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Theologian and Deaf activist Hannah Lewis claims that only Deaf people can fulfill their potential for life themselves; hearing people cannot help in this process. The goal of this paper is to find a way that the hearing and Deaf can work together for mutual liberation in the Church. If an “integrated church” works with both the hearing and Deaf community fully, it would take a more collaborative view on the subject of life-giving liberation. Therefore, it is possible that integrated churches can be potentially liberating and thus shows that both sides can help in the liberation of others as well as themselves. A case study of St. Catherine of Siena in Des Moines, Iowa, will be offered. Through examining this church based on Lewis’s questions, the project addresses potential liberation, how the church might improve, and an example for integrated churches in general.
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This project is a language analysis of Emily Dickinson’s poem “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church.” The Oxford English Dictionary was used to define each word in the poem as it would have been understood in Dickinson’s time. Using the appropriate definitions, the paper explicates the poem, unpacking the symbols and metaphors created by the religious vocabulary. Throughout the poem, Dickinson uses contrasting religious and natural images to explain the speaker’s relationship with the idea of “church.” Ultimately, an analysis of the poem shows that the speaker views heaven not as an end goal to a life in church, but as a state of being one can experience in nature.
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Film and literature often reflect the most difficult and complex issues of society, including examinations and explorations of history’s forgotten characters. This paper explores the connections between film and literature published in a fifty-year span that feature homosexual characters imprisoned in mental asylums and the sexual, emotional, and physical abuse they receive at the hands of their caretakers. This paper also examines how each homosexual character, despite their traumatic circumstances, is allowed to emerge from their imprisonment with dignity. Research on historical asylums and homosexual patients are compared to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962), Fingersmith (2002), and The Handmaiden (2016) in an examination of history’s often-overlooked mental asylum patients.
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Communication through CMC (computer-mediated conversation) is hazardous. The commonality of CMC misunderstandings suggests this conclusion: proper grammar is not always adequate for expressing meaning. Many attempts have been made to bridge the gap between CMC and speech, but while academics were inventing fanciful additions to the keyboard, millennials were developing their own tactics for inserting nuance into CMC. Although some observers are quick to accuse millennials of illiteracy or laziness, dissection of these trends reveals that, since millennials engage in CMC at far higher rates than older generations, they have subsequently developed a number of grammatical quirks intended to mimic the nuances of face-to-face conversation in CMC. Through examining millennials’ treatments of sarcasm and emphasis as examples, the purposes behind these linguistic trends will be revealed, hopefully explaining if not outright justifying the phenomena.
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