By: Paul J. Lopez “Beneath the Surface: An Analysis of Gender and Cultural Bias in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” In an interview with “The Paris Review”, Hemingway states “I always, try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows” (qtd. in Bausch and […]
By: Andrew DeMil and Michael Borntreger “Student Perception of online translators: Do they do more harm than good?” AbstractThough most second-language instructors are aware that some students use web-based machine translation (WBMT) in order to complete assignments, little is known as to why students decide to utilize such tools and how they may affect the
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By: Abigail Wilkinson “Viewing the History of Japanese and U.S. Relations through Animation” The history of Japanese and U.S. relations might be summarized as a complex exchange of admiration and resentment. Ever since Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet first arrived on the shores of Japan in 1854, relations with Japan have been of significant
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By: Mandilyn Hutchinson “How Coastal Erosion is Affecting the Sacred Lands of Indigenous Louisianians” Evidence of Indigenous peoples living in the Louisiana area date back to more than ten thousand years before the first European explorers arrived in the area. Hernando de Soto’s expedition found several villages along the Mississippi River and when European colonization
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By: Mark Hue “The Conflicted Lamb: An Exploration of Jesus Christ as a New Wave Protagonist in The Last Temptation of Christ” In a 1995 interview with The New York Times, director Martin Scorsese elaborated on his personal taste for cinema by saying, “The villain is always more interesting. I may like the hero, like
By: María Lucía Carrillo “Academic Accomplishments as a Coping Mechanism in Wit” Wit, by Margaret Edson, is a play with a particular capacity to touch its audience. The main character, Vivian Bearing, is diagnosed with stage-four ovarian cancer and has to undergo an exceptionally aggressive treatment. However, this is not the reason the play is
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By: Vrixton Phillips “A Clear and Present Danger: Robespierre’s “On the Trial of the King” After the attack on August 10th on the Palais des Tuileries (the building which closed off the open courtyard of the Palais du Louvre until it was burned down during the Paris Commune) the Royal Family of France was imprisoned,
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By: Samantha Schexnayder “Eugenics in the United States: The Forgotten Movement” Eugenics as a concept has been around for ages and has continuously evolved in its execution over time. Thinkers such as Plato and Galton as well as leaders such as Hitler have all supported the use of science to improve the human race. Some
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By: Rebecca Beyer and Victoria Battaglia Innocence and Imagination: Joseph Addison’s “Pleasures of the Imagination” and Alexander Pope’s “Eloisa to Abelard” Joseph Addison’s philosophical essay “Pleasures of the Imagination,” published in The Spectator (1712), takes a wary approach to the imagination. According to Addison, if employed properly, the imagination can be a means for one
By: Lillian LeCompte “Disability Studies Possibilities in Burton’s Edward Scissorhands” Weird bone structure, exaggerated body features, and dark imagery all permeate the work—live-action or animated—of one of today’s most prolific filmmakers: Tim Burton. In every full length and short film he creates, the man’s obsession with depicting the body in as strange a way as
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