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What Is A "Pure Life"?, Ailani Anglin Oct 2024

What Is A "Pure Life"?, Ailani Anglin

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

A personal reflection about encountering new experiences in Costa Rica. The comparision between living in Costa Rica and the U.S, how fortunate we are to have many opportunities in this country.


Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Natalia Zevallos Oct 2024

Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Natalia Zevallos

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Short poem about the unique experiences while in Costa Rica.


Esa Mariposa, Carolina Hernandez Oct 2024

Esa Mariposa, Carolina Hernandez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This free-write poem was written with a purpose of making meaning of the Blue Morpho butterfly I continuously saw abroad in Costa Rica. Being able to have captivating conversations with locals all while being comforted by the country’s blanket of communal love was an unforgettable experience. As a metaphor for change, growth, and transformation, I found this remarkable butterfly to be a highlight of my time in Costa Rica. As a symbol of my late father, it called for reflection and sitting with suppressed emotions. For that reason, I wanted to depict how its reappearing presence became a hopeful reminder …


Radical Love: Embracing Connection And Dismantleing Shame, Lisette Gonzalez Oct 2024

Radical Love: Embracing Connection And Dismantleing Shame, Lisette Gonzalez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

It is essential to maintain love, care, and connection in the face of oppressive systems. There needs to be a call for bravery to get through the challenges that many face, Costa Rica being one of them.


Introduction Oct 2024

Introduction

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Inside the introduction of "Pure Vida: Reflections from Costa Rica", readers will find an illustration by Leyna Tran, “Meet the Team” section and a detailed table of contents, guiding readers through this edition.


The Leftovers, Jessie M. Roncevic Oct 2024

The Leftovers, Jessie M. Roncevic

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Though our species is relatively young on the world time scale, we have drastically reshaped our planet and impacted many other species. Our latest advancements in AI technology could revolutionize entire industries, the environment, and society more than any other human invention. While this new technology could transform human society for the better, some have expressed anxieties over the rapid rise of an unregulated industry whose consequences on the social, political, environmental, and economic systems are difficult to predict. The impacts of advancing artifical intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology are difficult to imagine, even for those at …


The Picnic Tree, Abbie Kubat Oct 2024

The Picnic Tree, Abbie Kubat

English Student Projects

This is a short story written for a creative writing course at Taylor University.


Bereavement, Abbey Schmidtgall Oct 2024

Bereavement, Abbey Schmidtgall

English Student Projects

This piece was written to answer the question 'If we never had to feel bad emotions, would we take that opportunity?' I wanted to explore how all of our emotions contribute to our way of being and are necessary to develop us as people. I hope to flesh out this work into a longer piece of fiction someday, but right now it is a short story.


My Favorite Tree, Noelle Yew Oct 2024

My Favorite Tree, Noelle Yew

English Student Projects

My story is about a tree that hates the spring. The tree is crotchety and doesn't enjoy the budding life that comes with the changing of the seasons. It enjoys winter, because it knows that winter is where it will always end up. The tree is bitter because it is so old. It has seen and experienced so much death in its life, that it hates the hope of life that spring brings with it. It has resigned itself to death and gloom.


Following The Wounded Women In Isabela, Kaisa Aquino Oct 2024

Following The Wounded Women In Isabela, Kaisa Aquino

Fine Arts Department Faculty Publications

This article examines some elements in the crafting of my novel, Isabela (2024), particularly its novelistic formation, and its take on the emblematic figure of the wounded woman in war. I demonstrate what non-conventional stylistic and conceptual decisions give the story its syncretic mode of thought, as its trail shifts from city to barrio, one category of fiction to another, and one wounded woman to the next. I also argue that all these movements and turns are necessary in the novel’s project of representation, as it envisions to narrativize the ongoing historical moment that is the people’s struggle for liberation …


A Home For Literature, Elizabeth Kapsch Oct 2024

A Home For Literature, Elizabeth Kapsch

SPARK Symposium Presentations

1813 was a big year for Chatsworth, although no one living there knew it. In theory, it was a year like any other. William George Spencer Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, had inherited the estate from his father two years prior, and just a year ago had made an impressive purchase of the entirety of the Bishop of Ely’s library–his book-adoring mother, of course, would be proud. William had no marital prospects, nor would he ever. In thirteen years, he would begin work with famous architect Joseph Paxton. Unbeknownst to twenty-three-year-old William, this partnership would result in some of …


