Undergraduate Review Volume 3 Article 1 2007 Undergraduate Review, Vol. 3, 2006/2007 Follow this and additional works at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/undergrad_rev Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (2007). Undergraduate Review, 3. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/undergrad_rev/vol3/iss1/1 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Copyright © 2007 VOLUME III 2006 - 2007 BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE The Undergraduate Review A JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORK Drake, Gorman, DeGagne, Pallucio, Snow, Rubin, Carson, Davenport, Almeida, Rekowski, Large, Vezina, Whittle, Viana, Sherwood, Keith, Levesque, Terrill, Manning, Williams, Masten, Collins BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE | 2007 Book layout by mediumstudio i 1 Letter from the Editor “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.” William Strunk Jr., Elements of Style very word of this journal does, as Mr. Strunk prescribes they should, tell. They tell of the hours upon hours of research, writing, and revision- -evident in the well-crafted, thoughtfully researched, and innovative texts that appear beyond this page. They tell of a serious student population, a population interested in reaching beyond the five-paragraph essay, Ea population devoted to achieving more than the minimum requirement. They tell of talent: talent evident throughout the entire undergraduate student body at Bridgewater State College, evident in a wider array of represented disciplines in these pages. They tell of a dedicated faculty who encourage, support, and nurture; mentors who have a passion for enabling academic success. And, they tell of the enormous effort it takes to produce this journal. As always, the staff of The Undergraduate Review would like to thank the Adrian Tinsley Program (ATP); Dr. Dana Mohler-Faria, President of Bridgewater State College; Dr. Nancy Kleniewski, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Dr. Ron Pitt, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; the Bridgewater Foundation; Dr. Lee Torda, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research; Ms. Kathy Frederick; faculty advisors; Drs. Ann Brunjes and Peter Saccocia; and the faculty readers for their time and effort in ensuring that the student contributors are recognized for their hard work. The Undergraduate Review serves as proof that mentorship is alive on the campus of Bridgewater State College. Many thanks to the student writers and their mentors; it is only through the continuation of this relationship that this journal will thrive. The experiences, disappointments, perseverance, and aspirations that the writing in this journal embodies come with a purpose: to invoke thought and, more importantly, to tell. I am proud to present to you the third volume of The Undergraduate Review. Stacy Nistendirk Managing Editor BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE i 2 Table of Contents Adrian TinsleY Progra M GR ANTS Human Behavior: Self-Discrepancy Reduction 3 Derek Drake Maternal Transmission of Body Image in School-Aged Children 15 Carolyn Gorman Unwired: Student Use of Technology in the Ubiquitous Computing World 21 Mike DeGagne Hydromination of Alkynes, Enynes, and Dienes Using 32 Titanium Catalysts Taryn Palluccio Intimacy and Face-to-Face versus Computer Interaction 37 Emily Snow The Powers of Silence: Cistercian Monasticism as a Radical Critique of 52 Information Age Epistemology Brad Rubin A Comparison of Sexual Assault in the U.S., Canada, and England 57 Catie Carson Forging My Relationship with the Figure: A Personal Exploration of Art 71 Employing the Human Form Elizabeth Davenport NC UR: National ConFerences on Undergraduate Research A Philosophical Examintation of Proofs in Mathematics 80 Eric Almeida Harmony and Diversity: Confucian and Daoist Discourses on 86 Learning in Ancient China Casey Rekowski THE UNDERGRADUATE REVIEW i 3 CourseworK Selfless: Buffy’s Anya and the Problem of Identity 94 Victoria Large Universals and Particulars: Aristotle’s Ontological Theory and Criticism 101 of the Platonic Forms Brad Vezina “That Dog Don’t Hunt”: Persuasive Language and Imagery in an NRA 105 Advertisement James Whittle Daring Deeds: Independent Moral Thought and Action in Hope Leslie 112 Amanda Viana Inverting the Cave: Edgar Huntly and the Enlightenment 118 Abby Sherwood The E.P.R. Paradox 123 George Levesque Behind The Face of Radio 133 Melanie Terrill First Year WorK Streambed 139 Ryan Manning Dakota and All We Know of Heaven: A Spiritual Desert 142 