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An Illuminating Art: How Manuscripts were Decorated for Education and Edification
Get PDFMedieval illuminated manuscripts have given scholars a window into the past in terms of material and purpose of art. Illuminations have been used as storytelling devices, materials for the church, and gifts for the wealthy. Some of the pieces illuminated were descriptions of science, the church, or morality stories. Illuminations have evolved through the centuries and reflect the era and location of which they are created, such as the evolution of borders and monograms. Here, you will see a description of the materials used, the purpose of the art, and some of the important meanings associated with illuminated manuscripts
ABVD.
Get PDFA nineteen year old cancer survivor looks back on her experience and how it pertains to today’s societal beauty norms. By utilizing the name of her chemotherapy regimen, she breaks down the ways she felt that her femininity and identity were defined by outsiders. “ABVD.” aims to analyze the way in which a young woman recalls feeling when questions surrounding her femininity came into play. This piece serves as an emotional reflective prose through the lens of a cancer patient
Starting Anew: Jewish Immigrants and Refugees sent to America’s Midwest from Nazi and Post WWII Germany
Get PDFThis paper serves to investigate the reasoning as to why Jewish refugees and immigrants were sent to places in the Midwest. Through the analysis of many primary sources, specifically interviews of Jewish refugees and immigrants, this investigation reveals that the general reasons as to why Jewish immigrants and refugees were sent to the rural Midwest were rooted in economics as well as their assimilation into American society. The rural Midwest offered more potential economic opportunities than other urban areas and allowed Jewish immigrants and refugees to more easily assimilate into American life through various means
Treatise, Scripture, Manifesto: Reckoning With Love Cake
Get PDFThis essay was written in response to Sri Lankan-American writer and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha\u27s poetry collection Love Cake, as part of a directed study I undertook in Spring 2021. A goal of the directed study, titled The Empire Writes Back was to engage with and build upon work by writers from South Asia and the diaspora, of which Piepzna-Samarasinha is a vocal member. In this essay, I explore not only the sense of connection I feel with this poet and her body of work as a result of shared experiences of otherness, trauma, and nationhood, but also my attempts to understand the differences of upbringing, ethnicity and circumstance that distinguish us, and how they have affected us as creatives
Asexual Protagonists: What Their Patterns Reveal About the Representation of Asexuality in Current Literature
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the most popular books with asexual protagonists and what patterns concerning their gender, race, and romantic orientations reveal about the state of asexual representation in current literature
Sankta Lucia at Augustana College 2021
No full textThis is a recording of Augustana College\u27s annual celebration of the Festival of Sankta Lucia, which was filmed live in Ascension Chapel on November 29, 2021 and released online to the general public on December 13. The program features traditional Scandinavian Christmas carols, lessons, and poetry. The hymns and music are drawn especially from the historic Augustana Lutheran Church (1860-1962) and the other Swedish-American denominations in the United States. The singing is led by the Swedish language students, organist Chris Nelson, and professor Mark Safstrom. The role of Lucia is played by Emma Cintado, a senior minoring in Scandinavian studies. The program also features musicians Charlie Cathcart, Andy Frieden, Ainslie Lounsbury, Nate Wilson, and Nathan Wylie. The program was sponsored by the Scandinavian Studies Program, the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, the American Scandinavian Association at Augustana, and Campus Ministries.
About the tradition: Sankta Lucia is a holiday celebrated in all the Nordic countries to mark the return of light at the darkest time of year. A candlelight procession of singers is led by a young woman robed in white with a crown of candles on her head, to commemorate the martyred St. Lucy (d. 304 AD), whose feast day is December 13. Over the centuries, this Sicilian saint from the early Catholic Middle Ages became a fixture in Lutheran Sweden, where she came to represent the return of light to the dark, cold winter season and point toward the hope of Christmas
An Analysis of Two Medieval Conducti in the Roman De Fauvel
Get PDFThe Roman de Fauvel has great importance to literary history and music history. The musical interpolations within BN fr.146 further the poetic narrative, while simultaneously conceiving a revolutionary music style, the Ars nova. In this study, we analyze two different conducti, to see how the genre developed, what role it played in BN fr.146, and how the interpolated conducti compared with the liturgical conducti of the era. When analyzing a conductus, we considered four open-ended guiding questions: What is it? What is it about? What are some noteworthy elements? Why is it important
Black Lips Don\u27t Turn Blue: A Womanist Critique of Discriminatory Language in Medical Education
Get PDFThis paper examines race and gender inequities in healthcare as it pertains to the unequal presentation of descriptors of illness in medical textbooks. The author adopts a womanist perspective to criticize the use of the white male body as the standard for all patients, which causes signs and symptoms in women and people of color to be dismissed as less important. Following an analysis of normalizing language in current medical texts as well as its consequences for patients, the author calls for a system-wide shift to more inclusive, intersectional medical education that not only acknowledges differences among patient groups, but also places diversity in equal conversation with the presumed norm
