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An Analysis of the Impact of Social Media on Student-Athlete Mental Health
(2023-04-24)Discussion surrounding mental health has become increasingly relevant and made its way to the forefront of conversations in recent years. On top of this, the emergence of a devastating global pandemic and a transition into ... -
Before Felicity
(2017-04)By the time I graduated high school, I had already been embraced by the transformative and therapeutic powers of poetry. I arrived at Hood determined to discover as much as I could about this mysterious force: Where does ... -
The Brightest Fell: Renaissance Variations of the Fall of Lucifer in Marlovian and Shakespearean Drama
(2017-04)Perhaps the greatest struggle for triumph through usurpation, which resulted in immense failure and an eternity of punishment, is the tale of Lucifer, the infamous challenger of God and his kingdom of heaven. Ambitious for ... -
The Evolution of Women in Bollywood Films
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Frances Burney’s Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress and Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2016-05)In 1782 Frances Burney published her second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. Burney tended to write satirical social commentary, and Cecilia is no different. Inheritance, marriage and insanity are among the central ... -
Glorification, Degradation, and Restoration: Variations of Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons
(2017-04)The Amazons have been a topic of discussion among classicists, artists, archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars for centuries. To this day, books are still being published that question whether the tribe of warrior ... -
Hera: A Novella
(2023-04-20)Hera: A Novella tells the story of a human girl who has grown up in the Elven kingdom of Seren. Dark forces of the wasteland the Hadrianus are revealed and hidden powers uncovered after a heartbreaking betrayal and the ... -
The Highway Pegasus: Illustrated Poems
(2022-04-15)The Highway Pegasus: Illustrated Poems, consists of 45 poems and 6 oil paintings (illustrations), and is comprised of free verse as well as experimental forms. The manuscript includes pastorals, elegies, odes, and the Ars ... -
How American Popular Culture Embraced Cynicism in the Digital Media Age
(2019-04-29)The purpose of this research is to identify analyze a connection between popular culture media in the 21st century and the attitude of being cynical. Content creators of the 21st century have bound their cynical outlook ... -
The Jane Austen Movie Club: An Analysis of Modern Jane Austen Film Adaptations
(2017-05)When the first epic motion picture, The Birth of a Nation, was released in 1915, Jane Austen had been dead for almost one hundred years, and the quaint stories of her regency girls trying to find husbands seemed to be far ... -
Love Thy Ideal Neighbor: Permitted and Forbidden Relationships in Utopian Fiction
(2018-04)Writing a story that takes place in a fictional setting requires the author to do at least a little bit of worldbuilding—that is, creating a fictional world. Aside from names of places, such a story needs to convey how the ... -
My Splendor is Temporary: Poems
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Perpetuating or Rejecting: The Use of Stereotypical Images in Sherman Alexie's Fiction
(2023-04)This paper explores the use of four central stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples — the “classic warrior”, the “living anachronism”, the “innately spiritual”, and finally the “barfly” — throughout the fiction of Sherman Alexie, ... -
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Textual Trauma Within Beloved and Citizen
(2022-04-25)This paper will explore Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel Beloved and Claudia Rankine’s 2014 book-length poem Citizen to examine the parallelism between trauma within African American Literature and American history as these texts ... -
Queen Gertrude in Theory: The Construction of Hamlet’s Mother in Criticism and Film
(2016-05)Shakespeare’s Queen Gertrude has one of the smallest central roles in Hamlet’s tragedy. However, despite her notable physical absence, Hamlet and Claudius spend much time in the play ruminating on their respective relationships ... -
Redefining Censorship in the Digital Age
(2020-04-27)This paper explores the First Amendment and its role in online communication. Three main social media networks Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are examined throughout this study. This paper examines these social networking ...