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    Recovering Democracy Archives Project
    (2024) Solomon, Seble; Parry-Giles, Shawn
    In my Rhetoric of Black America course (COMM360), I recovered a speech from 1857 delivered by Frances Harper from the Library of Congress archives. I authenticated the speech by comparing different versions and noting any discrepancies or necessary corrections. I also wrote a contextual analysis of the speech, discussing Harper’s biography, educational background, the occasion of the speech, and its impact. After the course concluded, I collaborated with Dr. Shawn Parry-Giles, as part of an independent study (COMM489), to further revise my contextualization paper and prepare for publication on the Recovering Democracy Archives website. I conducted additional archival research about Frances Harper, U.S. social movements from1830 to 1890, and the development and evolution of moral suasion as a method of liberation.
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    Comparing Yemen to Cold War Proxy Wars
    (2020-02-15) Riazi, Leila; McWeeney, Margaret "Peggy"; Government and Politics
    This paper examines whether or not the current conflict in Yemen can be considered a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This classification would have significant policy implications for the United States and coalition forces. In order to assess this, I compared the Yemeni war to proxy wars during the Cold War. Specifically, I used the Vietnam War and the Korean War. In order to make the comparison uniform I assessed each conflict based on three premises of proxy wars; the alignment of interests between proxies and benefactors, the ability for benefactors to downplay or hide their involvement, and that the involvement of the benefactor increases the chance of success for the proxies. Using these criteria I assessed that the current civil war in Yemen is a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the same way that the Vietnam and Korean wars were proxy wars between the United States and the Soviet Union.