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Artifacts : a journal of undergraduate writing, Issue 15, 2017 : contents page
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Music of the Cherokee Nation
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)Music history in North America begins long before Europeans came ashore; however, because classically trained musicians view music history through the lens of European practices and experiences, it becomes difficult to ... -
Precision agriculture : feeding the future
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)Agriculture has faced its fair share of adversity. In the 1930's and 40's, it was the dust bowl. The 1980's Farm Crisis was a byproduct of overproduction, poor investments, and bad decisions made during the boom years of ... -
Breaking machismo
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)For a long time, and some would argue still today, women in Costa Rica were considered second-class citizens, mostly due to machismo, or masculine culture, where men believe they hold dominant roles over women. Even today, ... -
Thanksgiving ethnography : my family's fryers
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)The main event of our Thanksgiving, oddly enough, is not the meal. For the past thirty years my family has prepared fried cauliflower on Thanksgiving. The tradition goes back to my grandmother's mother, my great grandma ... -
Retracing the steps of British abolitionists : a digital learning approach to the history of the Atlantic slave trade
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history. It involved an intercontinental transfer of wealth, goods, and most importantly, millions of people over the course of four centuries. Great Britain ... -
Old habits out and new habits in : the new way to waste food
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)We as humans don't realize how wasteful we are at times. We have the expectation that food will always be readily available to us and, when we are done with it all, a trash truck will come and haul away our unwanted scraps. ... -
"I don't know where my boy is!" : abduction and brainwashing in Stranger Things
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)In "Chapter Six: The Monster" of Netflix's Stranger Things, there's the big reveal: Eleven, the daughter of Terry, a former subject in the Central Intelligence Agency's Project MK-Ultra, was stolen -- abducted—by "he big ... -
Christmas holiday : queering family in 20th century southern Missouri
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)An obituary in The Southeast Missourian lists Elaine "Tommie" Davis as the business partner of Mary Jane "Miss Jane" Barnett for over forty years (Elaine Davis Obituary). However, the family albums of the two tell a richer ... -
Takeover of invasive species due to climate change : the bush honeysuckle
(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2017)With an increase in climate change, invasive species, such as the Bush Honeysuckle, appear in the early spring and remain late into the fall, giving them a competitive advantage over native species of the same ecosystem. ...