The problem addressed by this study was: how do non-native speakers of English acquire domain-specific literacy suitable to their academic discipline in a graduate program? The participants were four (three male and one female) Iranian doctoral students of education in their sec…
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Recent developments in literacy research indicate that literacy needs to be studied and understood in context as situated social practice. Moreover, it is argued that any account and investigation of literacy must draw on both social and linguistic theory. Many literacy studies …
During the 1970's, the political structure of Iran was in turmoil due to the fact that the country's leader had turned his government into a form of dictatorship, in which he controlled the ultimate powers. As resentment arose against the government's failure to guarantee civil …
The purpose of this study is to examine Luke 15:1-17:10 against the background of Greco-Roman rhetoric. The study shows the correlation between this Lukan passage and the Greco-Roman defense speech outlined in the rhetorical handbooks. It argues that Luke 15:1-17:10 is a judicia…
Both the Watergate break-in of the early 1970s and the Iran-Contra affair of the late 1980s created enormous political controversy. In both instances, one of the main responses to the situation was the creation of select congressional committees to investigate the alleged wrongd…
The general purpose of this research is to examine the conceptual frameworks through which Americans in the post-Cold war era imagine war to be legitimate. As the first full scale American military engagement of the new era, the Persian Gulf Crisis offers an opportunity to exami…
Reading literary texts has always been problematic. It is especially problematic when subject of study is a literature from another time and place. Modern Persian literature exemplifies this situation because it has been the subject of multiple and at times contradictory reading…
The September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States brought Islam into the American focus. The subsequent public discussion of Islam and terrorism is replete with competing moral claims and sensitivity to which views are socially acceptable, against a backdrop of war and s…
This dissertation examines narrative structures and strategies within texts ("hikayats") of the Malay Muslim Court literary tradition by employing a "close reading" method. Examining these structures reveals that often apparently explicit meaning contradicts both explicit and im…
This dissertation investigates the rhetorical practices of a tradition: the Reform Movement in Judaism. I analyze the three platforms written in 1885, 1937, and 1999 to define the collective identity of the Reform Movement in America. I begin this study by concentrating on how t…
Three pieces of music: Temper Temper Time, Shepard, and Faux-Java Blues form a set that exploits experimental applications of unusual musical features: 5/4 tempo relationships and quintuple divisions; tempo spirals and expanded rock harmony and voice leading; and Indonesian/West…
This dissertation undertakes a comparative analysis of the musical, written, and spoken production of Sun Ra and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with respect to the larger African Atlantic intellectual environment, situating the two artists as both shapers of an Atlantic intellectual cultur…
By the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the makeup of the student body in education changed drastically. Second language learners have become a consistently increasing student population in the American college educational system (Institute for Inte…
This dissertation will explore the merits of treating the recording as a musical object and goal unto itself, both from the angles of music creation and analytical thought. I will discuss the phenomena of recording as documentation of a different object as opposed to the paradig…
The dissertation utilizes a set of sophisticated computer programs developed at the Geophysics group at Missouri S&T to characterize crustal properties beneath the Afar Depression in Ethiopia where extensional tectonics dominates. In this study, measurements of crustal thickness…
Many studies of the writing process have focused on native speakers of English and other languages to determine the causes of the writing difficulties and to suggest the best way to resolve these difficulties when teaching English writing. Few studies have focused on Arab studen…
The focal point of this project is researching the role of key Israeli composers through compositions written during the first two decades of the State of Israel. The dissertation explores the influences that led the composers to write a specific piece, whether it served as a pe…
This dissertation interrogates the nature of composers as aesthetic agents re-orienting from the socio-cultural contexts of the Weimar Republic (1919-1932) to those of the Third Reich in Germany (1933-1945). Work in the sociology of culture, sociology of arts and sociology of mu…
This dissertation identifies an intertextual relationship between the prophetic books of Hosea and Malachi, which creates a literary frame around the Minor Prophets and indicates that the twelve books should be read as a unified Book of the Twelve. Using literary criticism, the …