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The Symbolic Power Of Red In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale., Karla M. Roland 2013 East Tennessee State University

The Symbolic Power Of Red In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale., Karla M. Roland

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis utilizes red objects in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to discuss the symbolic meaning of red to the story as a whole and the power relationship among social groups in Gilead. This thesis focuses primarily on the wardrobe of the handmaid and flower imagery to examine red as a manifestation of power in the story.


Escapism, Oblivion, And Process In The Poetry Of Charlotte Smith And John Keats., Jessica Hall 2013 East Tennessee State University

Escapism, Oblivion, And Process In The Poetry Of Charlotte Smith And John Keats., Jessica Hall

Undergraduate Honors Theses

A thematic comparison of the work of British Romantic poets Charlotte Smith and John Keats, examining their meditations on the use of poetry and the poet's role, shared ambivalence toward the visionary imagination and escapism, and similar approaches to seasonal process and progression.


Mccarthy's Outer Dark And Child Of God As Works Of Appalachian Gothic Fiction., Ava E. Gooding 2013 East Tennessee State University

Mccarthy's Outer Dark And Child Of God As Works Of Appalachian Gothic Fiction., Ava E. Gooding

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In both Outer Dark and Child of God, McCarthy does a masterful job of blending the elements of Appalachian Gothic to present a novel that is darkly suspenseful and grimly thought-provoking. Outer Dark focuses on the complex incestuous relationship between a brother and sister and their interaction with others. The novel follows the two on a journey through the wilderness where they must cope with the unknown qualities of that wilderness, as well as the guilt stemming from their own behaviors. In Child of God, McCarthy explores the grotesque nature of a life lived in isolation and poverty in the …


Rebels Against Restriction: A Look Into The Effects Of Restrictions And Censorship On Adolescents., Jordan Blevins 2013 East Tennessee State University

Rebels Against Restriction: A Look Into The Effects Of Restrictions And Censorship On Adolescents., Jordan Blevins

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper is a discussion and exploration on the effects of restriction and censorship during the adolescent years. The adolescent years for the purposes of this paper are going to range from childhood to early college aged students. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how different authority figures try to restrict this age group in certain ways and how the decision to do this generally does not produce the desired results. In the end I would like readers to walk away being more conscious of the dangers involved with too much restriction by authority figures in the lives …


Bones, Frogs, And Killers: The Corporeal Oppression Of Women In The Patriarchal, Christian South, Shawna F. Felkins 2013 Western Kentucky University

Bones, Frogs, And Killers: The Corporeal Oppression Of Women In The Patriarchal, Christian South, Shawna F. Felkins

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Both Alice Walker and Dorothy Allison create female protagonists who face corporeal oppression in their works The Color Purple and Bastard out of Carolina, respectively. It these protagonist’s feminine gender that allows the men in their lives to control them. Connecting these two authors and validating there assertions of the power of patriarchy to oppress women through the physical body, is author Lillian Smith and her work Killers of the Dream. There is a connecting thread running through these works that explains the reign of patriarchal oppression in the South: Christianity. Women, especially those in the Christian culture of the …


Melville In Tahiti: A Gis Approach, Jessica Ewing 2013 Boise State University

Melville In Tahiti: A Gis Approach, Jessica Ewing

Student Research Initiative

This presentation will focus on Melville's period in and around Tahiti in 1842, a part of the biographical record vexed by conflicting scholarly accounts of Melville's whereabouts and actions, and by inconsistencies—as well as outright falsehoods—among surviving documents and the author's own account of his experiences in his second book Omoo. Digitally expanding on methods of traditional scholarship, I will present the evidence in visual, electronic form by using ArcGIS software to map Melville’s movements, supplying relevant data and documentation and mapping alternate interpretations of the author's travels. The layered digital maps will locate the author at specific dates and …


Family And Social Roles In Queer Children's Literature, Nicolas Toscana Brouhard 2013 Portland State University

Family And Social Roles In Queer Children's Literature, Nicolas Toscana Brouhard

Student Research Symposium

This research investigates family and social roles in queer children's literature. It provides a thematic analysis of popular titles published during the last decade. It argues that heteronormative and queer-identified protagonists in these stories have identical values concerning family and society. The analysis includes "In Our Mother's House" by Patricia Polacco, "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, "King & King" by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, and "Donovan’s Big Day" by Leslea Newman. The analysis focuses on how characters relationships and their commitments to each other such as weddings. It also explores how they take …


The Marxist Stream Of Untouchable, Daniel Blanchard 2013 Portland State University

The Marxist Stream Of Untouchable, Daniel Blanchard

Student Research Symposium

This presentation was given as part of the Panel Presentation Studies in Postcolonial Modernism at Portland State University's Research Symposium. The study investigates Mulk Raj Anand's 1935 novel, Untouchable, through a Marxist lens, following its main character, Bakha, through his trials and tribulations. It argues that through Bakha's religious inquisitions, and frustrations with his experiences as a Hindu outcaste, he comes to realize himself as a class entity, part of the Marxist process of the proletariat's rise to power. Bakha evolves throughout the novel, from being uncritical of his own materialism and egoism, to recognizing his ethics as unrepresentative of …


A Study In Sherlock: Revisiting The Relationship Between Sherlock Holmes And Dr. John Watson, Rebecca McLaughlin 2013 Bridgewater State University

A Study In Sherlock: Revisiting The Relationship Between Sherlock Holmes And Dr. John Watson, Rebecca Mclaughlin

Honors Program Theses and Projects

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Perceptions Of Retention Indicators In Athletic Training, Laura Juzeszyn 2013 Indiana State University

Perceptions Of Retention Indicators In Athletic Training, Laura Juzeszyn

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Revolutionary Imaginings In The 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald By Amy Garnai, Jennifer Golightly 2013 University of Denver

Revolutionary Imaginings In The 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald By Amy Garnai, Jennifer Golightly

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Collecting Women: Poetry And Lives, 1700-1780 By Chantel M. Lavoie, Holly Faith Nelson 2013 Trinity Western University

Collecting Women: Poetry And Lives, 1700-1780 By Chantel M. Lavoie, Holly Faith Nelson

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings Of Animals And Women In Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry By Anne Milne, Dometa Wiegand 2013 Iowa State University

'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings Of Animals And Women In Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry By Anne Milne, Dometa Wiegand

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Numbering The Streaks On A Digital Tulip: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets On The World Wide Web, Emily Bowles 2013 University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley

Numbering The Streaks On A Digital Tulip: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets On The World Wide Web, Emily Bowles

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

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Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry By And About Women: Swift And Barbauld, Elizabeth Kraft 2013 University of Georgia

Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry By And About Women: Swift And Barbauld, Elizabeth Kraft

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


"Calmly To Heav'n Submit Your Cause": Jane Cave Winscom And The Bristol Bridge Riots Of 1793, Catherine Ingrassia 2013 Virginia Commonwealth University

"Calmly To Heav'n Submit Your Cause": Jane Cave Winscom And The Bristol Bridge Riots Of 1793, Catherine Ingrassia

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge 2013 Ithaca College

Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Lady Mary's Imperfect Employment, Danielle Bobker 2013 Concordia University

Lady Mary's Imperfect Employment, Danielle Bobker

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Anna Seward And The Sonnet: Milton's Champion, Claudia Thomas Kairoff 2013 Wake Forest University

Anna Seward And The Sonnet: Milton's Champion, Claudia Thomas Kairoff

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


Women's Poetry: 2011, Laura Runge 2013 University of South Florida

Women's Poetry: 2011, Laura Runge

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.


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