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Rural Education In Peru: A Study Of Its Performance, Physical And Digital Infrastructure, Gender, Linguistic, And Social And Cultural Development, Mohammed Forero Bucheli
Rural Education In Peru: A Study Of Its Performance, Physical And Digital Infrastructure, Gender, Linguistic, And Social And Cultural Development, Mohammed Forero Bucheli
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Rural and indigenous education in Peru significantly differs from its urban counterparts. The physical and digital infrastructure, gender-based education, linguistic neglect, and sociocultural discrimination that rural and indigenous communities’ education receive profoundly affect performance. This thesis aims to showcase these characteristics through case studies, comparing different government and community projects to understand their development in these areas. These cases explore different aspects of the educational situation of the Huallatiri, San Antonio de Cusicancha, and Quispicanchi communities in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Through these analyses, this study portrays the intersectional characteristics of educational development in rural and indigenous communities and how …
A Farewell To Gender Norms: Non-Heteronormative Characters In Ernest Hemingway's Writing, Christopher Bauman
A Farewell To Gender Norms: Non-Heteronormative Characters In Ernest Hemingway's Writing, Christopher Bauman
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This thesis examines the individuals in Ernest Hemingway’s personal life that inspired the non-heteronormative characters in his writing. It asserts that those most responsible for this influence include Jim Gamble, Grace Hemingway, Ruth Arnold, Gertrude Stein, Sydney Franklin, Glenway Westcott, Hemingway’s wives, mainly Mary Welsh Hemingway, and Ernest Hemingway himself. The methodology included a thorough analysis of Hemingway’s biographies, personal letters, memoirs, short stories, novels, and Mary’s diary to identify and draw parallels between the named individuals and the fictional non-heteronormative characters inspired by them. The analyzed Hemingway works include: “A Simple Enquiry,” “The Mercenaries,” “Mother of a Queen,” “The …
A Devised Ethnodrama: Conscious Voices, Sonia Pasqual
A Devised Ethnodrama: Conscious Voices, Sonia Pasqual
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Using techniques of storytelling, dance, poems, and monologues in the process of re-enacting life stories, the ensemble display issues that may be impeding society’s growth—discrimination against body image, blackness, females, and LGBTQ individuals. In addition, engagement in storytelling and performance can help the audience increase their cognitive skills, empathy, and ability to live a communal life. This evidence-based practice can transform lives and society. It has the potential of continuing to other faculties and with other departments, such as film, musical, and additional narratives. This specific work could be extended out beyond art and education into populations of any communities …
The Death-Song Of G-Man, Gil Franqui
The Death-Song Of G-Man, Gil Franqui
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The Death-song of g-man is a coming of age story. More specifically, it is a collection of short stories that tell the tale of a generation Xer who came of age during the latter half of the 20th century in America. Half the collection takes place in a decayed New York City during the 1970s and 80s. The second half is situated in the green, clean and pristine city of Seattle in the early 1980s. The Death-song of g-man is transitional in that it reveals aspects of American life as one century waned and another was soon to be ushered …
A Feminine Gothic Revival: The Haunting Of Shirley Jackson And Toni Morrison, Mallory Danley
A Feminine Gothic Revival: The Haunting Of Shirley Jackson And Toni Morrison, Mallory Danley
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
In the realm of Gothic literature, the main characters typically involve a helpless woman in the clutches of her male assailant. Critics have long established that the traditional Gothic genre is considered a male-dominated discipline fixated on ideas of power, control, and submission. This essay argues that Shirley Jackson and Toni Morrison separate from this trope and invent the haunted heroine, a leading lady so haunted by the past, relationships, and emotions that through unique character development, insidious use of dread, and malicious paranormal occurrences create a nouveau dichotomy within Gothic literature. This essay is a close reading of two …
Faust In Context: A Comparitive Examination Of The Fates Of Marlowe's And Goethe's Faust Characters, Kristin Abel
Faust In Context: A Comparitive Examination Of The Fates Of Marlowe's And Goethe's Faust Characters, Kristin Abel
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This paper explores two prominent plays about the legendary Doctor Faust character through examination of the historical, religious, scientific and political context in which they were written. Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Parts 1 and 2 were written approximately two hundred years apart and during that time, the fate of the Faust character changes from damnation in Marlowe's version to redemption in Goethe's version. Both plays reflect the shift in regard for curiosity and the pursuit of scientific knowledge from vice to virtue that occurred between the writing of each play, …
The Lost Light Of Liberty, Justin Cole
The Lost Light Of Liberty, Justin Cole
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
"The Lost Light of Liberty" is a project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Liberal Studies and written by Justin Cole.
