarer

Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE)

None of Nietzsche’s theses stands out quite as much as his “Death of God” thesis. An argument can be made that the death of God is the result of the changes that the slave-revolt within morality bring about. Drawing on the observations that Nietzsche and scholars have made about the slaves and Christians, it is plausible that certain activities that the groups engaged in led to the unbelievability, or death, of God. The activities that will be given attention within this essay are the slave’s and Christian’s desire for progress and truth, which have negative and unintentional effects on other …

Disguysed, Margaret Feltman-Ruiz

Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE)

Throughout history, women had to change themselves in order to accomplish their goals. My thesis brings attention to these often forgotten or dismissed women of the past. Disguysed is a nonfiction children’s book that focuses on 12 women from history who disguised themselves as men to further their careers or lives. Each spread contains an illustration of the woman, along with a biography from the research I collected. Separate from the biographies, the book contains extra historical context to shed light on the social climates that these women experienced. The design of the illustrations isn’t masculine or feminine, in the …

Vern Multilingual Font System, Nathan Zawadzki

Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE)

Vern is designed in Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew for a total of roughly 160 characters or glyphs in this writing system. Based on the research of these systems, a reverse contrast style fits Cyrillic and Hebrew, while normal contrast has more difficulty in adjusting to them. This slab serif, reverse contrast style keeps the look of a traditional serif font in Latin. Vern’s unified design across multiple languages works in media such as book text or large-scale signage.

The Female Slave Experience, Christopher Adams

Showcase of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE)

In this paper, I evaluate slavery from the perspective of female slaves to show how their experience may have been more difficult than that of male slaves. Although most slave narratives have come from the male slave’s point of view or from a male author, there may be evidence that the female point of view may be of more importance. To argue this, I use Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Clotel by William Wells Brown to show that the slave experience for females was more difficult than the slave experience for males due …

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The Bridge

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Die Höckernasigen, Anonymous

Drama and Film

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Ein Mann Über Bord., Frieda Freiin Von Bülow

Essays

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Lear-Patriotismus, Frieda Freiin Von Bülow

Essays

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Eine Deutsche Frau Im Innern Deutsch-Ostafrikas, Frieda Freiin Von Bülow

Essays

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Alte Und Neue Schönheit., Frieda Freiin Von Bülow

Essays

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Book Review, Gerald Rasmussen

The Bridge

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Recollections Of A Danish Auctioneer, Erling Christensen

The Bridge

I was born in Brush, Colorado, the 12th of August in

1906. I was the first child of Otto and Mariane Christensen

and ten more were to follow. I was called an "instrument

baby" according to my older cousin Bertha Pedersen, whose

mother was my Dad's sister. She said it was "sure touch and

go" as the ordeal left me black and blue in the face.

A Grundtvig In America, Thorvald Hansen

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Frederik Lange Grundtvig was the third son of Nikolai

Frederik Severin Grundtvig. He came to America in 1881 at

the age of 27, spent less that 19 of his 49 years here, served in

only one pastorate and yet became one of the most controversial

figures among the Danish immigrants. Grundtvig

came to America a budding young scientist; he left as an

accomplished clergyman. He wrote numerous articles,

pamphlets and books, all which are buried in the Danish

language, but none of which have real significance for this

day. Beyond the Danish community his name is little known

today, yet …

My Life Has Been Worth Living, Agnes J. Jensen

The Bridge

North Americans, and especially those who are not Canadians, have only in recent years become aware of the Danish Canadian writer, Agnes Jelhof-Jensen. This in spite of the fact that she published her first book, Hallo Canada, in 1976.

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The Effects Of Interpreting In Mental Health Care, Sophia Holt

Celebration of Research

The therapeutic alliance greatly influences the quality of mental health care. This alliance and other aspects of treatment are significantly changed with the introduction of an interpreter into the therapeutic alliance. A literature review was conducted and written in Spanish between January 2020 and April 2020 to determine the effects of the use of interpreters in mental health care services and to make a summary of these findings available in Spanish. The 14 articles reviewed produced the themes of varying interpreter roles, the need for a working alliance between the mental health professional and interpreter, loss of various aspects of …

Costume Design For The Curious Incident Of The Dog Of The Nighttime, Rachel Smart

Celebration of Research

The following is a presentation of the ensemble costumes of Northwestern's 2019 production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime directed by Drew Schmidt. These costumes were designed and executed by Rachel Smart with execution assistance from head designer and costume shop manager Amber Huizenga.

