D E V O L U M E 11 PAUL UNIVERSITY 2018 Creating K nowledge D E PAUL UNIVERSITY THE LAS JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE THE LAS Creating Knowledge THE LAS JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP V O L U M E 11 | 2018 CREATING KNOWLEDGE The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 2018 EDITOR Lisa Poirier ART JURORS Chi-Jang Yin, Coordinator Jessica Larva Steve Harp COPY EDITORS Samuel McKinney Shawn Murrell Clare McKitterick TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 Foreword, by Dean Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco, PhD STUDENT RESEARCH 8 Naomi Wilkin “Is That Still a Thing?": The “Woke Millennial” and Representation in Riverdale (American Studies Program) 20 Kristen Smaga 《活着》之中国文化分析 (Chinese Program, Department of Modern Languages) 24 Madeline Dulabaum “Why should the envious world throw all their scandalous malice upon me?”: Femininity and Witchcraft in The Wonderfull Discouerie of Elizabeth Sawyer and The Witch of Edmonton (Department of English) 34 Alexandra Moyer Pensées puériles (French Program, Department of Modern Languages) 36 Alexander Temes Aftermath of a Mega-Fire: A Case Study of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire, Arizona Through Remote Sensing (Department of Geography) 44 Lauren Minga State-Sponsored Claims to National Identity: The Monument to Cuauhtémoc (Department of History of Art and Architecture) 56 Catherine Egbert “Directly Feminine Work": Female Advocacy and the Emergence of Professional Home Decorators in England, 1860-1900 (Department of History) 66 Xuan Nguyen The real Miss Saigons of the American Brothel: US Military Intervention in Vietnam through a feminist-constructivist framework (Department of International Studies) 76 Lourdes Contreras Un mondo buono: Lingua, retorica e ideologia della campagna pubblicitaria dei prodotti da forno Mulino Bianco 2012-2016 (Italian Program, Department of Modern Languages) 84 Betsy Lugo Opportunistic Inclusion: Millennial Latinxs and the Social Media Sphere (Department of Latin-American and Latino Studies) 94 Sam Cooper Western Metaphysics from Plotinus to Descartes to Heidegger (Department of Philosophy) 104 Shelby Hofman Mandated Motherhood: The Patriarchy of Policing and Punishing Female Sexuality by the Irish State (Department of Political Science) 114 Ellen Underwood “Bigger Than Football”: Race and Religion in Colin Kaepernick’s NFL Protest (Department of Religious Studies) 124 Izabella Jablonska La esperanza en España representada en “Las medias rojas” de Emilia Pardo Bazán (Spanish Program, Department of Modern Languages) 130 Victoria Agunod Identity, Inclusion and Social Change at DePaul University: Locating Student Afairs within the Neoliberal University (Department of Women’s and Gender Studies) 140 Adriana Yochelson Share a Pepsi, End Racism: A Memetic Analysis of the Ad That Broke the Internet (Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse) TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED) STUDENT ARTWORK Cover Corinne Jones Abstract Rock 19 Mitch Buangsuwon Akou-Kurou-Gai - Residence in the Alleyway 23 Chris Keramidas Armchair in The Groves 33 Gin To Figure on Stool 43 Allie Klawitter Athazagoraphobia 55 Jordan Delmonte Cerulean Warblers 65 Tamar Blair Airplane Riding in the Sunset 75 Alanna Huck-Scarry Abstraction #1 83 Rachel Mann Deserted Factory 93 Madeline Schoonover Graphite, Charcoal, Ink, and Colored pencil on Yupo 103 Gin To Camouflaging 113 Lindy Sofer Photogram with drawing materials 123 Jessica Freeman Shadows of Depth 129 Mitch Buangsuwon Akou-Kurou-Gai - Entering the Alleyway 139 Lindy Sofer Photogram with drawing materials (4) FOREWORD Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni and Friends, “We live and learn.” Every day of my life I have visited that short sentence as an introspective testimonial of our fundamental nature as learners. Every day we perform hundreds of micro-learning processes that start with awareness, build understanding, and finally support decisions. Some of those decisions are small and repetitive, like getting out of bed in the morning. We frequently build clusters of small decisions that are interdependent and reduce the granularity of our decision-making processes, like the process of getting dressed, eating breakfast, and walking to school. Sometimes we make big decisions that have the power to change our lives and impact the lives of others, like the important decision of studying at DePaul University in pursuit of a particular purpose in life. Beyond the scale of the micro-learning experience, the rigorous process of linking awareness, understanding, and action is of critical importance. Most mistakes in life are the consequences of actions in the absence of reliable awareness, or of a natural tendency to jump from awareness into action without proper understanding of the full