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  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , philosophy, religion, and psychology. Identity's value lies in its personal and communal modes of expression

  • Beckett, Barthelme, and Vonnegut : finding hope in meaninglessness

    Creator:
    Britten, Alex M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A...
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    directly grounded in modernist philosophy. Barthelme’s and Vonnegut’s works are more playful and random

  • The art of resisting the patriarch

    Creator:
    Nasser, Aisha K.
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    This study examines the theme of power in Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy (1956/57). Contrasting my analysis with earlier review of the novel that emphasized a hegemonic patriarchal power, I argue that such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C. Scott's notions...
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    supposes, learn the knack of acting with authority and self-assurance in the course of socialization” (49

  • Pathways to Well-Being : A Mixed Methods Study on Purpose in Life in Middle Adulthood

    Creator:
    Ko, Han-Jung
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    An ability to meet the changing demands associated with development promotes purpose in life, a defining feature of psychological well-being. Midlife adults consistently report higher purpose in life compared to older adults. However, less is known about the dynamics of purpose in life in the transition from middle to older...
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    Dissertation
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Han-Jung Ko for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    skepticism toward philosophy contribute to the novel's ambiguity. In dispelling orthodox beliefs, Melville's