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  • Finding Fantasy : Three Newspapers Tell the Story of Kip Kinkel and Thurston High School

    Creator:
    Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
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    On May 21, 1998 Kip Kinkel drove to Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. Kinkel killed two students and wounded another twenty-two students. He killed his parents the day before. The shootings at Thurston High School came on the heels of a number of prominent school shootings and Kip Kinkel...
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    Dr. Jonathan King. I appreciate all of your time, effort, and support. Thank you too to Steve

  • 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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    OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Faris for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Re-Viewing Literacy : A Language Arts Teacher's Perspective

    Creator:
    Van Develder, Pamela A.
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    A controversy regarding literacy lies at the heart of debates over the current state of American education. In response to the debate, this study reviews and analyzes the literacy theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo Freire. The author presents...
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    theories of E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Walter Ong, Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole, Shirley Brice Heath, and Paulo

  • Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

    Creator:
    Wylie, Lynne S.
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    Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
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    Michael Oriard and Professor Lisa Ede were wonderfully supportive and considerate. I will never forget

  • "It was on the tip of everyone's tongue, Tyler and I just gave it a name" : Fight Club's representation of consumer culture

    Creator:
    Wicks, James Anthony
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    This thesis examines the representation of consumer culture in Fight Club within the context of Frederic Jameson's theory of postmodernism. I propose that the film represents consumer culture as a totalizing system. This representation is evident in the setting of the film and in the Narrator's attempt to escape from...
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    earthly communities of life. Michael Clark33 In a response to postmodern culture in the aftermath of 9/11

  • Twin Peaks and the Ideological Problematic of Feminine Representation: An Examination of the Character Audrey Home

    Creator:
    Wood, Susan (Susan Elaine)
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    In this thesis, I examine the ways in which the television series Twin Peaks represents the feminine through a textual analysis of the character Audrey Home. Using reader-response theory, I seek to show that while the series conforms to patriarchal media conventions such as the male gaze and narrative stereotypes...
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    rather than a progressive one. Jonathan Rosenbaum in "Bad Ideas: The Art and Politics of Twin Peaks

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    complacency and in its relativising tendency to avoid evaluative judgements [my emphasis] Swift, Jonathan

  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

    Creator:
    Yeager, Angela L.
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    This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
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    scholar Jonathan Auerbach has pointed out, this is a fairly bizarre thing for a federal agent to say

  • Piers Plowman, Healthcare Praxis, and the Corporal Mercies

    Creator:
    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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  • "Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

    Creator:
    Boulware, Taylor J.
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    This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
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