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BUD/S TO BATTLEFIELD AND BACK AGAIN: EXPLORING THE ASCENT OF THE U.S. NAVY SEAL TO THE REALM OF AMERICAN SUPERHERO
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
U.S. Navy SEALs have become ubiquitous in the years since SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear in 2011. SEAL narratives and stories can be found in bookstores, movie theaters, newspapers, ...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEN AND GIRLS: GENDER REPRESENTATION IN WOODY ALLEN'S MANHATTAN, HUSBANDS AND WIVES, AND CAFÉ SOCIETY
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
Woody Allen established himself as a household name in the 1960s. His half-century long career is celebrated for its generation of numerous memorable female characters and sullied by back-to-back scandals in 1992. For 25 ...
WHAT DOES REMEMBERANCE LOOK LIKE: MEMORIALIZING THE 1910 SLOCUM MASSACRE AMIDST UNCERTAINTY
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
This thesis explores the challenges of memorializing the Slocum Massacre, a white massacre of the black community living in the area of Slocum, Texas in 1910. In doing so, it considers a combination of sources including ...
BROTHERS IN ETERNAL COLD: HOW THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS SENT TO THE MOON DISCOVERED THE EARTH
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
On September 12th, 1962 in a speech at Rice University in Houston, President John F. Kennedy pledged the United States would land humans on the moon before the end of the decade. This goal was accomplished with the Apollo ...
"IT'S A HARD-KNOCK LIFE": THE DARK SIDE OF ADOPTION AND CHILD WELFARE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-24)
This thesis seeks to address the question: why were the victims of three high-profile adoption scandals, The Orphan Trains, Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society, and St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage, ...
FIRE AND FEATHERS: THE APPROPRIATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE IN SUMMER CAMP TRADITIONS
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
In the remote woods of Maine, children gather around a fire wearing headbands and feathers in order to become members of their tribe as they partake in a decades-old tradition. To them, the wearing of a feather is just ...
IN HER OWN WORDS: UNDERSTANDING ACADEMIC TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE CREATION OF WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAMS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-24)
Fifty years ago, activists and academics created the first Women's Studies Program. This program, and the ones that quickly spread across the country in its wake, radically altered the course of higher education by changing ...
IN TERMS OF GOOD BEHAVIOR: OUR MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF JUDICIAL ETHICS
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-24)
According to Article III of the United States Constitution, Supreme Court justices “may hold their Offices during “good Behaviour.” Canonically, this type of tenure afforded to members of the Supreme Court is interpreted ...
IF YOU'RE ON THE OUTSIDE, YOU'RE IN: THE INFAMOUS RED VELVET ROPE CULTURE AT STUDIO 54
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-15)
Studio 54, the infamous New York City discotheque open from 1977 to 1980, was a notorious site in New York City for not only being one of the most sought-after venues in nightlife, but also for its ruthless red velvet rope ...
A SLICE OF PRAGMATISM: NAVIGATING THE PIZZAGATE CONSPIRACY, BULLSHIT AND FAKE NEWS IN THE POST-TRUTH ERA
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
This thesis is the first academic work to philosophically explore the connections between Pragmatic theories of truth and the phenomena of fake news and conspiracy in the post-truth era. It argues that Harry Frankfurt’s ...