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Goddess in the Sheets, Prostitute in the Streets: Examining Public & Private Divisions of Gender in Mesopotamian Cities (11/17/20)
This paper explores the spatial expression of the female gender in early Mesopotamian cities from c. 2334-1595 B.C.E. Gender in Mesopotamia... Go to Article »

Ergodic Textuality in Egan and Ozeki: The Rhetorical Dialogism of Time Being (09/08/20)
Human beings decided that time is linear. We continually assert that is made up of the past, present, and future, proceeding infinitely... Go to Article »

Comparing Godly and Satanic Happiness in John Milton's Paradise Lost (08/21/16)
Two conflicting modes of living—happiness pursued obediently (Godly) versus happiness pursued disobediently (Satanic)—... Go to Article »

Debating the Existence of God: God Exists (03/26/14)
The debate between science and religion over the existence of a higher power often leads to little more than a shouting match. We... Go to Article »

God as Creator in Patience: A Re-Examination of Cotton Nero A.x. (08/11/13)
Patience, the third poem in Cotton Nero A.x., tells the story of the Old Testament prophet Jonah, placing the narrative within the... Go to Article »

Taweret: An Untraditional Egyptian Goddess (08/01/11)
The Ancient Egyptian goddess Taweret, ‘the Great One’, is depicted by scholars and in ancient Egypt as being the protective... Go to Article »

The Relationship Between Gods and Humans in Aias and the Poetry of Sapphos (02/09/11)
Reading Greek plays provides valuable insight into the relationships between gods and humans. While both gods and humans have fairly... Go to Article »

Sexuality, Religion, and Science As Seen Through "Twilight of the Gods" (02/16/10)
Within the first ten minutes of Twilight of the Golds, it is clear that both Judaism and homosexuality play a role in the Gold family... Go to Article »

Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for Godot" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (11/05/09)
Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational,... Go to Article »

The Perennial Perversion: Idolatrous Self-Worship in Brave New World (02/21/23)
This literary analysis compares the spiritual landscape of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World against his nonfiction work, The... Go to Article »

Unity in Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt: Creating Reality in the Insensitive and Inaccessible (09/22/22)
Woolfian Scholars regularly denote the moments where Woolf’s characters feel inexplicably connected and inseparable from one... Go to Article »

The Relationship Between Gender and Trauma in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (09/19/22)
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt is a novel that explores the conditions of grief and escalating lengths characters will go to... Go to Article »

Look Me in the Eyes: Witkacy's 'Portrait Gaze' as a Critique and Anticipation of Culture Industry (05/06/22)
This paper analyzes the construction of ‘portrait gaze’ as a visual device that orients, manipulates, and challenges the... Go to Article »

Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome: A New Kind of Depression? (04/15/22)
Marion Godman makes the argument that Pathological Withdrawal Syndrome (PWS) makes the case for psychiatric disorders as a natural... Go to Article »

The Past is Female: Exploring the Socio-Sexual Liberation of Historical Women in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife (04/15/22)
British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife presents a fresh outlook on myths and fairy tales, by retelling... Go to Article »

Love and Imperialism: Reading Whitman's Leaves of Grass Through Edward Carpenter and Maurice Bucke (03/11/22)
This paper explores the complexity of Whitman’s nationalism and, with reference to Leaves of Grass (1856), examines the apparent... Go to Article »

Mobutu and the Collective Congolese Memory: Reconstructing the Past as a Survival Tool (01/06/22)
Despite the focus of scholars on the repressive elements of Mobutu’s Reign, “The rumble in the Jungle,” abacost... Go to Article »

Deconstructing Social Classification and Mobility: The Hindu Varna System, Plato's Magnificent Myth, and the British Caste System (12/10/21)
This research elucidates the striking parallelism between the Hindu Varna System and Plato's Magnificent Myth through an unorthodox... Go to Article »

American Construction, Reconstruction, and Destruction: The Cultural, Historical, and Literary Underpinnings of our Great Divide (12/09/21)
This thesis explores the inherent conflict between liberty and equality—the twin pillars on which the United States and its... Go to Article »

Medusa's Blood: On the Ovidian Assertion of Fame in Cellini's Perseus (11/30/21)
Cast in one piece of bronze in 1554, Benvenuto Cellini'sPerseus with the Head of Medusa representeda monumental feat of artisticvirtuosity... Go to Article »

Propaganda, Patriotism, and Perseverance: How Music Became an Instrument for the US War Effort During the Second World War (11/01/21)
This article analyzes the role of musical works in the United States during World War II. It chronologically examines how the social... Go to Article »

Cancer Epidemiology in Romani-Americans: A Review of the Current Literature (10/14/21)
Romanies are one of history’s most misunderstood ethnic populations. Since medieval times, they have faced slavery, forced assimilation... Go to Article »

Performance of Class in the Socioeconomic Institutions of Early Medieval Ireland (10/08/21)
Early medieval Irish society operated on an elaborate power structure formalized by law, practiced through social interaction, and... Go to Article »

Through Thick and Thin: Understanding Democracy and its Consequences in the United States (09/17/21)
One of the key ways to measure and analyze the performance of such expansive countries such as the United States is to look at their... Go to Article »

Double Lives: A Qualitative Analysis of Identity Navigation in Chicago's South and West Sides (05/11/21)
This paper draws on qualitative interviews to address internal and external identity navigation among gang members and how nonprofits... Go to Article »

16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry (04/05/21)
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity... Go to Article »

The Eumenides, Antigone and the Nature of Objective Justice (03/30/21)
Justice in The Eumenides is established as an objective entity and it is in The Eumenides that it is solidified as a concept which... Go to Article »

Foreignness and Freedom in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (03/16/21)
In recent years, questions of racial, religious, and sexual inequalities across classic literature have left many educators and students... Go to Article »

Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage (03/10/21)
Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new... Go to Article »

The Self-Cognizant Idea and the Methodological Transformation of Hegel, Marx, and Ditlthey's Historiography (03/10/21)
The transformation of the philosophy of history reveals how and why methodological systems change over time. Methodological systems... Go to Article »

Penelope, Helen, and the Ancient Greek Spectrum of Femininity: Observations of Womanhood in the Homeric Epics (02/26/21)
Although most Ancient Greek literature focused on male characters, a literary analysis of Homeric poetry reveals an inquisition of... Go to Article »

Death in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" (02/25/21)
This paper explores Keats’ depiction of death in “Ode to a Nightingale” and “The Eve of St. Agnes.” &... Go to Article »

Sensationalism of Trauma in American Film and Literature (02/19/21)
The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides, as well as Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, utilize the literary and cinematic... Go to Article »

Cultural Misrepresentation of the East in Nicholas Roerich's Art (02/12/21)
Nicholas Roerich was inspired by the mystical concept of “Shambhala”—a utopian expanse of endless truth, knowledge... Go to Article »

The Graphic Novel as Argument: Visual Representation Strategy In Kyle Baker's Nat Turner (02/11/21)
Traditional slave narratives follow a set of conventions that helped abolitionists recognize them as factual and trustworthy stories... Go to Article »

Cross-Cultural Differences in Memory, Beliefs, and Mental Schemas (02/10/21)
Although it is self-evident that one’s memories are often fleeting, a large amount of empirical research has been done within... Go to Article »

Stereotypes in Bollywood Cinema: Does Article 15 Reinforce the Dalit Narrative? (01/26/21)
‘Article 15’, released in 2019 is the first mainstream Bollywood film to focus on caste based atrocities. It depicts several... Go to Article »

Edgar Allan Poe and Race: Analyzing the "Absent Negro" Trope in Gothic Literature (01/22/21)
Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing about a wide variety of controversial topics, such as death, murder, and addiction. However,... Go to Article »

Material Nostalgia in Classical and Early Modern Drama (01/21/21)
The inescapability and influence of the past becomes most discernable with homecoming. A particularly powerful sense of nostalgia... Go to Article »

The Development of the Modern Author in Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Strawberry Hill (01/15/21)
Much contemporary literary criticism has been devoted to Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto; so, too, has much... Go to Article »

The Lingering Influence of Revolutionary Political Discourse From the Civil War and Reconstruction Era (01/08/21)
The Civil War was a seminal moment in the historical development in the United States. The American Revolution may have created the... Go to Article »

Reading Religion in Literature: Toni Morrison, Luisah Teish, and Postsecular Theory (01/04/21)
The postsecular turn of the late 1990’s refers to the emergence of a critical theory which challenges an important modern assumption... Go to Article »

The Brain, Gut and Consciousness: Microbiology of Our Mind (12/29/20)
This paper presents a view that the brain is not the only actor responsible for emergence of our consciousness and that our consciousness... Go to Article »

Courtly Love in Chaucer: Characters as Commentary in "The Franklin's Tale," Troilus and Criseyde, and "Parliament of Fowls" (12/16/20)
Through major works including “The Franklin’s Tale,” Troilus and Criseyde, and “Parliament of Fowls,&rdquo... Go to Article »

The Role of Native American Healing Traditions Within Allopathic Medicine (12/10/20)
Although spirituality has been an essential part of healing for most of mankind, modern medicine is more likely to embrace a mechanistic... Go to Article »

The Subversion of Conventional Charisma in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: Part One (12/04/20)
This paper focuses on the manifestation of an unorthodox charisma in the devil figures of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Johann... Go to Article »

Pain and Power: BDSM as Spiritual Expression (11/28/20)
Western society is becoming increasingly secular as religion disappears from the public sphere. This developing identification has... Go to Article »

A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation (11/24/20)
This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum.... Go to Article »

The Illusion of Empowerment: A Feminist Analysis of Disney's Hercules (11/24/20)
Disney’s Hercules, which features both a strong male lead and a strong female lead, has the potential to appeal to, and therefore... Go to Article »

One Person, Two Names: A Study of Naming Practices in Hong Kong and the Use of English and Chinese Names (11/18/20)
The practice of using an English name is widespread among native Chinese speakers. Especially in Hong Kong many use an English name... Go to Article »

Félix González-Torres's Portrait of Ross: Beyond Form and Content (11/17/20)
Félix González-Torres’s Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) [1991] uses its unconventional medium and presentation... Go to Article »

Has the U.S. Constitution Reached its Expiration Date? A Review and Criticism of the World's Longest Lasting Constitution (11/10/20)
The United States Constitution is the longest lasting written constitution in the world, despite the fact that one of the key framers... Go to Article »

Aquinas, Just-War Theory, and Pandemic Response (11/10/20)
“Just-war theory,” as it is called, aims to guide action during warfare, so that states and individuals can act ethically... Go to Article »

Deconstructing and Renouncing the Conditioned Identities of Gender and Nationality in Modern Society (11/09/20)
This paper investigates the convoluted societal processes to which the individual is exposed from an early age in order to form and... Go to Article »

