Human Ideal or Achilles Heel? — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Human Ideal or Achilles Heel?

Name: Catherine Dombrowski
Major: Psychology and Criminal Justice
Hometown: Greenville
Faculty Sponsor: Annette Duncan
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Course project

Abstract

The academic paper I chose to submit to the Western Heritage Scholarship competition was a question of human ideals: what human ideal is presented in a few select, course texts and what ideal would you, the student, choose to follow? Thus, I went about summing up the expected texts and then pondered my stance on the subject and determined the ideal I would write about was a lack of human ideal in favor of a divine ideal or logic. This idea is unique in its field both ideologically and from a societal stance that expects reasoning skills to be intertwined with emotion. To support this theory, textual evidence was accumulated to disprove the advantages of the ideals presented in the texts. The essay concludes with support for the benefits of logic over emotion and no ideal over the use of a human ideal.

Poster file