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A Divided Duty: Liminal Space and Coming-of-Age in Shakespeare\u27s Father/Daughter Relationships
No full textA&Q Presents: November 20, 2019
No full textRandy \u2722 is a Creative Writing and Cinema Studies double major at Hamilton. She is involved with and has been published in Red Weather, Hamilton’s Literary Magazine. She also recently produced the senior thesis film “A Dog’s Funeral”. Her first graphic memoir, A Sleep, which chronicles her life before and after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, was published this August. She explores mental health in the context of her own personal experiences, and aims to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health. She will be reading excerpts from A Sleep as well as discussing the process of writing a graphic novel
Kritika militokraticheskoi paradigmy formirovaniya vlasti pri prezidente V. Putine: obzor rossiiskoi i zarybezhnoi literatury (A Critique of the Militocracy Paradigm Regarding Government Formation under Putin: A Review of the Russian and Foreign Literatures)
No full textThis article reviews the vast literature on Russia’s transformation into a «militocracy» - a state in which individuals with career experience in Russia’s various force structures occupy important positions throughout the polity and economy during the reign of V. Putin. It is shown that notwithstanding its widespread usage, the militocracy framework rests on a rather thin, and in some cases flawed body of empirical research
Introduction: New Directions in Survey Research on Russian Elites
No full textAlthough a vibrant literature on mass public opinion in Russia emerged in the wake of communism’s collapse in the USSR, the systematic investigation of elite attitudes using survey research has lagged conspicuously behind. This gap is particularly noticeable in the realm of foreign policy. Scholars have made strides in analyzing how the country’s key decision-maker, Vladimir Putin, views the world (e.g., Taylor 2018), yet there is a paucity of research on what shapes the foreign policy attitudes of officials who occupy positions a rung or two down from Putin – much less of those who possess elite status in the economic, military, media, and education spheres. We know precious little about how these individuals arrive at their opinions of the outside world, what ideological and informational factors constrain and shape their foreign policy views, and whether and why their attitudes diverge from those of the mass public.
Designed to fill this gap in our knowledge, this special double issue of Post-Soviet Affairs examines the attitudes of Russian elites toward a wide range of foreign policy matters based on a unique survey research project spanning more than two decades. The contributions to this issue were originally presented at a conference held at Hamilton College (Clinton, New York) in April 2018 with generous funding from the National Science Foundation and the college’s Office of the Dean of Faculty. The articles are based on the Survey of Russian Elites (SRE) – a data set consisting of seven surveys of high-ranking Russian individuals that were fielded in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016
A&Q presents: April 24, 2019
No full textKatie Gisondi ’20 is a Creative Writing major with a focus in confessional poetry. She began writing in 2010. In her work she puts an emphasis on religion, mental illness, and womanhood, and how these things alter her life and her perception of the world around her.
Heidi Wong ’20 is an artist and poet who first started writing poems, and posting them on Instagram, at a summer camp when she was 15. Since then, she’s accumulated over a quarter of a million followers for her art and poetry, making her one of the most popular social media poets today. Her works have been featured in over 30 magazines worldwide, and she was also the winner of Button Poetry’s short form contest with her poem “how i became an atheist.” She\u27s written two poetry collections so far, sixteen, and the blue velvet dress says i told you so. She is a Creative Writing and Art double major at Hamilton College
The Endless Scroll: Understanding Social Media Consumption Habits Among College Students
No full textExisting scholarly work on young adult social media use is mostly geared toward understanding the effects or outcomes of their usage. Additionally, scholars tend to generalize social media use, and do not necessarily distinguish different behaviors or ways that users interact with social media. My research attempts to understand what motivates young adults to use social media, and more specifically, why they feel the desire to consume content on social media. I hypothesize that social media users spend more time scrolling and consuming content on social media, or engaging in less social behavior, more often than commenting, liking, or directly messaging other users. In order to better understand young adults’s social media consumption habits, I conducted ten in person interviews with students at Hamilton College and used self determination theory and regulatory focus theory to drive my coding and analysis. Competence was the most evident component of self determination theory that appeared in my analysis, and the strongest motivating factor for social media consumption. While relatedness and autonomy were also motivating factors, they were not as pervasive as competence. This study seeks to examine why young adults endlessly scroll on social media, and what there is to gain from less social behavior or social media consumption
Active colloidal particles in emulsion droplets: A model system for the cytoplasm
No full textIn living cells, molecular motors create activity that enhances the diffusion of particles throughout the cytoplasm, and not just ones attached to the motors. We demonstrate initial steps toward creating artificial cells that mimic this phenomenon. Our system consists of active, Pt-coated Janus particles and passive tracers confined to emulsion droplets. We track the motion of both the active particles and passive tracers in a hydrogen peroxide solution, which serves as the fuel to drive the motion. We first show that correcting for bulk translational and rotational motion of the droplets induced by bubble formation is necessary to accurately track the particles. After drift correction, we find that the active particles show enhanced diffusion in the interior of the droplets and are not captured by the droplet interface. At the particle and hydrogen peroxide concentrations we use, we observe little coupling between the active and passive particles. We discuss the possible reasons for lack of coupling and describe ways to improve the system to more effectively mimic cytoplasmic activity
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