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Invest Daily, Impact Eternity, Jacob Gerding Apr 2020

Invest Daily, Impact Eternity, Jacob Gerding

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

We were asked for a class assignment to write a letter of encouragement to the Taylor student body in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.


Letter To Taylor Students, Josh Meredith Apr 2020

Letter To Taylor Students, Josh Meredith

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

Letter of encouragement, inspired by CS Lewis' "Learning In War Time"


A Letter To The Graduating Class Of 2020, Ryan Kristofek Apr 2020

A Letter To The Graduating Class Of 2020, Ryan Kristofek

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

As a hall director in Wolgemuth overseeing seniors, I wrote a letter to these seniors as they navigate finishing their Taylor experience remotely.


Tradition, Rachel Gist Apr 2020

Tradition, Rachel Gist

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

I wrote in hope that people could relate to the feelings I had during this time. Having Taylor time cut short is hard but also helped me to reflect and be even more grateful.


Old Habits—A Semester At Home In 2020, Hannah Tienvieri Apr 2020

Old Habits—A Semester At Home In 2020, Hannah Tienvieri

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a poem I wrote after the student body was sent home for the remainder of the spring semester. This piece is an expression of the isolation and unique feeling of regression that came in the early days of the pandemic, particularly caused by being confined to my childhood bedroom.


My Story, Tesia Juraschek Apr 2020

My Story, Tesia Juraschek

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

My first reactions to COVID as we learned that it would affect our schooling.


Holding My Hand, Marylou Habecker Apr 2020

Holding My Hand, Marylou Habecker

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a piece that I have written to try to give HOPE to others in the middle of this crisis. A story I witnessed taken from another part of the world during a horrendous time of war gave me HOPE. He is Holding My Hand.


Senior Year Cut Short, Caleb Amick Apr 2020

Senior Year Cut Short, Caleb Amick

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is my story of what happened to me during the last week of school before we left campus.


Day 10, Elise Wixtrom Apr 2020

Day 10, Elise Wixtrom

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a poem I wrote after visiting the supermarket right after classes closed on Taylor's campus.


Ministry Among The Afar: Implementing Holistic Strategies, Cheyenne King Apr 2020

Ministry Among The Afar: Implementing Holistic Strategies, Cheyenne King

People Group & Region Research (Capstone Papers)

The obstacles that the spread of the gospel faces among the Afar people of Djibouti are many. The prevalence of fear-power and honor-shame orientations, as well as a hostile religious context are just a few of these hurdles. Despite their presence, there is an extensive history of Christian work among the Afar. Many different ministry strategies have been utilized, but one is needed that will be applicable to all areas of the Afar life as outlined in this paper.


Nothing Wasted, Adina Shabe Apr 2020

Nothing Wasted, Adina Shabe

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

As our world is facing unprecedented interruptions to our sense of "normal" I have been pressing in to receive God's perspective for myself during this time. He is a God who wastes nothing, He uses everything.


Seeking The Tomato: Encounters With Beauty In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God And Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Jessica Dundas Apr 2020

Seeking The Tomato: Encounters With Beauty In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God And Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Jessica Dundas

English Senior Capstone

When Zadie Smith was first given a copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, she was reluctant to read it. But once she did, she found herself captivated by the beauty protagonist Janie Crawford is seeking and encountering throughout the novel. Later in Smith’s own novel On Beauty the protagonist Howard Belsey becomes the inverse of Janie as he intellectually rejects the idea of beauty and ignores the encounters he has with it. Thus while Janie finds that beauty decenters her from thinking herself the center of her world, Howard stubbornly refuses to allow himself to be …


Broadening The Feminist Ideal: Female Expression In Kate Chopin’S The Awakening And Kathryn Stockett’S The Help, Hannah Funk Apr 2020

Broadening The Feminist Ideal: Female Expression In Kate Chopin’S The Awakening And Kathryn Stockett’S The Help, Hannah Funk

English Senior Capstone

Feminist criticism can be difficult to navigate, especially given the sociopolitical contexts connected to feminism all throughout history. In literature, idealized feminist characterizations can often leave less dramatically feminist characters behind, relegating them to a category of characters who are “not feminist enough.” But it is important to understand that these characters are still just as validly feminist as their dramatically feminist counterparts. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, readers see wonderful examples of women who operate in feminist ways, some within the roles that traditional feminist criticism would see as roles which trap them and …


