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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Reconstructing Identity: Carlton Burgan, Patient Zero In The Development Of Plastic Surgery, Civil War Through World War I, Teresa M. George Jun 2023

Reconstructing Identity: Carlton Burgan, Patient Zero In The Development Of Plastic Surgery, Civil War Through World War I, Teresa M. George

Master's Theses

Plastic surgery has played an integral role in helping people achieve societal expectations of appropriate physical appearance since its inception. Through the story of Carlton Burgan, a Union soldier during the American Civil War, who suffered severe facial trauma by mercury poisoning, this thesis hopes to reconstruct the conversation around plastic surgery’s origins as it is influenced by societal standards of the day. Specifically, this thesis argues that the seminal moments leading to plastic surgery being seen as a worthwhile medical specialty was during the Civil War, not World War I as so many scholars have put forth. Violent acts …


Pacifying Paradise: Violence And Vigilantism In San Luis Obispo, Joseph Hall-Patton Jun 2016

Pacifying Paradise: Violence And Vigilantism In San Luis Obispo, Joseph Hall-Patton

Master's Theses

San Luis Obispo, California was a violent place in the 1850s with numerous murders and lynchings in staggering proportions. This thesis studies the rise of violence in SLO, its causation, and effects. The vigilance committee of 1858 represents the culmination of the violence that came from sweeping changes in the region, stemming from its earliest conquest by the Spanish. The mounting violence built upon itself as extensive changes took place. These changes include the conquest of California, from the Spanish mission period, Mexican and Alvarado revolutions, Mexican-American War, and the Gold Rush. The history of the county is explored until …


A Stroll Down The Dark Side: Ultraviolent Japanese Animation’S Roots In Postwar Japan, Globalization, And Western Consumption, Brian Graham Roberts Mar 2011

A Stroll Down The Dark Side: Ultraviolent Japanese Animation’S Roots In Postwar Japan, Globalization, And Western Consumption, Brian Graham Roberts

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Study of the root causes of the creation of dark and violent Japanese animation and the phenomena of American consumption of it.