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A Caribbean Coupling Beyond Black and White: The Interracial Marriage of Catherine and Edward Marcus Despard and its Implications for British Views on Race, Class, and Gender during the Age of Reform
(2014)*Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15 British Army colonel, Edward Marcus Despard, and Catherine Despard, a woman from the Caribbean and most likely of African descent, were married some time during the ... -
A Comparative Study of the Chinese Trickster Hero Sun Wukong
(2016-04-20)Sun Wukong is a fictional hero from the Chinese classic The Journey to the West. As a well-known trickster, Wukong has a lot of similarities with several other tricksters around the world. In order to analyze him, I try ... -
A Defense of the Role of History in Education Through the Analysis of the Chilean School Curriculum
(2017-01-17)In 2010, the Chilean Government tried to cut the school hours per week of social sciences in the 5th to 10th grade school curriculum in order to increase the hours of language (Spanish) and mathematics. This reform tried ... -
A Journey Chronicling Memories of Grief and Loss
(2018-04-18)Abstract Storytelling is a natural and necessary human behavior. Stories connect us to our past, our present, and, most importantly, to each other. They tease our imaginations and stir our emotions. Certain stories are ... -
Adventures in Everyday Life
(2015-05-07)The following project consists of three sections. The first section is an analytical essay which discusses the role of culture in intimate relationships as depicted in literature. Two original, fictional short stories ... -
Against the Grain: Reclaiming the Life I Left Behind
(2015-06-12)* Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15* Against the Grain revisits a period of my life long neglected: the 20 years between my graduation from London University with a BA in African history in 1964 and ... -
Ambiguously Human: Questioning the Dichotomy between Human and Object
(2016-04-25)*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*How can bringing together different investigations of defining “human” as opposed to “object” generate new ideas and questions? I looked at a small group of publicly ... -
An Amorous Prehistory of Hong Kong Queer Cinema
(2016-06-08)Depiction of homoerotic relationships among women in commercial costumed films was a unique phenomenon in 1970s - 1980s Hong Kong cinema. What are the possible cinematic meanings of lesbian images that we can perceive in ... -
An Analysis of Shaping of Female Characters in Films Directed by Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Chinese Diasporic Female Directors
(2021-04)This thesis intends to examine the shaping of female characters in films directed by Chinese female directors. Six films are selected as examples: The Crossing (Guo chun tian, Bai Xue, 2019), Angels Wear White (Jia nian ... -
An Analysis of the Potential Democratizing Effects of Social Media: A Chinese Experience
(2015-05-08)This paper analyzes the democratizing potential of Chinese social media. The Chinese government’s media restriction always lies at the key core of international criticism. The rise of Chinese social media, and citizen journalism ... -
An Education of Feelings: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and the Art of Fiction
(2015-05-01)*Designated as an Exemplary Final Project for 2014-15* In my thesis I set out to discover and interpret Thomas Hardy’s views on the art of fiction. I focus specifically on three literary essays written ... -
An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC
(2022-04-15)How can interpreting the regional history of the lower Deep River region of North Carolina inform land conservation for future generational use, education, and recreation? I explore the Lower Deep River Region, NC, and its ... -
Architectures of Memory
(2014)What does it mean to feel at home? And how would this be photographed? These questions inspired this creative project, Architectures of Memory, which is comprised of a photographic series, Living Rooms (2013), and an accompanying ... -
Are Older Adults Ready for Wireless Physical Activity Tracking Devices? A Usability Quality Improvement Project
(2015-05-15)Background: Physical activity tracking devices (PA-TDs) are becoming increasingly popular but their use among older adults is unknown. Objectives: We present results of a quality improvement project on wearable physical ... -
As the Fairy Tales Unfold
(2016-05-05)This project consists of two parts. The first part is a photo book, which includes my photographs of children and an accompanying text of individual stories of childhood, including my own. The second part is an analytical ... -
Beethoven’s Shifting Reception in China, 1910s–1970s
(2016-05-16)Since the late 1970s, Beethoven has remained the best-known Western composer in China. His music has been written into China’s music textbooks and is frequently played by orchestras all around the country. However, this ... -
Beyond the Diagnosis: A Photographic Inquiry of Chronic Illness
(2017-05-23)The old adage for authors is to ‘write what you know,’ and I believe the same can be said for any other artistic medium. I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome about four years ago and it has been a life-altering ... -
Bloomsbury and the Natural World
(2014)This thesis explores the role that the natural world played in the art and writing of the Bloomsbury group. Very little academic work has been done on this topic beyond the coffee-table books on the gardens of Charleston ... -
Book of Harriet: The Disambiguation of Five North Carolinian Siblings 1840-1941
(2016-05-03)*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*This paper is a work of creative nonfiction that adopts the first-person narrative voice of Harriet Smith (c. 1819-1873) in order to recount the biographies of her ... -
Can art represent a country? In search of Salvadoran Cultural and National Identities through 20th century literature, poetry, and art
(2016-04-21)As a citizen of El Salvador, I believe our cultural and national identities have not been clearly defined. This project considers the literary contributions of Salarrué and Claudia Lars together with the artistic works ...
