Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Author "English"
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From Exclusion to Inclusion : -- A Shift in the Perception of Native and Asian Americans through Graphic Stories: A Comparison of Political Cartoons from the 1800s to Trickster, American Born Chinese, and Level Up
Summerlin, Coley Ray (East Carolina University, 2015)By comparing political cartoons from the late 1800s to graphic novels published in the 21st century, one can trace the changes in social acceptance of Native and Asian Americans and examine the role tricksters hold in ... -
Ghosts in a Lighthouse
Smith, Britney N. (East Carolina University, 2011)This collection of poems represents my engagement with the notion of death and its' inevitable outcome in both the secular and Christian reference. It focuses on the unclear terms of death and the possible after-lives that ... -
GOTHIC REVOLUTIONS : Wilde's Ekphrastic Inheritance
Urban, Christopher (East Carolina University, 2015)During the nineteenth century, scholars and writers in England developed a keen interest in the relationship between art and society, due in large part to growing social unrest in the working class. While Matthew Arnold, ... -
The Grave That Knows My Bones
Servie, Sarah (East Carolina University, 2011)The Grave That Knows My Bones focuses on the relationship between a WWII and Vietnam veteran and his son. The story is of my grandfather, a hardened and disciplined soldier, my father, a boy who grew up troubled by confusion ... -
A Handbook of the Mythological and Biblical Allusions in Lamb's Essays of Elia
Overton, Laura Hudgins (1935)The study is divided into two parts: the first deals with The Essays of Elia, and the second, with the Last Essays of Elia. The explanations are given in the order of the allusions in the essays. Those essays in ... -
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Debate Between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany
Holt, Melissa (East Carolina University, 2020-01-06)Martin Delany had different ideas about Uncle Tom's Cabin than did Frederick Douglass. Delany wrote his concerns in a series of letters that were published in Douglass' newspaper. Delany stated that Harriet Beecher Stowe ... -
Heroes and Legends: African-American Identity in Graphic Novels and Comic Books
Ashley, Jamica C. (East Carolina University, 2015-12-15)This thesis compares the short stories of Richard Wright in Uncle Tom’s Children and Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland with Rep. John Lewis and Andrew Ayden’s graphic novel March: Book I, Max Brooks’s Harlem ... -
Historical Trauma in Native American and Jewish Literatures
Reagan, Juliana (East Carolina University, 2012)Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart defines historical trauma as the "collective emotional and psychological injury both over the life span and across generations, resulting from a cataclysmic history of genocide" (Ottenbacher ... -
History Repeats Itself In Paradise
Johnson, David (East Carolina University, 2021-07-15)This thesis combines two poetic manuscripts into one coherent and readable volume. It builds on the freewheeling, hallucinatory flow of the poets whose worked served as primary influences during its composition, chief among ... -
"How Do I Reach These Keeeds?" : A New Teacher Uses Personality Type to Rethink Cognition, Motivation, and Engagement
Gilbert, Jeffrey (East Carolina University, 2012)The following study investigates one teacher's experience using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in teaching first-year writing, contrasting my personal experiences as a novice composition instructor with mythic pop-culture ... -
Hungarian Identity : Constancy and Change in the Father Land, Mother Tongue, and Family Lines
Hardy, Paula (East Carolina University, 2014)The unique history and language of the Hungarian people have created a distinct cultural identity. Although this unusual identity can be a source of great pride, it also can lead to a sense of isolation and otherness. ... -
I Don't Wanna Die
Kilgore, Vincent Max (East Carolina University, 2021-12-03)This story attempts to shine a light on the injustices faced by the LGBT community through the tale of an aspiring Drag Queen. Fed up with his mundane life as a Universal park employee by day and bus boy by night, Cameron ... -
I Might Be Wrong ; and, As If It Was Made of Glass
Mason, Stephen (East Carolina University, 2012)These two stories of exceptional length feature narrators whose idiosyncratic moral dilemmas are indicative of larger social ills. Instead of the traditional epiphany so prevalent in 20th Century short stories, the characters ... -
Identifying White Knight Syndrome : A Scavenger Hunt
Dublin, Kevin (East Carolina University, 2012)"Scavenger Hunt" is a collection of poems thematically linked by a single persona and the repeated development and deterioration of his failed relationships as a result of "White Knight Syndrome." White knights, in this ... -
Imagining the Homeland : Myth, Movement, and Migration in Three Novels by Women from the African Diaspora
Nosalek, Kevin (East Carolina University, 2015)For immigrant authors of African descent, the impact of postnationalism and the continued subjugation of their native cultures through neocolonialism focuses the writers' pens on subjects of dispersal, either forced or ... -
An Immortal Science : Alchemy's Role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Angel, Will A. (East Carolina University, 2011)I chose Hallows above any other novel in the series because it holds a stronger connection with alchemy than any of those before it. Hallows provides a density of alchemical symbols and imagery that far outshines any of ... -
THE IMPACT OF BAL TASCHIT IN THE WRITINGS OF ANNE FRANK, PRIMO LEVI, AND ELIE WIESEL
Childres, Matthew Glenn (East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis focuses on how the Jewish tradition of Bal Taschit influenced the behavior and thoughts of prisoners during the Holocaust. The interaction with nature in Holocaust works indicates an adherence to this tradition ... -
INDIGENOUS IDENTITY, ORAL TRADITION, AND THE LAND IN THE POETRY OF OODGEROO NOONUCCAL, LUCI TAPAHONSO, AND HAUNANI-KAY TRASK
Woods, Amanda (East Carolina University, 2010)This thesis is a postcolonial, ecocritical examination of the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Luci Tapahonso, and Haunani-Kay Trask. It considers the use of poetry as a continuation of oral tradition, the poets' individual ... -
Iniquities
Nelson, Rose (East Carolina University, 2015)This thesis is a representative collection of short stories that I have written as part of my Master's requirements. The four pieces included demonstrate the overarching style, length, and major themes of much of my recent ... -
Integral Captions and Subtitles: Designing a Space for Embodied Rhetorics and Visual Access
Butler, Janine (East Carolina University, 2017-04-28)This dissertation challenges the conventions of adding static captions to the bottom of videos and instead advocates for designing integral captions and integral subtitles that interact with bodies, sound, and other modes ...