Construction of "Asian" Identity in Restaurant Menus: A Case Study (10/29/20)
This paper explores the meaning and implications of “Asian” in the context of American restaurant menus. I determine what... Go to Article »

Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland's Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature (10/26/20)
Bogs are one of Ireland’s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog’s... Go to Article »

Flipping the Cultural Script: Papaya Soap and Skin Color Stratification in the Philippines (10/21/20)
Centuries of subjugation under Spanish and American colonial rule have embedded an idealistic view of white beauty in the minds of... Go to Article »

Exploring the Concept of Time Using Metaphor in The Aeneid (10/21/20)
Time has always been an abstract concept in human languages. To better understand how this temporal concept is addressed in different... Go to Article »

Racialized Discourse and Economies of Female Saracen Bodies in The Sultan of Babylon (10/12/20)
The fifteenth-century Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" partakes in the Orientalist literary tradition through the poet... Go to Article »

Redemption and Reconciliation in Oedipus at Colonus and Gran Torino: A Comparative Reading (10/08/20)
This paper presents a comparative analysis of Oedipus at Colonus, a play written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, and Gran... Go to Article »

Poststructuralism and Female Identity in Sylvia Plath's Ariel (09/30/20)
Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves... Go to Article »

James E. Webb and the Grand Strategy of the Moon Landing: A Political, Administrative, and Contextual Analysis (09/28/20)
The man who powered NASA through the Apollo Era had no background in science or engineering. Rather, NASA achieved one of history&... Go to Article »

The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in William Shakespeare's Richard II (09/28/20)
In his 1957 The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology, Kantorowicz reads Richard’s coup de thé... Go to Article »

Chaos and Dissimulation in Ian McEwan's Modern Retelling of Hamlet (09/10/20)
This paper analyses Ian McEwan’s reuse of Shakespeare’s material in his retelling of Hamlet from the unusual point of... Go to Article »

A Historical Perspective on the Cultural Connotations Surrounding Eating Disorders (09/08/20)
Over 30 million people in the US are plagued by eating disorders (EDs), with at least one ED-related death occurring every 62 minutes... Go to Article »

Negotiating the Concept of National Allegory: Homosexuality, Departure, and Homecoming in Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory and Midi Z's Nina Wu (09/06/20)
Often regarded as the glorious palace showcasing contemporary world cinema (“Press Conference”), the Cannes Film Festival... Go to Article »

Why are Women More Religious than Men? (10/04/19)
Scholars have since the 1980s tried to explain why women are more religious than men, but contradictory evidence complicates a precise... Go to Article »

The Status of Women in Late Antiquity: Examining the Sociopolitical Climate, Societal Values, and Gender Roles (10/02/19)
The status of women and their role in Late Antiquity has been a topic of inquiry among historians. It is a particularly challenging... Go to Article »

Unveiling Ultimate Reality in Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Bhagavad Gita (09/27/19)
Questions regarding the very foundations of our reality abound throughout the history of world philosophies. For example, if we examine... Go to Article »

Echoes of W.E.B. Du Bois' Double-Consciousness in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (04/20/19)
A close scrutiny through a text-based analysis of Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass, an American... Go to Article »

Fringe Religion & the Far-Right: Dangerous Behavior Patterns Among Christian Millennialists (03/01/19)
Radical thinking among the far-right is a growing security problem for modern western society. Over the past several decades anti-... Go to Article »

The Captain's Compromise: Political Symbolism in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno (01/09/19)
Until the outbreak of civil war, the United States would continually try and fail to subdue the existential threat of slavery, with... Go to Article »

Explaining the Rise of Populism in Poland: The Post-Communist Transition as a Critical Juncture and Origin of Political Decay in Poland (07/07/18)
The Polish populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) overturned the mainstream consensus in Polish politics by returning to power in 2015... Go to Article »

Wind Energy Legislation Strategies for the Lone Star State (05/11/18)
Texas introduced Senate Bill 277 as its first wind energy siting law during the 2017 Legislature. The bill combats radar interference... Go to Article »

The Impact of Background Stimuli on the Perception of Fear in Facial Expressions (03/26/18)
Byrnes (1983) found bright colors were associated with positive emotions (e.g., happiness) and dark colors were associated with negative... Go to Article »

Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement: A Constructivist Argument (03/21/18)
On February 14th, 1965, just one week before he was assassinated, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Detroit. He spoke about his beliefs... Go to Article »

The Birth of the Creative Consciousness: Childhood Spaces, Memory, and Psychoanalytic Play in the Memoirs of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf (01/22/18)
Both Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf detail memories of having intense shocks into consciousness during their early childhoods... Go to Article »

Victorian Racism: An Explication of Scientific Knowledge, its Social Character, and its Relation to Victorian Popular Culture (01/17/18)
The British Empire of the nineteenth century displayed and embodied racism in its composite. In embodying this idea of racial inequality... Go to Article »

Debating Space Through the Göttingen Review: Why Kant's Transcendental Ideality of Space Exceeds Berkeley's Subjective Idealist Interpretation (01/09/18)
It is not often that one questions the nature of space, in fact, most people understand extension as independent of their mind as... Go to Article »

Narratives, Binaries, and Framing in the Cultural Contest Over Climate Change (12/13/17)
Climate change is already altering our biosphere and is projected to bring about monumental changes to our planet’s environment... Go to Article »

Leaving Religion: A Qualitative Analysis of Religious Exiting (12/12/17)
Religion has been a part of society for thousands of years and touches every life on the globe. Despite this, religious non-affiliation... Go to Article »

Come, Sir Boy: Subverting Masculinity Through Cross-Gender Performance (11/30/17)
I was the wounded soldier in the opening scene of Macbeth, lying spread-eagled on the stage, flaunting my unsightly gashes. I closed... Go to Article »

Opposites Attract? An Evaluation of Foreign Policy Impediments in Sino-Vatican Relations (11/30/17)
The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Holy See appears to be an uneasy association between opposites... Go to Article »

Cacao Cravings: Europe's Assimilation and Europeanization of Chocolate Drinking from Mesoamerica, 1492-1700 C.E. (10/27/17)
Chocolate is a foodstuff that many people in the modern world take for granted; the sweet treat can today be found plentifully and... Go to Article »

Pederasty and Power in Plato's Mythological Dialogues (10/26/17)
As a topic of philosophical interest the Socratic dialogues play a pivotal role in many of Plato’s works of more than thirty... Go to Article »

Facts, Beliefs, and the Brain: How Propaganda, Ideology, and Donald Trump Inhabit the Group Mind (10/24/17)
In the human experience, political ideology and propaganda have played powerful roles in forging group identity. In the evolution... Go to Article »

The Next Frontline of the Battle Against the Islamic State? Southeast Asia (06/07/17)
The global network of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as Daesh,2 is expanding rapidly. Southeast Asia is especially... Go to Article »

Nationalism, Identity, and Public Policy in Sweden: Pursuing an Elusive National Identity (06/01/17)
Similarly to many European countries, the Swedish population often perceive their history as an epoch of homogeneity: a time when... Go to Article »

Aristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn's Oroonoko: The Existential and Socio-Political Semiotics of Death and Torture (05/30/17)
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko offers a complex representation of the semiotic and socio-political meaning of seventeenth-century torture... Go to Article »

The Psyscholinguistic Semiotics and Metanormative Ethics of Suicide and Death in Shakespeare's King Lear (05/02/17)
The fascination with death and the sensationalizing of suicide are prevalent metaphysical themes which traverse all Shakespearean... Go to Article »

Mary Magdalene as a Renewed Feminist Icon: Representations in the Christian Tradition as a Resource for Contemporary Liberation Theology (05/02/17)
Mary Magdalene remains prevalent within Christianity and popular culture. A mysterious and enigmatic figure, she continues to capture... Go to Article »

Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus's Metaphysical Rebellion (05/01/17)
Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently... Go to Article »

Divinity in the Disguise of Mental Illness in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (05/01/17)
The character of Benjy Compson from William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury is a mythic and Christ-like figure... Go to Article »

Solitude and Disquiet in Contemporary Islamic and Jewish Poetry (05/01/17)
This paper examines the differences between the tales of Isaac and Ishmael in the Tanakh and the Quran to explore how the discourse... Go to Article »

Suicide Terrorism as a Tactic: How Dominant, yet Subtle Representations Form Identities and Meanings (04/30/17)
Although terrorism has been present in the world for centuries, it is only since the 1980s that suicide terrorism has become an object... Go to Article »

The Purposive Power of Natural Theology: On Moser and the Christian Apologetics (04/14/17)
In recent years there has been quite a bit of talk in philosophy of religion regarding how relevant and how purposive natural theology... Go to Article »

The Rebel Hero: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning Amidst the Absurd (04/04/17)
Man in his search for meaning—everyman— is Albert Camus’ rebel. In The Rebel man must accept and seek to encounter... Go to Article »

Theistic Explanations of the Ontology of Consciousness (04/01/17)
Consciousness is a thought-provoking phenomenon. In recent decades, though, the philosophy of mind has revealed consciousness to be... Go to Article »

The Telos of History as Understood by Hegel (03/13/17)
Is there a goal or purpose to history? And if so, how is one to determine its starting point, the ways in which it develops, and how... Go to Article »

Sex and Sexual Violence in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (03/09/17)
Anyone in pursuit of knowledge is bound to encounter sex somewhere along the way. In the early 19th century, a period during which... Go to Article »

The Power of Symbols: The Ideological Representations of a French Revolution Playing Card Deck, the Revolutionnaires (03/01/17)
In 1793-1794, during the height of the French Revolution, a deck of playing cards was introduced that radically changed the future... Go to Article »

Imagining Ethiopia: The Contrasting Views of Ethiopian Power, Progress, and Significance (02/26/17)
The ancient civilization of Ethiopia has captivated the West and served, across centuries, as an inspiration for much of Africa. As... Go to Article »

Reinterpreting the Treatment of the Rural Population by Peru's Shining Path (02/22/17)
The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui after... Go to Article »

Identifying a Developing Christian Culture in the Fourth Century (02/22/17)
To briefly set the scene, the fourth century was a complex period for Christianity. It moved from being a persecuted sect to being... Go to Article »

Gender Equality in International Institutions: Progress and Challenges in Moving Toward Gender Parity (02/18/17)
The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda, for the first time... Go to Article »

Examining Eveline: A Study in the Origins of the Paralysed Subject in Joyce's Dubliners (01/31/17)
When James Joyce rewrote “The Sisters,” intending it to serve as an introduction to the whole of Dubliners, he altered... Go to Article »

