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Michel Foucault's structures of knowledge define meaning in history. In the museum, meaning is made through the material evidence of people and their environment. This study examines how Foucault's classification paradigm established in...
This dissertation raises the question of how environmentalists should consider the idea of human labor in nature. This is ultimately a part of the greater question of what we consider the relationship between humanity and nature to be....
This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings...
This dissertation is predicated on the notion that the concept of the Third Culture describes a dominant intellectual force in contemporary society and that literary and cultural studies thinkers must learn to engage it while maintaining...
This dissertation explores and analyzes Alexander Pushkin's contribution to the development of a unique Russian form of classical ballet. Pushkin's gift as a writer and understanding of language, music and ballet converge to directly...
In this dissertation, I investigate the representations of Saladin in English textual representations from the medieval period to the present, beginning with the romance, King Richard in the fourteenth-century codex, Edinburgh, National...
This dissertation focuses on the effectiveness of integrating communication technology, specifically the Internet, to enhance teaching practices. With the foundation of teacher as researcher, the teacher implemented this study under...
Esta tesis doctoral analiza el proceso de creación y de transmisión de los cuentos o historias que forman parte del Quijote. Se examina la función e importancia de la pluralidad de voces narrativas que ofrecen, mediante la técnica del...
A canonical story is present in Baby of the Family (1989), Ugly Ways (1993), The Hand I Fan With (1996), You Know Better (2002), and Taking After Mudear (2007)--the five novels of contemporary author Tina McElroy Ansa. That narrative...
The scope of power, truth and knowledge in multiple layers of society reaches the coffee plantation of La charca, the Valencian fields of La barraca, and the rural terrain of central Spain in El caballero encantado, written by Manuel...
This thesis documents and analyzes events ignited by complaints to the Florida Elections Commission (FEC) against the fledgling, independent newspaper, The Wakulla Independent Reporter; its publisher, Julia Hanway; and her business, ...
The individual and organizational practices that advance and impede careers of people of color are well documented in research (Alfred, 2001; Bell, 1990; Clay, 1998; Chee, 2004; Darden, 2003; Dawkins, 2004; Fagneson, 1993; Green-Powell, ...
This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and...
This study analyzed the effects of the interactive reading with instructor support (I.R.I.S.) model on reading comprehension as compared to a traditional (direct-teaching/lecture format) instructional model. The I.R.I.S. model combines...
A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse are two of the most famous English writers and humorists of their time, with Milne being known for the creation of Winnie the Pooh and Wodehouse celebrated for his Wooster and Jeeves novels. Not only that, ...
This dissertation presents a thorough, line-by-line commentary of Ovid's Heroides 5, 16, and 17 (Oenone to Paris, Paris to Helen, and Helen to Paris) with an eye towards assisting the 3rd year high-school student or 3rd semester college...
The purpose of this case study is to examine the nature of the teaching in the painting and drawing program at Florida State University. Aspects to be considered in this case study will include the philosophy of the program as...
Faced with floods of what was variously called "cheap literature, popular literature, and reading for the million, a cohort of Victorian commentators adopted a surprisingly consistent response to examining such printed materials:...
The Southern Baptist Convention began in 1845 as a result of tensions between Baptists in the North and in the South. Several issues were issues in the division, including differing views on organization and denominational structure....
Samuel Parker (1640-1688) was one of Restoration England's most significant religious controversialists, the writer of numerous pamphlets and books dealing with subjects on which learned opinion was completely polarized. His works...
"I Have to Know Who I Am": An Africana Womanist Analysis of Afro-Brazilian Identity in the Literature of Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro and Conceição Evaristo
ABSTRACT This dissertation explores black female identity in the literature of contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro, and Conceição Evaristo. The research approaches Alves poem "Estranho Indagar" (1983), ...
This dissertation proposes an interpretation of José Martí's texts in relation to New York City during the Nineteenth Century. This work is a multidisciplinary approach to the discursive and spatial representation of modern cities as a...
This study explored the usage of service learning with visual art teachers in Lake County, Florida, and used the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) as the conceptual framework. Data were gathered using CBAM's three diagnostic tools:...
This study uses literary texts from the twentieth century to explore the interaction between liberty and democracy at the heart of the American Dream. Of particular interest is the way in which the Dream is invoked and then called into...
