Beginning with that infamous image of Colonel Christopher Gadseen's snake and the words "Don't tread on me," the founding of the United States of America is filled with the images of protest and expressions against an established group. Susanne Langer began to define the meeting…
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Through verbal threats and graphic images of destruction, the prophet Jeremiah employs a rhetoric of horror in order to convince his audience that doom awaits an unrepentant and unreformed nation. This study is a rhetorical analysis of designated horror texts found in the book o…
The language used by the Bush Administration in the fight against terrorism contributes to the global view of the US campaign in Iraq and the Middle East. The rhetorical choices made by the administration not only create how we view the fight against terrorism, but also reflect …
This study focused on the ability of ESL students to revise their grammatical errors and produce more accurate writing in the future based on error codes. As the researcher, I analyzed the writing over time of four different students who received error codes. I examined three er…
The concept of “authorship” invests agency in the writing actor; however, the presence of a reading actor can exert hegemony influence, the deleterious effects of which may be to any degree ranging from a minor shift in tone, a major shift in ideology, or even to a blatant fabri…
The U.S. administration's use of language during the 2003 invasion of Iraq was an attempt to control public discourse, and through it, public opinion. Words and phrases like weapons of mass destruction, regime change and coalition of the willing were designed to rally a global p…
This dissertation explores the interests that are served by two discourses in which the phrase "new covenant" plays an important role. The work attempts to explain the discrepancies between the way in which the new covenant is construed in the Damascus Document and in Paul's Sec…
In the Fall of 2002 and Spring of 2003, the US Government prepared to go to war in Iraq. As it did so, there was a campaign to pass resolutions opposing the war in city councils across the country. The public conversations that sprang up around these resolutions provided natural…
The foundational element of the educational enterprise is the basic relationship of two human beings working collaboratively to accomplish something together that neither could accomplish alone. Faculty want to teach and students want to learn within thriving academic communitie…
In February 2002, a mob of Muslim men in the town of Godhra (India) attacked and set fire to a train carrying Hindu activists. A three-day retaliatory killing spree by Hindus marked India's worst religious bloodletting in a decade. The episode was not an isolated one; its seeds …
“Never again” has become a rallying cry for Jews and human rights activists alike protesting the Holocaust and genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Rhetorical theorists through the ages, such as Cicero, Bacon, and others, have claimed that rhetoric could serve …
This thesis investigates the roles, themes, techniques and contexts of composition in hip-hop. It seeks to explain how hip-hop artists view and define their work, while also taking into consideration the viewpoints of other participants in the marketing pool of hip-hop productio…
In this project I query the relationships between visual discourses (representations), rhetoric, postcolonial theory, and public policy. Specifically, I seek to understand the ways in which the circulation of visual images signifies and organizes meanings, or sense making, for U…
This study examines African American anti-colonial rhetoric during the Great Depression in order better to understand international dimensions of domestic political expression and the complexity of U.S. black American rhetorical culture. I argue that colonial interpretations of …
Some of the staunchest supporters of the U.S. invasion of Iraq include followers of an ideology known as "neoconservatism." Although this ideology is frequently discussed in contemporary media, neoconservatism actually has a history predating the Vietnam era. This thesis is an e…
This dissertation is a critical edition and study of the Penser de royal memoire (1518), the second original work of the translator Guillaume Michel, a.k.a. Michel de Tours. The thesis begins by shedding some light on Michel's mysterious career (his translations of Virgil, Apule…
Last year, claims concerning an unprecedented discovery in Bosnia were made. A complex of pyramids, complete with an access plateau and a network of tunnels has been claimed to exist, creating frenzy throughout the country. Chapter 1 creates a background to the story, offering a…
This qualitative study examined the experience of journalists who had covered the war in Iraq since March 2003, and how it influenced their understanding of the mission and roles of the journalist. It explored what journalists saw as their mission before and after going into the…
Immediately following President Bush's January 2000 inauguration, he and key members of his administration made the decision to prioritize Iraq over several other foreign policy issues. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the administration began a concerted rhetorical…