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Student Perceptions of Translanguaging in the College Classroom
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Author
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Willey, Sarah
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Linguistics, Education
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Description
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This qualitative empirical study explores the perspectives of college students around translanguaging: a theory, practice, and pedagogy that has grown in popularity over the past decade, particularly within the field of applied linguistics. The ma...
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THE MAGIC OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
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Author
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Morris, Julia
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Reading
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Description
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With the contemporary scandals that currently characterize university-sanctioned athletics and student athlete participants, this study is aimed at using Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s Harry Potter series, as exemplary of young adult literature, as a g...
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TUNNEL AND OTHER STORIES
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Author
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KURZEJA, PAUL
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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There are seven short stories in this collection. "Tunnel" is the story of a young man who must face the suicidal thoughts of his girlfriend. In "To Relieve the Pain," a son must make a life and death decision for his dying mother. "Beached" looks...
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Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
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Author
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Buescher, Holly
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
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Description
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In this thesis, I propose that The Last of Us franchise functions as an exemplar on how survival horror video games are uniquely situated as a genre and medium to make precise statements about empathy, complicity, and trauma. However, upon applyin...
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That Southern Spirit: A Novel for Middle-Grade Readers
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Author
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Riley, Susan
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing, American literature, History
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Description
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When thirteen-year-old Delta Wells arrives on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to visit her grandparents, she anticipates the usual peaceful summer of seaside fun. When she learns that Pops’ beloved Island History Museum will likely be replaced ...
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The Acid Wielder
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Author
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Mair, Kathryn
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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The Acid Wielder is set in a world where magic users are being eliminated. The story focuses on a young woman, Harlow, and the deadly acid magic she developed. She joins the Resistance to fight the Regent of Trevail and stop the systematic sacrifi...
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Title
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The Carbon Process
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Author
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Gunnink, Andrew
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing, Genetics, Biology
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Description
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ABSTRACTAndrew Dale Gunnink. The Carbon Process. (Under the direction of Dr. Aaron Gwyn)Mark Bovert is a brilliant geneticist and plant biologist at MIT who is developing an experiment that will attempt to permanently fix the frailties of the huma...
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The Education of Dicey Tillerman
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Author
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Barrier, Julia
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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In Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman Cycle, the various novels from Dicey’s perspective (Homecoming, Dicey’s Song, and Seventeen Against The Dealer) show Dicey’s emotional growth, and the lessons she learns. Dicey learns lessons in trusting people close t...
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The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
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Author
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Chauncey, Kevin
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Social psychology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
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Description
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The present study examined some effects of Stereotype Threat priming on participants in a two-person prompted discussion. Four pairs of participants (one man, one woman) each discussed three workplace scenarios and were prompted to give suggestion...
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Title
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The Garden of Whispers
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Author
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Marlow, Mikayla
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Creative writing
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Description
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The following creative thesis includes the first 100 pages of a young adult fantasy novel, in which the child protagonist uses a creative outlet as means of coping with the challenges of reality. This thesis is divided into six sections with three...
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The Hybridity of Humanity: Posthumanism within Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles
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Author
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Gonzalez Caban, Jasmin
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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In the twenty-first century, advanced technology has become an integral component to how humans interact with the world. Because technology is gradually transforming the lifestyles and compositions of humans, it is important to introduce the conce...
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The Institute: A work of Fiction
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Author
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Lazzara, Mishael
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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A historical fiction novel set in colonial Belgian Congo during World War II, The Institute: A Work of Fiction centers around Mary Elkhorn, an American agriculturist who travels to a farming institute located on the Congo River. En route, Mary is ...
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The Playful Elements in Emily Gravett's and David Wiesner's Postmodern Picturebooks
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Author
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Warnsing, Abbey
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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Emily Gravett and David Wiesner play with existing texts, narrative structures, visual elements and connectivity in their picturebooks using a variety of metafictive devices that also play with the story, characters, and readers. Both authors crea...
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Title
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The Society of Capes: Egos Revealed
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Author
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Fisher, Jordan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Creative writing
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Description
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In Paladin City, superheroes have become commonplace to the ordinary citizens--all of them except for twelve-year-old Catori Powers, who spends all her time dreaming of becoming a superhero. She finally gets her chance when she acquires her own su...
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The changing roles of women in American comic books
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Author
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Loeffert, Amanda
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, English literature
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Description
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The comic book industry is entering an era in which gender is the trending topic of conversation. Historically, comic books have catered to a masculine audience, with the majority of popular comic books featuring male characters, most often create...
