Gangster rap music has a bad rap. This thesis aims to recontextualize N.W.A.’s 3 premier songs, “Express Yourself,” “Fuck the Police,” and “Straight Outta Compton” in an effort to reveal the ingrained thematic critiques ...
The myth of the island Patmos of Greece (originally “Letois”, after Artemis, the daughter of Leto) is used as a metaphor in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero Sueño. According to the myth, Selene (the moon goddess), in ...
"Narcissistic Narrative: Tristram Shandy and the Diseased Text" explores the language of disease in the eighteenth-century Laurence Sterne novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. The novel is a fictionalized ...
Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex is the first person narrative of Cal, an individual who has lived a “mythical life” (Eugenides 424) and experienced the “impossible” (Eugenides 516) and whose narrative is described as “this ...
An exploration into how fantastic literature as a literary genre prioritizes its interactions with the reader and immerses the reader into a fantastic setting that resides in a hybrid space between reality and fiction. The ...
Our study used a narrative approach to the identity development of bicultural individuals. More specifically, we were interested in how bicultural individuals, who vary in the extent to which they feel bicultural conflict ...
This thesis explores the event in Manningtree, a small town in Essex, in 1645 that began the two‐year period that would come to be called England’s “Witch Craze” and the circumstances that lead to those events. The trials ...
When I was young, I loved playing with my grandmother’s elbow skin; I was fascinated by the way in stayed in place, its elasticity, and the beautiful purple and green color of her veins. Her arm became a place of exploration ...
As technology changes, how do the ways we represent ourselves change? How do we represent ourselves in our artificial creations? As the boundaries between ourselves and robots become less clear, what does it mean to be ...
When World War II ended in 1945, Americans flocked to Yellowstone National Park in unprecedented numbers. Since Congress established Yellowstone as the first national park in 1872, notions of American distinction, endurance, ...
This thesis aims to compare the ways in which Joan of Arc was portrayed by the French Resistance with the way she was depicted by the collaborationist Vichy government between 1940 and 1944. The fact that she could represent ...