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2020

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"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Clarke, Victoria Ashley
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Abstract

In my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the...

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"From beyond time": a comparative analysis of temporality in William Faulkner's ​As I Lay Dying​ and Toni Morrison's ​Beloved

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Papsun, Ben
Department or Program
English Department
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"O'me alone?": Aristotle and the failure of autarky in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Marshall, Sarah
Department or Program
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Abstract

This thesis offers an Aristotelian reading of <em>Coriolanus, </em>with the goal of assessing the viability of individual self-sufficiency.<em></em> As political and moral treatises, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics are valuable intertexts through which Shakespeare's more imaginative work may be analyzed...

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"Well, I'm thinking about horse poverty": Teaching and Learning about Social Justice and the Arts with Elementary School Students

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kennen, Sophie
Department or Program
Education Department
Abstract

This paper analyzes a social justice arts program that I developed and taught to third, fourth, and fifth grade students at one school in the Poughkeepsie, NY area. I begin this project by considering my own experiences in art class...

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An Eye for the Invisible: Exploring the Role of Image-Making in Science

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Kahr, Aden
Department or Program
Science, Technology, and Society Program
Abstract

This thesis tracks the evolution of filmed and photographed depictions of science, emphasizing in particular their dual existence as empirical research tools and stunning works of art.

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