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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: The Fantasy of the Anime Adolescent
(2015-06-25)The development of girl into woman is a difficult transitional phase, one that's ripe for cinematic interpretation, despite its lack of representation throughout the medium's history. It's fascinating, then, that anime ... -
Painting Interiors: An Excavation of the Subterranean World
(2017-07-05)As an artist, I have a responsibility to dream. These dreams are often made up of fragments of my life experiences and observations. The ordinary scenes I experience daily, give rise to escapism that help soothe the rigid ... -
Painting Perception
(2014-06-30)I create paintings in which one landscape is disrupted by the insertion of a disparate landscape into the same composition. By way of this juxtaposition, I seek to illustrate sensory experience as fractured, multiple, and ... -
Painting Transplants: Processes in Healing
(2020-05-11)My thesis work consists of a body of diptych paintings on paper. Conceptually, I seek to investigate how bodies, as boundaried forms, experience the boundarylessness of energies and moods. Through a three-step procedural ... -
¡PALABRA PA’LANTE!: Artivism and the Transformative Power of the Written and Spoken Word
(2016-05-01)Carol Becker (1994) states that “Art is often a kind of dreaming the world into being, a transmutation of thought into material reality, and an affirmation that the physical world begins in the incorporeal-in ideas....Humans ... -
Panchayats, Seat Reservations and the Women's Question in India: A Historical Trajectory
(2011-05-10)In 1992 the Panchayati Raj Bill passed through the Indian parliament with little fanfare and without serious debate. The bill allocated federal funding to small village governing bodies known as panchayats and reserved one ... -
Paper and Process
(2018-06-05)My art work is a personal exploration of motherhood and the domestic work involved in this role. The lack of value placed by society on mothers, in their roles as both caretakers and domestic workers, insidiously chips ... -
Parental Boundary Dissolution and Young Adults’ Romantic Relationships
(2017-06-29)Parental boundary dissolution is a term used to describe a parent-child relationship structure wherein a parent breaches age-appropriate and relationship-appropriate boundaries with their child. The current study aimed ... -
Passages and Parallels: Forty Days in Cape Town
(2012-05-03)This is a personal narrative of one person's journey from childhood to adulthood, juxtaposed against the social narrative of contemporary, post-apartheid South Africa. -
Passing for Paradise: Colonial Mimicry and Desire in Pachinko and The Bluest Eye
(2020-07-06)This thesis is generally concerned with formations and relations of power: how are power structures formed and replicated across borders, and why are they replicated? Through a comparative literary analysis of Toni Morrison’s ... -
The Past in the Present: The Emergence and Implications of a "Montagsdemo Culture" in Leipzig, Germany
(2011-02-16)In 2004, an economic recession and high unemployment, coupled with a welfare reform, Hartz IV, altering the money an unemployed individual received, sparked protests in several German cities, most notably in Leipzig, ... -
The People's Palace of Late Victorian Scotland: The Making and Meaning of the Scottish Pub
(2013-07-01)For many centuries, Scots heralded the pub as the center of commercial, political, and social life. The emergence of the modern city in the mid-nineteenth century had significant impacts on how culture was defined and ... -
People: Connectivity and Movement
(2011-02-16)My artwork this year focuses on exploring the connection and disconnection between the individual and the group. Interaction becomes my act of navigation through space, time, and memory as I explore the intersection of ... -
Perceived Discrimination Among Muslim Americans: Examining the Role of Religious Identity and Authenticity
(2018-06-14)This study examined whether religion provides an overall greater sense of well-being when the religion being practiced is Islam. Over 400 Muslims in the US completed a survey assessing perceived discrimination and a ... -
The Perceived Motivating Power of Exercise-related Social Media Varies as a Function of Social Media Platform and Account Type
(2017-05-17)The present research set out to determine the extent to which people perceive exercise-related content on different social media platforms (Twitter or Instagram) or from different types of users (individuals or corporations) ... -
Performed Belongings: Challenging Displacement through South India's Classical Performing Arts
(2014-06-04)All over the world, the performing arts constitute a means of communal and individual identity expression, and serve as a platform for societies to exhibit their perceived triumphs, as well as explicitly or implicitly ... -
Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations
(2019-04-22)This summer, I had the privilege of representing my country, Pakistan, as a Junior Adviser at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City under the supervision of Deputy Permanent Representative Nabeel Munir and Ms. ... -
The Permutations of Periodic Points in Quadratic Polynomials
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Persistent Multi-robot Formations with Redundancy
(2017-06-06)For tasks such as collective transport, a multi-robot formation must preserve its global shape in order to prevent damage to the carried object. We focus on persistent leader- follower formations, which maintain local ...