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Eros And The Sublime: Tools For Reaching Toward An Altered Ecological Consciousness, Aineka Carlson Jan 2025

Eros And The Sublime: Tools For Reaching Toward An Altered Ecological Consciousness, Aineka Carlson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis explores connections between the Kantian sublime and Anne Carson’s ideas regarding “eros.” Since Kant’s Critique of Judgement was published in 1790, the Kantian sublime has grown in popularity and been utilized by theorists and creative writers alike. While the Kantian sublime is often associated with nature in popular culture, there are certain egocentric and phallocentric elements of this mode of thinking that might inhibit a biocentric mindset. Through a character study of Oryx from Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake, this thesis draws relations between the subjugation of women, nature, and the ways in which the popularized …


Designing Your Next Read: How Psychology Shapes The Way We Choose Books, Stephanie M. Xu Jan 2025

Designing Your Next Read: How Psychology Shapes The Way We Choose Books, Stephanie M. Xu

ENGS 15.11: Design and Education

Designing Your Next Read invites students to explore the psychology behind everyday choices through the familiar act of picking a book. Using the lens of design psychology, the lesson examines why decision-making often feels overwhelming and how small shifts in perception, environment, and heuristics can make choices easier and more enjoyable. Students engage in interactive exercises, including a book-browsing activity, mini-lectures on choice biases, and a “Book Blurb” exercise, to reveal how heuristics such as availability, affect, and familiarity shape responses.

Through guided discussion and reflection, students connect psychological theories like the paradox of choice and decision paralysis to their …


Self-Preservation: Autobiography As A Form Of Archivization As Seen Through The Life And Poetic Works Of John Clare, Meghan J. Slaff Jan 2025

Self-Preservation: Autobiography As A Form Of Archivization As Seen Through The Life And Poetic Works Of John Clare, Meghan J. Slaff

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

This paper will look at how the processing efforts of an archivist mirror that of an autobiographer through the shared motivation of adding to the cultural memory or textual canon of a society. For archival purposes, the typical steps of ingesting, preparing, and presenting a collection are creation, capture, arrangement/description, and pluralization. To create an autobiography, writers take the memories that have been created and experienced due to events in their lives and capture those memories via recording in the literary form known as autobiography. These autobiographers then arrange and describe their memories in a way that shows vast similarities …


Damn The Dams: Framing ‘Schizophrenic’ Discourses Of The Hindu Right, Nandita Ghosh Dec 2024

Damn The Dams: Framing ‘Schizophrenic’ Discourses Of The Hindu Right, Nandita Ghosh

Critical Humanities

This article examines the concept of schizophrenia as a cultural metaphor in order to analyze the Hindu Right’s contradictory language-framing politics within the public domain, particularly in relation to building mega dams on rivers Narmada and Bhagirathi. In so doing, it intends to examine the nature of the public domain itself that enables such framing politics within the context of late 20th-early-21st-century global capital. Language battles in the public domain have intensified during this period, especially through various forms of digital media. In India, the various groups that form the Hindu Right have often mixed the …


Data Security In The Apple Ecosystem: An Evaluation, Kayrene Woods Nov 2024

Data Security In The Apple Ecosystem: An Evaluation, Kayrene Woods

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of data security within the Apple ecosystem, focusing on the company’s privacy policies, user perceptions, and the effectiveness of its App Store review processes. Employing an interdisciplinary methodology, the research examines Apple’s commitment to data protection, emphasizing transparency and user trust. A survey of user experiences revealed varying levels of engagement and understanding of Apple’s privacy practices, with only 32.8% of respondents having read the Privacy Policy and mixed opinions on its clarity. Additionally, concerns persist about third-party app security, with 39.7% of users expressing apprehension and skepticism about Apple’s App Store review process. …


Unmasking Male Voices In Woman Hollering Creek: Contributions To Pedagogy And Masculinity Studies, Ramón Javier Guerra, Joan Latchaw Nov 2024

Unmasking Male Voices In Woman Hollering Creek: Contributions To Pedagogy And Masculinity Studies, Ramón Javier Guerra, Joan Latchaw

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

In teaching Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek to undergraduates, we have developed a sociocultural and historical framework, beginning with the theoretical work of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and the concept of transfrontera feminism. With incidents of seduction and sexual abuse of women, spousal abuse, and patriarchal family structures, the collection of stories strongly indicates the oppressive representation of machismo. Scholars and teachers have drawn important critiques of Cisneros’s work based on destructive sociocultural forces on women. However, in rereading the text with an intended focus on the representations of male characters, we have surmised that Cisneros structured the stories in the …


