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  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

    Creator:
    Jurgens, Jeremy
    Abstract:
    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    Masters Thesis
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    lasted through the reign of James, a monarch who worked diligently to instill (or re-instill) the notion

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

    Creator:
    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations: A Threat to Regional Stability

    Creator:
    Naggar, Ronni
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    This thesis examines the multi-faceted threat Iran poses to the stability of the Middle Eastern region, to U.S. geopolitical interests and to the furthering of democratic principles from a realist perspective. Iran’s failure to negotiate a nuclear accord in good faith coupled with its continued militant role in regional affairs...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    through the application of theories developed by economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson who have

  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

    Creator:
    Yeager, Angela L.
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    This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Building Character Through Metaphor and Ideology: A Rhetorical Examination of John F. Kennedy’s Use of Metaphor to Combat the Religious Issue in 1960

    Creator:
    Smith, Jonathan Michael
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    On September 12th 1960, just two months prior to one of the closest Presidential elections in American history, John F. Kennedy faced the Houston Ministerial Association and delivered a powerful speech on religion and Americanism. The "religious issue" of the 1960 campaign drew immense interest and trumped other issues pertinent...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ” 190), 5 James Wine, and former Commonweal editor John Cogley. The draft speech was

  • Frank and Friendly Pressure : U.S. Liberal Interventionism in the Early Cold War

    Creator:
    Fuller, Kevin J.
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    U.S. foreign policy during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War has been described as part of a “nation-­‐building” or “liberal” grand strategy. This thesis contends that understanding U.S. efforts to influence the internal affairs of sovereign states through the spread of liberal values and institutions during...
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    Masters Thesis
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                                                                                                                      7  Quoted  in  Toshi  Yoshihara  and  James  R.  Holmes,  Red  Star  Over

  • Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

    Creator:
    Canavan, Barbara C.
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    By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
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    Dissertation
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    5 Cronon, Uncommon Ground. William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in

  • State Tax Credit Auctions

    Creator:
    Korejwa, Elise
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    Tax credit auctions are a new way to fund government programs, dating back to just 2011. In place of funding new programs with direct appropriations from the general fund, tax credit auctions are a means to fund programs by monetizing tax credits. We performed a case study of all of...
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    Capstone Project

  • Metaphor, Malheur, and Government: A Comparative Rhetorical Examination of Metaphor Usage the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

    Creator:
    Siegner, Samantha C.
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    On January 2, 2016 a militia occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and captured national attention. The militia vowed to occupy until certain demands were met, and among these demands was a call for less federal control of land. While the occupation lasted 41 days, the militia remained...
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    Masters Thesis
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    election of President Ronald Reagan and appointment of Secretary of Interior James Watt, 9 who

  • Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Oney, Celia E.
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    People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Board. When Professor Chih Wang and University President James H. Jensen requested that funding from