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Individualism And Nonconformity In Ralph Waldo Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance', Brendan Roof
Individualism And Nonconformity In Ralph Waldo Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance', Brendan Roof
2023 Symposium
My presentation utilizes the etymology of the word genius to explore Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.” Emerson would empower the individual in a conformist society to find harmony through nonconformity. The etymology of genius as a spiritual guide reinforces his stance on individualism, namely by qualifying the spirit, or the individual’s discretion, as all-powerful and constant. The word is rooted in the belief that a “spirit attendant” overlooks and guides the host body of each individual. Genius has also been defined as the “personification of a person’s natural appetites.” In terms of Emerson’s genius, man’s inherent appetite to belong to a collective reinforces …
God In Harlem: Religious Symbolism In "Sonny's Blues", Katherine Bechter
God In Harlem: Religious Symbolism In "Sonny's Blues", Katherine Bechter
Liberty University Research Week
Undergraduate
Textual or Investigative
Visualizing Literary Narratives With A Graph-Centered Approach., Meg Ermer
Visualizing Literary Narratives With A Graph-Centered Approach., Meg Ermer
Campus Research Day
The art of storytelling is multifaceted and nonlinear, involving multiple characters, themes, and symbols while often jumping between the present and past. While media forms such as novels can encapsulate these complexities, it is often difficult to visualize a narrative in an easy-to-understand format. Our contribution is a graph-based system to let users organize and visualize those narratives. Events and characters are represented as nodes and their relationships are represented as edges. Neo4J is used as a database management system to store the graph and to run queries on it, and Streamlit and Pyvis are used to represent the database …
Ahab's Soul: An Exploration Of The Hero Of "Moby-Dick", Jaedon Wilkinson
Ahab's Soul: An Exploration Of The Hero Of "Moby-Dick", Jaedon Wilkinson
Liberty University Research Week
Undergraduate
Textual or Investigative