Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "English"
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This analysis follows Jane Austen’s exploration of womanhood and autonomy within her last completed novel, Persuasion. It investigates her commentary on the feminine experience under the rigid traditionalism of the Regency ...
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This is a creative work that looks at the practice of ritualistic human sacrifice throughout different ages and cultures and how this custom affects the people of that society. While it is commonly known that ancient ...
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The Witcher series, by Andrzej Sapkowski, has recently become an international phenomenon. On top of its international pop-cultural success, one of the most interesting aspects about the series is the political landscape ...
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My thesis is a novel which aims to tell the story on an angel who is banished from Heaven and goes on a journey to attempt to return. My novel seeks to portray a journey of spirituality and sexuality through the format of ...
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My research will elucidate the idea of “Brotherhood” as it relates to the soldiers fighting for our country. First, I will attempt to define a clear concept of Brotherhood as it relates to the American Armed Forces. Then ...
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How can film be used to explore political polarization surrounding the issue of Campus Carry? I explored this polarization by fictionalizing a shooting on the Texas A&M campus committed by a schizophrenic student. The ...
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It is no secret that the last couple of decades have found the Christian and LGBTQ+ communities increasingly at odds with each other as they each seek to uphold their vastly opposed ideologies. Even with this growing ...
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(2013-02-04)This thesis, focusing on seventeenth-century English writers, examines the genre of Mothers’ Legacies in relation to the conduct literature being written around the same time. It discusses the manner in which the women ...
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(2013-02-18)The United States has deployed American soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq for over a decade, often sending its soldiers for a second or third tour. The soldiers’ combat experience has changed dramatically since previous ...
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(2013-12-17)My research consists of the analysis of the film Indigènes by Rachid Bouchareb. This film depicts the experience that Algerian and North African soldiers had while fighting for France’s freedom during the German occupation. ...
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(2017-04-24)This research addressed dehumanization in times of war by considering the discourses of veterans from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. I will analyze sources of non-fiction and fiction literature, and interviews archived ...
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(2013-09-19)My project intends to analyze the education potential of comic heroes for the humanities in the development of a democratic citizenry. Drawing on critiques of certain Enlightenment conceptions of an individual autonomous ...
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The purpose of this research is to understand how societal ideas surrounding sport have evolved from the time of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in the fifteenth century to more modern adaptations of his work by T.H. ...
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(2018-05-01)Literature Review: There have been many attempts to reconstruct Cleopatra over the past two millennia, in the form of cultural depictions and histories, each of these adding a little more nuance to her mythology. The ...
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(2021-05-03)Through the frameworks of feminist and Marxist theory and the case study of Susana Remerata Blackwell, I aim to redefine the relationship of Filipina marriage migrants to capitalism by arguing that their skill of domesticity ...
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(2013-02-14)The narrative of the Combat veteran from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past decade has been largely obscured. This is in part due to lack of media attention and partly to a nation-wide numbness to the prolonged ...
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(2021-04-20)In J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, the Hobbit is a critical character that is used for the most difficult of tasks, not due to his heroic qualities, but because of the fundamental Hobbit-values of comfort and community; neither ...
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(2014-09-17)Meta-rhetoric, or rhetoric that addresses rhetoric itself, is continuously metamorphosing and growing in acceptance. Discussions of this issue date back to ancient times, with Plato’s Phaedrus examining the morality of ...
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(2013-09-19)This project involves analyzing the various ways in which the second-person pronoun “you” changes aspects of witnessing when discussing war. The goal is to examine various uses of the pronoun “you,” dissecting both the ...