This thesis investigates the chemical composition of both silver and bronze coinage from the Ptolemaic Dynasty through the use of microwave plasma atomic emissions spectrometry (MP-AES). The aim of this examination is to broaden the understanding of Ptolemaic currency by using t…
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The concept of daydreaming has recently been praised as a necessary tool to access imagination and creative thought. English literature is a subject that requires analytical skills and writing mechanics, but it also necessitates creative thinking to be able to explore, understan…
Focusing on Mozart’s cadenzas written during his time in Vienna (1781-1791), this paper suggests the beginnings of a pedagogical method for improvising and/or composing cadenzas to Mozart’s piano concertos, enumerating six compositional rules from which a cadenza structure is sh…
Understanding how the Renaissance rhetorical curriculum taught style as behavior makes it possible to unite the study of women writers' identities with formal criticism. Nancy L. Christiansen shows that early modern humanists built on the Isocratean tradition of teaching rhetori…
The evolution of Classical reception studies in recent decades has encouraged a corresponding growth of interest in assessing instances of Herodotean reception from antiquity to the present era. This thesis joins the conversation by exploring how Herodotus’ Historie s has been u…
Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry, Life on Mars , has been celebrated and analyzed as an elegy to Smith's father by many reviewers and scholars. And while this reading is valid and has been openly endorsed by Smith herself, our understanding of this co…
Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its land filled with gullies and po…
A perennial problem for many first-year composition (FYC) instructors is deciding what curricular materials to use to teach their students about rhetoric and composition and how to use those resources to enable their students to practice and hone their writing skills. This disse…
This dissertation examines the rhetorical articulation of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. In their attempt to reconstitute the trope of home differently from its inherited configurations, the two writers recall moments of interruption in their literary heri…
This ethnographic case study uses life history and qualitative methodologies to offer biographical profiles that highlight perspectives on writing of eight Black African-born male youth with limited and disrupted formal education enrolled at a secondary school in northeastern Un…
Through a qualitative case study (Merriam, 1998; Yin, 2009), this inquiry examined how eight African American adolescent girls wrote representations of themselves and which contextual factors contributed to their writings. The girls, ages 12-17 years old, participated in a four-…
Many research studies have been conducted in Arab countries to examine the difficulties that Arab students encounter in learning English writing. Unfortunately, not much of that scholarship deals with the challenges that these second language learners face when they pursue degre…
The purpose of this study was to investigate, analyze and classify the writing errors of Palestinian EFL university students and find out if these students and their instructors are aware of these errors. There were three sources of data: first, data were collected from written …
Historians of ancient Israel and Judah, like all other historians, come to their work with certain presuppositions and goals in mind. This study will elucidate and examine assumptions about history writing that current historians of ancient Israel and Judah employ. It is underta…
This dissertation traces the development of Jewish literature in Spanish America from its inception in 1910 to 1990, and how the concept of a Jewish homeland is represented in selected texts by Jewish-Spanish American writers. It also examines the impact of Zionism and, subseque…
This work is a play about the suffering of Job, written in an effort to help people answer the “Why?” questions that are asked when evil, suffering, and sorrow invade a person's life. The project involved translating the Hebrew text into more easily understood conversational Eng…
As a contemporary Franco-Algerian writer, Leïla Sebbar has been sensitive to the changing cultural and political landscapes of France and Algeria over the course of the eighties and nineties. This dissertation underscores the interconnected shiftings of socio-historic context, t…
This dissertation studies the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the rnid-1800's to mid-1900's. It elucidates the reciprocal nature of processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant gro…
ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) community college students enrolled in a required writing course were introduced to contrastive rhetoric to assist them in making connections between their first languages (L1) and English to enhance their writing. Students wrote a …
This study looks at professorial expectations of graduate students in two different higher education settings--Malaysia and the United States. These two settings were selected because of the large number of Malaysian students studying in U.S universities. These students are the …