La investigación en la cual esta tesis esta basada tomó lugar en Rincón, Puerto Rico. Esta investigación examina tres preguntas: 1) ¿Hay contacto de idiomas entre los rincoeños y los americanos en Rincón, Puerto Rico? ...

Desde la década de 1940, Disney ha presentado su propia versión del personaje de princesa, desde Blancanieves hasta Moana. A lo largo del tiempo, Disney ha mejorado la representación de sus princesas, haciéndolas más ...

Through the use of children’s literature, this thesis encourages educators and parents to expose children, from an early age to texts that promote critical thinking. In order to identify texts that do so, an evaluation ...

This thesis explores Renaissance Faustian codes seen in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel using selected works of three writers of the Gothic Revival. I argue that by looking at William Beckford’s Vathek, Matthew G. ...

This thesis presents the life stories of six Puerto Rican teachers, focusing on their educational experiences as they grew from students to teachers in U.S. schools. Using the Funds of Knowledge theoretical framework, this ...

This study focuses on using graphic novels to interest students and develop their reading skills in English. The participants were ESL (English as a second language) students taking their fourth and final English class ...

The focus of this study is to examine if the English language influences withdrawal or failure rates in Pre-Calculus I at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez. Using data from the Office of Research and Institutional ...

This thesis explores the intersections of gender, race, rhetoric, life writing, and early black Atlantic literature. I argue that Phillis Wheatley, a literate enslaved woman of African descent, sought to combat the effects ...

This thesis explores the concept of the uncanny as presented in three female characters that mirror Helen of Troy, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Criseyde from Troilus and Criseyde, William Shakespeare’s Cressida from the play Troilus ...

This thesis discusses how video games entered academia as an area of study and how Narratology and Ludology became the leading approaches. It discusses the benefits and shortcomings of each of them through a case study of ...