Can You Guess My Gender?: Differences Between Male and Female Writing Styles by Emily Connovich
English
This study examined 80 short stories written by Caucasian male and female short story authors in the later part of the 19th century. Results indicate that while males and females did not have specifically different styles, the topics on which they wrote differed. These results were compared to the works of feminist authors as well as modern day research on gender differences in writing style. Reasons for and implications of results are discussed.
Connovich, Emily
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2015
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Majors: Psychology, English
Marinette, Wisconsin
English Senior Seminar
'Democratizing Science': Robert M. LaFollette's Vision for Education by DeLou Wilson
History
Robert “Fightin’ Bob” La Follette Sr. spent the majority of his life as a Progressive Republican who attempted to reform the United States and remove monied interests from politics. While he was able to pass a great deal of legislation with long-lasting ramifications, his core goal was never attained; however, La Follette firmly believed that an educated populace was vital to achieving his political aims. His administration partnered with La Follette’s lifelong personal friend and president of the University of Wisconsin Charles Van Hise, as well as many other professors, in order to embark upon a massive, politically-minded, public education campaign. ‘The Wisconsin Idea,’ a guiding philosophy of the University of Wisconsin up to the modern day, was born from this collaboration. This paper explores how La Follette and the Wisconsin Idea sought to achieve their goals and examines the impact of these efforts on the lives of common Wisconsinites. In general, it is argued that the Wisconsin Idea fundamentally altered the way Wisconsinites interacted with the state university and helped create the massive UW System seen today.
DeLou Wilson
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 17, 2018
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Majors: English, History
Minor: Music
Madison, Wisconsin
History Senior Seminar
Comparison of Usury/Interest and Asymmetric Information by Jacob Diny
Economics
The paper compares Adam Smith’s philosophy of Usury to the modern theory of usury and critiques the theory Adam Smith presents. After the comparison, there is discussion about how Adam Smith wanted to regulate usury or interest rates. I then present how asymmetric information played a role the 2008 financial crisis and give a brief overview on some of the causes of the “Great Recession” based on published literature. I then take Adam Smith’s theory on usury and describe how Adam Smith would have reacted to the 2008 crisis and the causes leading up to it. Adam Smith would have argued against the deregulation because Smith believed in only lending to the “sober people”, people who have proven themselves in business already.
Diny, Jacob
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2019
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Major: Economic and Business Management
Greenleaf, Wisconsin
ECO 380 History of Economic Thought
Slamming: The Roots, Function, and Future of Slam Poetry in Patricia Smith's Performances by Elizabeth Abitz
English
The declining readership of poetry has caused concern amongst scholars, leading them to ask questions: is poetry too difficult or too elitist? These concerns arise because of poetry's dependence of scholars by generating a new audience that appreciates lively performances of the poet's marginalized identity. No one has been more successful on the slam stage than four time National Poetry Slam champion Patricia Smith, as her performances harken back to poetry's roots in orality. This paper examines how Smith's slam poetry imitates the intimate relationship between the storyteller and the listener from oral cultures, drawing parallels to authorship and identity, performance and composition, and modern and oral audiences.
Elizabeth Abitz
Senior Showcase Oral Presentation
Ripon College
April 18, 2017
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Major: English
Minor: Education
Marshall, Wisconsin
A Woman's Place According to the Second First Lady by Elizabeth Erdmann
History
This paper explores the views of Abigail Adams, wife of second President of the United States John Adams. Adams has been called an early feminist thinker because of her outspoken comments in written communication about how women ought to be treated. This paper explores the extent and depth of these comments by reviewing her extensive written communication legacy throughout different periods of her life. Examination of Abigail's early life, early marriage to John, life during the Revolution, life during John's Presidency, and late life reveal that she was not the cut and dry feminist that people believed her to be, but rather, acted in many ways like a woman of her time. This is not to say that Abigail did not have her bold, rebellious moments, as this paper highlights.