The Role of Deception in Love as Portrayed in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night (01/18/17)
Although he is arguably best known for his tragedies exploring emotions associated with familial obligations, the need for revenge... Go to Article »

The China Dilemma: A Study of the Ideological Roots of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards China During the Cold War (12/31/16)
This paper investigates the influence of U.S. foreign policymakers' perceptions towards China on policy formulation during the Cold... Go to Article »

Lasting and Expanding: An Analysis of the Islamic State's Incentive System (12/05/16)
In the past five years, millions of people have lost their homes, loved ones, and lives.2 The Syrian territory is now a battlefield... Go to Article »

"It's a Wise Child:" A Levinasian Analysis of J. D. Salinger's Glass Family Stories (11/30/16)
J. D. Salinger is a household name in America, but relatively few people know of his Glass family characters. Seven impossibly bright... Go to Article »

Was Spinoza a Kabbalist? The Influence of Jewish Mysticism in Book I of Ethics (11/23/16)
Throughout philosophy’s history, some of its most prominent thinkers have drawn inspiration from sources outside of its canon... Go to Article »

The Role of Minor and Ephemeral Characters in Shakespeare's Henry V (11/15/16)
Never has a work of Shakespeare courted such controversy amongst critics than The Life of King Henry V. ‘By far the most controversial... Go to Article »

How Democratic Was The Roman Republic? The Theory and Practice of an Archetypal Democracy (11/06/16)
In Federalist No. 34 Alexander Hamilton, arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution, claimed that the Roman Republic... Go to Article »

The Anxiety of the Unforseen in Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (11/04/16)
Robert Louis Stevenson typifies an anxiety shared by many prolific Victorian writers: that God will disappear as human psychology... Go to Article »

ISIS and the Global Image War: An Archival Perspective on Iconoclastic Performance and Bio-Political Authority (11/02/16)
The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – also known as ISIL, IS and Daesh – has during the last years disseminated... Go to Article »

Intellectual Responsibility and the Epistemic Search: Comparing Plato and Augustine (10/31/16)
In the earliest stages of education, children naturally start to interrogate their elders with the question “why?” This... Go to Article »

Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation in Cloud Nine and M. Butterfly (10/25/16)
This article contributes to the debate as to whether Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang are ultimately... Go to Article »

Right Hemisphere Involvement in Auditory Processing: A Review (10/24/16)
An orthodox opinion within neurolinguistics is left hemispheric lateralization for language processing. The left hemisphere of the... Go to Article »

Theories of Nationalism: A Brief Comparison of Realist and Constructivist Ideas of the Nation (10/16/16)
In the immense field of scholarly work regarding defining nationhood, a raging debate exists between the conservative view of the... Go to Article »

Terror and Torture in the 21st Century: Reimagining the American Hero (10/14/16)
In the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001 fear and anger shaped American attitudes in response to terrorism. Even so,... Go to Article »

The Polar Bear Expedition of 1918 - 1919: Interpreting Masculinity Through the Eyes of a Soldier (10/11/16)
In the annals of warfare, what often matters most is the simple question of who won. As a general rule of thumb, the winners are often... Go to Article »

Poetic Sovereignty in the Work of the Romantic Poets: Self-Determiniation and Revolutionary Thought (10/10/16)
This essay first explores how Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley invoke the medium of language, specifically poetic... Go to Article »

Tweeting 2016: How Social Media is Shaping the Presidential Election (09/26/16)
Something seems different about 2016. Something many of us just can’t place our fingers on. Sure, The Donald looms disconcertingly... Go to Article »

Creating Life Within the Confines of Slavery: Comparing Northrup's Memoir Twelve Years a Slave and Genovese's The World the Slaves Made (09/13/16)
Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave (1853) provides a comprehensive first-hand account of slavery that both corroborates... Go to Article »

The Colonial Subject: Seeing the Unseen and the Construction of Subjectivity in Apocalypse Now and La Noire de... (09/09/16)
The evolution of the moving image from the seemingly simplistic Edison/Dickson shorts of the late 19th century to the technically... Go to Article »

Erasmus and the Transformation of Early Modern Political Authority in The Education of a Christian Prince (08/07/16)
Often called the “prince of the humanists” Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was one of the most influential European philosophers... Go to Article »

The CRISPR Fantasy: Flaws in Current Metaphors of Gene-Modifying Technology (06/13/16)
CRISPR gene-modifying technology continues to revolutionize fields involving biological research. Rapid advancements, however, have... Go to Article »

An Analysis of LEGO's Response to an Attack on its Partnership with Royal Dutch Shell (05/31/16)
In 2014, Greenpeace launched an attack on a 50-year brand partnership between Danish toy company LEGO and Royal Dutch Shell, an oil... Go to Article »

Yoga On Instagram: Disseminating or Destroying Traditional Yogic Principles? (05/31/16)
Today, more than 15 million Americans practice yoga, making the ancient Indian discipline synonymous with the Western society's culture... Go to Article »

Analyzing Female Gender Roles in Marvel Comics from the Silver Age (1960) to the Present (05/31/16)
Comic books, a form of American popular culture, offer a window into the past, allowing researchers to track societal changes over... Go to Article »

Terrorist Divorce: Examining Alliance Break-Ups and the Al Qaeda/ISIL Split (05/31/16)
Though somewhat counterintuitive given terrorist organizations' clandestine nature, such organizations do engage in strategic alliances... Go to Article »

The Uprisings of Nat Turner and John Brown: Response and Treatment from the Abolitionist Movement and the Press (05/23/16)
This paper examines two influential slave uprisings and the treatment these received by both the abolitionist movement and the press... Go to Article »

Transitional Justice in Ongoing Conflict: Colombia's Integrative Approach to Peace and Justice (05/23/16)
It is clear that the peace should not be purchased at any price. But the illusion that it can be free is ridiculous. &... Go to Article »

China and India in Africa: Implications of New Private Sector Actors on Bribe Paying Incidence (04/26/16)
This paper seeks to address one of the most common critiques of Asian firms doing business in Africa: that low levels of corporate... Go to Article »

The Implausibility of the Barter Narrative & Credit Money in Ancient Babylon (04/15/16)
Whereas the standard economics textbook literature motivates the emergence of money by pointing to the inefficiencies of barter economies... Go to Article »

The Development Agenda After the Millenium Development Goals: Is the Post-2015 Agenda "Truly Transformative?" (03/25/16)
In 2014, the United Nations called for "a truly transformative agenda to follow the Millennium Development Goals." This study applies... Go to Article »

Mega-Events and the Neoliberal Production of Space in Rio de Janeiro (03/23/16)
Sporting mega-events in Rio de Janeiro, including the 2014 World Cup and the upcoming 2016 Olympics, employ particular tactics of... Go to Article »

Was Amir Khusrau a Historian? Examining his Work in a Contemporary Framework (03/02/16)
Ab'ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253-1325) is one of the most celebrated poets of medieval India, writing both in Persian, the... Go to Article »

Examining Free-Will Through Spinoza and Descartes (02/14/16)
Within the works of Spinoza, as well as those of Descartes, issues concerning the nature of free-will come to the fore. With this... Go to Article »

From Jalaluddin to Akbar: Analyzing the Akbarid Notion of Kingship (01/29/16)
Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar is placed among the elite few in history; he is amongst the “Great”[1]. Popularly known for... Go to Article »

The Historical Life of Maximilien Robespierre's Reign of Terror (01/11/16)
If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government in revolution is both virtue... Go to Article »

A Silent Dissonance: LGBT Rights & Geopolitics in Maidan and Post-Maidan Ukraine (01/01/16)
A faceless speaker cries out in a crowded square. Around him is an uneven cacophony produced by an undefined group of people. Fires... Go to Article »

What was the Influence of Cosmopolitan Law on the Permanent Court of International Justice? (11/20/15)
When speaking to a lay person, the concept of international justice may conjure a perception of impartiality rising above national... Go to Article »

Color Theory and Social Structure in the Films of Wes Anderson (11/18/15)
Filmmaker Wes Anderson has developed a distinct aesthetic style that is easily recognizable through his use of striking color palettes... Go to Article »

Do African-American Female Stereotypes Still Exist in Television? A Descriptive Character Analysis of Olivia Pope (11/18/15)
Scandal, the first network drama in decades to star an African-American woman, reaches millions of viewers on a weekly basis. This... Go to Article »

John Stuart Mill's Solution to the Problem of Socrates in the Autobiography (11/16/15)
Ever since its posthumous publication, John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography has elicited reactions of primarily disappointment and... Go to Article »

The Dead Bodies of the West African Ebola Epidemic: Understanding the Importance of Traditional Burial Practices (11/09/15)
The traditional mourning and burial rituals common in West Africa played a key role in the recent Ebola epidemic focused in Liberia... Go to Article »

Neither Can Live While the Other Survives: How the Representation of the Syrian Conflict Neglects the Citizen (10/22/15)
Headlines are littered with the rhetoric of the powerful. The most present modern crises can ostensibly be reduced to deconstructed... Go to Article »

Why are Gender Relations Important to Include in the Study of Politics and Society? (10/19/15)
Politics has been given many different definitions, ranging from something as solid as “the activities associated with the governance... Go to Article »

Re-Understanding Pompeii: A History of our Interpretation of the Lost City (10/16/15)
The catastrophic demise of the Oscan-Roman city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. left its mark on our collective psyche. Its remains have long... Go to Article »

Transitional Justice and Religion: An Examination of Faith-Based Actors in Kenyan Civil Society (10/14/15)
This paper address two overarching research questions: first, what is the role of religion in transitional justice? Second, does the... Go to Article »

The Dichotomy of Gender in Euripides' Bacchae (10/12/15)
In Euripides’ Bacchae, careful examination of the character Dionysus illuminates discrepancies in action based on gender. Ultimately... Go to Article »

The Origins of Cuban Music and its Cultural and Spiritual Importance Within the Cuban Diaspora Community (10/02/15)
This paper explores how the Cuban Diaspora has formed connections and forged a new identity around music, meanwhile reinforcing the... Go to Article »

The Kakawin Sutasoma: A Look at Bhinneka Tunggal Ika and Perceptions of the Text's Religious Implications (09/16/15)
This study is an analysis of the religious aspects of the epic Sutasoma. Written in the 14th century CE during the height of the Majapahit... Go to Article »

Media Initiation in Environmental Education: An Indian Model of Environmental Pedagogy (09/01/15)
Environmental communication is now an emerging and a significant curriculum from schools to research centers. The effective and efficient... Go to Article »

The Shah Bano Controversy: A Case Study of Individual Rights, Religious Tolerance, and the Role of the Secular State (08/29/15)
Since Independence, the Indian government has struggled to achieve political modernity within acceptable religious boundaries. Religious... Go to Article »

