TYGR 2013: Student Art and Literary Magazine

TYGR is the student art and literary magazine for Olivet Nazarene University. [Historical Muse] The Tyger -- William Blake, p. 5.https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/stud_tygr/1027/thumbnail.jp

The Cicada Cries and So Do I

Prose by Samuel Knepprath. Finalist in the 2018 Manuscripts Prose Contest

Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis of Influences to Death Anxiety

There are two certainties in life: we are born, and we will die. Everything in between birth and death is our life. This truth leads many individuals to existential questions: What is the meaning of life? How do we become satisfied with life, knowing that death is impending? Does awareness of death motivate how we live? Death anxiety is a well-studied subject; well over 500 studies provide information on who is the most fearful of death among a variety of groups (women versus men, religious verses secular, youth verses elderly, et cetera). These studies also use presuppositions to explain fear of death, such as, elder individuals have less fear of death due to life experience, a practical reason that makes sense and is likely true. My study looks beyond practical reasoning. I used descriptive phenomenological research to explore the subjective experiences of six individuals, to look beyond presuppositions and examine personal reasoning, and explore whether there were commonalities among their experiences. This study found ten (10) commonalities within the subjective experience of each participant that influenced each person’s fear of death. In the whole these commonalities describe the structure of a phenomenon, experiences that alter the fear of death and influences actions taken in life. The commonalities are loss, selfishness, worry about the process of dying, helplessness over what cannot be controlled, common daily fears, meaning-making that is embedded in general reasoning, reports of self-protection, pleasure-seeking drives, struggles with internal and external values, and a feeling of relief that is found in those who have lost a loved one to chronic illness. This study provides an enhanced understanding of how individuals process death anxiety. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and Ohio Link ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/etd

Finding Aid for the Sessions Collection (MUM00407)

Scrapbook & diary entry concerning the Sessions family experiences during the Civil War

Boston University Men's Chorus, Women's Chorale and Chamber Chorus, February 7, 2004

This is the concert program of the Boston University Men's Chorus, Women's Chorale and Chamber Chorus performance on Saturday, February 7, 2004 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Part-Songs for male chorus by Franz Schubert, Romanzen für Frauenstimmen, Op. 69 by Robert Schumann, Vier Gesänge, Op. 17 by Johannes Brahms, and Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 by Johannes Brahms. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

In The Days of My Youth : Frances Fulton Cunningham Harper

My niece Janet suggests that I write the memories of my youth. It will not be an exciting or adventurous story. The older children of our family could have told more stirring tales, for they lived through the Civil War, and the momentous days of the Battle of Gettysburg. I came along towards the close of 1864 when hoopskirts had passed their greatest rotundity, and pantalettes were on the wane. I remember seeing my sister Maggie, in embroidered pantalettes, but I never wore them. I did have a hoopskirt. It was bought by my sister Jennie, somewhat against my mother’s will. It was to be worn under a very pretty apricot “wool delaine,” one of the few dresses bought directly for me; for most of my frocks were hand-me-downs from my older sisters. In those days cloth was made to last. One of mother’s wedding dresses was a striped gold and brown changeable taffeta. Doubtless mother wore it for two or three years, then it was remade for Maggie in turn. I had an enduring hate for these made over frocks, and was glad that by the time Maggie was through with the silk dress, it was too far gone to be remade for me. My dislike for my older sister’s clothes was a needless self-torture, for both mother and sister Jennie were exquisite needlewomen; they knew how to fashion very nice garments; and while the material might be long in the public eye, it was always good in quality, and made up according to the mode. [excerpt

Documenting the Undocumented: An Ethnography of Mexican Immigrant Juan Estrada Salazar

This ethnographic research seeks to offer an examination of the ways in which I, alongside my grandfather, Juan Estrada Salazar, utilize storytelling as a way to preserve culture and understand self and community