Verge 8 (2011-2012)

Jeff McLeod, Is Ball Milling An Innovative Technique For the Production of Zn From ZnO?

Tina Dudley, Abby Becker, and Renée Gulino, The Future of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the International Law of Occupation: The Co-Application of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law

Tabitha Amendolara, Soil Microorganisms and Global Climate Change

Passley Hargrove, Prions: The Protein of Your Nightmares

Lisa Charron and Megan Simon, Resonance and Readability: An Examination of Personal Style and Voice at Goucher College

Sarah Ropp, How to Live With a Host Family and How to Survive in the Jungle: A Bilingual Glossary and Guide

David E. Ford, Jr., Ambivalent Freedom in Byron’s Mazeppa

Yan Zhuang, Saving Face: An Analysis of Chinese Nationalism

Morgan Skordian, Line Drawing

Chris George, Ethnic Cleansing and Stalinism: The Holodomor and Deportation Policies as Attempts to Russify the Soviet Union

Debra Bellamy, Rugged Arms and Rosy Cheeks: The Working Women of World War II

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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