Tragedy in the Ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde (08/11/15)
One Victorian writer whose similarities to Nietzsche continue to receive sustained attention is Oscar Wilde—even though, as... Go to Article »

The Islamic State Healthcare Paradox: A Caliphate in Crisis (07/05/15)
The civil war in Syria has taken an enormous toll on civilian populations. One of the most commonly overlooked aspect of this crisis... Go to Article »

Roosevelt's Recession: A Historical and Econometric Examination of the Roots of the 1937 Recession (06/28/15)
The 1937 Recession is a lesser-known event overshadowed by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. Nonetheless, it... Go to Article »

Reassessing the Effectiveness of All-Hazards Planning in Emergency Management (06/18/15)
The field of emergency management in the United States has grown and changed significantly in the past several decades. In the 1940s... Go to Article »

Ancient Greek Women and Warfare: Building a More Accurate Portrait of Ancient Women Through Literature (06/16/15)
The present study explores the portrayal of women in ancient Greek literature within the context of warfare. More specifically, this... Go to Article »

Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle as an Individualizing Text (06/12/15)
Teresa of Avila has long been respected as one of the most significant theologians to emerge from Spanish Catholicism. Her determined... Go to Article »

The Development of the Printing Press and the Decline of the Chronicle as Historical Method (06/04/15)
In his work The Idea of History, philosopher and historian Robin Collingwood outlines the development of historiography by leading... Go to Article »

The Arab Uprisings and the Blossoming of a 'Global Imaginary' (06/01/15)
The social uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt that unfolded in late 2010 and early 2011 were the catalyst for a political awakening that... Go to Article »

The Impact of Technology on Music Stars' Cultural Influence (05/31/15)
This research paper addressed how technology has changed cultural relationships consumers have with music. The music industry&rsquo... Go to Article »

Thomas Arundel's Constitutions and the Condemnation of Wycliffe's Vernacular Translations (1382-1415) (05/27/15)
Between the publication of Wycliffe’s Bible in 1382 and the Council of Constance in 1415, a thirty-year period in which there... Go to Article »

Survival and Morality in Cormac McCarthy's The Road: Exploring Aquinian Grace and the Boy as Messiah (05/01/15)
In the first scene of The Road (2006), Cormac McCarthy encapsulates the bleak psychology of his post-apocalyptic novel with a metaphor... Go to Article »

Value-Added Real Effective Exchange Rates: Testing for Countries with High and Low Vertical Specialization in Trade (04/15/15)
I test a modified value-added real effective exchange rate based on the construction by Bems and Johnson (2012) for suitability as... Go to Article »

Bayesian Portfolio Analysis: Analyzing the Global Investment Market (04/15/15)
The goal of portfolio optimization is to determine the ideal allocation of assets to a given set of possible investments. Many optimization... Go to Article »

Multiproduct Pricing and Product Line Decisions with Status Externalities (04/15/15)
In the present paper, reputation is approached as an idea involving status. We consider a multiproduct monopolist's product line and... Go to Article »

Exploring the Corruption of the Soul in the Works of Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson (04/12/15)
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr... Go to Article »

Feminist and New Historicist Readings of Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King" (03/25/15)
“The Man Who Would Be King” (1888)[1] is one of Rudyard Kipling’s most well known and highly acclaimed short stories... Go to Article »

Artificial Composers: Tools of the Modern Musician or Affront to Human Creativity? (03/22/15)
On August 13, 2014, Youtube user CGPGrey posted Humans Need Not Apply, an informative video detailing the trajectory of automated... Go to Article »

Mob Violence Against Women in Algeria: A Historical Case Analysis (03/20/15)
Violence against women has recently become well recognized as a violation of human rights that holds worldwide significance. Unfortunately... Go to Article »

The Many Faces of Odysseus in Classical Literature (03/18/15)
The defining characteristics of Odysseus in classical literature are interpreted in wildly different ways by different authors: he... Go to Article »

International Travel, Nation-Branding, and Orientalism: Conflicting Portrayals of Americanism in The Amazing Race (03/17/15)
Beyond merely claiming to represent 'reality,' reality television shows also inherently operate as “powerful ideological source... Go to Article »

Intelligent Design in the Complexity of the Human Body (03/11/15)
In a previous article I wrote about fine-tuning in the Universe and the empirical evidence for a Grand Designer that can be found... Go to Article »

Anti-Semitism and Religious Intolerance in Aristocratic Age English Literature (03/10/15)
Anti-semitism was a prevailing cultural sentiment in Europe, particularly in Great Britain, during the period when some of English... Go to Article »

Apocalyptic Imagery in Aurora Leigh (03/09/15)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh (1856) is an apocalyptic work, as seen in Aurora and Romney’s vision of the... Go to Article »

Homonationalism and the Death of the Radical Queer (03/03/15)
When one analyzes recent LGBTQ advocacy, with its rhetoric of liberal normativity and visibility, the gay rights movement has chosen... Go to Article »

The Desperate Drive for Perfection: Changing Beauty Ideals and Women's Fashion in the 1920s (02/15/15)
American life in the early twentieth century was marked by a culmination of changes that had been brewing since the end of the Civil... Go to Article »

Effects of Attachment Disorder on Psychosocial Development (02/12/15)
This report examines the outcomes on various domains of development (cognitive, social emotional) of children with attachment disorders... Go to Article »

Examining the Image of the United States in the Arab World and the Relationship with Israel During the Obama Administration (02/09/15)
For a country approximately the size of New Jersey, Israel certainly garners its share of widespread international attention. It is... Go to Article »

The Myth of Obama's Post-Racial Presidency: Why Barack Obama's Election Didn't End Racial Inequality in America (02/07/15)
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama was met with enthusiasm and controversy. If you were alive and cognizant at the time, you... Go to Article »

The Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine: Stages of the Maidan Movement and Why They Constitute a Revolution (02/06/15)
What is “revolution”? Can the Maidan movement in Ukraine, which led to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014... Go to Article »

How the Electrical Activity and Synaptogenesis of Neurons Contribute to the Efficacy of Neurofeedback Therapy (01/15/15)
Neurofeedback Therapy (NFT) is a type of biofeedback therapy specifically targeting the brain and nervous system. According to the... Go to Article »

The Arcane and The Rational: Lovecraft's Development of a Unique Mythos (01/15/15)
The early 20th century saw the rise of a unique subgenre of science fiction and horror literature known as weird fiction. H.P Lovecraft... Go to Article »

Do Civil Society Organizations Undermine State-Building? (12/31/14)
In spite of the long-standing debate among economists on the optimal level of government involvement in economic development, little... Go to Article »

Consumption: The Role of Eating in Rehabilitation in the Memoirs "A Million Little Pieces" and "Two Kinds of Decay" (12/30/14)
The relationship between the self and food intersects at the meal, and this vital connection represents—physiologically, psychologically... Go to Article »

Spiritual Autobiography and Dave Eggers' "What is the What" (12/07/14)
Spiritual autobiographies have a long and rich history as a form of memoir, beginning at about 397AD with the release of Saint Augustine... Go to Article »

Feminine Agendas: The Historical Evolution of Feminism as Reflected in the Content of American Women's Magazines (11/30/14)
The purpose of this research is to identify trends and themes that reflect feminist values in American women’s magazines throughout... Go to Article »

How Christian Leaders Interact with Twitter (11/30/14)
This paper explores the relationship between Christian leaders and Twitter. Twitter’s founding resulted in an outburst in the... Go to Article »

Boda Boda: The Impact of Motorbike Taxi Service in Rural Uganda (11/20/14)
Rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa often suffer from a lack of access to transportation. This study analyzes the impact of a... Go to Article »

The Sexual and the Spiritual in John Donne's Poetry: Exploring "The Extasie" and its Analogues (11/10/14)
This paper looks at the poet John Donne’s method of incorporating sexual imagery into religious and spiritual contexts. The... Go to Article »

The Modern Memoir: Popular Confession and How it Sells 'A Million Little Pieces' (11/04/14)
In recent years the memoir has come to the forefront of American literature as a popular form for both writers and readers. The best... Go to Article »

Iceland's Clean Energy Economy: A Roadmap to Sustainability and Good Business (11/01/14)
President Grimsson studied economics and political science at the University of Manchester, and in 1970, became the first person in... Go to Article »

Man as Image: Clark Gable, James Dean, and the Audience that Looked at Them (10/30/14)
In her seminal essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Laura Mulvey (1975) connects psychoanalytic concepts of scopophilic desire1... Go to Article »

"What is the What" as a Religious Memoir (10/17/14)
David Eggers’ What is the What is a memoir about the life of Valentino Achak Deng and his personal experience with warfare,... Go to Article »

The Drama and Romance of Suicide in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Madame Bovary" (10/12/14)
Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading... Go to Article »

The Classic Maya Collapse: The Importance of Ecological Prosperity (09/30/14)
The relationship between humans and their environment is a heavily debated, multi-disciplinary discussion that has raised awareness... Go to Article »

The "Great Divergence" Redefined: the Rise and Fall of the West and the Recovery of China (09/22/14)
Up until the 19th century, China held a position as a great world power. However, for the last two hundred years the West has dominated... Go to Article »

Social Movement Theory and Terrorism: Explaining the Development of Al-Qaeda (09/21/14)
Since the attacks of September 11th, the Western world has labeled al-Qaeda and its leadership as suicidal and irrational terrorists... Go to Article »

The GM Crop Network: An Overview of the Environmental, Political, Economic, and Human Health Contexts Surrounding Bt Corn (06/25/14)
A genetically modified (GM) crop is defined as a recombinant-deoxyribonucleic acid plant, in which genetic material has been changed... Go to Article »

Comparing Israel's 2009 and 2013 Elections: Impacts of the "Spiral of Silence" (06/13/14)
Israeli election campaigns, and especially Likud campaigning under Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, are known for their emphasis... Go to Article »

To Intervene or Not to Intervene: The Role of Humanitarianism, U.N. Approval, and Economic Incentives in Determning NATO Military Intervention in Conflict (05/31/14)
The North American Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded at the outset of the Cold War and served as a collective defense alliance... Go to Article »

Brand Identities and Portrayal of Minority Groups in 2013 Super Bowl Automobile Advertisements (05/29/14)
The fact that brands have unique identities and personalities is well known and researched. However, the extent to which a brand&rsquo... Go to Article »

The Visual Rhetoric of Lady Justice: Understanding Jurisprudence Through 'Metonymic Tokens' (05/09/14)
Lady Justice, also commonly know as 'Justitia,' has important symbolic significance. However, as we will find through the use of metonymic... Go to Article »

Visibility for Women in the Works of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (04/28/14)
When examining the works of both George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, many critics are quick to assess the credibility and quality of... Go to Article »

