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SAMUEL JOHNSON AND AUGUSTANISM
(2011-01-27)One of the reasons why Samuel Johnson achieved his monumentality in literary history is that he was a comprehensive thinker whose treatment of social, political, and literary domains encompassed a wide range of concerns ... -
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK COMMUNICATION: A CASE STUDY OF A STATE AGENCY‟S COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC
(2010-09-22)Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a disease which affects white-tailed deer and elk in both wild and captive populations. In 2002 the Department of Environmental Conservation observed that CWD could possibly spread to New ... -
THE WRITERS‘ MYTH AND TEACHERS‘ REALITY OF WORKING IN ISOLATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON WRITING INSTRUCTION REFORM
(2010-09-22)Writing and teaching have this in common – popular images of each foreground isolation and art and obscure community and craft. These images play a role in shaping writing instruction in the public schools, particularly ... -
WOMEN’S CULTURE IN POTSDAM RESCUE
(2009-09-23)The Emergency Medical field has been a predominantly male structured organization. Women entering this male dominated profession of Emergency Medicine are being met with struggle of creating their own place with in the ... -
GENDERED GENRE CONVENTIONS IN SOPHIA LEE’S THE RECESS
(2009-09-23)Sophia Lee’s The Recess played a key role in the development of the British novel. Written in the period between the rise of sentimental novels like Richardson’s Clarissa and Pamela in the 1740s and the explosion of popular ... -
USE OF UNCERTAINTY REDUCTION THEORY TO EXAMINE EMOTICONS AND OTHER CHAT ROOM TOOLS’ FACILITATION OF AFFILIATIVE NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
(2009-08-17)Physical cues of affiliative, nonverbal communication are unavailable in Internet chat situations. People utilize text formatting and constructs called smileys or emoticons to adapt affiliative, physical cues for expression ... -
CHARLOTTE BROOKE AND LADY GREGORY: IRISH LITERARY NATIONALIST WRITERS
(2009-08-13)Ireland’s literary response to British colonization produced two distinctly important literary movements: antiquarian nationalism in the eighteenth century and the Irish Literary Revival in the nineteenth. Writers in both ... -
SELF, SOCIETY AND SURVEILLANCE IN THE LITERATURE OF NINTETEENTH[sic]-CENTURY AMERICA
(2009-08-13)The rapid development of nineteenth-century cities in northeastern America led to a revision in the way many Americans, particularly middle and upper class men, viewed themselves and one another. Emphasis on competition ... -
A SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF BODYBUILDING: THE IMPORTANCE OF MALE BODY IMAGE AND ITS INDICATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN SOCIETY
(2009-08-12)In order to better understand American society’s attitude toward male body image, this paper utilizes a semiotic approach. Drawing upon social semiotics as an analytical framework, it examines the articulation of the modern ... -
THE POWER OF DISCOURSE AND ANALYSIS OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK
(2009-08-12)The following research was prepared as a study into Holocaust survivors in Buffalo, NY and their coping abilities post World War II. The research, analysis, and conclusions made from this study made it possible to have a ... -
THE LITOST-IDYLL FRAMEWORK IN MILAN KUNDERA’S WORK
(2009-08-12)Milan Kundera structures his novels through the thematic development of key terms. In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Kundera explores the meaning of litost, an untranslatable Czech word that means “a state of torment ... -
The Victorian Woman in Mary Barton and Mill on the Floss: What Causes the Angel to Fall
(2008-05-12)The role of the fallen woman intrigued Victorian society. Like much literature, this character reflected the time period she was a part of, but what signals did popular authors provide to show that a character was fallen? ... -
CEREMONY, STORYTELLING, LAND, THE REDISCOVERY OF IDENTITY IN LESLIE MARMON SILKO’S CEREMONY AND STORYTELLER AND N. SCOTT MOMADAY’S THE ANCIENT CHILD, HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, AND THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN
(2008-05-12)This analysis will examine the connection between understanding identity and the intertwining elements of ceremony, storytelling, and land in selected works of Native American authors Leslie Marmon Silko and N. Scott ... -
Apocalyptic Addiction: William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
(2008-05-12)Burroughs created a new type of apocalyptic novel with Naked Lunch. In Naked Lunch the apocalypse is systemic, and takes place over a span of time, rather than being caused by one cataclysmic event. Burroughs shows that ... -
Text and Context: Rethinking John Dos Passos, Post-Revolutionary Soviet Filmmakers, and the Modern Novel
(2008-05-12)Critics have written about American modernist John Dos Passos and the ways he adapted and adopted modernist philosophies and techniques, including those of Soviet filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, in fashioning ... -
Heroes and Villians in Michael Moore's Roger and Me:A Fantasy Theme Analysis
(2006-05-16)Michael Moore’s Roger and Me (1989) was a highly acclaimed documentary film when it was released in theaters nearly sixteen years ago. Though scholars have examined the film through a number of critical lenses, none have ... -
Old Testament Spatial Metaphor and Troilus and Criseyde: A Study in Persistence
(2006-04-18)Some of the most powerful tropes are figures of speech that both mirror and influence the way a culture understands the world. Some of the most formative gender tropes are contained in the Old Testament, particularly in ...
