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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 ... -
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 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 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 ... -
"Bad" Mothers: A Comparison of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Sethe in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Ross, Sandra B (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, ... -
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 ... -
Between Two Worlds: Mixed-Race Ostracism by the Minority Group in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Matt De La Peña’s Mexican Whiteboy, and Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Herche, Nicole Elizabeth (East Carolina University, 2018-11-27)In the three texts that will be discussed, the authors chose young protagonists who come to terms with the contradictions their background creates. In some ways, each of the novels presents the idea of mixed-race as being ... -
Beyond Their Control : The Disempowerment of Women in Middle Eastern and African Literature
Sinclair, Tara Jernigan (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 ...