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Cinema and the Subjective Reality
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Subjectivity is a constant in the human mind; our brains are
composed of our memories, which can only be created subjectively.
A memory is the re-creation of reality to help our minds
understand the world around us and ...
What It Takes to Age in Place: Services and Social Connections
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Recent studies have suggested that a greater number of older
adults prefer to age in place rather than move to a retirement home
(e.g., Cohen-Mansfield, Ali, Frank, 2010). One outcome of this
trend is that a larger ...
Shifts of Tonic Arousal Within and Between Tasks That Vary in Cognitive Demand
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Physiological data, such as respiration and electrodermal
activity, can reveal significant details about a person’s thought
process. These measures can be used in conjunction with a
series of questions to evaluate credibility ...
The Existence of Racism in High School History Classes
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
In all four years I went to high school, I only had one history class
that discussed black history. The textbook talked about the Civil
Rights Movement, but did not talk about any other achievements
of black people. I did ...
AIDS and the Artist's Call to Action
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Artists have lent their voices to many activist initiatives, and
the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was no exception. Largely,
the art created during this era was propaganda, though some
works were a reflection on ...
Race, Language and the Urban Landscape: On Material Effects of Racialized Identity Formations
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
An immense body of work already exists with respect to
the relationship between race and the modern landscape which
demonstrates the depths of the racial dimension of America’s
urban development. Statistics show that in ...
A Family's Trials in Civil War Era Missouri: Unionism, Displacement, and Not-so-radical Reconstruction
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Much has been written about the vast and violent conflict
that was the American Civil War, exploring every social, political,
and economic aspect. And this body of literature continues to
grow. Scholarship focused on the ...
A Dissection of Video Games as a medium of Art: The Utilization of Aesthetics and the Effectiveness of Video Games as a Tool in Curriculum
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Over the years, video games have seen increasing acceptance as
a classification of art by individuals other than those traditionally
defined as gamers, such as politicians and educators. Art as defined
by the Oxford English ...
Geographic Voter Turnout Disparaties and Public Health
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
A black teenager named Michael Brown is shot by a white police
officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The inferno of media surrounding
the city begins to explain the shooting. At first, they are concerned
with specifics of the ...
Government and NGO Efforts to Suppress Sexual Exploitations
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
The topic being addressed, continued existence of sexual
exploitation and trafficking, is of crucial importance to the
researcher due to a significant lack of research about what works
and what does not work to reduce the ...