Browsing Languages and Literature Undergraduate Theses by Title
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Reflections on William Faulkner’s Faith in Humanity
(2004-04-01)Faulkner’s work is, at times, notoriously complex and difficult to read, not to mention frustratingly ambiguous. For this reason, this essay will approach Faulkner’s method of redefining the modem hero from a structural ... -
Richard vs. Richard: A Comprehensive Comparison Between Richard II As Portrayed In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy Of King Richard II
(1984-04-01)Both England and the United States have maintained a rich historical tradition of placing their leaders on a pedestal. England's history maintains the "Divine Right of Kings," while the United States maintains the "Divine ... -
"Rite Of Passage": The Japanese Entrance Examination System
(1985-04-01)Ever since the devastation suffered by Japan in World War II, the Japanese people have wrestled their way to the top—reigning as one of the chief economic powers in the world today. One of the greatest driving forces behind ... -
S. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi Soliloquiorum Libri Duo: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary
(1933-04-01)St. Augustine was indeed one of the foremost thinkers, not only of the Catholic Church, but of all time. His works are f especial interest to us because he lived is whole life in an important turning point in the history ... -
Science Fiction and Models of Humanity
(2019-04-01)Science Fiction as a literary genre offers a unique platform for social commentary. It presents plausible scientific advancements as a reality, and then uses this possible future to enter the discussion on society’s current ... -
Shakespeare's Use Of Source Material In The Comedy Of Errors
(1933-04-01)The Elizabethan drama as characterized by Shakespeare amid his contemporaries was the culmination of several forces which had long been exerting their influence on the English playwrights. Prominent among these forces was ... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(2023)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a 14th century chivalric romance poem written in Middle English with a combination of alliterative and rhyming meter. Despite the poem’s popularity in recent media, this is all of what ... -
Socks with Holes
(2013-04-01)My thesis, Socks with Holes, is a poetry sequence containing seventeen free-verse poems. The poems focus on the main character, Evan, as well as several of his family members and friends. Evan is a flawed man with many ... -
“The Spirit of Women”: Magic Realism and Resistance in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits
(2020)Magic realism is a literary technique that combines the normal and the mundane with the abnormal and the fantastical in a realistic setting where people perceive everything as ordinary. Authors have been using this literary ... -
Spirituality In Ulysses By James Joyce: Bloom's Substantive Relationship With God
(1982-04-01)A reactionary and a renegade, Janies Joyce divorced himself from the Catholic Church in 1898. Since then, many critics for good reason have chosen to see him as a purely secular writer, whose concern for a spiritual element ... -
Stendhal: Les Conflits d’un Idealiste
(1968-04-01)"Le realists romantique," ce sont les mots employes pour categoriser Stendhal comme auteur. Quoique ce terme s’employait oar rapport au con- flit dans la literature de Stendhal, nous trouvons que ce conflit avait une origine ... -
Suffer The Little Children
(1983-04-01)Most people take the goodness of childhood for granted. The usual childhood is a carefree period, a part of our heritage of being treasured, wanted, loved and cared for. Those who have been fortunate in having such a ... -
Tales from a Windy Prairie: A Short Story Cycle
(2009-04-01)Tales from a Windy Prairie is a collection of one novella and three short stories set in Cut Bank, Montana, in the late 1920’s and 1930’s. The novella, “Marianne’s Year,” studies the affect a small town’s collective culture ... -
Teaching Foreign Languages: Theory-in-Action
(1996-04-01)There are two theories currently circulating in the field of teaching foreign languages: language studying and language acquisition. Typical "language studying" consists in the traditional practice of direct teaching by ... -
The Aesthetic Of Robert Browning As Found In Selected Poems
(1969-04-01)To know Robert Browning is to have some feel for his profound sensitivity and understanding of the arts. Browning does not stand in great favor with modern critics and his popularity with the reading public is slowly ... -
The Dad Cycle
(1999-04-01)We write to communicate, to create relationships. Telling our stories helps us connect with others. We write to give meaning to life’s processes. As the writer searches, struggles to express her thoughts, she may help the ... -
The Dies Irae: A Historical, Textual, Topical And Metrical Analysis
(1965-04-01)The sequence is the liturgical hymn of the mass occuring on festivals between the Gradual and the Gospel. IT is a Trope, i.e. a verbal amplification of a passage in authorized liturgy, whose embellishment is so lengthy ... -
The Dying Gods
(2006-04-01)Abstract: Part One of a fantasy series inspired by Plato, Eric Voegelin, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music, among others. A god is dead, murdered by his fellow gods. Driven by their ... -
The Economic and Social Impact of Zika on Women in the United States and Brazil
(2019-04-01)Zika is a disease common in tropical areas that is transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes. However, Zika can also be transmitted through sexual intercourse. In 2016, the World Health Organization declared the spread of ... -
The Effect of Economic Liberalization in Mexico on Corn Biodiversity and Mexican Culture
(2002-04-01)Mexico is dealing with widespread farm unrest. Last summer, there was a wave of protests in the Mexican states of Veracruz, Sinaloa, Oaxaca, Campeche, Nayarit, Chiapas, and Chihuahua. The farmers, most of them working on ...