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  • Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

    Creator:
    Payne, Eva M.
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    The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
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    of others, but both authors make representations and speak for females. Kenneth Burke's dramatistic

  • Right-wing youth violence in reunited Germany

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    Derksen, Ulrike
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    Violent right-wing groups have emerged in the German youth scene since reunification in 1990. By the early 1990's, many groups of people have had to face racist violence and harassment as a threatening part of everyday life. With the social, political, economic, demographical and ideological changes which have taken place...
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    , Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Kenneth Kenniston, David Riesman

  • Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

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    Bryan, Frederick Clark
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    The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
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    , Karl Brunstein, Michael Grosso, Michael Woodhouse, Carl Raschke, David Hufford, Kenneth Ring and

  • The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

    Creator:
    Weintraub, Melissa R.
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    The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
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  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    political and Internet scholars Way Rash, Jr. and Richard Davis regarding inclusiveness online. Rash, in

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

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    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    , including contemporary rock n' roll. Many of the "experimental" compositions by Coltrane, Davis, Monk and

  • Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

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    Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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    Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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    Suburban ization of the United States, Kenneth T. Jackson attributes housing shortages to sixteen years of

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

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    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    , E. P. Witness Against the Beast. New York: The New Press, 1993. xvii. Blake, William. "Jerusalem

  • Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing books

    Creator:
    Finley, Devon
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    The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
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    Burnham's For Writers Only, Bonnie Goldberg's Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life, Kenneth

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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