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D E V O L U M E 10 PAUL UNIVERSITY 2017 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 10 | 2017 CREATING KNOWLEDGE The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 2017 EDITOR Warren C. Schultz ART JURORS Jessica Larva, Coordinator Laura Kina Steve Harp COPY EDITORS Rosie McCarty Laura Niebrugge Drew Weissman TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 Foreword, by Dean Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco, PhD STUDENT RESEARCH 8 Sydney Goggins Unpaid Labor across Two Cultures (Department of Anthropology) 16 Kelly Cunningham Primitive Misunderstandings: Changes in Western Methodology and Perception of the Chinese Language in the Early Modern Period (Chinese Program, Department of Modern Languages) 26 Elizabeth Claire Longo Women Can Paint: The Feminist Potential of Postimpressionism in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (Department of English) 34 Emily Speelman Symbolic Accretion and the Cultural Landscape of Budapest’s Memento Park (Department of Geography) 44 Keaton McManamy Die nervösen Körper von Kafa und Allen (German Program, Department of Modern Languages) 48 Omar Dyette Proliferation of Images: The Impact of Sheikh Amadou Bamba and the Mouridiyya on Senegalese Art (Department of History of Art and Architecture) 58 Kira Light The Parental State: A Study of the Wisconsin Child Welfare System during the Progressive Era (Department of History) 68 Ashnar Dholakia Beating Women: Analyzing Daraba in the Qur’an (Department of International Studies) 76 Megan Pietz The Complexities of the Whore, Virgin, and Mother Complex: Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Freedom in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock and Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls (Irish Studies Program) 84 Catherine Arevalo L’accettazione di sé e dell’altro in Igiaba Scego e Gabriella Kuruvilla (Italian Program, Department of Modern Languages) 90 Douglas V. Ortiz Restrictive Immigration Policy Informed by Nativist Sentiment (Department of Latin American and Latino Studies) 100 Holden Scheidel Farmer, hooks, and McFague: A Synthesized Analysis of Podium Building (Peace, Justice, & Conflict Resolution Program) 104 Akiva Mattenson Getting Beyond Cartesianism: An Investigation of Self and Other in the Phenomenological Tradition (Department of Philosophy) 114 Meredith Bennett-Swanson Media Coverage of Black Lives Matter (Department of Political Science) 126 Kunza Shakil Profanity, Power, and Populaces in Pakistan (Department of Religious Studies) 134 Taylor Griggs Globalization, Glocalization, and the Symbolic Economy of the Taco (Department of Sociology) 144 Jane Serenska Conflict in Women’s and Gender Studies: Resources for Integrating Classroom Conflict and Transforming Academic Practices of Community (Department of Women’s and Gender Studies) 154 Wendy Ramirez Hip-Hop as a Modern Sophistic Practice (Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse) TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED) STUDENT ARTWORK Cover Isi Ennis Drippage 24 Jireh Drake The Watermelon Project (Detail) 25 Moya Fagan We Know What’s Inside 35 Isi Ennis Drippage 53 Madeline Krone Dhobi Ghat, Mumbai 59 Allison Carvalho Womyn 67 Allison Carvalho Month 3 77 Allison Carvalho Month 5 94 Hadrien Dupin The Party 95 Simone Parkas Lincoln Park 3 117 Myumi Ware Bridge 137 Gareth Kaye Untitled Profile 153 Charlotte Mukahirn Murmurs from Afar 1 95 Amy Martin Masked 117 Francesca Martino Curtain 137 Maya Sato Pantry at Home 153 Angela Verish Spot 2 137 Julian Van Der Moere Jamais Vu (In-Camera Study) FOREWORD Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni and Friends, This may sound like an act of contrition, but it is not. When I meet administrators of other institutions of higher education, it is predictable that the first few minutes of interaction will be devoted to a vigorous display of institutional pride. In that context, my practice has been to let them deliver along traditional marketing lines including glossy brochures with abundant well-staged pictures of buildings, faculty, and diverse students. Once they are done, I kindly commend them and in return, I present to them our latest issue of Creating Knowledge. I know that their first reaction will be to tell me that they also publish the outstanding research work of their faculty, which I will acknowledge at the same time that I clarify that Creating Knowledge, is not the product of faculty research but student scholarship. They are clearly impressed, but will further point out that they also publish the work of their most talented graduate students, which I will again acknowledge and finally clarify that Creating Knowledge is a formal publication of “undergraduate scholarship”. Their surprise is priceless and triggers in me a sense of pride that I have truly come to enjoy very much. Creating Knowledge makes tangible our extraordinary commitment, not only to the dissemination of knowledge, but also its creation across all ranks in our academic community. 