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Title: IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD: THE ROLE OF SUPERNATURAL GUARDIANS AND PARENTAL FIGURES IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Author: Anderson, Joseph
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: Children’s literature often has the child protagonist face a problem at home, such as large disagreements with parents or even the loss of a loved one. While realistic novels regularly tackle these concerns, supernatural novels are forced to use m...

Title: Becoming Virtuous: Overcoming the Monstrous in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Author: Atsavinh, Candice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The aim of this thesis is to explore the emotional impact that three childhood environments have on the formation of Jane’s identity. These spatial boundaries are how Jane develops an understanding of herself and the ‘other’ while discovering the ...

Title: The Education of Dicey Tillerman
Author: Barrier, Julia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: 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...

Title: An Exploratory Case Study of Signage at Beijing Daxing and Denver International Airports
Author: Berry, Noah
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Communication of technical information, Linguistics
Description: This thesis presents an analysis of signage inside two international airports, public linguistic spaces that should be accessible to both global visitors as well as disabled populations. International airports and their multimodal signage present ...

Title: Coming of Age: The Narrative of Adolescence in David Almond's Kit's Wilderness and Nick Lake's In Darkness
Author: Blaylock, Brook
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: The influence of ancient cultural narratives on contemporary reality, and the construction of literature reflecting the tradition of the past while representing modern cultural realities, remains a common feature of literary expression. However, a...

Title: Fans Like Us: Anti-shipping, Othering, and the Reauthoring of Fandom
Author: Bradburn, Madison
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, English language--Composition
Description: The following thesis focuses on Anti- and Pro-shipping debates, their rhetorical behaviors, and their impacts on fandom spaces. These debates center around "shipping," the act of romantically pairing characters from media in fan productions such a...

Title: Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Author: Buescher, Holly
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
Description: 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...

Title: The ghost whisper: a young adult novel
Author: Case, Kari
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Literature
Description: This is a creative thesis telling the story of a young girl who finds herself when she goes away to college. This is a portion of a larger novel telling Kacey Alan’s story. The synopsis follows.Kacey Alan is starting her new life as a freshman at ...

Title: The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
Author: Chauncey, Kevin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Description: 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...

Title: The Mirror: A Book of Poems Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, and Identity, with Themes of Self-Reflection and Change.
Author: Clerico, Jake
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: This book came from the first poem I ever wrote, entitled "Mirrors." While nearly a decade has passed since I wrote the poem, I find it still relevant to my work as a poet today. Through multiple writing classes, I discovered that my poetry had ch...

Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
Author: Cortez, Jessie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Although it is used by some first-year writing (FYW) instructors to help students improve their writing, the term "writer’s identity" does not have a clear, agreed-upon definition. This study therefore investigates the use of "writer’s identity" i...

Title: "No.. like you don't get it": The functionality of conflict speech and the construction of the young adult feminist identity on Tumblr
Author: Cosper, Caitlin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: As social media grew in popularity, online discourse became a more frequent focus of study because it represented an entirely new form of communication. While technological innovations led to easier and more accessible communication on a global sc...

Title: Discursive Construction of the Female Identity within Official ISIS Propaganda
Author: Coughlin, Meghan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: Having created a dominant online media strategy, ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) has used the internet in order to spread its narratives beyond its geographical constraints to the largest possible audience. To this audience, they provid...

Title: Writers Accommodate the Primary Audience: A Study of Technical and Legal Writers’ Composition Principles Used for Usability Purposes
Author: Dancisin, Nicole
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Law, Communication of technical information
Description: Kenneth Bruffee argues that for action to commence and for knowledge to be shared and furthered, communication must successfully occur between two or more individuals. Successful communication requires the reader or listener to interpret a message...

Title: A Dream of Burning
Author: DeMeglio, Austin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: A Dream of Burning takes place in a not-so-distant future of an alternate Earth. The story focuses on a young woman by the name of Iris Ode and her found family. The story starts three years after a great storm caused tragedy. After the storm, Iri...

Title: Needles and Dust
Author: Douglas, Charles
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Creative writing, Area studies
Description: Needles and Dust comprises the first part, approximately 20,000 words of a novel in progress. In the summer of 1988, Thao Dena, a twelve-year-old girl in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, befriends the picaresque Vang Neng, who enchants Dena...

Title: Dancing with Ink
Author: Duemmler, Kristina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Linguistics, Creative writing
Description: The following creative thesis contains the first 100 pages of the historical fiction novel on the life of Lady Mary Wroth, the first woman in the Early Modern Era to publish a prose poetry novel. The thesis begins and ends in the year 1651. It is ...

Title: DEFINING THE GENRE OF THE U.S. POLICY ISSUES WEBPAGE WITH A CROSS-LINGUISTIC CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
Author: Dunklin, Macy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: In recent years, government genres have been largely under-studied within linguistic and rhetorical studies. To allow for a better image and more accessible government, it is imperative that online political genres receive attention. This study ai...

Title: The Society of Capes: Egos Revealed
Author: Fisher, Jordan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Creative writing
Description: 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...

Title: Territorializing Modernism: A Deleuzo-Guattarian Reading of Tender Buttons, Nightwood, and The Waves
Author: Gantz, Nicole
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature
Description: This examination of Modernist literature uses the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in close readings of three texts with labyrinthine depictions of social production, alienation, and desire. In their work, I argue Gertrude Stein, ...