Category: Fall 2019

Tr ansl ation less explores the conflicts of language and memory within my personal life. I wake up and I see myself in my grandmother. I forget things that I shouldn’t. The way she struggles with a different language is the way I struggle with my thoughts. My grandmother navigates in a place that doesn’t…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition I Owe You An Apology You Will Never Receive   Soccer tryouts had an unspoken rule: if someone didn’t know what team they were making by the end of a grueling four days, they hadn’t been paying attention. I was working my way…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition Christian Themes Within the Mohawk Origin Story: An Exploration Through the Work of J.N.B. Hewitt   It should come as no surprise that the famous Iroquois story of the Skywoman, and the world on the turtle’s back has been whitewashed and edited by…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition   The Effect of Hindu Nationalism on India’s 2019 Elections   Introduction Indian Nationalism originally developed during the Indian independence movement against the British. The movement was about territorial nationalism,and worked towards gaining independence and freedom for all types of Indians. Now, Indian Nationalism…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition Periodontitis & Pregnancy Outcomes   Abstract Periodontitis is an infection in which the pathogens associated with it and their toxic products such as lipopolysaccharides lead to systemic inflammation.  The inflammatory process is strongly implicated in preeclampsia, a leading cause of pregnancy complications affecting 3-7%…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition   What did you sound like?        What did you sound like?              I don’t think I remember—which is funny          since, for so long, you were all     I could hear.   Did you sound like stirring…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition   Education By Film: What American Movies Tell Teens About Sex, Love, and Relationships “For adults to hand over responsibility for educating young people about love and sex to popular culture is a dumbfounding, epic abdication of responsibility… …What is more important in…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition   Determining Truth: The Clash of Christianity and Free Speech after Areopagitica   “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” — John Milton, Areopagitica. Freedom to express thought has been perceived as a…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition Hear the poem read aloud by the author here. Daddy’s Little Girl   Past the door you closed with faint regrets the smell of tangled fortune wallows by the window The smell stuck on men who look like you the men who walk like…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition The Geneticist’s Daughter   Year: 2076 Rhode Island, USA The jaw opened. “At last,” Dr. Malthuse Viscerate breathed, stumbling away from the surgical table as the assembled fossil took its second breath of life. “Stay back, Peyton,” he said to the little girl standing…