Elizabeth Erdmann
Senior Showcase Oral Presentation
Ripon College
April 18, 2017
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English
Majors: History and Sociology
Minor: Law & Society
Conversing with the Dynamic Nominalist: Hacking into the Social Sciences by Emelia Erickson
Philosophy
Ian Hacking posits that the looping effect is occurring within the social sciences and it is causing scientists to change their object of study as they study it. As social scientists classify humans based on behavior, they create a new reality for humans to act under which causes the behavior that defines the classification to change. Thus, changes in the classification loop back on humans in the classification. Hacking’s argument for the looping effect takes place in several stages throughout his career. This paper looks at the history of the argument for the looping effect and then lays out an argument for the implications of the looping effect that Hacking has not given. Then an argument is given toward the limitations of the looping effect.
Erickson, Emelia
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2015
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Majors: Psychology, Philosophy
Forest Lake, Minnesota
PHL 491 - Senior Statement
Social Competence in Online Communication between Introverts and Extroverts by Emelia Erickson and Viridiana Vega
Psychology
According to Lieberman and Rosenthal (2001), extroverts have working memory processes that allow them to be more socially competent in situations that cause high cortical arousal. In addition, introverts have less conversation multitasking skills than extroverts and due to this introverts have been considered socially incompetent. By using conversation goals that emphasize either conversation maintenance or reflected appraisal in an online communication setting, this study determined that there was no difference social competence between introverts and extroverts in an online communication setting.
Erickson, Emelia
Vega, Viridiana
Senior Showcase Poster presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2015
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Majors (Emelia Erickson): Psychology, Philosophy
Major (Viridiana Vega): Psychology
Minors (Viridiana Vega): Spanish, French
Forest Lake, Minnesota (Emelia Erickson)
Avalon, California (Viridiana Vega)
PSC 423 - Senior Seminar
Psychological Motivation of Hedda Gabler by JaneMarie Erickson
Theatre
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 have difficulty understanding Hedda’s motivations for her behavior. Examining Hedda’s role in society, her relationships with the few people in her life, her psychological pain and her final situation and given circumstances make her motivations and actions that lead to Løvborg’s death and her suicide logical.
There are two papers included here: one submitted for the theatre course, and one for competition.
Erickson, JaneMarie
Ripon College Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 19, 2016
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Majors: Theatre, Music
THE 231 - Theatre and Drama I: Ancient and Medieval Europe
Hometown: Redgranite, Wisconsin
Gendered Madness in Early Modern Drama by Eve Green
Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Madness is a prevalent theme in Early Modern Drama, yet the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) definitions of madness in use during this time suggest that these portrayals of madness may be misunderstood by modern audiences without sufficient contextual knowledge. The OED’s definitions of madness suggest that men and women in Early Modern England may have been identified as mad as a result of their abandonment of traditional gender roles. This paper investigates these forms of madness in the characters of Bel-imperia and Hieronimo in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy (1580s), and Hamlet and Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600s). Through comparing the portrayals of male and female madness respectively, this paper identifies similarities and gender tropes in these forms of nontraditional behavior resulting in madness: women in the early modern period appear to have been identified as mad when they play the role of truth teller, adopting the role of a man by claiming to possess important knowledge, and men are characterized as mad due to extreme displays of obsessive effeminate grief. This paper suggests that several instances of madness within Early Modern Drama need to be reclassified for contemporary audiences in order to ensure accurate modern portrayals of early modern madness as rejections of gender roles.
Eve Green
Senior Showcase Artistic presentation
Ripon College
April 17, 2018
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Majors: English; Philosophy; Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Lane Cove, Australia
ARMs Capstone
Time Travel and the Nature of Time by Eve Green
Philosophy
Backward time travel is something most people in modern society are familiar with through the presence of this form of time travel in popular culture. This paper explores the nature of backward time travel as a philosophical possibility, and investigates how this time travel functions within time different time theories. Through understanding which time theory best allows for the philosophical possibility of backward time travel, this paper also considers the impacts of this theory of time on the nature of free will, and consequently how free will functions within backward time travel. Through exploring the theories of presentism, the growing universe theory, the dropping branches theory, and eternalism, and investigating the solutions to multiple time travel paradoxes, this paper identifies the fatalistic nature of backward time travel as a philosophical possibility, and the consequent lack of free will present in a theory of time that allows for this philosophical possibility. Through exploration of time theory and the philosophical possibility of backward time travel, this paper concludes that eternalism is the time theory most compatible with this form of time travel and additionally that backward time travel does not allow for free will. This paper does not attempt to argue for the necessity of the philosophical possibility of backward time travel nor does it argue that eternalism must be true if society does not necessitate the philosophical possibility of backward time travel.
