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English Senior Individualized Projects [913]
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Unjust, Unsustainable, Unhealthy, but not Unfixable: The Multidimensional Disconnect Between People and their Food that Enables the Exploitation of People and the Natural Environment
(2017)My Senior Individualized Project (SIP) addresses the topics food sustainability and food justice. More specifically, it is about how the monopolized industrial food industry which has created a disconnect between people ... -
Dog Tales : A Documentary SIP
(2011)The author writes “through the powerful medium of film, I want to bring the knowledge that I have gathered from my experiences, and the knowledge others have gathered from theirs. It brings all of my interests and skills ... -
Bats and Frogs, Horns and Teeth : An Exploration of, and Exercise in, Collection and Display
(2007)This project was informed and inspired by the tradition of "Cabinets of Wonder," often called Kunstkammern or Wunderkammern. These cabinets first appeared during the time of the Renaissance, and in them individuals would ... -
Dreaming of Downriver : A Journey Home to the Heart of America's Engine
(2014)The author presents three journalistic narratives about his hometown: Downriver Detroit. -
Satan and His Friends : Poems
(2016)The author presents a collection inspired by an early love of photo collage art and improv, and the tragic narratives of queer artists who died from AIDS in the eighties and nineties. -
The Moon is Gay and So are Poets
(2016)The author presents original poems in three sections: the first contains love poems about relationships and the body; the second consists of 15 sonnets with the last line of each poem serving as the first line of the next ... -
The Experience of Theory
(2016)The author's collection of poems explores and challenges expectations around identity as a gender nonconforming trans Black person. -
The Thought Artist : A Novel
(2016)The author created her novel with inspiration from Aristotle, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Lewis Carroll, and Franz Kafka. -
"The Appearance of Substance" : Examining in Tandem the Buddhist Teaching of No-Self and Poststructuralist Theories of Gender and Subject Formation
(2016)In this SIP, we have contemporary poststructuralist theories about identity formation on the one hand, and Zen Buddhist teachings of interdependent origination, emptiness, and no-self on the other. Reading and analyzing ... -
The Institute : A Collection of Short Stories
(2013)The author asked friends to generate eight lists of random words which she then used to create paintings and then short stories based on the paintings. She describes the inspiration of her process coming from composer John ... -
Exploring Mental Illness Through Sarcasm, a Memoir of My Generalized Anxiety Disorder
(2015)The author presents a series of personal essays describing her reaction to receiving a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder as a teenager and how she has lived with it. -
Broke Breadwinners : An Exploration of the Pay-for-Play Dilemma Surrounding NCAA Division I Athletics
(2013)The author focuses on NCAA Division I football and and basketball to explores the concept of "amateurism," the relative inequity of the student-athlete scholarship system, the revenue stream of Division I college sports ... -
City and Self : Local Identity in Personal Narrative
(2014)The author uses oral history to place the story of her mother growing up in the mid-20th Century in the context of other oral histories from Betty Shinaberry and Mary Anne McMahon and the story of Detroit, Michigan from ... -
Daughter, We Are Gypsies
(2014)The author describes how her poetry collection transformed from a collection of poems based on the oral histories of women like her own mother who crossed the border from Mexico to a more personal collection: “it became ... -
Demigods and (Super)Heroes: The Portrayal of Gender Norms through Greek Mythology and American Superhero Comics
(2015)The author examines Western culture and the gender norms that make up the crux of our social expectations The author believes that Western culture can become a stronger, better version of itself by constructing stronger, ... -
Metamorphosis
(2015)The author introduces her collection of original poems with an ancient Chinese proverb that says, “an invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place of circumstance. The thread may ... -
Boundaries
(2015)An original collection of poems exploring the challenges of living with a panic disorder. -
Mouth Frothy, Quiet and Unsightly : A Collection of Five Stories
(2014)The author presents a collection of five short stories, of which he says “I think each of my stories is a plea for acceptance. Acceptance of people who seem pathetic. Of those deemed losers. Acceptance of the parts of ... -
“Pulling Back the Curtain” : Analyzing and Voicing the Identities of Characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
(2015)Shakespeare was known for his ability to adapt and change other works, or blend his own works, like his sonnets, into other portions of his literature such as his plays. Shakespeare’s ability to also adapt his characters, ...
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