Abigail Fletcher - “Stars” (visual art session) This mixed media piece was inspired by a poem I wrote, which features topics of love and longing. This piece represents a time in my life where I experienced these things firsthand. I created this work because I wanted to discuss these topics in an unserious and humorous way. Through this work, my feelings of sorrow and happiness from that time are expressed and represented physically. My work aims to inspire viewers to connect to a time when they felt love and longing. I want my viewers to ponder: was there a time where you centered around a person? Some people are completely magnetic and take hold of the others around them. Some people are so enthralling that they are like the center of the universe, and stars orbit around them. These people and this feeling completely takes over lives. That is what my piece is about. Abigail Fletcher, Preston Nicholson, Noel Nunn-Faron, & Camden Phillips - “Recovering the Home Front: Economy, Logistics, and the Jackson County MO War Experience” (session 19) Despite the transformative role that World War II played on the Midwest, there is a large absence of dedicated institutional research of the Midwest war experience within the literature. This project hopes to bridge the historiographical gap by investigating the niche that the Jackson County Missouri’s regional economic and logistical systems filled in supporting the national war effort. Through the framework of the “Four Freedoms” as articulated by the Roosevelt administration, we examine the consequences the war imposed on the region’s diverse communities. Moreover, we contextualize the impacts of the conflict primarily by drawing upon state and national historical archives, assessing oral histories, and analyzing online databases. Thus, we contend that while the Kansas City metropolitan area reinforced the national war effort as the preeminent logistics and defense-industrial hub, the utility of mobilization was unequally distributed during a time of systemic repression, economic uncertainty, and national anxiety. This research contributes to an understudied area of scholarship and challenges the mainstream notion of a uniform wartime prosperity. Alberto Fontanabona, Trenton Farnham, Kaya McCory, & Daniel Younger-Loesing - “The Heart of a Nation: the Stories of Jackson County from World War II” (session 19) Jackson County has certainly played an important role in the United States’ contribution to the victory of World War II. Shown through its inhabitants that served overseas in the military, but also through every single individual of its society. Everyone was needed to make the difference, independently from their role, their sex, or their race. The goal of our group project is to uncover examples of these brave, but human, individuals who, in every way they possibly could, helped their nation in the fight of evil totalitarian governments, by going through digital archives of recorder interviews, physical archives full of notes, records, and letters, as well as conducting new interviews to discover unique stories and personal narratives from any possible kind of participation. The entire process described is followed with a special regard for the Four Freedoms listed by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the group collectively recognized their fundamental importance in the values and ideas that moved the United States in the first place and that remain solid in the Americans’ hearts nowadays. Alberto Fontanabona - “Compromise, an Ancient Aristotelian Skill to Analyze Simone Weil’s Moral Extremes” (session 4) In the last few decades, similarly as it did at the beginning of the previous century, the term compromise has gradually gained a
negative connotation in the realm of morality, this is because it tends to be considered a dynamic that infects or ruins an untouchable and pure entity. However, the pursuit of that entity, like the values and ideas that Simone Weil, a French philosopher from the first half of the twentieth century, advocated for, such as self-emptying and detachment from the ego, might eventually lead to an excess, an extreme, that consequently risks to cause excessive harm to the individual himself. This project presents an analysis of Simone Weil’s works and ideas through Aristotle’s virtue ethics, a system that values a balance between extremes by finding the golden mean, to discover possible flaws in Weil’s ideas by observing them through the lenses of compromise, a dynamic that favors a solution in the middle rather than an absolute extreme which might intrinsically contain a morally wrong degree of self-harm in service of reaching the extreme goal. Leonardo Friedrich - “Washington State Trifold” (poster session I) Kno-W-ashington is here to invite people to see how beautiful the State of Washington is. It’s important because of the strategic logistics for Asia through the big ports and great volcanic soil for plantation, I decided to choose Washington because the city of Seattle, the biggest in the state, the people are crazy for sports with their four teams in four big leagues. I’ve researched on some websites and on YouTube. The eastern side of Washington State is responsible for producing 65% of the country’s apples and one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Washington is one state where you can ski in the morning and see some big buildings and businesses at noon. Thinking about the economic part of the State, they have some amazing tax for Business and big investment on technologic advances, for this reason big brands are originally from there, like Microsoft, Amazon and Starbucks. Washington State has this name because the first president of the United States of America, George Washington. Originally the territory was part of the big state of Oregon, then in 1853, residents in the northern part of that territory petitioned to create their own separate government. They proposed the name Territory of Columbia, because of the river that follows the region. But the U.S Congress suggested a trade campaign, arguing that naming it “Columbia” would be too confusing because it might be mistaken for the State of Columbia. To solve this it was decided to put the U.S first President. Washington is the only state that honors one U.S President and has an image of one President in the state flag. In summary, Washington State stands out for its unique landscapes and world-changing industries. Understanding its history and geography helps us appreciate the diverse identity of the Pacific Northwest, offering great insights for students of both economic and environmental science. Keyonie Gaddy - “How Sea Turtles Adapt to Diving and Long Distance Migration” (poster session I) Sea turtles are able to dive for long periods of time and travel long distances, even in oxygen limited environments. Sea turtles use different metabolic and biochemical adaptations to survive these conditions. Understanding how they survive these conditions helps explain their role in marine ecosystems and their overall physiology. The challenge is how sea turtles preserve energy and function when oxygen levels drop during dives. Explaining how the metabolic and biochemical adaptations allow sea turtles to survive and recover from these conditions. Focusing on how oxygen is stored and used
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