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  • Form Fits Content in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Creator:
    Hogan, James Joseph
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    In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which supported the content of the text. The elements of form he used most often were sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, rhythm, and classical rhetorical schemes....
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    Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which

  • 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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    itself. ~James Verini MySpace Visiting MySpace, the social networking powerhouse, is a monthly

  • Who We Are and Will Be

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    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
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    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    , orality and dialect, looking at the role of language as an aspect of self-definition. James Baldwin's

  • Quintilian's influence on Obadiah Walker

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    O'Rourke, Kathryn Ann
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    The nature and extent of classical rhetoric's influence on subsequent ages has been the focus of much recent study. Scholars have been concerned with how classical authors, particularly Cicero and Quintilian, emerged in educational and rhetorical theories of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and later centuries. Despite this flurry of...
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    Oratory and Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen. This study investigates Quintilian's and

  • Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

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    Schulenburg, Albrecht Conon, Graf von der, 1865-1902 and Flaherty, Virginia C.
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    of verse were taken from the King James Version. Whenever the King James Version of the verse is

  • Measures of reality : the religious life of Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    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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    Young Woman's Ecstasy: A Voyage Out and Night and Day 31 IV. Mrs. Dalloway: Full Expression 44 V

  • Of dragons, palaces, and gods : a mormon perspective on C. S. Lewis

    Creator:
    Garrett, Christopher Edward
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    During his lifetime C. S. Lewis chose to speak to Christians in plain and simple language that they could understand. Lewis taught and defended truths that he felt were discernible through reason. Morality, free will, and the divinity of Jesus Christ were fundamental to his core beliefs and teachings. His...
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    Kirby; Bruce Young and David Ward for all their valuable advice and counsel; Peter Kreeft, for

  • A Rhetorical Analysis of William Wilberforce's First Official Proposal for the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    Creator:
    Zach, Anne M.
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    The abolition of the Atlantic slave trade was a long struggle in British Parliament between the slave trade defenders and the abolitionists. The Act of 1807 officially abolished the Atlantic slave trade, eighteen years after the initial abolition proposal to Parliament. William Wilberforce was a member of a committee that...
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    humbly propose my own thoughts. . . . a young healthy Child, well nursed, is, at a Year old, a most

  • Spirituality and Aging Among Women

    Creator:
    Orcutt, Nancy Wilson
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    The term, spirituality, as used in this study, refers to that part of our lives that has the deepest meaning, that which nurtures each of us and moves us toward wholeness. It is the basis for which we live out our lives, following our own truths with honesty and commitment....
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    Church Memories . 24 Lasting Impressions of Disturbing Events 29 A Sense of Meaning in Young Adulthood

  • Preach my gospel : a metaphoric analysis of Mormon missionary rhetoric

    Creator:
    Roberts, Myra Nichole
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    The rhetorical significance of Mormonism stems from its history and its success—this success being measured by its consistent increase in membership. The total membership of the Mormon Church has grown from 6 members in 1830 to just over 14 million in just over 180 years. A consistently high rate of...
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    general was established from a very young age. This curiosity grew when I moved away from the