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A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
This dissertation resists the tendency to focus on metropolitan patterns of consumption of major export goods like sugar and tea in order to account for the laboring bodies producing these colonial commodities, which scholars such as...
These nine stories are a reflection of the shifting culture and rapid economic growth of Northwest Arkansas, the birthplace of Walmart and Tyson Foods. While the stories may have a distinctly Southern flavor in their setting, they are...
The Kindness of Strangers, takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and is composed of three books, each the narrative of one day, one January 10th -- date of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake -- in the lives of its characters. I examine the notions...
In the 2008 US presidential election, 64 percent of military service members voted for Republican nominee John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama. This is a continued trend in military voting known as the "Civilian-Military" Gap, in which...
The following poems are variations on the personal narrative poem. Most clearly influenced by the post-confessional lyric poets, who continue to introduce hitherto-taboo subject matter in the manner of the confessional poets but who have...
Florida Governor Rick Scott defended his move to eliminate the growth management-oriented Department of Community Affairs (DCA) in 2011, claiming that the DCA was killing jobs in the state of Florida, and that it was an inefficient use...
Mormon Boy is Seth Brady Tucker's first published poetry collection, originally published by Elixir Press in 2012. This collection is representative of five years of Seth's work, and most of the poems within the collection have been...
This fantastical novel follows the first-person narrative of Molly, a girl living in a near-empty Quaker commune in Calumet City, IL, whose exploits lead her to the housing projects of Chicago during the summer of the (fictional) 1997...
This thesis deals directly with the FDA ban on sexually active homosexual men from donating blood. This work examines how organizations have made arguments against the ban and actions taken in both the legislative realm and college...
Brett Kroska presents a collection of six stories, each set in the Pahatawa valley in North Dakota, a community known for its strange, isolated persons.
This thesis is a collection of short stories that explore characters undergoing a personal change and how it affects their lives and relationships. Each character struggles with a sense of ambivalence as well as a desire to control and...
A book of poetry that uses avant-garde, post-modernist writing practices such as fragmented syntax, disjunctive narrative, a multiplicity of speakers and collage to explore female American identity in the 21st century as a historical...
Ernest J. Gaines' work articulates the social, political, and economic position of society's most vulnerable citizens: the poor, voiceless, disenfranchised, and invisible. From his youthful days on the plantation to his adult years in...
The number of women holding state legislative office positions has risen since the 1900s. This paper explores the theory behind why the changing gender composition of state legislatures alters the types of policies states adopt. I argue...
This dissertation is based on an ethnographic study of a living learning community at a large public university in the Southeastern United States. The research was conducted over a four-month period within a program called the Social...
This project presents a theoretical and practical examination of the term "videogame-infused pedagogy, as defined through its use of videogames in the composition classroom, connections to the Framework for Success in Postsecondary...
The West End, a novel set in Vancouver, Canada in the years directly preceding the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, is the story of two sisters, Claire and Hannah Stephen, whose love of art and the environment is challenged by the...
This study places the experiences of administrators and teachers of English as a Second Language and composition at five community colleges in North Florida within the three larger contexts of the field of ESL composition, the community...
The relationship between political parties and the economy in the United States is investigated from 1953 and 2012. Regression models are used to calculate the effect political parties have on the percent change in real gross domestic...
Backwards & Inside Out, a novel, tells the story of Albee, Karl and Emily Herman, a divorced and dysfunctional Jewish, each trying to individually rebuild their identities following the breakup of their family. Albee Herman, thirteen...
The Fabian Strategy is a short, dystopian novel following Henry Byrne as he attempts to rebuild his life after a tragic war and the decine of American civilization.
Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re...
This qualitative research study examined whether or not reflection facilitates transfer. While scholars have addressed the role that transfer may play in the composition classroom (e.g. Beaufort 2007), none has addressed the role of...
My thesis 'Swamp Fire' began with the essay of the same name. After I wrote this essay, I decided to do a nonfiction thesis and began asking my family questions. I wanted to know about my parents' struggles, about how we ended up where...
This thesis is a novel. It is the story of Frank, a pickpocket who moonlights as a children's magician. He falls in love with Nasya who is a volunteer at a hospice for children with horrible and strange diseases. The book follows their...
Past the fall of the great Southern plantations and Agrarian prosperity, the Southern lady/gentleman persisted in the works of many Southern writers who wrote novels lauding the Old South in an attempt to preserve the culture of the...
This study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of...
In this paper, I seek to determine the effect that the current debate on same-sex marriage has on citizens' attitudes towards homosexuals. The research to date, centers on what actors and institutional characteristics lead to state...
Virginia Woolf's novels have been read often as texts that speak only to the private sphere, the home, the parties, the inner lives, etc., and neglect the political realm. Many define Woolf as a timid writer who either could not or would...
Several of the stories in this collection were inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping. What most interests me was the public hysteria over the kidnapping, and the astonishing number of people who attempted to insinuate themselves into the...
This is a collection of eleven short stories submitted as a thesis project to Florida State University in spring, 2012. The stories, though varied, largely take place in the Caribbean (be the islands real or imagined composites of many...
This dissertation presents a novel that focuses on an immigrant family that struggles to understand the tragic death of one of their own. Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Mina Zand, the youngest child of Iranian immigrant, died, presumably...
Finding Elvis: Stories - a creative dissertation - is a collection of ten short stories divided into two parts: Bad Jews and Song of Songs. The five stories comprising the first section of the manuscript - Bad Jews - follow, in part, the...
Sunshine is a graphic novel about the problem of memory. The protagonist, Geraldine, is trying to tell her life story, only to find that she cannot discern fact from fiction with certainty; she recalls dreams, lies, family secrets, ...
The Subtle Art: Poison in Victorian Literature rethinks how nineteenth-century crime fiction responds to cultural perceptions about the progress of Victorian science. To this end, this project examines how authors use the poisoner--a...
Glorybower is a collection of poems that explores the complex process of coming to live in a space--of uncovering its history, of negotiating the extent to which you can, or even should, make your own mark on it. As such, its poems...
Kin is the story of a young girl who learns she can't depend on her parents--or anyone else--for stability. This piece follows her journey as she deals with one tragicomic event after another and, in the process, develops a thicker shell...
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) of 2008, also known as the Bush bank bailout, was a monumental piece of legislation that sent about $700 billion to various financial institutions to sure up their failing assets, in hopes...
ABSTRACT This Heart Goes Bang Bang is broken into three sections, all of which explore classical references, much as poetry has done before, but in the context of my experiences and using a modern lens. I like a lot of things. In...
Clarke and others have established that Congressional Court-curbing proposals are used to great effect by members of Congress to impose their will upon the Supreme Court. However, the reasoning behind such proposals by Congresspersons...
This project seeks to complicate the ahistorical and binary-oriented treatment of multimodality in contemporary scholarship. I pose the questions: how does multimodality function within the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, an...
This dissertation develops notes towards a descriptive model of literate practice by reporting on a study of student work collected from a course on 21st Century writing and editing and analyzed using a combination of coding and deep...
The Tears of a Clown questions the pervasive narrative that men have begun only recently to realize the limitations society places on them as men. Scholars of masculinity contend men now are starting to see masculinity as an unattainable...
This project is an attempt to reinvestigate the concept of subalternity in the context of the information age while building its foundation on the previous contentions offered by such critics as Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Spivak. Tracing...
This dissertation examines the ways in which the science of insanity informs the creation of the American citizen during the years of the early Republic. By utilizing the medical texts of "America's first psychiatrist" Benjamin Rush, as...
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