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Soulsborne, Jacob Homier

ENGL 1101 Showcase

The Soulsborne genre is known in the video game community for its hard boss fights and unforgiving challenges. This draws in many players looking for a challenge and to feel accomplishment for beating notoriously difficult games. This has led to an entire genre forming around these games and those trying to emulate them. But what is so enticing about these communities? Why have they formed around these games, and what type of rhetoric and tones are being used? The best place to start is by looking at one of the games of this genre, Dark Souls 3.

A Day In The Life Of Me, Jake Patten

ENGL 1101 Showcase

As my alarm blares at 8:30 a.m. on a cold autumn morning, I groan and reluctantly open my eyes. My bed is entrapping me in its warmth, and the thought of getting up feels like a betrayal to my body. I look around my room and see a soft, golden hue as the sun peeks through the blinds. I lay in my bed contemplating, “Should I get up for class? Or should I go back to bed?” Just as I start to drift back to sleep, the roar of leaf blowers echoes outside. The ear-piercing sound cuts through the silence, …

The Grimdark Compositions Of The 41st Millenium, Jack Rivers

ENGL 1101 Showcase

Warhammer 40k, or sometimes referred to as 40k, is an expansive universe filled with characters, novels, video games, artwork, and more. The main themes of Warhammer 40k are all about the grim darkness of the far future: unending war, cosmic horror, tyrannical governments, constant death, destruction, and so on. As such, these themes are epitomized in the compositions of Warhammer 40k: An Intro to the Dark Millennium for its atmospheric tone, “I AM” - A SERVATOR’S TALE for its relatable themes, and BATTLEBARGE for its vivid imagery.

A Day In My “Mostly” Lazy Life, Jonathan Yi

ENGL 1101 Showcase

I managed to wake up early that day on the surprisingly uncomfortable bed, or what is more accurately described as an itchy mattress laying on barren wooden frames, that I slept on in my room. This was practically a miracle, as I had gone to sleep past midnight, as I usually do. I still somehow managed to miss all the birds singing in the morning, or perhaps it was so early that I had woken up before the birds, which is even more unlikely.

A Dessert Loved By Many Locals Of The China Region, Michelle Lee

ENGL 1101 Showcase

The unofficial food of the Chinese New Year is niángāo. Food is an important part of the Chinese New Year as it shows not only the cultures but also the values that certain groups within uphold. Niángāo is significant in its own ways as it’s considered a “lucky food”. It is considered a delicacy and symbolizes prosperity for the upcoming years.

Drifting: An Unappreciated Sport, Mandeep Sethi

ENGL 1101 Showcase

When people think of drifting, they usually think about the movie, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift. This movie ended up spurring a lot of misconceptions on what drifting actually is. Drifting is considered more of an organized legal sport than an illegal underground activity as projected in the movie. A great example of this could be scoped in throughout Georgia, particularly more north of Atlanta.

“House Of Gwinnett”: The Unofficial Official Restaurant Of Gwinnett., Q C. Blue

ENGL 1101 Showcase

Waffle House, as a kid growing up in Gwinnett, brought a different kind of emotion to me, not one of excitement exactly but one of fondness. They were practically everywhere and yet they would always be veiled by the infrastructure around them. The numerous Waffle Houses in my area never seemed to be the same place, not even the food would taste the same depending on who made it, but it made going there better, more unexpected, and less dull. I never really took the time to understand why Waffle House felt so deeply ingrained within my community but now …

Truffle Cakes: A Family Tradition, Sam Haygood

ENGL 1101 Showcase

What looks to be an ordinary chocolate cake sits unassumingly on a plate, but as the spoon pushes in for the first bite, it cracks through the outer crust of the cake and unexpectedly sinks into the center. Something special is about to come. As the spoon pulls out, the cake appears to be almost melting off the edge, and the prospect of waiting to eat it seems near impossible. This is the experience of my family’s best special occasion dessert, the truffle cake.

Sebastian's Day, Sebastian Tenjo

ENGL 1101 Showcase

I started my day hearing something new, it wasn’t my regular alarm, it was different. I had changed the sound of my alarm the night before because the default iPhone alarm has gotten old to me. So, I get up and reach for my phone to turn off this new soothing alarm. I scroll on my phone watching TikTok’s repeatedly for a while until the constant scrolling and different sounds gets annoying and I then play music by Feid to get ready. I make my way down three flights of stairs, walk out the University Village suites, and walk past …

The Average Tuesday, Tucker Johnson

ENGL 1101 Showcase

The numbers on the screen read that it was 8:30. Just a few moments ago I was awoken by a sudden alarm from my phone. I stared at the screen and a scowl formed on my face. I knew that my 8:00 alarm had not awoken me or if the 8:00 alarm even worked. Anyway, I unplugged my grey rectangle from its long, white charger. I sat up in my bed with my brown and orange blanket still covering me. I looked forward towards the wall.

