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Selling Bodies And Souls: Human Sex Trafficking In China, Jane Ni
Selling Bodies And Souls: Human Sex Trafficking In China, Jane Ni
East Asian Studies
No abstract provided.
Decimation, Rejuvenation, Motivation: How Disease And Murder Set The Stage At Saratoga, Nicolas Soto
Decimation, Rejuvenation, Motivation: How Disease And Murder Set The Stage At Saratoga, Nicolas Soto
History
No abstract provided.
Toward A More Intuitive Virtue Ethics: A Perspectival View, James Fanciullo
Toward A More Intuitive Virtue Ethics: A Perspectival View, James Fanciullo
Philosophy
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Unveiling Fantasy In The American Gothic, Olga Jacqueline Neroni
Unveiling Fantasy In The American Gothic, Olga Jacqueline Neroni
English
In The Plague of Fantasies, Slavoj Žižek charts the relationship between theoretical ideology, fantasy, and ideology in practice. While ideology roots itself firmly in our lives—it crafts our very reality according to Žižek—it is a paradoxically fragile and self-destructive system of interacting symbols. We consume and perpetuate fantasy in order to elucidate and internalize the laws of ideology by placing these symbols into dialogue with one another. In turn, fantasy often draws these laws to their conceptual edge, granting bodies and voices to the underlying fears and desires implied by these symbols. Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia” and William Faulkner’s The …
Estudio SociolingüÍStico De Las LíQuidas En El EspañOl Hablado En La Ciudad De GuantáNamo, Yaima Aimee Centeno
Estudio SociolingüÍStico De Las LíQuidas En El EspañOl Hablado En La Ciudad De GuantáNamo, Yaima Aimee Centeno
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Este estudio examina la variación de /l/ y /r/ mediante 32 entrevistas sociolingüísticas llevadas a cabo en la ciudad de Guantánamo, Cuba. Además, investiga la influencia del contexto fonológico, el nivel académico, la edad y el sexo en el uso de ciertas variantes de /r/ y /l/. Los factores lingüísticos internos considerados fueron: el contexto lingüístico (posición final de sílaba o final de palabra) y el segmento lingüístico. También se consideraron factores sociales tales como: el nivel académico, la edad y el sexo.
Beyond Permissibility : Traversing The Many Moral Pitfalls Of Abortion (A Virtue Ethics Approach), John Westley Mcmichael
Beyond Permissibility : Traversing The Many Moral Pitfalls Of Abortion (A Virtue Ethics Approach), John Westley Mcmichael
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Ethical discussions about abortion, typically, focus on whether or not it is morally permissible to destroy a fetus. If it is morally impermissible to do so, that seems to answer the question of abortion outright: all things being equal, it is wrong. If it is permissible to kill a fetus, however, it doesn't follow that one cannot err morally by doing so. Using virtue ethics as my guiding normative theory, I argue that there are many potential moral errors one can make in having an abortion (or, in other cases, by not having an abortion) that do not hang on …
Shakespearean Avatars : Modern African And South-East Asian Adaptations, Rebekah Bale
Shakespearean Avatars : Modern African And South-East Asian Adaptations, Rebekah Bale
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
My dissertation looks at adaptation of plays by Shakespeare in African and Asian contexts. It focuses on how and why certain writers from a post-colonial background use Shakespeare as a basis for their adaptation. I consider contemporary adaptations from the 1960s to the 1990s. My aim is to focus on adaptations that are distinctly indigenous in terms of place and time, but remain connected to an influential Shakespearean play. I focus on adaptations that were written during the post-colonial period in order to investigate how literary adaptations are mediated through politically diverse landscapes both in Africa and Asia.
