There are differences between traditional Islamic textual interpretations and modern Singaporean state interpretations of the mandatory Islamic prayer ritual of wudu (ablution in preparation for prayer) and salat (the five ...
This thesis proposes to re-examine St. Augustine's political thought through an exploration of the political ramifications of the sacrament of the Eucharist, particularly as it is described in Augustine's "Sermon 227." In ...
Billy Graham is a fixture in American history, as both a religious force and as social figure; to many he is a household name. Graham's tremendous popularity from the 1950s through the early 2000s, as well as his ability ...
In the summer of 1924, nineteen-year-olds Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb committed what would come to be called "the crime of the century" when they murdered fourteen-year-old Robert Franks on the outskirts of Chicago. ...
My thesis explores the way Pablo Picasso and Aimé Césaire claim Africa as a source of inspiration in their jointly-published book Corps perdu , an illustrated volume of poetry released in Paris in 1950. I look at the way ...
In the months since her mechanical-engineer husband confessed to cheating on her, twentysomething Lenore has moved back in with her parents, gotten a job as a barista, and reconnected with her best friend from college, ...
Earlier critics of Jude often allude to theories of inheritance (particularly Darwin's) to support their claim of the novel's determinism, but readings that specifically focus on Darwinism did not emerge until lately, and ...
Smith's experimental style reflects not just a different way of representing space and narrative time, but also a different way of understanding how people and spaces change within a singular place. The narrative is presented ...
Perry Smith's last words in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and two recent cinematic adaptations of the novel, Capote and Infamous, cumulatively challenge the concept of finality. The content and portrayal of Smith's execution ...
A pair of two short stories titled "Turkey" and "Loose Fingers." These are followed by a critical afterword detailing the experience of the writing process and the thematic concerns raised by the two pieces.
Fun Home is a complex, gripping, and thought-provoking graphic novel. This autobiography, follows the coming of age story of author Alison Bechdel as she navigates the complicated and confusing relationship that she and ...
Herman Melville's Bartleby begins in a very strange way. The narrator—the lawyer in the narrative's law office setting—grieves that Bartleby, a scrivener who he had employed some years ago, presents an "irreparable loss ...
The Edenic trope of the fallen woman structures the original Fall as Eve's punishment for her embodied desire, for breaking the rules, and has thus permeated literature with feminine characters who are met with repeated ...
"The Tumbled" is a story about a white family's failures: first, to grieve the loss of a loved one, and second, to understand their own history. The Pleutises are stuck in some sort of hell, or purgatory, or time loop, ...
An overview of the ways in which The Waste Land exemplifies the distinctive qualities of modernism and shows how voice was Eliot's most important tool in creating them.
This thesis discusses how the poet Christina Rossetti uses the body and mind as a poetic merger to better access and understand her spirit. Through her devotional poetry, Rossetti reclaims the body's role in Biblical ...
M. Nourbese Philip's book of abstract poetry Zong! tells the story of the murder of more than 100 African slaves aboard the historical slave ship Zong in 1781. Subsequent court cases culminated in an appeal document which ...
This thesis examines and analyzes anti-black racism in China through two different cases. Aaron A. Vessup, a professor from Chicago, moves to China to continue his teaching career. He is exposed to racism and microagressions, ...
Yu Hua's novel To Live (1993) and Zhang Yimou's film adaptation by the same name has made waves in both contemporary Chinese and international circles in educating the public about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural ...