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The American dream: Disillusionment in selected works of Ana Castillo, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Virgil Suarez
(2008)
The concept of the American Dream exerts enormous influence on American life. The promises of wealth and success of the American Dream are powerfully appealing. This thesis presents a critical analysis of representations ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rumpelstiltskin: Superimposing current societal/cultural needs onto the fairy tale genre
(2015)
Since their introduction in 1815, Grimm’s Children’s Stories and Household Tales have
been retold and refashioned many times in American popular culture. Closely studying these
retellings helps readers understand the ...
Representations of strong black women in calypso lyrics of Calypso Rose, Singing Sandra, Singing Francine, Singing Vennie, and Queen Bee; and in Zora Neale Hurston’s Work: Their Eyes Were Watching God and Edwidge Danticat’s Work: Breath, Eyes, Memory
(2007)
This thesis presents representations of strong black women in Calypso lyrics of Calypso Rose, Singing Sandra, Singing Francine, Singing Vennie, and Queen Bee; and in Zora Neale Hurston’s work: Their Eyes Were Watching God, ...
Fairy tales and reggaeton narratives: Reinforcement of gender stereotypes inherent in Puerto Rican popular culture
(2012)
This thesis is informed on a feminist pedagogy and understanding which examines gender inequality and develops from the idea that everything in literature, music, and any other manifestation of popular culture is related ...
The emergence of a new identity: The Nuyorican Afro-Boricua as presented in selected works by poets Louis Reyes Rivera and Jaime “Shaggy” Flores
(2020-11-25)
This thesis is informed by the subject of race and identity within the works of Puerto Rican authors who live in the United States. Thus, it establishes an argument of exploring the Afro-Boricua identity in the works ...
Integrating multiliteracies into the ESL curriculum: Graphic novels as a means of expression and motivation
(2015)
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 challenges of engagement: The perks of young adult literature in the secondary English classroom
(2016)
Young adult literature is a literary genre whose popularity has risen over the years due to its portrayal of the teenage experience. Since the publication of the first young adult novel, writers have candidly portrayed ...