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Nadezhda Krupskaya And The Reinvention Of Culture In Revolutionary Russia: Populism, Women, And Education In The New Socialist Society, Michael Anthony Iasilli Jan 2023

Nadezhda Krupskaya And The Reinvention Of Culture In Revolutionary Russia: Populism, Women, And Education In The New Socialist Society, Michael Anthony Iasilli

Theses and Dissertations

Most historiography of the Russian Revolution underestimates the impact of the populists of the nineteenth century in shaping political decision-making that led to early Soviet national development as well as the women brought up within the movement. Populism and the legacy of the narodniki is often a separate body of research, or explained within a distinct political category of its own. Likewise, most scholars see the socialist movement at the turn of the century as a divergence away from the populists. However, through the writings and legacy of Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife, she demonstrates a political and cultural transcendence of …

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The Unstoppable Anthropocene Engine: Animal Studies In Literature And The Lack Of Individual Animal Study, Paul Spampanato Jan 2023

The Unstoppable Anthropocene Engine: Animal Studies In Literature And The Lack Of Individual Animal Study, Paul Spampanato

Theses and Dissertations

Animal studies is a growing field in the Humanities and, in particular, Literature studies. This dissertation, The Unstoppable Anthropocene Engine, focuses on canonical literature of the fin de siècle and Modernist eras that utilize animals in their narratives. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood are the literary texts examined throughout the dissertation to discuss the importance of looking at specific animals that represent particular groups. Through these novels and poem, readers will see that when we …

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Feminism And Identity In Victorian Novels Of Brontës, The Interchangeability Of The Binaries: Center And Margin, Reality And Appearance, Original And Copy, Mutsuko Takahashi Jan 2023

Feminism And Identity In Victorian Novels Of Brontës, The Interchangeability Of The Binaries: Center And Margin, Reality And Appearance, Original And Copy, Mutsuko Takahashi

Theses and Dissertations

The dissertation approaches feminism and identity in the novels of the Brontë sisters, in which characters have struggled with the tension between outsider and insider. The study will discuss, in Part I, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), and in Part II, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), seen through multiple lenses such as feminism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, etc. Various versions of powerless male protagonists in the Brontës are examined, for they help illuminate the situation of the female protagonists. Marginal males try to take over the central position by using …

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The Monsters And Their Racial Identities In Frankenstein And The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, Sara N. Rodia Jan 2023

The Monsters And Their Racial Identities In Frankenstein And The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, Sara N. Rodia

Theses and Dissertations

By examining the monsters through a racial lens in Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this thesis aims to show how the creature and Hyde can be reflective of the racial stereotypes in Britain in the 19th century. This thesis maps out how the monsters in the novels embody nonwhite races and how the narrative can either keep them in the category of monster, or humanize them. The creature represents nonwhite races, and Shelley critiques racist ideologies of the early 19th century through the creature’s narration in the novel. Further, Shelley demonstrates the monstrous nature …

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Gender, Sex, And The Body In Medieval Armenia, Ashley Bozian Jan 2023

Gender, Sex, And The Body In Medieval Armenia, Ashley Bozian

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates textual representation of the body, gender, and sexuality in Armenian chronicles produced between the fifth and eleventh centuries CE. In so doing, it reconstructs the development of Armenian somatology between Zoroastrian and Islamic suzerainties. Specifically, the dissertation examines the modalities by which the body functioned to medieval Armenian cognition as the locus of identity and alterity through the deployment of such devices as the following, to each of which is devoted a chapter: masculinity, femininity, archetypes of sexual morality, legislation of sexual conduct, sexual experientiality (in both temporal and eschatological dimensions), anatomy, and violence. As such, the …

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Interview With Alyson Hagy, Ian Curtis Jan 2023

Interview With Alyson Hagy, Ian Curtis

Inscape

Alyson Hagy grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is a graduate of Williams College (’82) where she twice won the Benjamin Wainwright Prize for her fiction and completed an Honors thesis under the direction of Richard Ford. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan (’85) working with George Garrett, Alan Cheuse, and Janet Kauffman. While at Michigan, she was awarded a Hopwood Prize in Short Fiction and a Roy Cowden Fellowship. Early stories were published in Sewanee Review, Crescent Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. In 1986, Stuart Wright …

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Tracking The Legacy Of "Inner-City" Catholic Schools: An Analysis Of U.S. Elementary Catholic School Organizational And Demographic Data, Andrew F. Miller, Annie Smith, Kierstin M. Giunco, Audrey A. Friedman, Myra Rosen-Reynoso, Charles T. Cownie Iii Jan 2023

