| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Presidential ethos : leadership as goal and tool in the rhetoric of recent American presidents |
2010 |
7611 |
This thesis discusses the role of leadership as an aspect of ethos in presidential rhetoric.
In it, a terminology is established to deal with two original applications of leadership
ethos in presidential rhetoric: accumulating, or building up leade... |
| Post-9/11 presidential rhetoric and the ongoing reality of racism in the United States |
2010 |
4299 |
There is little question that the tragedy of September 11, 2001 has significantly
impacted 21st century life in the United States. On a rhetorical level, 9/11 seems to have
triggered a distinct shift in how many Americans understand their political... |
| Finding the fourth locale: dichotomy challenges in the rhetoric of Barack Obama |
2010 |
2168 |
The historic election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008
has attracted much interest in the humanities. The narrower lens of rhetorical analysis has
yet to explore one of Obama’s most notable inclinations, namely his tendency... |
| "We're the girls with the bad reputations" : the rhetoric of Riot Grrrl |
2011 |
9045 |
Throughout the 1980s, President Reagan’s administration waged an undeclared
war on feminism by defeating the Equal Rights Amendment and employing both the
Department of Education and U.S. Supreme Court as weapons against working and single
mothers... |
| The sounds of silence: how Chileans said no to General Augusto Pinochet |
2009 |
4158 |
Art provides an image of reality from the creator's perspective which sparks interaction between the viewer and the piece. Throughout history, metaphor-infused art has inspired dialogue and social change as a means for oppressed people to speak out i... |
| Establishing story, establishing ethos : community college, composition, & the development of self |
2016 |
813 |
This thesis explores the concept of story and its potential use within the community college composition classroom. Story is everywhere; it is how we as human beings make sense of our existence and our role within the world. While we are all carriers... |
| The ecosystem of service: a rhetorical analysis and proposed cross-disciplinary approach for language surrounding service work |
2017 |
1014 |
Though undoubtedly a noble pursuit, service to others is not immune to the corrosive effects of power structures, unexamined bias, and institutionalized marginalization. This thesis searches for solutions to potentially ineffective and even harmful s... |
| Anthropogenic redress: an ideological framework for confrontation and praxis |
2017 |
756 |
This thesis claims that because the present anthropocene (human caused mass extinction) is a human-incurred phenomenon, it is inescapably ideological. A critical approach to problem solving necessitates a deep analysis of underlying causes and their ... |
| The option on the table : Obama's rhetoric and the case for military conflict with Iran |
2013 |
7517 |
The following analysis seeks to demonstrate how the Obama administration,
through its rhetoric, is attempting to build public support for a potential military
conflict with Iran. Further, the study seeks to show how the language of the
Obama admin... |
| Blot out |
2024 |
62 |
For my thesis, I wrote a play. This play follows a world-famous genius detective in a similar vein to characters such as Poirot or Sherlock Holmes, being forced to team up with a hard-boiled noir detective in the same vein as Sam Spade in The Maltese... |
| The radical road to redemption : a prophetic outcry of American counter cultures |
2011 |
2173 |
The development of atomic weapons presented serious changes to the American way of life. Moral actions in accordance with this divine decree were seen as the path to salvation. While citizens had operated under the assumption that the government uphe... |
| "Happy are those who sing and dance" : Mobuto, Franco, and the struggle for Zairian identity |
2011 |
10380 |
In this thesis, I examine the public rhetoric of two very big men of post-colonial Zaire: master musician Franco Luambo Makiadi, and military dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, whose careers were roughly contemporary. The rhetoric employed by these men held ... |
| "The finest warrior for free government" : Ronald Reagan and the rhetoric of American exceptionalism |
2013 |
2966 |
This thesis examines eighteen of Ronald Reagan’s major speeches given between the
years of 1964 and 1989 in order to show that Reagan rhetorically constructed a dimension
that operated outside of the civil-religious contract as identified by Robert... |
| The will to love : intrinsic dialogism and the philosophy of human motivation |
2015 |
1058 |
This work analyzes the ways in which humans, both individually and en masse, shape and areshaped by discourse and social exchange. Additionally, this work examines the systemic meansof social organization and structuralized power inherent in human ex... |