Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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Despite historical significance, minimal research has expanded upon initial findings on sundown towns, particularly as they relate to contemporary economic opportunity. While previous literature has examined economic indicators in former sundown towns within the Midwest, the level of opportunity for those born into these places has yet to be explored. In comparison to the county and locality scales used in previous analysis, emerging literature suggests that factors contributing to opportunity take place at the hyper-local level. Building upon this, this analysis explores the economic mobility of low-income children born into former sundown towns at the Census tract level, in addition to expanding the scope of analysis across the contiguous United States. Findings suggest that while former sundown towns are positively correlated with upward mobility for White and Hispanic children, they provide no unique benefits for Black children born into them. These results are in line with previous findings, furthering ideas of historic race-based processes contributing to contemporary exclusions of opportunity.
Since the genre's inception more than half a century ago, metal music has maintained its place as a major music genre and culture across the globe. With hundreds of thousands of bands spread across every continent, the genre has become a diverse canvas of continually changing translocal scenes. Serious scholarship covering metal music has been propagating across academic fields since the 90s with a wide variety of approaches, but quantitative studies of the genre almost always depict metal as a monolith; a singular uniform entity without internal variation. This research aims to illustrate how quantitative analysis of metal can accurately reflect the genre’s major content variations, first by constructing a dataset of the Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archive that reflects major subgenre and lyrical themes within metal, and then applying said dataset to understand how metals content shifts both between major subgenres and across geographic space.