Browsing Friends of Fondren Library Research Awards by Title
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A Cry for the Lost: A Transitioning Native Worldview in Colonial California
(2017)Historically, people have used legends across cultures as a means of transmitting moral values and socializing the young while providing a source of entertainment and education to their listeners. Contemporary versions of legends have the ability to provide insight to the underlying worldviews, which are shaped by the cultural context within a ... -
A Dying Dream
(2017)This paper examines educational segregation and inequity in our country today. By researching the history of educational segregation in the United States, it becomes clear that since 1988 schools have resegregated, undoing most of the progress they made in the ‘60s and ‘70s. This has caused the achievement gap between minority and white students to ... -
Acknowledging Impostor Phenomenon: How Does It Affect and Individual's Likability?
(2019)The impostor phenomenon (IP) is the feeling of being an intellectual fraud regardless of any external evidence of incompetency. Research on the effects of IP on mental health is important in understanding how to nurture positive experiences through the duration of undergraduate life. However, the social interactions of individuals who experience IP ... -
Adaptation of the Samson Narrative in The Simpsons
(2018)Samson, the Nazarite Judge of the Judahites, is a character who has been widely discussed among biblical scholars. Scholars’ conclusions range from Samson as a hero, to Samson as a moral lesson, from Samson as a tragic character, to Samson as a literary device. There is no one view of Samson that is overwhelmingly more popular among scholars. ... -
Allegory for Political Rehabilitation: William and Mary, 1692, and Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
(2014)When King William III and Queen Mary II ascended to the English throne in 1689 they were relatively well received. However, by 1692 their relationship with the public was strained. This created a need for image rehabilitation that could be partially satisfied by a public work, such as semi-opera. The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell’s 1692 semi-opera, can ... -
Architecture in the Marketplace of Ideas: Copyright and its "Chilling" Effects
(2009)This paper questions the applicability of current legal standards of copyright to architectural works. Copyright law, as currently written, does not address the unique needs and design practices common to the field of architecture. For example, in architecture, the appropriation of existing design strategies in new built works is common, and should ... -
Archival (Yellow) Fever: The Letters of Kezia Payne DePelchin and E. Kate Heckle
(2011)I originally submitted “Archival (Yellow) Fever” as my final paper for Dr. Helena Michie’s graduate seminar on Victorian fiction and historicism. This paper includes my analysis of the DePelchin/Heckle materials, a collection of writings by two female nurses serving in the 1878 Mississippi Valley Yellow Fever Epidemic; a meta-reflection on my ... -
Between Borders: a comparative study of traditional and fronterizo migrants
(2017)My research project seeks to break down gendered generalizations along the U.S. - Mexico borderland to demonstrate the diversity of the borderland experience based on one’s location and gender and furthermore, to show how women exhibit their agency in various facets of life regardless of the machismo culture. It furthers examinations of gendered ... -
A Call for Medical Pluralism in America: Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine
(2012)China has adopted a unique policy of medical pluralism, whereby traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and western biomedicine (WM) are both widely used in the health care system to provide optimal health outcomes to patients. Indeed, this fusion of traditional and western principles may seem contradictory, as there are fundamental differences in philosophy ... -
Clarifying competencies: A qualitative synthesis of cross-cultural training objectives
(2018)Today’s workplace is becoming more multinational and culturally diverse than ever, both in terms of U.S. organizational employment and the greater global economy. While interest in cross-cultural training has grown as a result, however, there remains a dearth of scientific theory and empirical investigation supporting it. More specifically, there is ... -
Commoditizing Katrina
(2010)Mere months after residents of New Orleans were left stranded on their roofs, before, even, all of the bodies were to be found within the flood wreckage, Gray Line New Orleans announced plans to begin bus tours of the wreckage caused by Hurricane Katrina. Such tours have now multiplied, almost a dozen companies offering bus or van tours of the ... -
Commons Knowledge (a library for rare books yet to be written)
(2010)This thesis is a typological investigation of the library - specifically examining how digitizing information informs design. The agency of the book, which has historically been the protagonist of library design, is being radically transformed by the migration to the digital. An analysis of this shift reveals opportunities where new and provocative ... -
Developing Messianism from the Old Testament, to Qumran, to Jesus
(2018)Studying messianism, one encounters a bottomless array of written work all of which are meant to clarify, elaborate, or identify the origins of Christian and Jewish beliefs in a Messiah. The abundance of work done in this field are evidence of the complex nature of the topic, and make it irrefutably clear that emphasis on a different set of primary ... -
Disability, Love, And Limitation: A Response To The Mere-Difference View
(2019)Elizabeth Barnes’ argues that physical disabilities have no impact on how well someone’s life goes since disabilities are not negative difference makers to one’s life. I analyze Barnes’ position and tease out three background theses she utilizes in order to argue her position. The most significant of these theses (I call T2) suggests that the kinds ... -
Disentangling Desire in 1950s Houston: On Assemblages and Racial Disparity in American Criminal Justice
(2014)The criminalization of black males has been documented and theorized by historians and sociologists alike. While scholars have often analyzed their data with a critical eye to gender and race when black men meet the United States' criminal justice system, they have thought of the social positions “black” and “male” as an important intersection, but ... -
Duality and the Mask in Eighteenth-Century Actress Portraits
(2015)Theatrical masks in portraits of eighteenth-century actresses signify more than the figure’s profession. Multiple masks in a single composition and the figure’s active engagement with these plastic, yet eerily human objects suggest a more complex relationship between the theatrical mask and portraiture. Many scholars have examined eighteenth-century ... -
Empathy in the Physician-Patient Relationship: How Physicians Define, Develop, and Demonstrate Emotional Work in Clinical Practice
(2013)In recent years, much research has been focused on the role of empathy in the patientphysician relationship. Empathy has been shown to improve patient communication, trust, and clinical outcomes. Driven by this evidence, the physician-patient interaction has shifted in recent decades from a relationship that once discouraged empathy to one that now ... -
Environment and Economy Along Houston’s Bayous
(2016)The bayous have played a key role in the development of Houston since the city’s founding in the early 19th centuries. Houstonians have approached their relationship with the bayous in several different ways. Boosters and industrialists, who transformed Buffalo Bayou into the Houston Ship Channel, viewed the bayous as key pieces of infrastructure to ... -
Exchanges: Artistic Dialogues Between Tibet and China
(2019)In a dynamic exhibition, Exchanges: Artistic Dialogues Between Tibet and China explores hybridized Sino-Tibetan and Tibeto-Chinese styles from the Tang to the Qing Dynasty. China and Tibet have engaged in an iconographic dialogue, facilitated through Buddhism, for a period of over a thousand years, and a survey of this convergence of styles will ...
