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A capstone-like project on the development of the country Côte d'Ivoire. Uses historical context and highlights cultural differences, as well as the differing physical landscapes to explain the different worldviews of the north and south. Ultimately concludes that European political boundaries are the cause of civil war in Côte d'Ivoire that has plagued the country for roughly the past twenty years.
Have you ever been curious about that fancy white house on the north end of campus? It is alternately called the Plunkett Center and the Chappell-Swedenburg House. The building has a long history in the Ashland community and the university campus. This presentation will cover the history of the Colonial Revival style home, the families who lived in it, and demonstrate a digital humanities approach to interpreting the site.
The set of French tapestries in English known as the Lady and the Unicorn are considered to be an important artifact of Medieval art. However there is still no clear consensus about what the tapestries represent or why someone would commission such an expensive project. This poster seeks to solve the mystery behind the six tapestries popularized by the French author George Sand.
While the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake caused the destruction of the old San Francisco, it also paved a way for improvement through the development of a new city, advancements in earthquake seismology, and new architectural methods.
This research explores the State of Jefferson, the persistently proposed state that would divide and encompass the northern third of California and a significant part of Southern Oregon. This work considers this social movement through framework of deviance theories. The structure of the movement is explored in terms of history, organization, goals, and cultural context.
In my FUSE essay, I decided that it was my interest to look on how to death penalty has changed in America, and with that looking at how multiple different systems have come together to change the death penalty as we know it. It is not of my paper to be subjective in my findings, using factual, evidence-based knowledge to inform on how the death penalty has been a staple in the Criminal Justice system, and how the evolving state of our nation has impacted that very staple.
This project looks at the original context of the Fourth Amendment from the framing era, the rise of the Republican Southern Strategy in the 1960s, adaptive Constitutional precedent applied by the Warren and Burger Courts, and concludes with a discussion of the phenomena in relation to one another.