Agora
Red Deer Polytechnic Undergraduate Journal
Volume 14:1 (2023)
Student Conference Proceedings

Agora
Red Deer Polytechnic
Undergraduate Journal

Volume 14:1
Agora Conference Proceedings 2023

Agora: Red Deer Polytechnic Undergraduate Journal
Volume 14:1 2023 Agora Conference Proceedings

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Heather Marcovitch
Editors (Student):
Bobbi Ferguson
Rilea Johanson
Cover Art: Hannah Mortimer, "There Was Evening and There Was Morning--The Sixth Day 2023"
Editor’s Note: Although the Agora editorial staff makes every effort to maintain a consistent house style, we have
also decided to allow discipline-specific styles, especially concerning references and notations, to remain
unchanged.
We thank the CAT Fund, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the School of Arts and Culture for
their support in the publication of this journal.

Agora: RDP Undergraduate Journal
Volume 14:1 (2023)
Agora Conference Proceedings

Table of Contents

Jennine Baughman. Regeneration

1

Ewan Bowler. Epicurus and the Innocence of Death

6

Brianne C. Campbell. The Questionable Nature of Religious Testimony 11
Chris Charchun. The Science of Listening: How Listening Circles Make Us Human and Why This is
Important

16

Sam Darby. Down the Rabbit Hole--To Die Will Be an Awfully Big Adventure 19
Jessica Dewald. The Cost of Colonialism: A Rear View Glance into the Kingdom of Dahomey

27

Autumn Dyke. Exploring Procrastination Among Post-Secondary Students 35
Bobbi Ferguson. Roma: An Analysis of Cleo's Delivery 51
Troy Finley. Propaganda and its Impact on the Craft of Film
Chiyla Hemeyer. Linguistic Sexism

55

62

Ryan Henri. Nasty Uncles and Swedish Truckers: Killing, Letting Die, and the Ethics of Euthanasia 67
Reginald Kaip. Personal Body Image and Media Portrayal of Ideal Bodies 72
Ben Meier. The Solutrean Hypothesis and the Epistemology of White Supremacy 81
Julian Morales. A Critique of the Sentience View of Personhood 91
Haley Nelson. "You Never Forget Stuff That Cuts Deep": An Analysis of Storytelling in Medicine Walk
and Indian Horse

97

Blaine Noble, The Narrative Capabilities of Gaming: A New Chapter in Fiction 104

Jaqueline Patterson. Moustaches and Hairpins: A Look at How America Sexualized
the Japanese Geisha

109

Jane Turnbull. The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on College Student's Lives 118