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Eternal Music
Full text linkMy project explores how music shapes our perception of life and death by engaging emotions, memory, and cultural understanding. Drawing from Daniel J. Levitin’s This Is Your Brain on Music and Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise, it examines music’s neurological and historical impact on human experience. It highlights how songs like Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven, Billy Joel’s And So It Goes, and John Lennon’s Imagine express themes of grief, love, and unity. The author also reflects on personal experiences where music provided solace during loss, emphasizing its power to connect us to both life’s joys and its inevitable end
The Non-Apology of Tyler, The Creator
Full text linkThis project analyzes the behavior and statements of the musician Tyler, The Creator as compared to contemporary understandings of the steps, requirements, and functions of a public apology. In 2009, Tyler, The Creator began his career as a solo singer songwriter, using shock value tactics to gain the attention of the public with lyrics and online comments which glorified murder, sexual assault, and kidnapping. Outcries against the themes of the comments and lyrics called for an official public apology and acknowledgement from Tyler, The Creator, however, such a statement never came to fruition. Since his problematic debut, Tyler, The Creator has yet to publicly apologize for the language which was used. Rather, Tyler, The Creator has continued to endorse his earlier works without proper acknowledgement of the harmful topics contained within the songs. As a result of Tyler, The Creator’s failure to acknowledge or demonstrate care (remorse, reparations, acceptance of blame, etc.) for the potential effects of his lyrical content and public comments, it is the conclusion of this analysis that Tyler, The Creator has yet to apologize
The Significance of Social Media Neologisms Across the Globe
Full text linkSocial media neologisms, new terms coined through digital platforms, have drastically altered human communication, and will only continue to do so as technology rapidly advances. These words and phrases develop alongside society as innovative technology, experiences, and phenomena are continuously introduced into everyday life. Although neologisms have been present throughout all time and social media\u27s existence, research has identified that their popularity has exponentially increased in recent years. My research builds upon previous research while exploring how social media neologisms have evolved over the past five years, their impact on language formality, and the familiarity of these terms across various global regions. To obtain the data for this topic, I created a survey distributed to 24 first-year students at Gettysburg College. Twelve of these students were from regions within the United States, and twelve were from regions outside of the United States. The survey contained various questions to gauge student familiarity with a list of ten neologisms created through social media. The survey results revealed that domestic students spent a larger amount of time on social media platforms than international students, leading them to have a greater familiarity with social media terms. Additionally, international students displayed a lack of understanding of multiple social media neologisms such as “Doomscrolling” and “Cancel Culture,” which indicates that these terms are not widely used in non-American regions and cultures. The conduction of this survey provided insight into how geographical differences impact familiarity and understanding of various social media neologisms
Featured Piece: Be a Sankofa People
Full text linkThis year\u27s featured piece was written by Scott Hancock, an associate professor in the History department. Professor Hancock teaches classes on African American history, law and society, and how the two interact with each other. His research focuses on African American experience from the mid-seventeenth century through the Civil War
Economic Miracles and Their Hypes: An Africanist Disputation
No full textThis essay argues that economic miracles are the result of particular processes and procedures to establish a regime of truth. Taking the example of Ivory Coast from the 1950s through the early 1980s as core evidence, the author shows the role of public relations in creating a particular perception of economic achievements. Using the emergence of both West Germany and Japan as early examples in the wake of postwar reconstruction, it is further underlined that the larger context of the Cold War facilitated the construction of economic miracles
Faculty Meeting Minutes - February 20, 2025
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Faculty Meeting Minutes - March 20, 2025
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Meeting, March 20, 2025
Discourse on Space and Place in the Blue Lagoon Reviews
No full textWellness tourism often evokes a space for relaxation. However, in-person experiences sometimes fall short of that expectation. Incorporating the concepts of space and place in Expectancy Discrepancy Theory, we examine how tourists construct their reviews of Blue Lagoon Iceland (BLI). Using discourse analysis, we study 1130 one-star and two-star TripAdvisor reviews between 2009 and 2024. Our analysis shows how reviewers built their complaints against BLI, making explicit comparisons between space and place. Instead of being a relaxing space, reviewers noted four anti-wellness aspects. The place is overcrowded, unhygienic, and full of visitors taking selfies and engaging in hedonistic activities. Collectively, reviewers used these complaints to explain their in-place experience disappointments in BLI as a space for relaxation
The Material Icon in Eleanor Sleath\u27s The Orphan of the Rhine
No full textIn recent years, Eleanor Sleath’s long-neglected The Orphan of the Rhine has received attention as a valuable addition to the Gothic canon. In particular, critics have hailed the unconventionality of her worldly heroine Julie de Rubine. In this article, we resituate Julie’s exceptionalism in a specifically post-Reformation context, arguing that, in Julie, Sleath has created a powerful maternal icon whose mediating authority contests iconoclastic attacks on Marian devotion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Julie is, as critics have observed, the moral center of the text, and we show how that role is warranted specifically by her religiosity. Although partway through Orphan Julie suffers to some extent the common Gothic mother’s fate, being abducted and held captive in a convent for a portion of the novel, she remains the focus of the other characters’ attention and ultimately is restored to preside over the deathbed confession of her errant husband. By showing how Julie’s immaculate motherhood reforms the patriarchal family, we suggest that Catholicism, however counter-intuitively, can be understood as a potentially “queer” element in modern British consciousness. By inspiring an alternative domesticity, Sleath’s maternal icon shows one way that the Gothic can provide a constructive alternative to modernity’s strictures
