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How The Dryad And The Naiad Got Or Didn't Get Together, Kevan Kenneth Bowkett 2021 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

How The Dryad And The Naiad Got Or Didn't Get Together, Kevan Kenneth Bowkett

The Mythic Circle

Once, in the river-land of Sopenya, near Lake Chellu, there lived a naiad and a dryad. They were a boy and a girl, respectively.


C.S. Lewis's Meditation Over "The Book Of The Leoun", Joe R. Christopher 2021 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

C.S. Lewis's Meditation Over "The Book Of The Leoun", Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

One wonders what did Chaucer mean to make?! A version out of French, for versing’s sake?


Two In One, David A. Sparenberg 2021 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Two In One, David A. Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

As I looked to the high ground, which was indeed shaped in the semblance of a sublime albeit miniature mountain, imagine my amazement to hold in view the monumental figure of a curious two-headed deity.


The Role Of The Reader Is To Fallow: Responding To The Negative Reception Of Paul Verhoeven’S Film Adaptation Of Starship Troopers, Julian Meyerstrom 2021 University of Missouri, St. Louis

The Role Of The Reader Is To Fallow: Responding To The Negative Reception Of Paul Verhoeven’S Film Adaptation Of Starship Troopers, Julian Meyerstrom

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Robert A. Keinlein’s science fiction novel Starship Troopers (1959), and its film adaption of the same title directed by Paul Verhoeven (1997), received mixed critical reactions. Both pieces came across as supporting fascistic ideals to most critics upon release, despite the two creators opposing political and moral beliefs. Using Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory as a framework for analyzing both the novel and film adaptation, this paper postulates the film adaptation fails to deliver an accurate critique of the novel by placing the burden of moral knowledge on the audience. Keinlein’s novel guides the reader into his moral sensibilities, whereas …


Brain Stew, Cullen Landolt, Mya Horn, Kenneth Miller, Aimee Pieper 2021 University of Missouri, St. Louis

Brain Stew, Cullen Landolt, Mya Horn, Kenneth Miller, Aimee Pieper

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Brain Stew is an UMSL publication distributed bi-weekly in both digital and print formats. Its mission is to provide for the Pierre Laclede Honors College a forum for uncensored free thought, commentary, and creativity, as well as news and event listings from PLHCSA and other related campus organizations. The current Brain Stew staff consists of editors Cullen Landolt, Mya Horn, Kenny Miller and Aimee Pieper, with Dan Gerth serving as the faculty supervisor. During the semester, these people write their own content as well as garner submissions from Honors College students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The result is The Most …


Lessons From Horror: The Rejection And Failures Of Arête, Renato Econa 2021 Woodbridge Senior High School

Lessons From Horror: The Rejection And Failures Of Arête, Renato Econa

Virginia English Journal

Lessons from Horror explores the rhetorical term of arête in the context of horror and horror literature. Arête, the concept of excellence as used in ancient Greece, is defined and then applied to two horror novels in order to better understand how the path to moral excellence can be corrupted. The first novel, Carrie by Stephen King, warns of the influence and pressure of others to both accept and reject the path to excellence. The second novel, Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke, explores the idea of fear of failure in arête, and the possibility of turning oneself into a …


About The Creators, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara 2021 California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

About The Creators, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara

Underground Anthology

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About The Editors, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara 2021 California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

About The Editors, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara

Underground Anthology

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About The Authors, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara 2021 California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

About The Authors, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara

Underground Anthology

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On-Ramp, M. Alexander, Pamela Arciniega 2021 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

On-Ramp, M. Alexander, Pamela Arciniega

Underground Anthology

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Fated To The Seas, Alyiah Marie Gonzales 2021 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Fated To The Seas, Alyiah Marie Gonzales

Underground Anthology

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Contributors, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara, Shanae Aurora Martinez 2021 Caifornia Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Contributors, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara, Shanae Aurora Martinez

Underground Anthology

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Underground Anthology Title, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara, Shanae Aurora Martinez 2021 California Polytechnic State University

Underground Anthology Title, Eden Railsback, Juan Vergara, Shanae Aurora Martinez

Underground Anthology

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Dorothy Scarborough. 'Supernatural Science' (1917), Arthur B. Evans 2021 DePauw University

Dorothy Scarborough. 'Supernatural Science' (1917), Arthur B. Evans

Global Language Studies Faculty publications

Introduced and annotated by Arthur B. Evans In its day, Dorothy Scarborough’s book The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917) was considered to be the best scholarly study on the subject. As the author points out in the book’s preface, the sheer size of its corpus was impressive: “the supernatural in modern English fiction has been found difficult to deal with because of its wealth of material. While there has been no previous book on the topic, and none related to it ... the mass of fiction itself introducing ghostly or psychic motifs is simply enormous” (v). Scarborough divided her …


Mythos, Hana Holmgren 2021 Western Michigan University

Mythos, Hana Holmgren

Honors Theses

Who gives a voice to the voiceless? When do we hear from those who are left behind, abused, abandoned, silenced? Mythos is an exploration of lost voices in mythology, antiquated, biblical, and personal: the women, the minorities, the marginalized. What would they say, if finally given the chance? Perhaps Helen of Troy chose to run away. Maybe Philomela was always meant to become a nightingale, and sing the world to sleep. Maybe fallen angels like making lentil soup for dinner. Maybe dead dragons are reincarnated as accountants. Maybe the stories got it all wrong.

A book of 13 poems, 6 …


How I Died Hiking: An Imagined Story That Could Happen To Anyone, Mike Cherim 2021 Dartmouth College

How I Died Hiking: An Imagined Story That Could Happen To Anyone, Mike Cherim

Appalachia

Mountain guide Mike Cherim’s imagined story of how danger can creep up on anyone.


Dual Immersion Programs: Are They Enough?, Samantha Renae Castillo 2021 Santa Clara University

Dual Immersion Programs: Are They Enough?, Samantha Renae Castillo

Canterbury Scholars

This study asks: How do middle school students attending a Spanish and English dual immersion program develop their biliteracy skills differently based on the extent of their exposure to and practice of both languages in the home environment? Deborah Brandt argues that sponsors invest in literacy tools in order to give other people access to language resources, allowing communication to be fostered through the passing on of information, as done between different generations. This research project examines how literacy sponsorship outside of the classroom impacts an individual’s bilingual development overall. In a pilot version of this study with two participants, …


Becoming Lovely, Marijean Oldham 2021 Lindenwood University

Becoming Lovely, Marijean Oldham

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Collecting Seashells, Caitlin Upshall 2021 Lindenwood University

Collecting Seashells, Caitlin Upshall

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Migration, Brian Wallace Baker 2021 Lindenwood University

Migration, Brian Wallace Baker

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


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