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No full textThrough found objects and familial artifacts, my
current work focuses on constructing a family
dining room to signify how family meals establish
cultural traditions that can extend from generation to
generation. Family dinners are key to building culture
because each member can connect, communicate,
and share their unique backgrounds. I better
understood fragments of my family’s experiences
in Vietnam as well as their difficulties adapting to
America thanks to their stories. To construct my
dining space, I transferred personal artifacts from my
home to the new installation space. Then, I replicated
my mother’s cooking through appropriating found
objects. Using text, the “noodles” and “ice cubes”
became an important conversational narrative that
provided notions of identity, culture, and memory.
Unlike my mother’s method of cooking, preparing
my own “fake” meals provided a unique perspective
of the preparation process and a familiar sense of
childhood nostalgia. By presenting personal recorded
conversations with my family along with historical
photographs I make the audience feel as if though
they are a part of the work, welcoming them into the
space. Because I have not fully experienced Vietnam,
I project the same feeling of cultural diaspora with the
audience by simulating a unique conversation
and dining tradition.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/studioart_all/1022/thumbnail.jp
Academic Data Models: Freshmen Registration Data Analysis
Get PDFAt Rollins, rather than have students register for classes during orientation, faculty members are responsible for registering students for classes in their first semester. Students then have the opportunity to change the schedule created by the faculty members during the orientation process. This paper focuses on finding differences between the schedule created by the faculty members which is called the faculty generated class schedule and the students final schedule which is called the students modified schedule. These differences are then presented in the form of statistics and charts. Some of the statistics examined in this thesis include how many students removed a class from their faculty generated class schedule, what percentage of classes chosen by faculty members were kept by the student, what percentage of classes on the modified schedule were chosen by faculty members, what percentage of faculty chosen classes the student has dropped from their modified schedule, what class subjects students have removed from the faculty generated class schedule and added to their modified schedule, and finally what competency classes students have removed from their faculty generated class schedule and added to their modified schedule. These findings will allow us to draw some high level conclusions about how students are changing the schedules created by faculty members. Using these conclusions, faculty members will be able to create more effective schedules for freshmen students in the future
Fashioning the Flapper: Clothing as a Catalyst for Social Change in 1920s America
Get PDFFashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society\u27s rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women\u27s Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The impact of the rise and fall of corsetry, the infamous flapper, and Black culture has shaped fashion throughout this highly influential decade and in turn, these fashions helped shape society
Finding triangular Cayley maps with graph touring
Get PDFWe develop a method for determining whether certain kinds of Cayley maps can exist by using multi-digraph representations of the data in the Cayley maps. Euler tours of these multi-digraphs correspond exactly to the permutations which define Cayley maps. We also begin to classify which 3-regular multi-digraphs have non-backtracking Euler tours in general
Interview with Jenny Cavenaugh
Get PDFGrowing up in New York City, Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh earned her BA in Policy Studies from Dartmouth College in 1982, and her MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College in 1992. After receiving her PhD in Theater History and Dramatic Criticism from the University of Washington in 1995, she served as Assistant Professor of Theater at the University of Denver for three years before joining the faculty of the Louisiana State University, where she earned her tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Theater in 2003.
In 2005, Dr. Cavenaugh was named the Winifred Warden Endowed Chair of Theater at Rollins College, where she excelled in classroom teaching and academic research, earning multiple recognitions such as the Best Female professor Awards from the Off-Campus Student Association (2007), Arthur Vining Davis Fellowship (2009-10), and the Professing Excellence Teaching Award (2012). After being promoted to Professor of Theater in 2008, Cavenaugh held a series of administrative positions at Rollins, first as the Chair of the Department of Theater & Dance, and the Producing Artistic Director of the Annie Russell Theatre (2008-2011), then the Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences (2011-2015), and finally the Dean of Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts (2016-2022).
Besides being an effective teacher and administrator at Rollins, Dr. Cavenaugh has actively engaged in professional theater works and academic researches related to American theater history, women\u27s history and cultural studies. She is a proud member of the Actors\u27 Equity Association and has performed and directed for more than 25 years. She has written scholarly essays, presented at academic conferences, and collaborated with Rollins students through the student-faculty summer research programs
A Farewell to Gender Norms: Non-Heteronormative Characters in Ernest Hemingway\u27s Writing
Get PDFThis thesis examines the individuals in Ernest Hemingway’s personal life that inspired the non-heteronormative characters in his writing. It asserts that those most responsible for this influence include Jim Gamble, Grace Hemingway, Ruth Arnold, Gertrude Stein, Sydney Franklin, Glenway Westcott, Hemingway’s wives, mainly Mary Welsh Hemingway, and Ernest Hemingway himself. The methodology included a thorough analysis of Hemingway’s biographies, personal letters, memoirs, short stories, novels, and Mary’s diary to identify and draw parallels between the named individuals and the fictional non-heteronormative characters inspired by them. The analyzed Hemingway works include: “A Simple Enquiry,” “The Mercenaries,” “Mother of a Queen,” “The Sea Change,” The Sun Also Rises, The Garden of Eden, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees, Islands in the Stream, Death in the Afternoon, A Moveable Feast, True at First Light, Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1970-1961, and Mary Welch Hemingway’s autobiography, How it Was