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A Game of Inches
(2007) Gettliffe, Gwen; Li, Sean; Norris, Alison; Eswarakrishan, Shekar
In order to thrive in the competitive realm of sports, ancient Greek Olympians believed they could gain the competitive edge by gorging on mushrooms. Today's athletes are consuming a less extreme, yet still worrisome substance: creatine. Do the rewards outweigh the risks?
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American Cyber Insecurity: The growing danger of cyber attacks
(2014-05-23) Strunk, Daniel; Colin, Scott; Chris, Brown; Desmond, Lee
This paper aims to advise American policy makers on a correct course of action regarding the advent of cyber warfare. Cyber-attacks have become ubiquitous in the 21st century and pose a direct threat to the safety of American interests abroad and domestically. Beginning with an analysis of the history and lessons from past cyber conflicts this paper moves on to proscribe a set of actions to protect American security in the 21st century. We conclude that the current legal framework for evaluating cyber-attacks needs to be re-framed in a manner more conducive to American interests.
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“An End to the Essential Difference between Things”: Detective, Criminal, and the Aesthetic of Crime
(2010-01-11T13:35:12Z) Harpham, John
The detective fiction of Poe, Gaboriau, and Conan Doyle is best understood in relation to an earlier genre, the crime story, with the figure of the detective representing the descendant and the continuation of the criminals depicted in that genre. The common ground on which the detective meets the criminal of the crime story is the concept of an aesthetic of crime, and this idea also enables the detective’s identity with the criminals of detective fiction. In establishing the identity of the pursuer and the pursued, detective fiction discovers a deeper affinity between crime and art, a discovery that carries interesting implications for the “incompleteness” of modernity.
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Cartoon and Massacre: Japanese Empire in China, Korea, and Taiwan
(2008-04-27) Nguyen, Dewey Duy
This paper examines the controversial legacy of the Japanese empire in East Asia using cartoons from Tokyo Puck and articles from The Japan Times and Mail to trace and analyze the development of Japanese imperialism in the early 20th century. It attempts to connect historical events like the Sino-Japanese War, the Nanjing Massacre, and the colonization of Taiwan with modern day issues like the Yasukuni Shrine and Asian comfort women. The paper argues that Japanese imperialism in East Asia is complex and cannot be viewed through black and white lens; while often characterized by brutality and exploitation, Japan also brought development, the prime example being the island of Taiwan. The paper then posits several reasons why modern day Japan has yet to come to terms with its imperial past and makes policy suggestions for the future.
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Compulsory Perfection
(2006) Krucoff, Rae
Especially at prestigious universities such as Duke, and for female students in particular, the constant pressure to achieve academic success while maintaining an active social life produces an intensely competitive atmosphere.
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Divergent Priorities, Diverging Visions: Lesbian Separatist Versus Gay Male Integrationist Ideology Surrounding Duke in the 1970s and 80s
(2013-09-16) Liggett, Chantel Katharina
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Do Clothes Make the Woman? : The Duke Dress Code
(2007-05-04) Burchell, Jessica
At Duke University, a dress code did exist at one point and by looking directly at the dress code it is possible to analyze the overall goals and control the university has exerted, the ways the dress code has changed, and the implications of those changes. It is interesting to look at the reasons why the rules existed and what they accomplished because information about perceptions and power struggles as well as age and gender relations can be discovered. It is most useful to look at different time periods in Duke’s history and, in doing so, use the specific details to make general observations and compare them. The first time period that will be looked at is the years of The Woman’s College, 1930-1963. The second time period, from 1963-1970, will be analyzed next. Breaking the time periods at 1963 is of particular importance because this is the last year that the Social Standards Committee produced their pamphlet documenting the dress code. This was a student-run branch of the Woman’s Student Government Association that was specifically interested in promoting “good taste and gracious living on campus.” One of their specific tasks was to produce a pamphlet for each incoming class which was initially called “It’s not in the Handbook” and later changed to “Design for a Duchess”. In these guides, there are pages devoted to the wardrobe of a “duchess” describing the appropriate dress for different kinds of activities. Later on, after the Social Standards board no longer exists, there is an obvious break from a traditional dress code. The students’ behavior starts to change which is apparent when analyzing the lack of documented dress policy, the changing pictorial documentation, and mostly the documentation, through the Woman’s College records, of rebellion from the students.
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Emperor Qin in the Afterlife
(2007) Wolff, Jennifer
The question that still puzzles scholars and archaeologists is why Emperor Qin had this army of pottery constructed.
