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Sleeping Beauty: The Reality Of Harmful Images Of Women Within The Film Industry, Noretta A. Morales 2011 Whittier College

Sleeping Beauty: The Reality Of Harmful Images Of Women Within The Film Industry, Noretta A. Morales

Whittier Scholars Program

This senior project is composed of three parts: a screenplay, essay, and journal. The purpose of this senior project is to provide a perspective of how women are treated within the film industry and women’s obsession with beauty and sexuality, as well as how the media portrays women. It focuses on the pressures that women deal with in the film industry and the construction of beauty and sexuality concepts. Drawing from articles, journals, books, and interviews, the project attempts to provide the various sides and aspects of how women give in, or not, to the stress of conforming to the …


The Dissonant Bible Quotation: Political And Narrative Dissension In Gaskell's Mary Barton, Jon Singleton Ph.D. 2011 Harding University

The Dissonant Bible Quotation: Political And Narrative Dissension In Gaskell's Mary Barton, Jon Singleton Ph.D.

Faculty Research and Publications

Religious language exerted multivalent force in Victorian society, as this case study of Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton, Chartist political protest, and the weaponization of the Bible in contemporary social struggle makes clear. Scholars have established that different classes read the Bible differently; but I demonstrate how Gaskell makes the Bible read in several different ways for the same reader. Gaskell makes Bible quotations dissonant through her use of character and narration, in order to challenge the boundaries of readers’ political sympathies. This study shows how any religious utterance escapes the control and political interests of any class—and how its conflicting …


Review: Vivian Shipley All Of Your Messages Have Been Erased, Christine Stewart-Nunez 2011 South Dakota State University

Review: Vivian Shipley All Of Your Messages Have Been Erased, Christine Stewart-Nunez

English Faculty Publications

In All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Louisiana Literature Press, 2010) award-winning poet Vivian Shipley anchors readers deep in the emotional waters of devotion. And Shipley delves into the most complicated kindsdevotion to principle in the face of death, devotion to lover despite adultery, and devotion to one's own particular vision of the world. Shipley gives us Holly Stevens' fastidious protection of her father's memory and work, Paula Hitler's painful attachment to her brother, and Papusza's commitment to her Romani community even in exile, just to name a few. By bearing witness to "how firmly the heart roots before …


Front Matter - Table Of Contents, 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Front Matter - Table Of Contents

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Greyhounded, Robert Ficociello 2011 University of Nebraska - Kearney

Greyhounded, Robert Ficociello

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Short Story, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2011 [Download Entire Issue], 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Short Story, Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2011 [Download Entire Issue]

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Al-Qaeda At The Sign Of The Green Tomato, James Hannah 2011 Texas A&M University

Al-Qaeda At The Sign Of The Green Tomato, James Hannah

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What Happened In Camden, Ernest Loesser 2011 University of Northern Iowa

What Happened In Camden, Ernest Loesser

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American Idle: Washington Irving, Authorship, And The Echoes Of Native American Myth In "Rip Van Winkle", Sean Kelly 2011 Wilkes University

American Idle: Washington Irving, Authorship, And The Echoes Of Native American Myth In "Rip Van Winkle", Sean Kelly

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Black-Out, Arielle Le Boulicaut 2011 Catholic University of the West

Black-Out, Arielle Le Boulicaut

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Short Story, Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2011 [Download Entire Issue], 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Short Story, Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 2011 [Download Entire Issue]

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Ghost, Robert Johnson 2011 Midwestern State University

Ghost, Robert Johnson

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Famous Last Lines, Mark Pearson 2011 University of Georgia

Famous Last Lines, Mark Pearson

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Kewpie, Susan M. Rochette 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Kewpie, Susan M. Rochette

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The Saint And The Snake: Sufism And Social Critique In Naguib Mahfouz And Alifa Rifaat, Suzanne Black 2011 State University of New York - Oneonta

The Saint And The Snake: Sufism And Social Critique In Naguib Mahfouz And Alifa Rifaat, Suzanne Black

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True Stories Are Lies: Postmodern Signifying In John Edgar Wideman's Short Fiction, Laurie Champion 2011 San Diego State University

True Stories Are Lies: Postmodern Signifying In John Edgar Wideman's Short Fiction, Laurie Champion

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Notes On Contributors, 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Notes On Contributors

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Back Cover, 2011 University of Northern Iowa

Back Cover

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Review Of Early Modern Nationalism And Milton's England By David Loewenstein And Paul Stevens, Brooke Conti 2011 Cleveland State University

Review Of Early Modern Nationalism And Milton's England By David Loewenstein And Paul Stevens, Brooke Conti

English Faculty Publications

The article reviews the book Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England, edited by Paul Stevens and David Loewenstein.


The Exchange Student, Fred G. Leebron 2011 Gettysburg College

The Exchange Student, Fred G. Leebron

English Faculty Publications

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