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Eng 1002c-001: Composition And Literature, P A. Boswell

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3010c-011, Bruce Guernsey

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3800-011, Shonk

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3010g-115, John Kilgore

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3703-051: Modern American Literature, Guzlowski

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3807-011: Victorian Literature, John Moore

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009-001, Martone

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009-021: Myth & Culture, Quinn

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Eng 3001-001: Advanced Composition, Fred Preston

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Theodore James Sherman

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009g-011, Miller

Summer 2000

No abstract provided.

Escapades On Third Street: Chapters 2-4, Gregory E. Rutledge

Department of English: Faculty Publications

It’s early summer, 1971, and school has just recessed. Benjamin Thomas, a typical eleven-year-old boy, has his hopes set on three months of escapades unchecked by the tedium of teachers and books and classrooms. The first few weeks of unadulterated storytelling, exuberant play at The Park, treasure hunting in Piney Forest, rescuing ripe fruit from neighbors’ trees, and a host of deeds and misdeeds, send Ben, his sisters, and his best friends well on their way to an unforgettable summer of fun. . . But then Vincent Solomon comes to town, bringing with him the ideals and enthusiasm of the …

To Honor Impermanence: The Haiku And Other Poems Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Poems on a page bear a decidedly, yet deceptively, fixed being. The Western literary tradition (if I may invoke such a creature) has historically preferred fixed texts. Even when confronting slippery oral traditions, an enormous effort has been expended to canonize an originary Ur-form of each tale. Such a tendency, akin to mounting a bird species rather than pondering the flight of feathers, is the antagonist of Vizenor's poetic art. In what follows I seek to explore some of the ways Vizenor's haiku and longer poetry melt fixation and celebrate the transformative possibilities of impermanence.

The Multi-Missionary Eleanor Roosevelt Of American Indian Literatures, Kenneth M. Roemer

English Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Masterpiece Or Racist Trash? Bridgewater Students Enter The Debate Over Huckleberry Finn, Barbara Apstein

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

"I Give You Back": Memory, Language, And Transformation In Joy Harjo's Poetry, Janice May Gould

English Language and Literature ETDs

The poetry of Native American poet Joy Harjo, one of our living and pre-eminent poets in the United States, is a rich blend of oral and contemporary written traditions.

This dissertation examines three themes in her work: memory, language, and transformation. Each of these elements is present in Native oral ceremonial traditions where memory functions to return individuals and communities to a sense of wholeness and happiness; where language serves as a powerful tool to enact healing; and where spiritual (and sometimes physical) transformation of self and community is made possible through the juncture of all three elements. Harjo's poetry …

"I Was Born Too Late To Believe In Your God": The Struggle Against Religion In Ernest J. Gaines's Of Love And Dust And A Lesson Before Dying, Matthew D. Towles

Theses & Honors Papers

The strange mixtures of opposites in the south often provide a fast-moving culture not easily recognized or categorized. The opposition to Christianity does not often deal specifically with Jesus Christ, the New Testament, or other Christian philosophies. Rather, the Christianity in conflict is usually symbolized by the church, a preacher, or other Christian rituals and traditions. Thus, it is the system of Christianity that is in conflict with many of the characters’ freedom, not necessarily the philosophy of Christianity. The struggles against religion in Ernest J. Gaines’s writings Love and Dust and A Lesson Before Dying are displayed through character …

Whose Fix Is It Anyway?: A Closer Look At Hemingway’S Fifty Grand, James Tackach

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

After carefully examining the story of Hemingway’s Fifty Grand, this article concludes that like Frederick Henry, Jack Brennan is a man of both courage and integrity regardless of the assertion that he fixed the fight and arranged with the gamblers prior to the fight in order to win the bet.

The Long Road Home, Chuck Sullivan

Dissertations and Theses

The Long Road Home, a short prose epic, concerns the adventure and political coming-of-age of two sixteen-year-old boys, Dean and Blake. The boys hitchhike from their hometown of Pittsburgh to Greensboro, North Carolina in order to attend a march against the Ku Klux Klan. Dean and Blake are politically idealistic and naïve boys who learn a lot about the complexities of race relations in America on their adventure. The boys encounter a variety of people on their trip and in Greensboro, some of whom are hostile, friendly, indifferent, deceptive, generous, and downright strange.

When the day of the march against …

La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet

Senior Scholar Papers

Poems

Cooperative Learning: Implementing Student Input To Improve Use, Susan Palmer

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Meeting student needs, keeping students actively involved, and creating authentic learning are common goals of secondary education teachers. Although course content is often standardized or established, individual teachers can choose from instructional methods including lecture, paired learning, individual practice, cooperative learning, and whole class discussion. Of these methods, cooperative learning has recently received a great deal of attention¹. Educators almost unanimously praise the way that cooperative learning centers the classroom on students, creates interactions among students, and allows students to teach each other. This thesis reviews the value of cooperative learning as a teaching tool, and then explores …

Mcs Matters: Material Agency In The Science And Practices Of Environmental Illness, Stacy Alaimo

English Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Poem No. 83, May 2000, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Annotated Bibliography Of Research In The Teaching Of English, Deborah Brown, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

Faculty Publications

Twice a year, in the May ann November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. Most of the studies appeared during the six-mouth period preceding the complication of the bibliography (July through December; 1999, 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 articles 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 …

2000 Forces, Scott Yarbrough

Forces

No abstract provided.

Cross Racial Preferences In Viewing Sexually Explicit Material: A Comparison Between African-American And Caucasian Males, Boyd Randal Horton

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigated that extent to which the race of actors in an erotic video affected sexual arousal in African-American and Caucasian heterosexual males. It was hypothesized that the two racial groups would be significantly more sexually aroused while watching their respective homoethnic erotic video. The hypothesis was grounded in the modeling effects of Bandura's Social Leaning Theory (1977), the Matching Hypothesis (1982) and worldview differences between African-Americans and Caucasians (Baldwin and Bell, 1985). Thirty-four African-American and Caucasian males were shown homoethnic and non-homoethnic erotic videos while penile circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and self-report ratings of sexual …

2000 Literary Review (No. 14), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Literary Review (No.14), Sigma Tau Delta, Matt Hahn, Anne Kiley, Ryan Bradley, Natalie Neavas, Dana Judd, Nilanga Jayasinghe, Allison Outschoorn, Shellie Banga, Erin Whittemore

Literary Reviews Through the Ages

No abstract provided.

Shut Up Or Drown: Silence And Containment Of The Garrulous Woman In Medieval And Shakespearean Drama, Melissa Margaret Filosa

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Poems As Mnemonic Devices To Aid Grammar Recall, Carolin A. Metzger

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study was implemented to explore the extent to which students' performance on grammar editing exams might be affected by exposure to poems used as mnemonic devices intended to aid recall of grammar rules. The poems were used as mnemonic tools to assist subjects memory of specific grammar points. The place of grammar in writing instruction, the use of mnemonics, and the use of rhyme and rhythm are reviewed. The subjects for this study came from developmental level classes at the university level and from advanced level English as Second Language classes. The results emphasize the need for teacher-student interaction …