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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...
The objective of Building Worlds; Creating an Affordable and Efficient Virtual Reality is to explore the phenomena of Virtual Reality (VR) through the marketing of its developing technologies, its future opportunities, and its potential...
Large numbers of military veterans are returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with injuries and mental health issues. In response to this the Department of Veterans Affairs offers many evidenced based treatments, however, these...
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...
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 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...
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 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, ...
Gislebertus’s Eve: An Alternative Interpretation of the Eve Lintel Relief from the Church of Saint-Lazare, Autun by Areli Marina / The Art of the Spiro Warrior: Engravings in Shell from the Spiro Site by Joanna Minich / Caravaggism in...
Scholars have hailed David Cox (1783-1859) as one of the pillars of English landscape painting of the early nineteenth century, together with John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Working primarily in watercolor, Cox celebrated the English...
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 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...
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...
The chief objective of this study is to establish the sources of Gyorgy Kepes's visual theory as expounded in his 1944 book Language of Vision, and examine his synthesis of these sources in a form that was so popular that his theoretic...
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 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...
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...
The population of ethnically diverse older adults in the US is rapidly growing, and reports of cognitive impairments, such as those caused by Alzheimer's disease, are becoming more prevalent. This investigation explored whether art...
Three issues were discussed in this paper exploration of an Art Coordinator who directs a community-based art program within the nonprofit Sojourn House. The paper's first issue was the identification of the role and responsibilities of...
This article is based on quantitative and qualitative research examining humanities scholars' understandings of the advantages and disadvantages of print versus electronic information resources. It explores how humanities' faculty...
Zen Artistry’s Desanctification of Buddhist Imagery by Cheryl Scott Foss / The Smoking Candle of the Mérode Altarpiece by B. Underwood DuRette / Benjamin West at the Court of George III by Rosemary T. Smith / The Stephens Log House in...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of sexual insults and slander as a means of character defamation in the speeches of the Attic orators Lysias and Aeschines. I intend to investigate in what ways these authors utilized...
This honors thesis will aim to address the less-studied topic of female aristeia and women in masculine roles in ancient epic to establish examples of women breaching concepts that divided ancient society. It will also examine aristeia...
The ecology of language aims at the preservation of biodiversity in nature, language and culture which would result into an ecological form of globalization. This task has been undertaken by Manuel Rivas (b. 1957), a contemporary...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Student-produced creative arts journals now exist in several medical schools. The Florida State University College of Medicine (FSUCOM) has created HEAL: Humanism Evolving through Arts and Literature. This...
Exhibition catalogue focusing on sculpture featuring art by; Harriet Bell, Christine Federighi, James Ferringer, Frank Fleming, Jane E. Gilmor, Suzanne Klotz-Reilly, Richard Newman, Jack Nichelson, Donald Van Horn, Pamela Vanz, L. Benson...
This dissertation argues that contemporary American independent cinema needs to be theorized in a new way. Film criticism has traditionally defined independent film in one of two ways: financing (which, as we see by George Lucas'...
Suffering traumatic events and the stress disorders that may develop as a result of these experiences disrupt the successful daily functioning and the quality of a person's life. The current art therapy protocols that serve to combat the...
Although courtship is frequently referred to as a game because it is understood to have rules that follow a particular sequence when the individuals in a couple are getting to know each other, no one has argued that it is really two very...
The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The...
Over the years, scholars and practitioners have discussed how U. S. symphony orchestras are an unsustainable business model due to their financial and audience decline. Though orchestras are continuously improving their artistic quality, ...
This dissertation argues for a feminist practice of liminal laughter, a bodily laughter that cements a critical engagement. Liminal laughter is formed in the margins, across various disciplines and genres; it is a subversive and parodic...
The emergence of nihilism and chaos in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offers us a case study in how memes work. Memes are bundles of cultural information that display viral properties, sowing the seeds of reality in the...
Narrative, Figure, and Landscape in Poussin’s Roads: Landscape with a Man Washing His Feet at a Fountain and Landscape with a Roman Road by Benjamin Endredge / William Hogarth’s Four Stages of Cruelty and Moral Blindness by Maureen...
Reviving the Relic: An Investigation of the Form and Function of the Reliquary of St. Servatius, Quedlinburg by Evan A. Gatti / The Earliest Dated Tree of Jesse Image: Thematically Reconsidered by Jean Anne Hayes Williams / Albrecht...
This qualitative, participatory action research study describes the implementation of an environmental art curriculum developed for third, fourth, and fifth grade at-risk students. It explores what empathy means to participants and what...
This project investigates the progress of Spanish women filmmakers and their films that have served as critical discourse in the social construction of women's identities and rights within the historical context of the post-Franco era in...
The purpose of this study was to examine gender differences among full term infants' responses to music played at a range of decibel levels. These responses were measured by physiological data (heart rate) and behavioral data (behavior...
In 1940, Walt Disney and his associates presented their imaginative creation Fantasia, a masterpiece union of symphonic music and animation that employed "a new type of entertainment" -- a hybrid multisensory experience culminating in an...
This dissertation examines the justification for using armed force throughout Islam's history. Special emphasis will be made to the following three terms, harb, jihad, and qital. These three words translate into war, struggle, and fight...
Eliciting Liturgical Participation: The Southwest Vestibule Mosaic in Hagia Sophia by Katie Townsend / Evidence of Animistic Practice at Casas Grandes: Marine Shell and the Walk-in Well by Jennifer Clary / Constructing Cosmography: The...
The poems in The Lubbock I Carry primarily operate according to traditional free-verse poetic convention, working to render, as a means of both illumination and interrogation, the emotional and physical landscapes of the past, how they...
Westerners is a collection of eleven stories, mostly about people struggling to connect in this time of so-called "globalization." Two stories set in the 19th century aim to enhance the meanings found in some of the contemporary stories....
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