Matthew Collins The Angel No Longer in the Household 147 Jason Williams Honors Thesis Bianchi Identities and Weak Gravitational Lensing 153 Brian Keith Shea S cholar Progra M Surge of Green: A Sustainable Approach to Conductive Polymers 161 Beth Masten, Shea Scholar BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE i 4 Faculty Advisor’s Note It is my very great pleasure to present to you Volume III of The Undergraduate Review. Though this is our third year producing the journal, it is a year of firsts. We have, for the first time, featured work from a Shea Scholar, Bethany Masten. And we are proud to include voices from departments – the School of Business and the Department of Criminal Justice – not previously represented in the journal. We have broadened our reach to all areas of the college and continue to pursue our objective: a true review of the mentored research and creative work done by our undergraduate students across our academic community. Putting together a journal like this takes a tremendous amount of effort and a lot of coordination between several of the college’s moving parts. Without the commitment, intelligence, organization and persistence of Stacy Nistendirk, our managing editor, this document would simply not exist. Dr. Ron Pitt, who is, technically, our boss at ATP, gave us exactly what we needed: his belief that we would get the job done and his help when we asked for it. Dr. Dana Mohler-Faria continues to provide financial and moral support, not just to this journal but to the ongoing and expanding mission of undergraduate research at Bridgewater State College. Dr. Nancy Kleniewski gives us both encouragement and resources when we want them most. And the Bridgewater State College Foundation provides crucial and reliable financial backing to all our endeavors at ATP. Thanks must go to Kathy Frederick in the OUR, who keeps us sane, relatively cheerful, and focused. Our faculty reviewers – John Mulrooney, Laura McAlinden, Michelle Cox, Charlie Angell, Arthur Lizie, Anne Murtagh, Anne Doyle, Lee Torda, Shannon Donovan, Richard Wright, John Kucich, and Jeff Williams – performed the hard work of screening submissions and recommending revisions. Finally, I cannot give enough credit and thanks to Dr. Lee Torda, whose remarkable effort in the production of the first two volumes of this journal smoothed the way for this year’s issue and ensured the ongoing success of The Undergraduate Review. Of course, the student writers and researchers are the heart of this journal. Thank you for pushing yourself harder than you thought you could, for asking difficult and provocative questions, and for seeing your work through to the end. Welcome to a new community of readers, writers, and scholars. Ann Brunjes Co-Coordinator, Adrian Tinsley Program for Undergraduate Research Faculty Advisor to The Undergraduate Review Associate Professor of English THE UNDERGRADUATE REVIEW Adrian Tinsley Program Grants The Undergraduate Review Vol. III BRIDGEWATER STATE COLLEGE THE UNDERGRADUATE REVIEW Human Behavior: Self-Discrepancy Reduction Derek Drake This project was made possible by an Abstract Adrian Tinsley Program Summer Grant. he need for an overarching theory or model is discussed with Derek Drake is a Psychology and Philosophy integrated ideas and reasoning of past philosophers and scholars. major and Math minor. He also enjoys The proposed theory of self-regulation as a discrepancy-reducing writing poetry while taking long walks on feedback loop that encompasses all aspects of psychological study the beach and dinners by candle light. is described and elaborated on with past work from Carver and Scheier and TPowers. The formation of an elaborate model that accounts for all behavior is recognized as daunting though not unattainable. It is suggested that all behavior can be viewed as discrepancy-reducing; this idea could serve as the foundation for the construction of a broader and more elaborate model. Pragmatic Psychology “Her [pragmatism’s] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience’s demands, nothing being omitted.” ~ William James, 1997, p. 111 The quote above came from an American philosopher almost a century ago. In the search for truth there are many roadblocks within psychology as the subject it studies is vast in complexity and substance. Within this complexity and substance there must be something that unites it all, a principle or law that is relevant to all aspects of behavior. As the philosophical study of symbolic logic lays the foundation for basic algebraic mathematics, the American philosophical movement of pragmatism may lay