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Other Countries, Other Shores
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2014-January-01
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Paranoia and Schizophrenia in Postmodern Literature: Pynchon and DeLillo
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2014-January-01
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Paris Invertie: Expatriate Queerness, Then and Now
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2014-January-01
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Perennial Tensions in NYC Communty Gardens: An Analysis of New York City's Greenthumb Program
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2014-January-01
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Physician-Assisted Death: Vermont's Contribution to the Emerging Conversation on Death and Dying
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2014-January-01
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Policy Transfer and the Global City Dilemma
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2014-January-01
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Powerless Children: How U.S. Immigration Policies are Impacting U.S. Citizen Children
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2014-January-01
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Although immigration policies directly implicate the undocumented individual, it is important to note that generally undocumented immigrants are not living in the U.S. alone- they have a family. Therefore, when undocumented parents are faced with orders of deportation, not only...
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Queer Wonderlands: The Appeal of Children's Fantasy Literature to the LGBTQ Community
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2014-January-01
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Reality of Love: The Heteronormative Agenda of ABC's the Bachelor
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2014-January-01
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This project provides an oppositional reading of ABC's popular <em>Bachelor </em>franchise, arguing that these reality dating programs present viewers with specific narratives of gender, sexuality, class, and race that contribute to greater hegemonic discourse that reifies heterosexual marriage. Through a...
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Reflection, Reproduction, and Challenging at the Brooklyn Zen Center: Complexifying Cultural Capital, Gentrification, the Mindfulness Movement, and Scale
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2014-January-01
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This project analyzes the Brooklyn Zen Center as a case study in order to complexify our understandings of cultural capital, gentrification, the modern American mindfulness movement, and geographic scale. Through an analysis focused at the local scale, we see how...
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Repackaging Racism: The Role of Sickle Cell Anemia in the Construction of Race as Biological
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2014-January-01
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Representing Black Identities: An Exploration of Photographic Racial Projects in American Society
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2014-January-01
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Resisting Binaries? Multiracial Black/White Identity and the U.S. Racial Project
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2014-January-01
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The multiracial population is growing rapidly in the United States. With President Barack Obama, a self-identified black man with white and black ancestry, as the face of our nation, and as the face of this growing population, it is evident...
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Resisting Binaries? Multiracial Black/White Identity and the U.S. Racial Project
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2014-January-01
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The multiracial population is growing rapidly in the United States. With President Barack Obama, a self-identified black man with white and black ancestry, as the face of our nation, and as the face of this growing population, it is evident...
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Rethinking the American High School History Textbook: An Analysis, Critique, and Reformation of American History-Telling in the Classroom
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2014-January-01
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Scripting (In)security: Cartographic Violence and Performances of Securitization in the Western Sahara
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2014-January-01
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Throughout the forty-year conflict over the Western Sahara, the United States has supported Morocco's occupation of the disputed territory. This overall policy has remained relatively consistent over time, yet constantly subjected to contestation. The debates over policy and various modes...
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Senior Project: A Screenplay
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2014-January-01
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Senior Recital: Aidan Khan, tenor
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2014-March-29
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Senior Recital: Aidan Khan, tenor
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2014-March-29
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Senior Recital: Chelsea Skye Yamada, soprano
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2014-April-26
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Chelsea Skye Yamada, soprano, assisted by Thomas Sauer, piano; Kevin Lee (VC 2014), violin; Sofia Macht (VC 2014), violin; Maria Ichizawa (VC 2014), viola; and William Leith (VC 2014), cello
