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This collection includes Senior Individualized Projects (SIP's) completed in the English Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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The Relevance of Native Son and African American Oppression Today
(2018)My Senior Thesis aims to both analyze Richard Wright’s Native Son and compare today’s oppression for African Americans in relation to issues and themes arising in the novel. I constructed my thesis in two chapters in order ... -
Ethical Journalism in the “Fake News” Era
(2019)Using her internship experience in production of the local Kalamazoo Newschannel 3, a Sinclair station, the author reflects on the history of journalism, the three key issues facing broadcast journalism: resource scarcity; ... -
Thoughts of a Cave Woman
(2019)The author describes how her original thematic plans held back her poems and how reflecting on Audre Lorde's essay, "Uses of the Erotic," freed her to create an original voice that could reflect her Judaism, her personal ... -
See Dick Run : Truth, Silence, and Reconciliation in the Face of Intergenerational Trauma
(2018)The author describes the process of constructing a longform journalistic narrative of a family story: how her great grandfather left his wife for another woman and how that effected the family, particularly the author’s ... -
魔女 : Ma-Jo
(2019)The author describes how the transcendent beauty she found in the parks and shrines of Tokyo while studying abroad in Japan influenced her original novella. -
Path : A Biomythography of the Progression of my Subconscious Mind A Poetry Collection
(2018)The author describes her collection of poems as “poetic, mythic autobiography….an exploration of my spirituality and the synchronicities I have found within the Igbo Orisha tradition, and astrology… I have been influenced ... -
Hood-Ass Weirdo : Poetic Writings Exploring The Queer, Latinx Body’s Relationships with/to Sexual Liberation, Temporal Urban Spaces, and Immigrant Familial Relationships
(2019)The author discusses the many relationships between her Chicago neighborhood, gender identity, literary theories and influences. She writes, “To balance out the theoretical frameworks used in my thesis, I incorporated ... -
The Threshold Between Self and Everything Else : A Collection of Poems
(2018)The author introduces this collection of poetry with a discussion of the relationship between his spiritual meditation practice and writing. He also discusses the influences of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. -
One of Them : a Novella
(2018)The author writes, “Stories and imagination are vital aspects of many people’s lives, which is why using these tools to compose an effective fantasy story is so important. The world needs fantasy, especially fantasy that ... -
The Associations
(2018)The author describes how her favorite fantasy authors inspired this original novel. -
Ethical Freedom : A Comparative Reading of the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Aung San Suu Kyi
(2018)The author writes, “The central questions of my SIP: what does it mean to be free and how is freedom connected to political action? What are the responsibilities of those who are seeking freedom and of those who are free? ... -
Listen : a Novella
(2017)The author writes, “For my Senior Individualized Project, I wrote a magical realist novella which I started in the eleventh grade. Growing up, I lived in Washington State and always had a very close bond with the rain, ... -
Ask Her More : A Critical Analysis of Fashion and Feminism in The Awakening
(2018)Looking through literature, clothing is an important aspect of character development. Regardless of how a character’s appearance and clothing choices are received by other character, the author knows how crucial it is to ... -
Effects of Socially Constructed Gender Norms on Intersexed Bodies Through the Lens of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
(2017)The author includes medical research and psychological journals from the 1970s to learn how intersexuality was truly discussed during the time the events of the novel take place. -
Mountains Hovered Over Her Then as They Hover Over Me Now : A Collection of Essays
(2016)The author introduces her collection of four creative nonfiction essays with a discussion of how her experience of campus sexual assault and the process of speaking out about it shaped her as a writer. She writes about the ... -
“Lost and Found” : A Collection of Poetry and Ephemera in the Spirit of Hypertext and Multimedia Literature
(2017)The author first introduces examples of hypertext and multimedia books, and then explains the process of creating a collection of poems with attached ephemera. The author writes, “once the poems were written and put into ... -
My Father's Son : Hanging with the Big Shots in Hamtramck, Michigan
(2018)The author follows her Polish-American roots back to Hamtramck and creates a collection of creative non-fiction essays based on her research and interviews. -
The Property Line : A Poetry SIP
(2017)The author presents a collection of poems inspired by work on the family farm, including a sonnet crown: a sequence of fifteen sonnets where sonnets two through fourteen begin with the final line of the proceeding sonnet ... -
“Finding Your Home” Analyzing Your Home During Your College Experience
(2017)The author created a documentary film exploring the concept of home. The author writes “Each of my interviewees, even though they had very different backgrounds, came to the conclusion that it was the people within a home ...
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