The Macksey Journal
Articles
Giving the Body a Voice: Dance as Embodied Illness Narrative
Ana Worthington
Human TOUCH: Storytelling through Anatomy
Kendahl Servino, Ashley Hairston Doughty, Maria Jerinic, and Michael Ian Borer
Intertextuality, Aesthetics, and the Digital: Rediscovering Chekhov in Early British Modernism
Sam Jacob
“I shall be most happy to play”: Performance, Desire, and Spectatorship in Mansfield Park
Leah Dooley
Does the Painter Know the Bridle and Bit?: Monastic Art and Literature as Sources for the History of Maritime Technology, 750-1200
Angus C.B. Warren
Sacrifice, Magic, and Age: The Young Adult’s Burden (A Study of YA Fantasy)
Angelamarie Malkoun
'Free to love and be loved:' Gifts, Commerce, and the Pursuit of Autonomy in Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
Zuzu Tadeushuk
It All Falls Down: The Disabling Effects of American Institutions on Veterans
Nathan Anthony Tilton
Against Explanatory Condemnation
Tyler Chang
Seeking the Feminine Divine: Mormon Women's Religious Authority and Power in Rachel Hunt Steenblik's poetry
Kaitlin Hoelzer
The Political Animal: Political Naturalism and Moral Deliberation in Aristotle’s Politics
Joseph I. Rodriguez
Polygamy, Free-love, and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage: The National Woman Suffrage Association and Fringe Marriage Ideology Suffragists, 1869-1890
Charlotte Waldman
Musical Materialty: 19th Century French Music Culture Embodied in the Palais Garnier Main Facade
Noelle Yongwei Barr
Stooping Heads and Aspiring Shoulders: Advice for a Happy Marriage in Early Modern England
Meredith Power
The Sociocultural Experiences of Mexican American Recent High School Graduates: Civic Education and Its Social Impact on the Success of Bicultural Youth
Chelsea Amanda Rodriguez
The Fourth Estate: French Resistance to Nazi Occupation in the Press
Nathan J. Johnson
Religious Implications for Agriculture, Diet, and Social Issues
Avalon Jade Theisen
“The Symmetrical Battle” Extended: Old Norse Fránn and Other Symmetry in Norse-Germanic Dragon Lore
Julian A. Emole
Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Cultural Heritage Conservation in The Media
Bailey Elaine Pekar
Creating the Warrior Mentality Through Chemical Influence: The Use of Drugs in Warfare and Its Consequences
Michael T. Richardson
Assassin in the Crescent City: The Untold Story of John Wilkes Booth on his only visit to New Orleans in the Spring of 1864
Alex Christian Lucas
Students, Parents, Faculty, and Chickens: Parental Discipline at Indiana University in the 1850s
Benjamin M. Roy
Why Can't We Be Friends: The Use of Imagined Contact in Changing Negative Attitudes Towards Outgroups
Audrey G. Greder, Rachel A. Kain, Olivia K. Lutz, and Rachel N. Miyazaki
A Rendezvous with Revolution: How Contemporary Female Singers Have Transformed Egypt
Summer El-Shahawy
Philosophers and Priests: Nietzsche’s Engagement with Vedanta and his Problematic Confusions in On the Genealogy of Morals
Pranati P. Parikh
What to Expect When You’re Expected: Uncovering the Role of Cultural Capital in College Success
Margaret H. Tippett
The Things They Carried: Classical Greece Maritime Exchange
Ashley Skye Hunter
Educational Inequalities and the Teacher Perspective
McKenzie J. Mann-Wood
Embracing the Monster: The Films of Guillermo del Toro
Alexandra R. Gaines
How the Notion of Honor in "Bodas de sangre" Can Help Reinterpret Cases like "La manada"
Graceanne LaCombe
The Spies are Among Us
Gwendolyn Ellis
Hegelian Agency and Communication in William Gaddis’ JR
Ryan Andrew P. Hacek
They’ll Only Stop Killin’ Us, If You Say Please: The Role of #BlackLivesMatter, Black Twitter, and Flint, Michigan in Modern Day Respectability Politics
Chasia Elzina Jeffries
Ascendance and Transformation: Humanizing TRIO First Generation Students of Color and their STEM Empowerment Agents
Vanessa Nicole Torres
Not All Skinfolk Are Kinfolk: The Impact Of The Miseducation Of Black Homogeneity In America
Neud's Saint-Cyr
The State of Free Speech on College Campuses
Romolo Peterson
When Flesh is Remembered: A History of Trophies
Jessica McKinney
Republican Motherhood, the American Revolution, and the Persistence of Memory: The Legacy of the Livingston Daughters
