Browsing English electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2007 Summer"

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  • Against the terrible death 

    Narendorf, Bryan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Against the Terrible Death is a collection of poems about the intersections of history, ancient and comtemporary, personal and public. The collection ...

  • Give me that old time religion: reclaiming slave religion in the future 

    Bailey, Constance R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents tell the story of a young visionary, Lauren Olamina, in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Lauren, the fifteen year old daughter of a black Baptist minister, ...

  • Like dancers following each other's steps : an analysis of lexical cues in student writing for differing audiences 

    Robideaux, Sharon (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    This empirical study examines the role of lexical priming in first-year college student writers' abilities to consider multiple audiences. The writing topic assigned to all 165 first-year students is identical except for ...

  • Man on extremely small island 

    Koo, Jason (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Man on extremely small island is a collection of poems in four sections. The sections follows the seasons. The poems in the first section urge a ...