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Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Civilian Interactions as a Function of Race and Gender
(2016)Based on current events, we wanted to investigate how people perceive law enforcement officer and civilian interactions. There have been several cases of public outrage accusing the legal system of being unjust, due to ... -
We Were There Too! Women Soldiers in the American Civil War: How Three Brave Women Defied the Social Norm and Joined the Army
(2016)My paper examines the role of women soldiers in the American Civil War. More specifically, I will highlight the history of three women and the brave roles they played fighting for their causes during the Civil War. History ... -
War and Spacewar! How Government Action Created the First Video Game
(2016)This paper explores the curious relationship between wartime tensions and the first video games. The author zooms in on Spacewar!, an academic demonstration and the very first video game, created in a computer lab by a ... -
“I,” the Technological Post-human?
(2015)What is post-humanism? A question that cannot be completely and fully answered by anyone at this moment in time. Post-humanism is not a simple, straight forward topic nor is it a well-defined line in the way humans think. ... -
The Popes Go to War: How Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII Combated Hitler and The Rise of Nazism
(2015)This presentation will explore the role the papacy played during World War II. It reexamines how Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII navigated the rise of fascism in Europe. While historians argue that the papacy did little to ... -
Leni Riefenstahl: Nazi Sympathizer or Artist?
(2016)Abstract Leni Riefenstahl is the most renowned filmmaker from Germany during the time of the Third Reich. Her commissions to make propaganda films and involvement with the Nazi party often force scholars to interrogate her ... -
Visualization Techniques for Extracting Information from Large Data Volumes
(2016)According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt in 2010 the humanity was producing in 2 days the amount of recorded data that it would produce from the dawn of the civilization up until year 2003 [1]. These enormous amounts of data ... -
Speaker Identification: The Right Anterior Temporal Lobe and Acquired Recognition Disorders
(2016)The ability to recognize a familiar person relies on successful name, voice, and face processing. Brain damage to the right anterior temporal lobe can cause deficits in processing important visual and auditory information ... -
The Effect of Linguistic Experience and Musical Training on Tone Perception
(2016)This study examines the effect of how experience with perceiving pitch variations at the sentential level (English), or at the syllabic level as in tone languages (Shona), and also musical experience influences the speech ...
