Category: Fall 2019

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition   Finding Sacred Space   An adult student returning to college in mid-life, I bring a slow and curious perspective to my studies. My major is Liberal Studies, which allows me to integrate religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and psychology as I research various…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition Underneath the Leather Jackets and Chrome Pipes: Research into the Community of Local Bikers Introduction It’s 8:56 p.m. on a Tuesday evening, and from my 3rd floor dorm room, I can once again hear the aggressive growls of 600-pound motorcycles as they roll into…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition      Asking Advice Across Time   Dear Ms. Willendorf,  I am cleaning my bathroom while writing this. I wonder  if you find it hard to keep your great, bulbous self neat and organized under the greasy stare of historians  as they fertilize…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition The Guest House 1957 I have lived a long life. A simple life, but a good one at that. I have seen people live. While they may not have been perfect, in fact most of them were far from it, they were real,…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition The Self-Stigma of Mental Illness and Active Help-Seeking in College Students   Author Note Megan R. Morrison, Genaveve Schoen, Zach T. Lindenburg, and Nereida Aranda, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Christian Brothers University. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Megan R. Morrison, Department…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition   Ekphrasis in Ecocriticism: A Deeper Understanding of Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” If ekphrasis is a literary description of a visual work of art, and ecocriticism uses literature to study nature and ecological concerns, how do the two mix? Auden’s poem is the…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition Development Assistance for Noncommunicable Diseases: Political, Socioeconomic, and Health Indicators of Foreign Aid for an Emerging Global Crisis  Abstract: As a result of global economic development, noncommunicable diseases, also known as NCDs, have become an emerging pandemic and a wide scale economic burden…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition The Proposal and Evaluation of the ICD-11 Classification System for Personality Disorders Abstract Diagnostic criteria are present and necessary for all disorders, ranging from medical to psychiatric. The International Classification of Diseases, volume 11 (ICD-11) is the most recent edition of a diagnostic manual…

In this research I explored various methods of generating disparate imagery, taking iPhone pictures, found imagery, photographs my peers collected, or online pictures. The image was then translated into traditional drawing media. I then presented these works linearly, suggesting a progression or singular narrative. The images however, appear not to relate. The continuity between these…

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity 2020 Edition La Problema Lengua: Embracing Linguistic Pluralism for a Richer “American” Experience Introduction In a fifth-grade classroom in Queens, Mr. Andrew Brown’s students are speaking English, Spanish, Arabic, Polish, and Ukrainian. This class is located within a public school, not at a special language school,…