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Finding No One, Sarah Owen
Finding No One, Sarah Owen
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Finding No one is a Non-Fiction creative writing piece written around one young woman’s desire to overcome obstacles in order to prove she is the complete opposite of her enemies: strong, determined, and brave. The main character shares her story of surviving childhood abuse, how she used Anorexia to cope with the aftermath, and what it took to become someone with a desire to fight for a future. The writer has taken the readers directly into vivid scenes of abuse and the innermost thoughts of self-loathing, refusing to hide any secrets. Finding No One explicitly shares details of therapy and …
The Llano Grande Grant: The Transformation Of Land Ownership In The Rio Grande Valley, 1749-1910, Maria G. Vallejo
The Llano Grande Grant: The Transformation Of Land Ownership In The Rio Grande Valley, 1749-1910, Maria G. Vallejo
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The history of the Llano Grande is an important part of Rio Grande Valley life. The thesis presented will analyze the legal ownership of a single land grant from 1749-1910. The modern land tenure in the Rio Grande Valley has its roots in the Spanish land grants. By studying a micro-history of a single land grant we can understand how the land ownership of the Llano Grande and the Rio Grande Valley changed throughout an entire century. The land ownership of the Llano Grande addresses how land was transferred Spanish to Mexican and to Anglo land owners. Also, the rise …
Stolen Youth: A Co-Authored Memoir, Jeanilee A. Garza
Stolen Youth: A Co-Authored Memoir, Jeanilee A. Garza
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This literary work of creative nonfiction qualifies under the literary genre of memoir, as a co-authored memoir. While the work incorporates the practices of both memoir and testimonio, the classification as a co-authored memoir recognizes a collaboration between the writer and the individual interviewed for this piece. “Stolen Youth: A Co-Authored Memoir” presents nine chapters and an epilogue, and is part of a larger creative work. The piece narrates the life of, Cirano “Cid” Lagunas, III, a dear friend who offered me the opportunity to convey his personal experiences through memoir. His memoir begins at the age of 12, following …
Special Delivery, Jacob M. Guerra
Special Delivery, Jacob M. Guerra
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Special Delivery is a play that focuses on gender roles, specifically that of the Latino male in today’s culture.
La Gente De Migración Y Acción: African Americans In Revolutionary Mexico 1880–1929, Alfredo Aguilar
La Gente De Migración Y Acción: African Americans In Revolutionary Mexico 1880–1929, Alfredo Aguilar
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This thesis argues that Mexico historically presented African Americans with options to pursue freedom through outlets of migration (civil) and counter-violence (violent resistance). In addition, the thesis exhibits Mexico’s historical anti-slavery stance which reflects why Mexico was a viable place of relocation and resistance. Furthermore, it argues Mexico and the United States had roles in African Americans’ relation to Mexico and these endeavors of resistance. By using primary sources such as newspapers and government reports, the extent of propaganda methods and use becomes discernible. The objective is to highlight the international assistance Mexico provided towards African Americans, the U.S. role …
Generations Apart: Exploring The Generation Gap In Theatre, Jesus Briones
Generations Apart: Exploring The Generation Gap In Theatre, Jesus Briones
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This thesis attempts to find relationships among three different ethnic groups (Jewish, Chinese, and Italian) presented in the following plays. First, there is an explanation of four different types of generation gaps that are discovered throughout the first play of examination, Fiddler on the Roof. There is a technology gap, a cultural gap, a religion gap, and an assimilation gap. Each of these gaps is present within Fiddler on the Roof and is varied throughout the remaining plays examined (Flower Drum Song and Over the River and Through the Woods). Each “gap” will be given an explanation and how it …
El Murmullo De La Noche: Antologia De Cuentos Extranos, Alberto Alejandro Cabada
El Murmullo De La Noche: Antologia De Cuentos Extranos, Alberto Alejandro Cabada
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
La presente tesis es un trabajo de creación literaria. Esta antología está compuesta de trece cuentos cortos en los que se relatan diversas historias usando una narrativa en primera y tercera persona. Los géneros que se manejan en estos cuentos son el terror, el surrealismo y lo fantástico, desarrollando los temas de la muerte, la locura, la soledad y el horror. Asimismo, es una obra creativa que comparte rasgos con la literatura del período romántico y los movimientos naturalistas y simbolistas de finales del siglo XIX, al igual que la vanguardia latinoamericana de principios del siglo XX.
I,Metaboy, Mario Leal Jr.