Near-Death Experiences: Vision Of The Afterlife Through The Domains Of The Liberal Arts, David Huff
Near-Death Experiences: Vision Of The Afterlife Through The Domains Of The Liberal Arts, David Huff
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This paper will review Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) from different perspectives in the Liberal Arts. The goal is to triangulate the perspectives of several disciplines on the phenomena of NDEs, thus seeing them with a new and more complete understanding that will not only bring this phenomenon to better light, but hopefully provide information about what the reader could expect if they find themselves in a NDE.
The Gender And Sexuality Of Jewish Women, Risa Cole
The Gender And Sexuality Of Jewish Women, Risa Cole
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Drawing from the author’s personal experiences and research on Judaism and modernity, the thesis of this paper is that all Jewish women are affected by both world views in ways that are complex and multifaceted.
Ancient Wisdom And Future Medicine: A Defense Of The Science Of Ayurveda, Michael Eatmon
Ancient Wisdom And Future Medicine: A Defense Of The Science Of Ayurveda, Michael Eatmon
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
A growing number of people turn to Ayurveda as a complement or an alternative to conventional Western medicine. What are they turning to—a genuine medical science or a patent pseudoscience? This paper claims that modern Ayurvedic medicine is a genuine science with a promising future.
Embodied Autoethnography, Courtney M. Fuller
Embodied Autoethnography, Courtney M. Fuller
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
In the past few decades, scholars have begun to combine research and personal experience, exploring the self through autoethnography. This thesis is a reflexive, arts-based autoethnographic study that investigates body, female body image, and identity. Though autoethnography has several subgenres (e.g., critical, performative), this thesis aligns most closely with embodied autoethnography. With this embodied autoethnography, I invite readers—you—inside several pivotal experiences in my life. Combining personal narrative and others’ research, I endeavor to understand changes in body image and identity in some of the most transformative experiences in my life. Specifically, I seek to address: (a) How do life-altering events …
Confronting Western Conceptions Of Non-Human Animal Cognition, Jinji Donato
Confronting Western Conceptions Of Non-Human Animal Cognition, Jinji Donato
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The capabilities of non-human animals have long been subjected to philosophical consideration in the West. Over the course of a longstanding cultural dialogue about non-human animal capability, the Aristotelian view of humans as the only rational species, and consequently more valuable species in a hierarchy of being, seems to have prevailed. In this thesis, a Western view of animal cognition as “non-rational” is juxtaposed with the contemporary study of animal minds via the disciplines of comparative psychology, ethology and animal studies in order to emphasize a cognitive dissonance between historical and contemporary views. Based in part on belief in animal …
The Clashing Island Of Humanity: Virgil's Aeneid As Heroic Threnody, Steffen Mathis
The Clashing Island Of Humanity: Virgil's Aeneid As Heroic Threnody, Steffen Mathis
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This study follows neither the paradigm of pro-or anti-Augustan nor the strict belief that the intention of the poet, like other poets of the time, is one of ambiguity open to multiple interpretations. Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic poem with a clearly woven thesis that the hospitality relationships that its hero enters both transcend and address the difficulties he faces in founding Rome. The Rome that Aeneas founds is, like Augustan Rome’s mythology, built on labors and toils. Aeneas’ labors are moral, they are intellectual, and they are searching for the relationship between the human and the divine that is …
The Psychological Grotesque In Modern American Literature, Amanda Turnbull
The Psychological Grotesque In Modern American Literature, Amanda Turnbull
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
In his novel Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson describes a grotesque as someone who has “snatched up” a “truth,” “called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it” (23-4). This one defining “truth” manifests in the grotesque’s life in the form of a number of significant psychological deformities such as fanaticism, denial of reality, and turning inward upon oneself, isolating the grotesque from those around him and arresting his emotional and psychological growth. Using Anderson’s paradigm, this thesis explores the pervasive use of the psychological grotesque in modern American literature by examining the overlapping features of grotesque characters …
