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International Terrorism And Television Channels:Operation And Regulation Of Tv News Channel During Coverage Of Terrorism, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

The concept of globalization or internationalization of certain wars, which were result of terrorist activities worldwide , as well as the high attention of terrorism coverage broadcast worldwide might open up better opportunities to journalists – particularly to those who work in democratic countries like U.S.A and India – to improve their coverage. The context is the key: the context of the operation methodology, follow of guidelines of regulatory bodies,and of the journalistic culture and of the global environment. It is very important how media presents consequences of terrorist acts, how information is transmitted to public. Television and press have …

Happy Valley, Robert D. Gray

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Iktomi: A Character Traits Analysis Of A Dakota Culture Myth, Marianne Sue Kastner

Dissertations and Theses

This qualitative study comparing three separate English-language versions of a single Dakota cultural myth "Iktomi" presents a novel systematic approach for analyzing Native American folk tales to understand how stories function as tools of transmission of cultural information and knowledge. The method involved coding character traits according to type with regard to representation, ability, or attribute to ascertain patterns among the codes and elucidate character roles and relationships, reorganizing the coded traits into paired polarized correspondences to clarify relationships among traits, and assessing pronoun use and documenter effect pointing to gender-specific character activity. Findings revealed an encoded framework illuminating how …

Car Trouble And Other Stories, Adam Charpentier

Adam R. Charpentier

A collection of four short stories which examine the connection between awareness and emotional, psychological, and geographical identity. "Car Trouble" is a first person narrative of a hit & run accident and the events that follow. "Ten More Minutes" follows the recollections of a narrator detailing his admittance into and release from a mental hospital. The protagonist of "Islander" recounts his investigations of his lodgings on Tinian, an island far removed from his past life. "Little Black Dress" chronicles the impact the protagonist's lifestyle choices make on his marriage.

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 2646), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2646. Letter of Cale Young Rice, 29 December 1919, disputing a poor review of his poetry by literary critic William Braithwaite and complaining of similar criticism by others. The letter may have been directed to the Boston Evening Transcript, where Braithwaite was literary editor. Includes a note of 22 December 1919 asking that the letter be printed.

Imagining Woman Otherwise, Or Nothing: Sexuation As Discourse In Lacanian Thought, Rahna Carusi

Rahna M Carusi

My dissertation looks at the connections between Lacan’s four discourses and the sexuation graph in order to claim that sexuation is discursive and that, as Lacan presents it with the phallus as its quilting point, the sexuation graph is a narrative based on patriarchal hegemony, which is one of many possible narratives. I argue that through the hysteric’s discourse and a removal of the phallus as the Symbolic-Imaginary quilting point, we can begin to formulate new narratives of sexuated subjectivities. The textual objects I use for this project are literary and filmic works where women are the central topic or …

Thoreau’S Walden: Experiential Learning And A Transcendental Walk, Adam Kotlarczyk

Adam Kotlarczyk

Many English classes struggle with Thoreau’s dense and often ponderous prose in Walden. Classes often become mired in his text and its romantic ideals of seclusion and self-reliance. This activity rips the words of Walden off the page and puts them where they belong: outside. It compels students to move beyond basic interpretations of Walden as “connecting with nature” and “keeping life simple,” and instead to see and interpret their modern, living world through the lens of Transcendentalism, as Thoreau did. This lesson encourages students to see and interpret their worlds as Thoreau did through a modeling-based writing experience.

Belief And Performance, Morrison And Me, Koritha Mitchell

Koritha Mitchell

A chapter discussing the lessons I learned from Toni Morrison's THE BLUEST EYE that continue to guide me. The insights gained from that novel have informed my intellectual work and my ability to navigate the U.S. academy.

Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, And Postmodern Popular Audiences, John K. Young

John K. Young

In this essay the author examines the "Oprah Effect" on the career of Toni Morrison, who after three appearances on "Oprah's Book Club" has become the most dramatic example of postmodernism's merger between Morrison's canonical status and Winfrey's commercial power has superseded the publishing industry's field of normative whiteness, enabling Morrison to reach a broad, popular audience while being marketed as artistically important.

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 (Sc 61), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 61. Manuscript poem entitled “The Censer Bowl” written by Simon Bolivar Buckner.

Freedom Of Media In India: A Weapon To Kill Enemies Or Protection Guard For Public-The Two Sides, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"The press [is] the only tocsin of a nation. [When it] is completely silenced... all means of a general effort [are] taken away." --Thomas Jefferson "Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression" is a fundamental right of the citizens of India. This is mentioned in Part III of the Constitution of India - Article 19(1). This Article is so wide in scope that Freedom of the Press is included in Freedom of Speech and Expression. It includes the right of free propagation and free circulation without any previous restraint on publication. The freedom of speech and expression does not give …

Operating The Silencer: Muted Group Theory In The Great Gatsby, Sarah Funderbruke

Masters Theses

This master's thesis examines gender and social roles seen in dialogue in the American classic novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The researcher conducted a coding and rhetorical analysis to determine if elements of muted group theory were in the novel. Muted group theory was developed by Edwin and Shirley Ardener after their research indicated that a culture's values and social structure were voiced through rhetoric. The theory states that dominance in certain groups mutes, or silences, others from communicating effectively. Five passages from The Great Gatsby were selected for this analysis. These passages highlighted dialogue between the …

Paschal, (Mrs.) C. R. (Sc 2640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2640. Typescript copy of paper titled “Dr. John Milton Harney,” by Mrs. C. R. Paschal, written for a class at Western Kentucky State Teachers’ College. The paper gives details about Harney’s poetry, and includes a few excerpts.

Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979 (Sc 762), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 762. Letter, 20 May 1958, written by Alfred Leland Crabb, Nashville, Tennessee, to Eugenia Gerard Paxton, Bowling Green, Kentucky, responding to Mrs. Paxton’s laudatory letter commenting on his book, Peace in Bowling Green. Also poems composed by Crabb for Christmas greetings.

Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian And American Cold War Satire, Derek C. Maus

Books

Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fiction. As Derek C. Maus illustrates, the paranoia of nuclear standoff provided a subversive storytelling mode for authors from both nations—including Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, John Barth, Walker Percy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vasily Aksyonov, Yuz Aleshkovsky, Alexander Zinoviev, Vladimir Voinovich, Fazil Iskander, and Sasha Sokolov.

Maus surveys the background of each nation's culture, language, sociology, politics, and philosophy to map the foundation on which cold war satire was built. By …

Murrey, Loretta (Martin) (Mss 429), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 429. Interviews conducted by Loretta (Martin) Murrey, professor of English at Western Kentucky University, with poet Joy Bale Boone. Includes transcriptions, summaries, and cassette tapes (32). The interviews emphasize biographical information and descriptions of Boone's influence as a poet and literary activist.

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943 (Sc 515), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 515. Letter, 17 January 1926, from Cale Young Rice, Louisville, Kentucky, to Mrs. Grayot? giving permission to reprint some of his poetry in the magazine "The Club Woman." Also includes some of his comments concerning poetry.

Thoreau’S Walden: Experiential Learning And A Transcendental Walk, Adam Kotlarczyk

Early American Literature (before 1900)

Many English classes struggle with Thoreau’s dense and often ponderous prose in Walden. Classes often become mired in his text and its romantic ideals of seclusion and self-reliance. This activity rips the words of Walden off the page and puts them where they belong: outside. It compels students to move beyond basic interpretations of Walden as “connecting with nature” and “keeping life simple,” and instead to see and interpret their modern, living world through the lens of Transcendentalism, as Thoreau did.

This lesson encourages students to see and interpret their worlds as Thoreau did through a modeling-based writing experience.

On The Verge Of Change: Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Mallary Taylor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis discusses the effects of war on the southern plantation lifestyle depicted in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding. This thesis focuses on the female characters who adapt to the absence of the husbands during wartime. Wars are the catalyst for societal change in the novel, and the women must adapt to the new social changes that are encroaching upon the plantation. The chapters explore each individual reaction of female characters in the novel. The female characters in Delta Wedding represent varying wars of reacting to shifting social norms brought about by war.

Monster Quest: Background Myth And Contemporary Context Of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm", Farrah Senn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Poe's short story "Ligeia" and its companion poem "The Conqueror Worm" have garnered little critical attention, though he believed them to be his best works. Considering the archetypal image of the worm, contemporary references, and Poe's other uses of the symbol, an analysis of the poem and its context within the short story reveals the identity of the "hero" described in the final verse. This paper explores the archetypal nature of the worm by looking at snake myths from across the globe and applying Platonic/Jungian ideas to the image and its function in the poem. This work also discusses the …

Reading "The Indies": Transnational Ventures In Early American Literature, Brian Yothers

Brian Yothers

No abstract provided.

Western, William Wallace, 1834-1870 (Sc 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 736. “Prison Pastime: A Poem,” written by William W. Western, a Memphis, Tennessee Confederate while in Canada during the Civil War. Privately printed, updated, and dedicated to Henry H. Skiles, a lawyer friend of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes typescripted letters of Western, written from Canada, discussing his poems and his uncertain future.

Johnson, Keen, 1896-1970 (Sc 2607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2607. Typescript copy of the last will and testament of Fielding Lewis, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Lewis was a brother-in-law to George Washington. This document contains information about Lewis’ land, slaves, and debts.

Grafton, Sue Taylor, B. 1940 (Sc 2601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2601. Letter from author Sue Taylor Grafton, Santa Barbara, California, to Kim Nicholson, Franklin, North Carolina, enclosing autographed bookplates (not included), and commenting on her current work on her “alphabet series” of Kinsey Millhone crime novels.

Obenchain, Lida (Calvert), 1856-1935 (Sc 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 726. Letter to Frances Richards, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Dallas, Texas, an author and native of Bowling Green, stating that her publishers will send copies of two of her books for the Kentucky Library Collection. Also she relates her concern for the collection of textiles for the Kentucky Museum.

Rothert, Otto Arthur, 1871-1956 (Sc 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 716. Letter written to Lida (Calvert) Obenchain, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Otto Arthur Rothert, Louisville, Kentucky, in which he thanks her for a recent letter and invites her to visit him when she next comes to Louisville.

Halleck, Annie Jeanette (Ainslie), 1839-1915 (Sc 719), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 719. Letter written to Bessie Oates, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from Annie (Ainslie) Halleck, Louisville, Kentucky, replying to an inquiry for information for a research paper about her grandfather, Hew Ainslie.

Allison, Young Ewing, 1853-1932 (Sc 723), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 723. Two letters written by Young Ewing Allison, journalist and author, Louisville, Kentucky, to Edward A. Jonas, editor, Louisville, thanking Jonas for his kind remarks.

Brooks, Attie Frances (Riggs), 1871-1946 (Sc 2577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2577. Typescript copies of a few letters from Attie Riggs Brooks, Utica, Kentucky, to Gayle R. Carver, Greenville, Kentucky, enclosing typescript copies of several poems and articles as well as a short biography.

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Sc 2603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2603. Chiefly typescript copies of letters from William Shakespeare Hays, Louisville, Kentucky, to Jess and Sue Barkley, Greenville, Kentucky, and a few selected poems. Poems include "Insured", "Sunday Morning", "Eli's Thanksgiving", etc. Also included is general biographical information about Hays.