Making Thought Matter : Postmodern Models For Material Thinking, James Kenneth Belflower
Making Thought Matter : Postmodern Models For Material Thinking, James Kenneth Belflower
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Making Thought Matter: Postmodern Models for Material Thinking, crosses disciplines to trace the aesthetic contexts of Postmodern American artists whose work employs the senses to make legible creative and critical modes of synthesis. I contend that in practicing a material thinking—the artistic mobilization of the intimate and affective qualities of conceptual and physical surfaces—these artists reinsert perceptual knowledge and bodily agency into Postmodernism’s “emptied” surfaces. Consequently, their work opposes late theorists of Postmodernity who characterized contemporary artistic forms as immaterial, abstract, and emotionally deficient. To assess contemporary syntheses I develop Philip Johnson’s late International Style Glass House into an analogy …
The Queen's Three Bodies : Representations Of Female Sovereignty In Early Modern Women's Writing, 1588-1688, Erin V. Casey-Williams
The Queen's Three Bodies : Representations Of Female Sovereignty In Early Modern Women's Writing, 1588-1688, Erin V. Casey-Williams
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Sovereignty, a mechanism of power around which a state is organized, has emerged as a way to understand the twenty-first-century biopolitical moment. Thinkers including Michel Foucault, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Roberto Esposito find sovereignty essential to understanding modern regimes of bodily domination and control. These thinkers look back to early modern England as an originary moment when older theories of sovereign power became attached to emerging modern political systems. Despite the sophistication of these arguments, however, no recent biopolitical theory accounts for the situation of women in historical or current system of power, nor do they discuss the role …
Misfortune : A Novel Of Historical And Detective Fiction, Samme Catherine Chittum
Misfortune : A Novel Of Historical And Detective Fiction, Samme Catherine Chittum
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Misfortune is a work of historiographic metafiction that takes as its subject what many regard as an unsolved crime: the suspicious death on Sunday September 8, 1560 of Amy Robsart, the wife of Robert Dudley, the favorite of Elizabeth I. The plot revisits the black-legend of Robert Dudley, the wife killer, by casting him as the victim and his wife as a co-conspirator in a scheme to assassinate her husband. Misfortune connects the events and personalities surrounding the death of Amy Robsart to Leicester’s Commonwealth, a work of political propaganda published in 1584 that accused Dudley of murdering his wife. …
Characterizing Postmodernity : Developing Ethical Paradigms In The Novels Of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Patrick Cook
Characterizing Postmodernity : Developing Ethical Paradigms In The Novels Of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Patrick Cook
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
“Characterizing Postmodernity: Developing Ethical Paradigms in the Novels of David Foster Wallace” argues that the critical discourse on David Foster Wallace’s novels neglects the relationship between Wallace’s postmodern aesthetics and the historical period of postmodernity out of which Wallace’s novels emerged, contending that this relationship not only accounts for the form of Wallace’s novels and their protagonists, but also points toward new understandings of postmodernity’s relationship to history. Focusing on the dialectic between historical conditions of late capitalism and the agency and action of characters with respect to consumerism, Wallace uses social conditions themselves as the primary antagonists to his …
Colossus, Dennin Ellis
Colossus, Dennin Ellis
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The purpose of this project was to tell a story that incorporates the traditional elements of storytelling such as plot, characters, setting, conflict and theme, but to allow the story to unfold as a series of 'documents' rather than the typical form of narrative and exposition. These documents would include magazine articles, newspaper articles, sheet music, crime reports, etc. By assembling the disparate documents in chronological order, a story with a clear beginning, middle and end will emerge.
The Death Of Global Jihad : The Origin And Reality Of Islamic Terrorism, David Charles Gardiner
The Death Of Global Jihad : The Origin And Reality Of Islamic Terrorism, David Charles Gardiner
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorism has been propagated as a seemingly unavoidable threat to our daily lives. However, the globally oriented anti-Western jihad movement peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s and has since been in decline. Across much of Africa and the Middle East, fringe groups have used Islam as a rallying cry to attract supporters who might otherwise dismiss their rather extreme tactics. Many of these groups claim to adhere to al Qaeda's brand of global terror, but they do so largely to obtain financing and support for their individual nationalist agendas. …
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness And Mental Health In The Literature Classroom, Melissa B. Guadron
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness And Mental Health In The Literature Classroom, Melissa B. Guadron
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The purpose of this study was to observe undergraduate students’ attitudes toward mental illness and mental health in the literature classroom. This was an observational, inductive study of Jeffrey Berman’s literature course, featuring books written by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. This setting was chosen because of Berman’s unique pedagogy, which encourages self-disclosure and psychoanalytic readings. Three questionnaires and three introspective reader response diaries were collected from fifteen participants; text analyses were performed on diaries. Research inquiries questioned a participant’s interactions with the books: How did participants respond to the portrayals of characters with mental illness or mental health …
Key Generalization Of Recognition Memory For Melodies, Abigail Lincoln Kleinsmith
Key Generalization Of Recognition Memory For Melodies, Abigail Lincoln Kleinsmith
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
People easily recognize a melody in a previously unheard key, but they also retain some key-specific information. I tested the hypothesis that individuals compare novel melodies to a memory “prototype” representing the central tendency of experienced exemplars. Participants were familiarized with a monotonic eight-note melody in two closely separated keys and tested for discrimination of that melody from others. Test and foil melodies included ones that were the “average” of pitch heights and ones that were more distant in pitch height. Hit rates and discriminability (d') were better for physically closer keys than for harmonically related keys. In follow-up experiments, …
The Self In Hume's "Treatise", David M. Krueger
The Self In Hume's "Treatise", David M. Krueger
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Much has been written about Hume's treatment of the self and personal identity in his Treatise. However the scholarship generally focuses on individual aspects of Hume's discussion of self and personal identity. This account is an attempt to elucidate Hume's view of the self and personal identity throughout the Treatise, including the Appendix. I argue for a consistent and cohesive interpretation of Hume's account, one that rejects a more traditional view of identity for an unreflective view of identity.
