This thesis explores personal experience narratives as social practice within the death penalty abolition movement, focusing on the relationship established between the storyteller and the listener through the creation and ...

Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have gained considerable attentions for electronic applications. Their mechanical properties, ...

This thesis is an excerpt from a novel length work. In Victorian London, where industry is hurtling forward and mad science reigns, Oliver Reid is a thief who has spent most of his life just trying to survive. But while ...

This thesis describes the tendency to resort to anagogical interpretations when analyzing the work of Flannery O’Connor and the need to introduce new categories and language in O’Connor studies amid changing understandings ...

Individuals from underrepresented groups select a communicative practice in interactions with other individuals who have dominant backgrounds or with the structures of dominant society. Orbe (1998) theorized these communicative ...

Island breaching has occurred at least three times (1956, 1993, and 1998) over the past 60 years in the same place along southern Cedar Island, Virginia. Each time, the breach captured enough tidal prism to remain open, ...

This photograph shows a street scene in the American Southwest, possibly Texas, Arizona, or New Mexico ca. 1893. Three Mexican-American men in traditional mexican dress look at the photographer. One wears a poncho or blanket ...