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Using Technology to Make Museums Accessible
No full textMuseums have long been a place where many people feel unwelcome and a major factor in this is a lack of accessibility. According to Samantha Silverberg, museum professional and user experience designer, “If museums truly want to be more inclusive, they need to understand that not everyone who is classified as “disabled” uses a wheelchair, and their needs do not end at physical entry to the building”. For some buildings the architecture provides unique challenges to physical accessibility. In other cases, however, the museums are inaccessible not only to people with mobility issues, but to those with other disabilities such as vision impairments. Some museums, however, are beginning to combat this inaccessibility in creative ways. I have been designing an exhibit that is broadly accessible to those with vision impairments and other disabilities and documenting the roadblocks that arise from doing so to show the possibilities that modern technologies lend to making such exhibits and the struggles that people looking to do the same may face. This project focuses on how technological advancements can improve visitor experiences for everyone regardless of ability. To what extent should we change the technologies already in place or should we use advancements to simply enhance the experiences already being provided? How can rapidly advancing technologies allow smaller institutions to provide experiences that would have been confined to big museums with large staffs and budgets just a few decades ago
Minimal Generating Set of an Integer Cone
No full textGiven any two nonnegative integer points in the real plane, we consider all the integer points in their conical hull. We then find the unique minimal generating set of these points under coordinate-wise addition. In the process, we use negative continued fractions the approximate the slopes of the lines through the origin and these two points
Beyond the Red Demise: An Examination of Modes of Mythic Discourse in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
No full textThis project focuses on a literary analysis of Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus, Blood Meridian, or; the Evening of Redness in the West, using it as a case study in examining the ways in which literature can respond to cultural mythologies, in particular the myth of the American Frontier. Using Roland Barthes typology of myth as depoliticized speech, I argue that the frontier myth primarily functions to justify the genocidal violence which paved the way for westward expansion. By reinforcing dominant cultural narratives and reducing history to archetypes and essences, this ideological project comes to appear as natural and apolitical. From this basis, I then point to Blood Meridian as a novel that works to subvert this mythology (and its literary manifestations via western genre conventions) through two distinct and seemingly opposing discursive voices which I’ve termed the “modes of mythic discourse.” The devisionary mode aligns with McCarthy’s documentarian descriptions and historical accuracy, establishing a nuanced view of the historical moment which contrasts and highlights the problematic essentialism of myth. The revisionary mode in turn operates through his use of highly referential baroque language and surreal or symbolic imagery, constructing an opposing mythic worldview that challenges the optimism and moral security of the frontier myth with a particularly bleak vision of the West. My research not only displays that the confluence and interaction of these two disparate modes make Blood Meridian a uniquely powerful novel in the trend of revisionist westerns, but also works to more deeply examine the discursive methodologies available to literature in challenging institutional mythologies
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No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclayhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1009/thumbnail.jp
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No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1014/thumbnail.jp
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No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1017/thumbnail.jp
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No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1001/thumbnail.jp
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No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1002/thumbnail.jp
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No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1007/thumbnail.jp