Ryan M. Scoville and Dr. Ray Christensen, Political Science Two years ago, I traveled to Okinawa to interview head office staff for two of Japan’s biggest political parties and an editor for the Ryukyu Shinbun—Okinawa’s largest newspaper. While on the island I also collected Okinawan voting records for the past two decades of mayoral and […]
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The Flesh and the Word: The Political and Theological Implications of the Bibles Moralisées
Anna C. Siebach and Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, Department of French and Italian At the beginning of the thirteenth century, around 1220-30, Blanche of Castille commissioned a Bible the likes of which had never before been produced. This bible, now known as Vienna 2554, consisted of four verses per page, each one linked with an exegetical […]
Gender and Law: the Incorporation of Gender into Austrian Political and Legal Systems
Sarah Kemeny and Dr. Cindy Brewer, Germanic and Slavic Languages Rosa Mayreder, Auguste Fickert, and Marie Lang’s publication of “Dokumente der Frauen” and the General Women’s Organization of Austria organization influenced and shaped Austrian political and legal identity for women in Austria. Auguste Fickert (1855-1910), Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938), and Marie Lang (1858-1934) were founders of […]
Expected Market Returns and Political Factors Using GMM
Ian J. Wright and Dr. Keith Vorkink, Business Management Investors, economists and financial analysts are constantly seeking to develop models that may help them anticipate what the stock market will do and how it functions. They do this so that they may take advantage of any market anomalies as soon as they appear and try […]
But Art Nevertheless: Motherhood in the Arts as a Political Tool
Elizabeth Guthrie Guthrie and Dr. Robert McFarland, Germanic and Slavic Languages In my original ORCA proposal I described how I wanted to research a number of different women of the World War I era and describe how their respective art forms defended women and especially the importance and value of motherhood. I wanted to compare […]
Waging the Moral Equivalent of War: The Political Conditions for Alternative Fuel Reform in the United States and Brazil
Logan Richards Clark and Dr. Kirk Hawkins, Political Science Department Energy often plays a central role in both domestic and international conflict. Many scholars, activists and policymakers agree that the environmental, economic, and political costs of the United States’ self-proclaimed “addiction” to oil for its use as transportation fuel, among other functions, are unsustainable, even […]
Clearing Up the Smoke: How Government Transparency Efforts Affect Political Sentiments in Peru
John Harris and Dr. Darren Hawkins. Political Science Introduction Peru is known for its cynical citizenry. People from all demographics and regions have a negative and oftentimes hopeless perception of their government of all level (regional, municipal and national). This ardent cynicism comes for a legacy of corruption that is deeply embedded into the political […]
From William Jennings Bryan to George Walker Bush: The Development of Political Ideology and Party Membership in the Mountain West
Verlan Lewis and Dr. Brian Cannon, History The Mountain West is the fastest-growing region in the country, and it is becoming increasingly important to national politics. For only the third time in history of the U.S. Congress, the Senate Majority Leader is currently from the Mountain West. In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush […]
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND EARLY AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RHETORIC FROM THE PURITAN POLITICAL SERMONS
Ryan D. Nelson and Dr. Neal Lambert, Humanities For this work, I attempted to look closer at the influence that the early Puritan political sermons had upon the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Although an interesting topic to study in general, I found it necessary to consistently revise my research to become more specific. […]
LOOKING BACK ON REVOLUTION: POST-REVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL SENTIMENT AS DEPICTED IN THE FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE OF MODERN TUNISIA
Quinn Mecham and Dr. Dilworth Parkinson, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature I began this research project with the intention of briefly surveying all of the major literature of post-revolutionary Francophone North Africa and extracting the domestic political themes from each text. I soon realized that this was an extraordinarily difficult if not impossible task for […]
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