Lucerna, vol.11 (2017)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...