Showing 131 - 140 of 583 Items
He Mauka Teitei, Ko Aoraki, The Loftiest of Mountains: The Names of Aotearoa’s Highest Peak and Beyond
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Joseph B. Lancia
Access: Open access
- My thesis discusses the cultural, political, and social dynamics of mountains with separate Indigenous and Western names and identities. Centering on Aoraki/Mount Cook—the highest peak in Aotearoa New Zealand—I integrate personal experiences as ethnographic data through narratives, mainly of my time hiking while studying abroad in New Zealand and during the two recent summers I spent exploring Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Through its name, Aoraki/Mt. Cook maintains Indigenous Māori and Western perspectives: Aoraki being a Māori atua (god) and Captain James Cook being a significant colonial figure in the Pacific. The slash upholds both identities while ensuring that they exist together. These dynamics are explored in depth and extended to mountains in places including Colorado, Alaska, and Australia. While discussing Rocky I rely heavily on Oliver Toll’s Arapaho Names & Trails (2003) which contains a substantial collection of Arapaho knowledge of the area and I give strong attention to Nesótaieux (Longs Peak and Mount Meeker). Additionally, I look at Mount Blue Sky, Denali, and Uluru/Ayers Rock to discuss mountains that have had formal name changes and how legacies are maintained through toponyms. With discussing varying identities and perceptions of each example and the knowledge held in names I encourage readers to do research into local Indigenous knowledges to further their and others’ understandings of places. I emphasize the concepts of historical silences, the revealing of knowledge, and the importance of language to articulate that Indigenous knowledge might be difficult to find but is never truly lost.
Postmemory’s Shadow Archives: Reshaping the Punctum in Asian Diaspora Poetry This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2029-05-16
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Hannah Kim
Access: Embargoed
Deciphering Policymaking—The Enigma of the 2003 Iraq War
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Chengkai Gu
Access: Open access
- This thesis examines the forces shaping the United States’ decision to initiate the 2003 Iraq War. It argues that while the Bush administration had vested interests in disarming Iraq to eliminate Saddam Hussein’s military threat and to secure stable global oil supplies, the decision-making process leading to the Iraq War was heavily influenced by domestic politics, such as bureaucratic bargaining, CIA intelligence collections, and interest group competition. In addition, individual-level factors, such as top officials’ personal beliefs and psychologies, also shaped the decision to intervene in Iraq. By explaining how strategic, domestic, and personal factors interacted to shape the decision to launch the Iraq War, my study underscores the impact of less obvious micro-level dynamics on international politics and the multi-layered nature of foreign policymaking.
Making Human Beings and Citizens: The Educational Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Mollie Claire Eisner
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Examining the Effect of Aromatic Substituents in Peptoid Catalysts of Stereoselective Trifluoromethylation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Daniel Chi
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Three Decades of Replicated Field Studies Reveal Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Inhibits Soft-shell Clam (Mya arenaria) Growth in Eastern Maine This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2027-05-16
Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Everett Horch
Access: Embargoed
Non-Naturalism and Naturalism in Mathematics, Morality, and Epistemology
Date: 2018-05-01
Creator: Nicholas DiStefano
Access: Open access
Chromatin-conformation differences in natural populations of D. melanogaster Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
- Restriction End Date: 2026-06-01
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Nicholas J. Purchase
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
"In Loving Virtue": Staging the Virgin Body in Early Modern Drama
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Miranda Viederman
Access: Open access
- The aim of this Honors project is to investigate representations of female virginity in Renaissance English dramatic works. I view the period as one in which the womb became the site of a unique renewal of cultural anxieties surrounding the stability of the patriarchy and the inaccessibility of female sexual desire. I am most interested in virginity as a “bodily narrative” dependent on the construction and maintenance of performance. I analyze representations of virginity in female characters from four works of drama originating in the Jacobean period of the English Renaissance, during and after the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. Across four chapters, I examine the characters of Isabella from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1604), Beatrice-Joanna from Thomas Middleton’s The Changeling (1622), the Jailer’s Daughter from Shakespeare and Fletcher’s The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634), and Helen from Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (c. 1602-1605). To establish a framework for my readings, I situate each work in its contemporary cultural context, drawing upon Catholic and Protestant religious doctrines, period medical texts, and popular culture. I intend to explore the complex, often contradictory nature of the forms of virginity the plays depict. Still, I hope by uncovering the opportunities these four characters are provided by their virginity, that I can widen the confines of the category.
An Assessment of pH and the Effects of Ocean Acidification in a Phippsburg, ME Clam Flat
Date: 2014-08-01
Creator: Lloyd Anderson
Access: Open access
- Increased atmospheric CO2 due to the combustion of fossil fuels and subsequent oceanic uptake has led to a phenomenon known as ocean acidification: CO2 gas dissolved in the ocean lowers surface ocean pH and acidifies ocean waters, a process which has raised global concern. The purpose of my research was to investigate why a particular clam flat in Phippsburg, ME is not as productive as it used to be. This clam flat, located on “The Branch” in Phippsburg adjacent to Head Beach, has decreased to approximately a sixth of its former productivity in just over a decade. A possible explanation for this drop in clam bed productivity is acidification. I worked in a partnership with Bailey Moritz ’16, with the goal to measure indicators of ocean acidification in the clam flat and see if there was a difference in those indicators between productive and unproductive areas of the flat. Bailey’s focus was alkalinity, a quantification of the buffering capacity of seawater, where my specific research focus was on the effective collection of pH measurements. We were ultimately able to combine our alkalinity and pH measurements to calculate saturation state, an indicator of the susceptibility of clam shells to dissolution. I measured pH, a direct indicator of water acidity, from the top centimeter of the mudflat, the region where clam spat (juvenile clams) are seeded. The first few weeks of my fellowship time I spent researching the most accurate and precise way to measure pH in the field, and ultimately decided to measure pH on site using glass electrode probes. Sites 1 and 2 were located in a productive region of the flat, sites 4 and 5 were located in an unproductive region, and site 3 was located on the boundary between the two zones. Average pH values within the clam flat ranged from 6.9-7.5, and there was no significant difference in pH between productive and unproductive sites across the flat (Figure 1). The wide variations in pH across this clam flat could potentially be attributed to daily shifts in temperature, freshwater input, and biological productivity in the sediments. Low average pH values seen across all sites contribute to a low saturation state across the flat: our average calculated saturation state was 0.47, lower than similar data measured by Green et al. on a clam flat in South Portland in 2013, where average saturation state was 0.9. Our data indicate that the soft-shell clams at the productive sites in this particular Phippsburg clam flat are managing to survive in undersaturated (saturation state < 1) conditions. Since saturation state was low across both productive and unproductive sites, ocean acidification seems not to be the cause for the clams’ decline. However, other factors such as dissolved oxygen or sediment type may have combined with low saturation states to create a difference in productivity across the flat. In further research I would be interested to see how average pH at these same sites varies over a year-long period, which would give a better representation of the environment that the soft-shell clams are exposed to through yearly cycles. Final Report of research funded by the Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowship.