- "the angel said unto me 'write!'": elizabeth stuart phelps and ecofeminist homiletics
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This dissertation demonstrates how many of the works of American author Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) can be interpreted as functioning in an ecofeminist-homiletic manner. This study has two main goals. One is to draw greater attention to the brilliance of Phelps's work, which is often dismissed because of its didacticism and sentimentality. The second goal is to argue that ecofeminism and religion, especially homiletics, are highly relevant to postbellum literature. Therefore, applying...
David Paul von Schlichten.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd N. Committee members: James Cahalan; David Downing.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- A thomas pynchon guide to contemporary resistance
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Vineland marks a significant turning point in Pynchon's oeuvre, specifically with regard to Pynchon's politics. Previous to Vineland, Pynchon's work was concerned largely with the radicalism of the sixties and seventies as a resistance to totalitarian powers. Beginning with Vineland, this paranoia gives way to a more fully articulated global system of power. Pynchon's four most recent novels ( Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice) feature an examination of neoliberal c...
Sean Carswell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Downing, David B. Committee members: Thomas Slater; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- To register or not to register? the effectiveness of megan's law in pennsylvania
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This study assessed the effectiveness of Megan's Law in Pennsylvania. Both the original version of Megan's Law and the revised version were examined using an ITS design. Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data was used in both annual and monthly form. The annual data set included the years 1974-2009. The monthly data set included 2001-2010. An interrupted time-series design (ITS) and ARIMA modeling and OLS regression as a data analysis technique were used to determine the effectiveness o...
Shelly L Clevenger.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Martin, Randy Committee members: Rosemary Gido; John Lewis; Jamie Martin.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- A toxic discourse: contaminated hometown communities in selected u.s. ecocatastrophe prose 1970-2005
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The idea of the "contaminated community" is central to contemporary American environmental prose, but it seems to have been largely overlooked as a point of examination in current literary scholarship. Since Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring, environmentalism has continued to grow as a big part of twenty-first century popular culture. Contemporary adventure stories, historical novels, mystery novels, memoirs, and apocalyptic novels-all of which I examine at length in this study-continue to...
Andrew S Andermatt.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Christopher Kuipers.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Twenty first century cyberbullying defined: an analysis of intent, repetition and emotional response
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent and impact that cyberbullying has on the undergraduate college student and provide a current definition for the event. A priori power analysis guided this research to provide an 80 percent probability of detecting a real effect with medium effect size. Adequate research power was essential to create a valid understanding of what traditional undergraduate college students experience when interacting with social media and cellular technology. ...
Carol Marie Walker.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Partridge, Allen Committee members: Beth Rajan Sockman; Jay Start.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Txt now, pay l8r: an exploratory study of teenage participation in sexting
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This study explores participation in sexting by teenagers in the United States. The term `sexting' was coined by the popular media to describe the dissemination of sexually explicit or suggestive messages via cellular phone (Shafron-Perez, 2009; Boucek, 2009; Dilberto & Mattey, 2009). The person who originates the `sext' is often unable to control where the message is forwarded, which can result in the content of the messages being seen by others besides the intended viewer (Shafron-Perez, 20...
Renee D Lamphere.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Giever, Dennis M. Committee members: Rosemary Gido; Kathleen Hanrahan; Shannon Phaneuf.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Understanding students' use of sources in research writing through an epistemological lens
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Concerns about the poor quality of students' use of sources in undergraduate research writing have typically led to investigations either of students' information-seeking strategies or of their composing practices. I argue that an either/or approach provides an incomplete picture of students' research writing processes, and that an exploration of the beliefs that shape students' use of sources is needed. This study explores the beliefs guiding undergraduate students in three disciplinary f...
Corinne E Nicolas.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Ben Committee members: Jeannine Fontaine; Nancy Hayward.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- The unsung and transformative power of african-american urban adolescent literature: using an adolescent identity taxonomy to understand and teach inner-city students
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This dissertation explores how the power of an underrepresented genre and subgenre of literature-African-American Urban Adolescent Literature (AAUAL)-can have instructional value in secondary English language arts classrooms. The use and function of AAUAL is threaded throughout each chapter. Keeping AAUAL at the forefront, I discuss the following: (1) the emergence of AAUAL; (2) a contextual pedagogical framework with eight components of an effective curriculum and with AAUAL as core piece...
