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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

A Study on Humor in Books I, II, and III of Horace's Odes

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Authors
McCoy, Sean
Advisors
Brown, Robert
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Greek and Roman Studies Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
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Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Conflicts of Unity and Individuality in the Bacchae

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Authors
Madison Wetzell
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Greek and Roman Studies Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
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Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

Deconstructing the Asian-American Student: Storytelling through Portraiture

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The model minority stereotype was coined in 1966 to describe the Japanese and their post-World War II success, but it quickly generalized across all Asian ethnic groups. Today, although many Asians resist this stereotype, many Americans—both Asian and non-Asian—embrace it. This stereotype has a detrimental effect on the educational experiences of Asian-American students for a variety of reasons: those students who are not high-achieving have their experiences ignored; Asian students are held up to unrealistic expectations; many Asian students are cut off from resources that are available to other students of color; etc. Stereotyping is just one factor that shapes the experiences of Asian-American students in the American education system. Six Vassar College students were interviewed about the different social factors—including but not limited to immigration status, personal interests, and familial and/or parental pressure—that influenced their educational journeys thus far. Their stories told through portraiture analysis provide support for the existing literature on the Asian-American student experiences, and deconstruct the generalized and stereotyped image of what constitutes an Asian-American student. The portraits also suggest ways in which educators can improve the educational experiences for minority students, such as creating affinity spaces and restructuring the curriculum to be more multicultural and culturally sensitive.
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Authors
Michelle Yuan
Advisors
Hantzopoulos, Maria
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
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Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Trusting Teachers as Educational Experts: Listening to Teachers as a Key Ingredient in Educational Reform Policy

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Authors
Yakubowski, Leigh
Advisors
Rueda, Eréndira
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Education Department
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
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Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

Empowering Art and Transforming Spaces: Museums, Community, and Social Justice

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Authors
Ngaruiya, Lily
Advisors
Hantzopolous, Maria
McCloskey, Erin
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
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Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

Queer Hermeneutics for an Unbound Temporality: Schools as Passageway

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Queer theorists have posited that normativity is involved in a spatial practice. American society has taken great care to assign different levels of value to different identities as well as to the time and space they inhabit. Inequitable structures of power have produced an enormous inequality in the United States, and the American public education system provides sustenance to this social system through a particular method of socializing children into positions of domination and subordination. This thesis attempts to approach these issues from a unique perspective. A queer temporality offers a hopeful alternative in the other. The aim of a queer time and space project is to reject normativity and rescind the power of capital through the centering of bodily subjectivity as the source of individual and collective ambition. In a queer temporality, capital is misplaced, the bodily experience is affirmed, and individuals are free to follow their ambition unhampered by social expectations and normative definitions of success. In order to arrive at this alternative reality, this thesis suggests that schools begin the paradigmatic shift through inclusive practices that create intentional classroom and school communities and through teaching the conflict that manifests in so many forms of oppression. From this will spring a more unbound, limitless framework for individual and collective action and growth.
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Authors
Murphy, Andrew Thomas
Advisors
Holland, Tracey
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Peer Reviewed
Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Camera Work: The Vital Force Behind A New Way of Seeing A Media Studies Program Senior Thesis

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Photographer and journal editor Alfred Stieglitz has been credited with evolving an American style of looking at photography. After attempting to develop its recognition as an art form from within the gallery setting, Stieglitz seized an opportunity to instigate change from outside of an art realm already dominated by painting. My thesis concerns the transition from the gallery wall to the journal page as a space for display, and how Stieglitz's use of his quarterly photographic journal <em>Camera Work, </em>alongside his many other gallery pursuits and interests in modern European art, ultimately developed a new way of regarding photographs as representations of modern artistic expression. Essentially subverting everything that he was told he and his camera could not accomplish, Stieglitz took what fascinated him the most about photography and what it could manage to convey, and turned it on its head. Through <em>Camera Work </em>and the gallery space 291, he intersected various art forms and styles as a means of breaching the assumed limitations of photography and bolstering their rank among art forms that had already been accepted for centuries as legitimate ways of representing the world. Stieglitz determined that not only are photographs a valid form of artistic expression, but they can accomplish everything that other art forms can accomplish, and more.
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Authors
Sanfuentes, Alexandra
Advisors
Nesbit, Molly, 1952-
Mark, M. (Marsha), 1946-
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Peer Reviewed
Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

Camera Work: The Vital Force Behind A New Way of Seeing A Media Studies Program Senior Thesis

Abstract
Photographer and journal editor Alfred Stieglitz has been credited with evolving an American style of looking at photography. After attempting to develop its recognition as an art form from within the gallery setting, Stieglitz seized an opportunity to instigate change from outside of an art realm already dominated by painting. My thesis concerns the transition from the gallery wall to the journal page as a space for display, and how Stieglitz's use of his quarterly photographic journal <em>Camera Work, </em>alongside his many other gallery pursuits and interests in modern European art, ultimately developed a new way of regarding photographs as representations of modern artistic expression. Essentially subverting everything that he was told he and his camera could not accomplish, Stieglitz took what fascinated him the most about photography and what it could manage to convey, and turned it on its head. Through <em>Camera Work </em>and the gallery space 291, he intersected various art forms and styles as a means of breaching the assumed limitations of photography and bolstering their rank among art forms that had already been accepted for centuries as legitimate ways of representing the world. Stieglitz determined that not only are photographs a valid form of artistic expression, but they can accomplish everything that other art forms can accomplish, and more.
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Authors
Sanfuentes, Alexandra
Advisors
Nesbit, Molly, 1952-
Mark, M. (Marsha), 1946-
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Peer Reviewed
Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

Surrealist Fashion: A Critical Introduction

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My project explores the role of fashion in the commercialization of the Surrealist movement and the lasting impact of Surrealist language and imagery on the landscape of fashion design. Drawing on my survey and analysis of the history of the movement, I designed my own fashion collection to both critique and pay homage to specific artists. Themes of misogyny are central to my designs, as well as the Surrealist preoccupation with fragmentation, juxtaposition, and defamiliarization. The garment I constructed in intended as a <em>cadavre exquis </em>collage of these ideas and questions the role (absence) of women in Surrealism's history and its retellings.
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Authors
Bowen, Taylor
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
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Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Thu, 01/20/2022 - 16:20

Put the Team on Their Back: Black Football Players and Internal Colonialism in the SEC

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Authors
Kelly Wilkinson
Advisors
Eileen Leonard
Nevarez, Leonard
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Peer Reviewed
Not Reviewed
Publication Date
2015-01-01
English
Class Year
2015
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Senior Capstone Projects
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