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We All Fall Down
(2009-04-14)
On a general level, We All Fall Down is a collection of stories that is unified by the theme of personal connections between family, friends, and significant others. Often, their driving force is exploring what happens ...
“That Girl of Yours, She's Pretty Hard-Boiled”: Film Noir and the Claiming and Performance of Gender in Veronica Mars
(2009-04-15)
Veronica Mars, a television series aired on the WB and CW networks from 2004-2007, presents a world in which violence and conspiracy abound. The series starts off with the conspiracy that has most closely touched Veronica’s ...
"Getting Things 'Alt' Enough": A Rhetorical Analysis of Composition Scholars' Use of Hybrid Academic Discourse
(2009-04-15)
Much writing studies research addresses the benefits of undergraduates’ application of hybrid academic discourse in the composition classroom, but there has not been research on scholars’ use of it. This thesis analyzed ...
Phonological Awareness in Mandarin of Chinese and Americans
(2009-04-17)
Phonological awareness (PA) is the ability to analyze spoken language into its component sounds and to manipulate these smaller units. Literature review related to PA shows that a variety of factor groups play a role in ...
The Things They Carried: Conceptions of Writing Transfer in Composition Studies
(2009-08-03)
This thesis will look at a body of scholarship that dominates both short and long-term case studies of writing and will attempt to understand and identify assumptions that underlie how they are enacted. Through this ...
Representations of Catholicism in American Literature, 1820-1920
(2009-04-30)
This dissertation examines the representation of Catholics and Catholicism in literature by non-Catholic authors in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American prose fiction and travel narratives. Moving ...
Zombie as Parody: The Misuses of Science and the Nonhuman Condition in Postmodern Society
(2009-04-30)
For this project, I will focus on those zombie films/texts that locate scientific and medical advances (or “advances”) as the source of cultural critique. Like Frankenstein in his laboratory, these particular zombie texts ...