The Man Who Put His Head In A Microwave Oven: A Look At James Incandenza From Infinite Jest, Esteban Meneses
The Man Who Put His Head In A Microwave Oven: A Look At James Incandenza From Infinite Jest, Esteban Meneses
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
I will attempt to reconstruct and interpret the elusive ‘Infinite Jest,’ the film within the novel of the same title. As James Incandenza’s final product whose cryptic message originates in the filmmaker’s broken upbringing and damaged relationship with his own family, the movie points beyond the novel to the world of the reader and serves as Wallace’s mirrored evaluation of the purpose and moral considerations on literary fiction, itself part of American culture. By analyzing primarily Incandenza’s relationship with his father in the two 1960s scenes, I intend to provide a missing component in previous IJ scholarship toward the elucidation …
Under The Influence: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Psychedelics, Jody Roun
Under The Influence: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Psychedelics, Jody Roun
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The following research will outline the effects of psychedelics from an interdisciplinary approach, which is to say that I will explore the neuroscience behind psychedelic drugs and how it relates to creativity, as a primary focus, while examining the role of additional points included along the way. The goal of this research, is to gain a deeper understanding of psychedelics and truly decipher what it means to be under the influence, as the most important goal of this human existence is to achieve understanding. The aforementioned is a point that great minds like Albert Einstein and Humphry Osmond impressed on …
Reimagining The Narrative: A Contemporary Creative Collection Of Interracial Perspective, Holly Jefferies
Reimagining The Narrative: A Contemporary Creative Collection Of Interracial Perspective, Holly Jefferies
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This essay offers a critical analysis of my creative thesis, Reimagining the Narrative: A Contemporary Creative Collection of Interracial Perspective, which consists of five fabric art scrolls, illustrating contemporary narrative views about interracial relations. I present such information to demonstrate the need to retell history from a visual interracial perspective, so that it might be seen through a new lens. In this critical essay, I argue that while historical context and documentation records history and provides insight into historical narratives, contemporary views within writing and art persist in their capacity to not only offer new points of view, but also …
Sacramental Imagery In The Fiction Of James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, And Wendell Berry, David Jones
Sacramental Imagery In The Fiction Of James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, And Wendell Berry, David Jones
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Alienation, nihilism, disenchantment, and destruction of the Earth are some of the widespread maladies of modernity and post-modernity. Dualisms between body and soul, the physical and spiritual, nature and grace, and fact and value have separated humans from other people, from the Earth, from the divine, and ultimately from themselves. Ambivalence about embodiment has characterized Western Civilization since at least the time of Plato and early Christianity. Over time, a confluence of powerful philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas and movements deepened the fissures of these destructive dualisms. Modern science with its claims to hegemony over objective ways of knowing the …
The Metamodern Man, Nathan R. Arrowsmith
The Metamodern Man, Nathan R. Arrowsmith
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Abstract The first time I heard the term, “Metamodern Age,” I was actively involved in a discussion about the various themes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The setting was a Master of Liberal Studies class (Rollins College, MLS 604), entitled “Modernity” taught by Dr. Tom Cook. It was October of 2015. Frankenstein, also known as The Modern Prometheus, is a masterpiece and a solid sample from the Modern Era. Following approximately fifty years of Postmodern Era sludge, we are now in what could be identified as the Metamodern Era. Our Modernity class speculated confidently that the current Age of Metamodernism is …
Structural Inadequacies, Poorly Crafted Legislation, Eroding Imperial Authority, Escalating Confessional Conflict And The Eventual Intractability Of Two Ruling Princes, Caused The Thirty Years War, Arthur N. Traver
