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  • A Narrative Analysis of Captain America’s New Deal

    Creator:
    Ledbetter, Forest L.
    Abstract:
    In response to the events on September the Eleventh, various media attempted to make sense of the seemingly radical altered political landscape. Comic books, though traditionally framed as low brow pulp, were no exception. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm to a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    comic strip books had reasonable enough sales to justify their continued production, the comic book

  • Pragmatic humanism : through the eyes of Egypt

    Creator:
    O'Brien, Matthew Steven
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    The purpose of this study is to analyze the events that occurred throughout the Egyptian Revolution from January 2010 to February 2010 through pragmatic humanism. Tweets will be looked at from the book Tweets from Tahrir to show how the process unfolded. Building on the previous research, the tweets will...
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    from January 2010 to February 2010 through pragmatic humanism. Tweets will be looked at from the book

  • The beat generation : a rhetoric of negation

    Creator:
    Mackaman, Julie Irene
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    The Beat Generation was an American counter-culture movement in the 1950's. Comprised of nomadic writers, poets, actors, musicians, and artists, the Beat movement represented no systematic philosophy and its most distinguishing characteristic was its apolitical disengagement from society. The Beats offered no substantive alternatives to the existing social order, but...
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    coiled threateningly in the center of the earth. (19) Many of the books in the "Duluoz Legend

  • NAFTA and Chiapas : problems and solutions

    Creator:
    Veit, Steven J.
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    On New Year's Eve 1993, there was little indication that popular President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was about to take a monumental fall. Mexico was in the midst of unprecedented prosperity. The world's oldest ruling political party, Mexico's PRI, enjoyed substantial support. Allegations of corruption within an authoritarian regime were...
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    peasants would not believe them" (Riding 189) . Unrest is rare where campesinos farm ejido land. In

  • Mother's Choices

    Creator:
    Dietz, Amy L.
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    A memoir is variously defined as an abbreviated autobiography; a record of events based on the writer's personal observation or knowledge; and the written story of one's own life. I set out to do those things. But when I sat back to read the first of many drafts, I discovered...
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    books, or clustered around a radio for favorite programs, perhaps playing a board game, pursuing a

  • The Building of a ‘Harmonious World’ and the Conflict of the Confucius Institute

    Creator:
    Flatt, Tomena M.
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    The Confucius Institutes program is a Chinese organization established in 2004 to provide the world with language instruction and increase cultural awareness. The program forms joint venture business models with universities and schools around the world to establish language and culture centers on their school’s campus (“Constitution and By-Laws”). Over...
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    read one of my course books, Plato’s Gorgias, and while most of our conversations about it were

  • Pragmatism and Pain: the Melioristic Rhetoric of Mirror Box Therapy

    Creator:
    Thompson, Anna F. B.
    Abstract:
    The phenomenon of phantom limb pain has been well documented for centuries, but little clinical work has been done to alleviate it. Physician and neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran began researching this condition nearly two decades ago, and has discovered a promising alternative treatment: mirror-box therapy. This therapy is not yet...
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    .” Ramachandran himself states in his latest book, The Tell-Tale Brain (2011), that “no one has proven the

  • The rhetorical dynamics of culture : an interdisciplinary approach to a synthesis between rhetoric and culture

    Creator:
    Tobey, Toni K.
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    The frame of reference for understanding the rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the identification and explication of the diversity of theories which encompass sociological and anthropological definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and environmental determinism, materialism, historical ethnology and reductionism...
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    , in a home rich in books, and dedicated to ideas and the spirit of learning. To my parents, Buss and

  • Forestry & Communication : A Coos Bay Case Study

    Creator:
    Livingstone, Tasha
    Abstract:
    This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to describe where residents of Coos Bay and North Bend Oregon obtain information about forests and forest uses, and how they view the credibility of that information. As a qualitative exploratory study, grounded theory methodology was used to develop theme...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Women of the Court: Gender Shaping the U.S. Senate Confirmation Process

    Creator:
    Clairmont, Kimberly
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    Since underrepresented nominees began filling U.S. Supreme Court seats, political scientists have examined the possibility of existing biases towards potential judges based upon their identities or innate characteristics. Some scholars have identified that the gender identification and ethnic affiliations of candidates have affected the behaviors displayed by those involved in...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    hearings, made more so by the fact that Supreme Court vacancies are sporadic and rare. Scholars often