Women of War: The Female Fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (04/15/14)
Since the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War in 1983, Tamil women have occupied a key role in the conflict. In the struggle for the... Go to Article »

Don't Fear the Reaper: Analyzing the Effect of Health on Microfinance Participation (04/15/14)
The randomized introduction of microfinance to neighborhoods surrounding Hyderabad, India provides an opportunity to analyze the relationship... Go to Article »

The Effect of Crime on Achievement: The Differential Effect of Violent and Non-Violent Crimes on Achievement in High Schools (04/15/14)
This paper examines how the different forms of crime, violent and non-violent, affect the academic achievement of students scoring... Go to Article »

The Relationship Between Monetary Policy and Asset Prices: A New Approach Analyzing U.S. M&A Activity (04/15/14)
This article details the relationship between asset prices and monetary policy with a specific focus on the mergers and acquisitions... Go to Article »

Efficient Pricing of Carbon in the EU and its Effect on Consumers (04/15/14)
A European single market for electricity is modeled to find the optimal portfolio of energy generation technologies in the presence... Go to Article »

Exploring Virgilian Structures in Book III of Spenser's Faerie Queene (04/13/14)
Contrary to the scintillating promise of its title, Spenser’s Faerie Queene is a far cry from the insubstantial delights of... Go to Article »

Talking to 'Terrorists': Facilitating Dialogue with the Afghan Taliban (04/09/14)
After 35 years of war in Afghanistan[1], the year 2014 brings two milestones capable of major impact on the future – for better... Go to Article »

The "Roving Ambassador:" Bayard Rustin's Quaker Cosmopolitanism and the Civil Rights Movement (04/06/14)
"As you know," wrote Bayard Rustin to Charles S. Johnson, the president of Fisk University, in December 1946, "I have been interested... Go to Article »

Passing Time in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch (03/31/14)
In one of his most famous triptychs, the Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch uses a linear and chronological order to represent... Go to Article »

Wordsworth's Prescient Baby: Conceptions of the Mother-Infant Relationship in the Development of the Self (1790s-1890s) (03/22/14)
This dissertation explores late eighteenth and nineteenth century views of the mother-infant[1] relationship and how they reveal conceptions... Go to Article »

Asceticism in the Modern World: The Religion of Self-Deprivation (03/14/14)
Among the questions that have attracted my attention during my theological career thus far, nothing has struck me more forcibly than... Go to Article »

Demagoguery and the Westboro Baptist Church: Deconstructing the Tactics of Hate (02/07/14)
The Westboro Baptist Church has become widely known for their hatred, polarizing statements, and funeral protests. Consisting of only... Go to Article »

Creating Europe: The Discourse of Civilisation (01/01/14)
They made us leave history - our history, to follow tbem, right at the back; to follow tbe progress of their history. - Amilcar... Go to Article »

Intent to Harm: Factors Influencing Target Selection by Africa Islamist Militant Groups (12/31/13)
The rise of Islamist militant groups and their propensity towards violence has perplexed researchers and policy-makers and lead to... Go to Article »

Mythology and Astronomy as Manifestations of Ancient Greek Culture (12/19/13)
It is common to think of mythical heroes as being "larger than life." The stories of their legendary pursuits put these warriors on... Go to Article »

Anime: From Cult Following to Pop Culture Phenomenon (12/14/13)
This study examined the scope of influence that Japanese anime had on American people born in the '80s and '90s. Relying on secondary... Go to Article »

Coupons of the 21st Century: The Golden Age of The Daily Deal Industry (12/14/13)
Since its introduction in the late 1800s, coupons have transformed drastically to appeal to the changing needs and behaviors of the... Go to Article »

Image Restoration in Political Sex Scandals: What To Do (And What Not To Do) When You're Caught With Your Pants Down (12/14/13)
This study sought to apply a Crisis Communications lens to the area of American political sex scandals. Applying William Benoit's "... Go to Article »

Is Paganism a Religion? Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Relevance of Paganism (12/11/13)
Years of adversity and oppression have pushed the once thriving practice of Paganism into the shadows. Even in our contemporary world... Go to Article »

The Construction of Southern Identity Through Reality TV: A Content Analysis of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty and Buckwild (12/09/13)
The reality television genre has been increasingly at the forefront of media and cultural studies and a subject of critique across... Go to Article »

Pay for Play: Analysis of the Image Restoration Strategies of High Profile College Athletes (12/09/13)
This study sought to explore the college athletic landscape through a Crisis Communications perspective. Using William Benoit&rsquo... Go to Article »

A Case Study on Film Authorship: Exploring the Theoretical and Practical Sides in Film Production (12/09/13)
Film authorship has been a topic of debate in film theory since the Cahiers du Cinema critics first birthed auteur theory. Andrew... Go to Article »

Four Lines to Immortality: Dido's Renaissance Through Josquin des Prez (11/22/13)
Dulces exuuiae, dum fata deusque sinebat, accipite hanc animam meque his exsoluite curis. uixi et quem dederat cursum Fortuna peregi... Go to Article »

Visual Persuasion: The Media's Use of Images in Framing People Groups (11/18/13)
This article compares the media's framing of five groups in response to a societal catalyst that propelled them into the public and... Go to Article »

From Fighting Nazis to Electing Nazis: The Rise of Golden Dawn in Greece (11/15/13)
In Greece's parliamentary elections of June 2012, a far-right neo-fascist party called Golden Dawn gained eighteen seats, making them... Go to Article »

Power, Religion, and Capital Punishment: A Comparative Analysis Between Abolitionist Turkey & Retentionist Iran (11/15/13)
Turkey and Iran are both predominately Muslim-populated countries with a history of powerful political leaders who have shaped their... Go to Article »

Propaganda, Public Opinion, and the Second South African Boer War (10/28/13)
The Second Boer War (1899‑1902) was costly for Great Britain and the semi‑independent South African Republic (Transvaal... Go to Article »

James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Bloom's Utopian Vision of Ireland (10/16/13)
James Joyce's Ulysses is first and foremost a political novel, a "real Irish nationalist epic in its most . . . politically figurative... Go to Article »

Rural-Urban Migration and Agricultural Transformation in India: Observing the Impact on Childhood Migration From Bihar to New Delhi (10/07/13)
Large-scale rural to urban migrations have been occurring in India in record numbers within the last thirty years, inflating the populations... Go to Article »

The Visual Vocabulary of Chitra Ganesh: Femininity, Sexuality, and Abjection in Ganesh's Visual Art (10/05/13)
Whence does the definitive understanding of the human body as a site of power, pleasure, and horror come? Is there at all a definitive... Go to Article »

Technology and Justice: The Philosophy of Authenticity and Democratic Theory (10/02/13)
"The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world, everything is as it is, and everything happens as it does happen... Go to Article »

Anxieties of Empire: Examining Frontier Governance in 19th Century British India (09/18/13)
In May 2012, Shakil Afridi received a sentence of thirty-three years “rigorous imprisonment” and a large fine for aiding... Go to Article »

In Treatment: The Casting and Bracketing of Repulsion in The Sopranos (08/29/13)
The Sopranos (1999-2007) opens with its lead character, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), unenthusiastically meeting his therapist,... Go to Article »

Comparing Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (08/27/13)
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson, a monumental figure representing... Go to Article »

Societal and Legislative Attitudes Toward Social Housing Tenants in Ireland: Critical Evaluation of Housing Law and Policies, Statistics, Case Law and Literature (08/16/13)
One area in which the division among Irish citizens remains apparent is in the realm of social housing. Housing represents the largest... Go to Article »

The Typology of Sacrifice in George Herbert's The Temple (07/10/13)
George Herbert's (1593-1633) three-part work The Temple (1633) denotes the nature of his relationship with God. He conveys this unique... Go to Article »

The Oklahoma City Bombing and Bill Clinton's Eulogy to Bombing Victims (06/06/13)
On Wednesday, April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb at the base of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. For the 168 individuals... Go to Article »

Commencement Addresses Delivered by Incumbent U.S. Presidents, 1914-2010: A Historical Analysis (06/05/13)
Each year, thousands of colleges and universities across the United States hold commencement. This is a time when campus is in full... Go to Article »

The End of Multiculturalism? Immigration and Integration in Germany and the United Kingdom (06/05/13)
Within a short span of time, immigration has become one of the major issues in the field of European politics and social discourse... Go to Article »

Ronald Reagan's Presidential Radio Addresses: Themes of Unity (04/05/13)
When U.S. President Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, he enjoyed a reputation as one of the most rhetorically dynamic Presidents... Go to Article »

From Nostalgia to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Mass Society Theory of Psychological Reactions to Combat (02/17/13)
This paper analyzes the evolution of the construct known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Specifically, it examines the ways in... Go to Article »

The Tongue of the Learned: How the Elaboration Likelihood Model and Group Communication Can Improve Biblical Literacy (12/18/12)
Interest in the intersection of religion and politics has grown in salience in the Post-9/11 era. Recent scholarship purports that... Go to Article »

Democracy Up Close in Somaliland: Reflections of an International Election Observer (12/17/12)
In May 1991, Somaliland emerged as a self-declared independent state in the aftermath of the failure and subsequent collapse of Siyad... Go to Article »

Lessons on Government from one Non-State Entity to Another: How the Irish Republican Movement Informs Hezbollah's Attempt at the Clausewitzian Political Arm (11/01/12)
The great nineteenth-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz changed the art of war forever with his masterwork, “On War... Go to Article »

Effects of Islamic Banking on Financial Market Outcomes in GCC Countries and Iran (11/01/12)
Islamic banking and finance have become increasingly widespread over the past two decades, particularly in Muslim-majority countries... Go to Article »

Habermas's Linguistic Theory Applied to David Mamet's Films: Communicative Action in Action (10/31/12)
Jürgen Habermas - a prominent German philosopher and critical social theorist - offers a theory of language use that identifies... Go to Article »

Yue Fei's Different Goals and Ideals in the Chinese Song Dynasty, 960-1279 (10/01/12)
Since his death in 1142 CE, Yue Fei of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) has been revered by the Chinese as a national hero. His skill as... Go to Article »

Reevaluating the Role of Women in Beowulf (09/30/12)
This essay explores the roles of women in Beowulf in a contextual assessment. It is often an incorrect assumption that women within... Go to Article »

Limiting Values of Democracy and Competing Views on Materialism in American Society: Comparing Kirk and Nedelsky (09/18/12)
Limits lie at the heart of the American political system. No governmental body or figure has unlimited authority—all are checked... Go to Article »

Napoleon Bonaparte's Peak of Military Success: Ulm and Austerlitz (09/17/12)
“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once; as for me I see only one thing, namely the enemy... Go to Article »

