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Makna Kebebasan Dalam Eksistensialisme Sartre Pada Puisi Pulkkot 1-2-3 Karya Na Tae-Ju: Pendekatan Semiotik Riffaterre, Shafira Handoyo, Zaini Zaini Apr 2022

Makna Kebebasan Dalam Eksistensialisme Sartre Pada Puisi Pulkkot 1-2-3 Karya Na Tae-Ju: Pendekatan Semiotik Riffaterre, Shafira Handoyo, Zaini Zaini

Multikultura

Jean-Paul Sartre menyatakan kebebasan sebagai ciri manusia bereksistensi. Kebebasan manusia dicirikan melalui cara mengadanya. Meskipun ada kefaktaan-kefaktaan yang dapat mengurangi penghayatan kebebasannya, Sartre berpendapat bahwa manusia tetap dapat memilih untuk menghayati kebebasannya secara maksimal, tanpa menghiraukan kefaktaan-kefaktaan tersebut. Penyair Na Tae-ju melalui puisi “Pulkkot 1-2-3” mengajak para pembacanya untuk menghayati kebebasannya secara penuh tanpa memperhatikan kefaktaan-kefaktaan yang dihadapinya. Sehubungan dengan itu, penelitian ini berfokus pada analisis puisi “Pulkkot 1”, “Pulkkot 2”, dan “Pulkkot 3” yang diterbitkan pada kumpulan buku puisinya yang berjudul “Kkocheul Bodeut Neoreul Bonda”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis makna kebebasan dari ketiga puisi melalui teori eksistensialisme Jean …


Sinergi Nilai-Nilai “Tiga Ajaran Besar” ( 三教 Sān Jiào) Dalam Film Kung Fu Panda 3, Andrea Saraswati, Rahadjeng Pulungsari Apr 2022

Sinergi Nilai-Nilai “Tiga Ajaran Besar” ( 三教 Sān Jiào) Dalam Film Kung Fu Panda 3, Andrea Saraswati, Rahadjeng Pulungsari

Multikultura

Produksi film animasi dengan alur berlatar budaya Cina telah tak terhitung jumlahnya. Salah satu film animasi dengan latar seperti ini di antaranya adalah film berjudul “Kung Fu Panda” (2008, 2022, 2016). Dilihat dari perspektif produksi, terdapat hal yang menarik dari film-film tersebut. Film Kung Fu Panda 1 dan 2 murni diproduksi oleh Disney, sedangkan untuk film Kung Fu Panda 3, pihak Cina terlibat dalam proses produksinya. Hal ini menjadi alasan penulis untuk meneliti film Kung Fu Panda 3 saja, guna menemukan jawaban tentang ada tidaknya unsur-unsur tradisi ajaran Cina dalam adegan-adegan film ini, dan dinamika apa yang terjadi di dalamnya. …


Manusia Dan Hutan: Sebuah Kajian Ekokritik Terhadap Enam Cerpen, Sucia Ramadhani, Tommy Christomy Apr 2022

Manusia Dan Hutan: Sebuah Kajian Ekokritik Terhadap Enam Cerpen, Sucia Ramadhani, Tommy Christomy

Multikultura

Tahun demi tahun populasi manusia semakin bertambah. Peningkatan populasi manusia tidak diiringi dengan kapasitas sumber daya alam. Kapasitas sumber daya alam, seperi hutan perlahan semakin berkurang. Lahan hutan yang semakin berkurang disebabkan penebangan pohon dan pembukaan lahan di hutan secara besar-besaran. Kerusakan hutan ini menjadi pembahasan yang menarik dalam tema karya sastra. Karya sastra dengan tema lingkungan ini merupakan respons pengarang terhadap kerusakan hutan. Respons manusia terhadap hutan diungkapkan dengan pendekatan ekokritik. Terdapat enam cerpen yang dianalisis dengan menggunakan pendekatan ekokritik: “Harimau Belang” karya Guntur Alam, “Empana” karya Korrie Layun Rampan, “Kering” karya Wa Ode Wulan Ratna, “Suatu Hari di …


Memurnikan Ajaran Islam Dari Ideologi Radikal Melalui Hermeneutika Paul Ricoeur, Shafira Nurul Syifa, Naupal Asnawi Apr 2022

