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The Portrayal Of Roman Gladiators And Slavery In Film, Megan Gingerich 2020 Liberty University

The Portrayal Of Roman Gladiators And Slavery In Film, Megan Gingerich

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis project will endeavor to examine how prominent historical films set in the Roman Empire deal with slavery and gladiators, said research to inform a corresponding creative project. In studying and analyzing Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960) and Gladiator (2000), the three most prominent films that deal with the topics of slavery and gladiators in ancient Rome, I hope to uncover how films treat the topic, how the films are influenced by more modern values, and how accurate the films are. I will also identify commonalities between all three films, and supplement my discoveries with observations from two less successful …


Exploring Mythology Through Writing, Jayce Rubel 2020 Bowling Green State University

Exploring Mythology Through Writing, Jayce Rubel

Honors Projects

The following work is a creative adaptation of a series of Greek myths found in Ovid's Metamorphoses. In the project I attempt to replicate the virtual idea of the original author in a retelling of each story. I also make use of stylistic elements known in the epic tradition as well as major themes found commonly found in these myths.


Explorations Of Liminality And Intersectionality In Tabletop Games, Alyna Kim 2020 Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School

Explorations Of Liminality And Intersectionality In Tabletop Games, Alyna Kim

Honors Thesis

In fantasy role-playing games (RPGs), especially tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), participants are required to collaborate to create not only fantasy personas in the shape of characters, but also the world and space that makes up the game itself. Participants therefore create a sense of both time and space that exist outside of basic reality. The created space and time––referred to as a world or a story––exists as a liminal space that participants and characters use as a tool to both exist and explore. While the participants exist physically in the real world, the game space allows them to go beyond …


The Lantern And The Sword, Michael Chisholm 2020 Kennesaw State University

The Lantern And The Sword, Michael Chisholm

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

A creation myth of a new universe where brother deities of light and darkness battle for dominance. Light creates a Lantern to illuminate all reality and Darkness creates a Sword to help control the extent of the light. The god of light then creates a champion to lead his forces against his dark brother and the war intensifies. In his struggle the champion discovered he could control not only light but the darkness as well. He created a dark fire with great power to match the deities. Light and darkness come together and create peace and a balance. The champion …


The Psychology Of Dystopian And Post-Apocalyptic Stories: The Proverbial Question Of Whether Life Will Imitate Art, Donna Roberts 2020 WW/Social Sciences & Economics

The Psychology Of Dystopian And Post-Apocalyptic Stories: The Proverbial Question Of Whether Life Will Imitate Art, Donna Roberts

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic genres challenge our notions of Aristotelian mimesis vs Anti-mimesis – i.e., In the study of the human condition, does life imitate art or art imitate life? Popular culture, then and now, provides us with examples to depict the circularity of these notions and the psychological importance of exploring this aspect of human nature, particularly the contemplation of our own collective demise. While we recoil in horror at the images these genres portray, we are also morbidly fascinated by them, and we can’t help but ask ourselves . . . Could that really happen? Will that happen?

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Sweet Nightmares, Dean Engle 2020 Humboldt State/San Francisco State

Sweet Nightmares, Dean Engle

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Front Matter, Toyon Literary Magazine 2020 Cal Poly Humboldt

Front Matter, Toyon Literary Magazine

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Volume 66 Full Issue, Toyon Literary Magazine 2020 Cal Poly Humboldt

Volume 66 Full Issue, Toyon Literary Magazine

Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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The Promethean, Volume 28, The Last Torch, 2020, English Department, Concordia University-Portland 2020 Concordia University St. Paul

The Promethean, Volume 28, The Last Torch, 2020, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

In September, we did not know that this edition of The Promethean would truly be the last. Riding the wave of Blue Apocalypse, our editors sat in front of each other composing a pool of possible themes. We wanted a title that captured the loss of the College of Arts & Sciences at Concordia University – Portland.

We were still present, learning, and generating beautiful work, despite mourning a gaping wound. We wanted to remind those around us—and even ourselves—that the literary heart of this university still burned with passion, talent, and perseverance.

When I suggested The Last Torch …


"Shade Of The Earth", Joseph Patrick Self 2020 Eastern Washington University

"Shade Of The Earth", Joseph Patrick Self

2020 Symposium Creative Works

“Shade of the Earth” is a collection of 5 narrative poems: “On The Mountaintop”, “The Burning Boy”, “May Live or Die”, “Must Burn to Feel”, and “Shade of the Earth." The story runs together as one narrative with each poem linking into the next, split up into parts, not to divide but to bring them together. Perhaps in the hope of showing that life is separated yet whole.

This series portrays the state of mind of someone (possibly) self-entitled, the Burning Boy, as they battle against the entity of Night who exists as the complexities of pain and sadness and …


Educated, Isabella Leõn 2020 Syracuse University

Educated, Isabella Leõn

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The Roasting Company, Isabella Leõn 2020 Syracuse University

The Roasting Company, Isabella Leõn

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Hip-Hop Sneaker Collaborations, Wallace Burgess 2020 Syracuse University

Hip-Hop Sneaker Collaborations, Wallace Burgess

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Section Intro: Puzzles, Sydney Guyton, Stephanie Baquero, Tyler Gilfus 2020 Syracuse University

Section Intro: Puzzles, Sydney Guyton, Stephanie Baquero, Tyler Gilfus

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The Wrath Of Motherhood, Taylor Parks 2020 Syracuse University

The Wrath Of Motherhood, Taylor Parks

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Eyes Of His, Eyes Of Mine, Lily Mullan 2020 Syracuse University

Eyes Of His, Eyes Of Mine, Lily Mullan

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Contributors, 2020 Syracuse University

Contributors

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Jamaican Cowboy, Euzebiusz Wasowicz 2020 Syracuse University

Jamaican Cowboy, Euzebiusz Wasowicz

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Introduction, Crisanta Wadhams, Brittney Tavares 2020 Syracuse University

Introduction, Crisanta Wadhams, Brittney Tavares

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Open My Mouth, Annie Shi 2020 Syracuse University

Open My Mouth, Annie Shi

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