The Role and Impact of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Taking Satire Seriously On A "Daily Show" Basis (09/06/12)
Throughout the past decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has expanded its depth of analysis and impacted the political process... Go to Article »

Shakespeare's King Lear: The Promised End (09/03/12)
William Shakespeare's King Lear begins with Lear ignoring the natural order of family inheritance by deciding to divide his kingdom... Go to Article »

The Impact of Parental Marital Status on Gender Ideology (08/27/12)
Even in the new millennium, divorce is a taboo subject. Society is inundated with statistics reporting high rates of divore, that... Go to Article »

Redefining the Elegy in the Twentieth Century: Thomas Hardy's The Convergence of the Twain And Sylvia Plath's Daddy (08/21/12)
Forms of poetry are constantly changing as authors stray from what is conventional and familiar, and delve into what is new and different... Go to Article »

Wrongful Conviction in the American Judicial Process: History, Scope, and Analysis (08/20/12)
This paper addresses the historical, current, and projected scope of wrongful convictions in the judicial process of the United States... Go to Article »

Toward a Neurobiological Understanding of Religion: Examining Ritual and the Body (08/17/12)
One of the numerous working definitions of religion includes "a belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be worshipped,"... Go to Article »

Dialogic Conflict and Speech Identity in Jean Rhys' Let Them Call it Jazz (08/16/12)
Confined to prison following her inability to pay a five-pound fine, Selina Davis situates herself outside a traditional system. She... Go to Article »

John Temple Graves and the 'Lost Tribe:' An Analysis of "The Big World At Last Reaches Gee's Bend" (08/08/12)
An exhibition entitled “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in November... Go to Article »

Finitude, Existence, and Community: Letting the Individual Die (07/16/12)
Addressing finitude as it relates to existence and community, Jean Luc Nancy and Martin Heidegger recognize finitude to be both the... Go to Article »

The Mystery of Miracles: Examining Religious Providence in the Sixteenth-Century Captivity Narratives of Hans Staden and Cabeza de Vaca (07/06/12)
Miracles are a complex and fascinating phenomenon. Accounts throughout history have detailed remarkable instances of what people have... Go to Article »

Contradiction in Marriage and Love in the Song of Songs (07/04/12)
The Song of Songs is a unique book in the Bible. There is no plot and no mention of God, but the piece says a lot about early Hebrew... Go to Article »

Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Struggle Against Society and Nature (07/02/12)
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was a bold piece of fiction in its time, and protagonist Edna Pontellier was a controversial character... Go to Article »

Defense of Insanity in Ireland: Present Law and its Application to Psychopaths (06/22/12)
Propositions for the reform of the criminal law concerning insanity had been debated in Ireland for decades. The factors, which undoubtedly... Go to Article »

Food, Love and Death in Norman's 'night Mother (06/17/12)
Marsha Norman’s 1983 play‘night Mother is full of food imagery and references. From the opening stage directions to Jessie... Go to Article »

Much Ado About Nothing: Examining the Curse of Tutankhamun (06/10/12)
In the early part of the 20th century, the world experienced tumultuous change. At the turn of the century, advances in technology... Go to Article »

A New Missionary Method: Latin America as a Mission Field (05/31/12)
Missionary work has been an integral part of community development in Latin America. However, does missionary work actually impact... Go to Article »

Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat and the Black Female Voice: The Perspective of the African-American Woman (05/23/12)
Zora Neale Hurston is the author of the acclaimed short story Sweat. The story was published in 1926, an incredible accomplishment... Go to Article »

Duty in the Face of Defeat: The Confederate Soldier's Perseverance (05/11/12)
By 1864 and 1865, the effects of three years of war were like symptoms of a terrible disease afflicting the Confederacy. Internal... Go to Article »

Examining the Foundations of Documentary Film Through The Cove (05/02/12)
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists... Go to Article »

William Tyndale: Contribution to the English Language and Father of the English Bible (02/23/12)
The English language is constantly changing. More and more editions of the Webster’s Dictionary are being published every decade... Go to Article »

The Politics of Harold Pinter (02/17/12)
The politics of Harold Pinter’s work are not derived from any ideological affinity with a specific political position, or indeed... Go to Article »

What Riot? Punk Rock Politics, Fascism, and Rock Against Racism (01/30/12)
The punk-rock movement or youth subculture of late seventies Britain was and is, even today, the cause of much controversy. It has... Go to Article »

Fate, Fortune, and Timon of Athens: Reinterpreting The Senecan Chorus (01/25/12)
In Seneca's tragedies, the Roman playwright and philosopher employed the concept of fate and fortune to structure the outcome of characters... Go to Article »

Literature as a Social Tool: Education and Cohesion or Class Domination? (01/13/12)
English literature is all-encompassing: it ranges from societal utilitarianism of the didactic through to the celebration of individualism... Go to Article »

Who Drove the Libyan Uprising? (01/01/12)
During the armed conflict to topple Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, a common question for observers was “who are the Libyan opposition... Go to Article »

The Protocols of the Elders of Mecca (01/01/12)
‘An ethno-religious group has a plan to take control over Europe. The nation is stabbed in the back by one group of people.&... Go to Article »

Superbrands, Globalization, and Neoliberalism: Exploring Causes and Consequences of the Nike Superbrand (12/29/11)
The rise of superbrands has many implications for the nature of work, workers, and organizations. This paper explores superbrands... Go to Article »

Cedars to the East: A Study of Modern Lebanon (12/23/11)
The political history of the Middle East is a complex story wrought with instability, conflict, religious and ethnic cleavages, and... Go to Article »

Effects of Globalization on Work and Organizations: Exploring Post-Industrialism, Post-Fordism, Work and Management in the Global Era (12/18/11)
As we move from Fordism to Post-Fordism and from Industrialism to Post-Industrialism, the new Market that prevails under Globalization... Go to Article »

Jane Austen's Unnamed Character: Exploring Nature in Pride and Prejudice (2005) (12/12/11)
The 2005 film Pride & Prejudice opens with sound rather than picture, but it is not the expected man-made musical score that fills... Go to Article »

The Illusion of US Isolationism (11/01/11)
As of September 2011, the United States was involved, at different levels, in military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen... Go to Article »

Militarization of Aid and its Implications for Colombia (11/01/11)
The US has increasingly turned to using the military to administer humanitarian aid in recent years. This process has come under attack... Go to Article »

Racial Uplift: Acculturation to the Dominant Culture in Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins (10/27/11)
Domestic fiction reigned in women’s literature during the nineteenth-century. These narratives defined ”True Womanhood... Go to Article »

Power and Transgression in Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure: Artifice and Ideology as Tools of the Elite (10/07/11)
Shakespeare’s comedies, at first glance, seem to uniformly end on a positive note, with the fulfillment of desires, the overcoming... Go to Article »

The Restorative Forces of Balance in Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh (09/20/11)
Stephen Mitchell’s interpretation of the 3500 year old Sumerian epic, Gilgamesh, offers valuable lessons behind its monster-... Go to Article »

The Macdonald Sisters: How They Visually Created Equality Between Men and Women (09/13/11)
The prevailing issue of fin-de-siècle France was the increasing autonomy of women. Independence for women threatened traditional... Go to Article »

Dexter, Democracy, and Nietzsche: Puzzling Through the Deep End of America's TV Obsession (09/06/11)
Within the milieu of American television, the vigilante serial killer, Dexter, stands alone with one of the largest audiences. Why... Go to Article »

In the ECJ We Trust: The Authority of EU Law in the Context of Constitutional Conflict (09/01/11)
“In God We Trust” - the motto that inspired a nation built on the paradox ‘out of many, one’ could be construed... Go to Article »

Can Religious-Based Ethics Play a Role in Development? (08/30/11)
Development is closely linked to the idea of progress. Therefore the way in which progress is quantified, whether through economic... Go to Article »

Somali Refugees in Kenya: Security Deficiencies and Public Health Concerns as a Result of Ineffective Policy (08/23/11)
Somalia is home to roughly 9 million people, the overwhelming majority of whom are ethnic Somalis (UN Statistics Division 2010). The... Go to Article »

Free Will in the Christian Cosmology: Comparing Paul and Augustine (08/16/11)
The Abrahamic God is an awesome god. He is omnipotent, omniscient, omni-benevolent, and omnipresent. Such a being truly deserves our... Go to Article »

The Influence of Social, Political, and Economic Factors on the Development and Form of Zulu Religious Activity in the 19th and 20th Centuries (07/26/11)
This proverb sadly encapsulates the reality of existence for the Zulu people in the last two centuries. Ripped from their positions... Go to Article »

The Historical Jesus: What Can We Really Learn? (07/11/11)
Whether or not one believes in the theology attached to him, it is impossible to deny the effect that Jesus has had on humanity. Movements... Go to Article »

Duke Ellington's Jazz Narrative of the African-American: Black, Brown, and Beige (06/29/11)
To assume the task of narrating the history of an overtly oppressed race is a daunting responsibility. Nonetheless, Edward Kennedy... Go to Article »

Dostoevsky's Hegelian Parody in Crime and Punishment (06/15/11)
This project examines the role of the Left Hegelian school of philosophy in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Special attention... Go to Article »

Jazz Writing: Identity and Multiculturalism in Jazz Literature (06/14/11)
Jazz is not a solitary art. Its form does not only reveal itself in the music. Jazz finds manifestation in many other forms of expression... Go to Article »

Nigromancy in the Later Middle Ages (06/09/11)
The struggle of the early modern church against witchcraft is rightly famous. However, before they were hunting woman flying on broomsticks... Go to Article »

Temptation and the Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring (05/31/11)
Published in 1954, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a follow-up to his 1937 book, The Hobbit. An epic fantasy... Go to Article »

Copernicus, Galileo, and the Church: Science in a Religious World (05/27/11)
During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated... Go to Article »

Creation and Rebellion in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (05/25/11)
Perusing famous works of literature, one would be hard pressed to find a volume that does not concern itself with the relationship... Go to Article »

Vehicles for Story: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on Defining African Literature, Preserving Culture and Self (05/20/11)
The historic 1962 conference at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda brought together scholars and writers from various parts of... Go to Article »

Gender and Power in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (05/18/11)
In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the overriding force of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is his need to prove himself master of everything... Go to Article »

Is Paul a Liar? The Pauline Corinthian Conflict and the Need for Reform in the American Church (05/02/11)
The corpus of literature regarding Pauline Criticism is largely qualitative and polarized. Close examination of the Pauline-Corinthian... Go to Article »

Democracy and Islamism in Algeria: Islamocracy? (04/26/11)
Following a successful war of liberation in 1962, Algeria successfully gained independence from France and an authoritarian social... Go to Article »

