Throughout history, the sitcom has continually been used as a form of comfort for the viewer. The original sitcoms of the 1950s were filled with themes that reinforced the stability of the traditional family model after ...

La muerte es un tema omnipresente en la obra del poeta español, Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) desde sus primeras colecciones, en que se crea un lenguaje poético de símbolos asociados con la muerte que emplea a lo largo ...

Using the data from Yelp as of December 2017, this thesis examines the impacts of the online customers’ reviews on the performances of servicing businesses (raw effect) as well as their neighboring establishments (spillover ...

Karl Barth’s scriptural interpretation has often been criticized by biblical specialists as theologically-driven eisegesis. This is particularly true of the exposition of Rom 5:12–21 that Barth published in 1952 as Christ ...

In Gulliver’s Travels Swift does obliquely what he does in his sermons and non-satirical writings more directly: he defends a settled social order, which was held together morally by a common Christian religion and led ...

This thesis is preoccupied with challenging the way current rhetoricians approach criticism of Native discourse, that which is produced within and by Native communities. Beginning with Ronald Greene’s “A Materialist ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has revealed ideological fault lines and rapidly transforming power-balances underlying U.S. diplomacy. This thesis examines Trump’s handshakes as rhetorical gestures that constitute ...

Mental illness stigma is a public health issue that researchers and clinicians seek to understand and reduce. Emotional reactions are an important component of mental illness stigma, yet current research lacks in identifying ...

High-dimensional genomic data can provide deep insight into biological processes. However, conventional statistical methods typically cannot be applied directly to genomic data sets because the high dimensionality of markers ...

This study investigates how preschool aged children learn through television throughout the creation of an original narrative, The Topaz Troop. Children are exposed to an assortment of media devices from an early age, and ...