Tracking The Legacy Of "Inner-City" Catholic Schools: An Analysis Of U.S. Elementary Catholic School Organizational And Demographic Data, Andrew F. Miller, Annie Smith, Kierstin M. Giunco, Audrey A. Friedman, Myra Rosen-Reynoso, Charles T. Cownie Iii

Journal of Catholic Education Pre-Prints

Over the past twenty years, Catholic elementary schools that self-identify as “inner-city” have closed at a higher rate than Catholic schools in other locations. These schools have also long been associated with a legacy of effectively serving low-income students, students of color, and recent immigrant students, suggesting that the persistent closure of these schools may have a negative impact on these communities. In this paper, we set out to assess the extent to which there have been demographic or organizational changes over the past twenty years in these “inner-city” schools. We found that while these schools do still serve higher …

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Stained Swords: A Psalm Of Redemption, Loren Blake Spendlove Jan 2023

Stained Swords: A Psalm Of Redemption, Loren Blake Spendlove

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The author proposes a novel ideal for understanding the stained swords of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies that involves repetition, parallelism, and metaphoric Hebrew wordplay.

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An Important New Study Of Freemasonry And The Latter-Day Saints: What's Good, What's Questionable, And What's Missing In Method Infinte, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw Jan 2023

An Important New Study Of Freemasonry And The Latter-Day Saints: What's Good, What's Questionable, And What's Missing In Method Infinte, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

There is much to celebrate in this important new study of Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saints. To their credit, the authors have succeeded in creating a work that is richer than earlier studies of the subject, probing many previously unexplored hints of Masonic influence on Latter- day Saint life and thought from the beginning of the Restoration through the end of the nineteenth century. That said, the book’s dauntingly broad survey suffers from uneven quality on some of the many topics it ambitiously tackles. While recognizing the study’s considerable merits, its shortcomings must also be considered. For this reason, I’ve …

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"Love Divine: A Systematic Account Of God’S Love For Humanity" [Review] / Wessling, Jordan.", Silvia Canale Bacchiocchi Jan 2023

"Love Divine: A Systematic Account Of God’S Love For Humanity" [Review] / Wessling, Jordan.", Silvia Canale Bacchiocchi

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

This is a book review.

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Nephi’S Eight Years In The “Wilderness”: Reconsidering Definitions And Details, Godfrey J. Ellis Jan 2023

Nephi’S Eight Years In The “Wilderness”: Reconsidering Definitions And Details, Godfrey J. Ellis

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

A traditional reading of Nephi’s chronicle of the trek through Arabia relies heavily on two verses in 1 Nephi 17. In verse 4, Nephi states that they “did sojourn for the space of many years, yea, even eight years in the wilderness.” In verse 5, he reports that “we did come to the land which we called Bountiful.” The almost universal interpretation of these verses is that of sequential events: eight years traversing the arid desert of Western Arabia following which the Lehites entered the lush Bountiful for an unspecified time to build the ship. A question with the traditional …

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Veterinary Medicine And The Covid-19 Pandemic: An International, Interdisciplinary Study Of A Globalwicked Problem, Daniella Fedak-Lengel Jan 2023

Veterinary Medicine And The Covid-19 Pandemic: An International, Interdisciplinary Study Of A Globalwicked Problem, Daniella Fedak-Lengel

International ResearchScape Journal

Building on field research in Costa Rica and Belize, this study analyzes environmental and endangered animal protection policies, rights, and practices in Central America, and assesses impacts of veterinary science and conservation biology on animal welfare concerns. Informed by the recent surge in awareness regarding the spread of zoonotic diseases, given COVID-19, the study analyzes Manis javanica and the impact of illegal trafficking of this critically endangered animal. The project theorizes if awareness of zoonotic disease transmission, especially during a global pandemic, could be key to reducing sales, legal or illegal, of wild animals in order to mitigate zoonotic infection …

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Empathy And Unity In Exit West, Kelsey Madison Dietrich Jan 2023

Empathy And Unity In Exit West, Kelsey Madison Dietrich

International ResearchScape Journal

Mohsin Hamid’s contemporary novel, Exit West (2017), proposes a world that allows all people to migrate with relative ease across the globe through instantaneous transportation via magical doors. This stylistic choice to use organically emerging, non-state-sanctioned doors as border walls aims to make migration an accessible option for people of all identities. This notion of accessibility is represented as the primary plotline follows the trajectory of two characters using the doors after their unnamed home country is overtaken by militants. Additionally, several vignettes interspersed throughout the novel depict people with various identities who have been transported through doors and the …

