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A Look At Adoption Through Young Adult Fiction, Suzanne K. Duneman

Graduate Research Papers

This content analysis study examines adoptees and their families in nineteen young adult novels. An analysis was made of the adoptees sense of identity, the decision to search for their birth families, and their familial relationships. Sixty-three percent of the adoptees speculated about their birth families. Fifty-three percent of the characters did search for their birth families. Of that group, ninety percent had doubts during the search. In the conclusion of the novels sixty-three percent continued to have a relationship with both their adoptive and birth families, and thirty-seven percent maintained a relationship with only their adoptive family.

Looking Through A Lens: A Viewer's Story About Love And The Movies, Jennifer Waldo

Honors Papers

I never realized how much movies influenced my life until I saw James Cameron's Titanic (1997) for the second time. It was early March 1998, I was studying in Prague and coping with a deteriorating relationship. Unannounced and against my wishes, my boyfriend of four years had traveled across Europe to convince me of "our" love. Once in Prague, he would not leave and neither one of us knew quite what to do given the situation. One night, I suggested we go see Titanic. I had already seen it with my friends in Prague and wanted to see it again …

Henryson's "Ballet Schort": A Virgin Reading Of The Testament Of Cresseid, William A. Quinn

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Tötösy De Zepetnek, Steven Curriculum Vitae, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Selected Comparative Literature And Comparative Humanities Journals, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Annual Reports Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture 1999-, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Atticus, David, And Raymond: Role Models For Ya Males, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

I can't listen to Bob Carlisle's "Butterfly Kisses," a sentimental song about a father and his daughter without crying. Every time I hear it, I want to pull my nearest daughter onto my lap, hold her tight, and bury my face in her shoulder while I cry about the eventual loss of my little girl. Unfortunately—or fortunately, if you're one of my daughters—my maudlin reaction to the song prompted my three teenage daughters to ban the recording from our home, so I rarely got to listen to it—and weep—anymore.

Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses: A Faith-Affirming Tragedy, Bradley Hunter Swope

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

Masculinidad Natural Y Masculinidad Autoconsciente En Don Segundo Sombra Y El Reino De Este Mundo, Cesar Valverde

Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Melissa Whiting, Richard L. Larson

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-month period preceding the compilation of the bibliography (January through June, 1998, for the present bibliography), but some studies that appeared earlier are occasionally included. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related studies that appeared in the period under review. Comments on the bibliography and suggestions about items for inclusion may be directed to the bibliography editors. We encourage you to send your suggestions …

The Internet: Emergent Technologies In Two West African Countries, Jim Rogers

English Faculty Publications

Being connected for most Africans means something completely different from most of us in more (technologically) "developed" countries. Compared to those who have virtually unlimited and relatively cheap access to e-mail and the World Wide Web (WWW), most Africans have limited access to e-mail only. Outside of South Africa, which hosts 70 full Internet Service Providers (ISPs); Egypt, which hosts 25; and Morocco, which hosts 15, most African countries have well under 10 ISPs, the average being loser to 1 or 2 (Jensen, 1998). This example demonstrates the diversity of the African continent; one cannot simply typify the African example. …

Eng 1091c-092: Rhetoric And Composition: Honors, Zahlan

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 4390-001: Senior Seminar (Honors): Political Fictions, Fictional Politics, Zahlan

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 4764-001: Advanced Playwriting, David Radavich

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Eng 2009c-003: Literature And Human Values: Labor, Power, Class, Zahlan

Fall 1998

No abstract provided.

Letter To The Editor, Squidge Boodle

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

"Designed Anarchy" In Mavis Gallant's The Moslem Wife And Other Stories, Tamas Dobozy

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Cut To The Quick: Lorena Bobbitt And America Gender Ideology, Jessica Staheli

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

On the morning of June 23rd, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband's penis with a kitchen carving knife, literally enacting the old myth of women as castrators. America reacted to Lorena's and her husband John's situation first with horror and then with humor. Soon after the attack was made public, jokes and commentaries proliferated on television and in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Because Americans were so shocked by Lorena's action, they scrambled to represent and explain it in a manner that made the act morally comprehensible. Looking at interviews, jokes, commentaries, and John's subsequent career in pornography reveals the specific …

