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• Frederick Douglass and the Nature of Pain in the Construction of Black
Masculinity
• Reading Rumi in the Transcendental Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Teaching Graphic Novels in the High School Classroom
• Metaphor, Memory, and the Narrative of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument
• Jolting Intimacies: Electroshock Therapy in 20th Century American Literature
• Cinematic Ministry: Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe
• Rewriting Father Divine: Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Sunday
• Jacques Roumain’s Masters of the Dew and the Reconstruction of Hayti
• A Derridian Reading of Kill Bill
• Muscled Up: The Appearance of Strength in the Speeches of Michelle Obama
• Speaking English: The Experience of Saudi Arabian Students in English Education
• Intersections: Du Bois, Sheherezade, and the Narrative of the Veil
• Things Fall Apart: A Postcolonial Reading of Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix
• Police Brutality and Black Male Sacrifice in American Literature
• Deconstructing Haiku: Asian American Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century
• Metaphor, Aristotle, and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire
• The Luck of the Irish: Fate and Oppression in James Joyce’s Dubliners
• A Street in Bronzeville and The House on Mango Street: Variations on the American
Dream
• Fantasies of Power in Scandal and Empire

MLA Style
As you know, each academic discipline
follows a standard format for its
scholarly publications. In English, we use
the guidelines of the Modern Language
Association. If you don’t already have a
copy, please obtain the latest edition of
the MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers. It is available on
Kindle. There are some Internet sites
that suggest that everything you need
to know about MLA can be found at
that site. Generally, this is not so. One
very reliable site is the Online Writing
Lab at Purdue University (http://
owl.english.purdue.edu).

If Your Thesis Study Involves the Use of Human Subjects
Research that uses human subjects follows certain ethical standards. If your study uses
data obtained through the use of human subjects (including questionnaires), you need to
submit a Institutional Review Board Proposal Submission (IRB form). At the Bowie State
University Graduate School website, you will find a forms section. There you will find

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