Memurnikan Ajaran Islam Dari Ideologi Radikal Melalui Hermeneutika Paul Ricoeur, Shafira Nurul Syifa, Naupal Asnawi

Multikultura

Tulisan ini didasari atas kekhawatiran penulis terhadap berkembanngnya persepsi di masyarakat Indonesia bahwa agama Islam itu penuh dengan ajaran-ajaran radikal. Persepsi ini menjadi penting dibahas untuk mencegah pembenaran bahwa radikalisme adalah wajah Islam sesungguhnya. Untuk itu perlu ada upaya pemurnian terhadap persepsi-persepsi yang telah melekat pada Islam. Dalam melakukan upaya pemurnian diperlukan upaya pemahaman kembali terhadap persepsi yang berkembang, hingga faktor lain yang mempengaruhi perkembangan persepsi itu. Hermeneutika menjadi pendekatan yang tepat untuk mencapai tujuan pemurnian dan melakukan upaya pemahaman kembali terhadap persepsi yang berkembang terhadap Islam. Penulis menggunakan pendekatan hermeneutika dari Paul Ricoeur, karena bagi Ricoeur hermeneutika tidak hanya …


Representasi Kepercayaan Jepang Di Negara Virtual Inazuma Dalam Video Game Genshin Impact, Gusti Wisnu Pio Kusuma, Ilma Sawindra Janti Apr 2022

Representasi Kepercayaan Jepang Di Negara Virtual Inazuma Dalam Video Game Genshin Impact, Gusti Wisnu Pio Kusuma, Ilma Sawindra Janti

Multikultura

Unsur-unsur budaya dewasa ini sering kali dimasukan ke dalam sebuah video game, hal ini dilakukan dengan beberapa alasan seperti misalnya untuk mempromosikan budaya tersebut, atau menggunakan budaya tersebut sebagai bagian dari konten untuk menambah daya tarik sebuah video game. Genshin Impact merupakan salah satu video game yang memasukan unsur-unsur budaya beberapa negara populer sebagai bagian dari kontennya. Budaya tersebut diwujudkan ke dalam negara-negara fiksi yang ada di dalam Genshin Impact, seperti misalnya Mondstadt yang merepresentasikan Jerman, Liyue yang merepresentasikan Cina, dan Inazuma yang merepresentasikan Jepang. Penelitian ini menganalisis bagaimana unsur-unsur kepercayaan Jepang direpresentasikan di Inazuma di dalam Genshin Impact. Penelitian …


Motif Pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang (農地改革Nōchi Kaikaku) Tahun 1946-1950, Muhammad Rafid Pratama, Ferry Rustam Apr 2022

Motif Pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang (農地改革Nōchi Kaikaku) Tahun 1946-1950, Muhammad Rafid Pratama, Ferry Rustam

Multikultura

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai motif pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang (nōchi kaikaku) yang terjadi pada masa pemerintahan SCAP tahun 1946 – 1950. Pembahasan tersebut meliputi latar belakang sejarah terjadinya pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang, pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang, serta dampak dari pelaksanaan reforma agraria terhadap Jepang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan penjelasan disajikan dengan deskriptif. Pengumpulan data bersumber pada buku dan jurnal yang khusus membahas mengenai Reforma Agraria Jepang. Data yang telah terkumpul kemudian dianalisis menggunakan teori pelaksanaan reforma agraria oleh Warriner (1969). Hasil pembahasan dalam penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang berhasil menghapus kekuatan tuan tanah dalam menguasai …


Analisis Resepsi Terhadap Fiksionalisasi Histori Tokoh Suleyman Al-Kanuni Di Dalam Sinetron Turki “Abad Kejayaan”, Ade Solihat Apr 2022

Analisis Resepsi Terhadap Fiksionalisasi Histori Tokoh Suleyman Al-Kanuni Di Dalam Sinetron Turki “Abad Kejayaan”, Ade Solihat

