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  • The control, resistance, and evolution of digital artifacts: a materialist study of internet culture

    Creator:
    Villemarette, Chris
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    My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between decentralized networks over which digital media are used and the control mechanisms placed on those networks and digital media. The resisting digital media and the control mechanisms placed on them push each other toward further decentralization. The aspects of...
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    : Jon Lewis My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between

  • Literary proletarianism : a critical re-vision of the Gastonia novels

    Creator:
    Nieberding, Jon
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    My primary purpose in this thesis is to continue the refocused attention given to American "proletarian" fiction of the 1930's. Because of their politics and supposed artistic inferiority, many of these works have been marginalized by American literary critics. However, many contemporary scholars are reconsidering this genre and devoting more...
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    social justice. Literary Proletarianism: A Critical Re-Vision of the Gastonia Novels by Jon

  • Counseling

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    Burns, Robert N.
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    Counseling is a novel in three parts structurally and metaphorically comparing and contrasting the workings of the brain and mind. Through the story of a man recovering from a head injury I am creating a world in the text which equates the schizophrenia of postmodern criticism with the literal problems...
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    Privacy pp Jon Lewis, Associate Professor of English Counseling is a novel in three parts structurally

  • Eva Nightingale

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    Chernik, Abra Fortune
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    Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of Eden myth set in modern times and seen from Eve's point of view. The script centers on life after Eden, life after trespass and loss, when Eva (like Eve before her) must choose between despair and hope, self-destruction...
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    . Abstract approved: Jon Lewis Eva Nightingale, an original screenplay, is a retelling of the Garden of

  • The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

    Creator:
    Dawson, Katherine
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    My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
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    : ______________________________________ Jon Lewis My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a

  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

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    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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    , 2007. Title: Constructing a Heroic Identity: Masculinity and the Western Film Abstract

  • Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

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    Rust, Stephen
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    Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
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    Contemporary Educational Theory and American Cultural Politics Abstract approved: Jon Lewis Responsible

  • Of mice and bunnies : Walt Disney, Hugh Hefner, and the age of consensus

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    Allen-Spencer, Patricia C.
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    Post World War II victory culture and its fallout-the consensus ideology-led to the creation of a middle class willing to conform to a prescribed set of ideals, safely removed from all danger, and enjoying the material benefits of a growing middle-class income bracket. Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, two seemingly...
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    , Hugh Hefner, and the Age of Consensus. Abstract approved:/ Jon Lewis Post World War II victory culture

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    : Artificial Intelligence and Cyberpunk. Abstract approved: Jon Lewis This thesis examines the ways in which

  • Right-wing youth violence in reunited Germany

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    Derksen, Ulrike
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    Violent right-wing groups have emerged in the German youth scene since reunification in 1990. By the early 1990's, many groups of people have had to face racist violence and harassment as a threatening part of everyday life. With the social, political, economic, demographical and ideological changes which have taken place...
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    , 1996. Title: Right-Wing Youth Violence in Reunited Germany. Abstract approved: Jon Lewis