I,Metaboy, Mario Leal Jr.
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
I,metaboy is a stage play about a young homosexual couple, one a soldier and the other a writer, during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s and the struggles they encounter in their relationship when the soldier marries a woman to pass in the military. The story follows in the tradition of other Queer literatures that explore the state of the trope of the homosexual male within his given historical period. This historically places the identity. I,metaboy is based on an amalgamation of imagery from a variety of media (theatre, literature, TV, film, social policy, historical texts, myths, …
Living In The Outskirts, Thomas De La Cruz
Living In The Outskirts, Thomas De La Cruz
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Living in the Outskirts is a bildungsroman collection of short stories of a young Chicano growing up in the Rio Grande Valley town of Elsa, Texas. In the critical introduction of this thesis, I discuss how my stories challenge traditional Chicano/a cultural ideals of masculinity, language, class and nationality. Included in my introduction are other Chicano/a writers who engaged with these Chicano/a cultural ideals, and who I find myself in conversation with through my work. Inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of the “New Mestiza Consciousness,” I show how the protagonist of my stories gradually changes throughout the collection and adopts …
Bilingual And Esl Pre-Service Teachers Learn About Effective Instruction For Ells Through Meaningful Collaboration, Alma D. Rodríguez
Bilingual And Esl Pre-Service Teachers Learn About Effective Instruction For Ells Through Meaningful Collaboration, Alma D. Rodríguez
Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article presents the results of a study conducted to identify the perceptions of bilingual and ESL pre-service teachers regarding the integration of a collaborative service learning project in a key course of their teacher preparation program. Pre-, process, and final reflective essays were written by participants as they engaged in the development of an ESL unit to teach language through content to ELLs. The analysis of participants’ reflections revealed that preservice teachers connect the learning they acquire in their teacher education program with their life experiences, which contributes to their identity formation as prospective teachers of ELLs. In addition, …
The Status Of Women And The Arab Spring, Karen Pimentel
The Status Of Women And The Arab Spring, Karen Pimentel
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
The social movement known as the Arab Spring brings together various groups, including educated women, demanding the overthrow of decades-old dictatorial regimes. It begins in Tunisia and then extends to neighboring Arab- speaking countries of North Africa, Egypt and Libya. Similar social, cultural, and economic conditions are conducive to the unfolding of a single social movement across national borders. After the successful overthrow of dictatorships, groups that collaborated in it, clash against each other. Despite the fact that the movement was initiated by middle-class youth advocating a Western-style model of democracy, Muslims succeed in gaining control of ―democratic,‖ majority-rule governments …
Voice-Over Documentaries: Synchronization Techniques In English-Spanish And English-Polish Translation, Katarzyna Sepielak
Voice-Over Documentaries: Synchronization Techniques In English-Spanish And English-Polish Translation, Katarzyna Sepielak
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This thesis discusses a fundamental aspect related to voice-over translation in documentaries: synchronization techniques. The analysis is based on the classification of different types of synchronies— action synchrony, kinetic synchrony, voice-over isochrony, and literal synchrony— proposed by Franco, Matamala, and Orero (2010). The aim of this study is to provide insight about why and when different synchronies may be triggered, both by textual and/or by extralinguistic factors, in filmic material. The analysis is thus based on a comparison of the Spanish and Polish voiceover translations of the same documentary episode of the series Seconds from Disaster originally produced in English. …
San Juan And Its Role In The Transformation Of The Rio Grande Valley, Roseann Bacha-Garza
San Juan And Its Role In The Transformation Of The Rio Grande Valley, Roseann Bacha-Garza
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This thesis demonstrates that the City of San Juan serves as a microcosm of Rio Grande Valley history and became one of the most substantial municipalities in the region as a crossroad location for commercial agriculture, tourism and economic development. Outlined is the succession of Spanish land grantees, displaced Civil War families, Anglo entrepreneurs and Mexican Revolution refugees and their migration to San Juan at various stages of municipal development. Statistical data portrays how city officials, economic development personnel and community leaders positioned the city to benefit from federal funding and city planning opportunities. The progression of how San Juan …
