Dear Reader,
Welcome to Volume 3, Issue 1 of The Onyx Review: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal at Agnes Scott College, a peer- and faculty-reviewed journal! This issue of The Onyx Review proudly features remarkable research spanning several disciplines from literature to history to neuroscience.
The Journal Committee at the Center for Writing and Speaking at Agnes Scott College would like to offer many thanks to our director Dr. Christine Cozzens, our coordinator Dr. Mina Ivanova, and our interim coordinator Kathryn Dean for their continued support and guidance in the publication of this journal. We would also like to thank our current committee members Ciel Zhang, Sarah Waites, Yuxin Zheng, and Jai Lockett for their respective contributions that made this issue possible. Lastly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the many faculty and student reviewers who devoted their valuable time and expertise.
On the behalf of the journal committee, we wish you a Happy Holidays and a Happy Reading!
Warmly,
Zoë C. Howard and Anna M. Tan
Editors
This is the fall journal for the 2017-2018 academic year. Below are the papers included in this volume, in alphabetical order by author.
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The Cannibal Mother: Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass and the Sexual Anxieties of Bluebeard Folktales by Taylor Drake
- The Dual Nature of the Sea in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening by Zoë C. Howard
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The Language of Murder: The Use of Language Surrounding the Jack the Ripper Case and Its Connection to Victorian Discrimination by Cameron A. Mitchell
- Feminism During the Troubles in Northern Ireland by Hannah Piecuch
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Mindfulness Meditation as a Treatment for the Symptoms of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Alice Van Derveer and Stacey Dutton
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Exploiting Nucleophilic Attack in Chemotherapy by Pooja Venkatesh
