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Abraham Lincoln and the Northern Anti-War Press
(2009)This paper is the culmination of a semester of study in the Frontiers course on Free Speech. Throughout the semester, the class explored both theoretical, normative concerns, as well as real-world case studies involving ... -
An accidental prediction: The saga of antimatter's discovery
(2014)For my Modern Physics class, we were required to write a final paper on a topic of choice. I chose to explore the discovery of antimatter. As I wrote the draft, I felt both fascinated and overwhelmed. The story and the ... -
The Aging Brain: Theories of our Inevtiable Cognitive Decline
(2005)Cognitive decline has been found to be an inevitable part of increased age in humans. Theories as to what particular mechanism is responsible for this decline are explored, including the working memory theory, processing ... -
Alicia Garza: Situated Analysis and Practicing Being Free
(Goucher College, 2018-01)This paper explores the tension between remaining situated in the context of the current socio-political moment and looking ahead to how the world could be different when practicing activism or working towards social ... -
Amid clouds of change, “The Sun comes out every day”
(2018)Amid clouds of change, ‘The Sun comes out every day'” is a feature story written for a class with Dan Rodricks, a reporter at the Baltimore Sun who taught at Goucher in Spring 2017. Everyone in the class was asked to write ... -
An Anomalous Reaction of Silicon Oxide and Aluminum via Ball Milling
(2007)Previous studies have shown that the ball milling technique, which mechanically heats and releases energy, often causes a displacement reaction between various metals and metal oxides. Sometimes ball milling causes a ... -
The Attraction England Left Out
(2005)During the Dance and Theatre trip to London, I had the opportunity to see the National Theatre's production of The History Boys by Alan Bennett. At the time I had been reading Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love as part ... -
Austism and Infant Attachment: A Review of the Literature
(2006)While the research is in its beginnings, a diagnosis of autism does not necessarily equate with an attachment-less life. Considering the possible adverse reaction of the parent, the prevalence of symptoms that contribute ... -
Bare Life, Bare Architecture: Deconstructing the Violence of Architecture in Al-Khalil, Palestine
(Goucher College, 2018-01)The political philosopher Giorgio Agamben theorizes on the role, structure, and establishment of the state, and the way in which state power controls and dominates in the current era. He builds on Michel Foucault’s biopower ... -
Beginning of a Balley Barre
(2004)Dancers naturally pay more attention to feet than much of the general public. We depend on them to bend right, glide efficiently, stick when necessary, and support our turning, jumping, balancing, traveling bodies. Barrework ... -
Beyond the Master Plot: Exceptional Literature in Stalin’s USSR
(2012)I went into this paper with the intention of getting in over my head a bit. My initial topic was simply socialist realist literature, which forced me to involve myself in a whole genre of reading that I was not incredibly ... -
"The Bitter Dream": Internalized Racism in the Passing Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance
(2012)The Harlem Renaissance was a period of great artistic expression for black Americans following the end of the first world war. Authors, artists, singers, and dancers determined to gain recognition from the public used their ... -
Border State Blues: A Civil War Scrapbook in Baltimore
(2014)The process of writing this paper taught me how research is driven by curiosity. I was introduced to this series of Civil War scrapbooks a year before I wrote this paper for a public history seminar, and my first inquiries ... -
Breaking a Bi-Regional Addicion: Theories for the REduction of the Coca/Cocaine Trade
(2009)Coming into the world of college academia as a freshman, dedicated to resolving the troubles plaguing our world, I promised myself that my scholastic exploits would not look singularly at problems, but would investigate ... -
Breeding from biotechnology: a look at the infrastructures behind the production of flood-resistant rice in India and Bangladesh
(Goucher College, 2018-01)This paper was written for professor Marko Salvaggio’s Environmental Sociology seminar. The assignment follows an unconventional format, exploring the material, cultural, and environmental infrastructures that contribute ... -
Broken Fragments of Immortality: Why People Will Always Love Peter Pan
(2014)I wrote this paper for the senior Theater seminar, a two-semester long project where senior Theater majors choose, study and produce a show. We chose J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and I focused my research paper around the ... -
The Business and Trade Associations: America's Most Influential Interest Group Sector in the Health Care Reform Debate
(2010)This paper is a culmination of research conducted over the course of the fall 2009 semester for PSC 245: Interest Group Politics. Throughout the semester we discussed the origin of the interest group and their effect on ... -
The Cantonist Struggle and the Birth of the New Jew
(2015)In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I instituted the Cantonist Decree, which led to the impressment of thousands of Jewish children into the Russian army. While officially, Jewish religious freedom was to be protected, the unofficial ... -
Censorship of the BBC under Prime Ministers Thatcher and Blair
(2007)One of the central pillars of American democracy is a free press; it has been called the fourth branch of government and is the only business protected in the Constitution. Protection in the most sacrosanct American document ...