Agora Red Deer Polytechnic Undergraduate Journal Volume 16:1 (2025) Student Conference Proceedings Agora Red Deer Polytechnic Undergraduate Journal Volume 16:1 Agora Conference Proceedings 2025 Agora: Red Deer Polytechnic Undergraduate Journal Volume 16:1 2025 Agora Conference Proceedings Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jessica Legacy Editors: Laura Arnusch Hannah Antonishyn Sam Darby Ashley Gillespie Bailey Horton Danica Madsen Jocelyn Wynnychuck Cover Art: Fiona Nadon-Shields “Wilted” 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 Education, and the Red Deer Polytechnic Foundation for their support in the publication of this journal Lukas Andersen, A Contending Reality: The Secluded Physical Infrastructure of the Digital World ............................................................... 1 Hannah Antonishyn, Being kind to yourself: Investigating the effects of a brief self-compassion intervention on self-oriented perfectionism in post-secondary students ....................................................13 Laura Arnusch, More Harm than Good: Gender Diversity Initiatives in Industry Work .........................................................................33 Nicholas Baker, Breaking the Cycle of Neglect: Strengthening Healthcare Access for Rural Communities in Alberta .................................53 Samuel W. Darby, Stoicism and the Brain: Using a Portable Electroencephalogram with a Stoic Intervention .........................................78 Kia Ladino, Pornification of Transgender Women ......................104 Ashley Mast, Exploring the Co-design Process in the Creation of a Sensory Stimulation Assistive Technology................................................ 118 Lucas Rahn, The Science Tells Us to Give Gabor Maté a Fair Shake .........................................................................................................138 Tyler Rastovski, The Resurgence of the Creator’s Game and Its Healing Power. ..........................................................................................149 Brooke Schwartz, The Psychology of a Genetic Curse: Nancy Wexler and the Impact of Huntington’s Disease........................................176 Samantha Shortt, Picturebooks: Children’s Mental Health Misrepresentations .....................................................................................197 Kayla Waldo, Makeup Through Time: Social Status, Expression, & Gender Roles .............................................................................................210 Tessa Woods, Haunted by Memory: Trauma and the Search for Closure with Atwood and Munro ..............................................................225 Tessa Woods, Indigenous Practice Paper: Police-involved Indigenous Deaths in Canada ....................................................................234 Jocelyn Wynnychuk, Investigating the Impact of MindfulU on Student Well-Being: Executive Summary................................................. 246 Jocelyn Wynnychuk, Move Your Mood: A Wholistic EvidenceBased Approach to Enhancing Physical and Mental Well-Being in Adolescence .............................................................................................. 268