Languages are partially shaped by both genetic and functional constraints, but all have a fundamental core that lies below the linguistic utterance. The literary translator must take this fundamental core and not only transform the literal meaning of . . .

As researchers, we can understand people through observing their behavior or listening to their experiences. Observation has been relied upon almost exclusively in the field of research, since inner subjectivity is considered too difficult to measure. . . .

This article first links The Hunger Games to the food use in Dystopian Young Adult literature genre as a whole. Then I argue that the authors, such as Collins, is making a commentary with her texts about how food is used in society today: that food ca . . .

The purpose of this project is to provide a theoretical framework for the childhood task of acquiring a gender identity and to compile an annotated bibliography of non-sexist children’s literature. A list of non-sexist children’s books and the criteri . . .

A significant number of international students with limited English skills want to study in the United States. Although many studies on teaching and learning strategies have focused on students from China, Japan, Europe, and Iraq, research on Thai stu . . .

In “The American Geographies,” Barry Lopez characterizes the Western world’s exploitation of the environment as due to its superficial "knowledge of the real dimensions of the land it occupies." In my thesis, I analyze how Lopez utilizes unique narrat . . .

"TSON-TSON: Fragmented Selves Post-Death" is a creative thesis in the form of poems accompanied by an analytical commentary. The poetry collection is divided into two parts in order to present two specific periods of grief in the author's life. The fi . . .

Although many critics have written extensively on the character of Eve in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, her response to the Fall remains under-examined. A close reading of Eve’s birth narrative foregrounds her hermeneutic capabilities, while her initia . . .