Multikultura

Artikel ini mendiskusikan fiksionalisasi histori tokoh Sultan Suleyman, Khalifah ke-10 Dinasti Turki Osmani, di dalam sinetron Turki ”Abad Kejayaan”, yang menimbulkan kontroversi. Di dalam teks sejarah, Sultan Suleyman dikenal sebagai pemimpin Turki Osmani terlama dan yang paling berhasil membawa Turki Osmani ke puncak masa kejayaan. Sultan Suleyman yang memerintah pada 1520-1566 juga mendapat julukan Suleyman Al-Kanuni (Suleyman Law-giver) karena kemampuannya membangun undang-undang yang diterapkan di Kekhalifahan Turki Osmani selama berabad-abad. Namun, di dalam sinetron ”Abad Kejayaan” Sultan Suleyman digambarkan sebagai tokoh laki-laki yang disibukkan oleh istri dan selir-selir yang saling berkonflik memperebutkan perhatiannya. Sinetron ini juga menampilkan latar …


Berbagi Informasi Tentang Layanan Perpustakaan Saat Pandemi Covid-19 (Systematic Literature Review), Bima Bijak Prasetyo Apr 2022

Berbagi Informasi Tentang Layanan Perpustakaan Saat Pandemi Covid-19 (Systematic Literature Review), Bima Bijak Prasetyo

Multikultura

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk melihat bagaimana informasi terkait layanan perpustakaan saat pandemi covid-19 disampaikan kepada pemustaka dan masyarakat secara umum, sehingga dalam pelaksanaan layanan yang diberikan efektif dan efisien, dan menjadi salah satu indikator tata kelola yang baik ketika informasi penting disampaikan kepada pemustaka dan masyarakat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode tinjauan literatur sistematis (Systematic Literature Review), Pada metode SLR ini terdapat tiga tahapan dalam penelitian yang terdiri dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan pembuatan laporan. Proses pemilihan didasarkan pada judul, yang menghasilkan total 9 entri, artikel-artikel tersebut 7 menggunakan metode kualitatif, dan 1 merupakan penelitian rancang bangun aplikasi, 1 merupakan penelitian kuantitatif …


Bts Army: Melampaui Narasi Stigmatisasi Identitas Perempuan Penggemar, Jasmine Floretta Vasthia Devi Apr 2022

Bts Army: Melampaui Narasi Stigmatisasi Identitas Perempuan Penggemar, Jasmine Floretta Vasthia Devi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Decades have passed, but female fans who like male idols are still stigmatized, judged, and reduced to exist in society and popular culture. This is also what happened to ARMY, fans of the male idol group BTS. The research uses a qualitative research methodology elaborated through a feminist perspective to discuss how ARMYs are stigmatized because of the perceived inferiority of women and the existence of male domination in society, and also their love for the male group, regarded as the subordinated male group within the circle of hegemonic masculinity. However, the stigma and gender stereotypes attached to them were …


Kalimat Interogatif Dialek Gyeongsang Dalam Reply 1997, Adinda Noviana Carlissa, Putu Pramania Adnyana Apr 2022

Kalimat Interogatif Dialek Gyeongsang Dalam Reply 1997, Adinda Noviana Carlissa, Putu Pramania Adnyana

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The Gyeongsang dialect is phonologically and morphologically unique, yet current research generally focuses only on its prosody characteristics. Research related to language style and sentence-final ending in the Gyeongsang dialect has received less attention. Therefore, this study focuses on sentence-final ending or jeongyeol eomi in Korean interrogative sentences to fill the research gap. This research is qualitative research with a descriptive analysis method. Data is collected from the Korean drama Reply 1997 from the first three episodes. The result shows that a closed-ended interrogative sentence is the type of interrogative sentence most commonly used in the data, while the most …


Penggambaran Sosok-Sosok Ideal Masa Jawa Kuno: Tinjauan Relief Gua Selomangleng Tulungagung, Nainunis Aulia Izza Apr 2022

Penggambaran Sosok-Sosok Ideal Masa Jawa Kuno: Tinjauan Relief Gua Selomangleng Tulungagung, Nainunis Aulia Izza

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This study examines Ancient Java’s ideal figures based on seven panels of the Arjunawiwaha story from Selomangleng Tulungagung Cave. The discussion focuses on the use of archaeological data, which are reliefs, statues, and the description of ideal figures from Ancient Java Kakawin. The results show that all the figures in the Selomangleng Tulungagung Cave depicted the protagonist figures from Arjunawiwaha without showing the antagonist. The protagonist figures consist of God Indra, Arjuna, Nymphs, Soldiers, and God Shiva disguised as a sage. The protagonist figures displayed the ideal concept of figures related to their role. The relief depicted the stratification of …


