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Civilized Barbarism: Cannibalism and Rome in 'Coriolanus' and 'Titus Andronicus' (thesis)
(2016)
Looking at text and performance, this thesis investigates how cannibalism shapes the identity of Rome in Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus. This thesis posits that both plays utilize cannibalistic diction to form their Roman ...
The Trope of the Tortured Genius: An Examination of 19th Century British and American Poetry (thesis)
(2018)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the trope of the tortured genius in the transatlantic ninetieth century landscape. For the purposes of this paper, a genius is an individual or position that affords perspective, ...
Timber Harvests and the Opportunity Cost of Capital: Evidence from the US Southland (thesis)
(2019)
The optimal timber rotation problem appears in many introductory environmental economics textbooks and has been a standard illustration of the relation between market rates of return and economic decision-making for decades. ...
Bitches Ain't Shit But Hoes and Tricks: An Examination of Gender in M.K. Asante's Buck
(2016)
Throughout this essay, I will be examining how misogynistic language throughout Asante’s adolescence, specifically in rap music and inner city street culture, establishes a tense and destructive stage for gender relations ...
"Mere Madness": A Study of the Portrayal of Women's Mental Health in Shakespeare's Plays
(2016)
In this paper, I study the suicides of Ophelia from Hamlet and Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, and point out how their words and actions correlate with what was called madness at the time, but what we understand as depression ...
Aldo Leopold’s Unique Elegy: Consolation and Agency in “Marshland Elegy” and A Sand County Almanac
(2017)
This essay explores “Marshland Elegy” by first outlining the historical evolution of elegies to provide a foundational understanding of the literary form, and then analyzing the utility in considering “Marshland Elegy’s” ...
Raising the Woman Question: Duras’s Trans*gender Child
(2018)
In Marguerite Duras’s The Lover, a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old white girl pursues a sexual relationship with a twenty-seven-year-old Chinese man. . . . Like most scholars, both Schuster and Hewitt presuppose that the ...
A calling-home (thesis)
(2011)