The Art Of The Novel: How Kundera Helps Us Read The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Matt Plavnick

Honors Theses

In all of Kundera's writing there is the search, the yearning, to understand more of the world around us~specifically around Kundera. His fiction deals both with the lives of people caught up in this world, some happily, some miserably, each undeniably held by human constraints, and also with how these people are affected by their natural constraints. His critical writing offers further examination and theory about these constraints: what they are, specifically, how they work, and how they affect people. With this comes a detailed assessment of our epoch, which he calls "The Modern Era," and the phenomena that characterize …

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Chicagoland Theatre Presents Musical of Lewis’s Elmer Gantry,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Devoto’s Mountain Time: Arrowsmith after Arrowsmith,” by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico

“A Guide to Films Based on the Works of Sinclair Lewis,” by Stephen E. Pastore

“Robert Bly Urges ‘Writing with Soul,'” by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald

Narrative Voicings In The Novels Of Roddy Doyle, Larry Poe

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Scholars have generally ignored Irish novelist and playwright Roddy Doyle. Little attention has been paid to his narrative techniques or to his development as a novelist. In the American academy, thus far, only one dissertation concerning Doyle’s novels has appeared, written in 1996, by Caramine White, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. White notes that her dissertation is the first on Doyle and “its basic purpose will be to introduce the novels to the reading public and to convince the reading public that Doyle, although a very popular artist, is also a gifted writer who should be taken …

Weir(D) Australia: Picnic At Hanging Rock And The Last Wave, Douglas Keesey

English

No abstract provided.

Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …

Contemporary Appalachian Picture Books, Judy A. Teaford

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Modern children’s literature stresses individualism and multiculturalism. The first concerns the push in children’s literature to place more emphasis on developing a child’s individuality, to celebrate individual triumph rather than communal action. This trend seems to have succeeded in its goal. As Perry Nodelman states in The Pleasures of Children’s Literature, “Surprisingly few texts for children celebrate the value of groups of people working together as equals as opposed to the power of individuals controlling groups” (121- 122). The second, and more recent trend, concerns what Ron Jobe and many other critics of children’s literature believe to be the goal …

Ivy Leaves, 1997-1998, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1998 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Jennifer Brown, Shane Bruce, Sharon Felder, Kellie Bates, Clay Bolt, Tiffany Clark, Jon Martin, Ben McDonald, Amber Schiltz, Jeremy Shirley, Chase Stone, Susan Wooten, and Wayne Cox. Cover photography by Ben McDonald and design by Clay Bolt and Jeremy Shirley.

The World Would Do Better To Ask Why Is Frimbo Sherlock Holmes?: Investigating Liminality In Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure-Man Dies, Adrienne Gosselin

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates And The Cultural Work Of Home Literature, Lisa Olsen Tait

Theses and Dissertations

The few studies of Mormon home literature that have been published to date dismiss it as inferior artistry, an embarrassing if necessary step in the progression towards true Mormon literature. These studies are inadequate, however, because they divorce the texts from their context, holding them up to standards that did not exist for their original audience. Jane Tompkins' theory of texts as cultural work provides a more satisfactory way of looking at these narratives.

Home literature is thoroughly enmeshed in the cultural discourse of its day. Beneath the surface, these didactic stories about young Mormons finding love with their foreordained …

Beyond The Problem Novel: Robert Cormier's Vision And The World Of Adolescent Tragedy, Erik M. Walker

Masters Theses

Robert Cormier is "the premier writer for adolescents in the United States" according to The Handbook of American Popular Literature and dozens of literary critics. Although his novels have won numerous awards from the American Library Association (ALA), his novels have also generated controversy from critics who believe his novels are excessively dark and disturbing. Adolescents in Robert Cormier's world are by no means the average teenagers one may expect to find at a local high school. Instead, the adolescent world is shown to be more complex and dangerous, where evil preys on the good, where loneliness and isolation are …

Attitudes Toward Writing, Laurence E. Musgrove

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This essay describes one teacher's approach to helping students understand the role attitude plays in contributing to or interfering with success in the writing class.

Goddess Spirituality And Academic Know Ledge-Making, Hildy Miller

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Goddess-centered spirituality, an alternative way of making meaning, complements rationalism, the traditional notion of academic knowledge making.