The Dangers Of Living The "Half-Known Life": What Moby-Dick Can Teach Us About Nature,
2017
University of Mary Washington
The Dangers Of Living The "Half-Known Life": What Moby-Dick Can Teach Us About Nature, Katherine Barth
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
At the time Herman Melville was grappling with the monstrous manuscript that was to become Moby-Dick, America was engaged in its own battles of global expansionism, including the Mexican War and the War of 1812, environmental devastation, unfair class conditions, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and shifting ideals of the self, other, and collective in American culture (Armstrong 1039). Unbeknownst to Melville, whose novel would go unappreciated during his lifetime, Moby-Dick would become prime fodder for 20th and 21st century literary critics and scholars who both critiqued and praised Melville's literary accomplishment as an exploration of the physical, emotional, …
Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy Fosters Students’ Critical Thinking About Writing,
2017
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College
Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy Fosters Students’ Critical Thinking About Writing, Rita Kumar, Brenda Refaei
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning
Convinced of the power of PBL to promote students’ critical thinking as demonstrated by its application across disciplines, we designed a series of problems for students in a second-year writing course. We collected samples of their writing before and after implementation of the problems. We were concerned about whether PBL pedagogy would negatively influence second-year students’ writing. However, our preliminary findings suggest that students’ critical thinking about writing improved with the use of PBL pedagogy.
Phillis Wheatley: The Poetic Bridge Between Methodism And Romanticism,
2017
Bridgewater State University
Phillis Wheatley: The Poetic Bridge Between Methodism And Romanticism, Amelia Fuss
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Language Choice Of Bilingual Musicians,
2017
Western Kentucky University
Language Choice Of Bilingual Musicians, Macy Lethco
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Often unconsciously, every bilingual makes a choice in each interaction of which language to use. These choices have many motivating factors but are mainly based on the content of the message and the identity of the speaker. This may occur in seconds and without hesitation. If even here, a choice is taking place, how much more in the writing, composition, and production of a song or album? Artists, unlike speakers in a conversation, can choose the audience the communicate with. Musicians and music listeners who choose to define themselves in a personal bilingual identity, which at the same time is …
An Annotated Critical Edition Of Wild Mike And His Victim By Florence Montgomery,
2017
Brigham Young University
An Annotated Critical Edition Of Wild Mike And His Victim By Florence Montgomery, Kristen Evans
Student Works
This paper is a critical edition of Wild Mike and His Victim by Florence Montgomery, a novel first published in 1875. This critical edition includes a critical introduction, footnotes, and appendices, as well as the original text.
Poetry Of Body And Soul: Personhood In John Donne,
2017
Bridgewater State University
Poetry Of Body And Soul: Personhood In John Donne, Madison Forbes
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
“Injuring Her Beauty By Study”: Women And Classical Learning In Frances Burney’S Novels,
2017
Bridgewater State University
“Injuring Her Beauty By Study”: Women And Classical Learning In Frances Burney’S Novels, Stephanie Diehl
Honors Program Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of Kermit The Frog Memes,
2017
University of Mary Washington
An Analysis Of Kermit The Frog Memes, Megan Elizabeth Palmer
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
Memes have become an increasingly popular form of digital communication since the rise of social media. However, academic study of memes is often limited to those that are connected to specific social, cultural, or political movements. In this paper, I discuss the popularity of the Evil Kermit and the But That's None of My Business Kermit the Frog memes, and argue in favor of widening the genre of memes that academic study tends to focus on. An Analysis of Kermit the Frog Memes was written for COMM 460, the Seminar in Digital Rhetoric, and the sponsoring professor was Jessy Ohl, …
The Representation Of Fatherhood As A Declaration Of Humanity In Nineteenth-Century Slave Narratives,
2017
CUNY Hunter College
The Representation Of Fatherhood As A Declaration Of Humanity In Nineteenth-Century Slave Narratives, Andrea A. Dhanraj
Theses and Dissertations
While motherhood in slave narratives is widely discussed, black fatherhood is often overlooked. As is the case for enslaved mothers, fatherhood for enslaved men entailed its own unique challenges and needs. Enslaved men are both hyper-masculinized and put into positions of traditionally “feminine” subservience, where their ability to carry out their roles of provider and protector are hampered. For black fathers in slave narratives, fatherhood is a choice that is independent of social obligation or legal bonds, whereas white fathers within these texts shirk their emotional and social responsibilities to their families and are fathers in name and not much …
The Sounds Of Silence; Or, Isabella’S Counter Discourse In Measure For Measure,
2017
CUNY Hunter College
The Sounds Of Silence; Or, Isabella’S Counter Discourse In Measure For Measure, Gina Vivona
Theses and Dissertations
This argument reshapes the thinking about masculine dominance in Measure for Measure, and considers the patriarchy as a series of socially constructed, hence artificial, rules and regulations. It also explores how Isabella’s discourse and celibacy empower her to defy the constraints of early modern paradigms and achieve individual freedom.
