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The Great Lakes: Catalysts of Industrial Evolution
(2018-04)
The Great Lakes: Catalysts of Industrial Evolution demonstrates the growth of modern industries and processes in the Midwest during the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. The ...
Gender, Sexism, And Marriage Practice In Contemporary China: A Study Of ‘Shengnü’ (‘Leftover Women’) In Popular Media
(2016-08-26)
Anxiety about late marriage is a common theme in contemporary Chinese cinema. In the scene above from the 2015 film Let’s Get Married, the tearful protagonist Gu Xiaolei confronts her long-term boyfriend, lamenting his ...
Ann Batten Cristall and the Lyrical Sketch: The Influence of Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics on Lyric Performativity
(2015-09-18)
There is only a small body of scholarship on British Romantic poet Ann Batten Cristall who published one collection, Poetical Sketches, in 1795. This thesis analyzes the songs of her diverse collection, which have yet to ...
When Isolation Fosters Creativity: The Oddities of the Las Huelgas Manuscript
(2016-08-26)
Of the substantial 13th-14th century music manuscripts available to scholars today, the
Las Huelgas codex (hereafter Hu) is rarely addressed in academic conversation compared to collections such as Florence (F), the ...
Resistance and Revolution: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the University of Michigan, 1965-1972
(2015-06-22)
From 1965 until 1972, the campus of the University of Michigan became a stronghold of political activism and intellectual discussion against the war in Vietnam. Students, faculty, and the administration of the University ...
Treating Bones: The Intersection of Archaeology And Conservation
(2013-04-30)
Developed to house and preserve the world’s material heritage, museums and other collecting institutions currently store billions of artifacts in their reserves. Unfortunately, the objects in museum storage, especially ...
Engineering Industrial Architecture: Albert Kahn and the Trussed Concrete Steel Company
(2013-06-24)
This paper discusses Albert Kahn's work in conjunction with structural engineering products designed and sold by his brother Julius's firm, The Trussed Concrete Steel Company. The use of engineered concrete products such ...