Purchase College
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7340
2024-03-29T10:14:46Z Reflecting on the Residual: Toni Morrison, Race, Gender, and Strategic Essentialism
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14667
Reflecting on the Residual: Toni Morrison, Race, Gender, and Strategic Essentialism
LEVENE, Shakeisha
My senior project focuses on Toni Morrison and one of her most contemporary books,Tar Baby (1981 ). I seek to show that in these novels, in her interviews, and nonfiction work Morrison disseminates dominant gender ideology. It is especially important to investigate her beliefs and how they come through her literature because Morrison is seen as a beacon of freedom, and readers, especially black female readers, are especially sensitive to absorbing residual notions of gender and sometimes race from Morrison's structure of feeling. Morrison says that she wants her characters, her readers, and herself to be free, but her views of "freedom" in racial relations simultaneously reproduce oppression in gender relations. Morrison's work shows that she still believes that women, especially black women, should conform to traditional gender roles. These roles seem natural to her, but they are not natural, only cultural and as such are assigned by the dominant of our culture and work to their benefit. She suggests that black women just have to try to grow as "free" individuals while also caring for and being responsible for everyone else in their lives in virtually every way possible. Morrison thinks that when she voices these ideas she is speaking from an individual sense of what is right, and that accepting these responsibilities is an essential part of woman's life. However, she does not realize how she has been conditioned by Ideological State Apparatuses to hold these values. My work will show how Jadine (Tar Baby) is affected by these values, and how black women in the contemporary moment are affected by them. As well as I will search for a politically useful way to read these novels, that does not leave readers vulnerable to Morrison's residual dominant beliefs
ReplyForward
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Impact on Children of Divorced Parents
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14663
The Impact on Children of Divorced Parents
Villalobos, Matthew
Below is a thorough research project on the impact on children of divorced parents. It discusses the different affects divorce has on children from a young age into their adulthood. As well as adults' personal perspectives from their experiences that came from their parent's divorce. The main argument of this paper is that divorce negatively impacts children throughout their earlier life stages rather than during their adolescent stages. My research questions include "How does divorce affect a child's well-being?" and "How do adults make sense of their parents' divorce? Does this differ from when they were children and if so how?". I research to find literature on the different affects divorce has on children and how adults view and act towards divorce. The method that will help me advance in research about this topic is by undertaking media content analysis.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14664
The Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
West, Deija Samaya
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is described as the preoccupation with one's looks to the point of severe impairment and poor quality of life. Nearly 2% of the population is affected by BDD with a purported equal number of men and women falling into some subcategory of the disorder. BDD contains both a delusional and non-delusional variant as well as comorbidity several other disorders. This paper outlines whether CBT is an effective and/or long term method of treatment along with the benefits and drawbacks.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZVisualizing History: The Case For Chronography
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14668
Visualizing History: The Case For Chronography
ZOMBEK, Steven
This paper outlines the inspiration for and investigation of the use of new media as a tool for teaching history visually by mapping chronological data. These methods include an animated demonstration of a modular interactive timeline system and infographic posters. The paper's first section is research based, and details the shortcomings of human perception as it relates to long spans of time, and the benefits of visual representation of time, as well as the various motives that make up the project's overall theme; for example it's special focus on technological determinism. The second section is an artist statement reporting on the process of constructing the project, its resulting product, and a final assessment of the concept and it's potential for further development.
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z