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Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

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MacDougall, Eric W.

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I argue that Matthew’s seven acts of corporal mercies provide a means of reading Piers Plowman within a framework familiar to medieval audiences, but also exposes the different models of health that are at work within the poem and the soteriological significance of these healths. In chapter one, I focus...

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Masters Thesis

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XVII of Piers Plowman’s B-text, a rendition which illustrates Christian premodern healthcare in the
Theodore Dwight Weld's use of the judicial motif in American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

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Trudeau, Justin Thomas

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This thesis examines the rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld's American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Published anonymously in 1839, Weld's publication became the longest antislavery tract in American history. It left its mark on the abolitionist movement itself and future antislavery literary works most notably Uncle...

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Masters Thesis

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Speech Communication Com ttee Member, represent g English Chair of itment of Speech Communication
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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Masters Thesis

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4 “standard” of context and content: If standard “A” is appropriate for state “B,” how can the