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Cinema and the Subjective Reality
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Subjectivity is a constant in the human mind; our brains are
composed of our memories, which can only be created subjectively.
A memory is the re-creation of reality to help our minds
understand the world around us and ...
What It Takes to Age in Place: Services and Social Connections
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Recent studies have suggested that a greater number of older
adults prefer to age in place rather than move to a retirement home
(e.g., Cohen-Mansfield, Ali, Frank, 2010). One outcome of this
trend is that a larger ...
Race, Language and the Urban Landscape: On Material Effects of Racialized Identity Formations
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
An immense body of work already exists with respect to
the relationship between race and the modern landscape which
demonstrates the depths of the racial dimension of America’s
urban development. Statistics show that in ...
A Family's Trials in Civil War Era Missouri: Unionism, Displacement, and Not-so-radical Reconstruction
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Much has been written about the vast and violent conflict
that was the American Civil War, exploring every social, political,
and economic aspect. And this body of literature continues to
grow. Scholarship focused on the ...
Lucerna, Volume 11. Complete volume
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
Geographic Voter Turnout Disparaties and Public Health
(UMKC Honors Program, 2017)
A black teenager named Michael Brown is shot by a white police
officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The inferno of media surrounding
the city begins to explain the shooting. At first, they are concerned
with specifics of the ...
Alliteration in the hexameter books of Lucilius
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is very evident (1) that Lucilius used the device of alliteration, (2) that he used it very freely, and (3) that he must have used it purposely. In general, his alliteration means nothing, though occasionally it does ...
Muse, number 15 (1981)
(University of Missouri, Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1981)
A study of furor in Republican and Augustan literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
"The focus of this investigation is a study of the concept furor in Latin literature from the beginnings through the middle of the Augustan Age. The purpose is to show that the complex ideas behind the term furor developed ...
Not just fun and games : exploring ludic elements in Greek and Latin literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation explores how Greek and Roman authors use board games and games of chance to answer complex questions about humanity and the relation of the self to the cosmos. I isolate literary topoi rooted in gaming ...