Senior Showcase 2016

Evolutionary Origins of Mental Disorders: Overlooked Advantageous Survival Mechanisms by Samuel Cares

The stigma that accompanies mental disorders in the modern age contributes to the widely held belief that they are completely negative. However,…

Images of Irish Rebellion Against Great Britain by Kay Luling

In this exhibit, photographs of leaders, individuals, and groups of different Irish parties against the British will be featured. These will be…

The Difficulty in Being a Woman: Gender's Role in Complicating the Understanding of Autonomy by Alexandra Finken

Autonomy, as a concept, has typically been associated with the term "self-governance", but there has been many inconsistencies in a true definition…

Women as the Oppressor: An Analysis of the Role of the Stepmother in the Brothers Grimm/Frauen als Unterdrücker: Eine Analyse der Stiefmütter-rolle in den Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm by Alexandra Finken

Fairy tales seem to strike wonder and curiosity in the minds of readers, but there is more to them than what meets the eye. Fairy tales illustrate the…

Primary Succession on the Basin of a Catastrophically Drained Lake in the Boreal Forest by Andrew Pierson

This study examined primary succession on the basin of a catastrophically drained lake in northern Minnesota. The site, Bass Lake, suffered this…

A Captive President: Gerald Ford’s Presidency and the Fall of Saigon by Jacob Sahr

Gerald Ford, the President of the United States starting in 1974 and extending through the fall of Saigon, reasonably should have had the ability to…

Psychological Motivation of Hedda Gabler by JaneMarie Erickson

Manipulating and controlling everyone around her, Hedda Gabler is an unlikeable character, but this doesn’t mean she can’t be a sympathetic or…

What’s Mine is Mine, Because it’s Better if it’s Mine: A Defense of a Utilitarian Incentives-Based Account of Intellectual Property Rights by Jeffrey Grinde

Intellectual property (IP) rights have been codified into law ever since we have thought about intellectual property. What we want is a theory that…

Undermining Whiteness and Promoting Protest: Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow and the Fledgling Civil Rights Movement by Katie Warczak

This paper offers a revisionist perspective on the relationship between white-life novels, or literature written by African Americans that features…

Disabled by “Repair”: The Textual and Extratextual Prosthesis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The (Love of the) Last Tycoon by Katie Warczak

F. Scott Fitzgerald's final unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western is a text that has historically received minimal scholarly…

Apocalyptic Islam: What Makes ISIS a Serious Threat to America by Jacob Sahr

ISIS poses a serious threat to America and the American way of life. Whether ISIS has the ability to target the United States currently or in the…

Does Exposure to Social Media Discourse Affect Openness to Future Political Discourse? by Katlyn Troisi & RaeAnn Brixius

The present study sought to expand on previous research which had indicated that engaging in political discourse through social media increases the…

Formerly Buddhist Practices Offer Great Potential to the World of Western Psychology by Katlyn Troisi

Over time science has grown in importance in the way in which people live today. This has caused conflict in the eyes of those who are religiously…

Fairy Tales in Picture Books by Kayla Beck

This exhibit explores the history and presentation of fairy tales through the medium of children's picture books. Specifically focusing on the fairy…

10 Ways to Get Lost in Your Own Neighborhood by Maddison Vega

The poem upon which this video is based, titled 10 Ways to Get Lost in Your Own Neighborhood, was written by Maddy Vega during Professor Gannon's ENG…