William Hazlitt: On The Silencing Effect Of Public Opinion In Nineteenth-Century England,
2017
CUNY Hunter College
William Hazlitt: On The Silencing Effect Of Public Opinion In Nineteenth-Century England, J M Tessa Freeman
Theses and Dissertations
“William Hazlitt: On the Silencing Effect of Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century England” investigates the social interactions that fostered the circulation of misinformation. Hazlitt depicts how silencing portions of the population benefited those in power and how many within society were unknowingly compliant and in fact facilitating this manipulation of information.
The Use Of Creaky Voice In Mitigating Face Threatening Acts,
2017
University of Mary Washington
The Use Of Creaky Voice In Mitigating Face Threatening Acts, Erin Butler
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
This study explores the use of creaky voice in mitigating face threatening acts. Through the perspective of conversational analysis, examples of salient creaky voice from two audio recordings are analyzed for their role in instances of face threatening acts. The examples of face threatening acts used in this study include commands, requests, disagreements, suggestions, and jokes. Brown and Levinson's (1987) theory of politeness is used as the basis of defining face threatening acts, positive and negative face, and strategies for completing face threatening acts. The analysis shows that salient creaky voice is used in all the examples presented of face …
Not So Revisionary: The Regressive Treatment Of Gender In Alan Moore's Watchmen,
2017
Cleveland State University
Not So Revisionary: The Regressive Treatment Of Gender In Alan Moore's Watchmen, Anna C. Marshall
The Downtown Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal Written and Peer-Reviewed by Mandel Honors College Students at Cleveland State University
While Alan Moore’s comic book Watchmen is often hailed as a revisionary text for introducing flawed superheroes and political anxiety to the genre, it is also remarkably regressive in its treatment of gender. Some critics do argue that women are given a newfound voice in Watchmen, but this interpretation neglects to examine character Laurie Jupiter adequately, or the ways in which other female characters' appearance and dialogue are limited and/or based on their sexuality and relationships with male characters. Watchmen's main female characters, mother and daughter Sally and Laurie Jupiter, lack autonomy and their identities are completely intertwined …
"The Condition Of Women:" Gender, Sexuality, And The Patriarchy In Charlotte Bronte's Shirley And Villette,
2017
University of Mary Washington
"The Condition Of Women:" Gender, Sexuality, And The Patriarchy In Charlotte Bronte's Shirley And Villette, Alexis Noelle Robinson
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
The primary focus of this honors project is analyzing the ways in which Charlotte Brontë strategically deconstructs traditional heteronormative constructs of feminine gender and sexuality in two of her novels, Shirley and Villette. This project is split into two analytical documents: the first, an annotated bibliography assessing the critical, scholarly discourse on Shirley; the second, a critical assessment of Brontë's "novel of alternatives," Villette. Although this project is entitled "The Condition of Women," as Brontë scholars have dully noted the author's continued progression and revolutionary approach to Victorian normalizations of women, the didactic messages behind Brontë's novels ultimately need to …
The Writing Path To Healing: An Individual Study On Written Emotional Disclosure,
2017
University of Mary Washington
The Writing Path To Healing: An Individual Study On Written Emotional Disclosure, Sarah Foster
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
The purpose of this project is to provide writing prompts as an intervention method for adolescents who have experienced family violence and have been placed in the safe environment of family-style orphan care. The paper provides a literature review of writing as healing, also known as written emotional disclosure, in therapeutic contexts. Writing prompts are then presented designed for adolescents who have experienced complex trauma in the form of family violence. Each prompt has a specific purpose, but all prompts share a focus on empowering the adolescents to consider their identity, rise above hardships, and engage their past through reflective …
The Active Narrator: Fieldian Narration In Strachey And Woolf,
2017
University of Mary Washington