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The Reality Of Bipolar Disorder: A Dance Film To Bring Awareness To The Misconceptions Of Mental Health, Julia Woolums Jan 2023

The Reality Of Bipolar Disorder: A Dance Film To Bring Awareness To The Misconceptions Of Mental Health, Julia Woolums

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

For my project, I researched bipolar disorder to create a dance film highlighting the associated symptoms and emotions of hypomanic and depressive episodes. The purpose of this research is to bring awareness to and educate on the reality of these mental health symptoms to reduce mental health stereotypes and stigma. I researched academic texts and peer-reviewed articles about bipolar disorder written from the perspective of those diagnosed with it and used the symptom criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to compose, choreograph, film, and edit my dance film. The completed film showcases what daily life could …

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The Best Board Books Of The Year [2023 Edition], Bank Street College Of Education. Children's Book Committee Jan 2023

The Best Board Books Of The Year [2023 Edition], Bank Street College Of Education. Children's Book Committee

The Center for Children's Literature

The inaugural edition of our annotated list of the very best board books for ages zero to four that were published in 2021 and 2022.

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Al-Sulami’S Kitab Al-Jihad: Spiritualizing Al-Jihad Al-Asghar To Motivate The Muslim Ummah To Jihad, Mosammat Zakia Sultana Jan 2023

Al-Sulami’S Kitab Al-Jihad: Spiritualizing Al-Jihad Al-Asghar To Motivate The Muslim Ummah To Jihad, Mosammat Zakia Sultana

Theses and Dissertations

‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami’s Kitab al-Jihad, The Book of the Jihad (1105), translated by Niall Christie, is a publicly dictated call to jihad in which al-Sulami attempts to motivate his listeners to go and fight against the Franj who have invaded Muslim lands and captured Jerusalem during the First Crusade. This paper examines how al-Sulami emphasizes the importance of al-jihad al-asghar through the merging of the ‘lesser’ and ‘greater’ jihads, which ultimately leads to him theorizing a reconfigured idea of jihad where he spiritualizes military jihad. Furthermore, this paper focuses on the literary choices al-Sulami makes while using Qur’anic verses …

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The Idea Of Unconscionability In Equitable Adjudication And Its Variegated Manifestations In The Louisiana Territory, Pre-1900, Edad Mercier Jan 2023

The Idea Of Unconscionability In Equitable Adjudication And Its Variegated Manifestations In The Louisiana Territory, Pre-1900, Edad Mercier

Theses and Dissertations

The history of American law in the nineteenth century reveals how antislavery activism, Westward expansionism, labor, and women’s rights activism tested the boundaries, strength, and authority of the federal government over states and individuals. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as people resisted against their social position during one of the most turbulent periods in American history prior to the Civil War, American law simultaneously evolved to recognize and delineate the private and public rights of individuals and communities. My dissertation explains how informal and formal socio-legal customs were used to resolve major ethical, social, and contractual disputes arising …

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Grace Liska-Verdu: Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Grace Liska-Verdu Jan 2023

Grace Liska-Verdu: Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Grace Liska-Verdu

Senior Art Portfolios

This is the senior art portfolio created by Grace Liska-Verdu in the Spring of 2023.

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Homes Sweet Homes, Paris Delbone Jan 2023

Homes Sweet Homes, Paris Delbone

Campus Poetry Walk

My name is Paris and I am from Canton, Connecticut, majoring in Environmental Science and Secondary Education. I have two siblings, an older brother and a younger sister. I love to write poetry, play soccer, and travel. My love for poetry stemmed my senior year of high school, when our first poetry unit was introduced, ever since then I cannot stop writing.

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Forest Woman, Amy Tiberio Jan 2023

Forest Woman, Amy Tiberio

Campus Poetry Walk

Amy Tiberio serves as the Vice President for Enrollment Management at RWU. She is a feminist and a yogi who spends her free time in nature, which is where she gets her inspiration and energy. Art has always played an important role in her life, and she tries to make room for it in a busy world.

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Oh The Places I Am, Jenny Simpson Jan 2023

Oh The Places I Am, Jenny Simpson

Campus Poetry Walk

My name is Jenny Simpson and I'm from Pawtucket Rhode Island. I'm a cybersecurity major but love the arts, including poetry. Poetry helps me convey emotions that may be hard to speak about. I believe everyone should tap into their artistic side, because everyone has one.

