Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Department "English"
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This analysis follows Jane Austen’s exploration of womanhood and autonomy within her last completed novel, Persuasion. It investigates her commentary on the feminine experience under the rigid traditionalism of the Regency ...
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(1995)Throughout history, mankind has always depended on the "scapegoat". In surveying the mythology of the past, Sir James George Frazer identifies and traces numerous instances of the paradigm. Moreover, Western thought and ...
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(2016-07-27)This presentation given at the "Music Scholarship Online" meeting describes the procedures for peer reviewing digital projects employed by the Advanced research consortium
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(2016-07-27)This presentation presents the Resource Data Framework (RDF) requirements of the Advanced Research Consortium.
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(1987)Mark Twain has had considerable influence upon the authors that have followed him. Little criticism has been written concerning the specific influence of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on novels of this century, although ...
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This is a creative work that looks at the practice of ritualistic human sacrifice throughout different ages and cultures and how this custom affects the people of that society. While it is commonly known that ancient ...
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The Witcher series, by Andrzej Sapkowski, has recently become an international phenomenon. On top of its international pop-cultural success, one of the most interesting aspects about the series is the political landscape ...
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My thesis is a novel which aims to tell the story on an angel who is banished from Heaven and goes on a journey to attempt to return. My novel seeks to portray a journey of spirituality and sexuality through the format of ...
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(1984)All of these linguists have missed the boat, however, by not Following up the suggestion that Mencken gave. The clearest evidence for the influence or one language or dialect on another lies in the grammatical systems of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Benign is a story set in the microscopic world of cellular respiration and reproduction. The plot is concerned with the epiphanies and adventures of Pro, a microorganism who stumbles upon a shocking conspiracy being sustained ...
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(1984)As World War II ended and the Cold War began, American novelists were left with a feeling that reality was more fantastic than anything they could imagine. How could they write literature that reflected modern reality and ...
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(1996)I began this creative project with two main goals in mind. I first planned to lay the intellectual framework for the fiction that I would write by reading books that were recognized as part of the bildungsroman genre. I ...
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(1991)Fifty years after his death on December 21, 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known perhaps as well for his drinking as for his writing. There are a number of reasons for this: the notorious first-hand accounts of his drinking ...
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My research will elucidate the idea of “Brotherhood” as it relates to the soldiers fighting for our country. First, I will attempt to define a clear concept of Brotherhood as it relates to the American Armed Forces. Then ...
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How can film be used to explore political polarization surrounding the issue of Campus Carry? I explored this polarization by fictionalizing a shooting on the Texas A&M campus committed by a schizophrenic student. The ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)This study seeks to explicate the complex relationship between crime and drama in early modern England. In a historical context of social, political, and religious upheaval, defining criminality becomes an essential ...
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It is no secret that the last couple of decades have found the Christian and LGBTQ+ communities increasingly at odds with each other as they each seek to uphold their vastly opposed ideologies. Even with this growing ...
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(2012-07-11)In 1967, Warner Bros. released the film Cool Hand Luke and out of this film came one of the most famous quotes in the history of motion pictures: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” That same year marked ...
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(2010-07-14)How do we explain when high school students graduate and are barely able to communicate Spanish? With the growth of global interdependence, students within the United States need to be realistically prepared for an ...