http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/28/alicia-d-costello 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 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:34:27 -0400 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:34:27 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/313/faulkners-absalom-absalom-and-the-mysterious-rosa-coldfield By Alicia D. Costello - William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi, and promptly begins building himself an empire. He builds a plantation named Stupen’s Hundred, takes a wife, Ellen Coldfield, and has two children, Judith and Henry. Ellen’s much younger sister, Rosa, comes to live at Stupen’s Hundred after Rosa’s only guardian, her father, nails himself in the attic and throws the hammer out the window in protest of the Civil War. Despite attempting to fulfill Ellen’s deathbed wish to look after... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:03 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/313/faulkners-absalom-absalom-and-the-mysterious-rosa-coldfield http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/259/rhetorical-analysis-pauline-inklings-in-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde By Alicia D. Costello - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson proves to be an enduring literary illumination into the human psyche. This little novella, published as a Christmas story in 1886, took some of the first steps into early Modernism and provided the basis for stories that more deeply dive into human psyche like Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was one of the first books to explore the duality of good and evil in everyday people, a strong step away from the mono-polarization of morality present in... Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:19 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/259/rhetorical-analysis-pauline-inklings-in-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/69/examining-mythology-in-the-chronicles-of-narnia-by-cs-lewis By Alicia D. Costello - The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world.  Stories told to children as they prepare for bed act also as vehicles for transportation of imagination, and when the book opens, a journey begins.  When C.S. Lewis wrote his seven-part series for children, The Chronicles of Narnia, he realized that not only the children in on Earth going to read the stories, but children in future generations of Narnia will also enjoy the stories as they pass down.  Therefore, for both group’s enjoyment, Lewis... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:37 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/69/examining-mythology-in-the-chronicles-of-narnia-by-cs-lewis http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/42/predicting-hurricanes-the-whirlwind-of-controversy-surrounding-hurricane-alicia By Alicia D. Costello - Hurricane Alicia struck the area on the early morning of August 18, around 2AM.  Alicia is significant in her own right due to strength, destruction, and impact, but to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s division called the National Weather Service, and their division of the National Hurricane Center, Alicia was a chance to test out their new landfall prediction system. The landfall prediction system, which was decades in the making but got its start with Alicia, significantly saved lives and the benefits of testing it during this Texas storm has made it possible... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:10 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/42/predicting-hurricanes-the-whirlwind-of-controversy-surrounding-hurricane-alicia