This research is an exploration into western feminine cultural shadow through the interviews of eight women from Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, and United States, who volunteered for espionage work such as couriers, weapons specialists, and saboteurs in the S…
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Israel's most sublime Song contains some of the most exquisite yet enigmatic poetry in the Hebrew Bible. One of the chief difficulties in interpreting the Song's lyrics is the unusual imagery used to depict the lovers' bodies. Why is the maiden's hair compared to a flock of goat…
This dissertation examines the artistic manifestations of the Yoruba god of iron and war, Ogun, in Wole Soyinka's The Strong Breed, A Dance of the Forests, and The Road; Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave; and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Using the Yoruba conce…
This work examines the interface between adaptation and acculturation to the experience of colonialism and the etiology of maladaptive parenting skills in a subjugated population, specifically the Latinx diaspora. It explores intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Dark…
The human/dog bond extends from prehistoric times up to the present, shaped by myriad spheres and an intwined destiny. This work utilizes three disciplines, comparative mythology, psychology, and dog ethology, to explore aspects of this bond. In addition, this study considers ho…
In the current Western patriarchal milieu, there are few models of how motherhood can foster psychological and spiritual wholeness in a woman. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore how the stage of motherhood can birth psychological and spiritual wholeness in a woman. This thes…
Symbols are the first and most pervasive way individuals and cultures communicate. They are holders of value and meaning, multivocal and adaptive by nature, and are transformative as they reconcile opposites and establish reality. Symbols are accessed through the imagination and…
This dissertation examines a discourse of Japanese images constructed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish primary literature at the turn of the twentieth century in order to discern the prevailing understanding of "Eastern" modernity among members of Ottoman society in one particular …
In the 1940s, Otto Demus wrote Byzantine Mosaic Decoration , which he described as "short and slight," though the text is well under 100 pages, its influence has been anything but slight. Two tenets lie at the base of Demus's understanding of post-iconoclastic art: that it refle…