Elizabeth Thorsen
Nagel’s Harm Thesis as the Optimal Way to Approach Death
Isabelle O. Riddle
The Führer of All Maladies: Cancer and the Utility of Metaphors for Its “Independence,” Under the Nazi Regime
Jill K. Jones
Happy the People: The Use of Classical Literature in John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Rachel E. Wiedman
Racism Beyond Cognition: a Lacanian Psychoanalysis of the United States' Terror of and Intimacy with the Other
Johanna Jeung
Perfecting Blackness: An Analysis of Respectability and Security in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give
Precious D. Thompson
Desegregation Through Entertainment: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific as an Instrument of Military Policy
Leana M. Sottile
La Mano e il Braccio: Comparing Italian Immigrant Communities in Louisiana And Florida, 1880-1914
Keith Richards
Using Fitbit Competitions to Increase Physical Activity in College Students
Omar Ramirez and Vipa Bernhardt
Protecting the Laboratory: Policing in Glacier Bay National Park
Cecilia R. Slane
Mill on Paternalism and Happiness
Salvatore James Guido
Propaganda And Its Role In Aesthetic Judgement And Artistic Knowledge: Looking At Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Rishabh Kumar
Ethical Implications of the Legal Definition of Brain Death in Light of Modern Technological Advancements
Jordyn E. Fullaway
(STEM)ming on What Children Need to Learn: Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood to Cyberchase
Yvette Corina Vargas
On God’s Eternity: How the Boethian Position on Kairos (καιρός) Solves the Debate Between Eternalism and Open Theism
Joseph Wolfensberger
Mingling with the Universe: The Nature of Byronic Morality
Adeline M. Macioce
Assembling the Pieces of Personhood in Anne Carson's Nox
Rachel A. Seitz
OK, Boomer: The Impact of Age Based Language Ideologies
Carly Vaitkevicius
A Case Study of David Barclay as a Malevolent Slave Trading Banker and a Benevolent Abolitionist
Anny Lu
A Critical History of Preservation: A Study of Preservation Practices and Evolutions
Garrett Channell
Exploring Community Supports for South Asian Women Experiencing Domestic Violence: Narratives from Survivors
Cody Thompson and Ankita Deka, PhD
“God, Sometimes You Don’t Come Through:” The Presentation of Religious Trauma Syndrome Through Rock Music
Maggie Elizabeth Parker
Exploring Adverse Childhood Experiences in Racial and Ethnic Groups: Findings from a Diverse University Sample
Jasmine Kim Collard and Melissa Ponce-Rodas
Black Sanity: Understanding Mental Health Diagnoses Post Emancipation
Victoria E. Robertson
“A great disturbance in my inner man”: The Impossibility of National Unity in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee
Megan A. Swartzfager
Catastrophic Colonialism: An Examination of Masculinity in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This World
Fiona R. Evans
How Do We Commemorate War? The Message and Culture of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
Sarah J. Lavin
Reconciliation and Resistance from the Ground Up: The Power of Affect in Chicago’s Community Gardens
Olivia Lee
Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Fire
Nida Choudary
Humanity Betrayed: The Clinton Administration’s Failure to Intervene in the Rwandan Genocide
Julianna K. Rak
A Nazi Amusement Park: Flakturm Tower IV and the Rise of Alt-Right Fetishism in Vacation Venues
Amanda Jayne Cummins
Fighting Fire with Fire: The Evolution and Problems with Frantz Fanon's Manichean Logic
Brendan J. Dufty
Contradictory Explanations and Elusive Answers: The Historiography of the Sarajevo Assassination
Grayson Myers
Documenting the Roles and Collaborations of Maternal Healthcare Options in Northern Uganda via Personnel Transcript Analysis
Lydia C. Fulton
Roosevelt, Randolph, and Dubinsky: Minorities & American Labor in the Twentieth Century
Hunter D. Whann
Nunca Más: The Evolution of Memory Narratives in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay
Lara A. Simonetti
Public and Private Spaces for Art and Dissent in Post-Fidel Cuba
Madeleine Zoe Hordinski
Adolescence: Fact or Fiction?
