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  • The Way In: Interviews with Evangelical Christians

    Creator:
    Williams, B. Patrick
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study is to examine the most significant reasons evangelical Christian faith is compelling to its adherents. Through the interviews of nineteen Evangelical Christians, it becomes clear that evangelicals see the Bible and Christian theology in a literal and factual way. Thus, contrary to some strains of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF B. Patrick Williams for the degree

  • A History of the National Pygmy Goat Association

    Creator:
    Coneybeer, Jane K.
    Abstract:
    The National Pygmy Goat Association is a hobby livestock organization founded in 1975. Over the past five decades, it has grown in size and importance, occupying a niche role as the primary breed registry and certification authority for the smallest domestic ruminant. This history attempts to capture the scope of...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    the breeding of characteristic, purebred pygmy goats. 24 B. To facilitate communication

  • Playwriting and Authority : Collaborative Art and Feminine Production

    Creator:
    Brown, Colleen Karen
    Abstract:
    In that the concept of authority in terms of the creation of a literary work of art indicates a single creator or controller of a literary work, a delineated inscriber of the text who initiates the act of communication, writing for theatrical production can be described as a feminized art...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    of the Text: Caryl Churchill and Cloud Nine 4 4 Recognition Scenes: Rachel Crothers' When Ladies

  • Breast cancer experience literature : women's stories as cultural critique

    Creator:
    Cohen, Karla R.
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    Breast cancer statistics in the United States are staggering. As the number of women diagnosed grows, so does the number of women who are writing about their experiences. This thesis is a multi-textual work which includes both the stories of women with breast cancer as well as the thesis author's...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    alternative to the one described above. An integrated approach that began in the 60's with Rachel Carson's

  • Traversing the displaced: incarcerated women's writing selves

    Creator:
    Maybaum, Lenore D.
    Abstract:
    This quasi-ethnographic research documents the autobiographical utterances of incarcerated women taking part in a narrative writing course, Life Writing, at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. The purpose of this research was to cultivate a better understanding of how incarcerated women move through different discourses of identity via narrative writing, and how,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Appendix B: ClassificationlScoring Form ........................................................ 92

  • Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

    Creator:
    Robinson, Tracy Ann
    Abstract:
    Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Used for Pilot Study .......................... 131 B End-of-Term Writing Self-Evaluation Used

  • "Pretty When You Cry": Feminine Melancholia in the Age of Social Media

    Creator:
    Hurwitz, Madeline
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    This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young women who identify and present themselves as inherently melancholic people online. I position the internet community of the Sad Girl, which spans across three social media platforms, Tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram, within a larger history...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

    Creator:
    Boardman, Colleen
    Abstract:
    The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Accardi, Rachel Moseley, Helen Wheatley, Kate Eichhorn, Jenna Freedman, and Sanfor Berman. Lastly, I

  • The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

    Creator:
    Schmuhl, Emily J.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Rachel Ablow explains, there was a “common Victorian claim that novel reading [constituted] a way to

  • Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

    Creator:
    Larsen, Haley A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
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    Masters Thesis