This thesis explores the utilization of humor to address religious tensions in the medieval texts Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes and The Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer. Are authors using humor to ...

This thesis examines the phenomenon of double classifiers occurring in Navajo verbs. It analyzes these phenomena in the context of the phonological d-effect, and discusses possible reasons for the existence of double ...

This paper presents an analysis of DP-internal only in English and Russian. I review the evidence in Coppock and Beaver (2012b, 2015) for definites containing only that do not presuppose uniqueness, and supplement it with ...

The purpose of this thesis is to look at various characteristics of institutions of higher learning in conjunction with each institution’s number of arrests and internal disciplinary actions for drug and liquor law violations. ...

This essay explores the role of the humanist designer in the creation of AI in an academic and social posthuman setting. Set on the cusp of the 21st century, Powers's pseudo-autobiographical Galatea 2.2 reimagines the myth ...

When Alexander Dubcek took over the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he embarked on an ambitious reform program meant to create a better relationship between the Party and the people of Czechoslovakia. The reform ...

Gestures serve an important role in human-computer interfaces, and advancing technology such as virtual and augmented reality makes 3-D gestures an increasingly important and powerful means of interaction. Robust gesture ...