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. With this volume, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of this wonderful publication and the establishment of a rich culture of scholarship. In this issue, you will find a selection of 18 essays and 13 art works, representing advanced coursework produced in programs of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences during the 2016-2017 academic year. All the work hereby presented has been selected by department-based faculty committees as the best of the year’s student creative work and all have been revised for submission under the mentorship of faculty. Most of the work has already been the subject of recognition through 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 equitably recognized. The evident academic rigor displayed by Creating Knowledge is largely dependent on 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 three Department of Art, Media and Design faculty who served as jurors of the artwork and the three masters in writing and publication students who proofread the volume. In particular, I would like to thank Warren Schultz, Executive Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, who serves as editor of the volume, putting out the call for submissions, supporting the faculty work of reviewing, selecting, and editing the student essays, and coordinating the production of the print and digital editions. I am sure that you will experience the same sense of pride in the work of our students that I feel. I encourage our students to see the work of their more advanced colleagues as a challenge soon to be transformed into the opportunity to build on the accomplishments of their predecessors. I hope that our alumni and friends of the college will take this opportunity to re-engage in the life of our college and renew their support of our students through the establishment of additional scholarships and the inclusion of our graduating students in their recruitment and hiring plans. We are a group of life-long learners who find great joy in creating knowledge. It is my pleasure to invite you to enjoy this tenth issue of Creating Knowledge: The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. Sincerely, Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco, PhD Dean DEPAUL UNIVERSITY 7 UNPAID LABOR ACROSS TWO CULTURES Sydney Goggins* Department of Anthropology Introduction 13). In the U.S., domestic servants became less popular The purpose of this research paper is to compare after World War II (Cowan, 2008: 192). women’s household labor in India and the United States. I investigate the history of unpaid labor, conditions in In America today, it is not common to see domestic the home, and the role domestic servants play in both servants in lower- and middle-class homes. However, it countries. My analysis is based on 11 interviews and 23 is not unusual for families of diferent financial standing surveys with American women and 3 interviews with in India to have a domestic come once a day. Women’s Indian women conducted by myself and my American, unpaid labor is the housework they do on a daily basis. It and Indian classmates. is not one single activity but a combination of cleaning, cooking, shopping, childcare, kin-work, emotional care- This project was part of a Global Learning Exchange work, laundry and plenty of other tasks. Housework course I took in the winter 2017 quarter, which enabled has the same features as paid jobs simply without a me to speak directly with a student from Symbiosis paycheck or other benefits such as sick days, vacation, or International University in Pune, India. Throughout retirement plans. Women participating in unpaid labor the quarter, I had multiple Skype conversations with are contributing “to our living standards and also to the that student, which gave me fundamental insight into development of human capabilities” (“Household Labor, Indian culture, specifically women’s place in society. As Caring Labor”, and Unpaid Labor, 2015: 33). evidenced by the collected data and despite any existing dissimilarities between the two societies, I argue that both Although women doing unpaid housework do not have American and Indian women partake in more unpaid bosses, there are pressures on them to complete their job work than men. (Oakley, 2005: 64). Often times, women are not praised for their housework but are criticized if the work is not done. Paid and Unpaid Domestic Labor As such, their eforts typically go unnoticed.