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THE WORLD IN THE SCREEN: HOW THE MOBILE DEVICE SYMBOLIZES TECHNOGENESIS
(2016-11-30)
The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ...
WHAT WAS THE MOCKINGBIRD’S SONG? REASSESING TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THROUGH THE LENS OF GO SET A WATCHMAN
(2016-05-11)
The publication of Go Set a Watchman, a companion piece to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, problematizes many of the accepted readings of the canonical text. This ‘new’ novel is actually the initial manuscript of the ...
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 ...
Chicken And Dumplings: The Motif Of Food In Appalachian Literature
(English, 2011-03-03)
Food is an important element of literature. It can help to establish setting, conflicts, a hero and heroine, relationships with nature and other humans, comfort to readers as well as characters in fictional texts, class ...
Tracking Whiteness: Portrayals Of Whites In American Indian Literature
(English, 2008-08-08)
Although whites have pervaded the lives and literatures of American Indians since contact, their own portrayals of whites have remained, for the most part, unexplored. I examine selected works of nineteenth and twentieth-century ...
Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home
(English, 2008-08-08)
In light of continual Native migration, relocation, and hybridization, it is my intention to examine the evolution and diversification of home in a spectrum of Louise Erdrich's writing. My examination of the texts focuses ...
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 ...
Colorblind Fraternity: Unseating Racism, Males,
(English, 2007-08-23)
This thesis examines four works by Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, and Benito Cereno as examples of a minority of nineteenth-century American literature that deconstruct negative black male stereotypes and promote ...
Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power
(English, 2007-08-23)
This is an in-depth analysis of one of Louise Erdrich's most extraordinary characters, Sister Leopolda. I examine Leopolda first as a trauma victim who has suffered the loss of family, witnessed the death and assault of ...
Make it plain, preacha': African American rhetorical license, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and a modern rendering of epideictic rhetoric
(2014-09-17)
In this project, I contend that African American rhetoric, namely African American sermonic rhetoric, constitutes a distinct, culturally specialized variety of rhetoric generated out of the distinctive circumstances of the ...