What do colleges, American corporations, and state government have in common? Each spends an astronomical amount of money annually for remedial writing instruction: college campuses spend approximately $1 billion to boost freshmen writing skills; Amer . . .

The work contains a critical introduction that examines the life of author Hans Fallada and also examines some of the theoretical underpinnings regarding translation. The main focus of the paper is the actual translation of Hans Fallada's "Geschichten . . .

Composing Herself: Joan Didion and the Art of Public Bereavement” unpacks Didion's psychological process of “magical thinking” and elucidates how Didion depicts negotiating feelings of abandonment and denial as she guides her readers into her candid p . . .

This thesis project features four nested short stories within a science fiction frame narrative, and it presents a future in which the contemporary technologies of AI and VR have come to dominate the world. This thesis project takes inspiration from w . . .

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Project." No abstract is available.

In its simplest sense as known in the public realm, a lowrider is an old lowered car which might even bounce, and is driven by someone who has brown skin. I argue, however, that the lowrider is much more than that: it extends a car; it extends a perso . . .

6 short stories in American realist fiction.

For better or worse, the expectations and assumptions of a medium as prominently addressed as those toward Comics cannot be ignored; oftentimes, in fact, these expectations can be leveraged to great effect. Take as an example Matt Fraction and David A . . .

The field of Cultural Studies draws from a base originating in Marxist thought; however, dependence upon Marxism limits the scope of aesthetic exploration that Cultural Studies can provide. Through my experiences as a student, and as a high school edu . . .

desert/desert is a body of roughly twenty pieces that are in conversation with one another as they grapple with issues of identity formation, clarification, and articulation. Through them, I attempt to consider the hierarchies, dichotomies, juxtaposit . . .

Men often avoid and/or silence women's words. This paper explores how and why men do this, using the author as the ground for exploration. Emphasis is laid on how men avoid/silence women's words both orally and in written communication, literature in . . .

Studying and focusing on the works of N. Katherine Hayles and the theoretical/fictional work of Bernard Wolfe, this conceptual thesis studies the soul’s definition and existence in the wake of technological advancement in the fictional universe of Lim . . .

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This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as a part of the Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project. No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

This item was digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

A revisioning of the classic Washington Irving tale of "Rip Van Winkle" through the eyes of his grandson, Rip Van Winkle III, or Trip Van Winkle. Trip relives his grandfather's historic sleep. Trip falls asleep in 1799, only to reawaken on the histori . . .

This thesis looks at the critical ways literary scholars can approach the works of Hunter S. Thompson. It addresses the issues of definition that Gonzo Journalism has faced over the last few decades, and proposes that Thompson's works should be analyz . . .

This item is one of the many items that was digitized in the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available at this time.

This item is one of the many items that was digitized in the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract available

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.

Digitized as part of the "Retrospective Thesis and Dissertation Digitization Project." No abstract is available.