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And Tango Makes Three and Tyyl: A study of censorship and banned books in Twenty-first Century America
(2012)
This thesis explores and questions the effects of censorship in the United States and
Puerto Rico, specifically Young Adult and Children’s Literature. Literary censorship has both
oppressed the authors’ right to expression ...
Understanding language ideologies in Puerto Rico: From colonialism to translanguaging
(2015)
This thesis provides an historical analysis of the evolution of the monolingual paradigm
in Puerto Rico. It traces the origins of the monolingual paradigm from the rise of the modern
European nation-state, through US ...
Piecing the parts: An analysis of narrative strategies and textual elements in microserialized webcomics
(2010)
This thesis details the results of a qualitative and quantitative study of webcomics in accordance to their method of publication. This sequential digital microserialized graphic narrative is analyzed through the literary ...
“I am doing better and better”: From critical pedagogy to action research
(2011)
The main goal of this Participatory Action Research (PAR) study is to empower students to become aware of, and address issues of inequality and social injustices through literacy practices such as reading and writing ...
Gender performativity in Japanese animation
(2018)
In this thesis anime is studied as a cultural text and, when analyzed, demonstrates through its characters culture’s fabrication of gender. This thesis also explores how Japanese anime, as a transcultural popular culture ...
The role of Emersonian transcendentalism in Alan Ball’s American Beauty and Six Feet Under
(2011)
This thesis explores the manner in which Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s nineteenth century
transcendentalist thought as described in his essays, Nature, The American Scholar, and Self
Reliance, is present and appropriated in Alan ...
World-building across the disciplines: Exploring loss in literature, creative writing, and pedagogy
(2020-07-28)
World-building and creative writing serves as a space for problem-solving for authors
and readers. Through the reading of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, one finds how the
author uses binary oppositions to reflect ...
Immigration and language threat in a local newspaper: A case study of Hazleton, Pennsylvania
(2012)
This research is a case study of immigration issues in Hazleton, Pennsylvania from 2005 – 2006 in the lead-up to the passage of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act by the city. Using reporting data from the local newspaper, ...
Translanguaging: Using American Sign Language in the basic English 3101 classroom
(2018-05)
When teaching the Basic English 3101 course, English language learning was affected due to the lack of teacher-student communication in class. This lack of communication could be attributed to students’ fears towards ...
Remediation in paradise: (Mis)labeling low English proficiency students at UPRM
(2014)
This research project is a secondary data analysis of the characteristics and effects of English language remediation at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez from the academic years 2008-09 through 2013-14. Using ...