The End Of Art Is Peace: Memory, Witness, And Restorative Imagination In Anna Burns’S Milkman And The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Sarah Davis Apr 2020

The End Of Art Is Peace: Memory, Witness, And Restorative Imagination In Anna Burns’S Milkman And The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Sarah Davis

English Senior Capstone

Northern Irish writers Seamus Heaney and Anna Burns both explore the suffocation and trauma of living in civil conflict as informed by their time spent living in Belfast during the Troubles. In her 2018 novel Milkman, Burns depicts a beleaguered community that has succumbed to hypervigilance and learned helplessness. Burns’s characters try desperately to establish normality by twisting memory and refusing to witness the present, resulting in an inability to imagine a future unmarred by violence. In his poetry collections North and Field Work, Heaney wrestles with the responsibility of an artist to such a community, to his art, and …


Searching For Understanding: How Hamlet And Frankenstein Inform Humanity’S Response To Trauma, Jonathan Knippenberg Apr 2020

Searching For Understanding: How Hamlet And Frankenstein Inform Humanity’S Response To Trauma, Jonathan Knippenberg

English Senior Capstone

By looking at trauma narratives we are able to learn about the nature of trauma as well as the effective and ineffective ways it has been handled by literary characters. Hamlet by William Shakespeare tells of the young prince Hamlet who, in repressing his trauma, unwittingly falls victim to repeating the anger reinforced by his father’s ghost while he continually allows no one to see anything but the mask of his antic disposition. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley portrays the turmoil between Dr. Frankenstein and his monster—a rejected creation scorned by a tortured creator—which not only consumes them but also tears …


Learning Or Not Learning To Overcome Trauma: Jane Eyre And A Farewell To Arms, Jessica Cutter Apr 2020

Learning Or Not Learning To Overcome Trauma: Jane Eyre And A Farewell To Arms, Jessica Cutter

English Senior Capstone

In the novels Jane Eyre and A Farewell to Arms, Charlotte Brontë and Ernest Hemingway both display characters that have experienced devastating trauma. In both novels, female characters demonstrate strength and mental support that their male counterparts are unable to reciprocate because they cannot move on from their past. Jane learns that letting go of past trauma will lead to her growth and success in life, which ultimately influences Mr. Rochester to be like Jane, and the novel ends with them happy and mentally healthier. On the other hand, Henry can’t let go of his past traumas and leans heavily …


Authenticity In Glimpses: Framing Art And Identity In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse And Zadie Smith’S Swing Time, Taylor Budzikowski Apr 2020

Authenticity In Glimpses: Framing Art And Identity In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse And Zadie Smith’S Swing Time, Taylor Budzikowski

English Senior Capstone

In their novels To the Lighthouse and Swing Time, Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith communicate that art frames reality for those who choose to pay attention. Art provides a glimpse of permanence and stability for Lily Briscoe, a young woman who paints her reality while visiting Isle of Skye, and Zadie Smith’s unnamed narrator, a young woman who contemplates her mixed-race background through the lens of dance in London and Africa. These observations encourage Lily and the narrator to consider the perspectives of others amid their own visions. Gradually, Lily and the narrator find and foster their identities by sorting …


The Adventures Of Mousy And Jasper, James Schantz Apr 2020

The Adventures Of Mousy And Jasper, James Schantz

English Senior Capstone

In my senior project I wanted to explore the world of children's literature that is meant specifically to be listened to. The project is in audio-script form and it is the tale of a dog and a mouse who become unlikely friends, share a nemesis in an evil cat named Mr. Bojangles, and need each other's help in order to get back home.


