2009 Senior Honors Projects

University Scholars’ senior honors projects represent advanced work in their individual majors and engage in reflections on their faith and learning. These are the projects of the 2009 University Scholars.

Daniel W. Armerding — An Artistic Manifesto for Technical Theatre: Ruminations on Tech Directing “See Rock City”

Keegan Blackler — The Inner Workings of an Interesting Boy: A Miniscule Short Fiction Collection

Mackenzie Brister — A “Greener” Seattle Pacific

Noel Brown — Depression Among Biracial Adolescents: Risk Factors and Suggestions for Positive Change

Christopher Robin Takashi Caldwell — “Different Qualities of Light, Different Songs”: The Mystery of Individuality in Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Britt Carlson — Affectionate Companions: Sarah and Jonathan Edwards

Andrew Carson — Prudent Justice: A Theoretical Argument Against the Death Penalty

Christie Emiko Chinaka — Holistic Education: A Biblical Notion

Travis Drake — Rhetorical Nuance: Machiavelli

Elise Eccles — Within Reach: An Ideal Prosthetic Arm

Christye Laurel Estes — What Will Suffice

Chris Hardy — Providing Bounds for Maximum and Minimum Degree Growth Properties of Iterated Line Graphs

Andrew Huskamp — Teaching Hope: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Jillian Kaori Igarashi — To the American Sleepless

Katelyn Knutson — For the Beauty of the Study: A Comparative Look at Galenic Influence in Medicine

Amber Lundgren — Dance of the Op Amp

May Marston — The Beauty of Art: A Look at Gothic, Renaissance, and Modern Notions of Beauty

Michelle MayesCaminos Dividios: How the War in El Salvador Affected the Church

Alex R. McCrum — A Stasis and the Seven Sisters, or Thucydides: In Space

Joshua Miles — Shifting Mosques and Fractured Cities: Complicating Spatial Narratives of identity in the Fragmented Spaces of Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book

Taylor Morris — “Exactly What You Would Have Expected”: Humor and Social Superiority in Flannery O’Connor

Lauren Pattie — The Tears I will Not Shed: A Return to Malory’s Morte D’Arthur

Kelsey Rote — Time and Companionship: How Female Escorts Manage Identity, Relationships, and Stigma

Andrew Smith — Chesterton the Philosopher: A Survey

Eva Sztajno — The Fall of Democracy: The Transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich as Seen Through the German Press

David Van Hofwegen — The Moral Questions of Humanitarian Intervention

Benjamin Daniel Walker — Properties of Baseball Bats: Influences on Performance and Historical Correlations

Zachary Ward — Developing an Objective Impact Assessment for Health Care in Africa

Melissa WarrenThe Life Letter: An Original Play

Caitlin Wasley — The Search for the Heart of God: Parallels in Sufi Islam and Christianity