• 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 ...

• Animal Agriculture and Antibiotic Resistant Disease 

  Huang, Muh-En (University of Washington Libraries, 12/10/2017)

  What social, economic, or political factors affect the way antibiotic use is regulated in the US? In the United States, farmers feed their animals antibiotics at low doses to prevent disease and promote their growth. Because ...

• Implications and Limitations of Ireland’s Abortion Law 

  Estabrook, Melissa (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  In this research paper I explore the implications and limitations of Ireland’s abortion law. I specifically address the issue with a human right’s framework. In this paper, I argue that mounting historical court cases and ...

• Dal Principe di Machiavelli a Trump: Somiglianze in Politica Basate sulla Natura Umana 

  Carcoana, Allison Dumitriu (University of Washington Libraries, 3/14/2018)

  I wrote this paper as the final project for my independent study in Italian 499. It discusses the similarities between the tactics that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and the recommendations of 16th ...

• An Overview of Brazil's HIV Epidemic: From Past Challenges to Future Directions 

  Duncan, Sarah (University of Washington Libraries, 5/7/2018)

  This research project aims to investigate the course of the HIV epidemic in Brazil. After exploring the history of HIV/AIDS and the current state of the epidemic, this paper explores the current challenges that Brazil faces ...

• New Foundations: Emotional Acculturation of Ethnic Chinese Abroad 

  Cheung-Daihe, Bill (University of Washington Libraries, 3/15/2018)

  My research paper, “New Foundations: Emotional Acculturation of Ethnic Chinese Abroad”, was written as a Term Paper for Honors 211/Slavic 426. In 11 pages, I argue that Chinese-American emotion is at the intersection of ...

• La Censure sous le Second Empire: la Condamnation des Fleurs du Mal et l’Innocence de Madame Bovary 

  Walkley, Ethan (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  My research focused on literary censorship during the Second Empire France by examining two censorship trials: the 1856 trial of Gustave Flaubert’s realist novel Madame Bovary and the 1857 trial of Charles Baudelaire's ...

• What Are the Implications of Increasing Euroscepticism in Politically Confused France? 

  Spencer, Maddie (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  This research paper attempts to make sense of the current political situation in France by analyzing France’s interactions with the European Union, French citizens’ opinions of those interactions, and potential consequences ...

• Battle of the Filter Feeders: Bacterial Transmission in the Presence of Ascidians 

  Lopes, Heather (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Marine diseases are a major cost to fisheries and aquaculture industries, and as we continuously rely on marine organisms for protein, we increase our interaction with illnesses like gastroenteritis from undercooked oysters. ...

• Spiritual Humiliation: Sectarian Torture Tactics in Assad’s Prisons 

  Shalabi, Malak (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Using an Islamic lens, this paper will explore spiritual humiliation, a method of torture used by guards in Syria’s government torture facilities to violate religious boundaries and demean the spiritual identity of detainees. ...

• “It Must be Odd to be a Minority”: Multiracial Japanese Americans, Racial Segregation, and the U.S. Empire 

  Russ, Hannah Fumiko (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Multiracial Japanese families posed a problem for the U.S. government during the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The Mixed Marriage policy was an attempt to reconcile the question: Who did the ...

• The Challenges of Recent Migrations to Scandinavia 

  Quiroga Roldan, Andres (University of Washington Libraries, 2017)

  Despite having nearly identical historical, ethnic, and social backgrounds, Sweden and Denmark have taken fairly different approaches to the issue of immigration over the last half-century. While Denmark surrendered to ...

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