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...
Parola chiave:
Clean Water Act, President's Climate Action Plan, Tokyo 10-Year Plan e Tokyo Vision 2020
Soggetto:
Environmental policy -- Japan, Environmental policy -- United States, Environmental policy -- Social aspects, Rhetoric e 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...
Parola chiave:
Communication, Imprisonment, Perceptions, Prisoners, Rhetoric e Suicide
Soggetto:
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 e 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,...
Parola chiave:
deliberative democracy, democracy, media ecology, media systems, new media e rhetorical circulation
Soggetto:
Media literacy, Democracy, Deliberative democracy, Critical thinking e 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....
Parola chiave:
Audience, Performance poetry, Poets, Relationships e Rhetoric
Soggetto:
Performance poetry -- North Carolina -- Charlotte e 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...
Parola chiave:
Adult Literacy, Community Literacy, Democracy, Literacy, Literacy Education e Rhetorical Framing
Soggetto:
Functional literacy, Community education, Reading (Adult education) e 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...
Parola chiave:
Heart of Redness, Mother to Mother, Narrative Time, Nationalism, South Africa e Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Soggetto:
Magona, Sindiwe. Mother to mother, Magona, Sindiwe -- Criticism and interpretation, Mda, Zakes. Heart of redness e 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...
Parola chiave:
Gender, Humor, Sexism, Sexist Humor e 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...
Soggetto:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American, Fiction, First person narrative, Creative writing e 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...
Soggetto:
Creation in literature, American literature -- Indigenous American authors, Howe, LeAnne. Shell shaker, Hogan, Linda. Power e 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....
Soggetto:
Detective and mystery stories, American e Love stories
