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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 ...
Memorializing Individuals, Seeking Justice for Communities: The Epidemic of Systemic Violence Against Indigenous Peoples and the Role of Art and Public Response in Bringing About Social Change
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are often targets of violence stemming from settler colonial societies that would position Indigenous peoples on the outskirts of mainstream, often Eurocentric societies. For ...
Universal Language
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-08)
Universal language is the language that everyone can use to communicate with others without considering their spoken language. Nonverbal communication is an effective, universal method of successful communication. The ...
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. ...
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, ...
Necessary Absence: Familial Distance and the Adult Immigrant Child in Korean American Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)
In the novels Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee, The Interpreter by Suki Kim, and Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, adult immigrant children feature as protagonists and experience moments of life-defining difficulty ...
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 ...
The Sum of Our Parts: Race, Blood, and Genetics in Three Dystopian Young Adult Novels
(East Carolina University, 2016-06-23)
In the last decade, the young adult genre subset of speculative fiction has experienced growth in both publication and popularity. As the breadth of the genre has increased, more multicultural authors and characters have ...
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. ...
UNDERSTANDING HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITIES IN MODERN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF RAINBOW BOYS, OPENLY STRAIGHT, AND BOY MEETS BOY
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
Alex Sanchez, Bill Koningsberg, and David Levithan hold a large market share of the young adult (YA) literary genre that feature homosexual young men. These authors have written characters that use broad terms like masculine ...