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"How Do I Reach These Keeeds?" : A New Teacher Uses Personality Type to Rethink Cognition, Motivation, and Engagement
(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 ...
The Mimicking of Oral Traditions in African American Literature
(East Carolina University, 2012)
The authors Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Randall Kenan create a authentic listener experience through the use of literary features that mimic oral tradition in African American culture. The "authentic listener ...
COME ON DOWN TO SEE FOR YOURSELF : SOUTHERN RAILROAD TRACKS AS RACIAL SEGREGATORS--THE CASE OF GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2010)
Throughout American culture and through varying mediums, railroad tracks have been depicted as tropes of socioeconomic repression, technological development, and even bountiful migration. For instance, Joseph's Millichap, ...
Atlantic City
(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 ...
Domino Effect and Other Stories
(East Carolina University, 2012)
This thesis is a collection of six fictional short stories, all of which focus on strong characters and narrative voice. The stories also involve different narrative perspectives. They include a variety of writing styles, ...
Moving a Lighthouse : Cape Hatteras
(East Carolina University, 2010)
Moving a Lighthouse is a collection of poems that focuses on the evolution of coastal fishing villages. This collection discusses the changing way of life on Hatteras Island.
Ghosts in a Lighthouse
(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 ...
There Has Never Been Anything Truly Wrong with You
(East Carolina University, 2011)
These stories are about obsessive, lonely people. The characters might seem insane but really, they are just lonely and maybe a bit neurotic. They are introspective characters who began life as sweet children, but grew ...
Reimagining Hank Morgan and Billy Pilgrim as American Anti-Heroes : The Dystopian Satire of Mark Twain's A Connecticit Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
(East Carolina University, 2011)
Many critics have noticed the ties linking the satirical novels of Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut. This is not surprising as Twain's influence on Vonnegut's work is virtually inescapable. However, thus far critics have not ...
An Immortal Science : Alchemy's Role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
(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 ...