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Rulers, Scholars, And Invaders: A Select Bibliography Of The Songhay Empire, Brent D. Singleton Jan 2004

Rulers, Scholars, And Invaders: A Select Bibliography Of The Songhay Empire, Brent D. Singleton

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

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Genre In First Year Composition: The Missing Link To Transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey Jan 2004

Genre In First Year Composition: The Missing Link To Transferability?, Sandra Patricia Halsey

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis suggests the incorporation of "Genre Theory" into First Year Composition (FYC) at California State University (CSUSB) as a means of alleviating the lack of transfer of what is learned in FYC to other university writing. In examing the feasibility of that incorporation, it takes into consideration the demands made on the FYC course across universities and specifically at CSUSB.


The Influence Of Finnegans Wake On Robert Anton Wilson's Masks Of The Illuminati, Eric Robert Wagner Jan 2004

The Influence Of Finnegans Wake On Robert Anton Wilson's Masks Of The Illuminati, Eric Robert Wagner

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis presents an analysis and interpretation of Joycean literary devices, narrative techniques and rhetorical strategies that have been integrated by Robert Anton Wilson in his novel Masks of the Illuminati. The author shows how Wilson uses word games of Finnegans Wake and other devices to depict dreams in his novel and "to conceal and reveal a variety of levels of meaning and postcolonial insight" (p. v-iv). Narrative techniques examined include multiple viewpoints, combined words, multi-lingual puns and webs of allusions.


Causes Of Unease: Horror Rhetoric In Fiction And Film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge Jan 2004

Causes Of Unease: Horror Rhetoric In Fiction And Film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Theses Digitization Project

How do artists scare us? Horror filmmakers and novelists alike can accomplish fear, revulsion, and disturbance in their respective audiences. The rhetorical and stylistic strategies employed to evoke these feelings are unique to the genre. Divulging these strategies will be the major focus of this thesis, yet there will also be discussion on the social and cultural background of the Horror genre.


Taran: An Individuated Hero For The Collective Unconscious, Edward Tucker Raetz Jan 2004

Taran: An Individuated Hero For The Collective Unconscious, Edward Tucker Raetz

Theses Digitization Project

This study analyzes Lloyd Alexander's The Prydain Chronicles through a Jungian lens. Previous scholarship on Alexander's works has briefly considered archetypal criticism, but not extensively. Bruno Bettelheim's thoughts are used intermittently throughout the thesis. This study concentrates on Taran's individuation process, the discovery of true selfhood, and his consequent development of a whole psyche.


Computerized Reading Assessment Using The Star Reading Software, Brian Michael Bartlett Jan 2004

Computerized Reading Assessment Using The Star Reading Software, Brian Michael Bartlett

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis focused on the use of a computerized reading assessment program called Star Reading. Reading has been one of the most difficult areas across the curriculum to assess. Reading asssessment differs widely from teacher to teacher, and has traditionally been very subjective.


Zapatistas: The Shifting Rhetoric Of A Modern Revolution, Ofelia Morales Bejar Jan 2004

Zapatistas: The Shifting Rhetoric Of A Modern Revolution, Ofelia Morales Bejar

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis studies the rhetoric of the Zapatista Revolution and social movement through the analysis of Zapatista messages using the method of cluster criticism. It explores changes in the rhetoric of confrontation and the rhetoric of peace used by the Zapatistas to further their cause during the last ten years of the revolution.


Rhetorical And Narrative Structures In John Hersey's Hiroshima: How They Breathe Life Into The Tale Of A Doomed City, James Richard Smart Jan 2004

Rhetorical And Narrative Structures In John Hersey's Hiroshima: How They Breathe Life Into The Tale Of A Doomed City, James Richard Smart

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis will explore rhetorical and narrative devices author John Hersey used to create Hiroshima, one of the foremost non-fictional works of the twentieth century.


The Rhetoric Of State Assessment: Educational Politics In The Public School System, Renee Michelle Longshore Jan 2004

The Rhetoric Of State Assessment: Educational Politics In The Public School System, Renee Michelle Longshore

Theses Digitization Project

In this thesis I explore the rhetoric behind the assessment push nation-wide and, particularly, in California. I take a close look at what politicians, educators, and citizens say about public education and their views of the current educational reform: whether they are speaking in support of or opposition to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. I look specifically at the finances of public education in California, the impact and current outcome of NCLB, and propose new reforms as suggested by those intimately involved in education.


Anti-Puritanism, Anti-Popery, And Gallows Rhetoric In Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller", Jennifer Andersen Jan 2004

Anti-Puritanism, Anti-Popery, And Gallows Rhetoric In Thomas Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller", Jennifer Andersen

English Faculty Publications

This article explores links between the anti-Marprelate polemics and Thomas Nashe's satire of Puritans and Catholics in "The Unfortunate Traveller." In public confrontations with the late Elizabethan church, activist minority religions were co-opting powerful rhetorics of holiness. Analysis is made of episodes in "The Unfortunate Traveller" where Nashe deconstructs Puritan and Catholic appropriations of the rhetoric of martyrdom and seeks to educate the reader in interpreting or seeing through what he believes are pretended forms of holiness. Making readers aware of false appropriations and performances of holiness involves educating them in the narrative and dramatic conventions that are used to …