Trends In Risky Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men : Analysis Of Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Data From Ukraine, 2007-2013, Roksolana Kulchynska
Trends In Risky Sexual Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men : Analysis Of Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey Data From Ukraine, 2007-2013, Roksolana Kulchynska
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Objective: To examine changes in risky sexual behavior over time, i.e., unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ukraine.
Legislating For American Empire : The U.S. Congress And Territorial Policy, Timothy Lindberg
Legislating For American Empire : The U.S. Congress And Territorial Policy, Timothy Lindberg
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The United States has always administered territorial governments and the primary entity entrusted with this authority is the United States Congress. This dissertation, using an American Political Development framework, seeks to uncover the variety of ways in which Congressional decision-making over territorial policy has shifted. The goal is to understand how the United States Congress worked toward establishing and maintaining an American Empire via the use of territorial policy. A variety of causal mechanisms causing are investigated, including the demographic targets of policy, partisan conflicts, changing norms and rules of Congress, pressures from other branches or the states, national security …
We Might Be Mad Here : An Archaeological Investigation Of Institutional Life In The Northeast, Rachel Manning
We Might Be Mad Here : An Archaeological Investigation Of Institutional Life In The Northeast, Rachel Manning
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The establishment of almshouses in the United States provided a way for states to offer housing to their poor and destitute populations. Throughout the 20th century, most of these establishments changed their function, with many of them morphing into asylums for the mentally insane. Grave assemblages have been collected through archaeological excavations, typically when significant changes are expected to be made to what was once property of the almshouse. This study compares the artifact assemblages of three contemporaneous almshouses: the Oneida and Onondaga County Almshouses of New York State and the Uxbridge Almshouse of Massachusetts. While the associated artifacts are …
Hemispheric Specialization For Emotion Within First And Second Languages : Emotion Word Processing In Monolingual And Bilingual Speakers, Jennifer Mary Martin
Hemispheric Specialization For Emotion Within First And Second Languages : Emotion Word Processing In Monolingual And Bilingual Speakers, Jennifer Mary Martin
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Emotion representation in monolingual speakers is complex, and for bilinguals the relationship between emotion and language can be even more intriguing. The present study examined reactions to words of six types, including positive, negative, and neutral words varying in concreteness. Words and nonwords were intermixed in a lexical decision task using hemifield presentation. In Experiment 1, participants were English monolinguals and all stimuli were presented in English. In Experiment 2, participants were Spanish-English bilinguals who were presented with both English and Spanish stimuli. Results revealed a general left hemisphere advantage. Overall, reaction times for positive words were faster than for …
Defending God : Thomas Paine's Last Crusade And The Contest Over His Memory, Theodore William Marotta
Defending God : Thomas Paine's Last Crusade And The Contest Over His Memory, Theodore William Marotta
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation is focused on two key elements. First, it offers a new interpretation of Thomas Paine's religious writings, arguing that Paine was not attacking religion, but rather was defending God. Second, the dissertation explores Thomas Paine's hotly contested place in America's historical memory by focusing on the individuals who have fought for decades to restore Paine's reputation in the eyes of Americans, and the tremendous difficulties they experienced as a result of their efforts.