Strategi Adaptasi Komunitas Sedulur Sikep Di Desa Klopoduwur Blora Pada Era Globalisasi, Nurmalya Ayu Dyani, Yuhastina Yuhastina, Nurhadi Nurhadi Apr 2022

Strategi Adaptasi Komunitas Sedulur Sikep Di Desa Klopoduwur Blora Pada Era Globalisasi, Nurmalya Ayu Dyani, Yuhastina Yuhastina, Nurhadi Nurhadi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The sedulur sikep community is a collection of individuals who practice the sedulur sikep teachings, which contain the noble values of life, such as the value of humanity, the value of love for the homeland, and the value of love for the universe. The sedulur sikep community also has traditions and customs as its local wisdom. Globalization marked by the development of science and technology causes changes in various aspects of the life of the sedulur sikep community, such as changes in the religious system, changes in increasingly modern technology, and changes in traditions or customs. This article aims to …


Terjemahan Beranotasi Dongeng La Sorcière De La Rue Mouffetard Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, Rifqi Ayu Everina, Myrna Laksman-Huntley Apr 2022

Terjemahan Beranotasi Dongeng La Sorcière De La Rue Mouffetard Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, Rifqi Ayu Everina, Myrna Laksman-Huntley

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

An annotated translation is a translation with notes or annotations of the equivalent selected in the target language with the aim of being accountable for the equivalent. This study examines a tale entitled “la Sorcière de la Rue Mouffetard” written by Pierre Gripari. This study employs qualitative methods and a comparative model to discuss translation problems and their solutions using translation strategies from Molina and Albir (2002). The use of interjection, idioms, and words containing culture is the problem in this fairy tale translation of language and cultural elements. Various dictionaries and websites are used both in the process of …


Makna Naketi Dalam Pandangan Masyarakat Dawan: Kajian Berperspektif Pastoral, Wasti Juningsi Benu Apr 2022

Makna Naketi Dalam Pandangan Masyarakat Dawan: Kajian Berperspektif Pastoral, Wasti Juningsi Benu

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This research aims to describe and analyze the meaning of naketi in the view of the Dawan community in Soe City. This research is motivated by the fact that Dawan people tend to practice naketi to overcome the crisis or ongoing problems experienced. The study employs descriptive research methods with qualitative approaches. Data collection uses interview methods and library studies. The data is analyzed using a pastoral theory of meaning and function. The results of the analysis show that the practice of naketi is a form functioning as pastoral counseling based on Dawan community culture. Naketi, in the view of …


Suara Perempuan Dalam Lagu Paduan Suara Dialita, Dyah Paramita Saraswati Apr 2022

Suara Perempuan Dalam Lagu Paduan Suara Dialita, Dyah Paramita Saraswati

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The women, who survived the 1965 tragedy and had been political prisoners because they were thought to have ties to the Indonesian Communist Party, had been silenced for a long time. Those female survivors then spoke through songs in the Dialita Choir. What they do is a form of women’s writing which is an attempt to include women in historical narratives. This study aims to analyze their act as a form of feminine writing that can be seen through the lyrics of a song sung by the Dialita Choir. The lyrics from the Dialita Choir are treated as text. The …


The Value Of Education: School Policy Decisions During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Elika W. Somani Apr 2022

The Value Of Education: School Policy Decisions During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Elika W. Somani

Individually Designed Interdepartmental Major Honors Project

During the COVID-19 pandemic, lacking national U.S. policies, wide variation and conflict over chosen public school policy decisions emerged. What factors and guidelines informed the decision-making process in K-12 public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and who were the key stakeholders? This study examines three school district types – a large city, medium city, and small-town – across Minnesota as case studies to unpack how policy decisions were made during the pandemic. Stakeholder interviews uncovered that the school decision-making process was a) connected to a district's political opinions, b) made by the superintendent and school board, c) primarily influenced by …


Against The Death Penalty, Charles Jessup Apr 2022

Against The Death Penalty, Charles Jessup

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

My thesis is an argument against the death penalty. Given that public support for the death penalty in America is at a half-century low (according to the Pew Research Center), the timing could not be more appropriate to examine the death penalty. This research project had a two-step approach: first, ethical theory-based arguments for and against the death penalty were examined. Following that ethical theory-based examination, real-world statistics were applied to these theories to test where they stand in modern society. The findings contained in this research project point to a clear reality that the death penalty in America is …