Nicole Friedberg
Say “Yes and” To Improv: It’s Good For Your Brain
Anthony F. Tresca
“I Am the Sole Author”: Challenging the Dictionary of the Social Self in Zadie Smith's "NW"
Rachel Stroia
“Here to help? The challenges of providing human rights protection and humanitarian assistance to North Koreans.”
Jessup Jong, Sam Baron, and Daniel Suh
The Usage of Voseo in Social Media: Hondurans and Salvadorans in the United States
Selvyn Y. Martinez Barahona
The World is Our Playground: Public Art as Intermediary Between the Community and Urban Environment
Piper C. Prolago
Constructing Evil through the Epistolary in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth
Donut Boys: A Critical-Creative Understanding of South Philadelphia's Cambodian American Population
Jessica Li
In an Other’s Time: Re-Reading Hamlet with Lacan and Ljubljana to Discover Metametatextuality Beyond the Metatextual
Riley Spieler
Gendering of Leisure Forms and its Impact on Women in Areas of Conflict: A Case Study of Jammu & Kashmir
Anusha Wani, Vedika Pillai, and Yana Azaad
A Review of Concise Literature: The Short Story Cycle
Alyssa T. Altieri
The Short Story Cycle and How Anger Can Empower
Annette F. Goggins
No Superiors and Few Equals: How Elizabeth Freeman Helped to End Slavery in Massachusetts
Gabrielle Lucas
Exploring Why Women Use #MeToo to Share Personal Experiences of Sexual Assault: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Katelin A. Smith
The Narration of Art on Google Arts and Culture
Aishan Zhang
Art, Anatomy, and Political Theory in the Late Renaissance: Creating an Image of the Renaissance Body
Isabel Lauren Gheytanchi
Criminality in French Literature: An Examination of Acceptance and Rejection of Rehabilitation in the Works of Jean Genet and Eugène Vidocq
Daniel Elijah Trovato
The Emotive Configuration and Toll of Slow Violence: Investigating the Emotional Lives of Homeless and Housed People in Contemporary Orange County, California
Danilo Escobar Guzman
Not Quite "The End of History": An Examination of European Populism and Its Threat to the European Union
Courtney L. Rosenstiehl
Intimate Partner Homicides: Has the increase in mandatory arrest laws been counterintuitive for the very people they were set out to protect?
Magdelene Thebaud and Jin Kim
Travel Through Translation
Maribelle Assaad Boutros
Professors, Disabilities, and Other Social Identities; An Intersectional Look at Higher Education
Rosa Ramirez
More Than Microbes: Using Seemingly Gratuitous Data for More Effective Public Health Response
Dominic Antinozzi
The Nature of Disloyalty: Attitudes Towards Treason and Exile in the Ancient Mediterranean
Matthew S. Kenny
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Literary Tradition
Nicholas J. Odom
Objectifying Power: Mariners, Missionaries, and Material Mutuality in Early Modern Tahitian Encounters, 1767-1797
Joshua G. Acosta
The Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse Debunked
Meghan Elizabeth Hansen
New World Triumph in Il Gattopardo
Daria Pietropaolo
Sorjuanismo: An Academic Devotion Towards Sor Juana
Uriel López-Serrano
Qualitative Comparison of the Self-Disclosure Tendencies of Military Dependents and Missionary Kids
Hannah Rauhut
Justice in the World of Jane Austen: Advocating for Lydia Bennet and Maria Bertram
Madison Olivia Ann Tuck
Rehabilittion an Reintegration of Displaced Children Throughout Terrorist Organizations
Jennifer Pamela Delgado
Rewriting History: How South Korean Textbooks are Reframing the United States' Involvement in the Korean War
KayCee Bartoli
Twenty-First Century Fear: Modern Anxiety as Expressed through Post-Apocalyptic Literature
Dominique Dickey
Dum Conderet Urbem: Aeneas’s Development and the Personal Cost of War
Charlotte L. Skolasky
Existence in the Absence of Personal Identity
Linda N. Ready
“Not to Irksome Toil, but to Delight He Made Us”: Work and Leisure as Gift in John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Elissa Buckles
Yoknapatawpha County, Wessex: An Analysis of the Progressive Ideals of William Faulkner and Thomas Hardy
Seth B. Bruck
Democracy Revoked: How Foreign Relations and Domestic Opinion Led to the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Clarisse M. Nakayama
