This thesis discusses the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s ( or USCCB) civic engagement as a means to understand the secular and sacred in Catholic activism. In order to better comprehend the religious ...

Some organizations, such as construction companies, advertise the importance of employee safety on their websites; however, few research efforts have sought to understand if this safety information has any effect on potential ...

SALAD DAYS is the story of Anne Roberts’s coming of middle age. Anne has enjoyed an uneventful, uninspired life as a mother, wife and English teacher, but that all begins to change once she and her husband become empty ...

This thesis describes the works of Nancy Huston, an Anglophone-Canadian who began her writing career in Paris, and, more importantly, in French, an adopted language. The importance of this author’s cultural and linguistic ...

This thesis is a collection of poems centering around experiences of travel and social location. The poems consider speech acts and cultural preservation in various forms through sectioned narratives, establishing surprising ...

How do societies begin to reconcile the schizophrenic “before” and “after” worlds experienced in the aftermath of severe social and political change? Literature of war and revolution suggests in a powerful way that it ...

The lab report is a genre commonly assigned by lab instructors and written by science majors in undergraduate science programs. The teaching and learning of the lab report, however, is a complicated and complex process ...

This thesis demonstrates that advancements in communication, technology and media are providing new inspiration, tools and techniques to quilt artists and have enabled them to transform the 1960s art quilt into a new ...

This thesis provides an interdisciplinary study of the representation of political violence in Perú in the works Adiós, Ayacucho (1986), a novel written by Julio Ortega, La boca del lobo (1989), a film directed by Francisco ...

“Secondhand” is a collection of linked essays that centers on the sudden death of the narrator’s father in 2005, when she was 21. Each of the eight essays in the collection explores who her father was and the grief she ...