Krista Shauntae Lewis.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James Committee members: Jo-Anne Kerr; Linda Norris.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Urban growth boundaries: urban crime reduction or urban myth?
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There has been much research written on the negative aspects associated with sprawl, such as crime, the flight of people and businesses to the suburbs, and resulting inner-city decay. However, there is a dearth of information on the effects of limiting sprawl and crime. The objective of this research was to examine the impact of an urban growth boundary (UGB) that limits uncontrolled sprawl on crime rates in Portland, Oregon. UCR data from 1975-1997 was utilized to measure the impact. Crime i...
James Henry Bowers.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lewis, John A. Committee members: Willard Austin; Richard Hoch; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- The use of media in the acquisition of english as a second language
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The study was influenced by the researcher's background in English as a second language. A simple and reliable survey was created to gather information on the use of media amongst international students in the acquisition of English as a second language. Convenient non-probability samples of 62 international students aged 18-72 studying at the American Language Institute were surveyed. The 19-item survey was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman Rho correlations. The theoret...
Sarah Elizabeth Tourtellotte.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Partridge, Allen Committee members: Jeff Ritchey; Jay Start.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Violation of expectation: enemy to musical memory?
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Research has shown that expectation is an important part of music perception. Grouping effects create musical expectation. Musical expectation enables musical memory. Little research to date has explored the effect of violated musical expectations. This dissertation attempts to answer the question: Does violation of expectation in melodic contour affect musical memory? Subjects listened to six melodies, three of which contained a violation of melodic expectation and three of which did not. Af...
Jessica E. K Buckland.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Robertson, Donald U. Committee members: David LaPorte; Susan Zimny.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- The ways of white women: literary and pedagogical responses to blackness
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As a text within the genre of the literature of white exposure, Langston Hughes' The Ways of White Folks provides valuable insights into the consciousness and racial performances of its white characters. This dissertation specifically analyzes the collection's white female characters and their responses to blackness, noting a variety of responses, but recognizing a singular effect: the reproduction of systems of white male dominance, even at risk to self, and almost always at risk to others. ...
Susan E McGrade.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Watson, Veronica Committee members: sj Miller; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- A well-hidden secret: harper lee's contributions to truman capote's "in cold blood"
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Throughout the publication and promotion of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Capote admitted his childhood friend, Harper Lee, accompanied him to Kansas as his research assistant, but he never explained in detail what she did to assist him other than to say she accompanied him on interviews. However, once the book was published, her name never appeared in the acknowledgement page of the book. Capote allowed people to believe that Lee was only in Kansas with him two months and she never retur...
T. Madison Peschock.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald Committee members: Martha Bower; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Wilma dykeman: wellspring of ecofeminism in the appalachian south
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This ecofeminist study champions Wilma Dykeman as an important early twentieth-century voice for feminism, environmental responsibility, and civil rights, at the same time that it questions the traditional marginalization of regional literature. I begin by placing Dykeman's work in context with that of other writers, providing biographical details as needed for contextualizing her thematic concerns. The focus then shifts to Dykeman's texts and examines her treatment of women's issues, envir...
Viki Dasher Rouse.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: David Downing; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Women and competition in selected fiction by louisa may alcott: "discontented, proud, and ambitious"
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This dissertation explores the competitiveness of female characters in selected fiction by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). Utilizing a feminist theoretical approach, this discussion shows how Alcott situates her characters in settings where she explores ideas of competition within emergent feminism and capitalism. Alcott, counter to the nineteenth-century norm, shows that women must assert themselves and learn how to compete in a patriarchal capitalist economy. Alcott's progressive strategy c...
Elizabeth J Mutzabaugh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: David Downing; Beverly Schneller.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Women and the non-traditional educational environment at thaddeus stevens college of technology: a case study
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There is a unique group of female students enrolled in a two-year technical college environment at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology (herein TSCT) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who suffer from stressors that their male counterparts do not experience. A case study approach allowed me to explore the stressors these young women are facing in this male dominated, two-year college environment and determine if they had the potential to influence their academic performance and eventual gradua...
Erin K Nelsen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hirt, Mary Jane Kuffner Committee members: David Chambers; Susan Martin.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English