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Relationship Between Past and Present Physical Activity on the Self-Reported Well-Being of College-Aged Students with and without ADD/ADHD
Full text linkThis study explores the relationship between past and present physical activity for college students with and without ADD/ADHD on their self-reported perceptions of well-being
Saxophone Quartet Phoenix
Full text linkThis thesis is a musical composition which is a saxophone quartet lasting ca. 35 minutes. It also has an accompanying paper
Explicit Bounds and Parallel Algorithms for Counting Multiply Gleeful Numbers
Full text linkLet k ≥ 1 be an integer. A positive integer n is k-\textit{gleeful} if n can be represented as the sum of kth powers of consecutive primes. For example, 35=23+33 is a 3-gleeful number, and 195=52+72+112 is 2-gleeful. In this paper, we present some new results on k-gleeful numbers for k \u3e 1.
First, we extend previous analytical work. For given values of x and k, we give explicit upper and lower bounds on the number of k-gleeful representations of integers n ≤ x.
Second, we describe and analyze two new, efficient parallel algorithms, one theoretical and one practical, to generate all k-gleeful representations up to a bound x.
Third, we study integers that are multiply gleeful, that is, integers with more than one representation as a sum of powers of consecutive primes, including both the same or different values of k. We give a simple heuristic model for estimating the density of multiply-gleeful numbers, we present empirical data in support of our heuristics, and offer some new conjectures
The “Deviant” Dead: (De)constructing Personhood in Mycenaean Mortuary Landscapes
Full text linkDespite increasing standardization in mortuary practice during the Mycenaean palatial period, there remains a significant degree of variation in burials. This project seeks to elucidate the reasons for the wide variability in the Mycenaean mortuary program with theories of anthropological personhood as a guiding framework. I focus on the palatial period, from LHIII A2 - LHIIIB2 (1410-1190) because of the pervasiveness of Mycenaean culture throughout the Aegean, but especially in Greece’s northeastern Peloponnese, during that time. I use mortuary data from 12 cemeteries in the Argolid and Korinthia to trace trends in burial practice, in the hope of establishing a theoretical norm. I consider how burial affects the construction of a “person,” as a being that is relationally authored in creating a definition of normativity. Additionally, I consider the existence of so-called “deviant” burials that lie beyond the norm. Ultimately, I conclude that no such burials exist within this data set, and instead, that the norm for the Mycenaean burial program allows for variability
Reconstructing a Voice in the Diaspora: Language and Hegemony in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\u27s Dicteé
Full text link“Reconstructing a Voice in the Diaspora: Language and Hegemony in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\u27s Dicteé” is a close reading into the experimental work Dicteé by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. The text explores the interplay of language, identity, and cultural hegemony and primarily focuses on how Cha deconstructs language and narrative to critique colonialism, patriarchy, and the diasporic identity that generations feel after losing their voice. The fragmentation of the text mirrors the effects of diasporic trauma, specifically with symbolic violence and the fragmentation of the self. Pierre Bourdieu, Antonio Gramsci, and Victor Turner’s theories — symbolic violence, cultural hegemony, and liminality respectively — analyze how institutional power shapes power and narrative, therefore how language reinforces dominant ideologies, keeping them dominant. The result of this is a feeling of liminality or being “in-between” identities. Through a close textual analysis of specific chapters or sections of the work, alongside an interdisciplinary approach that draws from literary theory, cultural studies, literary analysis, and philosophy, Dicteé reveals how language can be a tool of alienation and oppression. However, through Cha’s experimental style, the fragments have meaning reassigned, and language is reclaimed as a site of resistance, remembrance, and rebirth
Embodied Feminist Authorship in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Full text linkMary Shelley’s feminist ideals and lived experience have been illuminated by years of adaptation, retelling, and counter-discourse that have told her own story within that of her acclaimed novel Frankenstein. In this thesis project, we argue that through the process of reproducing the narrative of Frankenstein, such adaptations — on both stage and screen — have memorialized authorial identity on Shelley’s behalf, as well as highlighted her feminist outlooks on birth, motherhood, loneliness, and womanhood that live on in her creative works. By first surveying a selection of films that tell the story of both Frankenstein and its storied author, we will identify key thematic and narrative patterns that have defined its legacy in film history and popular culture. By conducting a critical literary analysis of each film selected, we will contrast adaptations of the Frankenstein myth on the basis of their likeness to the original text, liberties taken to reflect the nuance of their production, portrayal of Shelley in a literal or metatextual representation, as well as critical and audience reception. By understanding the scholarly work others have conducted in studying these texts, we will build on pre-existing research in literary criticism, film criticism, and gothic studies in our own interdisciplinary survey of Shelley’s authorship and feminist identity with this thesis project