American literature -- Hispanic American authors; Masculinity
This thesis focuses on how the male-male relationships in contemporary Latino novels by Piri Thomas, Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., Junot Díaz, Arturo Islas, and John Rechy help or hurt the protagonists’ developing masculinity and overall sense of...
American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity -- In literature
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complexities surrounding the acceptance of personal and cultural identity for protagonists in Chicano/a literature. By way of close reading analysis and methodological comparison, I delve into three...
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation; Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Characters -- Women
Canadian novelist and poet, Margaret Atwood, argues that survival is the main theme commonly found in Canadian literature. The purpose of this thesis is to examine this theory of 'survival' in Margaret Atwood's own work. Atwood states in her...
Autism in children -- Diagnosis; Autism in children -- Case studies
Autism has many definitions, but its most specific definition describes it as a developmental disorder that affects verbal and non-verbal communication as well as social interaction. It affects a person’s ability to respond appropriately to their...
Chávez Frías, Hugo; Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-
This thesis represents an effort to evaluate the socialist reforms Hugo Chavez has implemented in Venezuela since his ascent to the Presidency in 1998. In order to understand Chavez's ideologies, the initial chapters of this thesis put Venezuela's...
Child molesters -- New Jersey -- Registers; Child sexual abuse -- New Jersey -- Prevention
Today, all 50 states in the United States of America have created a system of registration and notification for convicted sex offenders. These laws were quickly enacted in the past several years in response to horrific crimes against children that...
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
This thesis proposes the Samuel Coleridge's poetry attempts to forge an interdependent relationship between imagination and faith. In the Biographia Literaria Coleridge suggests that the imagination is an entity separate from man and similar to the...
“Why Join A Cult?: An Analysis of the Motivating Factors behind an Individual’s Decision to Join a Cult” considers the prevalence of cults in today’s society in relation to pseudoscientific beliefs. While the public generally attributes the...
Drug traffic -- Colombia; Guerrilla warfare -- Colombia; Colombia -- Social conditions
During the 1980's, Latin America was one of the major concerns of the U.S. foreign policy. Countries like Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Colombia had unstable governments and civil war created a clear and present danger to the national security of the...
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Marriage in literature
The depiction of marriage in City Comedy is characterized by some striking differences from its depiction in Early Modern Romantic Comedy. In most cases, marriage is depicted in City Comedy as being of no greater importance than any other social...
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; Discourse analysis; Internet games -- Social aspects
The research presented here attempted to replicate previous work done by Peña and Hancock in 2006 which examined the proportion of socioemotional versus task based utterances used in online, recreational computer mediated communication (CMC). This...
The introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002 created a new element of uniformity and extended the capabilities of the European Union. Through a lengthy process of trials, failures, and breakthroughs, which spanned from the European Union’s...
France is a country with a strong sense of its own identity and traditions, the so-called exception franaise. Currently, there is widespread concern about what it means to be French that stems from threats such as the global economy, the European...
Geography -- Study and teaching; Geographic information systems
Geographic illiteracy is a chronic problem in the United States perpetuated, in part, by teachers who lack proper geography education training and by weak state education certification requirements. Initiatives for improving geographic literacy...
High school dropouts; General educational development tests
This study examined the systemic characteristics of three major
risk factors of high school dropout in the Windsor Locks School District.
It further investigated the social dynamics of the circumstances which
force dropouts in the same school...
Typically, scholars approach Holocaust literature with a focus solely on history or on trauma theory. And yet, as I propose in 'The Holocaust's Literary Perpetrator,' these modes of examination are not sufficient in their explanations of blame. ...
Horáková, Milada,1901-1950 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1992
Over the last twenty years and since the fall of the Iron Curtain, stories that were once silenced under the Czechoslovak Communist occupation are at last being voiced. The discovery of accounts of those who were persecuted under communism has...
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Connecticut
The present study explores the need to research, recommend and implement a
Juvenile Review Board and measures officer responses to that Juvenile Review Boards'
inception. The study begins with the police department looking at its ability to...
Leadership effectiveness can affect the success or failure of an organization. The way a leader (CEO, manager, supervisor etc.) communicates to employees can affect the degree to which employees will willingly follow and respect the leader, be...
Norman Mailer has never been portrayed as a favorite of female readers;
moreover, he has been persistently misunderstood in terms of the female role in his works
throughout his fifty-six year writing career. These misinterpretations may be...