A Defense Of Moral Realism, Caleb Robb Apr 2022

A Defense Of Moral Realism, Caleb Robb

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

My Theis is a defense of the moral metaethical theory known as moral realism. Moral realism is the idea that moral laws are objective, true, non-natural, and applicable to all moral agents. I reference and subscribe to the form of moral relativism that is proposed by Russ Shafer-Landau in his book Moral Realism. In my thesis I argue that moral realism is the correct view of moral laws, and that relativism, error theory, and noncognitivism are all incorrect views. Relativism argues that moral laws stem from the culture and people in each society, and that they are subjective to only …


Where Epistemology And Metaphysics Touch In Lois Lowry's The Giver, Seth Vannatta Apr 2022

Where Epistemology And Metaphysics Touch In Lois Lowry's The Giver, Seth Vannatta

Far West Popular Culture Association Annual Conference

In Lois Lowry’s dystopian young adult novel, The Giver, the veil of perception— the gap between appearance and reality— is woven into the community as a policy measure meant to establish Sameness—the effort to insure a world without conflict, inequality, difference, pain, or freedom of choice. But a question lingers in the premise of the novel’s community. Given that our options for bridging the gap amount to building a bridge of experience across it or digging a tunnel of existence under it, has the bridge been sabotaged to render perception spurious, or has the tunnel been blocked to alter reality …


Reading And Understanding: A Defense Of Heideggerian Hermeneutics And Philogy, Phillip M. Gandy Apr 2022

Reading And Understanding: A Defense Of Heideggerian Hermeneutics And Philogy, Phillip M. Gandy

LSU Master's Theses

This paper addresses methodologies espoused by the hermeneutic tradition begun under Martin Heidegger. I argue for the methodologies of Philology, Destruktion and the use of poetic language in order to understand and communicate fundamental truths about Dasein. I demonstrate that these methods provide us, hermeneutically, with a closer and more precise understanding than simple communication in common speech.


Unknowable Truths: The Incompleteness Theorems And The Rise Of Modernism, Caroline Tvardy Apr 2022

Unknowable Truths: The Incompleteness Theorems And The Rise Of Modernism, Caroline Tvardy

Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects

This thesis evaluates the function of the current history of mathematics methodologies and explores ways in which historiographical methodologies could be successfully implemented in the field. Traditional approaches to the history of mathematics often lack either an accurate portrayal of the social and cultural influences of the time, or they lack an effective usage of mathematics discussed. This paper applies a holistic methodology in a case study of Kurt Gödel’s influential work in logic during the Interwar period and the parallel rise of intellectual modernism. In doing so, the proofs for Gödel’s Completeness and Incompleteness theorems will be discussed as …


"Standing In The Gap": Combating Sexual Abuse In The Protestant Church, Hayley N. Carter Apr 2022

"Standing In The Gap": Combating Sexual Abuse In The Protestant Church, Hayley N. Carter

Honors Projects

Sexual abuse in the Christian Church has been a problem for many decades, and scholars have written extensively about sexual abuse occurring in the Catholic Church. However, abuse occurring in the Protestant Church has not been given that same attention. In 2017, the #MeToo movement went viral and has inspired many sexual abuse survivors to share their stories. I will argue that the Protestant Church should acknowledge the #MeToo movement’s accomplishments, and that this acknowledgement would lead to positive changes in how it approaches sexual abuse. I also will discuss financial abuse, which is a correlating behavior along with sexual …


On The Elimination Of Cash Bail, Lucas Baudry Apr 2022

On The Elimination Of Cash Bail, Lucas Baudry

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.


Phi 102: Ethics Oer Curation, Chealsye Bowley Apr 2022

Phi 102: Ethics Oer Curation, Chealsye Bowley

Curated OER Collections

This OER curation is an annotated bibliography of prospective OER for the GVSU course PHI 102: Ethics OER Curation.