Dramatic Therapy: Stylish Re-enactments in Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie (04/18/11)
Alfred Hitchcock’s first three films of the 1960s, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, feature alliterative blonde bombshell leads... Go to Article »

Interpreting Gawain: The Hermeneutics of Translation (04/13/11)
In the Broadview Press edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, editor and translator James Winny makes a concerted effort to render... Go to Article »

Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth (04/11/11)
The world in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has one goal: technological progress. The morals and aspirations of the society... Go to Article »

The Performance of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Simone de Beauvior's Second Sex (04/07/11)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella Herland explores a separatist feminist utopia. Published in 1915, Herland begins when three... Go to Article »

Admirable Echoes: Intellectual Debts of Dramaturgical Sociology (03/31/11)
Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982) left an indelible imprint on contemporary sociological theory and research... Go to Article »

The Politics of Transgression: History, Society, and the Individual in Postcolonial Literature (03/25/11)
In two postcolonial novels, The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Secrets by Nuruddin Farah, both authors use the politics... Go to Article »

Combat Motivation During the First World War (03/15/11)
This paper considers the combat motivations of British men during the First World War; why did men fight, and once in the trenches... Go to Article »

C'est Moi: Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" (03/10/11)
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is an intricate and compelling tale of a young woman caught in the throes of romanticism, a... Go to Article »

Ahab's Devolution in Herman Melville's Moby Dick (03/03/11)
Ahab, the monomaniacal ship captain of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, is a man plagued by revenge. Searching the seas for the... Go to Article »

Western Feminism in a Global Perspective (02/24/11)
American women have struggled historically against certain paradigms of inferiority that all women experience. The female identity... Go to Article »

The Effect of Troy's Rebirth on Aeneas's Transformation in the Aeneid (02/18/11)
In the Aeneid, Virgil depicts the struggle of the newly displaced Trojans to find a new home, under the leadership of Aeneas. The... Go to Article »

Thomas King's Medicine River as Associational Literature (02/17/11)
Based on his own definition of the term in “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial,” Thomas King has created a piece of associational... Go to Article »

Chinese Women and Christianity in the Late Imperial Era (02/08/11)
Christianity has not gained a large number of adepts in China, if compared, for example, with Japan. But Christianity in China, in... Go to Article »

Human Constructions and Changing Perceptions in W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn" (02/07/11)
High school science textbooks are quick to point out that virtually everything in existence today was at some point formed by the... Go to Article »

Gender-Specific Language of the Major Prophets in The Hebrew Bible: The Case of the First and Second Isaiah (02/04/11)
Prophecy is one of the most important institutions in the Hebrew Bible. The prophet is regarded as the voice of the Lord, bringing... Go to Article »

Byzantine and Russian Influences in Andrei Rublev's Art (02/01/11)
Andrei Rublev (c. 1360-1430) is a mysterious figure, whose biography is not well known, although he is historically considered the... Go to Article »

The Reign of Peter the Great (01/28/11)
Peter the Great inherited a score of problems in the administration of his empire. Of course, through his well-known zest and ambition... Go to Article »

Slavery and Religion in the Antebellum South (01/24/11)
For many decades, scholars have debated the importance of religion in helping slaves cope with the horrible experience of slavery... Go to Article »

F.W. Murnau, His Films, and Their Influence on German Expressionism (01/24/11)
F.W. Murnau had a diverse and artistic upbringing, and led an international lifestyle as an adult. His experiences, interests, and... Go to Article »

The Influence of Religion on Health (01/19/11)
Religion is a subject that we encounter daily, either because we follow a specific faith and the rules established by it, or because... Go to Article »

Exploring Time in Folktales: Analyzing "Youth Without Age and Life Without Death" and "Where There Is No Death" (01/18/11)
Youth without Age and Life without Death and Where there is No Death present the theme of time in opposite ways: while in Youth without... Go to Article »

The "N-Word:" The Use and Development of the Term "Nigger" in African-American Culture, as Depicted in the Plays of August Wilson (01/10/11)
August Wilson represents the experiences of African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century in his Pittsburgh Cycle, a collection... Go to Article »

The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art (01/06/11)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted by Matthew Bruccoli, recognized the importance of his own novel and its artistic achievements: &ldquo... Go to Article »

Exploring Madness in Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lawrence's Women in Love (12/29/10)
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a novel about the human psyche. It is as concerned with man’s ability to descend... Go to Article »

Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" and the Roles of Men and Women (12/16/10)
In the society that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is set in, women generally are held in a lower social standing than men... Go to Article »

American Transcendentalism and Analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" (11/23/10)
What began in New England in the early nineteenth-century as a reform of the Congregational Church grew into what some scholars consider... Go to Article »

The Sermon on the Mount: Is it Livable? (11/22/10)
When the Preacher wrote, “of making many books there is no end” [KJV Eccles. 12:12] he did not anticipate the mass of... Go to Article »

William Bradford, The Puritan Ethic, & The Mayflower Compact (11/19/10)
Dissatisfied with the results of the reformation of the Church of England, a group of extreme separatists known as the Puritans desired... Go to Article »

Comparison of Petrarch's Sonnet 292 of the Canzoniere and Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (11/17/10)
Petrarch and Shakespeare are two poets known for their work on the subject of love. While they each approach the subject of their... Go to Article »

Female Cyberbullying: Causes and Prevention Strategies (11/12/10)
In recent months, the epidemic of bullying in the United States has received widespread attention in the news media. Though bullying... Go to Article »

Containing the Atom: Paul Nitze and the Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (11/01/10)
Immediately following the first and only uses of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Truman described nuclear stewardship... Go to Article »

Superheroes, Superpowers, and Sexuality (10/29/10)
Superheroes have a strong influence in our society, and as such we should look at the messages that they represent. To this... Go to Article »

The Matthaean Exception Clause: A 21st Century Interpretation (10/27/10)
Sexism is not unique to Christianity; however, in the Christian religion many of those who identify themselves as Christian fundamentalists... Go to Article »

A Psychoanalytic Deconstruction of Perspective in John McGahern's 'The Dark' (10/26/10)
You, he, they, and I. All of these pronouns are used in John McGahern’s The Dark to refer to the central character who, when... Go to Article »

Shock Advertising: Theories, Risks, and Outcomes Analyzed Using the Case of Barnardo's (10/21/10)
Founded in 1867 by Dr. Thomas Barnardo to help "abused, vulnerable, forgotten and neglected children," children's charity Barnardo... Go to Article »

Libido and Thanatos in Tobias Wolff's "The Night in Question" (10/18/10)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said that “All art is but imitation of nature” (Bartlett’s 106) and this has held true... Go to Article »

Female Writers in the 18th Century: The Power of Imagination (10/15/10)
Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition,... Go to Article »

Qi (Chi) in James Cameron's Avatar (10/12/10)
A nine-foot-tall, royal blue giant creeps low to the ground, brushing by exotic foliage. He holds a proportionally large bow and arrow... Go to Article »

Italian Politics and the Sicilian Mafia: An Account from 1983 to Present (09/23/10)
Many know the Island of Sicily as a warm, sun-filled exotic paradise that became home to travelers from distant lands. This paese... Go to Article »

Women in Ancient Japan: From Matriarchal Antiquity to Acquiescent Confinement (09/15/10)
The role of women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods... Go to Article »

The History of Mental Illness: From Skull Drills to Happy Pills (09/10/10)
The limitlessly varied personalities of human beings have fascinated both scientists and fellow members of society throughout the... Go to Article »

The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany (09/09/10)
The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the... Go to Article »

Mysticism and Christianity in Early English Literature: Comparing Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (07/12/10)
The introduction of Christianity to England in 597 established a structured, uniform faith among a people accustomed to different... Go to Article »

Aphra Behn's The Rover: Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options (07/08/10)
Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out... Go to Article »

The Bush Presidency: Undermining the Separation Between Church and State (07/01/10)
The Establishment Clause is an important element of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It states that “Congress shall... Go to Article »

The Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Movement (06/30/10)
“A song is something that we communicate to those people who otherwise would not understand where we are coming from. You could... Go to Article »

George Bush and No Child Left Behind: A Federalist Perspective (06/22/10)
President George Bush came into office in 2001 after both a campaign and outcome that shook the nation. Following the controversial... Go to Article »

A Response to Tanzimat: Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Pan-Islamism (05/14/10)
Under the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the late nineteenth century the concept of Pan-Islamism, the concept that all Islamic... Go to Article »

Vampires: The Ever-Changing Face of Fear (05/07/10)
In the past two-hundred or so years, vampires have transformed from a sort of worst nightmare into the charming hero of our dreams... Go to Article »

How Compassionate Was George W. Bush's Conservatism? (05/05/10)
In this chapter, we will be observing the extent to which our 43rd President upheld his 2000 campaign promise to be a compassionate... Go to Article »

The Universal Prayer: How Money Became the World's First Shared Religion (05/03/10)
Money is a term difficult to define. It is a concept subject to deep individual interpretation. For some, money means power, to others... Go to Article »

(Im)Mortality and the Poem: Comparing and Contrasting Marvell and Shakespeare (04/29/10)
The meaning behind both Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Shakespeare’s sonnets has been debated... Go to Article »

The Dalai Lama, Buddhism, and Tibet: Reflecting on a Half-Century of Change (04/27/10)
Throughout history, there have been several ways in which people perceive Tibet. Since it has traditionally been isolated from the... Go to Article »

The Design of Absent Crisis: The Clinton Administration on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide (04/20/10)
The year 1993 was not a good one for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west... Go to Article »

The X Factor: How Malcolm X Internationalized the Civil Rights Movement (04/15/10)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... Go to Article »

The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the Inverted Plautine Comedy (04/12/10)
The first line of Plautus’ epitaph reads: “Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta,&rdquo... Go to Article »

The Concept of Unity in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South" (04/06/10)
North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions... Go to Article »

Mind Sweet Mind: A Closer Look at Salman Rushdie's Invisible Homeland in East, West (03/26/10)
Every person has a birthplace, a starting point that offers a sense of identity for an individual. Through this start, this receding... Go to Article »

Differences and Similarities Between Buddhist Monks and Nuns (03/24/10)
Established around 500 BCE by Siddhartha Gotama, known better as Buddha, Buddhism has since spread throughout the world, attracting... Go to Article »

"Every Place in the World on the Same Level!": Examining the Display of Non-Western Art at the Musee du Quai Branly (03/22/10)
The Musée du Quai Branly opened under the long shadow of the Eiffel Tower in 2006 to spectacular criticism. Initiated primarily... Go to Article »

Hitler's Use of Film in Germany, Leading up to and During World War II (03/18/10)
German cinema from 1927 to 1945 was affected drastically by the political environment that grew within the nation. After Germany suffered... Go to Article »

