Valle-Inclán, Ramón del, 1866-1936--Criticism and interpretation.; Honor in literature.
"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master in Arts in Spanish."; Thesis advisor: Ángela Morales.; Also available via the World Wide Web.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes...
"The Satanic Verses: A Mirroring Effect of an Inner Struggle" grapples with one of the many messages of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. My critical method of closely reading the novel offers an interpretation that seeks to illuminate the...
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; Arab-Israeli conflict; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
A presumption that the United States and Israel are joined in a common struggle against terrorism has become a part of the political orthodoxy of both the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties. Implicit in this worldview is the premise that the...
Honduras -- History -- 1933-1982; Honduras -- History -- 1982-; United States -- Foreign relations -- Honduras; Honduras -- Foreign relations -- United States
For the decade following the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, the United States organized, supported and sustained a group of counter-revolutionary forces in open warfare against a Marxist-inspired Sandinista government. Operating out of Honduran...
It is undeniable that conflict and change are a part or life. This often produces confusion or disillusionment, which can be difficult for adolescents. The author's perception of some of the challenges which contemporary youth face may be a...
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders -- Criticism and interpretation
Many critics who have studied Defoe have observed that he had a conflict between living a religious life and being a successful merchant. He explores this tension by creating fictional characters who face the same dilemma, as they carefully toe...
Data mining; RSS feeds; Natural language processing (Computer science)
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an internet-based technology allowing website publishers to easily and frequently broadcast relevant content updates to subscribers. Business analysts looking for content relevant to their needs have thousands of...
Orphans -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Children of AIDS patients -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
The AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa has many social, economic, and political effects on the region. I argue that the most devastating effect of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is the increase in orphaned children, commonly called AIDS orphans. An...
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Criticism and interpretation; Muslims -- Spain
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the presence of the Moorish in Miguel de Cervantes' novel, The Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha. The Moorish population was an Arab minority in Spain, converted to Christianity after the Reconquest of...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the use of marriage as a literary device in William Trevor's short fiction. Trevor has continually questioned the essence of matrimony in moral and psychological terms, attempting to define marriage and...
The story of the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest stories in Europe. The episode
of Jason and Medea, their passionate love transformed into fierce hate and destructive
desire of vengeance has been a theme of many literary, cinematographic and...
This Cities and Urban Land Use curriculum unit is intended to provide high school teachers of Advanced Placement Human Geography with a guide to teaching the broad and complex subject of urban geography. It may also add to the body of qualitative...
This project proposes to situate Cooper's Chingachgook and Hetty,Melville's Queequeg, and
Hawthorne's Pearl and Priscilla, as rhetorical characters of what shall be termed the primitive-as-savior
tradition of American fiction. This rhetoric...
Spiritual life; Leadership; College students -- Religious life
This thesis explored the significance of introducing spirituality and initiating a personal search for meaning and coherence into the higher education setting. This was accomplished through an exploration of various author's works and interviews...
