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Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:: Breeden, Shobana L.
Abstract:: This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Landscape of Female Suffering: Edna O’Brien’s Demythologizing Novels,” Eileen Morgan recognizes O’Brien’s

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

Creator:: Karp, Lauren N.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Wood, Josie MaryAnne Soules
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ), Linda Miller, Paul Evans, Naomi Suzuki, Chris Munson and Morgan Diment. Loril Chandler, Dixie Ziemer

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

Creator:: Pajak, Zachary E.
Abstract:: My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ; Jon Dorbolo for spontaneous dinner outings and rich conversations; Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black for

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Creator:: Franks, Tricia May
Abstract:: In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Emergent Qualities of Diversity in Free and Open Source Software Communities: A Critical Review and Theoretical Discussion

Creator:: Kuechler, J. Victor
Abstract:: Free and open source software (FOSS) projects primarily rely on the efforts of volunteer contributors from around the world. For this reason, recruiting and retaining contributor is vital to the sustainability and growth of FOSS projects. This notion became the jumping-off point for this three-part investigation into the cultural structure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: far. I specifically want to thank Jennifer Davidson for sharing her passion for FOSS and diversity

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

Creator:: Divelbiss, John D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

Creator:: Du Bose, Hannah L.
Abstract:: Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a growing area of multidisciplinary inquiry. My thesis draws attention specifically to the way composition studies approaches failure in order to ask: how can we implement failure pedagogies safely, and how do rhetorics of failure move toward social justice...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: role in the decision of entrepreneurship and investing, scholars John Morgan and Dana Sisak report

"These Machines are Alive": An Oral History Exploration of Women Letterpress Printers of the West Coast

Creator:: Betts, Sophia
Abstract:: This project analyzes how women have radically changed the world of western print in the 21st century. To conduct this analysis, I examine a series of oral history interviews that I conducted in 2020 with women printers on the West Coast and employ a critical feminist methodology to study the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: wish to thank Liz Merolla, Elizabeth McGrane, Risa Culberston, Kristin Walker, Li Jiang, and Morgan

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

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

Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

The Emergent Qualities of Diversity in Free and Open Source Software Communities: A Critical Review and Theoretical Discussion

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

Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

"These Machines are Alive": An Oral History Exploration of Women Letterpress Printers of the West Coast

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