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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 ...
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 ...
Learning for Legislation and a Lifetime: Using UBD, Workshop Model, and Technology to Create 21st Century Learners
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This paper discusses the issues surrounding No Child Left Behind legislation, gives a review of research surrounding best practices, details what educators can do to satisfy the requirements of the law while still engaging ...
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 ...
Rematerializing the Contact Zone : Discovery and Exploration in the First Year Writing Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This study investigates Mary Louise Pratt's "contact zone" theory and argues that the contact zone has undergone a dematerializing process from a place with clear geographical and material connections to an imagined ...
"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 ...
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 ...