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American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
"As the writer is going to teach English to the Thai students who do not speak a word of English, it is essential for her to be intimately acquainted with the development of reading vocabulary in order to teach Thai students to read...
Juggling school work, a job, and a social life can be difficult, especially to a young Seminole. With majors in Music and Creative Writing, as well as a job at Cracker Barrel, a young woman describes her sophomore year through letters to...
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10...
The poems in Dear Exorcist are derived from my own experience. The poems portray the struggle of working class individuals as well as my desire for self-actualization after recovering from physical, spiritual, and verbal abuse. As...
It is beneficial for Chinese English-learners to improve their communicative competence through being taught in a communicative-based class (especially with the use of task-based language teaching, Nuevo, 2006). However, previous studies...
This dissertation argues that the rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement has roots in the aesthetics of literary modernism. Not only did Anglo-American modernism and the birth control movement come of age at the same moment...
In response to a need within the field of composition studies within the Anglosphere (the English-speaking world) for further investigation into the teaching of composition in non-Anglo contexts, this thesis seeks to provide a...
Beasts in the Dark is a collection of poems held together by an elemental voice in search of identity. Multiple selves are revealed on the journey for identity, and the poems ask hard questions, probe into suffering corners of human want...
This thesis studies changes made by Autocorrect software and authorial awareness and perceptions of those changes through analysis of case studies conducted on five volunteers aged 19 to 22. The study consisted of two phases: 1. three...
This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and...
U.S./Southeast Asian exile narratives, or "refugee literature, tend to be classified as autobiographies, testimonials and personal narratives, and not with other literary genres such as the pastoral. Pastoral representations of the...
The poems in Else are lyric explorations of paradox. Specifically, they meditate on the idea that what gives comfort also has the potential to cause great harm. The central focus of the collection is a troubled relationship, but regional...
A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse are two of the most famous English writers and humorists of their time, with Milne being known for the creation of Winnie the Pooh and Wodehouse celebrated for his Wooster and Jeeves novels. Not only that, ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the origin of the naturalistic sensibility in modern Korean literature. To this end, this study focuses on the Korean writer Kim Tongin and his analogous relationship with his western...
Impact of Explicit Phonological Awareness Instruction on Spelling Knowledge, Orthographic Processing Skills, and Reading Speed and Accuracy of Adult Arab ESL Learners
ABSTRACT This quantitative study investigated potential effects of providing explicit phonological instruction on international students' spelling knowledge, orthographic processing skills, and reading speed and comprehension. In...
The Gigolo Speaks in Tonguesis a collection of poems that chart an evolution of a self, consisting of coming-of-age poems that explore adolescent identity in the midst of religious fervor, paying homage to fanaticism, whether it be...
Faced with floods of what was variously called "cheap literature, popular literature, and reading for the million, a cohort of Victorian commentators adopted a surprisingly consistent response to examining such printed materials:...
This project investigates the factors that influence the decisions instructors in Florida State's English Department make about using or not using digital projects in their classes, and specifically how influential the English Department...
Bob Jones University Press (BJU Press) is a publishing house owned by the Greenville, South Carolina university of the same name. Fulfilling Bob Jones' mission beyond the college classroom, BJU Press prints a full K-12 educational...
In The Lord is Easy to Please I hope to convey the intimate tension between the various speakers' sacrilegious thoughts and her loss and longing. Aesthetically, I consciously avoid imposing a bias toward faith or faithlessness and often...
This collection of stories is divided into two parts: the first is called Edgewater, the second Father Land. The eight stories comprising the first section of the manuscript--Edgewater--all center on and are narrated by the same young...
This dissertation interrogates the intersection of gender representation and sexual violence in twentieth and twenty-first-century Southern fiction. It looks specifically at incest, rape, and necrophilia, three forms of sexual violence...
I Lost My Cherry… is the southern-gothic coming of age story about Purdy Brackshaw, who while trying to lose her virginity with her boyfriend Rat, must deal with her parents' crumbling marriage, and her best friend's plunge from upper...
In this thesis, I explore the carrier narratives of Mary Mallon, or "Typhoid Mary, and their intersections with developments in medical science and immigration policies at the time. To construct this case, I sought texts within the much...
This dissertation collects stories that range from traditional realism to more experimental forms often exhibited by contemporary fiction, but never to the point of breaking what John Gardner defines as the "vivid and continuous dream"...
The premise for this short novel, The Afterlife, with Harry Houdini, derives from the legend that Houdini made a pact with his wife, Bess, to return to her and explain his experience after death; also, from the fact that he died on...
Race to Post examines the complex and varied negotiations of race and class in contemporary black popular culture from 1996 to the present. Examining a variety of texts, including rap music, novels, satirical performances, and new social...
The work contained in this manuscript stems from personal experience and a desire to portray life in honest, detailed poems. Some events are factual while others are speculative, all of which spins on an axis of imagery. The actions of...
This thesis is concerned with the possible effects of e-books on reading from a socio-historical perspective and a neurological perspective. It looks at how reading habits change due to e-books and what that means for society. It also...
Ghost City is a collection of poetry about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It travels through the history, landscape, and family of the writer's hometown. The poems take up themes of love, loss, food, hope, and family. The author seeks to...
'Surviving Suburban Malls' is a collection of original poems that question expectations placed upon women in popular female consumerist culture. The collection is divided into three parts: the first section focuses on expectations placed...
The Cutting Room Floor explores the life of Frankenstein's monster, as narrated by the creature himself. True to Mary Shelley's original book, the monster has no name but recognizes that he is often mistakenly called 'Frankenstein, '...
This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and...
Contingency tells the story of Richard MacMurray, a political analyst and advocate for freedom of expression. On New Year's Day, Richard learns that his estranged sister has been killed in a plane crash, and that he will be asked to...
Inscriptions is a collection of poems inspired, in part, by the twenty-four poem opening section of Walt Whitman's 1892 "Death-bed" edition of Leaves of Grass, entitled "Inscriptions." The poems of direct address in the first section...
Postmodern theorists and authors have long argued that history is a constructed system of knowledge, and therefore prone to error. Yet, despite memory's connection to history, postmodern authors have continued to utilize it as a stable...
Exploring the Effectiveness of Collaborative Assessment Preparation with Immediate Feedback in an Intensive Adult English as a Second Language Classroom
Learning to speak a foreign language can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavor, involving verbal exchanges in a target language. It is a process that includes learning about, understanding, and to some extent identifying with...
Three short stories detailing the journey of James Nester through China. The United States that James came from is a country whose economy has completely collapsed, with China quickly taking its place. He is going to a job at the...
There is no shortage of encomiums to Florida's natural environment. Many writers have conventionally depicted it as a tropical paradise, a latter-day Eden in which leisure awaits the fortunate visitor. Building on this conventional...
This collection of short fiction, Hoop Dancing: A Novella and Seven Stories, focuses on working class men and women living in eastern North Carolina. The majority of the characters are a single generation removed from the family farms...
This is a history of reception of Thomas Middleton. Literary critics and theater directors in the US and the UK have responded to a growing interest in Middleton by publishing and producing more Middleton-related work in the past 50...
This dissertation addresses the following question: how did the interaction of image and word contribute to the formation and preservation of a community of white supremacists I refer to as the cult of lynching? The value of...
This thesis will rhetorically analyze dubstep, a British electronic music genre that has now achieved international fame, through two rhetorical frameworks. My interest in this project began with a love for the music itself, and...
"A dependable English language dictionary provides recent and reliable information in all fields of learning. The modern dictionary as an indispensable tool for learning is part of every library reference collection and almost as...
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to...
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