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He'll Come For Me, I'm Named After Him
Get PDFMy senior Project explores themes of psychology and power imbalance through the 1942 Hitchcock film "Shadow of a Doubt". My project consists of five oil paintings, mostly large scale.Purchase College SUNYPainting and DrawingBachelor of Fine ArtsFlood, Elizabeth J
Tender Traces: Materializing Attention through Sculptural Practice
Get PDFThis thesis is rooted in the exploration of traces - those marks left by time, actions, and the body - and the transformation of mundane moments and materials such as stones, clay, and concrete into vessels for deeper reflection and uncovering. It delves into my artistic process at the intersection of my adjacent anthropology thesis, which contemplates affects as life-generating, sensorial modes of relationality and intensities of existing in the world, alongside a material investigation through my sculptural practice. These writings and practices culminated in a solo exhibition titled "Tender Traces,"� incorporating performance, video, ceramics, a sound piece, and multiple site-specific interventions. This paper aims to trace my inspirations and references, discuss processes and materials, and articulate the thematic and theoretical motivations behind my works - giving context to each sculpture in the installation and highlighting the ways we navigate and interact with the places around us.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ScienceOwens, Rache
BETWEEN ISLANDS: YANKEE AND YARDIE A JOURNEY OF JAMAICAN IDENTITY
No full textThis thesis explores the evolving nature of cultural identity through the lens of my Jamaican American heritage and personal family history. Drawing on theorist Stuart Hall's understanding of identity as fluid, constructed, and shaped by history, this work investigates how diasporic narratives are remembered, reimagined, and inherited across generations. My paintings weave together symbolism, surreal environments, and abstraction to reflect the complexity of growing up in a multiracial, culturally rich Jamaican family.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ScienceKreimer, Julia
The Unwritten Faces of a Nation: Ancestry, Colorism, and Dominican Identity
Get PDFThis thesis explores the complex relationship between ancestry, identity, and representation in the Dominican Republic. Drawing from historical, cultural, and genetic perspectives, it traces the nation's roots through its TaÃno, African, and European lineages, revealing how centuries of colonization, resistance, and migration have shaped the physical and cultural makeup of the Dominican people. Despite this rich diversity, Dominican society continues to grapple with the lingering effects of colonial racial hierarchies, particularly in the form of colorism and microaggressions. These social dynamics affect how Dominicans perceive themselves and each other, often privileging whiteness and denying Afro-Dominican identity. The paper also examines La Muñeca Sin Rostro, the faceless doll crafted in the Dominican Republic, as a cultural symbol that both reflects and challenges these realities. Her facelessness becomes a metaphor for collective identity, erasure, and the complexities of representation in a society still negotiating the meaning of race, belonging, and heritage. Through this interdisciplinary analysis, the thesis aims to unpack the visual and historical layers of Dominican identity and reclaim the power in its diversity.Purchase College SUNYNew MediaBachelor of ArtsTopal, Haka
AI and Society: Ethical Challenges of Algorithmic Systems in the Digital Age
No full textAI has done wonders and changed many things in our daily lives. But it has caused significant challenges when embedded into various social media platforms. This aims to paper analyzes the different problems we have encountered due to various uses of AI. Things like Privacy concerns and how it could possibly affect people's mental/physical health. We look at the different technologies used to better understand what we are dealing with. This paper is a collection of other studies and thoughts. One thing that is identified as the paper's main difficulty within social media is the spread of misinformation. It discusses things dating back to 2020 and recent times. They use a SEDPNR model that was originally used to analyze the spread of viruses/ diseases and modify it to analyze the spread of misinformation. The paper's main job is to bring attention to these difficulties and offer solutions that may mitigate or eliminate these challenges.Purchase College SUNYMathematics & Computer ScienceBachelor of ArtsShablinsky, Irina R
Your First Amendment Right: Protest and the Media
No full text"If not a college campus, where else in our society, in this democracy, can we count on large groups of people to do exactly what these college students are doing: paying attention to the world, looking at what is being done in the world.. and coming up with strategies for opposing it if they don't agree with it?"
