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On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd died in police custody after shouting “I can’t breathe” while officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck. A video recording of the encounter surfaced on the internet and citizens across the United States protested.…

Through analysis of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Rebecca Warren Brown’s Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear: A Native of Africa (1832), the author illuminates the unconventional approach enslaved women take toward…

The current study assessed peoples’ definitions of “normal” for an array of common traits including physical, personality and health conditions, and compared the participants to their perceived norms.

The sudden shift to an online learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in multiple occurrences worldwide. The pandemic also abruptly shifted educational practices from in-person to various virtual contexts, including synchronous,…

This study examined the differences between side-effects and emotional blunting in those currently taking an antidepressant versus those not taking one. It was predicted that the incidence of each side-effect would be significantly greater for those…

Using literature on school burnout, this study will attempt to measure levels of burnout in adolescent high school students. Creating a stylistically new and unadapted measure of school burnout is imperative to this study to ensure that questions and…

Introduction Centuries of writing have contributed to what academics and readers alike consider to be the English language literary canon—a collection of influential and well-read works agreed upon to be the most important pieces of writing. These…

Despite living in a climate that touts that racism has been eliminated, true racial equality is still absent in the modern United States. My thesis research is a study of how American society identifies, categorizes, and reinforces stereotypes onto…

A large number of individuals use social networking sites (SNS). As of 2018, 45% of the world population was a member of at least one SNS (Mitev et al., 2021). Many different ages,genders, ethnicities, and cultures access the internet for a variety…

The need for this project, as originally envisioned, arose from the curious lack of music describing the history and impacts that Westminster Choir College has had on its community.The closest I was able to find were works such as Voices of Light,…