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Submissions from 2014

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“Signs, Symbols and Signifiers: Style as Cultural Reflection in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse, Kathryn Fox

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“An Order of Christianity, Hold the Christ”: Thomas Hardy’s “Religious Menu” in Tess of the d’UrberviIIes, Erin R. Giroux

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School’s Out For Women: Skills, Schooling, and Successin Daniel Defoe’s MoU Flanders, Alexandra Godino

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“The StrumpetTriumphs: Evangelicalism, Mary Magdalene, & Daniel Defoe’s Moll“, Aimee Kaufman

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Individualism vs. Communitarianismin Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Stephanie MacLaughlin

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“Sancho Panza, Illiterate Voice of Reason: A Study of Irony in Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote“, Matthew Manfredi

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From Jail-Bird to Gangsterto Gentlewoman: The Rise of the Female Hero in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Jesse Ramos

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Yes, Women Are Human: Gender Confusion in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D 'Urbervilles, Alexi Schwartzkopff

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"Wonder-Bookof the MysteriousEast": Othering through Defamiliarization in English Translations of The Arabian Nights, Chelsea Silva

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“The Grassisn’t Always Greener: Realism and the Transformative Motif of Country and City in Voltaire’s Candide", Gregory Wolf

Submissions from 2012

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Dawson’s Creek'. Complexity vs. Didacticism in Youth Culture, Sprague Abigail

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Justifying the Finale: Hierarchical Truths in The X-Files, Ashley Aliengena

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"Because it’s Where My Family Goes": An Ideological Analysis of Racism and Anti-Racism in The Blind Side, Silva Amanda

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Drive: Deconstructing the Hero, Alexandra Artiano

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I Love The Hunger Games-. What Does That Mean?, Mallorey Blake

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“I’m Finished!”: Yielding to Capitalist Ideology in There will Be Blood, Studley Caitlin

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Once Upon a Time: Breaking the Binary between Fiction and Reality, Reagan Danielle

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From the Shadows of Fangorn to the Fires of Mount Doom: Individuation in the Hobbits of The Lord of the Rings, Chapleau David

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Incommensurate Values: An Ideological Analysis of Breaking Bad, Zucker Devin

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“The Pirates Don’t Eat the Tourists”: Jurassic Park and The Dangers of Frankenstein’s Creation, Mullin Elizabeth

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Imploding False Consciousness and Igniting Praxis: A Marxist Analysis of WALL-E, Perreca Elizabeth

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Forrest Gump: Promoting “Conservative Acceptance”, Rann Emily

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Childhood Lessons of Evil: An Examination of Disney Villains, Davis Hailey

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Breaking the First Rule of Fight Club: An Analysis of Gendered Social Reformation, Wolf Jared

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“How Do You Like Them Apples?”: Good Will Hunting’ s Alternative Path to Success, Wilson Kaleigh

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Convincing Matthew Arnold to Read Jodi Picoult: The Plain Truth about Popular Culture, DeAngelis Kara

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Facebook Phenomenon: Becoming the "Authors'’ of Our Own Selective Fiction, Marshall Katherine

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From Apocalyptic Realism to Utopian Idealism: Illuminating Studio Ghibli’s Transnational Resonance, Torres Kathrine

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The Princess Fantasy: Does Disney Poison Consumer Culture?, Sweeney Kayla

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Dissolving Barriers: Across the Universe, Rae Kelly Anne

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Invisible Hegemony: An Examination of Patriarchal Structures in Harry Potter, Tangled, and Shrek, Ragone Kristina

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Redefining the American Family: A Feminist Analysis of Juno and Knocked Up, Dzialo Laura

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Christopher McCandless: Into the Wild’s Marxist Martyr, St. Aubin Laura

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Rubbernecking the Jersey Shore, Meinzer Marguerite

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Star, Stripes, and Spandex: Captain AmerIca Retconning the America Heroic Ideal, Rafferty Mary

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Lotso Love is Missing in the Toy Story Series, Lee Michelle

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Mocking the American Dream?: An Ideological Analysis of The Offlce, Duncan Samantha

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“Time is Money, and Money is Time:” A Marxist Analysis of in Time, Zatir Sara

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Seeking Balance: A Sustainability Framework Analysis of Into The Wild, Jessica Sasso

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A Transformation in Popular Culture Stereotypes: Changing Representations of the LGBTQQ Community, Tracy Smith

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Rethinking the Hero: Marginalization in Shakespeare, Twain and Tolkien, Lyons Zachary

Submissions from 2011

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“I am too pure for you, or anyone”: A New Approach to Sylvia Plath, Esther Greenwood, and the Second-Self, Cory Alix

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The “Two-Headed Schizophrenic”: A Cultural Constraint Feminist Critique of Esther Greenwood and April Wheeler, Heather Berkley

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Destructive Ideologies : Revolutionary Road and the Suburban Nightmare, Brian Chester

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Out of the Kitchen and Into Actuality: Postmodern Literary Women as Free Agents, Nicole Foti

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Nurse Ratched as the Anti-woman: Rebellion Against Patriarchy in Ken Kesey’s One F/ew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest, Molly Gessford

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A Paper Reality: Bureaucracy and Subjective Reality in Catch-22, Sean Gilpatrick

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Deserting Pianosa: A Darwinian Reading of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Daniel Hoskins

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Revolutionary Road: The Road to Revolutionizing the Female Role in Society, Anthony Lafata

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The Homecoming of Vietnam Veterans in Sticks and Bones by David Rabe: The Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on Family Life, Alexa Lemire