• Cyclicity in Landscape: Its Reality in Nature and Clash with Human Civilizational Progress 

  Nguyen, Hannah (University of Washington Libraries, 3/19/2019)

  Seeking to understand how landscape’s dualities serve as the basis for its inherently natural cyclicity in Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod brings us to a clearer recognition of its odds with the American ideal of unidirectional ...

• Reproduction, distribution, and feeding ecology of the Greenland shark (Sominosus microcephalus) in relation to climate change and human activities in the Arctic 

  Stork, Kalina (University of Washington Libraries, 5/6/2019)

  My submission is a research paper on the ecological role of the species the Greenland shark (Sominosus microcephalus). Very few research studies have been conducted on this species, so this paper is a review on over 30 ...

• Benthic-pelagic decoupling and walrus responses to a warming Arctic 

  Stromberg, Wells (University of Washington Libraries, 3/18/2019)

  A walrus diet typically consists of invertebrates that live on the seafloor, consumed in large quantities with the help of special morphological traits. In addition to the threats posed by diminishing sea ice in their ...

• Increased prevalence of human activity in the Arctic as a result of climate change, and the impacts on the Arctic ecosystem from resulting increases of introduced species 

  Lawson, Delaney (University of Washington Libraries, 5/6/2019)

  Arctic sea ice levels have been steadily decreasing since the end of the 20th century, and there is no evidence of this trend disappearing in the coming years. As a result of this, shipping routes are opening up within ...

• Pursuing Social Justice: How Might a Universal Basic Income or Federal Jobs Guarantee Help Women? 

  Karcher, Kathryn (University of Washington Libraries, 3/4/2019)

  Welfare policies in the United States reinforce sexism, racism, and classism, and thereby oppress women. When discussing alternative policies, scholars and political players should not just consider economic consequences. ...

• Peace for Apartheid: The Oslo Accords and Orientalism in Liberal American Foreign Policy, 1991-1996 

  Crowley, Dutton (University of Washington Libraries, 3/15/2019)

  My paper looks at the Oslo Accords, the "peace process" between the Palestinians and Israel. However, I argue that Oslo was never a peace process, and this is largely because the United States was never the neutral arbiter ...

• Epidemic of Violations Abroad: Prosecutorial Control of Exculpatory Evidence and Plea Bargaining Rates. 

  Fletcher, Alexandra (University of Washington Libraries, 5/5/2019)

  Over the last few decades, plea bargaining rates have skyrocketed in the United States. Most efforts taken by states to halt the surge of plea bargaining have not addressed prosecutorial discretion in the court, and no ...

• Civil Rights and their Limitations: On Redress for Japanese Latin Americans 

  Carrasquero, Danielle (University of Washington Libraries, 5/6/2019)

  My research project explores the incarceration of Japanese Peruvians and Japanese Latin Americans during World War II. Further, my paper looks at the fact that these individuals were then excluded from the Civil Liberties ...

• Educational Excellence and the Economics of Immigration: Undocumented Latin American Youth and the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy 

  Carey, Sophia (University of Washington Libraries, 6/5/2018)

  This paper examines the ideological superstructure of the Seattle-based Youth Tutoring Program in the context of racial politics in urban design and education. Institutional restrictions to eligibility for public housing ...

• The Story Behind An East Asian's Name Change 

  Au, Wing Yun (University of Washington Libraries, 5/6/2019)

  There’s a lot of reasons why one might decide to change their name—maybe it holds bad memories or there’s another name that holds more meaning. For a certain demographic, specifically East Asians who come to an English ...

• "We Wear Our Boots Just Like the Men": Women's Roles in Pacific Northwest Mountains and Society, 1890-1939 

  Abrams, Cleone (University of Washington Libraries, 3/15/2019)

  Women challenged traditional roles and expectations in both the mountains and politics of the 20th-century Pacific Northwest. Though women continued to struggle for equality and retained separate spheres from men, they ...

• Are We Living in the Racial Capitalocene?: Anthropocene Discourse, Racial Capitalism, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ "Between the World and Me" 

  Wooley, Samuel (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  As global temperatures continue to increase, it becomes clear that we are living in an era of human-induced climate shift. This era has commonly been labelled the “Anthropocene” in both the sciences and the humanities, a ...

• Vice and Visibility: Changing Attitudes toward Prostitution and Sexual Behavior in Victorian Britain 

  Morgan, Melissa (University of Washington Libraries, 3/14/2018)

  This essay explores the story of the Contagious Diseases Acts, a series of bills from Britain in the 1860s which subjected female prostitutes to forced medical examinations. Early feminist activists, largely middle-class ...

• Automatically Classifying Art Images Using Computer Vision 

  Oh, Chris (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  Millions of art images have been digitized over the last several decades. This has created new opportunities for art scholars and historians. However, searching and navigating these art images is difficult because of the ...

• Respeta mí Existencia o Espera Resistencia: Mobilization and Political Participation of the Latino Immigrant Rights Movement Under Threat 

  Venegas, Yulenni (University of Washington Libraries, 5/4/2018)

  Current immigration law in the United States is amongst the harshest in our nation’s history, where for an immigrant, all roads come with the threat of deportation. This paper examines how the threat of deportation in ...

• Une Voix prématurée: La Féminisme d’Olympe de Gouges en Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne 

  Sprague, Carly (University of Washington Libraries, 3/13/2018)

  This is my final research paper from my 18th-21st century history/literature French class discussing the importance and ramifications of Olympe de Gouges's 1791 pamphlet Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne, ...

• The Impact of The Government-Linked Companies Transformation Program (GLCTP) on The Performances of Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia 

  Khoo, Elaine Synn Yie (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This paper examines the impact of the 10-year long Government-Linked Companies Transformation Program (GLCTP) on the performances of the Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) and non-Government-Linked Companies (non-GLCs) in ...

• Precarious Whiteness: Reimagining the Seattle Sephardic Origin Story 

  Lewis, Annie (University of Washington Libraries, 3/14/2018)

  “Precarious Whiteness: Reimagining the Seattle Sephardic Origin Story” seeks to investigate narrative formation around Sephardic Jewish identity from the early twentieth century to the present. While Sephardim are commonly ...

• Rehabilitation in Washington’s Juvenile Justice System: How Longer Sentences may be Well-Intentioned yet Ineffective 

  Farrell, Hannah (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This research aims to determine whether sentence length affects the rate of re-offending after release (called recidivism) for children who are incarcerated at juvenile rehabilitation facilities in Washington State. Some ...

• Accommodating Public Space to Uphold Rape Myths: The Danger of Using Environmental Design to Prevent Sexual Violence 

  Graham, Katelyn (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This paper investigates the ways environmental design perpetuates rape myths through critiquing of the use Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design strategies as a preventative measure against sexual assault in public ...

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