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  • Remaking myths and subverting the mainstream : teen girls come of age on and off the screen

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    Hentges, Sarah Duncan
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    For at least 30 years American culture has failed to provide empowering myths and symbols to its adolescents as they come of age and try to make sense of their selves, sexuality and the culture that surrounds them. This lack of myths and symbols is especially harmful to girls and...
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    of age on and off the screen AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Sarah Duncan Hentges for the degree

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

    Creator:
    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    Announces Itself: Terrence Malick’s Emersonian Cinema Abstract approved: Jon R. Lewis This

  • Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

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    Divelbiss, John D.
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    This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
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    Critical Pedagogy in the Standards-based Classroom Abstract approved: Jon R. Lewis This thesis

  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

    Creator:
    Hoch, Jamie
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    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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    . I would also like to thank the other members of my committee - Dr. Jon Lewis, Dr. Kerry Ahearn, and

  • Mother's Choices

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    Dietz, Amy L.
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    A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when I sat back to read the first of many drafts, I discovered...
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    futile. Foolish. I found great comfort in the words of C. S. Lewis. They mirrored my experience. As the

  • 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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    the girls giggled and shielded bright-colored bags under their jackets, and as Sarah slipped her arm

  • The Impact of World Literature in Secondary Schools in Oregon and Chile : A Comparative Case Study

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    McFarland, Annette Catherine
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    The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
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    anthology has its limitations, Sarah Lawall chooses to focus on what anthologies accomplish, rather than

  • The Influence of Perceived Physical Attractiveness and the Use of the Honest Linguistic Style on the Perceived Credibility of Individuals in Deceptive Communication Situations

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    Krieger, Katy Lou
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    In today’s media driven society where images stand in for words, we see an increase of attractive people selling us ideas and products. We begin to view their attractiveness as powerful, and influential on our own opinions and they gain credibility with us because of this. But what if it...
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    Hilary Ayers, Stacy Sim, Sarah Bargman, Annie Chadderdon, Kate Virden, Morgan Willer, Breanna Balleby

  • Patriarchal power and punishment : the trickster figure in the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates

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    Strempke-Durgin, Heather D.
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    This thesis is an exploration of how male trickster figures operate in the Gothic fiction of 20th century American female authors. Specifically, I look at the short stories “The Daemon Lover” by Shirley Jackson, “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by...
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    traditions, Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art, Lewis Hyde describes trickster characters

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

    Creator:
    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    dialogue. Sarah Tinker Perrault’s book Communicating Popular Science: From Deficit to Democracy has