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Expulsion: Reasons, Rates, and Ramifications
(2007-05-04) Garrison, Jill
Women have always been held to different social standards than men. Although these variations in standards are not as prevalent today as they once were, they still are a part of our everyday lives. For instance, while it is a widely known that sorority life is filled with drinking and partying, during rush, current members of sororities may not talk about the partying and drinking that their sorority does. During rush, sorority members have to “pretend” that they do not drink, while during fraternity rush, drinking is a part of the process. Ever since the admission of women into Trinity College in 1896, women at Duke have always been held to different standards than men. In this paper, I will examine the changing rules and regulations over two different time periods (the 1930-1940’s and the 1960-1970’s) and the amount of opposition these rules and regulations incurred. In doing this, I will explore the suspension, expulsion and the judicial procedures that followed. I also will provide a thorough examination of the differences between the rules of the men in Trinity and the female students of The Woman’s College.
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For God Did Not Give Us a Spirit of Timidity, but of Power: Women Seminarians’ Struggles to Claim Authority and Giftedness
(2009-05-29T19:34:00Z) Palmberg, Christa Mazzone
One of the primary motivating factors of this project was my sense that many women seminarians quickly forget the “gift of God” that is within them shortly after their arrival at Duke Divinity School. The strong sense of call they had, which led them to this place often gives way to doubt, insecurity, and “timidity.” I have witnessed many women hide their brilliant questions, insightful comments, and leadership gifts. I have noticed a deep and difficult struggle on the part of many women to claim their authority, intelligence, and voice.
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From the Archives to the Tower
(2007-05-04) Conway, Amanda
Katharine Banham was a pioneer. Just as Lewis and Clark ventured into the unknown West, she blindly went where few women had gone before – academia. With no map to follow, she blazed her own trail, documenting her route – complete with numerous detours – in the process. Analysis of this documentation would function as the manual for future brave women, to whom she provided tools to both encourage and assuage their intellectual journey through higher education. At a time when we are eliciting all resources possible to achieve the goal of “a world of full equality and respect for all” as stated by President Brodhead, it seems appropriate to resurrect Katharine Banham’s experience from the Archives to the forefront. For, we can learn a great deal about both her as a person and Duke as an institution from the obstacles she overcame, the programs she instituted, and the type of individual she was.
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Gender at Duke
(2007-05-04) Jones, Rosanne
This research paper will analyze both the growth and decline of women’s roles here on campus. Consequently, I will investigate how national events parallel the waxing and waning of female leadership in The Woman’s College during the merge of this college with Trinity College to form Duke University in 1972.
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Gender Relations in Chinese Comrade Literature: Redefining Heterosexual and Homosexual Identity as Essentially the Same yet Radically Different
(2012-08-20) Leng, Rachel
Throughout the twentieth century, homosexuality has been and remains a highly sensitive and controversial topic in China where homosexual people were actively persecuted under Communist rule. It was not until the advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s that Comrade Literature (同志文学 tongzhi wenxue), an indigenous genre characterized by fictions of homosexuality, came into existence in China. Comrade Literature swiftly became popular as a medium for modern Chinese homosexual people (tongzhi) to express powerful emotions and protest the dominant heterosexual standard. This paper will discuss Beijing Story (1996) and The Illusive Mind (2003), two texts that have appealed to a large number of readers under the genre of “Comrade Novels.” Both fictions share a common characteristic in that they portray ambiguous relationships between and identities of characters to destabilize the dichotomous homo/hetero paradigm of sexuality in Chinese society. These Comrade novels comment on issues of sexuality and repressive social practices in two distinct but interrelated ways: as a plea for others to understand that homoerotic desire is essentially the same as heteroerotic desire, but also as an affirmation of the legitimacy of homosexual relations as radically different and even more ideal than dominant heterosexual practices in Chinese society. By examining the sexual and emotional attachment of the male protagonist to his male and female subjects of desire in these Comrade texts, I will explore how these differing viewpoints simultaneously coexist yet contest each other. I posit that it is possible to borrow from Western queer theory to understand the emergence and logic of Comrade Literature in China, demonstrating that queer texts converge across national and cultural borders in the way they challenge the dominant heteronormative categorical order of sexual hierarchy. Nonetheless, Comrade novels still exhibit divergence from texts produced in the Euro-American milieu to address dilemmas specific to tongzhi in China’s sociopolitical environment.
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German Jewish Refugees in 1933: Failure of the League of Nations
(2014-06-25) Hansson, Lauren
In 1933 the League of Nations had an office at its disposal, the Nansen Office for International Refugees, with the capacity and willingness to address the problem of German Jewish refugees. Instead it created the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany (Jewish and Other) that was both underfunded and inferior to the Nansen Office, as it was not affiliated with the League or funded by it. Why did the League not extend its protection to German Jewish refugees via the Nansen Office in 1933? This analysis uses the documents of James G. McDonald, High Commissioner from 1933-35 to explore two explanations: the early start of appeasement in the face of the German disarmament crisis and the effects of transnational anti-Semitism. The broader implications of this analysis suggest the extent to which international organizations rely on states to cooperate. In addition, the discussion of transnational anti-Semitism has the potential to fit with a nuanced Constructivist theory of international relations.
