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Inferno of the Mind
Get PDFThis chapbook is a series of poems that explore what it is like living with mental illness. It is a collection of ten poems, inspired by the nine circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. The reader is led on a journey through the mind of the author, each poem providing a modern interpretation of each circle: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. This journey into a “hell of the mind’s making” explores the themes of identity, reality, societal expectations and pressures, and self-doubt through the use of form, structure, and image. The collection ends with a poem titled “Age of Man (Revisited),” embodying the cyclical nature of learning to cope with and understand depression, anxiety, and trauma. Order and structure was essential to making this collection flow and convey the feeling and theme of each poem. This collection is ultimately a culmination of the author’s creative work
A Content Analysis of Queer Slang on Tik Tok
Get PDFSocial media platforms’ concentration of diversity and interactions has accelerated the rate of cultural change on the Internet. With the rise of Tik Tok, a video-sharing social media platform, language used by marginalized groups is being incorporated into the platform’s slang due to the rapid rotation of trends. This study aims to provide data to a new field related to Tik Tok culture and the effects of trends on marginalized groups.
Using qualitative content analysis, this article studies an LGBTQ+-inspired Tik Tok trend to determine if the portmanteau of “-ussy”’s meaning has changed from its original use and if trends inspired by marginalized cultures can benefit the marginalized group on the platform.
Results demonstrated a lack of LGBTQ+ presence in videos in the trend, however, there was evidence to suggest that the trend has aided LGBTQ+ creators in succeeding on the platform due to the trend’s effects on the platform’s algorithm
Mutually Exclusive: Being Gay and Being a Man in E.M. Forster’s Maurice
Get PDFThis paper outlines the impacts of English heteronormativity on E.M. Forster’s novel Maurice by exploring applicable cultural context and its reflection within the text. Maurice was published after Forster’s death, and as his only novel with explicit queer characters, is the best suited for parsing Forster’s own understanding of the society he lived in. With a primary focus on the characters of Maurice and Clive, the paper examines the dichotomy that Forster posits heteronormative English society creates between traditional English masculinity and the identities of gay men. This examination ultimately leads to the conclusion that Forster writes the Greenwood-bound fate of his titular character, Maurice, to illustrate the inability of gay men to exist in England
Ukraine Faces Challenges as Russian Forces Advance
No full textWith all three bridges destroyed leading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Siervierodonetsk, can support still reach its defenders? Plus, what are some of the challenges facing Ukraine as Russian forces continue to make advances in the Donbas? And how one puppy is helping children recover from the trauma of war
Against the Death Penalty
Get PDFMy thesis is an argument against the death penalty. Given that public support for the death penalty in America is at a half-century low (according to the Pew Research Center), the timing could not be more appropriate to examine the death penalty. This research project had a two-step approach: first, ethical theory-based arguments for and against the death penalty were examined. Following that ethical theory-based examination, real-world statistics were applied to these theories to test where they stand in modern society. The findings contained in this research project point to a clear reality that the death penalty in America is simply non-defendable by most accounts
The Fate of Her Heart
Get PDFThe Fate of Her Heart, by Lisa Gisselquist, was written for ENGL 470B-02, with the instruction of Professor Ray Levy. This fiction novella poses the question of whether the person one loves is more important than the established ways of parents. It also examines the risks and rewards of a diplomatic approach versus stopping the enemy before they become too powerful. These questions are posed through a clean fiction story about the actions of the characters, Talia and Ryker, as they must overcome the stigmas of society, and defeat the encroaching Kaito fighters. While their story is not resolved by the end of the novella, they learn valuable lessons that prepare them for later actions in other books. This novella is aimed at young adult readers looking for an innocent fantasy adventure filled with magic, space battles, uncertain love, and tentative trust in the face of war and societal prejudice
Unearthing the Witch: Reckoning with Gender, Magic, and the Unusual Dead within Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burials
Get PDFThe fifth to seventh centuries CE, or the Migration Period, marked the development of Anglo-Saxon culture and society in England. The early Anglo-Saxons are known largely through their material culture and mortuary practices, left behind in medieval cemeteries that twist their way across the English landscape. The remains of early Anglo-Saxons tell rich and interesting histories about past peoples, but within the broader landscapes of these cemeteries are deviant burials. These are burials that are specifically typified as ones that ‘deviate’ from the norm, usually indicating that the inhumed individual was punished in death for actions committed in life. These graves and burials are often elusive in their meaning, and scholars in mortuary studies have only just begun to dig deeper into the sociocultural implications of these burials, as well as into the identities of these unusual dead. In particular, interpretations of evidence have proposed that some of these burials belong to Anglo-Saxon cunning women (or folk) and witches, which this paper will review, drawing conclusions about how viable these interpretations are. An additional key aspect will be to discern the possibilities (and limitations) of analyzing abstract concepts like magical belief and paganism from archaeological remains
Sophomores Reign On!: A Sophomore Student Success Model for Old Dominion University
No full textThe Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services at Old Dominion University (ODU) submitted a Request for Assistance to examine the challenges sophomore students face that can lead to attrition. A doctoral research team conducted an exploratory, sequential, mixed-methods study consisting of a literature review, focus groups and interviews with current ODU juniors and seniors, surveys of current ODU sophomores, staff, and faculty, and interviews with benchmark institutions that have successful sophomore student programming at their schools. The team explained the commonly found needs and barriers that sophomore students face, and specifically examined the expressed sophomore student challenges as revealed by ODU students, staff, and faculty. Findings indicated that there is a lack of transitional support, sophomore student development training, and a defined sophomore student experience at ODU. In response to these findings, the team created a sophomore student success model that recommends developing a sophomore orientation program, training staff and faculty on sophomore needs and development, creating a streamlined mentoring program, evaluating current academic advising models, and designing a Sophomore Year Experience (SYE)
Transition State Theory: Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Ammonia Production via DFT Functional
Get PDFThe thermodynamics and kinetics of a proposed mechanism for ammonia production from nitrogen and hydrogen gas were analyzed by utilizing transition state theory (TST) and density functional theory (DFT). The enthalpy and entropy for the overall reaction were computed via DFT functionals, PBE0 and B3LYP, and were compared to literature values for the thermodynamics of ammonia production. PBE0 produced an enthalpy and entropy for the overall reaction of -81.32 kJ/mol and -197.75 kJ/mol K with percent errors of -11.5 % and -0.18 %, respectively. In comparison, B3LYP produced an enthalpy and entropy for the overall reaction of -1923.02 kJ/mol and -244.25 kJ/mol K with percent errors of 1990 % and 24 %, respectively. Therefore, the PBE0 functional provided a better approximation to the thermodynamics of ammonia production due to the limitations of B3LYP’s empirical approximations. The approximations of B3LYP considers experimental values for specific systems and geometries; however, if the experimental values do not reflect the proposed geometries in the mechanism, it will not be as accurate. Thus, the forward and reverse rate constants of ammonia production were predicted for each step utilizing the DFT functional PBE0
Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome
No full textAncient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the first time in a single volume, in both their original languages and translated into English with accompanying commentaries. The most cost-effective and comprehensive way to study the women writers of Greece and Rome, this book provides original texts, accessible text-commentaries, and detailed English translations of the works of ancient female poets and authors such as Sappho and Sulpicia. It takes a student-focused approach, discussing texts alongside new and original English translations and highlighting the rich, diverse scholarship on ancient women writers to specialists and non-specialists alike. The perspectives of women in the ancient world are still relevant and of interest today, as issues of gender and racial (in)equality remain ever-present in modern society.https://scholar.umw.edu/cpr_books/1006/thumbnail.jp