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Between the Lines
(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 ...
Light the Towers
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
This thesis is a collection of connected short stories, set in the United States during the years 2054 - 2058, following a failed military coup. Throughout the collection, characters grapple with guilt, betrayal, uncertainty, ...
A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution: National Identity in the context of History, Race, and Language
(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 ...
Redefining the Postcolonial Identity Through the Deconstruction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels
(East Carolina University, 2015-12-10)
In her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains that when one group is defined by one story, they are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures; they are objectified. The danger in a ...
Heroes and Legends: African-American Identity in Graphic Novels and Comic Books
(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 ...
Remix as Professional Learning: Educators’ Iterative Literacy Practice in CLMOOC
(2016-03-18)
The Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC) is an online professional development experience designed as an openly networked, production-centered, participatory learning collaboration for educators. ...
The Students' Voices in Developmental Education
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This dissertation explores community college students' perceptions and assumptions about developmental education in writing classrooms. The study focuses on students who have taken at least one developmental writing class ...
MOHSIN HAMID AND THE NOVEL OF GLOBALIZATION
(East Carolina University, 2014)
With the rise of globalization, people and cultures are interconnected economically, culturally, and socially like never before. Where nationalism defined much of the modern period, defining how people formed social bonds ...
Queering the Writing Center: Shame, Attraction, and Gay Male Identity
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
In this thesis, the author presents analysis of interviews with 7 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) writing center consultants presented through the analytical frameworks of queer and affect theory. ...
THE IMPACT OF BAL TASCHIT IN THE WRITINGS OF ANNE FRANK, PRIMO LEVI, AND ELIE WIESEL
(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 ...