In 2005, Tokyo was the dioxin capital of the world, a likely carcinogen and emitted byproduct of burning plastic (Braun n.p.). In an effort to reduce the city’s environmental impact and community health risk, the Tokyo...
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Clean Water Act, President's Climate Action Plan, Tokyo 10-Year Plan und Tokyo Vision 2020
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Environmental policy -- Japan, Environmental policy -- United States, Environmental policy -- Social aspects, Rhetoric und Environmental responsibility
This work analyzes the rhetoric of incarceration in the United States, examining how our social hierarchy, systems of power, moral ideologies, and discourse practices have contributed to our status as the global leader of mass...
Stichwort:
Communication, Imprisonment, Perceptions, Prisoners, Rhetoric und Suicide
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States, Communication in law enforcement -- Social aspects -- United States, Communication in law enforcement -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County, Correctional institutions -- United States -- Influence und Correctional institutions -- Social aspects -- United States
In contemporary media ecologies, news consumers delegate the generation of political opinion to trusted outside entities. Consumers trust these purported experts, media personalities, or news outlets because their affect,...
Stichwort:
deliberative democracy, democracy, media ecology, media systems, new media und rhetorical circulation
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Media literacy, Democracy, Deliberative democracy, Critical thinking und Rhetoric
This work examines the rhetorical relationships of performance poetry (slam and spoken word) and how they create a truth-sharing environment for all who are involved through a case study of poets from Atlanta and Charlotte....
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Audience, Performance poetry, Poets, Relationships und Rhetoric
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Performance poetry -- North Carolina -- Charlotte und Performance poetry -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Traditionally, "community literacy" refers to programs that are based in and designed for communities – what I term the “in/for” paradigm in this thesis. In the “in/for” paradigm, literacy is, in essence, a commodity, passed...
Stichwort:
Adult Literacy, Community Literacy, Democracy, Literacy, Literacy Education und Rhetorical Framing
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Functional literacy, Community education, Reading (Adult education) und Democracy and education
This thesis takes a postcolonial perspective; however, it also utilizes theories on time and culture from an anthropological foundation. To fully understand how Magona and Mda present time, I first examine the nature of time in...
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Heart of Redness, Mother to Mother, Narrative Time, Nationalism, South Africa und Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Magona, Sindiwe. Mother to mother, Magona, Sindiwe -- Criticism and interpretation, Mda, Zakes. Heart of redness und Mda, Zakes -- Criticism and interpretation
Humor researchers have emphasized the role that sex differences and attitudes toward women play in moderating amusement with sexist humor. In-group/out-group conflict and the adherence to hostile sexist attitudes have been...
Stichwort:
Gender, Humor, Sexism, Sexist Humor und Social Context
Sanctuary is a creative writing thesis project for the M.A. in English program. The story of this novella follows young wife and mother Mary Miller who defends herself from her abusive husband one night and thinks she may have...
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American, Fiction, First person narrative, Creative writing und Abused women in literature
The cultural frameworks of the Seminole, Choctaw, and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian are heavily influenced by the importance of language, non-humans, and ceremony in creation narratives. The relationships described in...
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Creation in literature, American literature -- Indigenous American authors, Howe, LeAnne. Shell shaker, Hogan, Linda. Power und Nature in literature
The novella collection Singing Sleuth: Three Romantic Mysteries is a vital contribution to the creative arts because it fills an artistic gap. Within creative writing, a myriad of romantic stories and police procedurals exist....
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Detective and mystery stories, American und Love stories
