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Ethiopian instructors' experience with accommodating students' learning styles at Bahir Dar University
(2008-12)
Scope and Method of Study: There is a trend sweeping across Ethiopia to move the method of instruction away from the traditional lecture method, which has been employed for the last half a century, toward a more student-centered ...
"Great art of telling the truth": Tragic evasion in American fiction, 1798-1952
(2022-12)
My dissertation examines signal works of American tragic fiction—novels, novellas, and short stories—from Charles Brockden Brown to Ralph Ellison. With the exception of scholar-critics like Rita Felski and Terry Eagleton, ...
Casino of the Sun: A collection of poems with a critical introduction
(2006-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Drawing upon the literary criticism of various authors---from Emily Dickinson to Robert Bly to Stephen Dobyns---while acknowledging the work of poets who have directly influenced my own ...
Laughing from the outside: Hipsters and American stand-up comedy
(2017-05)
In recent years, stand-up comedy has enjoyed increased attention from both popular and scholarly audiences for its potential as a forum for public intellectualism. This study traces this rise in prominence to the hipster ...
Language processing in Arabic-English bilinguals: A mixed methods investigation
(2017-05)
This study examines second language activation in Arabic-English bilinguals for whom Arabic was the first language. Modeling its design on Colome (2001), the research compared processing in a picture-phoneme matching task ...
Redemption and revenge: The legacies of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Duston
(2019-12)
Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God and the various accounts written about Hannah Duston's captivity have become notable as a result of how these two women reacted while taken captive by Native peoples. ...
Griffith brothers circuits of Oklahoma: Film exhibition success outside the Hollywood studio system
(2007-05)
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Space, representation, and realism in contemporary European art cinema
(2021-05)
This dissertation analyzes a select group of contemporary films that can generally be categorized as European art cinema by focusing on how space, representation, and realism operate within them. The study concentrates on ...