Metaphors Of Mental Illness: How Emily Dickinson And Vincent Van Gogh Understood And Expressed Their Personal Battles With Depression, Samantha Moss Apr 2020

Metaphors Of Mental Illness: How Emily Dickinson And Vincent Van Gogh Understood And Expressed Their Personal Battles With Depression, Samantha Moss

English Senior Capstone

Both the poet Emily Dickinson and the artist Vincent van Gogh wrestled with mental illness in their adult lives. There are indications that both suffered from major depression, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder. Both lived in a time when there was no real understanding of mental illness and there was no language through which people could interpret and explain their pain. Dickinson used her poetry to create metaphors, metaphors centered around death and winter. Van Gogh created nature metaphors – and some centered around dying like Dickinson’s – in his paintings and in letters to his brother. These metaphors …


Uprooted, Grace Meharg Mar 2020

Uprooted, Grace Meharg

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

I wrote this piece on March 31, 2020 reflecting on being home at such an odd time and without closure.


48 Hours, Olivia Winn Mar 2020

48 Hours, Olivia Winn

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a reflection, two weeks after leaving TU for (maybe) the last time.


Letter To The Student Body, Amber Stanley Mar 2020

Letter To The Student Body, Amber Stanley

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a letter I wrote to the student body in response to the COVID pandemic. This was a class assignment.


Spiraling, Grace Meharg Mar 2020

Spiraling, Grace Meharg

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a personal piece written late at night reflecting on feeling weariness and hopelessness in this situation.Then also considering those who are far less fortunate and those who are at the front lines.


Suddenly, Grace Meharg Mar 2020

Suddenly, Grace Meharg

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is a piece I wrote on March 18, 2020 reflecting on the last week of Taylor and all of the rapid changes that occurred which brought all of us to scatter.


Learning In Pandemic, Noah Huseman Mar 2020

Learning In Pandemic, Noah Huseman

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is an essay written reflecting on C. S. Lewis’ address to Oxford students during World War II.


Engaging Teaching Today Conference 2020 - Schedule, Barb Bird Feb 2020

Engaging Teaching Today Conference 2020 - Schedule, Barb Bird

Engaging Teaching Today Conference

Schedule for the 2020 Engaging Teaching Today Conference at Taylor University. Theme: Today's Students are Different!


Reactive Attachment Disorder In Children, Lindy Ruth Rader Feb 2020

Reactive Attachment Disorder In Children, Lindy Ruth Rader

CARE Conference: Vulnerable Children and Viable Communities

Reactive Attachment Disorder as a whole is a disorder that shows itself in young children. It then has the possibility of affecting the rest of the child’s life and the people that surround the child. There are two types of Reactive Attachment Disorder. The first type is the emotionally withdrawn/inhibited type. This can manifest itself in a few different ways, but the main way is through the child lashing out in fear or anger. This is due to the lack of healthy attachments in their lives. The second subtype is the disinhibited type. This also can manifest itself in multiple …


Cultural Factors That Influence Domestic Adoption In South Africa, Greta N. Buckenberger Feb 2020

Cultural Factors That Influence Domestic Adoption In South Africa, Greta N. Buckenberger

CARE Conference: Vulnerable Children and Viable Communities

South Africa has a long and rich cultural history and this history has impacted domestic adoption in a myriad of ways. These cultural factors include ancestral beliefs, infertility, family structure, and apartheid, and they all affect adoption policies and how the public perceives adoption. Unfortunately, these factors usually result in negative results for children in kinship care or children waiting to be adopted. Kinship care is the informal, non-governmentally regulated practice of relatives caring for children. South Africa’s cultural factors of ancestral beliefs, infertility, family structure, apartheid, and the AIDS crisis all impact domestic adoption.


Care Conference Schedule 2020, Kara Riggleman Feb 2020

Care Conference Schedule 2020, Kara Riggleman

CARE Conference: Vulnerable Children and Viable Communities

Event and presentation schedule for the CARE Conference at Taylor University which took place over February 27-28, 2020.


Orphans And Vulnerable Children In The Middle East, Adina Shabe Feb 2020

Orphans And Vulnerable Children In The Middle East, Adina Shabe

CARE Conference: Vulnerable Children and Viable Communities

The state of orphans and vulnerable children in the Middle East has remained somewhat unknown or ambiguous, in recent years we are beginning to learn the dire state of children within the region. In this paper we will look at specific Middle Eastern countries, latest statistics and current humanitarian or child rights laws and whether or not they are being implemented in said country.