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Eng 5585-001: Writing Workshop For Teachers: Best Writing From Our Students And Ourselves, Robin Murray

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 2009g-051: Literature And Human Values: Race, Age, Gender, Chris Wixson

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 3970/5997, Suzie Park, Charles Wharram

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-002: Language And Composition, Angela Vietto

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-001: Composition And Literature, R Beebe

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-001: Composition And Literature, Richard Sylvia

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 3705-001: Multicultural U. S. Literature, Christopher Hanlon

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 3807-001: Victorian Literature, Richard Sylvia

Summer 2012

No abstract provided.

Enhancing Listening And Spoken Skills In Spanish Connected Speech For Anglophones, Elena Paz Vizcaya

Doctoral

Native speech is directed towards native listeners, not designed for comprehension and analysis by language learners. Speed of delivery, or economy of effort, produces a speech signal to which the native listener can assign the correct words. There are no discrete words in the speech signal itself therefore there is often a linguistic barrier in dealing with the local spoken language.
The creation, development and application of the Dynamic Spanish Speech Corpus (DSSC) facilitated an empirically-based appreciation of speaking speed and prosody as obstacles to intelligibility for learners of Spanish. “Duologues”, natural, relaxed dialogues recorded in such a manner that …

Integration Of Nutrition Education Classes Into English As Second Language Classes For Refugees, Sarah Gunnell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Each year approximately 73,000 refugees are resettled into the United States because it is unsafe for them to return to their country of origin. Resettlement agencies help refugees learn about their new environment and provide assistance with housing, food, English classes, and job skills training. The goal of resettlement programs is to help refugees become self-sufficient as quickly as possible.

Recently resettled refugees face many challenges that make it difficult to eat healthy food. Transportation, English skills, and conflicting work hours are some of the barriers to receiving nutrition education. This research evaluated the integration of nutrition lessons into English …

Satori 2012, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

"That House Belongs To Me": The Appropriation Of Space, Place, And Heritage In L.M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy, Rebecca J. Thompson

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Individual Voice: The Expression Of Authority Through Dialects, Idiolects, And Borrowed Terminology In Chaucer’S Canterbury Tales, Jacqueline Cordell

Honors Theses and Capstones

Using Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this paper seeks to demonstrate how language affects the social construction of identity in literature within the late Middle Ages. To accomplish this it looks at how characters (particularly those in the Reeve's and Miller's Tales) attempt to give themselves greater authority over their peers in instances of social conflict by either changing their dialect or, by using terminology borrowed from power-imbued languages like French and Latin. The paper also discusses changes in authority outside the literature by examining the impact of scribal idiolect on the presentation and perception of Chaucer's individual characters.

Boats Against The Current: The American Dream As Death Denial In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S The Great Gatsby And Arthur Miller’S Death Of A Salesman, Patrice Comeau

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

The First And Final Poetry Of Joanne Deming, Joanne Deming

Honors Theses and Capstones

This thesis is a culmination of my development as a writer at the University of New Hampshire. It explores the idea of the self and how it applies to writing. Because I am legally changing my name after graduation, these poem have come to represent "Joanne Deming" as a writer before she becomes "Joanne Wood."

November Days, Caitlin Sacco

Honors Theses and Capstones

"November Days" is a nonfiction story about a teenage girl diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 15 in 1983. It goes back and forth between her sickness and death and the impact that it still has on her family and friends thirty years later. It is a story about love and loss and the family that has never recovered.

Teaching English Language Learners From China, Abigail Pavlik

Honors Theses and Capstones

This research paper attempts to provide American teachers with important background information for teaching English language learners from China. The research is presented primarily for ESL teachers, but much of it would also be useful for any teacher or professor working with students of this description. The paper proceeds by exploring similarities and differences between 1. Chinese and English, 2. Chinese and American culture, and 3. Chinese and American education or "classroom culture," considering all along the way the implications for teaching and working with these students.

Honor In The Face Of Death: Hemingway’S Moral Code In Death In The Afternoon And For Whom The Bell Tolls, Nias Achorn

Honors Theses and Capstones

This paper analyzes the code of honor in bullfighting as it is explained in Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway. It then describes the cathartic emotion given to the audience after an honorable performance and discusses the implications of this emotion. Finally, this paper applies the previous analyses of Death in the Afternoon to an analysis of For Whom the Bell Tolls in order to explain how the novel suggests Hemingway's understanding of the Spanish way of life.

Tea Leaves, Kerry Feltner

Honors Theses and Capstones

My paper describes the importance of ancestors in your present day life and how my grandmother and her writings came back into my life to help guide me in my present moments.

Refusing “To Lie Low In The Dust”: Native Women’S Literacies In Southern New England 1768-1800, Renee Poisson

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Ahmed, Ramatu, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Ramatu Ahmed

Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison

Date of Interview: March 10, 2010

Summarized by Sheina Ledesma

Ramatu Ahmed is a leader in the Ghanaian community in New York City. She is currently a committee member of the National Council of Women of the United States and the Harlem Hospital’s Medina Clinic but is actively involved in many other projects and organizations that are working towards the improvement of the lives of women who live in both Africa and America. One of her greatest passions is bringing awareness to the issue of the lack of availability of higher education for …

Does Mooch The Cat Speak French?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

In the 1990s, I lived in Athens, Georgia, where I was a doctoral student in linguistics. I read the newspaper almost every day, and I started reading a comic strip called Mutts, by Patrick McDonnell. I loved the strip — the sweetness and good intentions of the dog, Earl, was paired with the slightly self-centered cat, Mooch, who also happened to be not quite as smart as Earl in many ways. These two characters are neighbors who live in an urban area that is best characterized as a city in the northeastern United States.

In the series that this …

Eng 1001g-010: Composition And Language, Leann Athey

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-004: Composition And Language, Mary Dwiggins

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-009-022-034, Kathy Olsen

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 3405-001: Children's Literature, John David Moore

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 3901-001: Language And Linguistics, Buck

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001g-001: Composition And Language, Lynanne Page

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002g-018: Composition And Literature, Leann Athey

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.

Eng 2011g-001: Literature, Self, World: Fiction, M Leddy

Spring 2012

No abstract provided.