Bea Marchesani—Spring 2026
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The ultimate goal of my Humanities Portfolio is to define justice. The definition that I have settled upon has a visual/graphical component. For my nontextual Something New, I have portrayed … Continue readingThe Shape of Justice
A political dog whistle is “a coded message for a target group and no one else” (Allen). Politicians use dog whistles to covertly express support for controversial values. This rhetorical … Continue readingThe Dog Whistle
Mirrors and Shadows in Pavement Dance is a powerful tool for shaping our cultural values as well as reflecting them. In Pavement (2012), Kyle Abraham makes use of reflection to … Continue readingPerformance 1
US-China Relations and Absence The American narrative of China as the enemy makes peaceful competition seem outrageous to millions in the US. Is competition possible without an end goal of … Continue readingUS–China Relations
Introduction Paulina’s Theme Gerardo’s Theme Context Ariel Dorfman’s 1990 play Death and the Maiden asks who gets to define justice. The setting is “a country that is probably Chile but … Continue readingDeath and the Maiden
Mamdani: Contextualizing Nuremberg After the German surrender in World War II, the Allied powers conducted the Nuremberg Trials, a new global standard of justice disguised as a series of court … Continue readingHistorical Article 1
Indifference in Inferno, Sin of…? To this day, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is responsible for much of the popular mythology surrounding the Christian afterlife. When Alighieri’s two main travelers cross … Continue readingPoem
John Locke, Peter Singer, and the Oxygen Mask Rule In Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, he asserts that “Every one…when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as … Continue readingPhilosophical Article
Democracy Moving, Disappearance, and the Fluidity of History In Democracy Moving, Ariel Nereson explores dance’s ability to function as both history and historiography. She does this by analyzing three dance … Continue readingScholarly Article 1
Background Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted these frescoes on a commission in Siena, around the late 1330s. The illustrations adorn the Sala della Pace in the Palazzo Pubblico, where the Nine would … Continue readingThe Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government
