http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/183/cassandra-a-clarke Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:30:40 -0400 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:30:40 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/228/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-as-the-inverted-plautine-comedy By Cassandra A. Clarke - Even though this plot-line is common to Plautus work, he did not find fame as its originator, but as the inventive stage-adaptor who was able to “transform [it, or] New Greek Comedy” into “accessible forms of entertainment, for, and to please his audience” (Beacham, 32). In today’s time, the best example of a modern adaptation of Plautine comedy is the outlandish live performance of  The Rocky Horror Picture Show, since it not only parodies the same comical structure, but through its ad-libbing and shadowing of actors on-screen, also maintains the same Plautine... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:59 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/228/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-as-the-inverted-plautine-comedy http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/217/mind-sweet-mind-a-closer-look-at-salman-rushdies-invisible-homeland-in-east-west By Cassandra A. Clarke - Every person has a birthplace, a starting point that offers a sense of identity for an individual. Through this start, this receding to the roots mentality, one examines their present in terms of their constructed past. Salman Rushdie touches upon this concept of past to present comparison within his vignette “The Courter,” in his novel East, West. Throughout “The Courter,” there is an everlasting push and pull of “worlds in transition,” between the Indian character Mary and her family, as they attempt to adapt culturally to England (Bahris, 13). However, since... Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:04 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/217/mind-sweet-mind-a-closer-look-at-salman-rushdies-invisible-homeland-in-east-west http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/215/love-in-the-time-of-pollution-a-look-at-eco-feminism-roots-in-disneys-wall-e By Cassandra A. Clarke - Despite critics’ assumption that WALL-E centers its plot upon an anti-pollution/sustainability theme, the writer Andrew Stanton never intended his movie to contain an environmental message. Instead, what he intended to do was create a movie that epitomizes the importance of human relations to the natural world. “What’s really important,” he says, “is relationships, everything else, the planet, benefits from that.” Set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, it ironically takes the love of two robots to reintroduce humans to the power of humane connections. Through observing... Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:55 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/215/love-in-the-time-of-pollution-a-look-at-eco-feminism-roots-in-disneys-wall-e