U.S. Jazz In The 1950s, Amanda Canales
U.S. Jazz In The 1950s, Amanda Canales
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
I have examined jazz music in the United States during the 1950s and argue that its popularity in various demographics illustrates that despite social and racial tensions jazz unified them. By explaining this we learn that Jazz’s popularity with different groups reflects not only jazz’s ever present flexibility but how societal values and issues are shown respectively. A brief background of the U.S during the 1950s, three key definitions for the nonconformist, conformist and purist as well as a brief history of jazz during the 1950s can be found in the introduction. Chapter II through IV deals with the specific …
Shifting Policies Of Educational Desegregation And Its Effects On The Resegregation Of The Aldine Independent School District, Tonya Elisette Juarez
Shifting Policies Of Educational Desegregation And Its Effects On The Resegregation Of The Aldine Independent School District, Tonya Elisette Juarez
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
This study examines the desegregation process for the Aldine Independent School District located in Houston, Texas. Beginning with an analysis of the development of public education in Texas, this study observes the educational conditions for blacks and Mexican Americans prior to the end of de jure segregation. Thereafter, it assesses the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision that required desegregation of American public schools. I argue that the shifting policies that occurred after Brown requiring mandatory integration resulted in white flight in the school district. With the end of mandatory integration, Aldine I.S.D. reverted back to …
Enforced Heteronormative Socio-Cultural Structures In Garage Olimpo And “Cambio De Armas”, Rebecca J. Ulland
Enforced Heteronormative Socio-Cultural Structures In Garage Olimpo And “Cambio De Armas”, Rebecca J. Ulland
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Neo-Carnivalesque Culture In Eduardo Mendoza’S El Enredo De La Bolsa Y La Vida (2012), Tiffany Trotman
Neo-Carnivalesque Culture In Eduardo Mendoza’S El Enredo De La Bolsa Y La Vida (2012), Tiffany Trotman
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El Haikú Del Lavabo, Eleftherios Makedonas
"La Fiesta Del Chivo Y El Príncipe": La Política Textual, Gina Sherriff
"La Fiesta Del Chivo Y El Príncipe": La Política Textual, Gina Sherriff
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Mujer, Familia Y Nación En La Narrativa De Reinaldo Arenas, Armando Chavez-Rivera
Mujer, Familia Y Nación En La Narrativa De Reinaldo Arenas, Armando Chavez-Rivera
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En Busca Del Origen Perdido. La Identidad Judeo-Mexicana En Las Genealogías De Margo Glantz, Nicholas Balutet
En Busca Del Origen Perdido. La Identidad Judeo-Mexicana En Las Genealogías De Margo Glantz, Nicholas Balutet
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Memorias De Mamá Blanca: La Configuración Del Sujeto Autobiográfico En La Obra Ficcional, Perla Abrego
Memorias De Mamá Blanca: La Configuración Del Sujeto Autobiográfico En La Obra Ficcional, Perla Abrego
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El Papel De La Venganza En Las Comedias De Lope De Vega, Bryant Smith, Terri Schroth
El Papel De La Venganza En Las Comedias De Lope De Vega, Bryant Smith, Terri Schroth
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Cortés El Memorioso, Irene Lopez Rodriguez
Contributors’ Biographies, "The Writer's Experience", Ruth Mikal Garza, Craig E. Price
Contributors’ Biographies, "The Writer's Experience", Ruth Mikal Garza, Craig E. Price
Journal of South Texas English Studies
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Refrain: (They) Let Me Be, Catalina Florina Florescu
Refrain: (They) Let Me Be, Catalina Florina Florescu
Journal of South Texas English Studies
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Letter From The Editors. "The Writer's Experience" Summer 2013; Volume 4, Issue 2, Ruth Mikal Garza, Craig E. Price
Letter From The Editors. "The Writer's Experience" Summer 2013; Volume 4, Issue 2, Ruth Mikal Garza, Craig E. Price
Journal of South Texas English Studies
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From Prescription To Possibility: Becoming A Writer In J.M. Coetzee’S "Youth", Craig Smith
From Prescription To Possibility: Becoming A Writer In J.M. Coetzee’S "Youth", Craig Smith
Journal of South Texas English Studies
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A Dying Author, Jerome Teelucksingh
A Dying Author, Jerome Teelucksingh
Journal of South Texas English Studies
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Review Of A Sea For Encounters: Essays Towards A Postcolonial Commonwealth By Stella Borg Barthet Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009. $125.16 Isbn: 9789042027640, Lamia Khalil Hammad
Review Of A Sea For Encounters: Essays Towards A Postcolonial Commonwealth By Stella Borg Barthet Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009. $125.16 Isbn: 9789042027640, Lamia Khalil Hammad
Journal of South Texas English Studies
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