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,...
Parola chiave:
comics e graphic novels
Soggetto:
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...
Parola chiave:
Agency, Empowerment, Global communications, Oppression, Professional communication e Rhetorical analysis
Soggetto:
Female circumcision -- Prevention, World Health Organization e 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...
Parola chiave:
Anthropocene, Consumer culture, Envrionmentalism, Ideology e Spirtuality
Soggetto:
Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects, Ideology, Environmental degradation e 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...
Soggetto:
Anderson, April Lynn, Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Personal narratives, Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives e 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...
Parola chiave:
Peer Tutoring, Quality Enhancement Plan, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), Writing Fellows e Writing Pedagogy
Soggetto:
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching, Peer-group tutoring of students, Writing centers -- Administration e 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...
Soggetto:
Short stories, Self in literature, Redemption in literature, Colloquial language e 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...
Parola chiave:
Actor Network Theory, cultural geography, ethnography, rhetorical ecology, rhetorical field work e rhetorics
Soggetto:
Rhetoric -- Philosophy, Communication -- Social aspects e 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...
Parola chiave:
class, dystopian, economic, literature, novel e writing
Soggetto:
Poor -- Fiction, Population policy -- Fiction, Food supply -- Government policy -- Fiction, Poisoning -- Fiction e 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...
Parola chiave:
Genocide, Technical Communication, Technical Writing e United Nations
Soggetto:
United Nations, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, d(1948 December 9), Genocide, English language -- Rhetoric e Discourse analysis
