http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/194/tori-e-godfree 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 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:13:22 -0400 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:13:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/247/vampires-the-ever-changing-face-of-fear By Tori E. Godfree - In the past two-hundred or so years, vampires have transformed from a sort of worst nightmare into the charming hero of our dreams. Flashback to 1734, Oxford English Dictionary’s first record of the word vampire: they were generally and, depending on geographical location, inconsistently thought to be red-faced, fat on blood, furry of foot, and may or may not have possessed more than one nostril. Fast-forward to present: their impossibly pale, perfectly sculpted faces and delicate fangs adorn best-selling book covers and box-office hit movie posters. This is quite the makeover, and these... Fri, 07 May 2010 07:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/247/vampires-the-ever-changing-face-of-fear http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/240/anti-rhetoric-in-alanis-morissettes-mary-jane By Tori E. Godfree - Rhetoric is commonly regarded as the art of persuasion. To take it a step further, Gerard A. Hauser states that rhetoric is “An instrumental use of language. One person engages another person in an exchange of symbols to accomplish some goal. Rhetoric is communication that attempts to coordinate social action. Its goal is to influence human choices on specific matters that require immediate attention”. Following the logic of Hauser’s description of rhetoric as meant to persuade another person to action, any artifact that persuades another person not to action, but to inaction... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/240/anti-rhetoric-in-alanis-morissettes-mary-jane http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/238/food-and-dining-in-jhumpa-lahiris-interpreter-of-maladies By Tori E. Godfree - In “A Temporary Matter,” Shoba and Shukumar have grown estranged from one another, despite being married and living together.  They no longer eat meals together or cook together, until they receive a notice that repair workers will cut their power for an hour every night, which forces them to eat together by candlelight: “Tonight, with no lights, they would have to eat together.  For months now they’d served themselves from the stove, and he’d taken his plate into his study, letting the meal grow cold on his desk before shoving it into his mouth without... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:50 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/238/food-and-dining-in-jhumpa-lahiris-interpreter-of-maladies http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/236/baz-luhrmanns-romeo-juliet-compared-with-shakespeares-original-work By Tori E. Godfree - Curiously enough, the corresponding scene from the film shows instead Benvolio and the “Montague boys” cruising along the freeway in a bright yellow convertible, laughing raucously, with one of them turning around to face the camera and yelling: “A dog of the house of Capulet moves me!”  They pull up to a gas station, Benvolio goes inside, and immediately afterward arrive Tybalt and the “Capulet boys,” Abraham (here abbreviated to Abra) and another.  Tybalt goes inside, but Abra remains next to the car, sees the Montague boys, and faces them with an... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:43 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/236/baz-luhrmanns-romeo-juliet-compared-with-shakespeares-original-work http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/234/epideictic-oratory-in-ayn-rands-the-fountainhead By Tori E. Godfree - “I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need” (Rand 684). So states Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand’s classic novel, The Fountainhead. His speech is given in a courtroom, in place of his defense against the act of which he has been accused. Roark’s speech aligns closely with the tenets of epideictic oratory, despite being held in a courtroom where one might expect a more forensic style of defense. Howard Roark’s speech in The Fountainhead... Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:01 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/234/epideictic-oratory-in-ayn-rands-the-fountainhead http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/227/a-generation-of-men-raised-by-women-gender-constructs-in-fight-club By Tori E. Godfree - Marc Antony of Rome stabbed himself to death after hearing rumors that his lover, Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, had committed suicide; she, after receiving news of his death, induced a poisonous snake to bite and kill her. Queen Victoria’s reign over England was highly influenced by her husband Prince Albert, and she went into mourning for 40 years after his death. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, famous criminals during the American Depression, repeatedly faced a threat of violent death during their spree of robberies, and eventually were killed together as a result of their crimes. John Lennon... Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:17 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/227/a-generation-of-men-raised-by-women-gender-constructs-in-fight-club http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/225/high-fidelity-comparing-novel-and-film By Tori E. Godfree - Since soon after the invention of sound films, directors have been turning popular—and sometimes not so popular—books into motion pictures.  Many a critique, either positive or negative, has been written about the editorializing done and the amount of creative license taken during the transition of these stories from print to the big-screen.  Certainly audience members will argue as to the quality of one of these forms versus the other, or whether there might be a better actor for some role than the particular one chosen by the Hollywood powers that be, or if the soundtrack... Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:30 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/225/high-fidelity-comparing-novel-and-film