Following The Wounded Women In Isabela, Kaisa R. Aquino Oct 2024

Following The Wounded Women In Isabela, Kaisa R. Aquino

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This article examines some elements in the crafting of my novel, Isabela (2024), particularly its novelistic formation, and its take on the emblematic figure of the wounded woman in war. I demonstrate what non-conventional stylistic and conceptual decisions give the story its syncretic mode of thought, as its trail shifts from city to barrio, one category of fiction to another, and one wounded woman to the next. I also argue that all these movements and turns are necessary in the novel’s project of representation, as it envisions to narrativize the ongoing historical moment that is the people’s struggle for liberation …


Fallen Kingdoms And Ancient Monoliths: The Influence Of Atlantis And Egypt In Tolkien’S Númenor, Charlotte J. Brockway Sep 2024

Fallen Kingdoms And Ancient Monoliths: The Influence Of Atlantis And Egypt In Tolkien’S Númenor, Charlotte J. Brockway

Journal of Tolkien Research

In light of the recent publication of The Fall of Númenor, my essay aims to focus on Tolkien’s, somewhat underappreciated, influences on Gondor; particularly Ancient Egypt. This essay looks at Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Ignatius Donnelly's theories, and examines the Atlantean and Egyptian motifs in Tolkien’s version of Westernesse, in particular, the remnants of Atlantean civilization survived by Egyptian colonists which mirror the Realms of Exile (Gondor and Arnor).


Purga Homosexual, Javier Franco Sep 2024

Purga Homosexual, Javier Franco

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

Cuento.


Everyday Heroism And The Journey Of The Community In The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet By Becky Chambers, Jari Käkelä Sep 2024

Everyday Heroism And The Journey Of The Community In The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet By Becky Chambers, Jari Käkelä

Heroism Science

This article examines the impact of everyday heroism on community in the science fiction novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014) by Becky Chambers. While science fiction often features superhuman action or scientist heroes and technocratic dystopian futures, Chambers’s novel represents the recent trend of hopepunk, which sets stories within mundane social interactions to imagine gradual positive change. Instead of its action-adventure potential, the narrative in Chambers’s novel focuses on the relationships between a multi-species crew of a spaceship, creating a heightened sense of the crew as a found family where individuals come to accept and support …


Ani175.3 Cinematography Animatics And Previsualisation Example 2, Sae University College Sep 2024

Ani175.3 Cinematography Animatics And Previsualisation Example 2, Sae University College

Exemplars

Student exemplar for ANI175.3


Review Of Book Of George, Michael F. Russo Sep 2024

Review Of Book Of George, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


A Message From Home, Eric Madrid Aug 2024

A Message From Home, Eric Madrid

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Cinderella And Her Rat, Alyssa Elizondo, Cheyenne Ruiz, Aidan Garcia, Ashlin Padilla Aug 2024

Cinderella And Her Rat, Alyssa Elizondo, Cheyenne Ruiz, Aidan Garcia, Ashlin Padilla

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Drift, Joel Rodriguez Aug 2024

Drift, Joel Rodriguez

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Final Goodbye, Ryan Garcia Aug 2024

Final Goodbye, Ryan Garcia

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Forest Of Memories, Jason Jacobo Aug 2024

Forest Of Memories, Jason Jacobo

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Little Red Polar Bear, Brianna Garcia, Jose Ochoa, Joel Rodriguez, Tinei Tii Aug 2024

Little Red Polar Bear, Brianna Garcia, Jose Ochoa, Joel Rodriguez, Tinei Tii

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Seaside Solution, Lilly Cantu Aug 2024

Seaside Solution, Lilly Cantu

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Shifting Sands, Christopher Hererra Aug 2024

Shifting Sands, Christopher Hererra

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


The Glass Bin, Zitlali Aguirre, Joel Rodriguez, Other Authors Aug 2024

The Glass Bin, Zitlali Aguirre, Joel Rodriguez, Other Authors

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


The Melt, Seth Montes, Jeremy Ocura, Sarita Adams, Dylan Andrews Aug 2024

The Melt, Seth Montes, Jeremy Ocura, Sarita Adams, Dylan Andrews

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Trolls, Shea Spellman Aug 2024

Trolls, Shea Spellman

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


The Flow Of Giving, Riya Patel Aug 2024

The Flow Of Giving, Riya Patel

Climate Change

No abstract provided.


Favian The Ignorant, Maximus Escobedo Aug 2024

Favian The Ignorant, Maximus Escobedo

Climate Change

No abstract provided.