The historic election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008 has attracted much interest in the humanities. The narrower lens of rhetorical analysis has yet to explore one of Obama’s most notable...
Stichwort:
Dichotomy, Memoir, Obama, Oratory und Politics
Fach:
Obama, Barack -- Oratory, Obama, Barack -- Literary art, Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century, Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century und Political oratory -- United States -- History -- 21st century
This thesis examines eighteen of Ronald Reagan’s major speeches given between the years of 1964 and 1989 in order to show that Reagan rhetorically constructed a dimension that operated outside of the civil-religious contract as...
Stichwort:
American Exceptionalism, Civil Religion, Presidential Rhetoric und Ronald Reagan
Fach:
Reagan, Ronald -- Language, Reagan, Ronald -- Oratory und Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
In 1942, the United States Congress approved the construction of Fontana Dam in Swain County, NC. To carry out this project, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) entered the region to construct the dam and its reservoir. In the...
Stichwort:
Appalachia, Fontana, public memory, Swain County, TVA und western NC
Fach:
Fontana Dam (N.C. : Dam), Tennessee Valley Authority und Collective memory
Over the past few years it has become apparent to educators that the traditional focal points of composition are being necessarily shifted, outside of the classroom, because of the rhetorical spaces made available by the...
Stichwort:
composition, delivery, emoticons, gesture, paralinguistic und rhetoric
Fach:
Emoticons, Text messages (Cell phone systems), Composition (Language arts) und Rhetoric
In this thesis, I examine the public rhetoric of two very big men of post-colonial Zaire: master musician Franco Luambo Makiadi, and military dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, whose careers were roughly contemporary. The rhetoric...
Stichwort:
authenticity, Kinshasa/Zaire, Lingala, mbwakela, postcolonialism und rumba
Fach:
Franco, 1938-1989, Mobutu Sese Seko, 1930-1997, Popular music -- Congo (Democratic Republic) und Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions
This creative thesis comprises the first three chapters of Holding Her Own, a novel whichexplores the career of a young warrant officer who trains on the AH-64 Apache helicopter twoyears after the United States Army lifts the...
Stichwort:
Apache, aviation, combat, military, PTSD und women
Fach:
Women helicopter pilots -- Fiction, United States -- Armed Forces -- Women -- Fiction und Pregnancy, Unwanted -- Fiction
On the surface, “Holy Lands” seems to be simply a collection of poetry examining the relationship between people and the land. The poems’ subjects all revolve around family or nature. However, within these poems, two narratives...
Stichwort:
family, land, poetry und southern
Fach:
Eden -- Poetry, Family farms -- Poetry und Families -- Poetry
One of the central topics of study in the field of Rhetoric and Composition is the ways that writers relate to writing technologies. While some take technological instrumentalist stances, others posit that writing technologies...
Stichwort:
creative nonfiction, digital rhetoric, digital-material rhetoric, embodied writing, new materialism und personal essay
Fach:
Creative nonfiction, Rhetoric, First person narrative, Continental philosophy, Essay und Literature and technology
Presented here for your consideration is a multimedia, genre-bending creative experiment in the form of a comedic travel memoir. Utilizing conventions from several creative genres including memoir, fiction, screenwriting and...
Stichwort:
Comedy, Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Memoir, Multimedia und Road Trip
This creative thesis will contain nine opening chapters of a novella titled The Hula Girl. The Hula Girl is a novella that implements cultural study and narrative to address a fundamentally emotional issue: how to reconcile...
Stichwort:
American Literature, Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Literary Minimalism, Novella/Novel und Personal Identity
