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Personifying Inanimate Objects: A Study Through Movement, Delainey Bailey, Tricia Zweier
Personifying Inanimate Objects: A Study Through Movement, Delainey Bailey, Tricia Zweier
2023 Student Academic Showcase
This project explores how inanimate objects can be personified through movement. The chosen item for this work, a kaleidoscope, inspired many of the gestures, energies, and expressions for this original piece of choreography that premiered in the Lindenwood University Winter 2022 Dance Concert. My poster presentation will highlight many components of the kaleidoscope that were used as inspiration in this piece: the colors, patterns, shapes, and pathways. This work, titled “Kaleidoscope,” is centered around eight dancers that travel through circular pathways in a colorful ambiance to find contentment in the perfect patterns of the kaleidoscope. Each of their journeys are …
Doubt, Joshua Rodriguez, Ben Scholle
Doubt, Joshua Rodriguez, Ben Scholle
2023 Student Academic Showcase
"Doubt" follows a depressed and isolated young man who must contend with the physical manifestation of his depression and self doubt. Through this narrative, our protagonist learns truths about the human condition, and the lies that we all tell ourselves to keep us more expanding as human beings. The story follows and details how depression and trauma can flare up at inopportune times and places, and how we must accept ourselves and those around us for our/their flaws in order to grow as people. Strength is looking our failures and insecurities in the eyes and moving forward regardless., despite the …
Hester Prynne, Pi, Tevye Schmidt, Justine Pas
Hester Prynne, Pi, Tevye Schmidt, Justine Pas
2023 Student Academic Showcase
This project is an exploration of the themes of community investigation and mistrust surrounding sin in Hawthorne's description of the Puritans in The Scarlet Letter. It explores these themes by using a board game as an interpretive device to fill a framework of space, place, and identity that shifts each time the game is played anew. Every interpretation of the actions of each main character will change as the location, identity, and sin committed are shuffled around and re-matched in different combinations as each of these characters seek Hester out to verify their thoughts on the sins being committed in …
Translation As Process, Drew Gvillo, Justine Pas
Translation As Process, Drew Gvillo, Justine Pas
2023 Student Academic Showcase
My poster presentation is an in-depth explanation and discussion of what translation of languages is. It defines what translation is and what performing a translation entails. It explains how there are many common misconceptions about translations and attempts to disprove them. This in-depth discussion of translation factors such as language identity, culture acceptance, political factors, and much more aid in explaining how translations can be used for good and for bad. Translations can be used to break language and cultural barriers but they can also be used to divide people. It is up to the translator and those in power …
The Female Other: Feminist Existentialism And Crisis In The Great Gatsby, Hazel Denother, Justine Pas
The Female Other: Feminist Existentialism And Crisis In The Great Gatsby, Hazel Denother, Justine Pas
2023 Student Academic Showcase
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of several unsatisfied characters who try over and over again to achieve happiness, which seems to be forever beyond their reach. In their cycles of dissatisfaction, many of the characters use romance, courtship, and sex as a tool to create fulfilling lives for themselves, but not one of them is successful in these endeavors. The principle female characters, who feel trapped and powerless in the lives they have ended up in, begin their love affairs out of an arguably deeper place of desperation than the male characters. When read through …
Flight, Hannah Davis
Flight, Hannah Davis
2023 Student Academic Showcase
My manuscript, Flight, is a novel concerned with intersections, and examines how the borders between humans, both artificial and circumstantial, can be interpreted as ways of connecting with one another. It is a hybrid novel written in the form of a braided essay that integrates both nonfiction excerpts that span from grief philosophy to music history to biology, and lyrical narrative. It addresses grief from multiple angles, examining the holes that other grief literature has not addressed. In a time concerned with polarization, such a manuscript, though experimental, has become more pertinent than ever. Other books similar to it are …
The Awakening’S Edna Pontellier, Female Companionship, And The Sea, Mary Aldrich
The Awakening’S Edna Pontellier, Female Companionship, And The Sea, Mary Aldrich
2023 Student Academic Showcase
Since the release of Kate Chopin’s foundational feminist novel The Awakening, scholars have speculated about what the protagonist Edna Pontellier’s journey says about 19th-century womanhood. Utilizing a framework established by queer theorists Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth LeBlanc, I argue that Edna represents a “metaphorical lesbian,” who rejects her expected social role to live a women-centered life. This identity manifests through her relationships with the feminine “mother-woman” Adèle Ratignolle and the more socially-independent pianist Mademoiselle Reisz. Edna’s displeasure with both these contrasting lifestyles contributes to her return to the sea, an unambiguously female figure Edna simultaneously views as a mother …
One In The Same + The Fated Goal Of Gatsby, Luke Anderson
One In The Same + The Fated Goal Of Gatsby, Luke Anderson
2023 Student Academic Showcase
This presentation focuses on a creative and critical response to the plot of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. I reimagined the novel’s ending in a short story I wrote titled “One in the Same.” I also reflected on my creative decisions in a critical essay titled “The Fated Goal of Gatsby.” My presentation argues that the alternative ending to The Great Gatsby in my short story is a worthwhile alternative because of how the novel itself structures Gatsby’s desire for Daisy.
Faulkner & The Demon In A Bottle, Ernesto Gomez
Faulkner & The Demon In A Bottle, Ernesto Gomez
2023 Student Academic Showcase
My story is one about the dangers of mankind in its relentless pursuit of knowledge and asks questions regarding how much is one willing to sacrifice all for the sake of being superior to those around him, and rising above what society expected one to stay as or become. This short story of my own creation was made through my own effort and tempered by the criticism of those around me, truly befitting of a story that examines the nature of knowledge and what we are willing to do in order to grasp it.
Splinters, El Jayne
Splinters, El Jayne
2023 Student Academic Showcase
Splinters is a piece of creative fiction that explores how love is communicated through art. A young man shares the art of wood carving with his grandfather who taught him, and, as his grandfather’s health begins to fail, he uses it to return that love to him. Through the eyes of this narrator, we are taken on a journey of love and loss between generations, and come to understand that the simplest of things often hold the greatest weight. Though fiction, this work is heavily inspired by my own relationship with my grandmother and the art we share with one …