Zombie Literature: Analyzing The Fear Of The Unknown Through Popular Culture, T. Hnter Strickland Nov 2024

Zombie Literature: Analyzing The Fear Of The Unknown Through Popular Culture, T. Hnter Strickland

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

This paper will focus on how the rise in popularity of zombie literature in the 21st century is reflective of a western cultural need to address the fear of the unknown through popular culture. Through the flesh-eating zombie, we enter a parallel world where everything familiar in our communities becomes evil. The genre reflects the fear in Western society of the neighbor who has turned against you, survival in the midst of government collapse, and the monster within. Zombie fantasy literature allows society a venue to deconstruct what is known while dealing with these fears and the unbridled hate of …


“High Culture As Entertainment”: Hybrid Reading Practices In A Live Book Club, Magnus Persson Nov 2024

“High Culture As Entertainment”: Hybrid Reading Practices In A Live Book Club, Magnus Persson

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

The Bushwick Book Club (BBC) is a live book club in which invited pop musicians perform musical interpretations of a predetermined literary work in a nightclub environment. What can a typical BBC show, with its strong emphasis on popular music and performance, teach readers about the uses of literature? This case study will investigate which reading practices are at work and in what ways they challenge traditional ideas of the forms, functions, and values of reading. Another important aspect concerns how the borders between high and popular culture, and between the printed word and other media are renegotiated. Based on …


Waking Up Before We Die: Aging And Spirituality, Marcelline Hutton Oct 2024

Waking Up Before We Die: Aging And Spirituality, Marcelline Hutton

Zea E-Books Collection

In retirement, I have more time for prayer and reflection, to rest in the Lord, and hence to have my spirit renewed. We choose how we interpret our situations. Positive, spiritual aging ideas enhance our sense of well-being. Of course, the loss of loved ones decreases our sense of self-worth at times, but the Spirit can renew us. As Genesis reminds us, God was still working in the lives of Sarah and Abraham in old age, and they can serve as models for us. Indeed, Sarah laughed at the angels and shows us how humor exists even as we age. …


Full Issue Oct 2024

Full Issue

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


The Latino Bench At Fortuna High School Oct 2024

The Latino Bench At Fortuna High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Promotorx 2024 Team Oct 2024

Promotorx 2024 Team

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Native American Mural At Eureka High School Oct 2024

Native American Mural At Eureka High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Mural Of Josiah Lawson At Arcata High School Oct 2024

Mural Of Josiah Lawson At Arcata High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Mural At Cal Poly Humboldt Oct 2024

Mural At Cal Poly Humboldt

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Mural At Eureka High School Oct 2024

Mural At Eureka High School

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Josiah Lawson Mural Oct 2024

Josiah Lawson Mural

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


A Timeline Of Nuestra Historia En Humboldt Oct 2024

A Timeline Of Nuestra Historia En Humboldt

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Zaira, Zaira Angon Oct 2024

Zaira, Zaira Angon

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Viajes Por Cumplir Y Metas Por Lograr, Yudibel Parral Oct 2024

Viajes Por Cumplir Y Metas Por Lograr, Yudibel Parral

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Growing Up Queer, Yocelin Rios Oct 2024

Growing Up Queer, Yocelin Rios

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Adiós A La Isla, Yajeirys Rosario Sanchez Oct 2024

Adiós A La Isla, Yajeirys Rosario Sanchez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Take Care Of Yourself, Xochitl Cabrera Oct 2024

Take Care Of Yourself, Xochitl Cabrera

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Honoring My Immigrant Journey, Sayda Trujillo Oct 2024

Honoring My Immigrant Journey, Sayda Trujillo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Roots Of Resistance: My Journey From San Fransisco To Humboldt, Renee Saucedo Oct 2024

Roots Of Resistance: My Journey From San Fransisco To Humboldt, Renee Saucedo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Homage To My Butt, Ramona J.J. Bell Oct 2024

Homage To My Butt, Ramona J.J. Bell

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Connected, Ramona J.J. Bell Oct 2024

Connected, Ramona J.J. Bell

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Breathe, Ramona J.J. Bell Oct 2024

Breathe, Ramona J.J. Bell

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Peyton Leone, Peyton Leone Oct 2024

Peyton Leone, Peyton Leone

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Oaxaqueña In Arcata, Pamela Hernandez Oct 2024

Oaxaqueña In Arcata, Pamela Hernandez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.