The ensemble cast for this production contained seven actors and twenty-eight costumes in grays-cale. Therefore, careful consideration in the execution of this design was lent towards creating costume changes that were significant but simple, adding meaningful touches of color into the design, and creating accurate and appropriate costumes for UK police officers. …

Jonah And The Giant Fish: Designing For An Ensemble, Cornelia Hayes

Celebration of Research

Being the costume designer for Northwestern Theatre Department’s children show, Jonah and the Giant Fish, allowed for a look into ensemble design. The theatre department prides itself in being an ensemble, but designing for a show with ensemble cast, a group of actors that shares the equal responsibility of telling the story, requires a different approach in costume design. The costumes had to unify the ensemble as well portray the multiple characters that they played, requiring a vast amount of flexibility. The group of storytellers began their hour with the children by sharing and showing how theatre happens …

Bilingual Essays | Ensayos Bilingües, Emily Wikner, Diana Gonzalez, Keith Fynaardt

Celebration of Research

A language learner gains a unique experience through studying abroad. They learn to process a new culture and values in their new language, but they still carry their native language and value system in the background. Most attempts to describe the experience of living abroad only use one language with occasional words from the second language sprinkled in. However, using both languages in one essay gives a vivid understanding of what it feels like to constantly switch between two languages, creating a kairotic environment for other bilingual students studying another language to remember their own experiences of studying abroad. For …

Thank God I'M Alive And Not In Jail: A Short Story Collection, Olivia Vander Ploeg

Celebration of Research

For this project, I used my grandparents’ journals to write stories loosely based on their lives. I introduced and concluded each story in the present: in scenes drawn from interactions between my grandparents, myself, and my siblings in the last decade. In addition to retelling some of my grandparents’ stories, my aim in these stories was to explore the effects of dementia on my grandparents, specifically thinking about what happens to a story when the person who lived it has forgotten it. “The Quest for the Curlers” is about my grandma and her friends trying to fix a friend’s hair. …

Why Is Bede Interested In Kings In An Ecclesiastical History?, Abigail Ver Mulm

Celebration of Research

Eusebius of Caesarea wrote a History of the Church around 300 CE; it was an account of holy persons such as bishops and martyrs, as might be expected from such a title. However, hundreds of years later, a monk and scholar named Bede writes an Ecclesiastical History of the English People, and much of his word count is spent recounting the actions of kings. This peculiar choice made by Bede was the subject of my Undergraduate Research Seminar at the University of Oxford this past fall.

Reading Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, Abigail Ver Mulm

Celebration of Research

Some figures in history loom so large that they become multiple people in the imagination, and Marcus Tullius Cicero is certainly one. Scholarship about Cicero has fractured his identity into multiple pieces, so that “Cicero the orator” seems a separate character from “Cicero the philosopher” or “Cicero the exile” or “Cicero the grieving father.” This is especially the case in scholarship regarding Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations. These were written late in Cicero’s life, when his rhetoric and philosophy was well developed and his grief was acute, due to the recent death of his daughter, Tullia. Thus, the complexities of the …

Noises Off Lighting Design, Maren Taylor

Celebration of Research

Designing for a theatrical production is a time-consuming process filled with research and lots of trial and error. This process was different from other shows. Because we decided to have the audience change sides instead of the set rotating, I essentially had to make two lighting plots for the grid: one for the front side and one for the backside. I also had a lot of lights on the set and made a ground plot for that. Before finalizing my design, I tested out different options on our classroom setup and using a photometircs software.

Julianne And Kristofferson Get Back Together Sound Design, Zachary Wilson

Celebration of Research

My design for this production was focused on trying to find a good balance between creating soundscapes that felt natural and using sound to compliment the bittersweet nostalgia of remembering a past relationship. The first task was largely accomplished through study of similar real-world environments to mimic, the second being accomplished through music choice.

"Coming Home": Writing Creative Nonfiction Essays, Alexis Karsjens

Celebration of Research

“Coming Home” is a collection of creative nonfiction essays that explore what home can represent. The essays explore the importance of family and finding belonging in the midst of an ever-changing environment. The idea and reality of place is at the heart of the collection, in which I reflect on my personal experiences of growing up on a farm in Northeast Iowa. The essay “Emerald Green Beans” is a reflection on a visit to my grandmother’s home after receiving a suicidal phone call from her, and further exploring her memories of her now-vanished hometown of Eleanor, Iowa. In “When the …