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Davis, Ryan | "A torrent of words": colonial printers and the public, 1765-1775 | Although printers had long been important in colonial society and politics, it was not until 1765 that they fully realized their potential in shaping colonial attitudes and behavior. With Parliament's institution of the Stamp Act, an outraged public insisted that newspaper publishers assume a more a... | Printing; social aspects; United States; history; 18th century | 2012-05 |
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Barth, Charles | Construction of space, time, and free will through sound in Paradise lost | John Milton's Paradise Lost makes frequent reference to sound and music in its descriptions of heaven, Earth, and hell, and substantial research has been dedicated to dissecting how the poem's descriptions develop a figurative and literal hierarchy between these realms and their inhabitants. Much co... | 2021 | |
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Cook, Uinta Blue | Connecting Cultures, Connecting People: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Cuba | The theory of soft power, as described by Joseph Nye (1990), is evaluated, along with the theory behind public and cultural diplomacy as a means of engaging foreign publics in order to promote international rules in line with the practicing country's own goals and values. The tenets and implements o... | soft power; public diplomacy; cultural diplomacy; Cuba | 2017 |
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Smith, Hayden | Brown v. Board: The racial meridian: Racial segregation in the U.S. public education system before and after Brown v. Board of Education 1954 | The primary concentration of this project is an analysis of post-Brown v. Board segregation issues within the public education sphere. I focus primarily on the legal history of school desegregation in Texas as it is a Southern state with a long history of racial segregation. Furthermore, Texas effec... | Segregation in education - Texas | 2014-04 |
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Roberts, Ashley | The View From Our Mother's House | The View from Our Mother's House is a novel about a family of three women struggling to understand and accept their past, full of abandonment and manipulation, while dealing with the immediate needs of the mother dying from Alzheimer's disease. This project combines research in the field of literatu... | 2019 | |
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Giannopoulos, Diona | Let be: A novel | Diona Giannopoulos' novel Let Be is the story of 26-year-old Zoe, who after abandoning her family nearly seven years prior, returns home to discover her childhood house the exact same, her sisters barely changed, and her previously alcoholic father showing the beginning signs of Alzheimer's Disease.... | American fiction -- 21st century | 2015-04 |
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Lanier, Deandra | I am: the wake of postpostmodernism | The goal of this "essay," a compilation of the genres of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, is to figure out where contemporary fiction is headed and what postmodernism might be leaving in its wake. This essay is an attempt to push critique through the lens of fiction. It seems that the progre... | 2011 | |
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Stott, Trevor | "The wanderers" novel project | The title of the novel is "The Wanderers." My objective in writing this book was first and foremost to create something personally meaningful, which might connect with readers by touching on something in the cultural zeitgeist of young Millennials coming of age in an era of drastic change and global... | American fiction - 21st century | 2015-04 |
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