Summer Bourg

Summer is a student at Nicholls State University pursuing a Secondary Education degree with a concentration in English. Born in Houma, she graduated from Central Lafourche High School in 2013. After taking a break from school to focus on family, she decided to pursue higher education in 2020 and has attended Nicholls since. She is […]

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Mary Cali- “Comparing Imagery in American Poetry and Art”

            As America was growing used to its independence within the 17th century, many authors began to acknowledge the country’s beauty. Walt Whitman, Philip Freneau, and William Cullen Bryant were particularly skilled at using poetic imagery drawn from nature to establish the mood of their pieces. Just so, painters at this time used their preferred

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Summer Bourg- “Sofia Coppola’s Auteurship and The New Wave”

             La Nouvelle Vague, or “New Wave,” was a cinematic movement that began in France during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It significantly impacted the world of cinema in a revolutionary way as it introduced innovative filmmaking techniques, narrative styles, and auteur-driven approaches to filmmaking. The concept of auteurship was central to the French

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Erin Whittington- “The American Dream Reflected Through Film”

            Since America’s founding, there has been an immense fascination with the untamed West. The Pioneers believed in Manifest Destiny, or “the belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer and prosper” (America’s Manifest Destiny). The American dream was to find country untouched and unscarred by human industrialism. To obtain cheap or

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The Coens and Existentialism: The Bleak Worlds of Inside Llewyn Davis and A Serious Man

By: Gabby Blanchard Throughout their filmography, the Coen brothers have garnered a reputation for their skill in subverting genre tropes, the strength of their style, and their repetition of lesser-known character actors in multiple films. However, a significant aspect of their presence as auteurs that is frequently overlooked is the prevalence of themes of death,

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Creole Culture: How Folklores and Religion Connect Francophone North America

By: Lyndsey Vise Confort inattendu Sachant que mon nom de famille vient De tant de connexions, Comme couture, raccommodage, reliure, Tout ceci le travail d’une femme, et celle-là sans nom. Pourtant, même sans son nom, Son sang coule, Les ressemblances continuent. Duhé, Loupe, Fonseca, Cousu sans couture Dans la couverte piquée de qui je suis.

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Purveyed Ambivalence: Analysis of Varied Aesthetics and Themes of War and Technology in Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and The Wind Rises

By: Mark Hue Introduction Following the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Emperor Hirohito finally decided to capitulate to Allied forces, stating The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable […] Should we continue to

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