In this thesis, I explore what it means to read a comic. Because comics combine words and images, reading a comic involves discovering the various relationships between two forms of language that create meaning. Fundamentally,...
Stichwort:
comics und graphic novels
Fach:
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
This thesis analyzes the language of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Fact Sheet” on Female Genital Cutting (FGC). Because the Fact Sheet establishes FGC as a practice that must be stopped across the globe, the WHO’s...
Stichwort:
Agency, Empowerment, Global communications, Oppression, Professional communication und Rhetorical analysis
Fach:
Female circumcision -- Prevention, World Health Organization und Human rights
This thesis claims that because the present anthropocene (human caused mass extinction) is a human-incurred phenomenon, it is inescapably ideological. A critical approach to problem solving necessitates a deep analysis of...
Stichwort:
Anthropocene, Consumer culture, Envrionmentalism, Ideology und Spirtuality
Fach:
Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects, Ideology, Environmental degradation und Nature -- Effect of human beings on
At Home is a work of creative nonfiction in which each chapter is a self-supporting narrative about one period of my experiences in Franklin, North Carolina, before, during, or after the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. This...
Fach:
Anderson, April Lynn, Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Personal narratives, Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives und Franklin (Macon County, N.C.) -- Biography
For my thesis, I wrote a play. This play follows a world-famous genius detective in a similar vein to characters such as Poirot or Sherlock Holmes, being forced to team up with a hard-boiled noir detective in the same vein as...
This thesis presents the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for the development of a writing fellows program at Montreat College, a small, Christian, liberal arts college in Western North Carolina. This expression of a Writing...
Stichwort:
Peer Tutoring, Quality Enhancement Plan, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), Writing Fellows und Writing Pedagogy
Fach:
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching, Peer-group tutoring of students, Writing centers -- Administration und Academic writing -- Study and teaching
This creative thesis will contain several interconnected short stories. They exist in the same literary world populated by a revolving cast of characters. Some of them remain innocent and emotionally progressing, while others...
Fach:
Short stories, Self in literature, Redemption in literature, Colloquial language und First person narrative
In this thesis, I explore how an informal form of discourse like sidewalk chalking functions as and within a rhetorical ecology, how ideas and texts circulate within such a complex system, and how this sometimes disruptive...
Stichwort:
Actor Network Theory, cultural geography, ethnography, rhetorical ecology, rhetorical field work und rhetorics
Fach:
Rhetoric -- Philosophy, Communication -- Social aspects und Communication in social action
In a world where the government poisons the food supply as a way of controlling the population, two women from opposite ends of the economic spectrum form a rebel alliance. Grocery stores are guarded and monitored. Low income...
Stichwort:
class, dystopian, economic, literature, novel und writing
Fach:
Poor -- Fiction, Population policy -- Fiction, Food supply -- Government policy -- Fiction, Poisoning -- Fiction und Social classes -- Fiction
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization established in 1945 after World War II. The United Nations helps to regulate international relations and also promotes peace and security, human rights, social and...
Stichwort:
Genocide, Technical Communication, Technical Writing und United Nations
Fach:
United Nations, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, d(1948 December 9), Genocide, English language -- Rhetoric und Discourse analysis
