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Zeytin Ercan Throughout the early-mid 20th Century, the art world witnessed the rise of two major, groundbreaking artistic movements in Europe: Dadaism and Surrealism. The two movements differed in their larger goals, with Dada emerging as an absurdist reaction to the devastation and catastrophe caused by World War I, while Surrealism sought to focus on…

Theodore Kreiger Introduction:  Starting in 2007, China began their Global Propaganda Expansion campaign, pouring $6 billion into programs to buy influence in foreign media companies and exert influence over social media, putting more and more money into these programs year after year (Huang 2020). In 2020 Taiwan launched an aggressive counter campaign to fight rampant…

Casey Witek and Lizzie Orswell Diverse opinions are what make the political system of a republic function. In theory, everyone has their opinion heard and represented. In practice, though, the methods by which these opinions are expressed often invite polarization to the point of the system’s collapse. This has led to many people feeling pessimistic…

Jubilee Close By the turn of the nineteenth century, the supernatural was a staple in popular fiction. Retrospectively, this literary trend has been named the Gothic genre (Clery 1). Within this genre, there was a clear split between the “explained” supernatural, by authors such as Ann Radcliffe, and the “real” supernatural, by authors such as…

Danny Schiffer Honour, will, and power are all masculine traits in the ancient Roman imagination. Crucifixion was an incredibly emasculating and shameful way to die. For one, you are submitting to the state, and secondly you are literally penetrated (Moore 2002). As early Christians reframed Jesus’s death from shameful, to noble, they transmuted the figure…

Emily Jordan Shakespearean texts and performances are well known for their investigations of the mind, body, and their relationship to philosophical ideologies. However, a darker, more morbid aspect emerges within Shakespearean tragedies and romances concerning the placement of the human body, becoming a tool to further the melancholic, deathly hauntings of the English Renaissance stage.…

Kokono Matsukawa Abstraction may be assumed to be the formal progression of modern art, but a revisionist art history route reveals that the formal and symbolic abstractions of Mondrian and Kandinsky, as well as their differences in approach can be explained through their different approaches to Theosophy. This will be discussed mainly in relation to…

Zoe Tedesco Treaties can be seen as a reflection and manifestation of the diplomatic relationships between groups of people, both indigenous and non-indigenous. They usually consist of specific terms and conditions or a shared goal that all parties agree to uphold. Simply put, many treaties, particularly those that included land cessions and annuities, were essentially…

Hazel Carroll The child in Wordsworth’s 1799 Prelude is a figure that’s hard to pin down. Externally, much of this comes from the nebulous idea of childhood that existed within the Romantic period. The era invited debate over what a child physically is, that is, what ages define the child, as well as what childhood…

Emily Jordan When it comes to the enigma of the film noir genre, it often seems that patriarchal ideologies are at the center. Lawrence Kasdan’s 1981 film Body Heat entered the Hollywood scene as a “tantalizing mirage” of noir masculinity, a clear send-up of past films such as Billy Wilder’s 1944 Double Indemnity and Tay…