These are the words of Kent State shooting survivor
Roseann "Chic" Canfora in an interview with NPR in May of 2024. Around the time of Canfora's interview with NPR, students at SUNY Purchase were arrested by police for participating in a peaceful encampment protest on May 2nd 2024. These police were called on students by their own administration for exercising their First Amendment right to protest. The students in question were protesting the US's involvement in the Gaza war, a contentious subject for decades before what has been deemed the start of the war on October 7th 2023. Canfora and other students were protesting for a similar cause, students at Kent state were protesting the US's involvement in the Vietnam War the day of the infamous massacre on May 4th 1970.
Two days and 54 years stand between these two events, while May 2nd had no casualties the way May 4th did, these events mirror one another. We also see similarities between media coverage of Kent State versus Jackson State University, a small lesser known school but is a historically black college. We see this pattern repeat itself with Columbia University having encampments around the same time as Purchase. The events of Kent State can contextualize the response to and aftermath of the Gaza war protests of Spring 2024 held by college students.Purchase College SUNYPolitical ScienceBachelor of ArtsCunningham, Carissa A
Aerococcus varidans var. Homari in phagocytic cells of Homarus Americanus
Get PDFAerococcus viridans var. homari causes Gaffkemia, a deadly disease in American lobsters (Homarus americanus) that spreads through wounds and overwhelms the immune system. The disease, now also seen in European lobsters (Homarus gammarus), is a major problem in both lobster pounds and wild populations. This study uses transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on previously collected samples to examine how A. viridans grow inside lobster immune cells (fixed phagocytes). TEM images show that after being engulfed, the bacteria proliferate and create intracellular voids filled with an unknown substance, which may help them survive and replicate. The formation of bacterial capsules likely compresses the phagocyte's contents, creating more space for bacterial growth.Purchase College SUNYGeneral StudiesBachelor of ArtsFactor, Jan R
Everybody, Everyman, and The Story of an Unraveling: A Guide to Ego, Death and Being
Get PDFIn my short play, A Story of an Unraveling, I ask my audience to look outside of themselves and to other people for a possible answer to "what makes an ethical life." This experience is encouraged through a dispute between the two characters, Ego and Atman. The play represents an on-going cycle where Ego wants to move their agenda forward, while Atman wants Ego to see the greater picture of humankind. In my research paper, I connect The Story of an Unraveling and its conversation about "an ethical life" to the question posed in Branden Jacob-Jenkins' play Everybody (based on the 15th century morality play Everyman): "What is most important for us to consider before our deaths?" My analysis of Everybody and Everyman, along with the creation of The Story of an Unraveling, serves as an analysis of the human condition.Purchase College SUNYTheatre and PerformanceBachelor of ArtsBarall, Mich
Metaphorical English interpretation of the title: Don’t say that all are in conflict and wonder what peace can bring me; You alone are like a thousand—light your own lamp
Get PDFIn this body of work, the artist speaks to the complexities of our lived experiences. By exploring fragmented narratives, layered identities, and the interplay of memory and forgetting, the artist invites us to reconsider not only what we remember, but how we remember. The work challenges us to question where personal agency ends and institutional power begins, reflecting on how silence, bureaucracy, and complicity uphold structural violence, leaning into the banality of evil to balance the post-modern drift. Rather than offering fixed answers, the artist presents fragments, ambiguities, and ruptures, urging the viewer to co-author meaning and engage in ongoing dialogue about identity, memory, power, and experience. Repetition is vital and crucial in certain contexts, it creates familiarity, yet can also be questioned.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsMaster of Fine ArtsKreimer, Julia
Bubbles the Very Confused Clown, a children's book about emotions
Get PDFBubbles, the circus clown, doesn't quite understand their big feelings or how to handle them. They struggle to understand social cues, causing everyone around them to be constantly upset with them. They are kicked out until their circus crew has had enough of their chaos. Alone and upset along the way, Bubbles meets fellow misfits whose emotions also lead them to being kicked out of their circuses. Together, they help each other understand these whirlwind emotions and journey to find a new circus.Purchase College SUNYGraphic DesignBachelor of Fine ArtsSamara, Timothy J