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Dissonance of the Self: Applying the Philosophy of Patañjali’s Yogasūtra to the Effects of Prolonged Engagement in Virtual Synchronous Platforms

Creator:: Darshana, Jocelyn D.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes contributing factors to Zoom Fatigue and the issues surrounding “attentional dissonance,” or a feeling of tension or rupture between actual and virtual self-perception. The research examines current literature on Zoom Fatigue, and uses the sociological theory of Dramaturgical Analysis, developed by Erving Goffman, to further assess the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : _______________________________________________________________ Stuart R. Sarbacker This thesis analyzes contributing factors to Zoom Fatigue and

Giving Birth to Reality : Experiences of Motherhood in the Stories of Eminent Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners

Creator:: Gallagher, Katelin
Abstract:: Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous perspectives about motherhood as it relates to traversing the spiritual path. In the first, mothering is the antithesis to spiritual development and realization, as it tethers a practitioner to the mundane duties of saṃsāra, the cycle of rebirth and suffering, propelling her...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : __________________________________________________________________ Stuart R. Sarbacker Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous

Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

Creator:: Henschke, Stefan
Abstract:: In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________________ Stuart R. Sarbacker In

Taking a Stand: Promoting Val Plumwood’s Intentional Recognition Stance as an Ethical Solution for Addressing Climate Crisis and Environmental Degradation

Creator:: Meeks, Austin
Abstract:: This thesis argues for the importance of justice of recognition not only for humans, but the entire non-human world in the face of environmental destruction and climate crisis. The common response to the degradation of the world’s ecological sphere is to act with technological, scientific, and material based responses. However,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: becoming accepted into the Applied Ethics program. To Dr. Geoffrey Barstow and Dr. Stuart Sarbacker for

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

Creator:: Schindler, Jason A.
Abstract:: Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia provokes us to embrace our Earthboundedness to approach the problematic political ecologies of the Anthropocene. Latour’s call for the Earthbound is to re-trace networks of society, institutions, and meaning and to challenge, as enemy, those that would continue to behave as if we lived on more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: falls short. Stuart Sarbacker has been an inspiration to me towards the kind of active and integrated

Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

Creator:: Peng, Chih-Wei
Abstract:: In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Thompson, and my minor professor, Stuart Ray Sarbacker, who gave me the golden opportunity to do this

A Queer Feminist Interpretation of Selected Narratives from the Mahabharata : An Analysis of Alternate Paradigms of Gender and Sexuality within the Epic

Creator:: Gharti Chhetri G. C., Sanju
Abstract:: Informed by feminist and queer theories, this thesis provides an alternate reading of selected narratives from the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”. By queering the narratives from the epic, this thesis highlights the existence of fluid notions of sexuality and gender present within Hindu religious texts. In doing so, the study aims...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

Creator:: Butcher, Ian
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: or enact those consequences. I argue that in The Professor's House, Godfrey St. Peter's desire to

The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

Creator:: Chavarria, Juan C.
Abstract:: In the past, archaeological investigations have recovered material culture that have often been stored as museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one such assemblage ofchipped stone projectile points from the Bachman Cave locality of southwestern Idaho that has been stored...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the region initiated by Sheilbach's results (Butler 1968:6) were conducted by Godfrey J. Olsen

David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

Creator:: Randlemon, Daniel E.
Abstract:: Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : __________________________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David

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Dissonance of the Self: Applying the Philosophy of Patañjali’s Yogasūtra to the Effects of Prolonged Engagement in Virtual Synchronous Platforms

Giving Birth to Reality : Experiences of Motherhood in the Stories of Eminent Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners

Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

Taking a Stand: Promoting Val Plumwood’s Intentional Recognition Stance as an Ethical Solution for Addressing Climate Crisis and Environmental Degradation

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

A Queer Feminist Interpretation of Selected Narratives from the Mahabharata : An Analysis of Alternate Paradigms of Gender and Sexuality within the Epic

Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

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