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Baby Monitor
(East Carolina University, 2011)Baby Monitor consists of twelve essays and nine journal entries about my new experience of motherhood and the first year and half of my first child, Benjamin's life. The essays and journal entries range from a mother's ... -
"Bad" Mothers: A Comparison of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Sethe in Toni Morrison's Beloved
(2014)Scarlett of Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Sethe from Toni Morrison's Beloved at first seem like two starkly different characters, aside from living during the same period. Scarlett is a white Southern belle, ... -
Beyond Their Control : The Disempowerment of Women in Middle Eastern and African Literature
(East Carolina University, 2012)The disempowerment of women involves factors that influence every aspect of their lives, birthing deep oppression, victimization, and sometimes violence. Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt explores two Muslim women whose ... -
Body in Flight
(East Carolina University, 2013)This master's thesis is a collection of poetry focusing on the emotional and behavioral responses of a woman whose perception of life is considerably twisted by her chances at inheriting cancer and certain romantic ... -
Brackish Water : Stories
(East Carolina University, 2011)Each of the five short stories in this collection depicts the struggle of a Belizean character and takes place in a locale that recalls the history or culture of a specific region of Belize. There are both male and female ... -
BRANDING THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART : PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A PUBLIC IDENTITY
(East Carolina University, 2013)This dissertation examines the North Carolina Museum of Art's planning and implementation of a brand identity. To understand the planned identity, I studied the intentions of the Museum's leadership, of the architect who ... -
Building Cultural Competence Through Multicultural Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2010)Cultural competence is a set of skills which is gaining recent attention as a tool for navigating a diverse American society. This study examines the purposeful instruction of select multicultural literature which can aid ... -
Carrion Flower
(East Carolina University, 2012)Dysfunction can be defined, as it is by Merriam-Webster, as "impaired or abnormal functioning" or "abnormal or unhealthy interpersonal behavior or interaction within a group." Using the former definition, my poems often ... -
Caught on the Precipice : A Collection of Short Stories
(East Carolina University, 2011)The stories in Caught on the Precipice deal with a changing dynamic in family. Even though the characters are of varying ages and backgrounds, each protagonist must reconcile the missed connections of their past. The ... -
The Causes of the Gordon Riots of 1780 : A Close Reading of Contemporary Accounts and Dickens's Barnaby Rudge
(East Carolina University, 2010)Contemporary accounts of the Gordon Riots of 1780 are studied closely in order to ultimately determine how Dickens's use of these accounts in Barnaby Rudge reveals his view of the cause of the riots. Newspapers, political ... -
Celestial Bodies : A Collection of Poems
(East Carolina University, 2012)A celestial body, according to Merriam-Webster, is "an aggregation of matter in the universe that constitutes a unit for astronomical study." More specifically, it is a planet, nebula, star, or some such natural heavenly ... -
Changing the Game : A 21st-Century Perspective on the Use of the Supernatural in Multicultural Literatures
(East Carolina University, 2013)In this thesis, I attempt to present a new more modern perspective on the purpose of the literary supernatural. The use of the supernatural in literature has always been construed as a means of emphasizing forces outside ... -
Chronic Illness Narratives Through Facebook
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Internet has changed the process by which illness meanings are created and brought into the everyday lives of those who struggle with a chronic condition. More importantly the rapid rise and use of electronic groups ... -
COME ON DOWN TO SEE FOR YOURSELF : SOUTHERN RAILROAD TRACKS AS RACIAL SEGREGATORS--THE CASE OF GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2010)Throughout American culture and through varying mediums, railroad tracks have been depicted as tropes of socioeconomic repression, technological development, and even bountiful migration. For instance, Joseph's Millichap, ... -
Cotton, Rum, and Reason : Anti-Imperialist Poetry from 19th Century U.S. Newspapers and Post-Colonial Discourse
(East Carolina University, 2013)Though American post-colonial criticism is by no means a field in need of literary material, one particular corpus is missing from the discussion. This thesis situates 19th century anti-imperialist poetry within the larger ... -
THE COUNTER-COLONIAL TRAVEL WRITING OF FANNY PARKES AND E.M. FORSTER
(East Carolina University, 2010)During the colonial period in India, British travelers wrote various forms of travel writing texts, such as letters, diaries, travelogues, scientific or geographical exposés, and novels. Usually those texts reflected an ... -
Coyotes Sang the Braid Into Her Hair
(East Carolina University, 2010)A chapbook length collection of lyric poetry that explores the myth-making process through the tension of opposites: the nature of the substantive (body) and the ephemeral (mind), the wild vs. the tame self, the rational ... -
Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and the Story of the Catawba Nation
(East Carolina University, 2012)The Catawba Indians, in order to maintain their own identity as an "other" culture, utilized a course of acceptance and collaboration with the Euro-American majority that came to surround them, while ultimately developing ... -
CULTURAL TARGETING OF BREASTFEEDING DISCOURSE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
(East Carolina University, 2012)This dissertation explores cultural factors that may influence African American women's breastfeeding choices and experiences as well as how those developing breastfeeding discourse for African American women target this ... -
A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA
(East Carolina University, 2013)Through analysis of Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, and Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell this thesis explores women's loss of identity through colonialism and ways in ...