The Evolution of "The Yellow Wallpaper" from horror story to feminist classic
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman is a cautionary tale about the dangers of the rest cure, a method used by doctors in the late 1800s to cure depression. She wrote the story as a way to...
View ArticleLabyrinth of Love: Aeneas and Dido in Chaucer and Vergil
This paper analyses Geoffrey Chaucer’s rendition of the famous relationship between Aeneas and Dido, founder of Rome and queen of Carthage, respectively. The discussion focuses heavily on reflections...
View ArticleA Space of Her Own
In 1929 Virginia Woolf published her classic extended essay A Room of One’s Own which became an important piece of feminist writing throughout history. She exemplifies the constant interruptions women...
View ArticleBorders and Identity in Bless me, Ultima (1972)
Studies of the US-Mexico border and the borderlands have formed a large part of the literature that has emerged as a consequence of the Chicano movement of the 1960s. Early Chicano political activists...
View ArticleLatinx Literature and Cultural Production along the US-Mexico Border
“Selena Quintanilla: Deconstructing the Feminine Script” The 1995 death of Selena Quintanilla, the beloved and renowned Tejano singer, has compelled academics to research the many dimensions of her...
View ArticleBless Me, Ultima (1972) and Masculinity on the Borderlands
Chicano fiction serves as a rich outlet for people of Mexican-American descent to explore, embrace, and commentate on their history and culture. Perhaps the most famous work of Chicano fiction is...
View ArticleConsumerism in Russia: An Intercultural Perspective
The presentation aims to report on the findings of an undergraduate research project conducted under UNG’s FUSE program in summer of 2020. The purpose of our project was two-fold: first, to actively...
View ArticleGold Boom Gone Bust: The History of Auroria, Georgia
In the 1830s, Lumpkin county, centrally situated on the “gold belt,” experienced the initial American gold boom. Individuals encroached upon traditional Cherokee lands, waving previous territorial...
View ArticleRomanticizing the Orient: Colonial India and its Influence on Victorian...
During the mid-nineteenth century, many Victorians rebelled against the church, experiencing a crisis of faith. The unease surrounding the church caused them to question what they had known and to...
View ArticleParticipatory Budgeting: Analysis of Institutional Fragility through Crises
In the 1990s, the Workers’ Party (PT) of Brazil introduced an idea that changed democracy in the country and eventually in the world. Participatory Budgeting (PB) was first introduced in Porto Alegre,...
View ArticleExamining Female Genital Mutilation in Indonesia through a Tanzanian Lens
Female circumcision ignites political controversy within societies as some activists assert that the cutting violates the human rights of children due to lack of consent involved as well as the...
View ArticleSmarter Coaching to Adapt to Basketball's New Analytical Landscape
For many years now, businesses and marketing companies have lived and died by, based their entire trajectories on, and believed in the analytics that they produce. It's unfathomable to imagine a...
View ArticleEffective Virtual Music Lessons
With the sudden arrival of Covid-19 in March, 2020, piano teachers shifted quickly to virtual instruction while retaining as much learning, quality, and professionalism as possible. Now, inclusion of,...
View ArticleDevelopment of an ethogram for Trichoplusia ni
The use of model organisms is important in understanding biological processes as they are easy to take care of in a lab environment, they have a short generation time, and help explore basic...
View ArticleAn analysis of groundhog burrow site characteristics
Groundhogs (Marmota monax) are a very common sight in north Georgia and beyond through the Appalachian Mountains and Canada. These large rodents are often trapped or hunted due to their garden...
View ArticleMag Stripe Hacking: Exposing the Fatal Flaw with Student ID Cards
While badge cloning is an issue for magnetic cards, the fatal flaw is often the person holding the card who swipes without thinking. Student IDs act as a form of identification and serve many...
View ArticleQualitative Analysis of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Tumbling Creek
Antibiotic resistance has recently seen a rise in interest in the public health and microbiology fields due to their role in inhibiting treatment in major infections. Due to the high usage rates of...
View ArticleThe Four-Year Police Academy: An Examination of Attrition Rate Patterns in...
The traditional police academy twelve-week model is the subject of reform debate, cited as an inadequate model of training which lacks sufficient education on modern-day policing. In response,...
View ArticleSkeletal variation in Didelphis virginiana
Assessing sexual dimorphism is one method for understanding how species determine mating rights. In this study, we measured the skeletons of Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum) to determine the...
View ArticleAccess to Urban Greenspace: a preliminary analysis of the Hispanic...
Research question: Does the Hispanic population in Gainesville, Georgia have the same access to urban greenspace as other ethnicities? Purpose of study: The field of Environmental Justice examines the...
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