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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 ...
Teaching William Blake's The Songs of Innocence and of Experience to university ESL students with reader-response and Freirian pedagogy
(2006-11-28)
This study examines the use of reader-response theory and Freirian pedagogy in
the teaching of selected poems from William Blake’s The Songs of Innocence and of
Experience to university ESL students in Mayagüez, Puerto ...
I’m in America: Critically exploring Latino cultural identity in West Side Story for English classrooms
(2015)
Race, culture and identity, alongside portrayals of the Puerto Rican culture, are themes which are highly intertwined in the Broadway musical West Side Story. Starting from its Broadway premiere to its eventual film ...
Listening to the voices of the Caribbean: Introducing Caribbean children’s literature into the English classroom in Puerto Rico
(2012)
This study assesses the general knowledge eighth graders from Western Puerto Rico have of their neighboring Caribbean islands. It also examines interests and provides a base for the material selected for the creation of a ...
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, ...