Comparative History of Ideas Undergraduate Theses
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Item type: Item , The Music of the Marching Band: Collectivity, Embodiment, and Performance(2018-05) Brennan, SageThis paper explores the ways that music embodiment and performance can make students in marching band have closer relationships compared to many other group organizations, clubs, or jobs. In the first section of the text, the author describes how students in marching band often seem to have closer bonds than people in other clubs or organizations, and theorizes that this is because of music embodiment and performance. The next section of the text explores the community within marching band and how hazing, sections, and stereotyping are small problems within the community. The author next discusses how music education promotes empathy in children, then describes Taylor’s ideas on performance and how performance leads people to observe one another’s bodies so that they are better able to mirror those around them, encouraging empathy. Additionally, Koelsch and Berrol’s work on neuroscience demonstrates that embodying music with those around them can make people feel emotions when moving in synchronization with peers.Item type: Item , The Politics of Identity: The Question of Conflict Between the East and West(2006-03) Raynor, JeffItem type: Item , The Shadows of Birds(2006-05) Provence, ScottItem type: Item , Reaching the Audience in the Medium of Drum and Bugle Corps(2006-03) Nederhood, MichaelDrum and Bugle Corps is a complex art form combining visuals and music. In this paper I analyze the components of drum corps in order to define what combinations will be most satisfying to an audience. The work is useful to designers and fans, as well as potential fans of the activity. The components I break down a performance into are entertainment, the beauteous, awe, and skill. In addition to these I use the concept of an invisible barrier between the audience and the corps. In an entertainment performance, the invisible barrier is broken down in order to affect the audience with feelings of fun and delight. In a beauteous performance the barrier is built up in order to affect the audience with a transcendent feeling; in order to overwhelm them with deep emotion. Awe is the ultimate experience for a drum corps audience. I relate this feeling to the sublime. There are additional concepts within awe that come from Edmund Burke’s writings on the sublime experience. These are loudness, suddenness, color, and difficulty. Awe is very important as it is the highest feeling that can be achieved in aesthetics, and thus I relate awe, and its components, to the other components of performance mentioned before. If a performance seeks to invoke awe, it will immediately be on the right track to satisfying the audience. Much of this work concentrates on how to succeed at an awe-inspiring performance. The text analyzes video clips of drum and bugle corps performances which accompany the text on disc. They are meant to be viewed by the reader as the reader encounters them within the text.Item type: Item , Riding Through Change: History, Horses and the Restructuring of Tradition in Rajasthan(2006-06) Thelen, ElizabethItem type: Item , Item type: Item , France and the Netherlands: immigration, assimilation, and conflict(2006-05) Main, HeatherItem type: Item , The Politics of Identity(2006-03) Raynor, JeffItem type: Item , A Vida Na Favela (Life in the Favela)(2006-03) McGraw, JaneAs an intern teaching English and Spanish in Recife, Brasil at the community school Movimento Pró-Criança from January to June of 2005 I had the opportunity to gather a variety of resources reflecting the views of Piedade residents on youth development in their favela. My research includes photographs of the community and transcribed tape-recorded interviews with a variety of the local youth, students, elderly, parents, and public school teachers. My project also references the photographic auto-biographies created by students in my Spanish class, poems written by students in my English class, reflections on the adolescent girls sex-education discussion group I co-founded, a story written by one of my 11-year-old students, the Government meetings I attended in Recife’s city center, research I conducted outside of Brasil, the proposal I co-wrote with a group of Pró-Criança students in hopes of negotiating improved funding at local public schools, and many other experiences and relationships that shaped my research. My thesis focuses on five issues affecting youth development in Piedade: 1) Poor public school quality creates an institutionalized disparity between poor and rich Brazilians, and a lack of opportunities for youth in the favela community; 2) The history of the Favela and the life threatening conditions which continue to affect its youth; 3) Effects of institutionalized violence and political corruption on youth development in the favela; 4) History and causes of violence against women in Brazilian favelas and in popular culture; 5) The Role of favela youth in an everyday cycle of hardship, violence, exclusion, and neglect. I found these to be the five issues most frequently discussed and emphasized by people involved with the community of Piedade.Item type: Item , Perception and Uncertainty(2006-03) Madden, EricItem type: Item , Berryman's Voice(2005-12) Stoltz, Matthew T.Item type: Item , Specters of Badiou: The Deconstructive Immortal(2006-03) Campbell, PatrickItem type: Item , Moving Beyond Borders: The Creation of Nomadic Space through Travel(2006-03) Bestrom, ErinItem type: Item , Past, Present, and Politics: A Look at the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement(2005-12) Pacheco, Amanda M.Since the overthrow and subsequent annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the late 1800’s, there has been a movement, both subtle and direct, to regain sovereignty for the native Hawaiian people. In the early 1970’s, this movement, as a result of continued political abuse and dispossession suffered by native Hawaiians, groups of both native and non-native Hawaiians began rallying together to protect their lands, waters, and rights. A fight for lands and waters slowly transformed into a fight for independence and self-government, for reparations and for sovereignty. This is where the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement was born. However, the movement and those who participate in it have evolved over the last 30 years into more than 300 factions, with each faction representing a different idea of just what exactly the people of Hawaii want and need. These ideas are many and varied, including complete independence from the United States, federal recognition and indigenous status, more control over native Hawaiian assets such as crown and ceded lands, and many others. Only by exploring the organizations formed by these different factions can one begin to understand the purpose of the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, and the politics and history that its participants and theories are so embedded in. By critically analyzing and critiquing three specific organizations, whose ideas on sovereignty differ widely, there is the hope of knowing if there is any possibility of a movement for sovereignty succeeding against such a dominant colonial power, like the United States, even when that movement seems unable to unite under a common goal.Item type: Item , Narrativism and Biography: A Historiographic Reflection on Marget Thomas(2005-12) Hegyvary, AdrianItem type: Item , The Impact of Technology in the Radio Broadcasting Field(2005-06) Derenick, TeishaItem type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Early Christian Wisdom: Active Faith(1981-06) Clowes, JimItem type: Item , “We Are the Tiniest Particle”: Authorial Agency and the Body(2005-06) Hudson, Kanna