Life’S Cold Shoulder, Zaid Adil

ENGL 1101 Showcase

Staying up till 2 AM watching the cricket World Cup might not have been the brightest idea. Who knew that such a decision would unravel into one of the most challenging days of my life, courtesy of the dreadful cold it brought on.

Cripping Girlhood On Service Dog Tok, Anastasia Todd

Gender and Women's Studies Faculty Publications

This article explores how disabled girl handlers crip girlhood on service dog tok, the emergent subculture on TikTok comprised of disabled handlers who upload and post videos about their everyday life in partnership with a service dog. Looking at the TikTok accounts and self-representational practices of three disabled girl handlers—Ava of @avaandcheddar, Claire of @rosie.the.sd, and Lexy of @muslimservicedogmom28—this article traces how their videos evince an audio–visual representation of interspecies intimacy, a becoming with, that complicates the familiar story of the disabled girl handler/service dog dyad that one might see or scroll past online—one of rehabilitative exceptionalism, disability disavowal, and …

The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency In Indigenous Translation And Interpretation Through Indigenous Approaches To Ux, Nora K. Rivera

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

The Rhetorical Mediator reveals how and why scholars and user experience (UX) researchers can include Indigenous technical communicators and oral interpretation practices in their interdisciplinary conversations. Nora Rivera analyzes the challenges that Indigenous interpreters and translators face in Peru, Mexico, and the United States as a means of understanding their agency and examines the various ways in which technical and professional communication, translation and interpreting studies, and UX research can better support the practices of Indigenous interpreters and translators.

Ciis Dissertation Abstracts, 2022-2023, California Institute Of Integral Studies

CIIS Dissertation Abstracts

This compilation of dissertation abstracts reflects the exciting research completed by the 2022-2023 graduates from PhD programs in the School of Consciousness and Transformation and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate (PsyD) in the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

The original and impactful doctoral research presented here spans diverse areas of scholarship from anthropology and social change to human sexuality, philosophy and religion, and whole person approaches to psychology, demonstrating the breadth and depth of transformative and integral inquiry happening at CIIS. The transdisciplinary nature of these dissertations reflects the richness and complexity …

Swiss American Historical Society Leo Schelbert Prize

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The Leo Schelbert Prize is awarded to the best submitted undergraduate or graduate research paper. The topic can be anything that relates to the mission of the Swiss American Historical Society, which focuses on increasing an understanding of Swiss and/or Swiss-American history.

Act Up: Storm The Nih, Helena Reichenvater

Student Zines

Details the 1990 NIH Action by AIDS activist group ACT UP.

Drselects: Scott Schmidt On Design For Policy And Governance, Scott Schmidt

DRSelects

No abstract provided.

Queer Students: Issues In Public Schools, Hope Philea Henning

Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center Student Work

A brief overview of issues queer students face in American public schools, for the purpose of the Out to Lunch with Allies presentation series from the Gonzaga Lincoln Center.

From The Editor, Angela Mccarthy

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Ash Wednesday - 14 February 2024, Andrew Doohan

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Third Sunday Of Lent - 3 March 2024, Joe Tedesco

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Fourth Sunday Of Lent - 10 March 2024, Andrew Doohan

Pastoral Liturgy

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Mass Of The Lords Supper - 28 March 2024, Gerard Moore

Pastoral Liturgy

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Good Friday - 29 March 2024, Gerard Moore

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Easter Vigil - 30 March 2024, Gerard Moore

Pastoral Liturgy

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Easter Sunday (Mass During The Day) - 31 March 2024, Joe Tedesco

Pastoral Liturgy

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Second Sunday Of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) - 7 April 2024, Joe Tedesco

Pastoral Liturgy

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Third Sunday Of Easter - 14 April 2024, Anthony Doran

Pastoral Liturgy

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Fourth Sunday Of Easter - 21 April 2024, Anthony Doran

Pastoral Liturgy

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Sixth Sunday Of Easter - 5 May 2024, Anthony Doran

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.