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The Social Hell of William Blake: the Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Blake's Illustrations of Dante's Inferno by Myat Aung
In 1824 CE, William Blake was commissioned to illustrate the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Amongst 102 illustrations, Blake devoted two thirds to the Inferno. Within the scholarship on Blake, the prevailing analysis of his illustrations shows his…
Small Worlds: Display of Inwardness in Pompeiian Houses during the Late Republic and the Early Roman Empire by Myat Aung
Comprehension of the Roman experience is conceived through the exploration of antiquity: close examination of artifacts and ideas that the Romans encountered in their everyday lives. Myriad ways in which the city was perceived to the ancients stemmed…
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 tales "Cinderella" and "Beauty and the Beast". This exhibit will examine the way that the stories are…
Determination of Potential 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal Covalent Binding Sites on Electron Transfer Flavoprotein using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by Margaret Breen-Lyles
Oxygen radicals and the reactive by-products they create have long been indicated in the disease pathways of metabolic disorders, given that they have the potential to react with the key components of proteins and thus disrupt their functioning. One…
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, based on Darwin's (1860) theory of evolution, it seems as though such a large flaw would have been made…
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 understandable one. When first introduced to Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, a reader or audience member can…
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 among many philosophers. However, it is Thomas Hill's definitions which provides a well-rounded…
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 rules to a patriarchal system in which women are typically always subservient to men. Those who are…
Transcriptional Regulation by λBacteriophage Antitermination by Sean Gibbons
As a regulator of transcription, antitermination works to allow for RNA polymerase to read through termination signals and express genes found downstream of these termination signals. The Q protein of phage λ displays this antitermination phenotype…
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 grounds our right to intellectual property. Upon examination of historical precedents of thinking…
Toward the Structure of the C-terminal Domain of EcoR124I Restriction Enzyme by Nicholas Leudtke
Using the type I restriction-modification (R-M) system of plasmid EcoR124I, E. coli cells systematically distinguish their own DNA from foreign DNA. Self DNA is protected by
methylation within a specific recognition sequence, while foreign DNA,…
methylation within a specific recognition sequence, while foreign DNA,…
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 photographs of individuals, such as Patrick Pearse and Countess Markievicz, and groups, such as Conradh na…
Poetry Collection by Amberlee Perry
I chose to present five poems that I have written during this past year -- the most challenging, and most rewarding, year of my college career. The first two poems I wrote at the beginning of the semester in the Intro to Poetry class, while the last…
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 drainage as a result of logging operations in 1925, which reduced the total area of the lake from…