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Japaneseness For Western Audiences in Video Games: How the West Came to Desire Japanese Cultural Marks in their Video Games
Get PDFThis honors thesis studies trends in the localization of “Japaneseness” -- aspects of Japanese culture -- in Japanese videos published in the West over the 40-year history of Japanese home console video games. Through case study analysis and comparisons of Japanese versions of video games with their Western counterparts that span from the mid-1980s to the present day, this thesis examines how Japanese video game companies choose to either remove or keep aspects of Japanese culture in the West, and how Western players respond to Japaneseness in their video games. This thesis argues that over the 40 year history of Japanese home video games in the West, there has been a shift in the tendency for Japanese video game companies from removing Japanese cultural markers and publishing Westernized versions in the West to keeping reference to Japanese culture and striving to publish Western versions that are authentic to their Japanese source. This thesis also argues that Western video game players since the mid-2010s have shown an increasing desire in playing games heavy in Japaneseness that parallels the boom in popularity of other Japanese media in the West, notably anime and manga
From Moral Panic to Permanent War: Rhetoric and the Road to Invading Iraq
Get PDFThis thesis seeks to understand the conditions in the United States post-9/11 that enabled the Bush administration to pursue a wide-ranging and all-encompassing “War on Terror,” with substantial support from the general public. I am principally focused on two significant facets of the War on Terror: the invasion of Iraq and the establishment of a permanent security state (and the interrelated creation of a new state of exception). I ask why the George W. Bush administration was so successful in generating support for both the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and for policies that violated fundamental civil liberties; I argue that the Bush administration, with substantial collaboration from mainstream mass media, was able to effectively instigate a moral panic as a result of the pre-existing widespread belief in American exceptionalism, as well as the prevalence of deeply rooted colonialist ideology, among the general public. Relatedly, I assert that the post-9/11 moment, including both the cultural reaction to the attacks and post-9/11 foreign policy, cannot be understood without first examining the significant political and cultural shifts that took place during and after the Cold War, among both the general public and among political elites. I then argue that this moral panic, which was actively cultivated by the Bush administration and many fixtures in the media, enabled Bush to implement policies and practices that violated domestic and/or international law with minimal backlash from the American public, and in many cases, even received enthusiastic support. These policies and practices established, and then further entrenched, a permanent state of exception centered principally around “homeland security.
Jacobi\u27s Four Squares Theorem
Get PDFJacobi’s Four Squares Theorem is a celebrated result of number theory that provides a formula for the number of ways a positive integer n can be written as a sum of four integral squares. In this paper, we prove this theorem using the theory of modular forms
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No full textOr,December 8-11, 2022Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Liz Duffy AdamsDirected by Chris Flaharty
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_or/1000/thumbnail.jp
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No full textOr,December 8-11, 2022Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Liz Duffy AdamsDirected by Chris Flaharty
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_or/1006/thumbnail.jp
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No full textOr,December 8-11, 2022Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Liz Duffy AdamsDirected by Chris Flaharty
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_or/1016/thumbnail.jp
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No full textOr,December 8-11, 2022Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Liz Duffy AdamsDirected by Chris Flaharty
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_or/1011/thumbnail.jp