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Title: Amorous Complaint in A Simple Story: A Manipulation and Rejection of Traditional Gender Roles
Description: This essay looks at the the effect of perspective and identity in writing, particularly as it relates to issues of gender and sexuality.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31901

Title: Biopolitics and the Experience of the Cambodian Genocide
Description: This essay discusses the Cambodian Genocide in relation to international and legal definitions of Genocide and the philosophical, political and humanitarian implications of those definitions.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31904

Title: Divinity and Power: Gendered Constructions of Identity in Portraits of Marie de Medici and Henry IV
Description: This essay compares 17th century portraits of Marie de Medici and those of her husband Henry IV of France in the context of gender performativity.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31910

Title: Hunting for a Hen: Bird Imagery and Erotic Connotations in Rembrandt, Snyders and Dow
Description: This essay explors the erotic connotations of bird imagery in the works of 17th century European painters.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31905

Title: Matter, Agency, and Transcendence in Milton's Prose and Verse
Description: In contrast to critics who characterize John Milton's work as unconcerned with the material world, this essay argues that the material world is crucial to Milton's conception of the sublime.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31903

Title: Security (Short Story)
Description: "Security" is a dark short story about an adolescent's relationship with authority figures.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31906

Title: Sin for a Sign? Another Look at Milton's Sin and Death
Description: This essay contends that Milton's critique of Sin and Death, and allegory more generally, lies in their relation to his system of signs and the epistemological value of those signs.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31911

Title: Speech: French Identity and Music under Nazi Occupation
Description: This essay examines how the musical sense of national identity that French composers had formed before World War II was influenced or changed by the Nazi occupation of France.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31908

Title: Translating Identities: The Poetry of Angel Island
Description: This essay provides a context for and English translation of 11 poems written by Chinese immigrants to the United States who were detained at Angel Island between 1910 and 1940.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:31899

Title: Women's Rights and Development in India
Description: This essay looks at Sex-selective abortions in relation to levels of development in three states in India
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:31909