Communications

Save Us From the Media
Reordering Media as a Solution
for Disordered Eating
 

Anna Gonzalez

Doctors annually diagnose millions of Americans with eating disorders.  Of those diagnosed, ninety percent are women.  Most of these women have one of the two most common types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (National Council on Eating Disorders, 2004).  People with anorexia nervosa experience heart muscle shrinkage along with slow and irregular heartbeats and eventually heart failure.  Along with their heart, their kidney, digestive system and muscles often fail them The mortality rate of anorexia is twenty percent . . .read more

American Literature

Peculiar Institutions
Reconfiguring Notions of Political
Participation Through the Narratives of
Crafts and Jacobs

Rebekah Hurt

In her narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs says, “If the secret memoirs of many members of Congress should be published, curious details would be unfolded” (142). Jacobs here, and throughout her narrative, reveals herself as a political outsider in all possible senses. She does not, herself, know what stories are told in the so-called “secret memoirs” of white, male, empowered politicians. She can only surmise what frightful and disturbing events and attitudes they must describe. In sharp contrast,  . . .read more

Political Science

The Russian Mob
Organized Crime in a
Fledgling Democracy

James Ruth

Since the late 1980’s the Russian people have experienced one of the most drastic transitions seen in the world to date, a transition from an attempt at communism to a workable capitalist system.  As one would expect, this transition has not been painless and has been the impetus of many distressing problems for the Russian people.  One such problem is organized crime.  This paper will explore how organized crime during Soviet rule and the Russian Federation has created obstacles in this transition to a . . . read more

Art History

Alfred Stieglitz and Gallery 291
A Modern Art Revolution Before
the Armory Show

Brooke Schieb