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At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy
(English, 2009-09-16)
From a theoretical perspective, the disabled woman can be seen as `doubly othered' within patriarchal culture. Because the disabled woman faces this dual otherness, she is barred from both masculine language and able-bodied ...
Negotiated Authorship: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Professional Writer Job Postings
(English, 2009-09-16)
This qualitative study (a rhetorical/discourse analysis) explores the genre of job postings, particularly postings for writing-related jobs in the financial services sector, to determine how words like "author" and "writer" ...
Opinions In Context: Reconsidering Endoxa In Aristotle's On Rhetoric
(English, 2009-09-16)
In On Rhetoric, Aristotle describes rhetoric as an ability of seeing the available means of persuasion. Rather than suggesting that rhetoric is persuasive discourse, Aristotle presents it as a skill one utilizes to assess ...
The Drag Paradox
(English, 2009-09-16)
Why are so many of us intent on defining ourselves in terms of those anatomically well-protected, discrete, and proportionally insignificant parts of our bodies we choose to keep covered up in the first place? Drag, the ...
A Multi-functional Essay Prompt For State Mandated Assessments
(English, 2009-09-16)
A State-mandated assessment of high school English composition skills can be a trying experience for sophomore basic writers. Because students must construct a text-supported argument around the State's choice of theme, ...
Death In Paradise Lost
(English, 2009-09-16)
This thesis is an examination of the role that death plays in Paradise Lost. I argue that Milton's conception of death is a unified presentation of a complex but singular theological idea. My analysis examines the ways ...
Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-athletes In Division I-a Universities
(English, 2009-09-16)
"Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and Underprepared Student-Athletes in Division I-A Universities," is a study that contributes to the continuedinterest in the pedagogical tools educators can use with underprepared ...
Speaking Through The Silence: Voice In The Poetry Of Selected Native American Women Poets
(English, 2009-09-16)
The issue of voice in Native American poetry is vital to understanding the culture and traditions of past and present-day Native American people. The voice of Native American women poets/writers has emerged as a strong ...
"A Condition Of Potentiality": American Women's Utopian And Science Fiction, 1920-1960
(English, 2009-09-16)
The 1920-1960 period of women-authored United States utopian and science fiction deserves a reassessment. This study focuses on utopian texts and science fiction texts with strong utopian emphasis and recovers 41 women-authored ...
Maternal Bodies, Ojibwe Histories And Materiality In The Novels And Memoirs Of Louise Erdrich
(English, 2009-09-16)
This thesis examines uterine metaphors and birthing scenes in the novels and memoirs of Louise Erdrich. Specifically, it examines convergences between these images and material feminisms, as well as Ojibwe spirituality and ...