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The Light and the Nothing: Escapism in Ready Player One and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Get PDFIn their novels Ready Player One and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Ernest Cline and Thomas De Quincey shed light on the individual and societal desire to escape pain and suffering. The drastically different time periods of these two stories show that addiction and avoidance have been plaguing humans for centuries. These characters’ unhealthy use of escapism serves as a warning to readers about the dangers of identifying oneself within a false reality. Ultimately, both characters exemplify that placing one’s agency within a false reality renders one completely powerless. When one accepts their inability to change their undesirable pasts and presents, they can begin to accept reality for all of its terribly painful and wonderfully beautiful experiences
To Do or Not to Do: Anne Elliot and Edith Hope’s Evolving Perceptions of Marriage in Persuasion and Hotel Du Lac
Get PDFWhile Anita Brookner might deny a connection between her characters and those of Jane Austen, placing Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Austen’s Persuasion in conversation with one another reveals how similarly their protagonists are shaped. Edith Hope and Anne Elliot are both characters who make choices based on a high opinion of love that has been cultivated through the various interactions they have with the single, married, and widowed people in their lives. This paper seeks to investigate these relationships to understand why the two women respond so differently to the marriage proposals they receive at the end of their respective novels
Water Filtration System for Hospital in Bangladesh
Get PDFThe Chadraghona Christian Hospital serves the people of Bangladesh in a Christ-centered way, providing quality care for the people of the region. The hospital has several significant infrastructure needs, including a source of clean water. Currently, the hospital does not have a filtration system and draws its water directly from an adjacent river that is polluted and often cloudy with particulates. Prior work on this project, performed during the summer of 2022, began the design of the filtration system for the hospital. The work performed this summer focused on improving and extending last summer’s work. Improvements in the system design lowered anticipated annual operating costs by more than 50%. In addition, design changes were made to improve system safety, reliability, maintainability, and manufacturability. With the completion of this effort the design is nearly ready for manufacture, assembly, and installation
The Value of Leadership: A Quantitative Study on University Values and Student Leadership Training
Get PDFInstitutions of higher education evaluate and implement values into the culture of the institution. These values act as an overarching umbrella for the smaller departments, offices, and groups within the institution. One of these smaller sects of an institution is known as student leaders who have responsibilities that allow them to engage with the campus community and reflect the goals of the institution into this community. This quantitative descriptive study investigated the relationship between training of student leaders at a particular institution and the institutions community values. Participants in the study where students of the selected institution, which is a small, faith-based, liberal arts higher education institution in the midwest United States. The research helped to answer the research question: to what extent are university values reflected in the training and development of student leaders? Results from the survey indicated that student leaders do connect the training they received to the implementation of the community values through their leadership position. The discussion further explains the research results, stating implications and limitations of the present study. The research is important to the field of higher education and student development professionals, as it gives insight into the relationship between an institutions values and its students\u27 perception of these values through the lens of student leadership training
The Spirit of Change: Pentecostals and Political Engagement in the Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone in South America
Get PDFThe Pentecostal movement is the fastest growing religious movement in the world. It is an evolutive expression of Protestantism that places an emphasis on the Holy Spirit and spiritual solutions to life’s turmoils. This movement has been especially flourishing in the Global South with 86% of believers residing there. As the Western world becomes more secular the future of global Christianity is in the Pentecostal movement. The topic of this research will focus on a specific vein of the Pentecostal movement in Latin America. The Catholic Church has long dominated Latin America, and this move away from Catholicism in favor of a more personal expression of faith has been adopted and by large swaths of the population beginning with the lower classes and moving into the middle and higher as well. These voters are leaders of the next generations in Latin America. The purpose of this research is to examine this movement and what impacts it has on the political sphere in a particular region in South America. Has the fastest growing religious movement influenced the most secular region in South America
Full Issue
Get PDFThe full issue of the twenty-third edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development
Taylor: A Magazine for Taylor University Alumni, Parents, and Friends
Get PDFThe Spring 2024 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.https://pillars.taylor.edu/tu_magazines/1200/thumbnail.jp
Reputation and Reality: Revelations of Monstrosity in Frankenstein and Six of Crows
Get PDFThe main characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows reveal the potential within everyone for Monstrosity. This disregard for humanity can stem from many things, but it can also be prevented through community and sympathy. Monstrosity is often misconstrued due to a false perception guided by a sighted bias. In reality, however, characters’ humanity can be shown to the reader through a greater insight into their traumas and intentions. This paper highlights the idea that reputation cannot be trusted, but instead but be further examined to reveal the Monster within
Night Whispers
No full textA large piece of paper with ink on it - an ink print - It is a girl on a bed in the center with her hair flowing into a train at the bottom and swirls around stars and the moon in the corner.
Course: ART 151, 2D Design (Prof. Hannah Richardson)https://pillars.taylor.edu/two-d-design-spring2024/1005/thumbnail.jp