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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, ...
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 ...
Never Just a Game: How the Interplay of Video Games and the "Real" World Complicates Boundaries in Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the interplay of games and reality as depicted in Salman Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life. The convergence of several realities is a recurrent trope in Rushdie’s novels. The trope ...
Pregnancy, Illness, and Violence : The Power Discourses of Motherhood in Mary Morrissy's Mother of Pearl
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This paper aims to explore the connection between the power structures of religion and medicine within Mary Morrissy's Mother of Pearl. Morrissy's text explores the ways in which women are oppressed by the Irish construct ...
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 ...
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 ...