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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Dr. Barbara Graves for her constant support, thoughtful guidance, constructive criticism, and boundless patience in helping me come to produce this book. Like the sun, she has provided me with warm critiques while casting my shadow behind me, giving me hope. She has helped me reflect on the ambigu-ous nature of my writing, and her careful reminders to avoid binary thinking gave me direction in pursuing this research in a postmodern stance.
I also wish to express my gratitude to Dr. Patricia Palulis for her quick feedback to my work, and whose words of encouragement were like a lighthouse on the shore as I navigated the treacherous waters of performing research in a new space. Without her guid-ance, I surely would not have been able to come this far.
I would also like to give thanks to Dr. Raymond Leblanc and Dr. Cynthia Morawski for the assistance they have rendered me during the course of my studies; the inspiration and direction that they have provided have been invaluable. Dr. Leblanc’s inno-vative ideas in particular have stimulated my mind and provided me with much-needed perspective in many instances.