contexts of the issues at hand. DePaul University is a place where the full, rigorous process of the learning experience is celebrated and exercised to create life-long learners. In many institutions, undergraduate education is all about awareness and understanding, leaving action as something only pertinent to graduate school or the enhanced environment of our Honors programs. At DePaul University and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, we take pride in addressing the complete learning cycle in our undergraduate programs, including the action of creating knowledge through research. Creating Knowledge: The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, was the product of a 2008 initiative aimed towards the goal of promoting research and creative endeavors among our undergraduate students. In this issue, you will find a selection of 16 essays and 15 art works, including the cover by Corinne Jones, representing advanced coursework produced in programs of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences during the 2017-2018 academic year. All the work here presented has been selected by department-based faculty committees as the best of the year’s student-generated work ,and each work has been revised for submission to this journal under the mentorship of faculty. Most of the work has already been recognized by department awards and supported by undergraduate research and creative grants. The first footnote to each essay provides information about the class in which it was written and the processes of selection and revision. This body of work celebrates the intellectual rigor, sophistication, and diversity for which our college is rightfully recognized. In recognition of the intellect and enthusiasm of our faculty and staf, I would like to express my profound gratitude to the more than 60 faculty who supported, reviewed, selected, and helped to edit this remarkable collection of student work. Thanks are also due to the Department of Art, Media and Design faculty who served as jurors of the artwork and the writing and publication students who proofread the volume. In particular, I would like to thank our new editor, Lisa Poirier, Associate Professor in our Department of Religious Studies for her extraordinary commitment to make this issue of Creating Knowledge such an amazing success. I also want to thank our past editor, Warren Schultz, Executive Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, for his many years of advocacy in support of undergraduate scholarship as a distinctive hallmark of a DePaul education. I encourage our students to see the work of their peers as a challenge to build further on the accomplishments of their colleagues. I hope that our alumni and friends of the college will take this opportunity to celebrate the high quality of their college experience and support of our current students through the establishment of scholarships, internships and the inclusion of our graduating students in their long-term recruitment and hiring plans. We are a collective of life-long learners committed to the mission of creating knowledge. It is my pleasure to invite you to enjoy this eleventh issue of Creating Knowledge: The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. Sincerely, Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco, PhD Dean DEPAUL UNIVERSITY 7 “IS THAT STILL A THING?”: THE “WOKE MILLENNIAL” AND REPRESENTATION IN RIVERDALE1 Naomi Wilkin American Studies Program FIGURE 1 Riverdale’s formula 50s setting, noir environment, and contemporary teens. Introduction intense engagement of its fans on social media.2 Since its On January 26, 2017, the television series Riverdale premiere, bloggers, journalists, and reviewers have praised premiered on the CW Network, accompanied by a Riverdale for its inclusive representation and the social weekly serial release on Netflix. Riverdale is based commentary it ofers on hot-button issues in millennial on the Archie Comics, but is darker than the original, culture. infusing the traditional form of teen dramas with sinister and threatening twists aimed at a millennial audience. Like several CW shows in the past two decades, including The first season focuses on solving the murder of local One Tree Hill (2003-2012) and Gossip Girl (2007-2012), golden boy, Jason Blossom—the event which forces Riverdale (2017-) portrays an exaggerated, afuent, white, these darker elements to the surface. Within months of middle-class adolescence where the teens act like adults. its release, Riverdale became one of the most popular These programs are meant to appeal to both teens and television shows on the air, which was apparent from the viewers in their 20s and early 30s, the 18-34 demographic 8 CREATING KNOWLEDGE most valued by advertisers and the age cohort widely of non-heteronormative sexuality, in order to determine referred to as “millennials.”