The Active Narrator: Fieldian Narration In Strachey And Woolf, Natalie I. Beyer
Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects
Lytton Strachey, one of the most prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, has long been regarded as creating "the new biography" with his book, Eminent Victorians. One of the more innovative techniques used in his biography was using active voice through his narrator, an element influenced by the narrative structure of Henry Fielding. Not only did Strachey change the field of historical biography with his active narrator and critiques on the discipline of biography itself, but he also influenced another huge presence in the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf. Years after Eminent Victorians, Woolf took Strachey's narrator and applied it two-fold …
The Founding Farce, Or, The Lost Debates Of The Constitutional Convention: Being An Account Of The Discovery Of An Overlooked Document, And The Loss Again, And Rediscovery Of Said Document, Wherein Is Written Unheard Proceedings In The Crafting Of The Glorious Constitution Of These 13 Colonies (Which Has Lately Been Misplaced), Alexander W. Pickens
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
The Constitutional Convention was shrouded in mystery, yet America has been confidently given a narrative of what went on behind closed doors in Philadelphia. Though most of our authentic records of what went on were written by men assumed to be reliable, the deeper one reads into history the more unreliable they become, recent evidence even suggesting that James Madison altered his notes on the Convention years after it was concluded. What if our perception of history is flawed and the Convention was not the glorious meeting of intellectual giants but instead a town hall full of immature behemoths who …
Empire State Of Being: Modern Women And The Literary Streets Of New York City,
2017
James Madison University
Empire State Of Being: Modern Women And The Literary Streets Of New York City, Kristen A. Greiner
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This project is an analysis of the portrayal of modern women in the 1920s American literature written by ethnic female authors. It focuses on the stories of women in New York City, honing in on those from the neighborhoods of the Lower East Side and Harlem. These ethnic female authors offer incredibly different interpretations of the early twentieth century woman when compared to their male counterparts, as they present them as more authoritative and strong characters, while displaying how the influence of space in New York City affects the identity of the characters on the page. Using the texts, Salome …
I, A Saint; I, A Sinner: Rereading Female Sanctity In Chaucer’S “Lyfe Of Seinte Cecile” And Kate Horsley’S Confessions Of A Pagan Nun,
2017
James Madison University
I, A Saint; I, A Sinner: Rereading Female Sanctity In Chaucer’S “Lyfe Of Seinte Cecile” And Kate Horsley’S Confessions Of A Pagan Nun, Lillian Constance
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This thesis compares a medieval and modern text, Chaucer’s “Lyfe of Seinte Cecile” and Kate Horsley’s Confessions of a Pagan Nun," to explore female spirituality. Horsley writes in the twenty-first century, a time of significantly more opportunity for women compared to the fourteenth-century world of Chaucer. The latter belongs to the virgin martyr sub-genre of medieval hagiography, a genre Horsley mimics. These differences aside, both texts are revealing of Christianity's ability both to empower and to oppress women. A comparison of Horsley’stwenty-first century rendition of the life of a medieval woman with Chaucer’s fourteenth-century version exposes the problems …
Gender In Eliot's The Mill On The Floss And Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd,
2017
James Madison University
Gender In Eliot's The Mill On The Floss And Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, Rachel C. Nelson
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This text explores the characters of Maggie and Tom Tulliver from George Eliot’s 1860 novel The Mill on the Floss and the characters of Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak from Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd. It connects the two novels by way of the relationships between these main characters. In both cases, the female character struggles with the confines of Victorian societal limits for women based on their gender. In The Mill, Maggie constantly struggles against the wishes of her older brother, and while Tom is arguably an antagonistic force in the novel, this …
