Papers Presented by East Los Angeles College Honors Program Students
The Twelth Annual (HTCC) Honors Research Conference
University of California at Irvine
March 31, 2012
Art History (Art 101) Faculty Moderator: Surana Singh-Bischofberger
Prehistoric and Ancient Visual Culture: From Willendorf to Rome—Group 1: Carol De Paz, Vanessa Kao, Edber Macedo, Lina Mora, Jenny Tran; Group 2: Danny Fu, Edith Nuno, Zhihao Zhang, Mason Zheng (a two-part group presentation)
Biology (Biology 3) Faculty Moderator: Nohelia Canales
Food Desert: Not Just A Mirage—Shawn Trabanino
Mislabeling and False Advertisement: Impact on Individual Food Choice and Health—
Felicia Ballesteros
Ronald McDonald: The New American Psycho—Mike Sanchez
English (English 102 and 103) Faculty Moderator: Joan Gurfield
The Confessional Poet: An Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s Life and Its Effect on Her Work—
Kelly Kwan
Why Women Do Not Study Computer Science or “I wouldn’t like to work in a man
cave”—Fernando Isaac Jaime
William Shakespeare, the Fraud?—Robert Penna
Philosophy (Philosophy 14) Faculty Moderator: Timothy Snead
Spinoza Strives for Science: The Essence and Effects of Spinoza’s Deterministic
Monism—Juan Rodarte
Psychology (Psychology 2) Faculty Moderator: Dr. Cathy Cleveland
Abnormal Sexual Behavior in Pedophiles: Do brain differences in the hypothalamus and
amygdala contribute to their disordered behavior and difficulty in treatment
techniques? (poster presentation)—Jose Luna (winner of 1st prize in poster
competition in Science category)
The Biological Understanding of Language by Means of Examining the Brain’s
Structure and Activities Affected by Asperger’s Syndrome and Schizophrenia—
Uriel Mendoza
How Chronic Alcohol Abuse Destroys the Mammillary Bodies in Korsakoff’s Syndrome:
The Role of Prefrontal Cortex Damage in Amnesia, a Disorder of Long-Term
Memory—Jamie Hoi Tung Yeung
Understanding the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Temporal and Frontal Lobe Epilepsy-
Elizabeth Higareda
Sociology (Sociology 11) Faculty Moderator: Dr. Rin Kahla
Homosexuality Within the Latino and Black Communities: The Importance of Religion,
Culture, and White Oppression—Jose Luna
Language Death: Ripping Off the Identity Masks Away from Cultures—Vanessa
Gonzalez-Hernandez
Racially Restricted Covenants and Gentrification: Ways of Creating Racial and Social
Communities—Marlena Houston Martin and Juan Rodarte
Sexual Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples: Jeopardizing Their Safety and
Identity--Ruby Hernandez
Unassimilated Immigrants in America: How Assimilation Can Benefit the Immigrant—
Marianna Garcia