https://post.lakeheadu.ca/ lakehead University's The Post [|] is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary undergraduate scholarly research journal Lakehead University Open Access Media Publishing Lab en-US The Post ISSN 2371-1426 https://post.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/Austin_Burr%3AEnglish%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%B9_%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%B9Nationalism__PDF John Lydgate lived from 1371-1449 and was then one of the most prolific poets in the English language, much of his work having been heavily influenced by Geoffrey Chaucer. While it has been noted by critics such as David Carlson that nearly all of Lydgate's works after 1422 contain some reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales specifically, it is particularly interesting to consider why this may have been the case. This essay explores Chaucer's how influence as one of the first well-known authors in the English language led Lydgate to emulate him at the height of the Hundred Years' War, particularly in his poem Danse Macabre. Austin Burr Copyright (c) 2018 Austin Burr 2018-03-14 2018-03-14 3 1 https://post.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/Kelsey_Raynard%3AWalt_Disney_PDF Cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity in mass media impact the formation of gendered identities from an extremely young age. Representations of masculinity and femininity are explicitly and implicitly embodied in children's toys, books, movies, and various other products aimed at corralling young children into specific gender roles. One of the most influential producers and distributors of these gendered products is the Walt Disney Company, whose efforts aimed at a vast economic, social and cultural monopoly have impacted children and their formation of identity since its creation in 1923. Kelsey Raynard Copyright (c) 2018 Kelsey Raynard 2018-03-14 2018-03-14 3 1 https://post.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/Bronson_Carver%3ADrama_PDF English medieval theatre was not only a realm of entertainment, but one of education. Moreover, as England was a Christian nation, it is no surprise that its plays functioned in didactic accordance with religious teachings of the time. Christianity, however in accordance with love and forgiveness it may have been, was not without its enemies, one of which in medieval England was "the Jew". The ideology and practice of anti-Semitism both developed and flourished in medieval England, reinforced by and reflected in the didactic power of its plays Bronson Carver Copyright (c) 2018 Bronson Carver 2018-03-14 2018-03-14 3 1 https://post.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/Katelynn_Rookes%3APower_Structures_PDF According to Michel Foucault's concepts of the processes and relations of power and discipline the body can exist as the object of disciplinary practices but also as a source of resistance to those practices.The following examples of women subverting social norms surrounding menstruation serve to highlight the importance of these acts of resistance. The bodies of women are inhibited by both the medical and male gaze, as well as by the perceptions of outsiders taken on by women themselves. This illustrates the internalization of dominant power structures which thus cause women to discipline their own bodies in order to fit within prescriptive norms. Loss of agency over the body in relation to external structures and regulation of the body through medicalized measures serve as examples of discipline and control. Katelynn Rookes Copyright (c) 2018 Katelynn Rookes 2018-03-14 2018-03-14 3 1