A Humanist's Account: Manetti On Humanism's Impact On Morality In 15th Century Italy., Connor Kurtz, Beau Kilpatrick Apr 2022

A Humanist's Account: Manetti On Humanism's Impact On Morality In 15th Century Italy., Connor Kurtz, Beau Kilpatrick

Undergraduate Research Events

Abstract

Religion, art, and politics were at their peak during the Italian Renaissance. However, because of the generously allocated talent of the Italian sphere at this time it is easy to overlook the contributions of those who broke away from the Catholic concentration and kick started this humanistic era. Giannozzo Manetti, an Italian politician who in 1452 wrote De Ignate er Excellencia Hominis, a challenge to Pope Innocent III’s philosophy. The text has been translated to “On Human Worth and Excellence” and describes a deep-rooted foundation of humanism in religion. He concludes a functionality of society and religion in …


Preservation Of Autonomy In Pediatric Decision-Making, Crystal Brown Apr 2022

Preservation Of Autonomy In Pediatric Decision-Making, Crystal Brown

Theses

Pediatric patients must rely on proxy decision-makers, usually a parent or guardian, to make their health care choices for them. There are 3 main frameworks in place for such decision-making. The default is usually that the decision-maker will make the decision that they feel is in the best interest of the child. Limitations on the decision-maker are an aspect often discussed with abuse and neglect at the forefront as thresholds for when limitations and intervention are deemed necessary. Concern for the child’s future autonomy is not made a consideration. Instead, the values and beliefs of the decision-maker are used to …


Volume 13, Payton Davenport, Audrey Lemons, Jacob Shope, Haley Smith, Cassandra Poole, Rachel Cannon, Rachel Boch, Suzanne Stetson Apr 2022

Volume 13, Payton Davenport, Audrey Lemons, Jacob Shope, Haley Smith, Cassandra Poole, Rachel Cannon, Rachel Boch, Suzanne Stetson

Incite: The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Introduction Dr. Roger A. Byrne, Dean

From the Editor Dr. Larissa “Kat” Tracy

From the Designers Rachel English, Rachel Hanson

The Effect of Compliment Type on the Estimated Value of the Compliment by Payton Davenport, Audrey Lemons, and Jacob Shope

The Imperial Japanese Military: A New Identity in the Twentieth Century, 1853–1922 by Haley Smith

Longwood University’s campus: Human-cultivated Soil has Higher Microbial Diversity than Soil Collected from Wild Sites by Cassandra Poole

Reminiscent Modernism: Poetry Magazine’s Modernist Nostalgia for the Past by Rachel Cannon

Challenges Faced by Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Study of Age and …


Dancing With 4e Cognitive Science And Human Science Psychology, Joshua Hall Apr 2022

Dancing With 4e Cognitive Science And Human Science Psychology, Joshua Hall

Middle Voices

According to the “Embodied Cognition” entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the three landmark texts in the 4E cognitive science tradition are Lakoff and Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By, Varela, Thompson, and Rosch’s The Embodied Mind, and Andy Clark’s Being There. In my first section, I offer a phenomenological interpretation of these three texts, identifying recuring affirmations of the figure of dance alongside explicit marginalization of the practice of dance, perhaps in part due to cognitive science’s overemphasis on cognition to the exclusion of affect. In my second section, drawing on my previous interpretations of proto-affect theorists …


What Is Assertiveness?, Mirjana Trifunovic Apr 2022

What Is Assertiveness?, Mirjana Trifunovic

Theses

My main aim is to define assertiveness, to distinguish assertiveness from aggressiveness, and to raise the question of whether we should be assertive. Most articles on assertiveness are from the field of psychology. In psychology, assertiveness is defined as a healthy way of expressing oneself. But what does assertiveness mean? How should we define assertiveness and is assertiveness desirable, or is it closely connected to aggressiveness? Should we say that assertiveness is a part of our character, an innate quality, or an acquired skill? In this thesis, I will define assertiveness and show how to distinguish assertiveness from aggressiveness. Most …


Sin Without Absolution: A Critical And Comparative Analysis Of Select Works By Albert Camus, Will Hodges Apr 2022

Sin Without Absolution: A Critical And Comparative Analysis Of Select Works By Albert Camus, Will Hodges

Honors College Theses

The Fall by Albert Camus, published in 1956, is cryptic and easily misunderstood. On first reading, it can appear to be a condemnation of modern man, a declaration that all have sinned and there is no divine absolution. However, this bleak misreading is deceptive because The Fall is not a condemnation; it is a warning. It does not condemn modern man as he is, but rather as what he could become if he succumbs to living in bad faith, a cautionary tale that resonates today. Camus presents the same message through his philosophy of revolt in The Plague and The …