Explaining Participation : An Explanatory History Of Select Gender Patterns In Undergraduate Stem, Michael Pasquale Mastroianni
Explaining Participation : An Explanatory History Of Select Gender Patterns In Undergraduate Stem, Michael Pasquale Mastroianni
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This explanatory study examines three focal periods in undergraduate STEM as related to the gender gap. Social, economic, and more general historical data are used to develop a clear and powerful explanation of baccalaureate trends in biology and engineering. Specifically, historical accounts are offered for 1) a ten-year period in undergraduate biology in which the number of baccalaureates awarded to men decreased 44 percent, while the number of baccalaureates awarded to women decreased one percent; 2) the start of a twenty-year period in which the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the biological sciences increased 150 percent—from 36,068 degrees in …
Striving For Salvation : Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations And Revolution In Ireland, 1829-1899, Sean Heather K. Mcgraw
Striving For Salvation : Margaret Anna Cusack, Sainthood, Religious Foundations And Revolution In Ireland, 1829-1899, Sean Heather K. Mcgraw
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Margaret Anna Cusack, later Sister Mary Frances Clare, and also known as Mother Clare, (6 May 1829 - 5 June 1899) was an Anglo-Irish Protestant who became a Catholic Nun and the foundress of a still existent Catholic religious order, the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. She was also a vociferous champion for the poor, for Irish political rights, for Irish nationalism, and was the first Irish nationalist woman historian and a prolific writer who wrote more than one hundred works. She was a radical, a revolutionary, a champion and hero, a source of conflict and …
Nationalism In New England : Keene, New Hampshire And The American Civil War, Thomas Anthony Mcgrath
Nationalism In New England : Keene, New Hampshire And The American Civil War, Thomas Anthony Mcgrath
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Abstract: Nationalism in New England: Keene, New Hampshire and the American Civil War
Identical Particles In Quantum Mechanics : Operational And Topological Considerations, Klil H. Neori
Identical Particles In Quantum Mechanics : Operational And Topological Considerations, Klil H. Neori
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation reports our investigation into the existence of anyons, which interpolate between bosons and fermions, in light of the Symmetrization Postulate, which states that only the two extremes exist. The Symmetrization Postulate can be understood as asserting that there are only two consistent ways of combining the behavior of distinguishable particles to obtain the behavior of identical ones. We showed that anyonic behavior then arises because of the way in which the probability amplitudes of distinguishable particles in two dimensions are affected by the topology of the space. These can then be combined in one of the ways arising …
Expecting The Unexpected : A Precautionary Principle Addressing Unconsidered Dangers, John Raymond Milanese
Expecting The Unexpected : A Precautionary Principle Addressing Unconsidered Dangers, John Raymond Milanese
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Most precautionary principles discussed in the regulatory literature argue that one ought to be more risk averse when one is uncertain about the probability of some sig- nificant danger. I explore a new kind of precautionary principle, one that addresses avoiding dangers we did not explicitly consider at all. Since it is unclear how uncon- sidered dangers could be avoided, I sketch a methodology for identifying situations where unconsidered dangers seem especially likely, by drawing from the literature in psychology on heuristics and biases and evaluating our cognitive “blind spots.”
Ill Living : Hemingway's Writing And My Father's Death, Jennifer R. Morrill
Ill Living : Hemingway's Writing And My Father's Death, Jennifer R. Morrill
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Abstract
Plato And The Sophists : Eristic Practice, Cognition, And Perception, Kevin W. Olbrys
Plato And The Sophists : Eristic Practice, Cognition, And Perception, Kevin W. Olbrys
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation traces metaphysical, epistemological and cognitive developments in Plato’s canon from his earlier Euthydemus and Charmides to his great work on epistemology, the Theaetetus. I argue that Plato’s confrontation with eristic (the methodology of his philosophical predecessors, the sophists) presents him with a serious epistemological challenge that can only be met through the development of a philosophical theory of cognition and perception. I also argue that the Theaetetus only appears to be an aporetic dialogue; read in the context of Plato's earlier work, it actually offers a series of refutations aimed at the theoretical assumptions that underpin the practice …
Understanding The Role Of Literature In The Reading Lives Of Secondary English Students, Tracy Pontin
Understanding The Role Of Literature In The Reading Lives Of Secondary English Students, Tracy Pontin
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Students’ perspectives on their high school reading experiences can provide great insight into the long term influence literature has in the lives of adolescents; however, students’ voices are seldom prioritized in the current research and in the conversations about curriculum and educational policy. This dissertation presents and analyzes the narratives of high school students nearing graduation as they reflect on the texts and social practices of English. The conceptual framework of this study is informed by Louise Rosenblatt’s transactional theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s belief that an individual’s interaction with literature inspires rethinking and reevaluation of the reader’s “inconclusive present.”
The Effect Of A Dual Coding Elucidation Technique On Idiom Comprehension In Esl And Efl Learners, Denis Samburskiy
The Effect Of A Dual Coding Elucidation Technique On Idiom Comprehension In Esl And Efl Learners, Denis Samburskiy
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This study relied on the assumption that literal meaning of some idiomatic expressions (i.e., their conceptual motivation) could have a positive effect on the comprehension of their correct figurative sense. To test this hypothesis, a Dual Coding elucidation technique, in which important elements of correct figurative meaning were mapped onto literal ones, was designed to facilitate the comprehension of 15 highly imageable idioms. This technique was administered in the form of an online questionnaire to Russian- and Korean-speaking EFL and ESL learners. The facilitative effect of this technique was assessed taking into account several relevant variables: the learners’ levels of …