Underestimated Erasures: Central American Undergraduate Student Public Invisibility at the University of California, Irvine
Keanu Hawk Gallardo
Multicultural Musical Landscapes: Investigating Musical Influences in Southern West Virginia Company Towns
Steven Alan Schumann
Gísli’s Súrsson’s Saga: A Conversion Case Study
Sarah S. Penney
An Examination of the Ancient Pillars of the United States through William Livingston
Christopher J. Thoms-Bauer
The Cold War and the Genocide Convention: A History of the United States’ Refusal to Ratify
Suzanne Hill
State Sanctioned Violence across Latinx, Black, and Arab and Muslim communities in a Post-9/11 America
Nourel-Hoda Eidy, Ronnie Alvarez, and Madeline Simone
Political Culture and Abortion Policy
Caleb J. Evans
A Rothian Analysis of Walt Disney’s Pastoral Symphony
Hailey Megan Ritchey
Guilty Ethics: An Embodied Approach to Recognizing Colonial Oppression and Decolonial Projects
Rene M. Ramirez
The Best Intentions: An Exploration of Cross-cultural Interactions and Humanitarian Aid in Rural Mozambique
Ian T. Donahue
Wide Thinking? What Is That?: The Critical Consciousness of Tone in Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed
Ryan Ming-Yuan Lee
The Strives and Struggles of Maintaining A Language and Culture in The Historic Immigrant Communities of Cleveland, Ohio
Klementyna R. Pozniak
Who Were They Working For? Sex Work, Working Girls, and Patriarchy in the Late 19th Century
Grace Files
A River for Specific Fish: An Intersectional Analysis of Race and Class on Sense of Belonging in Princeton Upperclassmen
Peyton C. Cunningham
Yiddish Porn: A Comparative Literary Analysis of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Traditional Yiddish Folktales and Playboy Stories
Leah Trachtenberg
“Epic Poems in Bronze”: Confederate Memorialization and the Old South’s Reckoning with Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century
Grace M. Ford-Dirks
“It Wasn’t Made For Him” Examining Female-Led Superhero Films Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel and the Internet Commentary That Follows
Rachel Fimbianti
The Mosaddeq Coup: Cold War Strategy, Oil, and American Ideals
Mikhail W. Faulconer
A Knock in the Night: Short Story
Ujwal S. Rajaputhra
The “Ugly” Imageries in “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg: How the Poet Makes the Readers Love Them?
Khanh Phuong T. Do
Impact of the Model Minority Stereotype and Lack of Social Capital Among Vietnamese American Students
Brooke Olivia Quach
Postmodernism in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Alexander Reece Loescher Quinlan
A Thirteenth Amendment Approach to the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
Kylee M. Petritsch
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Romance, Capitalism, and Cruel Optimism from Pamela to Fifty Shades of Grey
Caleigh Flegg
In and Outside City Walls: Medieval Jewish Communities and Rulership in German Cities
Zoe K. Schwartz
Stories Untold: Immigrant Workers of the Twin Towers
Valerie N. Edgington
Dum Conderet Urbem: Aeneas’s Development and the Personal Cost of War
Charlotte L. Skolasky
Welt im Film, der Augenzeuge, und die Deutsche Demokratische Republik: The Power of Propaganda in Germany’s Post-World War II Climate (1945 - 1953)
Georgina Bianca Laube
Linguistic Disobedience: Towards a Lyric Theory of Intactness in Contemporary American Poetry
Saoirse .
William Livingston and the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765
Nicole Skalenko
What Is Enough?: Understanding the Ostracization of Mixed People and How They Reaffirm Their Identity
Kierra L. Miles
Evolution to Madness: An Analysis into the Violent Disparity between 19th and 20th Century Serbian Nationalisms
David M. Castillo
A Paradise Without God: Psychosexual Analysis of Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights
Andrea Cota
Houston, We Have a Problem: Humanity & Home in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Charlotte Grace McGill Wood
What Makes a Cité a City? A Parisian Case Study For a City’s Algorithmic Model
Isabella J. Castillo