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  1. Eagerly Patient.Erin Elizabeth - unknown
    Are banal and routine experiences in life less important or memory-worthy than celebratory moments that require preparation and planning, the anticipation of which is akin to emotional foreplay? What is the purpose of celebration? Is it empty, bound to disappoint, or is it ritualistic punctuation of the mundane, providing balance for the sublimity of suffering? These questions are addressed in the thesis exhibition, Eagerly Patient. The exhibition includes carriers of celebration such as cake, confetti, banners, and gifts in an attempt (...)
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  2. Essentially Point-Less: The Influence Of Alternative, Non Points-Based Grading On Teachers' Instructional Practices.Jay C. Percell - unknown
    Grading is often a time-consuming, laborious task for teachers continuously required to document student performance. Simultaneously, among students there is intense competition for grades, which determine class ranks, college entrances, scholarship opportunities, as well as satisfy parental and societal expectations . Due to the importance of grades, some educators have sought to determine whether or not traditional grading systems are truly indicative of students' abilities . This study investigated alternative grading systems, especially those that were non points-based, and the influence (...)
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  3. V.d. Savarkar And The Impossibility Of Hindutva: A Rereading Of Schmitt On The National Myth.Varun Sanadhya - unknown
    In this thesis I theorize Indian revolutionary V.D. Savarkar's seminal text "Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?" , comparing related themes in Carl Schmitt's Weimar writings: national myth and the friend-enemy distinction . Responding to the first phase of mass-mobilization in India, and Gandhi's politics of non-violence and religious sentimentality, Savarkar promoted a political consciousness based on the revolutionary violence of a "Hindu" as India's authentically patriotic inhabitant. In the link between the mythic Hindu name, people, and territory, Savarkar put forth (...)
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  4. Building Complexity, One Stability at a Time: Rethinking Stubbornness in Public Rhetorics and Writing Studies.Chris Mays - unknown
    In deliberative argument, in political discourse, in teaching, and in casual conversation, as rhetors we often hope that our attempts at interaction will have some effect on the participants in these discursive environments. The phenomena of stubbornness, however, would seem to suggest that, despite our efforts, there are times when rhetoric just doesn't work. This dissertation complicates this premise, and in so doing complicates common understandings of both stubbornness and rhetorical effect. As I argue, rhetorical effects exist within a complex (...)
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