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…
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Although much research exists on both historical considerations of Korean music and intercultural relations, little attention has been paid to the processes and possibilities of intercultural collaboration of jazz and traditional musicians. As a practice-based inquiry, the resea…
The decision to set the original Hebrew texts of Psalms 24, 67, and 137 was a deliberate one, affecting nearly every compositional aspect of the work in that the nature of the Hebrew language informed the rhythm, meter and phrase structure of the melodic line. Tehillim presents …
fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where diasporic anxiety is analyzed through the process of fauxlographic cloning. The clones enact sonic rituals, singing in Farsi, English and Perz-ish [a faux diasporic languag…
This work treats the oral Palestinian poetry duel, a genre performed most commonly at weddings in Northern Palestine and Israel. It begins by tracing the history of poetry dueling both in Arabic generally and within the Palestinian dialect. The historical sketch is followed by a…
This study explores one of the oldest and most central issues of the Hebrew Bible — the compositional history of 1–2 Kings. Its approach does not proceed from the assumption prevalent since the time of de Wette, namely, that the origins of 1–2 Kings should be explained through a…
This literary-rhetorical study develops and applies a methodology for discerning irony in Hebrew Bible narrative to 1 Kgs 16:29–22:40 and then pursues implications of its findings for questions raised by source, redactional, and socio-historical investigations of this unit, King…
The life of Dr. Annie Mae McClary Walker is a microcosm of Black History in the United States. The only half Native American-half African American anthropologist in the world, Dr. Walker provides rare insight into the racist culture of her childhood on the Seminole reservation a…
Competency in writing is a prerequisite to passing national examinations in Malaysia. Instruction to improve writing skills in English is essential for students to pass national examinations, obtain employment, and complete future education abroad. Therefore, it was deemed impor…
The purpose of this study is to determine the rhetorical functions of citations of popular sayings in the book of Ezekiel. The study focuses specifically on the popular sayings quoted in 8:12; 9:9; 11:3,15; 12:22, 27; 18:2; 33:10, 17, 20, 24, 30, and 37:11. Chapter 2 reviews pre…
The collapse of traditional epistemology, which began in the nineteen hundreds in Europe, removes many of the traditional distinctions between philosophy and rhetoric and significantly expands the scope of the latter. This dissertation explores some aspects of the new definition…
By the second half of the twentieth century studies in the book of Joshua had reached an impasse. Avenues of interpretation proposed by historians, archaelologists, sociologists and literary critics seem to have exhausted all of the possibilities for understanding the book of Jo…
The life and rhetoric of Henry Ford was examined in this study in order to gain an understanding why, and how, he propagated the longest running anti-Semitic campaign in history. A synergy of two existing theories in communication, Hofstadter (1966) and Smith (1977) provided the…
Rabbi Moshe Luzzatto (born 1707 in Padua, died 1747 in Kefar Yosif near Acco) was a very fertile creator in the subjects of Kabbalah, ethics and literature. In many circles of traditional Judaism, the Ramhal is revered owing to his scholarly works and his work on ethical behavio…
The aim of this study was to explore Saudi EFL students' beliefs regarding their writing difficulties and the factors related to these perceived difficulties. The participants were 37 male Saudi students majoring in English at King Khalid University. The study attempted to give …
A guideline developed in a year 2000 study of Malaysian and United States websites was tested with evaluators from Malaysia and the United States. The test looked for significant relationships between attitude to site and cultural values (power distance and independent and inter…
This dissertation examines the discourse generated by students and teachers at an American missionary school in Constantinople (Istanbul) between 1871, the year the school was founded, and 1923, the year of the Ottoman Empire's end and the Turkish Republic's beginning. From its …
The purpose of the dissertation was to conduct a rhetorical analysis of the Book of Malachi in order to identify and interpret the persuasive strategy by which the prophet addressed his audience with implications for elucidating the central theme of the prophetic discourse. The …
This thesis presents a theory of how one's discursive experiences influence how images are interpreted. Specifically, one acquires discursive experiences through the readings of texts that are proximally and thematically related and unrelated to specific images as well as throug…