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"Life is more cruel than us": Psychoanalysis and French Existentialism in the...

This paper will explore the play Le Malentendu by Albert Camus through existential and psychoanalytical lenses. It will explain what aspects of each theory will be most important for analyzing this...

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The Construction of Morality in Crime and Punishment

Doestoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is a contemplation on Nihilism. The protagonist Raskolnikov gives five reasons for why he commits his famous double murder, but he later admits that all of these...

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What About The Women?: The Heroines of Gothic Horror

With a focus on the feminine figure in gothic horror, this paper uses the feminist theoretical work of Gayle Rubin to offer a comparison and analysis of two women from well-known tales: Elizabeth...

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An explicit construction of mechanically correct Lagrangians for systems with...

Starting with an unconstrained mechanical system that is governed by an initial unconstrained Lagrangian, subsequently modified by nonholonomic, linear in velocities, constraints, an explicit...

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Making the Error Bar Overlap Myth a Reality: Comparative Confidence Intervals

Many interpret error bars to mean that if they do not overlap the difference is statistically significant. This overlap rule is really an overlap myth; the rule does not hold true for any conventional...

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TILTing the Vanguard: Applying Transparency Framework to Improve Student...

The Vanguard, the student-run news organization of the University of North Georgia, is nontraditional in that it functions as both a class and a club. While class members meet twice each week in a...

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Magic in the Everyday: An Examination of Style and Its Impacts on Magical...

As magical realism entered into the mix of contemporary literature, critics and readers alike have grappled with the surreal way this subgenre works to convey meaning. Through its magnification of...

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The Elusive Muse in a World Touched by Sorrow

When read superficially, “To a Skylark” by Percy Shelley and “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats appear to be appreciative observations of nature. As the two works are examined together, however, the...

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Community Re-Imagined: Tiny Houser’s and their Views of Community

The contemporary TH movement emerged in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 housing crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial meltdown. Struggling to make ends meet, the movement and...

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Neverending Skies: Milton’s Use of Astronomy in "Paradise Lost"

Our Universe is ever expanding and seemingly infinite. While this knowledge is taken for granted in the modern era, this was not the case for the English poet John Milton. Having lived during the time...

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The Metrics of Shakespeare

Iambic pentameter is the meter in which Shakespeare wrote the vast majority of his poetical works. Throughout his career, he deviated from this rigid meter in ways which developed characters, gave...

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01. Southern Two-Striped Walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) Substrate...

The Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) ranges from Mississippi to South Carolina, with large populations residing in Florida, especially Ocala, where the black and white...

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02. Exploring Reactions Between 4,5-Diphenylimidazole and Metal Nitrates for...

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a subfamily of porous metal organic frameworks (MOFs) which mimic the 145⁰ Si-O-Si dihedral angle in zeolite minerals. They are prepared by reacting metal...

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03. Learning Styles - Fake News

My poster presentation will be a reflection of the changes in the educational communities opinions on learning styles. My opinion and believes have drastically change as more research has came to...

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04. The effect of natural products on the growth of docetaxel resistant...

Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy afflicting the lives of men worldwide. Prostate cancer has two stages, androgen dependent and androgen independent. In the androgen dependent stage, the...

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05. Double Consciousness in To Kill a Mockingbird

Du Bois’ idea of “double consciousness”details the theory of African American “twoness” in America. He argues that blacks throughout American history struggle with the idea of being both “black” and...

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06. What Does It Mean to Be American?

The United States is a nation of immigrants, and there are numerous success stories of them being crucial to the construction of the nation’s culture and identity. Furthermore, many of these...

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07. A Cognitive Analysis of the Trump Administration's Implementation of...

Issued on January 27, 2017, Executive Order 13769: PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES caused mass panic and mass protests overnight. The executive order first...

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08. METABOLIC CHANGES DURING YOGA ASANA PRACTICE

PURPOSE: Mass media advertisements have claimed health benefits of body inversion for relaxation and cardiovascular conditioning. We conducted a preliminary study of real-time physiological changes...

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09. Gaia’s M-dwarf Gap and the Transition to Fully Convective Interiors

Launched in 2013, the Gaia space telescope measured parallax distances to over 1 billion stars. When comparing the brightnesses and colors of stars observed by Gaia, there appears to be a region where...

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