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Otterbein Aegis Spring 2024, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents:

Essay's by Olivia Sweet, Madison Newman, Elizabeth white, Isaac Jones, Nevaeh Ellis, Abby Van Voorhis, and Gabe Whitnack.

Book Reviews by Cami Borders, Ayan Abdi, Isaac Jones, Nevaeh Ellis, Claudia Smallwood, Dane Whip, Olivia Sweet, Emily Rogers, Julia Tenbusch, Mitzi Cuaxico, Kate Hedrick, Marygrace Gorensek, Ellyse Gallagher, and Lauren Mlynarek

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2022, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members, Art in Dire Times, From Dust to Destruction, "Get Up, Peter; The Revolution's Calling:" Revolutions, Sexuality, Feminism, and LIFE Magazine in 1968, Having It All: Ladies Home Journal and Post-feminism in the Early 1990s, Mythic England and the Deranged Empire: Using Wide Sargasso Sea to Understand the Moral Illness of the Colonial Agent, On the Perversion and Commodification of Blackness: Spike Lee's Bamboozled, You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Media Messages of Women's Liberation, An Interview with Dr. Amy Sheeran, Book Reviews: "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2021, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members, COVID-19 as the Collapse of Capitalism: A Socio-Political Marxist Analysis of the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Future, Going Out in Style: How Stylistics Can Disrupt the Problematic Literary Canon, Ideal Kingship: How Christianity Was Seen as an Important Instrument to Authoritarian Rule in the Frankish Empire, Masochism and Sinthomsexuality: Caleb and Ava's Relationship in Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Notes on Melodrama: Women, Madness, and the Oppression of the Patriarchy, The Differing Moralities of the Renaissance Play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and the Medieval Morality Play Everyman, The Dissolute Punished: An Overview of Mozart's …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2020, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors' Introduction, Editorial Board Members, How the Harlem Hellfighters Would be Remembered as America's Most Celebrated African American Military Unit, War Requiem, The Virtues of Scrutiny and Tenacity, Should We Shorten Grieving, The Effects of Baseball During the Fifty-Year Japanese Occupation of Taiwan, Parasitic Poverty, A View of American Society in 1967 and 1968 Through Ladies Home Journal, Sex and the Early Novel, The Closet of a Drag Queen, Hubble's University, Educated, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest, Sing Unburied Sing, Children of Blood and Bone, Living a Feminist Life, The Crowded Hour Theodore …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2019, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Editor's Introduction, Book Reviews and Essays including: To Keep or Not to Keep by Lindsay Lisanti, Fantastic Beasts and How to Value them by Casey Hall, Sex, Youth, and the Pill b Hannah Schneider, How Historiography is Crucial in Comprehending the Leading Circumstances of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 by Josh Wolf, Magic is no Cure by Casey Hall, The Ever-Evolving Relationship of the Supreme Court, Women and Homosexuals by Amanda Reed, Vietnam: A Love Story by Abigail Fahmi, Gender and Sex in 1920' America by Raven Manygoats.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2018, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor's Intro, Where is the justice? By Haley Kirst, Feminist sects of thought on infertility by Amanda Reed, Tamara De Lempicka's Depiction of the modern woman by Catherine Gallagher, Achieving Masculinity by Casey Hall, Human Souls Embodiment within social emotions by Kaileigh Strobel, Gender Justice and the Scouts by Madison Moore, In Game of Thrones, You win or you die by Saige Picone, We're all pretty bizarre by Kendall Gribble, Violence in Contemporary Visual Art by Catherine Gallagher, W.A. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major by Dominica Bean, How historical consciousness is crucial to understanding the Pueblo …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2017, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

