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Black Lives Matter and Black Power
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Author
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Fraser, Daviana
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...
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But Is it Service-learning?
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Author
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Steele, Lucy
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric, Education
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Description
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Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...
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Into The Unknown: A Queer Analysis of the Metaphors in Disney's Frozen Franchise
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Author
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Farris, Molly
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric
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Description
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This thesis examines Frozen and Frozen II for its queer themes communicated through metaphors. After examining the queer metaphors in both films, the project examines online public discussions about the Disney franchise to determine if these opini...
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Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
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Author
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Courtney, Jennifer
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Language arts, Rhetoric
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Description
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Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...
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Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
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Author
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Culletto, Gordon
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
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Description
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President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...
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Psychonautica: Rhetorical Patterns Within Self-Reported Psychedelic Narratives
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Author
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Amezquita, Joseph
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric, Religion, Spirituality
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Description
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An analysis was completed of the rhetorical and discursive patterns found in thenarratives of altered states of consciousness on the website Erowid.org, a repository ofinformation about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related topics, as well a...
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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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The Rhetorical Importance of Monstrosity: Genre Criticism and "Wuthering Heights"
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Author
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Fussell, Taylor
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric
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Description
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In Emily Bronte’s foundational narrative Wuthering Heights (1847), monstrosity is representative of repressed societal fears in response to growing industrialization, shifting socioeconomic status, and changing gender norms of the Victorian era. T...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Writer's Identity
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Author
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Cortez, Jessie
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Rhetoric
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Description
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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...
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us - AM to DM and the Reimagining of Morning Television
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Author
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Melendez, Tanya
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Rhetoric
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Description
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In September of 2017, BuzzFeed News launched a morning television show that airs live on Twitter five days a week. AM to DM represents one of the first disruptions of a 60-year-old genre with an emphasis on audience participation, an editorialized...