English: Recent submissions
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"SURPRISE! YOU'RE DEAD!" : THE DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER AND OPENING STATEMENTS IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION
(East Carolina University, 2014)This dissertation explores the ways in which various powerful groups used different genres of opening statements to create and control the version of the reality of a high stakes situation, namely, the April 20, 2010 ... -
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 ... -
Dramatic Historicizing of Hawai`i : The Juxtaposition of Indigenous Culture, Colonization/Americanization, and 21st-Century Issues in the Island Plays and Writings of Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl
(East Carolina University, 2014)Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl, a prolific playwright and novelist, has become quite well-known for her works in critical dramatization of Hawai`i's colonial past, most often representing the Hawaiian Islands' cultural-socio-political ... -
Remembering, Eating, Cooking, and Sharing : Identity Constructing Activities in Ethnic American First-Person Food Writings
(East Carolina University, 2014)During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increased academic inquiry and scholarly pursuit. However, despite this increased attention, it is still more common to find ... -
"DARKNESS, DIRT, DEVIANCE"--AND DADDY : PATRILINEAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NEGOTIATION OF WOMANHOOD IN THE LITERATURE OF MIDDLE EASTERN AND ARAB-AMERICAN WOMEN
(East Carolina University, 2015)This thesis explores both works of fiction and non-fiction through which several Middle Eastern and Arab-American women writers have rebelled against traditional religious and ethical standards of their cultures in order ... -
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 ... -
The English Eden : Nationhood and Kingship in Shakespeare and Spenser
(East Carolina University, 2014)Throughout the Renaissance in England are works that glorify the nation under a strong nationalistic message. Spenser, with The Faerie Queene, presents a chivalric romance that follows the adventures of several knights who ... -
"Bad" Mothers: A Comparison of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Sethe in Toni Morrison's Beloved
(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, ... -
Chronic Illness Narratives Through Facebook
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Internet has changed the process by which illness meanings are created and brought into the everyday lives of those who struggle with a chronic condition. More importantly the rapid rise and use of electronic groups ... -
Advanced Placement English and First-Year Composition : An Analysis Using Activity Theory with Implications for Transfer
(East Carolina University, 2014)A growing trend in secondary and higher education today is students' ability to earn college credit while still in high school. Currently, there are four main ways for students to earn this early credit: the Advanced ... -
Persons of Interest : Mentoring Relationships in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Maria: Or, The Wrongs of Woman and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
(East Carolina University, 2014)My thesis sets a focus on mentorship and the effects it has on literary characters, mainly female characters. Mentorship does not receive much focus from literary critics, despite its power and ability to help a mentee ... -
Defining God, Love, and Grammar
(East Carolina University, 2014)Based on textual research and general discussion in academia, a field-accepted definition of grammar for the purposes of first-year writing does not yet exist. In order to provide a working definition of grammar, forty-six ... -
Hungarian Identity : Constancy and Change in the Father Land, Mother Tongue, and Family Lines
(East Carolina University, 2014)The unique history and language of the Hungarian people have created a distinct cultural identity. Although this unusual identity can be a source of great pride, it also can lead to a sense of isolation and otherness. ... -
Finding Displacement through Incest in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath her Feet and Fury
(East Carolina University, 2014)Incest is a widespread theme in literature that continues to grow in frequency (Barnes 3). It is rarely addressed amongst scholars due to being a taboo topic, but in this thesis I aim to address it and analyze it thoroughly ... -
The Ethnic Bildungsroman
(East Carolina University, 2013)This thesis will compare coming-of-age narratives by writers from three different ethnic groups, Mexican American, Native American, and Asian American: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; The Absolutely True Diary ... -
The Melancholic Subject : Exploring Loss and Relationships in African American and Asian American Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2014)The goal of this thesis is to closely examine the psychological effects of oppression for both African Americans and Asian Americans. The fiction created by writers of these ethnic groups and the characters they create ... -
A CYCLE OF CONTROL : WOMEN'S IDENTITY LOSS THROUGH COLONIALISM IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA
(East Carolina University, 2013)Through analysis of Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid, and Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell this thesis explores women's loss of identity through colonialism and ways in ... -
The Exile in Literature : Remembering What Has Been Lost and Finding the Courage to Move Forward
(East Carolina University, 2014)Cultural displacement and exile are major topics that are portrayed in Caribbean literature and in this Master's thesis, I analyze the exilic experience as depicted in texts written by Julia Alvarez, Cristina García, and ... -
Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
(East Carolina University, 2014)The enslavement and persecution of African and Native peoples has been occurring in the U.S. since the 1600s. There have been justifications, explanations and excuses offered as to why one race feels superior over another. ... -
Coyotes Sang the Braid Into Her Hair
(East Carolina University, 2010)A chapbook length collection of lyric poetry that explores the myth-making process through the tension of opposites: the nature of the substantive (body) and the ephemeral (mind), the wild vs. the tame self, the rational ...