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  • Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue: from Public Service Announcement to Program- Length Commercial

    Creator:
    Seiber, Rich
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    Animation has long been a staple of children's television programming As public service announcements (PSA5) have become an important part of children's television programming, cartoon characters have started to appear in this form of nonprogram material. By standard definition, PSAs are usually a 15 to 60-second spot that promote education...
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    producers "managed a creative combination of humor, strong story and message. . ."(D 1). In addition, he

  • Women's individual accounts of the romantic content in glamour and cosmopolitan and its relationship to their lived experiences

    Creator:
    Weaver, Shauna Q.
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    The following question guided this research: How do female readers understand the romantic content of Cosmopolitan and/or Glamour magazines, and how do they perceive connections between their readership of this content and their personal ideas and behaviors regarding romantic relationships? This study involved a series of responsive interviews in which...
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    ................................................................................................ 119 D: Confirmation Email

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

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    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
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    they want to express. Phillip Sloan (2005), Jenny Sunden (2003), and Mark Amerika (2007) describe

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

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    Streufert, Mary J.
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    Virginia Woolf was a self-proclaimed atheist, yet her fictional and personal writing reveal her ecstatic consciousness. Characters in Woolf s novels experience ecstasy, and her letters and diaries support the theory that she herself had experienced ecstatic consciousness. Major figures in the philosophy of religion assert that ecstatic consciousness is...
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    , as Buber asserts: Of all the experiences which are said, in order to mark their incomparability

  • On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

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    McDowell, Amanda J.
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    Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
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    Walters; D. Johnson; and others), and policy (See Stremlau; Pinto and 8 others). Many, though

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

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    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    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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    the process of canon formation” (30-31). Mark A. Eaton summarizes Guillory adeptly: “to become

  • Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

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    Lackey, Ryan W.
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    One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
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    racist appropriation (116). The text is careful to list tribal affiliations, noting that “[d]ance

  • 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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    Works by Rose in this Thesis ............................................... 127 D Extended Annotated

  • 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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    historian Mark Poster shows that new media provides a new form of communication technology that can be

  • Of tales changed to other forms : an analysis of the traditions and future of Ovidian adaptations

    Creator:
    Moy, Shaleena
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    Not only does the publication of Ovidian adaptations online increase public awareness of Ovid, but it also offers new material for research and pedagogical purposes. Consequently, in this thesis, I explore both the historical tradition of Ovidian adaptations, specifically adaptations of Ovid's Orpheus tale, and the modern presentation of Ovidian...
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     Middle Ages mark the first major  period of moralizing and of English adaptations of the Metamorphoses

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

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    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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  • The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

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    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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    , per Decade .................................. 165 Appendix D: Number of Student Contacts in the

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    of Mark danced for her stepfather and received the head of John the Baptist in return (Mark 6:21-28

  • Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

    Creator:
    Drury, Adam Marshall
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    Asynthesis & Act is a significant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the first chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
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  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

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    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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  • Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

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    Bacon, Julie M.
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    This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
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  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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  • After we lost the wind

    Creator:
    Watterson, Jaclyn
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    My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
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    point D. To me, narrative is about what happens between those points, about those moments of inner