ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank:

my cat, Star Trek, and the weather,

for supporting me in the low moments.

Supervisor Main,

for mentoring, support, encouragement, and patience.

Grant Organization Name,

for funding me with a Scholarship.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s centre of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity-to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome any one who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same in the hours when one is inevitably alone.
Edith Wharton