Jennifer Raby, Metropolitan State University of Denver
This qualitative study focuses on employing variables that represent the four adaptations of differential oppression theory in order to test the hypothesis that adolescent truancy is not only the cause of serious issues like dropping out of school and juvenile delinquency, but also a reaction to systemic repression and subjugation.
Kelly Young, Emerson College
My paper exposes the link between the intense starvation implemented by the Nazi regime in concentration camps during the Holocaust and the psychological state of the victims of the camp system. In this essay I specifically explore the deteriorative and dehumanizing effects that starvation played on the mind of the camp prisoner.
Allison Huber, Bloomsburg University
During the French Revolution, the demise of the Old Regime's social-legal system eliminated the privileges of the elite and changed their lives drastically. In the first two phases of the Revolution, the nobility transformed from privileged to social outcasts targeted for counterrevolution. After a study of the subjective experiences of the aristocracy, in the form of their diaries, journals, letters, and memoirs, we can understand how they viewed and reacted to this transformation. This analysis of the reactions of the nobility contributes to the historiography on the fate of the elites from 1789-1794 and helps us understand their actions in the Third or Thermidorian Phase of the Revolution.
