Afficio
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28165
2024-03-29T15:34:47ZThe enslavement of the muse in the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28281
The enslavement of the muse in the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Winner, Humanities
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZScarring the landscape: the 1827 Halifax smallpox epidemic
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28280
Scarring the landscape: the 1827 Halifax smallpox epidemic
Winner, Social Science (Lower Undergraduate)
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZIntegrating Indigenous knowledge into environmental management in Nova Scotia
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28279
Integrating Indigenous knowledge into environmental management in Nova Scotia
This literature review outlines the integration of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) into environmental management in Nova Scotia. While current Western environmental management practices are steeped in history, Western science, and anthropocentric perspectives toward nature, Indigenous ecological worldviews may provide an alternative method of managing the natural world, while also including First Nations in environmental decision-making. The potential benefits of IK have been recognized by policy-makers and included in large-scale local and global policy, such as the UN Convention on Biological Diversity—an international Treaty with 168 signatories (Convention on Biological Diversity, n.d., n.p.; Turner, Ignace, & Ignace, 2000, p. 1275). Even so, there are challenges in merging two modes of thinking about the environment, including stereotypes and communication barriers. However, Nova Scotia has made great strides toward the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives, and Mi’kmaq perspectives specifically, through the creation of First Nations-governed environmental organizations such as the Unamak’ki Institute of Natural Resources and the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat, both of which have strong ties to the federal government (McGregor, 2016, p. 46-48; McMillan & Prosper, 2016, p. 640; UINR, 2016c, para. 3). Nevertheless, Indigenous involvement must continue to increase within the context of environmental problem-solving in Nova Scotia, especially regarding the status of eels, which may be dealt with through proposed amendments to the Fisheries Act (Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2018, para. 4; Giles, Fanning, Denny, & Paul, 2016, 167-183; Species at Risk Public Registry, 2013, n.p.).
Overall Winner, Winner, Science (Upper Undergraduate)
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZSource expertise as a factor of social influence
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28209
Source expertise as a factor of social influence
The growth of social media and screen-to-screen interaction has prompted investigation into how social influence can persuade decision-makers without face-to-face interaction. Our research explores whether the reputation (Expert, Novice, or Neutral) of a fake, anonymous peer can change an individual’s (1) judgment conformity, (2) decision confidence, or (3) trust in that peer. Eighty-eight university students answered 10 trivia questions, giving numerical estimations before and after viewing a fake peer’s response. Participants rated their confidence in each estimate, and rated their trust towards the source after each question. Results found that (1) participants exposed to an Expert’s opinion improve judgment accuracy through assimilation, but those influenced by a Novice worsen accuracy through reactance; (2) decision confidence ratings increase in all groups; (3) trust towards the Expert is significantly higher than towards both the Novice and Neutral peers. Associations are also explored between these three outcomes and the participants’ personality traits and cultural orientations.
Winner, Upper Level Best Overall Undergraduate Paper, Social Sciences
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZFood wars: impacts of gender on the Japanese kitchen
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28208
Food wars: impacts of gender on the Japanese kitchen
Winner, Humanities
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZContradictions of capital and care in Ibsen's A Doll's House
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28207
Contradictions of capital and care in Ibsen's A Doll's House
Winner, Early Undergraduate Humanities
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Bard’s witness: the Welsh and early modern English national consciousness
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28206
The Bard’s witness: the Welsh and early modern English national consciousness
Several of Shakespeare’s plays reveal the complexities of early modern national selfhood, one that demonstrated not only a clear pride in Englishness but also a delineation between English and Other, an indication that membership in the national affiliation set a person apart from outsiders, but also an idea that there was something intangible yet salient about the national community—an English quality that came from the land itself. Yet while the dramatist’s texts reveal an apparent celebration of English superiority, that ideal often lacks conviction, implying a national absence that suggests a national insecurity. Shakespeare’s work, though fictional, provides insight into contemporary discourse regarding the early modern English notion of nationhood as the playwright understood it, revealing patterns that prove indicative of underlying currents of popular thought. While other nationalities appear in Shakespeare’s canon, this paper seeks to uncover the dimensions of early modern English national consciousness and the place of the Welsh within that English national paradigm, using the following plays as primary source material: Richard II, Henry IV - Part 1, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Cymbeline. The following recurring themes confirm the existence of a complex early modern consciousness whose relationship with the Welsh defined the meaning of Englishness in the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. First, a sense exists that the glory that comprised Englishness came from the land itself. Second, Shakespeare’s plays suggest that the Welsh could join the English national community, if they first assimilated to the English cultural norm. Furthermore, the normative centre suggests a vision of civility, compassion, and moderation while censuring crass elements in the English population. Finally, there is a sense of English cultural superiority tempered by an insecurity that led to the appropriation of the ancient Celtic (i.e., Welsh) past. Shakespeare’s portrayal of the Welsh suggests that the early modern English welcomed them as closely-related brethren so long as the former adhered to and supported national ideals and objectives.
Winner, Humanities
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZProstitution: a reflective analysis
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28205
Prostitution: a reflective analysis
Winner, Early Undergraduate Humanities
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZMemorandum
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28204
Memorandum
Winner, Best Overall Undergraduate Paper, Business
2016-01-01T00:00:00ZBeyond primary victims: child victims of terrorism, and the role of terrorism media
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/28203
Beyond primary victims: child victims of terrorism, and the role of terrorism media
Winner, Social Sciences
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z