Momentum
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Momentum is the undergraduate research journal of the Science, Technology and Society (STSC) program at the University of Pennsylvania. Initiated in the spring semester of 2012, the journal seeks to showcase the wide variety of work done both by students in the STSC major and minor and by other students throughout the university whose work is related to our program. See the Aims and Scope page for a complete coverage of the journal: https://repository.upenn.edu/momentum/aimsandscope.html
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Publication Modern Architecture & Ideology: Modernism as a Political Tool in Sweden and the Soviet Union(2018-04-19) Levine, RobertThis paper examines the role of architecture in the promotion of political ideologies through the study of modern architecture in the 20th century. First, it historicizes the development of modern architecture and establishes the style as a tool to convey progressive thought; following this perspective, the paper examines Swedish Functionalism and Constructivism in the Soviet Union as two case studies exploring how politicians react to modern architecture and the ideas that it promotes. In Sweden, Modernism’s ideals of moving past “tradition,” embracing modernity, and striving to improve life were in lock step with the folkhemmet, unleashing the nation from its past and ushering it into the future. In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, these ideals represented an ideological threat to Stalin’s totalitarian state.Publication US Army Field Jacket Development in Response to Material Shortages and the Exigencies of World War II(2012-04-18) Hwang, TiffanyHwang explores how the combined power urgency and material shortages forced the US Army into a specific pattern of uniform design and development during World War II.Publication The Rape of Nanking vs. the incident of Nanking: a Literature Review(2012-04-18) Man, Chi-WeiThe Nanking Massacre has become deeply ingrained in the cultural history of both the Chinese and the Japanese; however it has taken on two perhaps contradictory narratives in each of those communities.Publication Humanism and the Art of Medicine(2012-12-07) Lewis, DanielDaniel Lewis explores the importance of humanistic values to modern physiciansPublication Nor Any Drop to Drink: A Systems Approach to Water in America(2012-04-18) Gerstein, HilaryThe water crisis has been a “hot topic” in recent years. By synthesizing some of the existing literature on this subject, this thesis aims to encourage Americans, particularly those people less familiar with the topic, to start thinking about water issues in a new way, specifically by thinking in systems. Drawing from Donella Meadows, Thomas Hughes and concepts such as complex adaptive systems, it frames the problems with bottled water, and the drinking water distribution system, more generally, in a particular way. More specifically, this paper analyzes the water distribution system by breaking it into two main parts––the municipal water supply and the bottled water industry––and also analyzes these components as a whole system. In addition, the paper highlights health, safety, environmental and social justice issues surrounding the nation’s failing water system. Because the water system crisis can be interpreted as a symptom of larger problems faced by society, thinking in systems for this particular case is a meaningful exercise applicable to understanding other sustainability issues.Publication Outlaws, Bandits, Hackers(2012-04-18) Silcox, CalderTechnological imperatives may once have forced the first hackers to shift their schedule to the night, but eventually the hacker subculture became inextricably linked to the night and to the outcast and outlaw imagery associated with it.Publication A Missed Opportunity? Assessing the Likely Effectiveness of an Allied Bombing Raid on Auschwitz(2012-04-18) Roth, JonathanWhat if the Allies had pursued the bombing of the extermination camps at Auschwitz? Could the Allies have put together an effective bombing campaign that would have saved a significant number of lives at the death camps?Publication The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Mines, Arts, and Manufactures in Context(2012-04-18) Kearney, William SThis paper argues that even though it was short-lived compared to its contemporary engineering schools, the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Mines was an integral part of the changing energy landscape of 19th-century Pennsylvania. In addition to walking the reader through the history of Penn's Department of Mines, the paper explains how the value of science lies not in the lone pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake, but in its application to problems of economic importance, ultimately advocating the importance of the dissemination of knowledge.Publication Media Review: The Matrix(2012-04-18) Sellers-Saidi, TerrenceThis paper analyzes the film The Matrix from the perspective of hackers and describes how the film has influenced culture. The film itself analyzes technology and predicts how it may change in the future.Publication Letter From The Editor(2018-04-19) Fingerhood, Minna B