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Metaphor and Bias : An In-Depth Look at CNN and Fox News Channel

Creator:: Duncan, Sara R.
Abstract:: This study links together two very complicated, but very important subjects: media bias and metaphor. More specifically, this study investigates whether or not examining a media outlet's use of metaphor is an effective methodology for investigating media bias. Using cluster analysis, I identified the source metaphors most commonly used on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A Pentadic Analysis of Tropico : Dramatism and Digital Games

Creator:: Shields, Matthew J.
Abstract:: How do digital games convey meaning? Academic studies of video games seem concerned with creating discipline-specific new methodologies for examining the medium. From the standpoint of the rhetorical critic, however, new forms of communication can still be examined with traditional techniques. This paper analyzes the 2001 video game Tropico using...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to to establish a link between traditional scholastic methodologies and the discourse surrounding

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:: Bruno, Mark P.
Abstract:: This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

Creator:: Goetz, Kathryn W.
Abstract:: Violence within marital dyads is a problem with deep historic roots in American culture. Although the family is idealized as a safe and loving haven from a cruel world, this ideal is often not achieved by many couples. This study develops an integrated theoretical perspective that combines feminist theory and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of many infants. Although this link between pregnancy and abuse is often reported in studies of

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

Creator:: Cohen, Karla R.
Abstract:: 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

Family Communication Patterns and Intention to Vote in 2020

Creator:: Couvrette, Monica Adele
Abstract:: The primary goal of this study is to look at the influence of family communication patterns on behavior and beliefs, specifically in the context of electoral behavior. In order to effectively influence potential voters and increase the likelihood that they intend to vote in federal elections in the long-term, we...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Who We Are and Will Be

Creator:: Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
Abstract:: The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Marshall as well, though I found no link from Hurston to Morrison. Hurston is a literary spiritual mother

Eternal Years : Religion, Psychology and Sexuality in the Art of Emily Bronte

Creator:: Miranda, Pamela C.
Abstract:: This thesis offers a textual analysis of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights and, to a lesser extent, her poems in an effort to understand fully the complicated relationship of gender to time that characterizes her artistic imagination. The study emphasizes the interplay of religious, psychological and sexual forces inherent in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: predation in which each creature is a link, and the way in which human beings complete the chain. In fact

A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Treatment of Psychosis

Creator:: Badeau, Ann Marie
Abstract:: The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential value of using a computer simulated systems dynamics model to address psychosis in mental illness. Psychosis is defined as a syndrome which is associated with many mental disorders, not a specific disorder itself. Psychosis generally produces delusions and hallucinations and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: impacts" converter to promote client wellness. Arrows: Link converters to flows. Drug/receptor

The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise

Creator:: Gratz, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the use of religious metaphor as it applies to food in two literary works by Diana Abu-Jaber. First, The Language of Baklava, a culinary memoir published in 2005, reveals aspects of cultural identity and memory through food and metaphor. Second, Abu-Jabers most recent novel, Birds of Paradise,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: informs our senses, conjures emotions and speaks to our fundamental survival. Terry Eagleton, literary

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Metaphor and Bias : An In-Depth Look at CNN and Fox News Channel

A Pentadic Analysis of Tropico : Dramatism and Digital Games

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Spousal Violence: An Exploration of the Interrelationships of Fundamentalist Protestant Religious Discourse, Women's Economic Dependency and Violent Conflict in Marital Relationships

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

Family Communication Patterns and Intention to Vote in 2020

Who We Are and Will Be

Eternal Years : Religion, Psychology and Sexuality in the Art of Emily Bronte

A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Treatment of Psychosis

The power of conceptual metaphor in Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava and Birds of Paradise

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