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History as a dual process: Nietzsche on exchange and power

Hillard, Derek (2012-01-19)
LEARNING TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE IN MANDARIN CHINESE THROUGH WEB-BASED INSTRUCTION

Yang, Li

This study explored the effectiveness of a self-access website as a tool to teach expressions of gratitude to learners of Mandarin Chinese. The web-based instruction included explicit instruction on how to express gratitude ...
Pasillos sin luz: Reading the Asylum in Nadie Me Verá Llorar by Cristina Rivera Garza

Kanost, Laura

Mexican historian and literary writer Cristina Rivera Garza approaches the space of the asylum not as a monolithic mechanism of rigid control and silence, but as a continual negotiation of bodies and words. The characters ...
Priestesses and Patriarchy – The Daily Lives of Ancient Greek Priestesses

Paczuska, Anna

This project examines the lives of Greek priestesses in their prominent roles in the patriarchal society of ancient Greece. I argue that priestesses were distinguished from other contemporary women by their performance of ...
The rhetoric of originality: Paul Celan and the disentanglement of illness and creativity

Hillard, Derek (2012-01-12)
Rilke and historical discourse or the 'Historie' of Malte Laurids Brigge

Hillard, Derek (2012-01-19)
Sandman to Sandman: A Parody Into Madness

Irwin, Rey; Gudenkauf, Eric

This is a parody of the song Mr. Sandman by the Chordettes based on the short story “Der Sandman” written by E.T.A Hoffmann in 1816. We chose to utilize a musical format as music is a language people can understand whether ...
Spanish After Service-Learning: A Comparative Study

Kanost, Laura

To begin to assess the impact of service-learning participation on subsequent use of Spanish, this study compares survey responses of students who completed conventional and servicelearning sections of the same intermediate ...
The variable effect of form and lemma frequencies on phonetic variation: evidence from /s/ realization in two varieties of Colombian Spanish

Brown, Earl K.; Gradoville, Michael S.; File-Muriel, Richard J. (2015-05-13)

Research has shown that frequency conditions the variable realization of sounds. However, the literature has not addressed whether the frequency of the individual word forms, or form frequency, has a larger conditioning ...
Viewing the Afro-Mexican Female Revolutionary: Francisco Rojas González's La negra Angustias

Kanost, Laura

Francisco Rojas González's 1944 novel La negra Angustias is recognized as the only novel of the Mexican Revolution that features a black woman military officer. Critics have observed that, although this semi-biographical ...
Violence in mind and body: Jünger’s heart, Brecht’s brain, and Döblin’s hand

Hillard, Derek (2014-05-12)