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The Cost of Sheltering College Students from Financial Responsibility
No full textBeing financially stable and knowing when and how to spend money are huge factors in becoming independent and making the transition into adulthood. In a study designed to explore the financial literacy of Lake Forest College students, I discovered a startling lack of awareness of post-college costs. While students were able to articulate the need to make money and how college focused on that aspect of finances, most were unable to anticipate how to manage their adult spending. This presentation considers how society and parents shelter children from financial responsibility, creating dependence without a mechanism to get out of it
The Knights Templar’s Economic Empire and the Images That Supported It
Get PDFToday the Knights Templar are known through a swirl of history and conspiracy. The Order of the Temple grew far beyond its original purpose, to reclaim the Holy Land and to protect pilgrims, becoming a banking, financial, and trade giant. The Knights Templars built innovative financial systems, along with a network of monasteries and churches, not only to support the crusades in the Holy Land, but to build, expand, and maintain their empire through the re-working of traditional European art forms to create a particular image of power and piety for both their patrons and enemies
Institutions, Audience and Classification As Art: Considerations of the Obscene in the 1980s
Get PDFIn the realm of contemporary art, social concerns and political debate can often impact the public response to art. Determining the cultural value of these works is not an easy task. It is built from a combination of institutional validation and audience response which work together to classify art works as ‘Art,’ and determine the degree to which they impact the art world and society at large. By investigating the specific cases of Robert Mapplethorpe and Jo Spence, the author will analyze how these groups have previously interacted, and argue for a balance between these groups in the classification of Art
Amyloid-beta Exacerbates Behavioral Deficits in Mice After Repeated Mild TBI
Get PDFTraumatic brain injury (TBI) has become a growing area of study as more young people exposed to TBI have been documented to exhibit lasting cognitive deficits. Previous research indicates that TBI may increase the risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Mechanisms by which these diseases manifest after TBI is not well studied. Previous studies have established rat and mouse TBI models that often incorporate mutated AD transgenes that results in phenotypes unrepresentative of TBI. Our study attempts to validate a more clinically relevant TBI model using repeated mild closed-skull controlled cortical impacts on mice expressing the unmutated gene that encodes human APP (hAPP), the parent protein of AD-associated Amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein, which only produces slightly elevated levels of Aβ in contrast with most other transgenic models. We found that impacted hAPP mice exhibit locomotor and cognitive deficits as compared to mice that received a sham treatment
The Babi Yar Massacre: Memorialization, Memory, and the Act of Rescue
No full textThis thesis investigates the Babi Yar massacre, the single largest mass shooting perpetrated by the Nazis in the Soviet Union. On 29-30 September 1941, almost all of Kiev’s Jews were killed at a wooded ravine outside Kiev. The Nazis tried to cover up the crime, and the Soviets denied Jews were the target of the massacre. Two decades later intellectual dissidents urged the Soviet regime to speak the truth about Babi Yar. But a Jewish monument wasn’t erected on the site until the U.S.S.R. fell. The massacre resists the usual faculties of mind; ultimately, I believe, it is un-cognizable. I will examine efforts to shape thinking about this monstrous deed by exploring how it was remembered and by whom. Additionally, I will discuss memory and how fighting for it is tantamount to the act of rescue
Isabel Rae McKenzie
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