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Title: Americans in Paris: Through the Looking Glass, Tutorial, Fall 2002
Description: This semester we will journey to Paris through the eyes of Americans. From the founding fathers of the United States to the most recent winner of the Tour de France, from jazz musicians and painters to the most prominent writers of the century, Americans have influenced and been influenced by their encounters with Paris.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3429

Title: Cycles, Soundscapes, An Electronic Musician’s Guide to Kinetic Sound Sculpture: The Conceptual Development of Cycles, Cycles and Soundscapes, Sound Sculpture and Electronic Music
Description: Consists of the Music 495 Senior Project proposal and the products of the project including the program from the public performance, movies, photos, music and text.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3859

Title: Frankenstein's Monsters: the Creation of Horror & the Horror of Creation
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Fairy tales and horror stories are used to learn about literary analysis.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3441

Title: Grinnell College Tree Guide, South Campus, North Campus
Description: "Prime movers in the conception and production of this campus tree map for the bicentennial anniversary of Grinnell College were Don Snook, '49, and Stan Hall, '49."
Date Created: 1996
PID: grinnell:3589

Title: Managing the Faithful: The Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church, Internal Labor Market of the Roman Catholic Church
Description: Although economists in recent years have begun to apply economic theory to the activities of religious organizations, very few have ventured deeply into the realm of the Roman Catholic Church and almost none have considered the confluence between Internal Labor Market Theory and the promotional job ladder for ordained Catholic clergyman. This analysis explores the implications of the Catholic Church’s internal promotional ladder on its level of theological flexibility and hence its ability to adjust to changing market conditions. Specifically, by treating the Catholic Church as an organization subject to many of the same market forces as ordinary business firms, the research presented in this analysis shows how much of the “crisis” the church is confronting in the modern era—such as the rapid decline in the number of priests—can be explained by microeconomic structures that have developed over the past two millennia. At the broadest level, this analysis offers a new paradigm for viewing resistance to change in the church and provides a model for understanding the long-term implications of inflexibility on the viability of the church as an institution.
PID: grinnell:31983

Title: New Queer Cinema Today: Film and the critique of neoliberalism, Film and the critique of neoliberalism
Description: In 1992, B. Ruby Rich coined the term New Queer Cinema to describe a cycle of films in the late 1980s and early 1990s that broke with conventional cinematic practices to show rethought subjectivities, generic subversions, and revised histories. New Queer Cinema, however, saw little of the same bursts of innovative directors and their films after 1992. This lag in revolutionary filmmaking left many evaluating queer cinema’s current state, even mourning the supposed end of New Queer Cinema. In this paper, I argue that queer filmmaking is not void of revolutionary potential; it is more that the driving force behind these films has changed. Instead of acting in opposition to a conservative government that failed to respond to the AIDS crisis, current queer work resists the normalizing effects of today’s neoliberal government. A cycle study of recent queer films reveals this driving revolutionary force.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:3419

Title: Not the Country of My Heart : Alumni Memories of Grinnell College, Alumni Memories of Grinnell College
Description: Alumni memories of Grinnell College reveal the importance of social spaces and the centrality of the people at Grinnell to creating a sense of place.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3420

Title: Noyce Commons: relevance of layout, amenities, and space designation to college students
Description: A study of the effect that the layout of a room has on student study preferences in the Noyce Science Center.
Date Created: 2009
PID: grinnell:3421

Title: Public Discourse and Social Tolerance: New Ideas for Russian Society, New ideas for Russian society
Description: While we, as citizens of the world, are better off in a less belligerent international environment, the population of the former Soviet Union is now suffering through a difficult period of social, economic and political upheaval.
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:111

Title: Zionism, Liberalism, and Young American Jews: How Redefining the American Zionist Could Help Bring Peace to the Middle East, How Redefining the American Zionist Could Help Bring Peace to the Middle East
Description: This paper seeks to explain the trend of the alienation of younger American Jews from the Jewish state.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:112