As a journal designed to catalyze a deeper critical appreciation of the humanities at Otterbein University, Aegis publishes undergraduate scholarly essays and book reviews that advance the presence and values of the humanities on campus and beyond. Aegis is published annually each spring semester.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2016, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor's Introduction; Essays including: How Racism Shaped Baltimore-Amanda Daniel, Shostakovich: Speaking Silenced Stories - Lane Champa, The Ladies' Home Journal, 1966-1967, -Shannon Back, Reading the Age of Innocence in the Age of Independence -Madison Clouse, The Most Frightening Criminals: A Faminist Critique of Modern Racism Through Use of Contemporary and Historic Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo - Elizabeth Casto, Textual Chemistry: Why Texting in Not the End of the English Language as We Know It - Alina Carpenter, and Jane Eyre: An Ancestor Heroine for Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Literature - Emmanuela Bean. Book Reviews Include: The Crane Wife …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2015, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with David Johnson, Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida; Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie; Interview with George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University; Essays: In Swift’s Shadow: An Essay Examining the Influence of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels on Voltaire’s Candide—Lydia Crannell; Children as Perpetrators of the Colonial Project—Lauren Edmonds; Jokes That Express Racist Beliefs: David Benatar’s Account of Harm in Racist Beliefs and the Expression of Those Beliefs Through Humor—Samuel Lawless; Among The Living Dead: The Zombie Narrative in a Post-9/11 Era—Zoë Princehorn; I’m a Princess Cut From Marble: Gender in the Renaissance—Emma van …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2014, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Featured Faculty Interview with Dr. Geoffrey Barstow, Assistant Professor of Religion, Otterbein University; Essays: The Nag Hammadi Library—Heresy or Homage to the Christ?—Brianne Buletko; “I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name”: Bearing Witness through Survivor Literature—Meghan Crawford; Symbolism and Cultural Meaning in Karel Husa’s Music for Prague 1968—Paul Faulkner; Still on the Road: A Comparison of Eighteenth Century North American Travel Writing and Kerouac’s On the Road—Beth Gier; Essayist Examination: Lauren Slater—Rachel Scherzer; Freedom to Die: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Tolsoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych—Rebecca Whitney; Book Reviews: The Bonobo and the Athiest by Frans de …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2013, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Terry Castle; Interview with Dr. Karen Stohr; Essays: Olivier Messiaen and the Quartet for the End of Time—Jody Sjogren; No Ultimatums Necessary: Defending Diverse Poetry—Beth Gier; Are Negative Duties Enough? Basic Goods Deficits and the Institutional Approach to Human Rights—Beth Dwyer; Israel contra Becker: Rescuing the Enlightenment?—Emmy Hammond; Book Reviews: Ruins—Zach Alexander; Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace—Toshia Fries; Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times—Beth Dwyer; Mortality—Emmy Hammond; Gone Girl—Whitney Reed; Ten Thousand Saints—Beth Gier; The …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2012, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Debra Moddelmog; Interview with Dr. Angela Smith; Essays: Country and Humanity: The Tensions of Universal Benevolence in Richard Price’s Discourse – Emmy Hammond; From Dominance to Companionship: Animals in Behn and Defoe – Hannah Biggs; Cultural Influence and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring – Andrea Marie Keil; A Crooked Tree: The Problem of Nature vs. Nurture in Wuthering Heights – Becky Woodruff; Influences on Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Trumpet and Piano – Samuel Kolis; A Rebirth of the Siren – Whitney Reed; Aldous and Aristotle: The Ethics of Brave New World – Chris Thayer; Trauma …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2011, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Stephen T. Asma; Essays: ‘Let Other Pens Dwell On Guilt And Misery’: Mansfield Park and Social Commentary – Chris Thayer; Sham Populations: The Farce of the Revolutionary in Conrad’s The Secret Agent and Greene’s The Comedians – Boris Hinderer; Charles Ives’s Variations on “America”: An American Original – Zachary D. Garster; Re-centering Heart of Darkness – Justin McAtee; The Concentration Camps of Waiting for Godot – Hannah Biggs; The Price of Privilege: How Freedom Disintegrates Characters and Narrative in Con­rad and Didion – Christine Horvath; Shakespeare’s Shylock: The Enthusiastic Fanatic – Hannah Biggs; An …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2010, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. William Ian Miller; Articles: “My Body is a Pebble”: Death Drive, Repression, and Freeing the Self in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel – Stephanie Freas; China’s Quest for Natural Resources: The Environmental Impact on Africa – Will Ferrall; Soviet, Japanese, and American Relations with China, 1949-1972: China’s Quest for Power through Foreign Policy – Brianna Joslyn; Creative Integrity Despite Oppression: Soviet Realism and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 – Ruthann Elder; Uncovering the Politics of Hierarchy in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things – Vicki Mullins; Ethnocentrism and Prejudice in Politics: Deconstructing the Myth of the …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2009, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Rita Raley; Articles: Gibson Got It Wrong, South Park Got It Right: How one animated episode effectively critiques The Passion of the Christ—Sarah Martindell; Wuthering Heights: A Psychoanalytical and Masculine Study—Meghan (Johnson) Boyd; Perseverance through Adversity: The Importance of Unification—Jessica Sheffer; Liquid Influences—Whitney Prose; Revisiting van Inwagen, Lewis, and the Consequence Argument—Larsa Ramsini; Two Worlds Combined: Modernism and Classicism in Stravinsky’s Apollo—Bonnie Shore; Book Reviews: Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl—Will Ferrall; Suite Française—Stephanie Freas; The White Tiger—Zachary Hopper; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Christine Horvath; A Mercy—Jessica Ramey; The Wordy …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2008, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Robert Miklitsch; Articles: A New Type of Queen: The Emergence of Beauty Pageants in America, 1880-1921 – Randi Hopkins; “What have we women to do with these matters?”: Women and Femininity in Pre-Revolutionary America, 1763-1775 – Megan Hatfield; Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! – Whitney Prose; Kenny and Wee on the Necessity of ‘Liberty of Indifference’ in Descartes’ Theory of Judgment – Larsa Ramsini; Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis – Adam Berner; Pope Pius XII: His Role with the Vatican in WWII – Kevin Crafton; The Genocide of the Herero Set the Tone for the Holocaust – …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2007, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Henry Abelove; Articles: Facebook.com: Preparing Future Leaders with Ignorance—Colleen Deel; Jesus: Apocalyptic Mesiah or Counter Apocalyptic Social Prophet? An Alternate View of Jesus and Why the Church is Called to Serve the Oppressed—Nick Kiger; The Rise of Marxist Thought in Twentieth Century Vietnam—Halle Neiderman; Resurrecting Judith: Edith Summers Kelly, Weeds, and the Politics of Gender— Christi Amato; Social Movements and the Politics of Place: Transnational and Local Change—Sarah Prindle; The Drama and the Comedy of the Commons: Rethinking “The Tragedy of the Commons”—Sarah Prindle; The Material Language of Beuys and Antoni - Emily Starr; …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2006, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Alan Lightman: At the Intersection of the Sciences and Humanities; Articles: Two Essays on Socrates: An Examination of Richard Kraut’s Liberalization of Socrates’ Political Philosophy —J. T. Craig; Would King Drink the Hemlock?: Socrates’ Views on King — Larsa Ramsini; The Not-So “Invisible Hand”: America’s Role in Haiti’s Endemic Poverty — Christina Amato; Philosophizing Disgrace: Anatomy and Analysis of Dylan’s “Hard Rain” — Adam Cottrel; A Priest of the Portrait as a Young Man: The Path to Stephen Dedalus’s Artistic Baptism — Adam Cottrel; The Moral Dilemma of Atomic Warfare — Edward Gunn; Jaingxi …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2005, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Sherrie Inness: New Research, Unexpected Sources; Articles: Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence: Klimt’s Contemplation of Human Existence — Kari Benge; The Dissolution of the White-Indian Dichotomy: The Development of Empathy as Historical Reconstruction — Jason Carney; Antonio, Mercantilism, and the Other: The Failed Project of Christian Universalism in The Merchant of Venice. — Ashar Foley; Harold and Maude: Transcending the Fundamental Fantasy — Amanda Knapp; “Justice and realism and really looking”: The Gaze in Iris Murdoch’s The Nice and the Good — Teresa Moore; An Examination of Courtship and Dating from 1900 through the 1950s …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2004, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Richard Leppert: On the Importance of the Humanities; Articles: Stirring the Great and Noble Horse of Athenian Democracy: The Elenchus as a Preserver of Athenian Law —Jason Carney; Le héros nietzschéen dans Le Cid? — Ashar Foley; Exploring the Tapestry: Oedipa’s Embrace of the Journey in The Crying of Lot 49 —Teresa Moore; “To Any Dead Officer”: A Study of the War Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon —Nathan Weller; Book Reviews: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Adam Phillips —Ashar Foley; For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular …