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Beginning in 1789, Americans reacted to the French Revolution with the vociferous passion of a people whose very identity was at stake. Indeed this was precisely the case, for in the face of a new definition of revolution emanating from...
I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research...
This study investigates the functional value of music in Zambia's political soundscape in the context of political rhetoric. It evaluates the meaning and influence of music in the political processes on the choices citizens make for...
This thesis examines staged performances of traditional music in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. It includes the history of traditional performing groups in Ethiopia and their purposes, the continuities and changes in...
Food production in Muslim West Africa ensures more than mere nourishment. Food plays an integral role in hospitality and moral relationships between people. Not only do people exchange food for other gifts with each other, but husbands...
BACKGROUND: This study explores relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life, making a case for biopsychosocial modeling of these associations. It builds on research from social and clinical disciplines connecting...
Cultural memory is the collective perception of a group on their own history, and the way in which remembrance and emphasis of specific elements of that history build the identity of a culture. The formation and alteration of cultural...
Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by extreme sensitivity to sunlight, higher incidence of skin cancers, pigmented alterations in the skin, and in some cases neurological abnormalities. XP is...
This study investigates the functional value of music in Zambia's political soundscape in the context of political rhetoric. It evaluates the meaning and influence of music in the political processes on the choices citizens make for...
This thesis contends that the colonial and postcolonial anthropological and ethnomusicological disciplines promoted “African rhythm” and, by extension, the “African drum” as the ultimate canon of study in Africanist ethnomusicology and...
How Safe and Effective is Pramlintide in Improving Long-Term Glycemic Control and Weight Loss in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Receiving Insulin?
Intervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that...
The seemingly elusive connections between a West African ceremony and a Southern blues scape is this thesis’s central focus. In Unmasking The Blues: Gẹlẹdẹ And The Creation Of Blues Alchemy, I explore the blues culture phenomena of...
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) regulates synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis, and BDNF plasma and serum levels have been associated with depression, Alzheimer's disease, and other psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders....
This thesis studies how the shift in American popular perception of the Japanese changed and shows how Japan's relationship with the United States changed from that of an enemy to ally in the mid-1950s. The cause of this positive change...
BACKGROUND: High Neuroticism and low Conscientiousness are frequently implicated in health-risk behaviors, such as smoking and overeating, as well as health outcomes, including mortality. Their associations with physiological markers of...
This paper explores the ritualized gift-giving that occurs at funerals in the Volta Basin. Other studies of hierarchical gift exchange in the region have failed to notice the salience of funeral gifting, which is actually the most...
This study surveys William Blake's and Percy Bysshe Shelley's reader responses of Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake and Shelley were both Romanticists and were highly captivated with the character of Satan. Their critiques of...
The ultimate goal of health literacy is to improve care by enhancing the patient's quality of life, maximizing clinical outcomes, and reducing inequities in health. Successful restructuring of the healthcare system to make it more...
Cancer cachexia is a wasting syndrome that has been poorly characterized partly due to the lack of an adequate definition. In an attempt to establish diagnostic criteria, a formal consensus process was established, proposing three...
The Senegalese writer Léopold Sédar Senghor is known for being a proponent of the cultural métissage, the Civilization of the Universal, the dialogue of cultures and the concept of humanism. He notably suggests the complementarity of...
At the center of this project is the question of origin and citizenship in the geographical, emotional, and spiritual sense. A subterranean pursuit of the idea of home through a series of questions. If home, the measurement of...
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