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Browsing by Author "Notre Dame University-Louaize. Department of English and Translation"

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  • Khoury, Calina (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    The 19th Century witnessed a new era in Arabic Literature. After a long period of mental stagnation, a great desire for learning emerged. The West started to gain interest in Eastern Literature, which triggered closer relations between the Arab countries and other European nations. This approach paved the way for the Renaissance, which intended to achieve a drastic positive change. The East also started to appreciate Western Literature; this led to a reform in hope to limit ignorance. This openness to other civilizations sparked authors’ desires to bridge the gap between East and West. Gibran ...
  • Hojeij, Zeina S. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2005)
    This thesis presents the results of a case study that investigates the use of a variety of teaching methods, based on a multisensory approach, as part of the remediation program of dyslexic students in elementary English classes. In order to do this, a review of the literature surrounding the main concepts of disabilities has been carried out, in which the theory of learning disabilities is explained and then linked to dyslexia. Then, a discussion of the different teaching methods that are used in a dyslexic classroom is presented. A research pilot case study, which is presented in the form of ...
  • Suinyuy, Tayu Celestine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    This thesis examines the landscape of African Science Fiction (ASF) as a genre of African Literature (AL) from the lens of technology and Africanfuturism. African literature is often written and read from the past, positioning Africa as a backwater continent with no future technology and devoid of humanness, humaneness, and indigenous knowledge, yet African epistemologies and ontologies exist and portray new technologies in the present and in the future for the valuation of humans. The growing corpus of ASF employs African epistemologies and tremendous technology in mapping African futurity: ...
  • Hobeika, Myriam (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    During and after the war in Syria which erupted in 2011, the Syrian mobility has seen a rapid, large-scale outflow into neighboring countries with Lebanon being on the list of countries to host the largest numbers of Syrian refugees (SR). Many among them ended up living in refugee camps where conditions were and still are dire; consequently, they seek migration through refugees’ human agencies and foreign embassies in Lebanon. In light of this situation, community interpreting services have become increasingly required and immigration agencies subsequently have reached out to the Community ...
  • Touma, Cynthia Romeo (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Reading is universally considered as a fundamental cognitive process of acquiring information from written text. Since individuals acquire reading skills differently, there is no single way for teaching reading. For many years, the educational system has valued primarily linguistic and mathematical ways of learning and has placed a stronger emphasis on test scores than on the learners themselves. In 1983, Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences (MI), focusing on different intelligences in learning. This study is a qualitative action research that aimed at investigating how ...
  • Aoudi, Ghena (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    This thesis argues that reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eureka” (1848) in light of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Dionysian philosophy can reveal Poe’s shared worldview and his contribution to the postmodern age and to post-structuralist concepts of truth, genre and beauty. Each of these concepts will be examined in “Eureka” to reveal the relevance of Poe’s philosophy to ways of thinking later popularized by Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty. A careful examination of major ideas discussed in “Eureka,” such as the mutability of truths, the opposition between philosophy and poetry, and the unity ...