Hoopla in Harlem! the Renaissance of African American Art and Culture: A Rhetorical Criticism of Artists as Social Activists during the 1920's and 30's; Engaging the Philosophical Discourse of Kenneth Burke
Harlem glittered as one on the world's most vivid entertainment centers during the 1920's and 30's. Nightlife revolved around The Cotton Club, Smalls Paradise and The Savoy Ballroom; featuring floor shows headlining glamorous African...
This thesis presents and evaluates a selection of Lenin's political writings from 1902-1917 in an effort to illustrate the continuity in his political theory. It traces two themes, Lenin's fight against opportunism and his advocacy for...
The "Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a narrative account written by the self-proclaimed knight of St. Albans, was one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages, translated into every major European language by 1400 and surviving in...
Who was Louisa S. McCord as a writer and polemicist on women's rights in the antebellum South? Why did she, a conservative intellectual, use the term 'feminist' in 1852? Historians of the nineteenth century Woman's Rights Movement have...
Sports and sports films mean a great deal to many Americans. Since the historic Title IX legislation passed in 1972, opportunities for female athletes reached unpredictably high numbers. Likewise, there was an increase in the number of...
This is a study of the cultural variants of the Grimm's brothers famous tale Der Frosch Konig. I will examine five stories, beginning with the Cajun tale The Frog and the Princess, then continue with the Balinese version, The Frg Prince, ...
In the ever-developing field of media, the primary manner in which users access, interact with, and use media is continuously becoming more physical in nature. As greater physical demands are placed on the user, the means through which...
The work contained in this manuscript stems from personal experience and a desire to portray life in honest, detailed poems. Some events are factual while others are speculative, all of which spins on an axis of imagery. The actions of...
My aim in this paper is to investigate this history of Jamaican through the lens of twentieth-century Jamaican art from the theoretical perspectives of cultural landscape and identity studies, specifically by focusing on the work of...
No thorough, systematic study of Etruscan sigla, non-verbal marks of communication incised, painted or imprinted on artifacts throughout the Mediterranean, has been conducted to date. This thesis examines sigla found on a particular...
This thesis, an interdisciplinary project entitled DEAD ELEMENTS, seeks to explore the complex relationship between performance and text. Seven common literary elements were selected and then interpreted both in a performative action and...
This dissertation will focus on the representation of ideal, white masculinity in the films of the Cold War period and how those representations, as they appeared in the form of art, served either to flatter or criticize the times in...
This dissertation examines the intersection between religion, Wordsworthian Romanticism, and conceptions of secularization. Taking cues from M. H. Abrams much of the Romantic criticism of the past fifty years has assumed that poets like...
Federal legislation mandates that students with disabilities receive their education in the least restrictive environment and with their non-disabled peers whenever possible. Unfortunately, for many students with emotional behavioral...
This thesis examines the issues of gender roles and political influence of Roman empresses in the late fourth and early fifth centuries. Three Late Antique empresses-Flaccilla (r. 383-386 CE), Eudoxia (r.400-404 CE), and Galla Placidia ...
The purpose of this work is to show the interplay between trade, law and family in Lessing's "Nathan der Weise, Kleist's Der Findling, and Kafka's Das Urteil, and to show how these texts are related through that interplay. It will...
With the rapidly growing population of Internet users, many artists now utilize the Internet as a mean to both access and create artworks, which themselves have a newfound opportunity to communicate with the greater public. However, the...
This dissertation examines the St. Albans Psalter and the woman for whom we think it was made, Christina of Markyate. This study tries to reconstruct a potential reading of the Psalter as seen through Christina's eyes and focuses...
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to...
The purpose of the study is to examine art education in boys' middle schools in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The study specifically investigated characteristics of art education teachers, teaching methods and guidelines, school...
During the last quarter century, the traditional division of works in Spanish into Peninsular versus Latin American has become obsolete. In a global literary market, increasing attention should be paid to themes or tendencies within...
Nearly every piece of Beckett criticism uses "Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit, yet many early assumptions about the work remain unexplored and unchallenged. Beckett in (t)Transition" suggests new interpretive possibilities of...
The purpose of the study was to determine the conditions and perception of change in conditions amongst Florida elementary art teachers in regards to federal and state education reform. To comprehend the impact of federal and state...
Based on primary and secondary sources that include declassified documents and eyewitness accounts, and using a theoretical approach informed by the works of Slavoj iek and Hannah Arendt, this thesis represents a profound examination of...
The purpose of this thesis is to catalogue and analyze the stamps on Italian red-gloss pottery discovered at San Venanzo, Italy (locality Poggio delle Civitelle) during the 2000 to 2003 seasons. When viewed within the greater context of...
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