Discourse And Conflict: The President Barack H. Obama Birth Certificate Controversy And The New Media, 2011 Western Kentucky University
Discourse And Conflict: The President Barack H. Obama Birth Certificate Controversy And The New Media, Timothy Lee Adams
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A creative exploration of the consequences of public speech in the era of freely accessible, social media, as the author, a former elections official, records and explores the consequences of public dissent in the case of President Barack Obama’s eligibility controversy. This non-fiction narrative culminates with the author’s analysis and observations on both his personal experiences and the state of public speech and political power in contemporary America.
What Is Conservatism?, 2011 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
What Is Conservatism?, Heidi Peters
Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA) (2010 - 2017)
The re-branding of the right manifested itself in conservative movements and gatherings across the country in-between 2008 & 2010. One of those events included Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally on August 28, 2010. This research project is a case study that illustrates how the conservative political ideology is defined and rejuvenated after massive defeat.
Harlot Runs In The Family, 2011 The College of Staten Island, CUNY
Harlot Runs In The Family, Paul Muhlhauser, Kelly Bradbury
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Much to our delight, our call for this special issue on family rhetoric attracted a record number of submissions. For some, the connection was deeply personal; for others, cultural representations of family and/or the role of various communities on family drew shrewd attention. Ultimately, the pieces in this issue were selected not only for their brilliant and creative insights about family rhetoric (how family members communicate with each other) and the rhetoric of family (how culture and society inform us about the meaning of family), but also because they represent an array of perspectives, experiences, and forms of expressing our …
A Name On The Tree, 2011 Le Moyne College
A Name On The Tree, Laura J. Davies
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
What's in a name? For some, family history, arguments, and identity.
Mothers And Teen Daughters: Make Room For The Internet, 2011 University of Winnipeg
Mothers And Teen Daughters: Make Room For The Internet, Jaqueline Mcleod Rogers
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
When the internet steals our daughters, mothers turn cyborg.
Rhetoric, Christmas Cards, And Infertility: A Season Of Silence, 2011 Washington State University
Rhetoric, Christmas Cards, And Infertility: A Season Of Silence, Kristin L. Arola
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Revising notions of family. One card at a time.
Sexual Disorientation, 2011 Indiana University Northwest
Sexual Disorientation, Anne Balay
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
She used to wish for a lesbian daughter. Predictably, the joke's on her.
Worlds Collide! Facebook, Family & George Costanza, 2011 Portland State University
Worlds Collide! Facebook, Family & George Costanza, Amy L. Spears, Julie Driscoll
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
If facebook and social media have wrecked our ability to sustain lengthy treatises on topics, well then, by George, we'll make the blurb our convention and still tell you what we think. Link to video: Independent George - Worlds collide
In Defense Of The Unmother: Rhetoric, Motherhood, And Social Networking, 2011 Drexel University
In Defense Of The Unmother: Rhetoric, Motherhood, And Social Networking, Rebecca Ingalls
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Wanted: kind, nurturing, compassionate females. Childless women need not apply. Link to video: Rhetoric, Christmas Cards, and Infertility: A Season of Silence
Of Peerenting, Trophy Wives, And Effeminate Men: Modern Family's Surprisingly Conservative Remediation Of The Family Sitcom Genre, 2011 University of Cincinnati
Of Peerenting, Trophy Wives, And Effeminate Men: Modern Family's Surprisingly Conservative Remediation Of The Family Sitcom Genre, Christina M. Lavecchia
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Just because the family is modern doesn't mean the family is new.
There Are Two Parts To My Life, 2011 Portland State University
There Are Two Parts To My Life, Danielle Hunt
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
Often, there are tunnels and holes and shovels for fingers. This poem is about the digging process.
Things Dad: The Kansas Years, 2011 Michigan State University
Things Dad: The Kansas Years, Sue Webb
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
When recipes help tell the story.
Discerning A Vocational Theology Of Marriage For The Smyrna Church Of Christ, 2011 Abilene Christian University
Discerning A Vocational Theology Of Marriage For The Smyrna Church Of Christ, Daniel F. Camp
Doctor of Ministry Theses
The goal of this project was to discern a vocational theology of marriage for the Smyrna Church of Christ in Smyrna, Tennessee. Through a group discernment process, the participants studied Genesis 1-3 and 2 Corinthians 5 as a basis for understanding God’s design for marriage at creation, the effects of sin on the vocational aspect of the marriage relationship, and the call of Christ for husbands and wives to participate in the resurrection life through the ministry of reconciliation. At the end of the discernment process, the participants articulated a theology statement for the church that examined our current context …
Crafting A Congregational Narrative For The College Church Of Christ In Fresno, California, 2011 Abilene Christian University
Crafting A Congregational Narrative For The College Church Of Christ In Fresno, California, Jason W. Locke
Doctor of Ministry Theses
This thesis describes a ministry project in the College Church of Christ in Fresno, California. In this project I led the congregation through a narrative crafting process in order to clarify the church’s identity and increase its capacity for mission. In recent decades, the College Church moved away from some of its founding characteristics yet failed to clarify a new sense of identity. It subsequently had difficulty acting with a unified sense of purpose and instead moved increasingly toward fragmentation.
Data for crafting the new narrative came from three weeks of group interviews. My research team conducted these interviews in …
Memory, Identity, And The Rhetoric Of Quilts, 2011 Old Dominion University
Memory, Identity, And The Rhetoric Of Quilts, J. Jane Amelon
English Theses & Dissertations
Quilts have been documented as artifacts of past experiences and social circumstances, but the rhetorical aspects have been largely unexplored. In this study, I establish quilting as a form of knowledge about memory, one of the canons of rhetoric. This task requires a rhetorical framework of memory to accomplish its end.
In order to create a rhetorical framework for the study of memory, I examine preservative and generative memory as represented in women's quilts. Previous quilt studies have not addressed these two facets of memory, and previous memory studies have paid little or no attention to quilts. Additionally, this study …
The Social Hierarchy Of The Joomla Content Management System (Cms): What The Open Source Community Can Teach Us About Knowledge Creation, Power, And Collaboration, 2011 Boise State University
The Social Hierarchy Of The Joomla Content Management System (Cms): What The Open Source Community Can Teach Us About Knowledge Creation, Power, And Collaboration, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
No abstract provided.
Words That (Don’T) Matter: An Evaluative Study Of Four Names In Environmental Rhetoric, 2011 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Words That (Don’T) Matter: An Evaluative Study Of Four Names In Environmental Rhetoric, Larissa Hope Jaskulsky
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
Rolling Stone And Stanley Mcchrystal: A Case Of Muck-Raking, 2011 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Rolling Stone And Stanley Mcchrystal: A Case Of Muck-Raking, Westley (West) Fletcher
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: A Critique And Overview, 2011 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: A Critique And Overview, Korina Kay Weatherson
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
Writing With The Grain: A Multitextual Analysis Of Kaidan Botandoro, 2011 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Writing With The Grain: A Multitextual Analysis Of Kaidan Botandoro, William D. Wood
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
As a text Botandōrō demonstrates bibliographic codes that straddle the border between modern and pre-modern literature. Wakabayashi would present his work as the fruit of his technique of ‘photographing language’ that, by extension, would provide closer and more direct access to the interiority of “author.” In his prologue he presented his shorthand method as a technique that would come to represent the new standard of modern writing. As they created a new system for transcribing language, stenographers were wrestling with the philosophical nature and limitations of language in spoken and written form, and their discoveries and accomplishments would provide a …