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Europe in the 16th Century was experiencing radical social, political and economic change. Technological development was apparent in all aspects of society. Most noteworthy was the invention of the printing press which enabled rapid dissemination of information to a rapidly increasingly literate general population. Towns, the development of trades and the provision of specialized services were rapidly evolving. European commerce was changing from a feudal structure to a money based economy. That is, currency in return for goods and services was replacing a structure of peasants providing life essentials protected by aristocratic nobility. The centralized, complicated, hierarchical feudal political structure …
Guarded Optimism, Cynical Fatalism: An Intertextual Analysis Of Selected Victorian Novels And Their Modernist Reinterpretations, Michelle L. Strickland
Guarded Optimism, Cynical Fatalism: An Intertextual Analysis Of Selected Victorian Novels And Their Modernist Reinterpretations, Michelle L. Strickland
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The Victorian and modern eras are known for being a time of great change. Victorian authors focused their works on the social, political, and religious upheaval that the country was experiencing during the period. They felt a strong sense of pride in their country, and there was always a sense of hope in their writing. These views are what draw the modern author to retell Victorian novels; yet, the modern writer removes the Victorian sense of hope and replaces it with the sense of the disillusionment which engulfed their era. In this paper, I examine the concept of intertextuality, the …
Lengua Latina: Representations Of Sex And Gender In Latina Literature, Jessica L. Harris
Lengua Latina: Representations Of Sex And Gender In Latina Literature, Jessica L. Harris
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
An exploration of the influence of Spanish language on gender, sexuality, and sisterhood in various aspects of Latina/o literature. In Chapter I, I examine Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s film, Chicana playwright Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves, and Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera as a tool for analyzing conceptions of “Other” and the ways these issues intersect with one another. In Chapter II, I look at La Virgen and La Malinche dichotomy and the ways stereotypes appear in Latina poetry. In Chapter III, I discuss hermanas and comadres and their importance outside the intimacy of romantic relationships. Throughout this project, I …
William Morris And Diego Rivera: The Pursuit Of Art For The People, Heidi S. Shugg
William Morris And Diego Rivera: The Pursuit Of Art For The People, Heidi S. Shugg
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to draw parallels between the art and philosophy of William Morris (1834-1896) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). Morris drew on his interest in gothic art and architecture, his love of Romantic literature, and his commitment to social reform, to articulate the aesthetic and social vision of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. Examples of Morris’s writings and his handicraft in the form of wallpapers, books, furniture, and the Red House will be examined. Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter and socialist activist perhaps best known for his murals depicting the working class. Several of …
Post-Colonial Female Identity: An Examination Of The Twentieth Century Narrative Between Nation And Identity In A Question Of Power, See Then Now, And Americanah, Jeannine Ortega
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This project endeavors to explore the variations of the post-colonial condition in the context of the twentieth and twenty-first century by following a literary analysis of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power, Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. This thesis hopes to draw together a series of snapshots that provide examples of the progress of the post-colonial condition. Each chapter models the ways in which colonial ideology and culture continue to intersect in new modes of societal expectations especially in terms of race, class, and gender. The combination of post-colonial analysis and literary narratives model how …
Leadership Cultural Intelligence: A Path To Highly Effective Global Operations, Joseph C. Gelineau Jr
Leadership Cultural Intelligence: A Path To Highly Effective Global Operations, Joseph C. Gelineau Jr
