Induction Ceremony Keynote Speech: What Facebook Knows about You that You...
Dr. Messineo, Associate Professor of Sociology at Ball State University was the keynote speaker at the joint induction ceremony for Pi Gamma Mu, Alpha Kappa Delta (sociology), Epsilon Delta Omicron...
View ArticleExamining the Relationships between Stress, Depression, Anxiety, and...
Undergraduate nursing students are struggling with the development of stress, depression, and anxiety and the negative effects these feelings are having on their lives. An inability to cope...
View ArticleThe Relationship between Teaching Style and Graduate Student Success in...
Due to the nature of work of a professional counselor, quality training is imperative. Standards have been created and continue to be revised on an ongoing basis to better suit this need. Much has...
View ArticleTraveling in Utopias: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and H.G. Wells' A Modern...
Though within the literary genre, arriving at utopia often requires travel, from a perspective internal to the utopia described, the liberty to travel often takes a dubious status. As illustrated by...
View ArticleRealism as a Constraint on Fantasy
In this essay I discuss how realism operates to constrain works of creative fantasy. Most of the discussion concerns games, especially role-playing games, that take place in a fantasy milieu. I also...
View ArticleCivilization: Rereading Austen’s Constructed Utopia
In her book, On Rereading, Patricia Meyer Spacks relates meeting “a group composed of female Holocaust survivors. They convened at regular intervals, year after year, to read Jane Austen aloud to one...
View ArticleSpanglish: A Controversial Dystopic or Utopic Language?
In this article the controversy surrounding “Spanglish” or the mixing of Spanish and English in the same discourse is discussed. One outspoken proponent of this mixed language is Ilan Stavans who...
View ArticleTechnocracy and Organization: Utopia and the Question of Value-Pluralism
In this essay I will examine technological utopias, in which scientists and technocratic experts wield the power of knowledge and planning in order to produce a harmonious social order in which...
View ArticleThe Role of Dystopia: Isaiah Berlin and the Novels of Huxley and Zamyatin
Stephen’s Toulmin’s Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity describes the modern use of theoretical and instrumental reason to transform the self and world into a unified rational order. Such a...
View ArticleConfounding Dystopian/Utopian Vision: Otto Dix, Walter Benjamin, and the...
Much of Otto Dix’s (1891-1969) artistic practice reflects the traumatic effects of distinct socio-historical experiences: the brutality and inhumanity of the First World War, the depravities of a...
View ArticleWhy Bacon’s Utopia is not a Dystopia: Technological and Ethical Progress in...
One of the unique Utopian visions put forth in the 17th century was that of Francis Bacon. His New Atlantis portrays a technological Utopia on the fictional island of Bensalem. Although Bensalem’s...
View ArticleThe Sacred Union of the East: Great Depression, New Deal, and Roerich-Wallace...
The spiritual partnership of Russian émigré painter Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace (1888–1965), which lasted from 1929 to 1934, provides rich material for...
View ArticleThe world within and the world without Forms and functions of utopia in...
In The Photograph, Graham Clarke writes: “In the end there is no literal reality. All is construction and myth and, ultimately, self-enclosed reality.”[i] This article envisages this ‘self-enclosed...
View ArticleThe Effects of Exercise on Depression
Background: As the number of people diagnosed with clinical depression grows, so do the number of treatments. Along with pharmacological means, holistic and natrual approaches to treating depression...
View ArticleComparison of Red Yeast Rice Versus Statin Therapy for Dyslipidemia: A...
Statins are the first line treatment for hyperlipidemia. However, some patients do not tolerate statins. For these patients, alternative treatments such as red yeast rice may be considered. The...
View ArticleThe Impact of Telemedicine and Patient Outcomes in Rural Settings
Background and Purpose: Rural and Underserved populations pose a very real challenge in meeting healthcare needs. Telemedicine and Advance Practice Nurses offer viable solutions to those needs in a...
View ArticleThe Auditors, the Tooth Fairy, and Death: Utopian Delusions in Terry...
Terry Pratchett’s series of novels about Discworld—a flat world held up by four elephants and carried through space on the back of a vast turtle—began with a parody of the conventions of fantasy...
View ArticlePolicy Point – Counterpoint: Mandating Law Enforcement to Receive Annual...
Multiculturalism is rapidly growing in American communities. A law enforcement officer’s oath increasingly calls for the successful and effectual interaction with citizens from diverse backgrounds....
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