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East Lynne’s Transatlantic Course: From British Serialization to American Theatre
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, a popular sensation fiction, began because of its original and insatiable British readership; however, the texts immediate and drastic reception into American theater confirms that this narrative ... -
Empowering Native American Students: Approaches to Enhancing the Tribal College Writing Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This research aims to address the writing methods and strategies used within the Tribal College Writing classroom by providing insight into best practices to improve writing at Tribal Colleges. While elaborating on classroom ... -
Empowering Spaces: A Student Initiative in Language Acquisition
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A major concern for many international students is improving their spoken English, which requires engaged interaction with other speakers in a comfortable environment. This exploratory study analyzes a student-run language ... -
Enculturating Gender: Examining Bestselling Children's Picture Books
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This research examines gender depictions in 20 current bestselling children's picture books. I argue that children's picture books, specifically those aimed at children 0-5 years of age, portray gender in a way that ... -
Energetic Space: The Affect of Literature in a Composition Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Rhetorical and critical theory have both prescribed and proscribed the way scholars view affect. With the exception of Reader Response Theory, literary and rhetorical theory tend to use a more long-term and permanent frame ... -
The Expansion of Gender Roles in the Legend of Zelda Series
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This study asked how the existing roles in video games may or may not change over time. The study used The Legend of Zelda series for a content analysis of the actions performed by all characters that appear in a segment ... -
Facing Death in The Book Thief: Confronting the Real of the Holocaust and Mortality
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This paper examines the personification of Death in The Book Thief and its impact on young adult readers using Slavoj Žižek’s analysis of the Real and Hayden White’s discussion of how history and its representations in ... -
Female Heroism and Leadership in the Anglo-Saxon Judith
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In this paper, I argue that the Anglo-Saxon Judith frames its titular character’s simultaneous adoption of sacred femininity and masculine heroic violence as the acceptable and necessary response to despair in the face ... -
The Feminist Cure: Feminist Identity As a Shield from Hyper-Sexualized l'vledia Induced Self-Objectification in College Women
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This paper explores the impact of hyper-sexualized media on college women in terms of inducing self-objectification and/or inhibiting feminist identity. The survey and resulting analysis showed participants' feminist ... -
First-Generation Pedagogy: A Case Study of First-Generation College Students in First-Year Writing
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The purpose of this research was to examine the motivations and attitudes first-generation college students held toward classroom interventions and written assignments. This classroom research took place during one semester ... -
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 ... -
FROM PAGES TO PLACES: SITUATING KELLY ET AL.’S THE ROBOT ZOO: A MECHANICAL GUIDE TO THE WAY ANIMALS WORK IN REAL-LIFE CONTEXT
(North Dakota State University, 2024)The Robot Zoo: A Mechanical Guide to the Way Animals Work (1994), written by John Kelly, Dr. Philip Whitfield and Obin, consists of textual descriptions and visual images of sixteen robot animals. Among them, my discussion ... -
The Girl, the Film, and the Wardrobe: A Study of Texts, Tension, and Approachability in Punk Clothing and the Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The present study investigates how the modern re-authoring of Punk clothing styles through the character of Lisbeth Salander in Steig Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, its American film adaptation, and the ... -
Girls Shouldn’t Behave Like That: Exploitation of Women’s Emotion in Professional Wrestling
(North Dakota State University, 2020)WWE has always been known to have problematic representation for women. Recently, they have attempted to make a change. In 2016, WWE finally retired the outdated “Diva’s Division” and made strides toward a more woman-inclusive ... -
The Heroine Sabrina: Dismantling Binaries in A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Sabrina, the heroine of A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, is an exemplar of ethical, intellectual, and magical power. Although scholarship has focused on male characters in the masque, I argue that this story is about ... -
Heteronormative Recovery in the Bell Jar
(North Dakota State University, 2012)In Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood struggles to form a true identity. She emulates many women as a way to see how various identities work for her. One of these identities is that of a lesbian. During ... -
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 ... -
“I Am a Priest”: The Construction and Adaptability of Identity in the Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The following paper investigates the construction and adaptability of identity, especially in regard to gender, religion, and culture in Louise Erdrich’s novel The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. The goal ... -
Identity & Activism: Helping Educators Understand Intersectionality & Cultivate Intersectional Acceptance Through Young Adult Literature
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The issue I address is intersectionality in K-12 education. To address this issue, the purpose of this paper is to identify intersectionality, explore ways to help educators understand and accept intersectionality, and ... -
Identity Theory and the Lunar Chronicles: Expanding the Study of Identity in Young Adult Literature
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This Master’s Thesis applies Identity Theory from Social Psychology to The Lunar Chronicles, a young adult novel series by Marissa Meyer. In this thesis, I explain the theory in detail, apply it to the text, and discuss ...