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Gondolas in the Desert: Searching for Authenticity in Las Vegas
(2007) Soble, Whitney
Las Vegas is under siege. Even as the city in the desert flourishes, its longstanding critics are determined to deride it as a constructed reality that indefensibly purges history and culture from its sterile landscape.
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History of Duke University’s Housing Policies as Seen Through Town and Gown Relations
(2007-05-04) Uzoka, Udoka
Town-gown relations define political and social taglines in today’s communities. The multifaceted dynamics of such a relationship involving two entities with (oftentimes) differing priorities and loyalties cannot be understood nor investigated in isolation and in the exclusivity of economics. One area that provides definition to the relationship between a town and an educational institution located within it involves the students at the school as well as policies governing the living affairs of the students. Of consideration in this paper is the history of campus housing policies as seen through the textured relationship between Duke University and the Durham, North Carolina community.
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How Attitudes and Perceptions Can Influence Policy Changes
(2007-05-04) Lamberth, Olivia
Town-gown relations have a very large impact on the student experience at Duke University. The overall college experience is not based solely on academics, but also on the social and cultural outlets that a university can provide. The location of Duke in Durham, North Carolina is thus a major factor in growth and development of the students who chose to attend this University. This investigation demonstrates how the change in residential policy, specifically off-campus living, has led to changes in attitudes between the students and the community residents.
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If You Build It, Perhaps Too Many People will Come: How Night Games Disrupted Wrigleyville , with lacking coverage from the Chicago Tribune
(2015-12) Dolgin, Jack
In 1988, the Chicago Cubs became the last team in Major League Baseball to install lights at their baseball stadium. That meant the team could play games at night, which was a popular idea among its fans. But Wrigley Field was also unique in its urban location—situated in the middle of a neighborhood in Chicago, home to Victorian houses, and a mile from Lake Michigan. A question that often gets asked about the installation of lights is, what impact did that have on the team and attendance? This paper asks two different questions—what was the toll on the neighbors in Wrigleyville who lived next to the stadium, and how did newspaper coverage portray these effects? To answer both questions, this paper includes an analysis of every article in the biggest two Chicago newspapers, The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, that featured the words 'Wrigley Field' or 'Wrigleyville' in the year and a quarter following the installation of lights at Wrigley Field. The paper finds that while there were significant social and political impacts of the installation of lights on Wrigleyville—including a noisier neighborhood, parking problems, and reduced political leverage for constituents—The Chicago Tribune, owned by the owners of the Cubs at the time, focused much less on the impacts of night baseball games on the neighboring community than did The Chicago Sun-Times. The paper provides insight into the ways something as innocuous as night baseball games can shape a community—that adding a community center open at night can have significant repercussions. It also raises questions about the ways newspapers handle the real-life implications of sports events beyond merely boxscores and fans.
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K-Ville: A World of Its Own
(2014-09-26) Hanna, Andrew Leon
"K-Ville: A World of Its Own" is an ethnography of one of the most storied and well-known Duke University traditions: the weeks-long campout on the grounds near Cameron Indoor Stadium before the Duke-UNC home basketball game. Andrew Leon Hanna, a freshman at the time, gives the reader an in-depth, personal look at the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of this Duke tradition from his own lens and the lens of other "tenters." Ultimately, the paper paints a picture of K-Ville from Duke students' eyes while exploring the unique positive and negative impacts it has on the Duke University experience and community.
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Methodism in Microcosm: Methodist History in Caswell County, North Carolina, 1780-1905
(2008-11-20) Hunter, Martin Park
This paper surveys the development of Methodist frontier societies in Caswell County, North Carolina, into modern institutional churches during their first 125 years.Caswell Methodism proves to be a useful microcosm of American Methodism in which some broad historical trends can be demonstrated in local practice: 1. The planting of frontier Methodism. 2. The slow erosion of Wesleyan hallmarks like societies and classes, conversion-oriented preaching, and the model deed. 3. And, the incremental shift to nurture-oriented Sunday Schools and an institutional emphasis on buildings and bureaucracies. Some of the Methodist churches or class meetings mentioned in the paper include: Baxter's, Bethany, Camp Springs, Concord, Hebron, Lea's Chapel, New Hope, Parrish's, Piney Grove, Purley/Harrison's, Salem, Sergent's Schoolhouse, Shady Grove, Union, and Yanceyville. An extensive bibliography lists the locations of many primary sources.

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