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"This Dreadful Web": Alienation And Miscommunication In The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Debbie Clark

Senior Theses

Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame hinges on the idea of fate and characters being caught up in situations and fantasies that seem to be out of their control. Esmeralda is the fly caught in Frollo’s web, and yet her beauty and allure attracts and ensnares him in turn. Quasimodo is ensnared by Esmeralda’s beauty but also by society’s perceptions of him. The characters in Hunchback are so caught up in the webs of fantasies and perceptions spun by themselves or society that they can no longer communicate effectively with others, resulting in alienation from the very society …

From Heo To Zir: A History Of Gender Expression In The English Language, Brodie Robinson

Senior Honors Theses

With the growing presence of the LGBTQ+ community on the global stage, the matter of gender has been rushed to the forefront of the public consciousness. News outlets have hotly debated the topic of gender expression, a topic which has motivated mass demonstrations and acts of violence, and this has promoted a linguistic conversation at the international level.

This thesis is intended to provide the historical context for the contemporary debate on gender expression in the English language, and explores both the grammatical background (the Indo-European origins of linguistic gender, the development of the modern pronoun system, etc.) and the …

Michalski Ma Portfolio: Finding My Path, Victoria L. Michalski

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This portfolio is the culmination of my work in the English Teaching specialty Master's program at Bowling Green State University. In addition to the works I produced for my classes and subsequently re-wrote for my portfolio, I've added an analytical reflection about my growth and evolution during my studies in the English MA program, and about overcoming my difficulties until I finally found the connection between English and historical interests that I sorely needed in order to heighten my enthusiasm and motivation. This reflection brings together the reasons I chose the works in my portfolio to represent my initial discomfort …

Say It Ain't So: An Analysis Of The Etymology And The Colloquial Usage Of "Ain't", Abbey Johnson

Undergraduate Research Celebration 2018

No abstract provided.

College Esl Writers: Applied Grammar And Composing Strategies For Success, Barbara Hall, Elizabeth Wallace

English Open Textbooks

Authors' Description:

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments. Following that, we provide instruction in paragraph and essay writing with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments.

We have structured the etext into three …

The Reality Of Escape In Fantasy, Abbigail Mazour

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This paper seeks to examine the instances of escape experienced by the characters in popular fantasy novels such as The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and looks at how this escape teaches its audiences lessons about the real world and philosophical truths. It answers the question of whether or not fantasy is escape and why, accepting fantasy as escapist, this genre—and escape itself—is valuable to its audiences. The method for completing this project was a close analysis of the primary texts The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter along with the research and writing done by Tolkien …

Mathematics, Writing, And Rhetoric: Deep Thinking In First-Year Learning Communities, Christine Von Renesse, Jennifer Digrazia

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Through the process of combining two seemingly unlikely bedfellows, mathematics and composition, two instructors explain how rhetoric connects the art of writing and the art of doing mathematics in an inquiry-based learning community. Combining these two courses in a learning community enables students and instructors to practice the deep thinking valued by each instructor and by a traditional liberal arts education while challenging both our and our students’ individual, disciplinary, and rhetorical conventions and beliefs. Using student writing from our course, our assignments from mathematics and composition, and survey evaluation results, we demonstrate how engaging in inquiry-based education provides unconventional …

Eng 4763-001: Advanced Fiction Writing, Daiva Markelis

Spring 2018

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Eng 1001g-003: College Composition L, Lucinda Berry

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-008: College Composition Ii, Olga Abella

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-010: College Composition Ii, Tim Engles

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-012: College Composition Ii, Denise Preston

Spring 2018

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Eng 3009g-001: Myth And Culture, Dagni Bredesen

Spring 2018

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Eng 3061-001: Intermediate Nonfiction Writing, Daiva Markelis

Spring 2018

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Eng 3300-001: Seminar In English Studies, Melissa Ames

Spring 2018

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Eng 3807-001: Victorian Literature, Dagni Bredesen

Spring 2018

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Eng 4275-600: Internship In Professional Writing, Terri Fredrick

Spring 2018

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Eng 5061d-001: Topics In Literature And Literary Theory, Christopher Wixson

Spring 2018

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Eng 1001g-240: College Composition I Dual Credit, Anna Schultes

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-002: College Composition Ii, Lucinda Berry

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-011: College Composition Ii, Michael Kuo

Spring 2018

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Eng 2205-001: Introduction To Literary Studies, Julie Campbell

Spring 2018

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Eng 3803-001: Renaissance And 17th Century British Literature, Melissa Caldwell

Spring 2018

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Eng 1001g-005: College Composition I, Marjorie Worthington

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-006: College Composition Ii, Robert Martinez

Spring 2018

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Eiu 4192g-099: Honors Senior Seminar In Film And Contemporary Society, Robert Martinez

Spring 2018

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Eng 1000-003: Fundamentals Of College Comp, Charles Wharram

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-001: College Composition Ii, Robert Martinez

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-004: College Composition Ii, Michael Kuo

Spring 2018

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Eng 1002g-013: College Composition Ii, Randall Beebe

Spring 2018

No abstract provided.