O stars make important contributions to the energy and composition of the interstellar medium through their stellar winds and tendency to become super-novae. The Chandra satellite has recently observed X-ray emission lines ...

According to the semantic approach, meaning resides in the structure of linguistic forms. In the view from pragmatics, meaning derives from context. If one were to conceive of language as a beam of light, a study of ...

In this essay, I identify an interpretation of American history that reflects the religious notion of millennialism within a high school history textbook published in 2002, The Americans. The authors of The Americans display ...

“Wanna play carpenter? First we’ll get hammered and then I’ll nail you!” The first time I ever lied to somebody and told them I wanted to be an architect, I had just been caught skateboarding in a construction site. I had ...

This paper endeavors to develop strategies to improve vinyl sales and elevate the status of vinyl DJs. A survey of psychological literature suggests that vinyl DJs have attributes that would predict intense group cohesion ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, one in which economic and political elites tend to dominate national, state, and local affairs, it has become increasingly difficult for an individual's voice to be heard. All too ...

In this thesis, I explore patterns of racial performance by Mrican Americans on Black Twitter by building on pragmatic and sociolinguistic frameworks for computer-mediated communication (CMC) analysis. Black Twitter is ...