Browsing English Masters Theses by Title
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Mottling the conversation: an evolving debate
(North Dakota State University, 2009)Online forums have often been considered a medium of equality. However, after studying Amazon.com communities taking part in the evolution/intelligent design debate, it became clear that these communities were substituting ... -
Resisting Rape Myths in Young Adult Fiction: An Analysis of Young Adult Novels Speak and Crank
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Introducing young people to fiction that depicts rape is important in that reading this type of fiction can be a more effective strategy for reducing rape-myth acceptance in young people than lecture-based prevention ... -
Usury as a Human Problem in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Shakespeare’s Shylock from the Merchant of Venice is a complex character who not only defies simple definition but also takes over a play in which he is not the titular character. How Shakespeare arrived at Shylock in the ... -
"Where Everything Goes to Hell": Stephen King as Literary Naturalist
(North Dakota State University, 2012)In his bestselling nonfiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, author Stephen King lists among his idols "the great naturalist writer Frank Norris" (336). While King primarily writes horror fiction, he has often ...