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This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and...
U.S./Southeast Asian exile narratives, or "refugee literature, tend to be classified as autobiographies, testimonials and personal narratives, and not with other literary genres such as the pastoral. Pastoral representations of the...
Maison is a collection of poems that operates as a novel in verse. As such, the collection probes the construction of genre, the possibility of using linguistic play as a narrative tool, and the reinvention of traditional poetic forms...
The poems in Else are lyric explorations of paradox. Specifically, they meditate on the idea that what gives comfort also has the potential to cause great harm. The central focus of the collection is a troubled relationship, but regional...
American Thunder is a collection of narrative lyric poems broken into four sections according to thematic, tonal, and formal patterns and tied together as one manuscript by its speakers' concerns with community, violence, embodiment, ...
Juggling school work, a job, and a social life can be difficult, especially to a young Seminole. With majors in Music and Creative Writing, as well as a job at Cracker Barrel, a young woman describes her sophomore year through letters to...
"As the writer is going to teach English to the Thai students who do not speak a word of English, it is essential for her to be intimately acquainted with the development of reading vocabulary in order to teach Thai students to read...
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10...
The poems in Dear Exorcist are derived from my own experience. The poems portray the struggle of working class individuals as well as my desire for self-actualization after recovering from physical, spiritual, and verbal abuse. As...
This thesis studies changes made by Autocorrect software and authorial awareness and perceptions of those changes through analysis of case studies conducted on five volunteers aged 19 to 22. The study consisted of two phases: 1. three...
In response to a need within the field of composition studies within the Anglosphere (the English-speaking world) for further investigation into the teaching of composition in non-Anglo contexts, this thesis seeks to provide a...
Beasts in the Dark is a collection of poems held together by an elemental voice in search of identity. Multiple selves are revealed on the journey for identity, and the poems ask hard questions, probe into suffering corners of human want...
Contributing Factors of Second Language Pronunciation Goals: The Influence of Second Language Testing, Speaking Goals, and Speaking Beliefs of English Language Learners at Intensive English Programs
Before entering American university graduate programs, many international students must attend Intensive English Programs (IEPs) to improve their English proficiency (Redden, 2018). Their English proficiency is tested via the Test of...
This dissertation argues that the rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement has roots in the aesthetics of literary modernism. Not only did Anglo-American modernism and the birth control movement come of age at the same moment...
It is beneficial for Chinese English-learners to improve their communicative competence through being taught in a communicative-based class (especially with the use of task-based language teaching, Nuevo, 2006). However, previous studies...
The poems in the dissertation manuscript Odd Bloom Seen From Space, are, among other things, lyric pursuits of the author's fascination with the uncanny. They shape experiences of "intellectual uncertainty" in language, and seek to...
This study reexamines the unresolved American literary debate between traditional and experimental writing practices from the early twentieth century to today. By tracing what I consider to be the key episodes in this ongoing debate...
Instead of viewing the human self as an autonomous rational being, posthumanism understands the human as a material being shaped by a variety of physical, social, linguistic, political, economic, and historical forces; a material being...
This dissertation takes the form of memoir and weaves three narratives together: (1) the story of my travels through Greece in search of my father's family, (2) the examination of my father's crimes and suicide and their effect on my...
My creative dissertation is a novel entitled The Devil's Swallows. The novel is the an extension of a novella I wrote in Elizabeth Stuckey-French's 2011 fiction workshop that I called Dead Man's Float. The Devil's Swallows is based on my...
This study examines Spanish gender assignment among mixed bilingual children with 121 English Language Learners and 17 Spanish Language Leaners from North and South Florida through the results of a receptive gender marking task. Two...
The following is a novel in the form of a gospel, telling the story of religious fanaticism in the early years of the United Sates and the rebellions in West Florida in the year 1805 and 1810.
Benedict Anderson has argued that the homogenous time resulting from the emergence of print news and the novel has enabled the "imagined communities" necessary for the production of the nation-state. My project, on the other hand, ...
In this Skin: A Search for Identity Through Gender, Sexuality and Self-love, chronicles the journey one woman takes as she struggles to find her identity after experiencing a divorce. Through a string of sexual encounters and a network...
