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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"popular cultural icons"”.
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The Development of a Genre: Commencement Addresses Delivered by Popular Cultural Icons
… with an analysis of speeches from pop culture icons to establish the defining characteristics of the genre. These characteristics are: 1) acknowledging the graduates, 2) creating identification, 3) presenting the world, and 4) instilling hope.
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Militarism, Security, and War: The Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Superheroes
… and international relations, engagement with popular culture has been deemed predominantly un-important and irrelevant as an area of study. This dissertation interrogates one of the most popular cultural icons of the early 21st century, the fictional Hollywood superhero, and asks what it does …
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An Examination of the Metaphorical Structure of Writing Centers: One Metaphor to Bring Them All to Understanding and Define Them
… I conclude by arguing that we should cultivate popular cultural icons as metaphors to expand and individualize our repertoire, thus allowing a broader audience to make connections with the writing center.