Eve Green
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 17, 2018
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Majors: English; Philosophy; Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies
Lane Cove, Australia
Philosophy Senior Seminar
Romanticizing Piracy During its Golden Age, 1650-1730 by Eric Fels
History
Modern portrayals of the 17th and 18th century piracy are largely romanticized and sensationalized, with pirates themselves often depicted as the protagonists. This paper explores the origins of this romantic view of the Golden Age of Piracy. It is argued that a number of social and economic factors occurring in England in the 17th and early 18th centuries created an environment in which piracy was romanticized through books, ballads, and plays, during the Golden Age itself.
Fels, Eric
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2019
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Major: History; Sports Management
Minor: Economics
Hubertus, Wisconsin
HIS 540 Senior Seminar
The Difficulty in Being a Woman: Gender's Role in Complicating the Understanding of Autonomy by Alexandra Finken
Philosophy
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 understanding and summarizes the different accounts of autonomy. Between descriptive and normative accounts, it's issues like gender and gendering which doesn't hold up one of those as it gets away from the true intent of autonomy. I will argue that gendering ultimately undermines autonomy and most importantly, autonomy, as a right, must be upheld in everyone and to undermine it is morally wrong.
Finken, Alexandra
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 19, 2016
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Majors: Philosophy, German
Minor: Law and Society
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
German
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 not are deemed unfit members of society and are written accordingly, specifically Stepmothers. However, Stepmothers are not evil. They uphold the system in the world in which they live because it is a reflection of our own reality, but they try to change the rules of their world so that they can think for themselves and be their own persons. This paper looks at the role Stepmothers play in popular works of Brothers Grimm, like Snow White, through historical, psycho-analytical, and feminist lenses.
Finken, Alexandra
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 19, 2016
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German
Majors: Philosophy, German
Minor: Law and Society
Amerikanische und Nationaliste Sozialistische Propaganda des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Eine Vergleichung by Ethan Freiermuth
German
Nationalsozialisten und amerikanischen Propaganda-Anstrengungen des zweiten Weltkriegs waren das Produkt ihrer eigenen Gesellschaften und die Ziele, für die sie kämpften. Kinematografische Methoden des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurden von Ideologie inspiriert. Für die Nazis war der Krieg ein Mittel, durch dass sie eine neue Welt aufbauen konnten, aber für die Amerikaner war der Krieg nötig, damit die Menschen frei in ihr friedliches Leben zurückkehren könnten. Wegen der Prävalenz und der Macht, dass das Film zu dieser Zeit hatte, haben beide die Vereinigten Staaten und der dritte Reich sich ihre Propaganda-Anstrengungen auf diesem Medium konzentriert. Propaganda war aber im dritten Reich fast wie ein Kunstwerk, das geschaffen werden mussten, aber in den Vereinigten Staaten war Propaganda Nachrichten, die genau berichtet werden mussten. Als Antwort auf die Lügen und Fälschungen des dritten Reiches entscheiden die Vereinigten Staaten die Wahrheit als Propaganda zu nutzen, um Menschen zu informieren, damit sie an die Kriegsantrengungen der Alliierten glauben würden.
Freiermuth, Ethan
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2019
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German
Major: Politics, Economics, German
Minor: National Security Studies
Prairie Farm, Wisconsin
GER 400.01
Taxing the Wealth of Nations by Ethan Freiermuth
Economics
According to Adam Smith, whose insights still underpin economics as a discipline to this day, taxation is justified by the government’s ability to fulfill needs which cannot be supplied by the market and otherwise intervening to create efficiency and efficacy. While Smith’s recommendations and policy analyses were limited by his economic model and by the economic and technological development of his time, his principles are still very much applicable to the modern day. It is abundantly clear that Smith argues the vast majority of the market should be left alone to the natural incentives of the private sphere, however he does still envision a role for government which creates and enhances economic inefficiency, and provides still relevant guidelines for avoiding ill-advised policies which imprudently tax the wealth of nations.
Freiermuth, Ethan
Senior Showcase Oral presentation
Ripon College
April 23, 2019
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Major: Politics, Economics, German
Minor: National Security Studies
Prairie Farm, Wisconsin
ECO 380