“A Definitive History of All the Things I Like (And Some I Hate)” is a nonfiction collection, where each essay is about various things that have had a severe impact on my life, or at least the things I’ve been obsessed with...
Stichwort:
nonfiction, personal essay und pop culture
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Creative nonfiction, Essays, Popular culture und Autobiography
William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat experiments with early modern literary genre and marks a transitional period in rhetoric and in political reform. Beware the Cat confronts issues of textual authority among a novice English...
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Baldwin, Beware, Cat, Grimalkin und William
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Baldwin, William, -- approximately 1518-1563? -- Criticism and interpretation, English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism, Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century und Satire, English
Critics traditionally have insisted on labeling Oscar Wilde as an English writer, largely neglecting the fact that he was born and raised in Ireland. Many factors contribute to the categorization of Wilde as English: he lived...
Stichwort:
Irish, Oscar Wilde und Seanchai
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Biography, Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Knowledge -- Ireland und Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography
Though undoubtedly a noble pursuit, service to others is not immune to the corrosive effects of power structures, unexamined bias, and institutionalized marginalization. This thesis searches for solutions to potentially...
Stichwort:
charity, engagement, philanthropy, rhetoric, service und welfare
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Social service -- United States, Service learning -- United States und Rhetoric -- United States
In recent times, the idea of apocalypse has consumed the public consciousness. Naturally, this preoccupation with the end of the world has been a frequent subject for literary exploration. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and...
Stichwort:
Apocalypse, Atwood, Language, McCarthy, Postapocalypse und Postapocalyptic
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McCarthy, Cormac,1933- -- Criticism and interpretation, McCarthy, Cormac,1933- -- Road, Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation, Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Oryx and Crake und Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism
As a proponent for social change few authorrs have had the continuing impact or critical influence of Charles Dickens (1812-70), who used his writings to critique and, he wished, to change his culture. In this respect, Dickens...
Stichwort:
Dickens, Milton, Narrator und Omniscient
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Bleak House, Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Characters, Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation, Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence und English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
This thesis explores the concept of story and its potential use within the community college composition classroom. Story is everywhere; it is how we as human beings make sense of our existence and our role within the world....
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Storytelling -- Psychological aspects, College students -- Psychology, Identity (Psychology), Self-perception, Self-efficacy, Teacher-student relationships und Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Psychological aspects
Environmental activism in Appalachia in recent years has focused on the harm that practicessuch as mountaintop removal mining, hydraulic fracturing, and deforestation contribute to thenatural landscape of the Appalachian...
Stichwort:
Appalachia, Ecofeminism, Environmentalism und Women's Labor
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Ecofeminism in literature, Environmental degradation in literature, Women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions, Davis, Rebecca Harding,1831-1910. Life in the Iron-Mills., Bush, Florence Cope, 1933-, American literature -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History and criticism. und Dykeman, Wilma. Tall woman.
Richard Wright’s major works of the early 1940s—Native Son (1940) and 12 Million BlackVoices (1941)—protest the racism of the mainstream media and advance positive images ofAfrican American life. Through his exploration of the...
Stichwort:
African American Literature, Civil Rights, Jim Crow, Marxism, Media und Richard Wright
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation, African Americans in mass media, Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son, Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. 12 million black voices, American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism, African American men in literature, African Americans -- Social conditions und United States -- Race relations
This piece of writing will incorporate elements of a memoir as it is a written history frommy life. Still, it will also make room for mystical realism, and experimental prose as I investigate my ambitions, fears, and dreams –...
