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Rise of Zombies in a Post-September 11th Culture
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This project explores the effect the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on Western culture by looking at zombies in popular culture prior to 9/11 and how the zombie genre has changed to reflect Americans’ fear of another terrorist ...
Lady Lawyers: How The Good Wife Portrays Females in the Legal System
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This research is an attempt at analyzing the messages that entertainment media sends to the public about female lawyers. Although much research has been done on this topic, it has not been revisited in many years, since ...
Living through Death in Anime
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The focus of this project is to analyze how Japanese culture view death through anime. In aid of that goal, the project also provides some background information on traditional Japanese myths as well as the two dominant ...
Watchmen: Deconstructing the Superhero
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Looking at how the characters of Watchmen defy stereotypical superhero characteristics.
Language Contact and Change: English’s Impact on Subject Personal Pronouns in Spanish
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In my project, I will analyze at the debate of whether English is affecting the use of the subject personal pronoun in Spanish in the United States. In English, the subject personal pronoun is more or less obligatory—speakers ...
Defying Gravity: Female Creative Writers, Self-Destruction, and Resilience
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This project explores the correlation between female creative writers and self-destruction. Self-destruction encompasses a constellation of disorders such as alcoholism, self-harm, mental illness and eating disorders- all ...
Unearthing the Fracking Rhetoric: A Burkeian Cluster Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This paper looks at the rhetoric utilized in the debate surrounding the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing—a process for removing oil and natural gas from deep within the ground. In order to study the rhetoric ...
Breasts and the West: Breast Size, Bad Girls, and the Japanese Ideal
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
My project is about the role of breasts in anime. Although the popular belief is that anime depicts a cultural obsession with large breasts, after watching years of anime, I noticed that there was a trope: only the bad ...
Fictional Dreaming
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
My project explores the realms of dreams. In-depth research has been conducted upon the topic derived from various schools of thought and also past research studies. Some of the research will come from well-known historical ...
Career in Blogging
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Though a relatively new medium, blogging has transformed substantially in the past few years. What was once simple online journaling now earns some dedicated bloggers a triple figure income. This project aims to explore ...