This is a modern interpretation of Dante's Inferno in which I, Cameron Davis, am guided by Kurt Vonnegut through the circles of hell. The original Inferno was used as a loose framework for this piece in that there are some recurring...
Monkey Chasing Blues is a novel in five parts, which tells the story of Harold Purple, an expatriate Mississippian living in Vermont and running a fortune cookie company on the brink of massive success. One careless mistake puts that...
Children who are native Spanish-speaking Language Minority Youth (LMY) comprise the fastest growing population of students in the United States. In addition, these children lag significantly behind their non-LMY peers in academic...
Despite his Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls rank among the top one-hundred challenged and banned American classics. Hemingway has experienced perhaps the...
In the Crumbling Blacksmith Shop of My Father's Ear is a collection of poems dealing with loss and hope. Detroit is the backdrop for many of the poems in the first half of the book, however the second half focuses on family and...
This dissertation novel is the result of a longstanding desire by the author to fictionalize an incident firmly embedded in her family lore concerning the immigration of her grandmother's parents to America, the tragic death of her great...
ABSTRACT The poems in the dissertation, The Hurt Business, explore the often difficult and contentious sites of human contact. The poems explore what it is to bear witness to blighted urban landscapes, dysfunctional family and a world in...
Fashioning and Refashioning Marie Laveau in American Memory and Imagination follows the life and literary presence of the legendary figure, Marie Laveau. This female spiritualist lived in antebellum Louisiana from 1801-1881. After her...
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of international-student English language learners (ELLs), situated on a language learning plateau (L2P), who have been exposed to a Growth Mindset Pedagogy with Deliberate Practice....
According to cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker in his Pulitzer Prize winning study The Denial of Death, man is "at the same time…given the consciousness of the terror of the world and of his own death and decay." Becker's study draws...
The poems in the dissertation, American Accent, are a unification of the hybrid identity of their writer. The poems explore what it means to be American, geographically and mentally, for a Polish-American 'migr' writer. The poems begin...
This thesis is a collection of loosely interconnected short stories that examine identity through the lens of place and family. With an emphasis on the setting of Eastern Oregon, these stories span the United States and Canada. Each...
A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse are two of the most famous English writers and humorists of their time, with Milne being known for the creation of Winnie the Pooh and Wodehouse celebrated for his Wooster and Jeeves novels. Not only that, ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the origin of the naturalistic sensibility in modern Korean literature. To this end, this study focuses on the Korean writer Kim Tongin and his analogous relationship with his western...
This quantitative research study investigates the relationship between home-school communication and its connection with student attendance and the relationship between ESOL students' attendance and academic achievement, focusing...
These stories use history as a backdrop to explore the push and pull of relationships both romantic and familial, setting individual sorrow and happiness against some of humanity's greatest achievements and failures. Several stories...
Abstract The poems in this series seek to relocate Valmiki's Hindu epic The Ramayana to a contemporary, American voice. The confessional tone and the focus on Sita as a primary character seeks to marry the speaker to the epic, to...
This dissertation analyzes antislavery literature between the years 1830 and 1865. Antislavery activists often cast themselves as messengers, responsible for showing the truth about slavery to the American public. The changing print...
The poems in this thesis manuscript, The Dirty Lover's Mausoleum, are intended to alternately confuse and enlighten the reader. They span a spectrum of emotions, from sadness to anger, and from depression to hope, never dwelling for too...
"Teaching reading to girls and boys with different levels of ability and various backgrounds is a challenging task for any teacher to face. This task becomes even more difficult when the class is composed of pupils in two grades under...
The poems in Dispatches from the Sex Doll Factory form a disjointed narrative, one that explores the displaced speaker's negotiation of the world around him. While the story is largely set in the Realdoll factory of San Marcos, ...
This project investigates the factors that influence the decisions instructors in Florida State's English Department make about using or not using digital projects in their classes, and specifically how influential the English Department...
The poems in Like This may be grouped into the following categories: ' Poems in the voice of the author that explore the tension between the alluring stability of contemporary American suburbia and the high anxiety of a born second...
This dissertation examines how selected contemporary American authors have appropriated and revised elements of the biblical Exodus narrative in order to challenge American Exceptionalism, an ideology itself originally constructed and...
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