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This is a comparative study of how to achieve highly effective leadership in foreign cultures. The collective findings reveal that effective leadership is significantly limited when not accompanied by conscious efforts to apply cultural intelligence as a leadership dynamic in global operations. It reviews the science of leadership in terms of visionary transformation of organizations by leaders and the application of cultural intelligence operating in foreign culture environments. It evaluates the effect of cultural differences in the key leadership areas of innovation, a primary determinate of effective organizational performance, and ethical behavior applied across different cultural groups. Published research from …
Symposer's Dream, Mehdi Taifi
Symposer's Dream, Mehdi Taifi
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
This is a creative writing project titled Symposer’s Dream. The first part is the novel itself (seventy pages) and the second part is a research paper (fifteen pages). The novel is about a young former wall street guy who goes through a journey of a lifetime in search of meaning and a sense of belonging. He ends up travelling to the Canary Islands and eventually finds himself in Morocco where he discovers new truths and realities that end up changing his life. Many events in the story intertwine fiction and reality in such a way that make it challenging for …
Parramore And The Interstate 4: A World Torn Asunder (1880-1980), Yuri K. Gama
Parramore And The Interstate 4: A World Torn Asunder (1880-1980), Yuri K. Gama
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The present project centers on how the African American community of Parramore in Orlando, Florida, became a low-income neighborhood. Based on a timeline from 1880 to 1980 and the construction of the Interstate 4, this thesis investigates Parramore’s decline grounded in the effects of urban sprawl and racial oppression. Among the effects that contributed to the neighborhood's decline in the postwar era were the closing of black schools and the migration of black residents to other places after the 1960s; the disruption of the neighborhood with the construction of highways and public housing; and the lack of investment in new …
Catullus And Urbanitas: Ancient Roman Sophistication Through The Eyes Of A Multi-Faceted Poet, Marcus A. Vu
Catullus And Urbanitas: Ancient Roman Sophistication Through The Eyes Of A Multi-Faceted Poet, Marcus A. Vu
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Our culture seems to be fascinated with the lives of celebrities or high-society, but this fascination has not come about recently. Throughout time, we as humanity have always been curious and captivated by these individuals, especially when they make faux pas. Let us take Catullus for instance. He is considered the poetic “playboy” of the late Republic in Rome traveling through the social circles of Roman high-society and displaying atrocious behavior the whole time. He is linked to the most salacious indiscretions such as his relationship with Clodia Metella, a much older married Roman noble woman who was thought to …
Condorcet And I - A Fictional Conversation Between Condorcet And Me: On The Outlines Of An Historical View Of The Progress Of The Human Mind, Michael S. Christopher
Condorcet And I - A Fictional Conversation Between Condorcet And Me: On The Outlines Of An Historical View Of The Progress Of The Human Mind, Michael S. Christopher
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The thesis’ main question is: Has the reality of Condorcet’s Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind been realized with humanity becoming perfect, as Condorcet indicates? In answering that question, my thesis contention will present the fictional encounter between Condorcet and me in which we debate Condorcet’s essay. The two of us will embark upon our world views of humanism and theism in a dramatic debate, presenting our perspectives and try to get to a resolution.
Educating For The Twenty-First Century: A Pragmatist's View On The Dichotomy Of Stem And Liberal Arts, Emilie L. Mears
Educating For The Twenty-First Century: A Pragmatist's View On The Dichotomy Of Stem And Liberal Arts, Emilie L. Mears
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
Current American rhetoric pushes a purely STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum under societal pressure to pull funds from liberal arts programs and train workers as cheaply and quickly as possible. When this happens, higher education is no longer a means of learning and acquiring the tools for adaptability, ethic responsibility, and civic courage, but a commodity, bought and sold for immediate employment. While advocates for STEM-focused education aim to boost the nation’s economic productivity and global competitiveness, many worry that neglecting the arts and humanities will lead to a one-sided education that fails our culture and society by …