When Choice Is an Illusion: Suppression of Women in William Styron\u27s Holocaust Novel

This article examines how Styron shapes Sophie\u27s Choice through Southern Gothic literary techniques. In particular, we will explore the development of Sophie, who throughout the story served as the Gothic archetype of the damsel in distress. She is a heroine who lacks agency,a character with a tendency to faint and a need to be rescued– frequently. Ultimately, the harsh suppression of female identity entrenched in Gothic literature contributes to the unimaginable pain that forces female characters like Sophie to make their choice. Finally, we will examine how Sophie, controlled throughout her life, really does not have a real choice when she is forced to decide which of her children to keep and which to send to the gas chambers. For all her life, Sophie has had only the illusion of choice

Implementing Vocabutoons in the English Language Arts Classroom: Drawing Their Way to Success

Although vocabulary acquisition remains a critical to literacy development, teachers infrequently devote classroom time to vocabulary exercises. In this article, the author demonstrates the use of vocabutoons as an instructional activity which draws upon students’ multiple literacies—in particular, visual literacy—in order to foster vocabulary development. Tooning is based upon the belief that [p]roficient readers visualize what they read as they construct meaning from a text (Onofrey & Leikam 682). Representative artwork created by English Education majors enrolled in a young adult literature course at a university in the Midwest will be featured to highlight the tooning process

Effect of Insulated Houses On Broiler Performance

To compare the response of broilers grown in insulated and noninsulated houses when measured in terms of percent mortality, average weight of broilers, feed conversion, performance efficiency index2 and percent condemnations

Toward a Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

Also CSST Working Paper #29.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51160/1/392.pd

Rethinking Labor History: Toward a Post-Materialist Rhetoric

Also CSST Working Paper #44.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51188/1/421.pd

Three Temporalities: Toward a Sociology of the Event

Also CSST Working Paper #58.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51215/1/448.pd