Browsing English Masters Papers by Title
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Analysis of a Facebook Freakout: Rhetoric of Agency in the Places Privacy Debate
(North Dakota State University, 2011)New technologies often generate fear regarding privacy threats, and social networking sites like Face book have lately experienced the brunt of the criticism. Face book users, even as they post greater amounts of information ... -
Balancing Motherhood Experiences and Academic Science: What Makes Some Women Persist in Their Professions?
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Women both enter and leave science fields in numbers disproportionate to men (Long, Valian). Although many researchers have studied the reasons women leave the workplace in general, and STEM professions specifically, ... -
Beautiful Boy Soldiers: Kaoru Shintani’s Area 88 and the Negotiation of Japanese Postwar Masculinity
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This paper will examine the war manga Area 88 and its recent anime adaption. Area 88 depicts a fictional middle-eastern civil war in which a Japanese protagonist finds himself fighting as an unwilling mercenary. Area 88 ... -
"Better Safe Than Sorry": Social Media Responses to Emerging Covid-19 Research in the News
(North Dakota State University, 2021)In late 2019 and early 2020, the world faced the onset of a novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, also known as COVID-19 or Coronavirus, that would ultimately impact the lives of millions around the world. The COVID-19 Pandemic brought ... -
Bilingual Rabbits, Bilingual Readers: Watership Down as a Case for Animal Texts in Translation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Richard Adams’ Watership Down provides readers a unique view of a world that is and isn’t their own, a familiar space from the unfamiliar perspective of an animal. Animal narratives like these are at the core of Animal ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Breaking the Binary: Sex Power, Sentiment, and Subversive Agency in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Anita Loos’ novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, first appeared in a 1925 issue of Harper’s Bazar to commercial success. Often compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as both depict the 1920s and were published the ... -
"Building a Class Library": Emphasizing Summary in Teaching Source Use
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The study presented here is a qualitative study evaluating four objectives for teaching source use, ones I emphasized in my Spring 2011 classes with an assignment called the "Building a Class Library Assignment." I relied ... -
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 ... -
Christabel’s Complexity: Coleridge’s View of Science, Nature and the Supernatural
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s unfinished poem, “Christabel,” follows the meeting and interaction of a young maiden and a deceptive demonesque woman. This paper explores the interactions between the natural, supernatural, 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 ... -
"Convoluted Words of French Origin": Student Conceptions of Academic Writing
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Student beliefs about academic writing convince them that academic writing should sound boring or familiar in a way that precludes innovation. Composition teachers are clearly telegraphing something to students about ... -
Corvids and Canines in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin has become increasingly popular among readers even during a time when fantasy novels have decreased in popularity. This rise in readership and viewership (with the ... -
Dancing through Issues of Class and Race in the Composition Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Within the writing classroom, teachers (and students) tend to understand writing and rhetoric as a mental activity, rarely considering the body’s role in effective communication—even more rarely do they incorporate the ... -
Dangerous Silences: South Asian Immigrant Women and the Threat of Domestic Violence
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Immigrant women coming from South Asian countries to countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada are often shocked when they become victims of domestic violence at the hands of their sole ... -
The Dangers of Power: Government Control in the Worlds of Condie’s Matched and Lowry’s The Giver
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This paper considers the topic of government control through the context of young adult dystopian literature. The novels The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry and Matched (2011) by Ally Condie are specifically considered in their ... -
Disruption of Gender Norms to Advance Contemporary Politics: A Radical Feminist Analysis of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe's In the Chest of a Woman
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This paper deconstructs leadership and kingship politics in the Ghanaian West-African culture as it pertains to gender. It proves that what governs the concept of the throne is unequivocally masculine and simply a game. ... -
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 ...