Having divided the material into seven categories (Austro-Hungarian Empire, Prague Architecture and Urbanism, Prague Social History, Urban Theory, Kafka Interpretations, Kafka’s Biography, and Primary Texts), I am beginning to conceptualize how they interact with each other. I have considered how the social and cultural relations within the multinational empire led to the rise of nationalism,…
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As the month of May draws to a close, I can happily say that I have already accomplished quite a bit, immersing myself ever further into the literature surrounding Afro-Caribbean religious traditions. This being said, new dilemmas continue to present themselves to me daily, the most prominent being that of bundanga. Bundanga is a term used within communities…
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Focusing specifically on Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, I will analyze how trauma is understood, expressed, and responded to in Faulkner’s era as it compares to Vonnegut’s, using the theory of trauma put forth by Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience (1996). In my work, I will seek to exhibit the striking change in…
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Dimetrodon was the apex terrestrial predator of the early to middle Permian. This genus is a “pelycosaur”-grade synapsid, and a member of Sphenacodontidae the most derived family of basal synapsids. This “sail”-backed ancestor of mammals is conventionally depicted with sprawling posture, but this may be incorrect. Its trackways lack belly-dragging marks and its spine exhibits limited…
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My Honors Thesis will investigate the relationship between social stratification and health for urban African Americans from the 18th through 20th centuries. I will examine three skeletal samples and analyze how disease rates changed both within and across these populations from slavery through the 1960s. This research is important for developing a new conceptual framework…
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