Congratulations to the 2013 winners of the Humanities Core Course/UROP Research Award for excellent capstone papers on the theme The Human and Its Others: Divinity, Society, Nature.
Farheen Basith, “Superfly and the American Dream”
Kym Butler, “Dürrenmatt’s Juxtaposition of Moral Codes in The Visit”
Michael Gonzales, “I Know Why the Dammed River Sings”
Maranda Li, “Man, God, and Death: A Musical Analysis of Mozart’s Requiem and Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles”
Erin Lukow, “Suzon’s Revolution: Manet’s Bar as a Window into the Chauvinistic Alliance between Two Opposing Subcultures of Parisian Society”
Marilyn Nguyen, “The Bluest Eye: a Critique of Racism, American Beauty, and Identity”
Mikaela Sharp, “Gender Roles: The Effects of World War II on the American Housewife’s ‘Sphere’”
Akira Tokutsu, “The Modern Sisyphus: An Estranged Man’s Perpetual Rebellion Against an Absurd World”
Stephanie Tu, “An Expiration Date You Wouldn’t Believe: An Examination of the Essence of Jerome Eugene Morrow”
Christina Vu, “Memorializing the Vietnam War: Reflecting the Past and Looking Toward the Future”