Browsing English Masters Papers by Title
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Societies of Control in Young Adult Literature: The Panoptic World of Veronica Roth’s Trilogy Divergent
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The didactic impact of Young Adult Literature is a haunting question in the field. Therefore, this paper anchors its analysis of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant on Foucault’s concept of panopticism to ... -
Something Wicked This Way Comes: How the Horror Genre Revitalizes Macbeth
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This project examines Rupert Goold’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in terms of the horror genre. Using filmic elements of the horror genre, touchstone horror texts, and Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chainsaws, this ... -
Superheroes and Media: Commentaries about the American Media in Mark Millar and Brian Hitch's The Ultimates
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Millar and Hitch’s The Ultimates, a reboot of the Marvel Avengers published shortly after the events of 9/11, provides a critique of the role of the American media in American society and politics. By tracing instances ... -
Sustaining Conversations for Rural North Dakota Language Arts Teachers
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This qualitative study explores the role conversation plays in sustaining rural North Dakota Language Arts teachers. This study examines the questions: What conversations are sustained rural North Dakota Language Arts ... -
Taking Persephone: The Rhetoric of Consent in Rachel Smythe's Webtoon Lore Olympus (2018)
(North Dakota State University, 2023)Lore Olympus is a webtoon that reimagines the taking of Persephone in an animated, comic style. In this paper, I discuss the rhetoric of consent through a visual analysis using the intersecting fields of classical reception, ... -
Time to Play the Religion Card: Messiah Complexes in Battlestar Galactica
(North Dakota State University, 2011)In 2003, Battlestar Galactica (BSG) was re-invented from its 1978 roots to a post-apocalyptic narrative steeped in religious rhetoric and Machiavellian politics. This combination of political and religious rhetoric is ... -
Time to Play the Religion Card: Messiah Complexes in Battlestar Galactica
(North Dakota State University, 2010)In 2003, Battlestar Galactica (BSG) was re-invented from its 1978 roots and updated to a post-apocalyptic narrative that reflects numerous issues in current American culture, including the influence of religious rhetoric ... -
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 ... -
Utopia, Desire, and Exigence: Re-Theorizing Utopia as Rhetorical Action
(North Dakota State University, 2013)In this paper, I seek to redefine Utopia as a literary genre. Specifically, I argue that Utopias and utopian literature should be read as socially situated actions that are interpreted through an exigence composed of the ... -
Welcome to the (Writing Program) Archives: Making a Case for Writing Program Material Curation
(North Dakota State University, 2022)With this project, I examined archival documents from the North Dakota State University First-Year Writing Program that were created by a previous writing program administrator, Amy Rupiper Taggart, with the goal of reviewing ... -
“What Shall Befall Him or His Children”: The Figure and Anxiety of the Child in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The scholarship currently surrounding Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is scarce in comparison to the amount of scholarship with her more well-known text Frankenstein. One of the popular trends of Frankenstein scholarship centers ... -
What to Expect When You Don’t Know What to Expect: Analysis of International Student Expectations at Writing Centers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)This study focuses on international student expectations regarding Writing Centers, how participants develop these expectations and what Writing Centers can do to meet these expectations. Focus groups were held to gather ... -
Where's the Revolution?: From "Code Year" to the Continuum of Proceduracy
(North Dakota State University, 2012)As the calendar turned over to 2012, an online learning initiative, Codecademy, declared it “Code Year”—the year “for everyone” to learn code. Within six months, this call has received much attention from the public and ... -
Which Witch is Witch: The Appropriation of Women’s Pain in the Use of the Witch Hunt Metaphor in Modern Political Rhetoric
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The evolution of the term “witch hunt” from a physical act to a political metaphor is largely overlooked by modern audiences. As the hysteria of the witch trials fades into popular memory, certain associations live on. In ... -
"Who Are You and I...?": The Rhetoric of Identity in the Aloha Eagles Letters
(North Dakota State University, 2012)In 1969, four years before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, Aloha Eagles, a Republican legislator in the North Dakota House of Representatives, proposed a House Bill 319 to legalize abortion in North Dakota. ... -
The World isn’t Split into Good People and Death Eaters: Exploring the Ambiguities of Alchemy, Immortality, Morality, and Choice in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
(North Dakota State University, 2015)In this Master’s paper, I am exploring the ambiguous intersection between alchemy and immortality in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, especially where choice and morality complicate Rowling’s depiction of the means to ... -
Writing Fires: Writing Instruction, Student Learning Perceptions, and the Importance of Connection in the Age of COVID-19
(North Dakota State University, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it devastating and potentially long-lasting impacts to the world. From economic upheavals, political ramifications, and educational disruptions, COVID-19 has changed the face of many ... -
“Your Legacy Is Yours to Build”: Defining Leadership in Beowulf and Its Adaptations
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This paper analyzes how narrative choice and media affect the depiction of leadership in Beowulf by studying three texts: the medieval Beowulf, the 2007 Hollywood film of the same name, and Beowulf: The Game. While the ...