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Spring 2000 Honors Journal


Table of Contents


Letter from the Director

The Fletchers: First Family of Sweet Briar Plantation
Honors Summer Research Fellowship

by Julissa Yabar

Trash or Treasure?
Honors Summer Research Fellowship
by Emily Poore

On The Road Again: The Female American Road Trip
Honors Summer Research Fellowship
by Elissa Pugh 

Economics and Resources
Honors Summer Research Fellowship
by Dawn Martin   

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged : An Ideological Examination
Honors Summer Research Fellowship
by Andrea Sharretts

High School Socialization Practices and the Social Relations of Production: A Partial Replication of mid-1970’s Research
Honors Summer Research Fellowship
by Danielle Schofield

Synthesis, Purification, and Cell Culture Experiments with Anti-myc Antisense Oligonucleotides
Senior Honors Thesis
by Brandi Whitley

Metal Ions in DNA Cruciforms: the effect of Zn2 on linear and supercoiled AGCT sequences
Summer Research Project
by Noelle Dwarzski

On the Concept of the One: an Analysis of Plotinus and Giordano Bruno
by Caroline Stark

Italian Opera, Verdi, and Rigoletto: A General Overview 
by Sophie Wackenhut

The Ladies’ Paradise: Selling Women, Power…and Lace
by Beth Schelle

The Relationship of Shreve  to Quentin in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
by Monica Signoretti

The Importance of Organization in the Art of Dance
by Gregor Lee

Women in Slavery and the Fight for Social Freedoms
by Sophie Wackenhut

Reflections
by Alicia Roddy

The papers in the Honors Journal reflect the research and writing efforts of undergraduate students at the time the papers were submitted to the journal. Web links within the papers were active at the time of publication, but they are not updated.





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