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    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
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    This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
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    , with an eye toward future publication in book form. I ©copyright by Karen L. Dunham December

  • American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World

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    Evans, Laura A.
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    Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually...
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    Massachusetts Bay Colony. Although Cotton Mather’s book did fail to unite his community in 1692, the flexible

  • The accessible Chaucer

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    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    the list is dropped no books are going to be read. Becoming a text book is a book’s only chance

  • Voices of CALYX: Narratives of Feminist Publishing Activism, 1976-2006

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    Steuben, Marieke L.
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    This thesis examines the nature of publishing as a political endeavor through a detailed investigation of the feminist publishing movement in the U.S. since the 1970s. Feminist publishers emerged from an activist context of feminist struggle, and they evolved within changing political and social climates, facing ideological and economic challenges...
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    Women, and, in recent years, one book. Most of the forty books CALYX has published are collections of

  • The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

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    Peake, Natasha C.
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    As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
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    forth in her book entitled Middlemarch, Eliot's sense of the Religion of Humanity relied heavily on

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

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    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos . . . . “My nerves are on edge—on edge.” (20-21

  • Gender bias & teachers : college students' perceptions of sexual discrimination in their high school

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    Hostetler, Catherine L.
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    The field of gender bias indicates that teachers are a significant source of gender-role socialization for students. This study focuses on post hoc recollections of college students' perceptions of gender bias exhibited by their high school teachers. Specifically, this study asks students to define sex discrimination, as well as describe...
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    discrimination in education for more than twenty years. In their recent book, Failing at Fairness, the Sadkers

  • An Inquiry into Attitudes Toward Professional Women : Rotary and Zonta Club Members

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    Shearman, Nancy Walker
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    Over the past decade, federal as well as state legislation has been passed to eliminate discrimination and create equality in the workplace. However, the attitudes of professionals are not as easily changed. Many barriers still face female executives entering the corporate level. This study examined the attitudes of professionals in...
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    pointed out in his book Telephone, "The extent to which government may or should determine a private

  • Scenes of language

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    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    radio, old stuffed animals, and the many books she read. Betsy may not have excelled in school, but she

  • Learning by imitation : the scholarly works of David Bartholomae

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    Gallup, Sarah E.
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    This thesis examines the scholarship in pedagogical theory and practice of David Bartholomae over the past thirty-five years, in particular examining the role that the rhetorical construct of imitation has played in its development. Through my research, I trace the evolution of Bartholomae’s pedagogical stances and practices, as these both...
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    articles to his book chapters to his textbooks – although it is not the sole focus of his work. But