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Entry Nr. 487 Kossola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2026

Entry Nr. 487 Kossola, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 134 Isaac Anderson, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Jan 2026

Entry Nr. 134 Isaac Anderson, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Hidden Wounds And Secret Scars: The Post-World War Ii Western As A Cinema Of Trauma, Maggie Sue Scanlan Jan 2025

Hidden Wounds And Secret Scars: The Post-World War Ii Western As A Cinema Of Trauma, Maggie Sue Scanlan

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

In this project, I consider the post-WWII Western film as a site that represents and navigates war traumatized American masculinity. Through a discussion of the significance of the Western as a national myth that speaks directly to American masculinity and nation-building through individual violence, I situate the genre as an ideal vehicle to reframe war traumatized masculinity and analyze seven Westerns through a threefold analysis: metaphoric (a cinema of trauma), psychoanalytic (the traumatic gaze), and therapeutic (recovery and reintegration). In Chapter One, I track anxieties and preoccupations signaling the cultural concern with war trauma in genres more routinely associated with …


There Is No Substitute For A Lifetime: A Study Of Metaphor And Linguistic Autonomy In The Lives And Works Of Selected American Poets, Richard Tony Thompson Jan 2024

There Is No Substitute For A Lifetime: A Study Of Metaphor And Linguistic Autonomy In The Lives And Works Of Selected American Poets, Richard Tony Thompson

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Metaphor is not only figurative language, but also a way of understanding reality and creating truth. This study describes how selected American poets, including Tom Andrews, Patti Smith, and Natasha Trethewey, engage the concept of creation through metaphor in their poetic and autobiographical writing. Theories of signification, symbolism, and metaphor as defined by philosophers of language, including George Lakoff, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Roman Jakobson, are combined with complementary theories from philosophers of poetry, including Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham, and Federico García Lorca, and used as a lens through which to view the agency of the language user as a …


The Dances Of The Presidency, Robert Chapin Poyser Jan 2023

The Dances Of The Presidency, Robert Chapin Poyser

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

This thesis will analysis the ideologies of Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, & former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The thesis will focus on the use of feminist critiques of the political rhetoric spoken by all three politicians to argue the discourse in the Obama era, Hillary Clinton’s two Presidential campaigns and President Donald Trump rise as a politician.


Orphan Hermeneutics: Refashioning Archetypes In 19th-Century Epic Prose Fiction, John David Sieker Jan 2023

Orphan Hermeneutics: Refashioning Archetypes In 19th-Century Epic Prose Fiction, John David Sieker

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Celebrated authors of the 19th century, Herman Melville and Charles Dickens are frequently critiqued within specifically national parameters, regarded as authors whose literary concerns reflect their respective countries and cultures. From that premise, there seems little if any connective thread to link Bleak House, the quintessential "stay-at-home" novel, and Moby-Dick, the epic, sea-faring adventure spanning nearly the entire globe. However, certain parallels between these novels in both form and content prove quite striking and reveal a transatlantic connection worthy of sustained critical attention. Both Melville and Dickens gesture to biblical and Classical antiquity in order to weave their respective narratives. …


The Spatial Associations Between Crime And Economy In Chicago 2015-2020, Hongtao Huang May 2022

The Spatial Associations Between Crime And Economy In Chicago 2015-2020, Hongtao Huang

Honors Capstones

The severity of the crime is often the most intuitive reflection of whether a region is safe and the top factor for the public when evaluating a region. Economist's list of the safest cities in seven major North American cities, Chicago was ranked at six, just above Dallas. Chicago scored the lowest in personal security, which is closely tied to the crime. Against the backdrop of higher unemployment and prices, this study is interested in how property-based crimes are related to the economic decline in Chicago geographically. The study used the heterogeneity analysis tool Geodetector to investigate the correlation between …


Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 072 Un-Named Moko Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 072 Un-Named Moko Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 093 Un-Named Carabali Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 093 Un-Named Carabali Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 335 William Henry Pratt, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 335 William Henry Pratt, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 407 N Gonga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 407 N Gonga, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 425 Otsétse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 425 Otsétse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 397 Nyámse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 397 Nyámse, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 055 First Un-Named Sokko Or Asokko Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 055 First Un-Named Sokko Or Asokko Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 036 Johannes, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 036 Johannes, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 092 Un-Named Okwoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 092 Un-Named Okwoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 064 First Un-Named Watje Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 064 First Un-Named Watje Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 081 Fourth Un-Named Kanga Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 081 Fourth Un-Named Kanga Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 105 Anna Margaretha, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 105 Anna Margaretha, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 087 Second Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 087 Second Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 109 First Un-Named African Man In Pennsylvania, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 109 First Un-Named African Man In Pennsylvania, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 254 Cawley, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 254 Cawley, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 375 Isambakon, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 375 Isambakon, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 426 Otén, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 426 Otén, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 067 Un-Named Atja Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 067 Un-Named Atja Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 424 ‘Otu, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 424 ‘Otu, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 033 Un-Named African Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 033 Un-Named African Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 031 Un-Named African Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 031 Un-Named African Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.


Entry Nr. 032 Un-Named African Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd Mar 2022

Entry Nr. 032 Un-Named African Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd

500 African Voices

No abstract provided.