Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "English"

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  • 1582 Pinehurst 

    Revels, Amber Dawn (East Carolina University, 2011)
    Virginia "Ginny" Lovhaug lives her life by routine. Every day is exactly the same, varying little. She has a caring roommate, a bizarre best friend, and a loving boyfriend. However, someone in her life isn't who they seem ...

  • 80 Years of "the Orient": Re-Mapping the Trajectory of American Orientalism in the Wake of COVID-19 

    Sehnal, Tyler (East Carolina University, 2021-12-02)
    Months after the unofficial "start" of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, the spread of hashtags like #StopAsianHate and #StopAsianViolence perpetuated the ludicrous notion that a subsequent uptick in anti-Asian violence ...

  • A "Black Body Electric" - African American Rhetoric(s) and the Hip-Hop Aesthetic: Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Beyonce Knowles' Lemonade, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me 

    Moore, Nadine (East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)
    This work examines the formalistic shifts in contemporary African American literature through a hip-hop lens. No longer following the status quo regarding genre or voice, these texts manage to reposition Black writing by ...

  • a dreary midnight (and nothing more) 

    Ausherman, Rieneke H (East Carolina University, 2022-05-03)
    This is a 91-page novella about two superheroes, Bodach and his sidekick, Sith. The story explores the father-daughter relationship between the two, and challenges the black and white morality that is stereotypical of this ...

  • A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution: National Identity in the context of History, Race, and Language 

    Marfield, Randy B. (East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)
    Building upon a variety of approaches in postcolonial discourse, this project performs a rhetorical analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution through the features of race and written Standard English. It contends that ...

  • A Small Sentiment and Other Stories 

    Overton, Alyssa R (East Carolina University, 2023-12-06)
    Herein lies a collection of three short stories. They are thematically connected by an over-arching exploration of the intricacies of interpersonal relationships. The final two stories are also thematically similar in their ...

  • A Study in Love 

    Knight, Nija (East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)
    This thesis contains three original short stories all centered around the theme of love. Through this theme, I explored what it means to love yourself, love others, and love as it relates to Christianity.

  • ACTING "WHITE": THE UNSPOKEN, UNDERSTOOD HIERARCHY OF BLACKNESS 

    Bishop, Courtnee Nicole (East Carolina University, 2020-01-09)
    This thesis will examine how a variety of extenuating factors serve to complicate a black person's self-identity, as well as determine acceptance or exclusion from the black community in the United States. The introductory ...

  • Alienation and Ethnic Identities in "Growing Up Ethnic in America," "Borderlands/La Frontera," and "The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing" 

    Long, Brittany Ann (East Carolina University, 2015)
    This thesis examines the concept of alienation during adolescence as an influential factor in ethnic identity development. The negative effects of alienation are frequently explored, but I argue experiences concerning ...

  • AM I WHO I SAY I AM? THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE: BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION IN HEALTHCARE 

    Banville, Morgan Catherine (East Carolina University, 2023-05-01)
    Grounded in surveillance studies and technical communication, this study defines biometric identification technologies as personal identifiers of the body, focusing specifically on how neonatal nurses use and perceive such ...

  • An Argument for Writing Assessment Literacy for Multilingual and L2 Writers: Deconstructing Linguistic Bias 

    Carrero, Gabrielle (East Carolina University, 2018-07-31)
    College composition classrooms are becoming less monolithic as they linguistically diversify. When L2 writers are present in college composition classrooms, they are vulnerable to assumptions, and judgments about their ...

  • The Angel in the Garden : Recovering Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife 

    Oles, Ashley (East Carolina University, 2012)
    This thesis aims to examine Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife for two major purposes: 1) to work toward recovering von Arnim's work, which I believe to be important and worthy of critical attention, and 2) to examine ...

  • Antiseptic Humor : Using Comedy To Confront Realities And Refute Stereotypes In The Works Of Sherman Alexie 

    Bryan, Janie (East Carolina University, 2015)
    Sherman Alexie, a Native American author of poems, novels, plays, and film uses humor to expose and to explore lingering cultural stereotypes affecting people of Native American ancestry. These stereotypes often conflict ...

  • Anything is Possible 

    Klindworth, Rich (East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)
    Love is like an Ironman Triathlon - filled with highs and lows, way longer and tougher than a marathon and a hundred and fourteen times more worth it. Henry and Allison clicked from the moment they met in the TV newsroom ...

  • An Appetite for Metaphor : Food Imagery and Cultural Identity in Indian Fiction 

    Whitt, Jennifer Burcham (East Carolina University, 2011)
    Postmodern culture has been greatly influenced by food images and the usage of food as metaphor. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of food imagery and metaphor ...

  • Arthur Miller: A Writer of Tragedy 

    Smith, Phyllis Shuff (1967-08)
    The purpose of this study is to prove that Arthur Miller, American playwright, accomplishes his stated aim--the creation of drama similar in purpose and spirit to that of the classical Greeks. This thesis goes a step ...

  • Atlantic City 

    Frazier, Jason (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Abstract  Atlantic City  by Jason Frazier  April, 2010  Director: Ron Mitchelson  DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH  Atlantic City is a screenplay inspired in part by events that took place in Catskill, NY in  the early 1980's. The ...

  • Baby Monitor 

    Miller-Oteri, Megan (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 ...

  • BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: FAMILIAL EXPECTATIONS IN THREE MULTICULTURAL NOVELS 

    Ferguson, Alicia (East Carolina University, 2018-12-06)
    By using the commonality of family, this cross-cultural investigation hopes to highlight some of the similarities and differences among three vastly different cultures with the hope that readers discover the ways in which ...

  • Between the Lines 

    Cambra, Gaiselle (East Carolina University, 2016-04-27)
    This serial television script has a pilot episode and a follow-up episode. The series follows a group of African American college friends in their adult lives. Each member of the group has a secret they need to keep hidden ...