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The Star Of Earth, Nathan Watlington Jan 2023

The Star Of Earth, Nathan Watlington

Campus Poetry Walk

Hailing from Massachusetts, Nathan Watlington is a Marine Biology major who will be graduating come May 2023. Growing up near the woods, conservation has always been important to Nathan, and he enjoys taking walks and connecting with nature. During his time at Roger, Nathan fell in love with poetry and believes strongly in its ability to advocate both for human and environmental rights.

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The Joy Of Learning Together In Our Rwu Classroom, Rosalie Franks Jan 2023

The Joy Of Learning Together In Our Rwu Classroom, Rosalie Franks

Campus Poetry Walk

Dr Rosalie Franks teaches Literature and Philosophy and Critical Writing at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. From 1994-1999 she interviewed 92 Holocaust survivors for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, founded by Steven Spielberg. Her three to seven- hour conversations with survivors represent more than 550 hours of original testimonies with Jews, ages 60 to 97, who once lived in countries all over Eastern and Western Europe. Out of 25,000 interviews conducted in English by the Foundation, two of Dr. Franks’ ground-breaking conversations with Joseph Singer, a child survivor of the failed Saint Louis refugee voyage …

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Anxiety, Taylor Pierre Jan 2023

Anxiety, Taylor Pierre

Campus Poetry Walk

I am a sophomore here at RWU. I am a criminal justice major with a minor in creative writing. Mental health is something that I am very passionate about and hope it shows in my writing.

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Providence, Melissa Mota Jan 2023

Providence, Melissa Mota

Campus Poetry Walk

I graduated from Roger Williams University in 2018 and was a participant in the Poetry Slam for nearly every year I attended. The Poetry Slam and being able to share my poetry on campus with students and faculty gave me the power and the voice I needed to feel heard in the world.” Melissa has published her poetry and we would like to share a link to her book: http://jandbpressphilly.com/.

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The Boy Scout Movement And Indian Nationalism, Ewan Benjamin Jan 2023

The Boy Scout Movement And Indian Nationalism, Ewan Benjamin

Research Awards

No abstract provided.

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Ousmane Sembène Et Le Cinéma Soviétique, Gesine Drews-Sylla Jan 2023

Ousmane Sembène Et Le Cinéma Soviétique, Gesine Drews-Sylla

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Taking Ousmane Sembène’s internship with the Soviet filmmaker Mark Donskoy as its point of departure, this article traces the entanglement of Sembène’s early films with Soviet cinema. To this end, I will be focusing on the general context of montage and cinema of the Thaw, while giving special consideration to a short Soviet documentary film celebrating Senegalese independence. In particular, paradigms of Thaw cinema can be discerned in Sembène’s Borom Sarret, where they are coupled with the claim to cinematic dialectic, resulting in an active translation into African contexts. In conclusion I would like to offer an intertextual reading …

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Critique De L’État Post-Colonial Africain : Esthétique De L’Engagement Dans Le Dernier De L’Empire D’Ousmane Sembène, Bocar Aly Pam Jan 2023

Critique De L’État Post-Colonial Africain : Esthétique De L’Engagement Dans Le Dernier De L’Empire D’Ousmane Sembène, Bocar Aly Pam

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article analyzes Le dernier de l’Empire (1981) by Ousmane Sembène with the main objectives of examining how the postcolonial societies in Africa are touched by many kind of problems addressed by this author in literature. In fact, the book chosen for this study covers the question of the political aspects of the societies, the dictatorship under the name of democracy, corruption as a norm, and many other points. This study examines Sembène’s novel from the point of view of his interpretation of social and political realities. It depicts the post-independence disillusionment of Senegal.

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Écoutez ! Une Invitation Au Paysage Sonore Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Carina Yervasi Jan 2023

Écoutez ! Une Invitation Au Paysage Sonore Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Carina Yervasi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The role of sound is analyzed in five films by Ousmane Sembène, including his first films Borom Sarret (1963), Niaye (1964) and La Noire de... [Black Girl] (1966). The sounds weave an ensemble or “braid” themselves into the fabric of the film in accordance with a concept theorized by critic Trish FitzSimons. This specific nature of braided sounds reveals narrative elements by way of Sembène’s sound technologies and choices and thus invites spectators to enter into a dialogic community, or even a discursive community, with the filmmaker, his films, and other spectators world-wide.

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Snapshot, Kirby Slaughter Cob 27 Jan 2023

Snapshot, Kirby Slaughter Cob 27

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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