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From Homo stupidus to Homo sapiens: Changing and Reaffirming the Paradigm of Human Uniqueness Through Neandertal Descriptions
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Neandertal interpretation is changing the paradigm of human uniqueness, but exactly
how needs to be examined. This paper provides a qualitative analysis of how Neandertal
descriptions embed long-held cultural attitudes and ...
Collaborative Argumentation: Toward a More Civil Rhetoric
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
I first describe competitive and cooperative approaches to argumentation, and I claim that cooperative argumentation aligns with the rhetorical tradition yet needs to be developed further. I focus on civil rhetoric as one ...
Usury as a Human Problem in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Shakespeare’s Shylock from the Merchant of Venice is a complex character who not only defies simple definition but also takes over a play in which he is not the titular character. How Shakespeare arrived at Shylock in the ...
Blessed Is She: Gender Critique Through Performativity and Portrayals of the Divine in Naomi Alderman’s The Power
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Naomi Alderman’s 2016 novel The Power details the events that occur after women develop the ability to produce an electrical current throughout their bodies. This new physical power allows a matriarchal power structure to ...
The Human Animal : Posthumanism in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
In this paper, I examine John Steinbeck's Cannery Row on the basis of the posthuman
vision that courses through it, as it does through many of Steinbeck's works. I propose that
Steinbeck presents human and animal worlds ...
Providing for Duncan : Representing Hospitality and National Identity in Shakespeare's Macbeth
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Felicity Heal has suggested that the early modem English perceived hospitality as a ritual
in decline. Interestingly, the circulation of the idea of decaying hospitality coincided with
an attempt to define what exactly it ...
Blackness in the “Grey Area”: Representations of Virtuous Labor in Venture Smith’s Narrative
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Scholarly treatments of Venture Smith, an African man who gained freedom and went on to own land and slaves in the late eighteenth-century United States, almost exclusively consider the 1798 edition of his narrative, ...
Understanding the Availability of E-Books for NDSU English Classes and English/English Education Majors’ Perceptions of E-Books
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
While research on college students and their use of e-books has emerged, there have not been studies done on the use of e-books by English and English majors specifically. This research aims to fill that gap. An analysis ...
Literalized Metaphors in China Mieville’s Bas-Lag Novels
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this paper, I will be discussing hybridity, Othering, and agency in China Miéville’s fantasy novels set in the world of Bas-Lag. I will be expanding upon Joan Gordon’s concept of “literalized metaphors” which suggests ...
Catering to our Aging Population: Increasing the Overall Usability of Financial Information through Personalization
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Older adults are increasing in numbers nationwide at a higher rate than any other age group because of longer life expectancies. As a result, older populations, or those individuals aged 65 and above, have to make increasingly ...