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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...
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 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 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 poems in my thesis manuscript "Still the Girl" operate in a solar system of candy, social media and the American South. I use preconceived notions of pop culture, kitsch and cute to cut to the quick--nothing is quite as disarming as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Twentieth-Century Western Scholarly, Artistic, and Journalistic Perspectives on the Middle East: Bernard Lewis, David Douglas Duncan, and Sandra MacKey
This dissertation examines twentieth century Western scholarly, artistic, and journalistic perspectives on the Middle East. The Middle East has been a constant topic of research in academia throughout the centuries, in which Orientalism...
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...
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...
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...
War films display how cultures conceive war and how perceptions of war are shaped. Essentially, wars are fought on two fronts, both on the battlefield and as propaganda for national cultures. This study examines Hollywood's depictions of...
Banquets and casual eating scenes in northern Renaissance art frequently include musical instruments for a variety of purposes. Northern Renaissance works such as Pieter Bruegel's Battle of Carnival and Lent use images of music in order...
ABSTRACT According to sources from the Haitian consulate in both the Dominican Republic and Cuba, there are approximately 800, 000 to 1.2 million self-identified HIDs (Haitian immigrants and their descendants) living in each of these...
This study was designed to use quantitative and qualitative methods for two research purposes. The first purpose was to identify the critical aspects of the built environment in selected art education classrooms at Florida State...
This study focuses on understanding the meaning and significance gleaned from a twenty six month examination of the murals on The 34th Street Wall, Gainesville, Florida, in its local and the larger general context. The Feldman method ...
This study investigates the presence of some anachronistic "forms of woe" in 20th and 21st-century Gothic narratives, their roots in the 19th century and particularly in the Victorian Celebration of Death, and their function as part of...
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...
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...
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, ...
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....
The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a theory of musical meaning for the performing musician by attempting to reconcile expressive theories of music with current trends in semiotic analysis. In this context, it is presupposed...
The purpose of this research study was to investigate the use of an art therapy intevention program designed to improve perceptual experiencing of children with delays in visual perceptual development Seventy-four children, from first...
This dissertation considers the construction and conception of Dionysus in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, especially the components of his thought that present the god to the modern era. The structure of the dissertation provides...
"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 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 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...
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