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"EVERYTHING WE NEED IS HERE" : RESTORING ENVIRONMENTAL BONDS THROUGH ACTIVISM IN SOLAR STORMS BY LINDA HOGAN, POTIKI BY PATRICIA GRACE, AND PRODIGAL SUMMER BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The following study explores the role of environmental activism in Solar Storms (1995) by Linda Hogan, Potiki (1986) by Patricia Grace, and Prodigal Summer (2000) by Barbara Kingsolver. In each novel, characters participate ...
A Rationale for the African American Man's Destruction in Alice Walker's Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The African American man is destroyed physically or psychologically in many literary works because he is disliked and/or because of choices he makes. What is intriguing is that African American women writers Zora Neale ...
I Might Be Wrong ; and, As If It Was Made of Glass
(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 ...
One Love : Collective Consciousness in Rap and Poetry of the Hip-Hop Generation
(East Carolina University, 2012)
This study aims to offer an understanding of hip-hop culture through which three concepts are elucidated: (1) the existence and dimensions of a collective consciousness within rap and poetry of the hip-hop generation ...
Historical Trauma in Native American and Jewish Literatures
(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 ...
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 ...
Restorative Erotica : "Let the Friend, and the Lover Be Handsomely Mixed"
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu expected the people of Imperial Britain to respect her choices and her true identity, but because they didn't she was forced into the arms of another country, and furthermore women of other ...
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 ...
The Angel in the Garden : Recovering Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife
(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 ...
Identifying White Knight Syndrome : A Scavenger Hunt
(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 ...