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The idea of the Victorian period as sexually strange has created this myth with a significant quantity of depth to it that perpetuates the link between Women as the other to the repressed manifestation of desire that makes monsters and monster tropes in literature. The monstrous feminine other is a trope that is explored inContinue reading “Woman, Monster, Other”

Prison bars stand atop the hill, towering over trees that used to brush the sky, now cowering beneath shadows of cold grey stone. The building is a commanding sight, purposefully contrasted against its lush surroundings to prove its hegemonic dominance. Built in 1850, colonial building was the legislature building in St. John’s, Newfoundland, which hasContinue reading “Colonial Building: A Semiotic Subjugation”

Philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and similar scholars have been ruminating over the construction of self-identity. Leaning on philosophical concepts – like that of Russon, who claims impressions aid the construction of self as we navigate through the content of this world making association and memories for us to cling to as identifiers in our sense ofContinue reading “Make Up Your Mind: The Creation of Self Through Digital Avatars”

Neocolonialism is the continuation of imperialistic practices that asserts influence and control of economic, political and cultural ascendency on other countries by dominant forces that aim to globalize their influence on developing countries. Neocolonial political control becomes indirect through cultural conditioning that sets countries up to operate under imperial methods they were raised in. TheContinue reading “The Neocolonial Liberalized Globe”

“In the fog of war, social media can generate false information and getting the truth can feel impossible. Inoculate yourself against it”(Grady, 2022). This is the subtitle text of Ryerson Today’s article Navigate Misinformation on the War in Ukraine with the Social Media Lab’s Dashboard written by Michelle Grady just 2 days ago. Grady impliesContinue reading “War on Information”

Abstract The following paper is a short expository essay that follows the ideas of Hegel from the chapter Logic, Being, Nothing, and Becoming in the book The Science of Logic. Hegel presents in his work a kind of stillness that is present in many spiritual texts, traditions, and common rhetorics, as well as in theContinue reading “Hegel on Being and Nothing in Regards to Spirituality”

Abstract The following paper is a compare and contrast take on the concepts of the self from the minds of both David Hume and John Russon, and how we are to think of these accounts together and separately. It is a battle of nothing and everything, physical and metaphysical, the mind and beyond the mind.Continue reading “The Memory of Me”

Your Body is a Vessel When you think of yourself and how others perceive you, some of what may primarily pop up is physical descriptors – your facial features, height, hair colour, your style, maybe some factors that you might feel self conscious about. But is that you?  If we are going through physical changes,Continue reading “Your Body”

            Day and night have historically been separate universes in terms of attitudes surrounding them – temporal rhythms have affected our behaviours during the 24 hour cycle due to societal norms caused by the visual abilities in these respective time frames, circadian rhythms, routines of being awake vs being asleep, and the socially acceptable activities toContinue reading “The Modern 24 Hour Cycle”