Verge 5 (2008-2009)

Auni Husted, “Street Baptism, Machismo and Inner-City Street Culture:
Purity and Danger among Contemporary Chicano Gangs in Los Angeles”

Holly Roland, “The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital: A Moral Architecture“

Lucie Ferguson, “The Customer Commodity: An Analysis of Power Relations Between Companies and Consumers“

Courtney Conklin, “Industrial Agribusiness: Economic Solution or Environmental Disaster?“

Emily Blatter, “Chant Down Babylon: the Rastafarian Movement and Its Theodicy for the Suffering“

Vanessa Keen, “Havin’ Fun With Supersize Stereotypes: McDonald’s Online Marketing Campaign“

Chelsea Shields, “A Public Affair: The Politics and Perspectives of Homosexual Identity throughout Early Modern and Modern Dutch Society“

Daniel Barker, “Hamilton’s Principle and Lagrangian Mechanics“

Kevin Cournoyer, Veronica Kemeny, and Allie Lipson, “The Implications and Repercussions of Parental Divorce on College Students and their Recent, Current and Future Romantic Relationships Goucher College“

Christina Belter, “The Modern Musical:
Recent trends and the narrowing gap between Broadway and the West End“

Margaret Samuels,“The Production of Si from SiO2 via the Ball-Milling Technique“

The Development of Community and Resistance Through Traditional Music Culture

“Perhaps the most relevant to Lorde’s ideas of the erotic and joy, Ehrenreich states, “The joy of the rhythmic activity would have helped overcome the fear of confronting predators and other threats” (Ehrenreich, 26). This is critical to understanding the importance of music and dance in protest. Synchronised singing, dancing, and stomping, galvanises the people, keeps the fear at bay while also intimidating the oppressor in a raucous show of force from a crowd. The act of singing and dancing is a human behaviour so instinctual it has lasted from the primitive human to today, utilizing what Lorde would describe as the erotic, to build and defend a community.”

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