30. The Language of Womanhood, America, and Palestine
Palestine has become increasingly prominent in world news, social media, and eve day-to-day discussion. What all of this coverage lacks, however, is the voice of Palestinians themselves. With few...
View ArticlePanel J: Suffering in Silence: The Presence of Pain in the Witcher Universe
Physical pain is an aspect of humanity that is difficult to articulate to an audience because it is subjective in nature, and experienced individually. Authors have found ways around describing pain...
View ArticlePanel J: The Effects of Technology In The Publishing Industry
Since the technology boom, many industries have adapted to the modern world. For some, this means creating various social media profiles advertising their business. For others, this could include...
View ArticlePanel H: The degradation of survivors within “The Butterfly Garden”
Dot Hutchison’s “The Butterfly Garden” a fiction-based novel about a group of kidnapped underaged girls being held captive to live in what the author refers to as “gardeners” garden. The story follows...
View ArticlePanel J: Who Really Wears the Pants?: Power Dynamics in Matthew Lewis''The Monk'
Gothic literature often serves as an outlet for authors and readers to explore the unexplorable. Examples of unexplorable topics that are often discussed in the Gothic are gender and sexuality. For...
View Article31. Creating a Research/Data Portal for the Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve
Creating a Research/Data Portal for the Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve In 1980, a 2,674-acre greenspace was donated to the Gainesville Area Park Commission by the Johnson & Johnson Company. A...
View Article32. Searching for the Unicoi Wagon Trail
Continuous growth is the everlasting goal of our society. But where does history go when the past is no longer the reality? In the summer of 2021, three researchers from the University of North...
View ArticlePanel H: Voices from Tohoku: Oral Narrative Translation Project
This Oral presentation showcases the methods of transforming an oral narrative interview with a community member affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Accident on March 11,...
View ArticlePanel G: Native American Spirits in Victorian England Séances
My research essay details how Native American spirits were used by Victorian England Spiritualist mediums in their séances. For American mediums, their most common spirit guides were the spirits of...
View ArticlePanel K: Spring-heeled Jack: The Diverging Character of an Urban Monster
First identified in January of 1838, Spring-heeled Jack became an urban monster and literary persona that captured incredible media attention in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Though...
View ArticlePanel K: Urban Society and the Modern Monster
The subject of monsters isn't one that many modern people might be inclined to engage with, in a scholarly manner. Due to the inherently unscientific nature with which these creatures are ascribed,...
View ArticlePanel K: The Beast and the Maenads: The Relationship Between Aleister Crowley...
In the fall of 2021, I wrote a research paper in Dr. Guerty’s Victorian occult class that focused on the relationship between Victorian author and publisher Aleister Crowley, and his obsession with...
View ArticlePanel G: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Victorian Occult
The interaction between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Victorian Occult is not one that has been deeply explored by Historians, instead choosing to focus on Egypt and India. This paper explores the...
View ArticlePanel G: Racial Othering in Bram Stoker's Dracula: a Victorian Gothic Novel
Bram Stoker published the famous Dracula at the fin de siècle, or turn of the century, 1897. Not only did it inspire fear of a new and dangerous Victorian monster, but his Gothic novel had an adverse...
View ArticlePanel C: Ab Initio Calculations of a Titanium Dental Implant with Tricalcium...
The focus of this research is to propose a method of calculating the adhesive strength of an amorphous atom of tricalcium phosphate—a material used in dentistry to cover a titanium tooth implant to...
View ArticlePanel H: Representing Identity in Songbooks Through Repertoire
The Database of American Sing-Along Repertoire (DASAR) is an ongoing project to document and collect songs that have been used for community singing in the United States and Canada. Many of these...
View Article33. Effect of Acute Static Stretching Prior to Resistance Training on Amount...
Within the kinesiology community, the notion that static stretching can negatively impact resistance training when performed before exercise is widely accepted. This is taught in undergraduate...
View Article34. Mapping the Cosmic Web: Capturing Extragalactic Structures with Zooniverse
Despite the importance of knowledge of the structure of the cosmic web to our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the development of the universe, a satisfactory method of identifying and...
View Article41. When Love Hurts: How romance depictions in film contribute to...
There is a strong relationship between media and the belief systems we hold. It is especially important to examine the specific implications film has on our ideas about relationships. Romance, as a...
View Article36. How First and Continuing-Generation College Students Cope with College...
Students encounter new stressors and obstacles in their adjustment to college and this may lead to psychological issues such as generalized anxiety. First-generation college students (FGCS) tend to...
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