Using Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Technologies to Treat Parkinson's Disease (03/10/10)
Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegerative disorder most prevalent in the elderly and for which there is currently... Go to Article »

Shakespeare's Apemantus: The Amazing, Changing Flat Character in Timon of Athens (03/04/10)
In William Shakespeare's The Life of Timon of Athens, the character Apemantus is a Cynic philosopher, who delights in presenting the... Go to Article »

Prompts for Progress: Feminism in the Islamic World (03/03/10)
From skimpy skirts to smoldering skivvies, American’s remember the 1960s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights... Go to Article »

Gay Marriage in Antiquity: How Far Have We Come? (03/03/10)
Mention the phrase “gay marriage” to any American and you can almost always expect some type of response. Everyone, it... Go to Article »

Revisiting H.G. Wells' Depiction of Science and Religion in War of the Worlds (03/02/10)
Every passing decade, the culture of human beings as a whole has been significantly affected by technology and science. Whether it... Go to Article »

Perspective in the Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (02/26/10)
Reading a story by Ursula Le Guin is like watching a poignant movie unfold on screen: captivating and intriguing, a tale that is not... Go to Article »

Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Reflection and Rebuke of Victorian Society (02/25/10)
Bram Stoker’s now legendary novel, Dracula, is not just any piece of cult-spawning fiction, but rather a time capsule containing... Go to Article »

Jesus Christ as The Modern Hero in John Milton's Paradise Lost (02/22/10)
The story of mankind's fall from Eden as written by John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost portrays a classically heroic Satan... Go to Article »

Examining Greek Pederastic Relationships (02/19/10)
Pederasty is an ancient Greek form of interaction in which members of the same sex would partake in the pleasures of an intellectual... Go to Article »

Being Educated for Failure (02/12/10)
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under... Go to Article »

Restoring the Social Justice Identity of the Black Church (02/09/10)
In the days of past, the clarion call and mission of the black church was two-fold: it served as a beacon of hope for the lost-soul... Go to Article »

The Balance of Power Between Men and Women in Robert Browning's Poems (02/09/10)
Robert Browning’s two poems, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” have some striking similarities... Go to Article »

Corruption and Theories of Kingship in Macbeth (02/03/10)
In England and Scotland, the notion of a king's divine right to rule gained leverage during the reign of King James I. In James&rsquo... Go to Article »

Burying the Pen: Tackling Resistance to Formal Education by the Karimojong in Uganda (02/02/10)
The Karimojong people of the Karamoja region of Uganda are perhaps one of the few groups left on the planet that remain mostly disconnected... Go to Article »

The Relationship Between Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare (01/31/10)
A father’s goal is for his son to surpass him or simply carry on the honor of the family name. To try and avoid any mishaps,... Go to Article »

Nat Turner and the Bloodiest Slave Rebellion in American History (01/29/10)
Frederick Douglass’ statement about slavery concisely defines the effect that such an institution had on the entire shape of... Go to Article »

Brief Review: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (01/28/10)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is about a man on a voyage by ship, who in one impulsive... Go to Article »

Brief Review: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (01/28/10)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is about a man on a voyage by ship, who in one impulsive... Go to Article »

The "Vast Wasteland" Gets Vaster: The Future of Television in the Online Revolution (01/26/10)
In 1961, nearly a decade after the “Golden Age” of television had passed, commercial television was still changing the... Go to Article »

Women as the Submissive Sex in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (01/26/10)
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function... Go to Article »

Filling in the Holes in the Biography of William Shakespeare (01/25/10)
Shakespeare was a man surrounded by controversy. He, himself, has a biography filled with holes and question marks. Some have... Go to Article »

Sylvia Plath's "Bee Sequence": A Microcosm of Poetic Development (01/21/10)
The poems which Sylvia Plath composed in the weeks and days immediately preceding her death contain some of the most disturbing themes... Go to Article »

Breaking the Cycle: Violence, Control & Resistance in American Slave Narratives (01/18/10)
In the world of the American slave, violence and control were intimately connected. As Frederick Douglass notes, “Men are whipped... Go to Article »

A River for Freedom: The Itaipu Hyrdoelectric Project and the Democratization of Paraguay (01/13/10)
From 1954 to 1989, Paraguay was subject to the authoritarian regime of Alfredo Stroessner and the Colorado Party. While Stroessner... Go to Article »

La Fin D'un Reve: French Newspaper Coverage of 9/11 (01/05/10)
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the reaction of the French media was one of passionate empathy. The September 12th headline... Go to Article »

Examining Oppression Through the Lives and Stories of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (01/05/10)
Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time... Go to Article »

Panta Rei: The Next Ninety Years Of International Politics (01/01/10)
From Heraclitus to Marx, intellectuals have often recognised changes in the flow of history. Certain periods tend to be more dynamic... Go to Article »

Barack Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize: Justified or World Optimistic? (01/01/10)
On the 20th January, 2009, millions of people celebrated the inauguration of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States... Go to Article »

Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Plays of Shakespeare (12/31/09)
The number of ancient sources available to the readers and playwrights of Elizabethan times was truly immeasurable. These sources... Go to Article »

The Hero We Create: 9/11 & The Reinvention of Batman (12/30/09)
A giant hole is ripped in the side of a skyscraper. Smoke and flames pour out and debris tumbles into the street. Clouds of smoke... Go to Article »

Hell Hath No Fury: The Relationship Between Greece's Medusa and Egypt's Wadjet (12/29/09)
Two seemingly unconnected goddesses have more in common than most know. The earth is a small place and mythologies from one... Go to Article »

Jean De Joinville and his Biography of Saint Louis on the Seventh Crusade (12/18/09)
The French historian Jean de Joinville was born into a noble and influential family in Champagne in 1224.[1] He took the cross in... Go to Article »

How Now, Hecate? The Supernatural in Shakespeare's Tragedies (12/17/09)
I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the... Go to Article »

Perceptions of Knighthood: Comparing the Character of "The Knight" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (12/17/09)
Chaucer’s description of “the Knight” in his “General Prologue” may be seen as a multi-layered narration... Go to Article »

Art and Biology: How Discoveries in Biology Influenced the Development of Art Nouveau (12/15/09)
Art Nouveau is the so-called “modern style” developed at the turn of the 19th century. Although it is dated roughly between... Go to Article »

Slavery Plays Jump-Rope with Racism: Examining the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley (12/10/09)
Children’s literature in the context of this research paper (and hopefully too in the eyes of the majority) is the ultimate... Go to Article »

Universal Grace: Early Christian Texts Focused on Conversion (12/07/09)
I will oppose fervently anyone who argues that the relative success of the Christian church owes anything to “uniqueness,&rdquo... Go to Article »

Biblical Allusions in "The House of Fame" (12/03/09)
In Book II of “The House of Fame,” the narrator states that his dream is of greater significance than the biblical visions... Go to Article »

John Locke on Equality, Toleration, and the Atheist Exception (12/02/09)
Political philosopher and social psychologist, John Locke was an outspoken supporter of equal rights within a governed society. He... Go to Article »

Examining Pope Pius XII and Print Media Coverage in the U.S. (11/29/09)
Over the last few decades there has been an overflow of publications and discussions regarding Pope Pius XII in realtion to the Holocaust... Go to Article »

Confrontation with Death Illuminates Death's Mystery in the Odyssey (11/28/09)
Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing... Go to Article »

Examining Mythology in "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis (11/27/09)
The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world.&... Go to Article »

Religion in Caribbean Literature (11/23/09)
The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the... Go to Article »

The Emobidment of Human Tragedy in the Illiad (11/23/09)
Why raise the curtain on this 45 day by 45 night saga? In a story whose ending everybody knows already, why choose these actions of... Go to Article »

Milk and Honey: How the Old Testament Speaks to a People in Exile (11/20/09)
Mortal glory is fleeting. The Old Testament generally does not concern itself with militant triumph or climactic discovery. It much... Go to Article »

Impressions of Ashoka in Ancient India (11/18/09)
In the latter part of the third century B.C. India was rapidly changing. The Mauryan dynasty was expanding across the sub-continent... Go to Article »

Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism (11/17/09)
I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he &ldquo... Go to Article »

Female Norms and the Patriarchal Power Structure in Shakespeare's Hamlet (11/17/09)
Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the mores and norms of the society they live in. It is through this... Go to Article »

"Telepathic Shock" and "The Rush of It All:" Jack Kerouac's Use of Language in On the Road (11/16/09)
Jack Kerouac once wrote, “It’s not the words that count but the rush of what is said." In a graduate class focusing on... Go to Article »

From Cutting Trees to Slashing Emissions: Reducing Deforestation in Brazil (11/14/09)
Much debate has recently arisen over China’s and India’s responsibilities as related to climate protection. These two... Go to Article »

Child Murders in "Medea": Parallel, Past, and Present Use of Child Soldiers (11/13/09)
That wars are fought by the young for the old is a universally known truth. It is an ancient argument, a tired anti-war theme. Tired... Go to Article »

Future Hell: Nuclear Fiction in Pursuit of History (11/11/09)
What is a cyclical history? Why does humanity seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Are we doomed to this machine... Go to Article »

Sublime Inauthenticity: How Critical is Truth in Autobiography? (11/03/09)
In the autobiography, time and history, at first glance, seem paramount. After all, autobiography is the account of the things that... Go to Article »

Grassroots in San Cristobal de las Casas: Sna Jtz'Ibajom and Zapatistas (11/03/09)
The performativity of ritual, theatre, and spectacle give credence to all three being viewed as a type of social action. Not only... Go to Article »

Sermons in Sociolinguistic Skins: An Analysis of Wharry's Study on Discourse Markers in African-American Sermons (10/23/09)
In her article, “Amen and Hallelujah preaching: Discourse functions in African American sermons,” Cheryl Wharry examines... Go to Article »

John Locke and the Second Treatise on Government (10/19/09)
In 1688, King James II was overthrown by a group of Parliamentarians. This was the result of what is now known as the Glorious Revolution... Go to Article »

Aggressive Foreign Policy as an Instrument for the Legitimization of Putin's Regime: Georgia's Case (04/15/09)
The responsibility of Georgian President Michael Saakashvili for the war with Russia continued to be hotly debated in Georgia, Russia... Go to Article »

Rugby: Who's Game is it Anyway? (01/01/00)
Rugby is an extraordinary game for a number of reasons. In the five nations of the Five Nations Championship, it excites great enthusiasm... Go to Article »

Is "Maternal Love" a Cause of Peace? (01/01/97)
In Inter-State, spring 1995, Ms K. Clancy writes about one of today’s issues, the role of feminism in the international relations... Go to Article »

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