This thesis considers why two rape-revenge horror movies from the 1970s, The Last House on the Left (1972) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), were remade within just one year of each other, in 2009 and 2010, respectively. ...

Despite years of research and hundreds of scholarly works that has been completed examining the relationship between the Black and American Jewish communities, relatively little has been done on mapping how internal ...

This senior thesis explores the way in which individuals build institutions, and in turn institutions build the legacy and the narrative surrounding that individual. This thesis uses the University of the District of ...

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, ten miles from Manhattan, an adult playground emerged.  A visitor’s class, race, or responsibilities did not matter here.  One could experience an earthquake, ride on a railway ...

Despite the idyllic and honorable view of lighthouses perpetuated by images in the second half of the nineteenth century, a view that continues to permeate the current American expectations of these dwellings in postcards, ...

For years Asian American communities and individuals have been largely overlooked by the public health system. Especially within the context of HIV/AIDS, Asian Americans have historically lacked a strong voice and ...

The focus of this research is on disloyalty investigations during the Civil War. In this research I sought to understand how disloyalty was defined within these loyalty investigations, navigating the question: what can the ...

The topic of Trigger Warnings [TWs] in higher education is often at the center of controversy. Because TWs are popularly and successfully implemented on Tumblr, this thesis compares the use of trigger warnings as discussed ...

Latinx communities, like East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights are negatively targeted by external forces that distort how these communities are viewed. This distorted reality or mental border is present throughout media ...

Rob McElhenney’s television series “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” goes against all conventional and traditional norms of the sitcom genre. With the initial pilot costing less than $100 to produce, a group of three ...