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Item "A Town Within A Forest": The Walking Tour of Washington Grove, 1873-Present(2020-01-01) Miller, Morgan; Meringolo, Denise; History; Historical StudiesThe town of Washington Grove is uniquely placed in the middle of the suburban development of Montgomery County, Maryland. The Washington Grove Camp Meeting Association (WGCMA) was originally founded in 1873 and was dedicated to creating a ?safe? environment for the people of Washington, D.C. to gather and worship. Today, the WGCMA no longer exists as the town of Washington Grove was incorporated in its place in 1937 and the WGCMA dissolved. This theses examines how Washington Grove showcased the ?white flight? of the late nineteenth century; how the people of the WGCMA set foundations for the town'scurrent nature conservation practices; and WGCMA'srelationship with the neighboring African American camp meeting, Emory Grove. Washington Grove'sinteractions with Emory Grove demonstrate that race relationships in the Camp Meeting Movement were complicated at best. This theses directly influences my digital walking tour of the town of Washington Grove.Item The United States Systematically Divided Humanity using Race and Religion(2024-05-16) Michelle Townsend; Dr. Noel Verzosa; Hood College Arts and Humanities; Hood College Humanitites (M.A.)Using my own personal cultural experiences and graduate studies in Humanities, I have chosen three of my previously written graduate research papers to explain how race and religion have been used in America to create and uphold systemic forms of oppression and outcasting of other human beings. These papers focus on the concepts that were used to separate Americans from its infancy by primarily using race and religion to force Native Americans and Africans into assimilation of European culture. The first paper is “Early American Religions Inflicted Brutal Racism on Native Americans using Christianity and Education” from course 560P, Faith and Belief America with Dr. Jay Harrison in Summer II 2020. In this paper, I argued that English colonizers began redefining the cultural make-up of the United States by forcing ethnic cleansing on Native Americans that were the indigenous people of North America. The second paper, “Birth of a Nation” is Based more on Propaganda than Factual History” from course 560O, Cinema in Context with Dr. Aaron Angello in Fall 2019. I explained how, even though this movie was the first blockbuster in filmmaking, at the same time, was morally unacceptable for society and created demoralizing characterizations of black Americans. Lastly, the third paper is “Comparing Three ‘Doll Test’ Findings and Recommendations” from course 560S, Outcasts and Others In Medieval And Early Modern Europe with Dr. April Morrison in Spring 2022. In this paper, I identify the complexities of negative visual imagery and the effects it has on the viewer by comparing the original “Doll Test” of 1947 to two other more recent Doll Test studies and compare the results.