Nonfiction

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Wings

By Abby Boldy I wanted to soar. I wanted to feel in flight as I moved around the dance floor. For a dancer, the studio is more than a training location. Because we spend countless hours mastering skills in a studio, this space transforms into a safe, reliable second home.

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"Woolf's Words"

By Tess Herwick Virginia Woolf’s way with words is not lost on generations of readers who seek out her peculiar yet resonant stream-of-consciousness writing style. This semester, I read Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and To the Lighthouse, three stories with which Woolf infuses her unique perspective in order to put

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God's Calling

By Courtney Hahn One of the questions for this submission asks how my pathways have shaped me. As much as I would love to say they are mine, they are not. My pathways are God’s pathways. I come from a loving, Heavenly creator who has painted His abundant love,

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Physical Pain vs. Painful Guilt

By Olivia Kaschak  I’ve always considered pain to be an essential part of life. To learn, to navigate our world, to mature—you need to bleed. Pain is a physical reminder of being human. It tells us that we work correctly, that we experience the right reactions to bad

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The Weeping Eyes of a Woman

By Roisin Regan I cried on the phone to my mother today, but she does not know that. My mother does not like the woman I have become. I don’t fit the idea of the woman that she envisioned for me. On the phone, I asked her if I

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Introversion Within Undergraduate Institutions

By Winter Harrison Abstract The purpose of this study is to dive into why introversion in higher education learning is looked down upon and why extroversion is upheld by professors as well as in college courses/curriculums . This study is a phenomenology and uses the primary research method of gathering

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Mapping out Growth: My College Expedition

By Peter Bruno In my years of adolescence, I was never one to receive many favors. I have always had an independent mindset and sought to complete my endeavors without outside help. I realized very early on in life that I was not going to be one to receive major

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Warning Signs: My Childhood of Isolation and Accommodations

By Shannon Maiello Many of the choices of my childhood were affected by other people. Due to the hours both of my parents worked, I was always in aftercare following my school day. This time after school was when I could socialize and be a kid, without the consequences of

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Fifty-Three Degrees

By Gianna Perani God, I wish I’d have just checked the weather; maybe then I would’ve brought a jacket. It was one of those days when looking outside the window just wasn’t enough. It’s sunny but frigid, the unsuspecting kind. The kind when you think your

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The Subculture of Eating Disorders in a College Setting/Culture

By Ella McLaughlin Introduction I woke up feeling awful in every way imaginable. I had only been here for two weeks but even the prospect of college life was draining. There was no food in the fridge, piles of dishes in the sink, a mountain of laundry, and a disgusting

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The Insanity of Incarceration: The Pressures Corrections Officers Endure

By Jennifer Burks "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky Introduction What does our prison system say of society in the United States, a system that has disproportionately incarcerated African Americans and has criminalized mental illness? The United States

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Negligence: America's Culpability for Mass Shooters

by Jennifer Riesel Currently there are more guns in America than there are people. Guns are America's foundation and identity, a symbol of our freedom. The United States has roughly 90 guns for every 100 residents. Since 2006, Americans have acquired an estimated 150 million new or imported

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Honor Thy Father: Entirely Unconditional Love on Exhibit

Roman Charity (1623) depicts a young woman breast feeding an older man. The painting has a deep, dark background with very few brown highlights. There are two primary figures. A young woman kneels on the left side of the painting. She has a headwrap, skirt, and cloth covering some of

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Hopper Creative Response

May a woman possess Heraclitus’s pose in The School of Athens, or The Thinker’s posture? May a woman possess the man’s position without permission, but keep her submissiveness, her quaintness? May she wear dark blue instead of powdered pink? Or step into the hallway unaccompanied by a

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“Fire represents life. When your fire is gone, so are you”

In 2023, rapid technological advancements have allowed for all of humanity to become increasingly more digitally interconnected. It is hard to imagine a raw natural world, before humanity conquered planet Earth. A world in which humanity was tasked with a sole unifying goal, simply just survive. In 1994, British television

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Reflection: 2020 Hair Crisis

A reflection of a girl with white and green hair stares back at me in the mirror. Her hair has been over-processed by chemicals that would make anyone wonder if she has any self-restraint. As I touch my hair, clumps fall out. My shock starts to turn into laughter. How

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The Social and Technological Evolution of Fandoms Through New Media and Mass Communication

Introduction The evolution of fandoms has seen many forms, but the fandom that initially led me to studying this evolution through media and mass communication was the Young Adult Fiction fandom through different media outlets. This era of time, the early 2010’s, was when fandoms really became participatory. The

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Interpretations of the Transatlantic Accent

Introduction We are all familiar with the posh, sophisticated sound of the early age of film. Speakers, donned in pearls and satin gowns, amidst a passionate speech, would somehow ooze their vowels, crunch their T’s, and completely drop their R’s. This is what we know as the transatlantic

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I’m Dominion Voting Systems, and Fox News is Lebron James.

On April 18th, 2023, a historic settlement was reached between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. Though initially gunning for 1.6 billion dollars, Dominion is set to receive 787.5 million dollars from said settlement. This particular case shows Fox News being held responsible; but it's an

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Queer Coding in Genshin Impact: A Queer Study of Chinese Video Game Storytelling

Introduction In the United States, queer theory has been studied for several decades and has notable authors for nearly any demographic under the LGBTQ+ umbrella and that access to different viewpoints is something that is often taken for granted. While queer representation in western media is still in its infancy,

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Crime Entertainment is Evil

The changing years of media, technology, and accessibility to world events has caused the way humans view, consume, and interpret news to be different. At one point to see news stories you could only watch TV in real time or newspapers following the event. Up until the recent decade it

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Reimagining Monsters

‌‌Every culture has its monsters, figuratively and literally, if one was to delve into their mythical and historical contexts. In Hollywood thrillers, monsters often serve as typical scary creatures with an insatiable appetite for human flesh, which creates fear for apparent reasons for the main characters. Reasons for their appearance

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THE STARS & STRIPES IN FILM

Introduction Throughout the past century, American film has become an essential medium for engaging with the masses. Stories are told and retold, hegemonies are reinforced and deconstructed, and communities are represented and misrepresented all through the American film. It is this massive impact on American society that warrants critical analyses

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Long Hair Woes

The three sections of hair that are gathered in a plait wrestle against my fingers. Frizz interlocking the parts, causing me to braid with fury. The line dividing my hair down the center into two groups looking less straight as my annoyance builds. Half my hair lay in a mess

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It Is a Luxury to Love Your Work

Francesca Crumpton 05/02/22                                        It Is a Luxury to Love Your Work As the content director for O.C. Tanner Institute the global leader in employee recognition and culture, Todd Nordstrom writes in “People That Truly Love Their Work Understand Something That Most of Us Don’t” that the