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Optimism, personal agency and the historical mirror in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

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Hittner, Victoria Marie

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Conceivably one of the most recognizable names in written history, Plutarch has long been lauded as an invaluable historical resource. A Greek living under Roman rule in the first and second centuries, Plutarch exhibited an insatiable curiosity, one which led him to dabble in philosophy, education, the priesthood, and perhaps...

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in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by Victoria Marie Hittner A THESIS
Women's History Lessons for High School Social Studies Classes

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Mallery, Adah E.

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Women’s history is often not included in K-12 classes. However, women are an essential part of American history and should be better represented in the K-12 curricula and classrooms. The purpose of this thesis is to both acknowledge that women’s history is often missing in K-12 classrooms and to provide...

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Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

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Summers, Stephen James

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Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...

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the pragmatic Sosostris and her poisonous “Belladonnas.” Marie longs for a past that has gone away