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In Search Of A New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon
In Search Of A New Totality: Herman Hesse's Demian, Jeffrey Shannon
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
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Carothers Mccaslin's Progeny Tracing The Theme Of Redemption Chronologically Through The Multiracial Mccaslins, Christine Reiss
Carothers Mccaslin's Progeny Tracing The Theme Of Redemption Chronologically Through The Multiracial Mccaslins, Christine Reiss
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
William Faulkner' s Go Down, Moses (1942) is a novel that depicts the complicated family history of the McCaslins. There are primarily three branches of the family: the white, male-descended McCaslins, the white, female-descended Edmondses, and the multiracial, male-descended Beauchamps. The multiracial line of the family, the Beauchamps, are the progeny of the original McCaslin patriarch, old Carothers McCaslin. His act of miscegenation with one of his slaves produces a daughter, on whom he then fathers a son. This act of miscegenation and incest sets in motion a family line that struggles with the weight of its father's sin. The …
Black Enfranchisement In Kentucky: The Impact Of The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Gail Joyce Guiling
Black Enfranchisement In Kentucky: The Impact Of The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Gail Joyce Guiling
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
After the Civil War, newly freed slaves hoped to gam the full benefits of American citizenship. In 1870, ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment led African Americans to believe that they had attailled the cherished right of suffrage. Nearly a century elapsed, however, before the proffered right became a reality. The VotingRightsActof1965 fulfilled the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment. The long road between 1870 and 1965, however, was littered with the carcasses of attempted disfranchising schemes. The states of the Deep South were not alone in their efforts to prevent enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment or in their refusal to surrender …
Breathing Zen: Thomas Merton's Search For 'The Death Of Self', Angela Fairbanks
Breathing Zen: Thomas Merton's Search For 'The Death Of Self', Angela Fairbanks
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Thomas Merton, a well known American monk of thetwentiethcentury,distinguishedhimselfasawriter, a social activist, and a religious thinker. Among his manifold interests, he was intensely devoted to the study of otherreligions, particularly Zen Buddhism. This study seeks to examine Merton's relationship to Zen and discern how he was simultaneously able to participate in this Eastern tradition and also remain a Roman Catholic. A 100kat Merton' s books, journals, and letters suggests that his understanding of the fundamental aspects of Zen closely cohered with his lifelong desire to live a contemplative life. Also, Merton's perspective on religious plurality was characterized by an openness …