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Words As Weapons And Wisdom, Barbara Paige
Words As Weapons And Wisdom, Barbara Paige
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement were two seminal eras in American history. The Renaissance also referred to as the New Negro Movement was a literary artistic, and cultural movement, centered in Harlem in which writers produced large bastions of literary works. African descended people began to identify with their African past and intellectuals adopted Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist methodologies to overcome oppression. Their efforts laid a foundation for the Civil Rights movement. The Black Arts Movement, an era of intense literary artistic activism begun with the assassination of Malcolm X. Artist/intellectuals responded to a more hostile environment …
The Changing Role Of The Bass Clarinet: Support For Its Integration Into The Modern Clarinet Studio, Jennifer Beth Iles
The Changing Role Of The Bass Clarinet: Support For Its Integration Into The Modern Clarinet Studio, Jennifer Beth Iles
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The bass clarinet of the twenty-first century has come into its own. Composers often treat it as a solo instrument and clarinetists are more often expected to play bass clarinet. In the last half of the twentieth century, the amount of literature for bass clarinet has grown and the quality of the instruments have improved exponentially. Still, most university studios focus primarily on B-flat clarinet. This document is intended as a pedagogical guide for the inclusion of the bass clarinet in the clarinet studio. As support for incorporating the bass clarinet into the undergraduate curriculum, this document describes three areas …
Till, Jonathan Peter Moore
Till, Jonathan Peter Moore
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
till is a collection of poetry exclusively composed while the poet was a graduate student in the Creative Writing International Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The manuscript includes ekphrastic reflections on William Eggleston's Guide and confronts regionalism, religion and past/present subjectivity.
The Lost Promise Of Heaven: An Examination Of Gender In Children's Literature, 1790--1830, Ea Nicole Madrigal
The Lost Promise Of Heaven: An Examination Of Gender In Children's Literature, 1790--1830, Ea Nicole Madrigal
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The United States republic can be defined by its cultural, social, and political change. Historians like Linda Kerber contend that this moment magnified gender difference. This was in fact a time that gender expectations were further defined. However, representations of gender in children's literature indicate that although some stories illustrated different roles and expectations for male and female readers, there were other stories that emphasized similarities between all children; Analogous to Susan Juster's findings from this period that men and women described religious conversion experiences similarly, religious children's literature detailed the spiritual commonalities of boys and girls. Gender was insignificant …
Navigating Through "Our Bumps On The Road To Reading": A Multi-Case Analysis Of How Literature -Based Response Experiences Inform And Influence Pre -Service Teachers' Reading Perceptions, Christine A Draper
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of the study was to present multiple perspectives (multi-case design) that define pre-service teachers reading perceptions. This study sought to understand prior experiences that defined pre-service teachers' reading perceptions and to understand how response-based explorations in a children's literature course informed and influenced their existing perceptions of reaDing This study employed a qualitative methodology and was framed by reader response, teacher knowledge and preparation literature, and a socio-constructivist perspective. Data sources included pre- and post-course interviews, course assignments, participant's reflection journals, and researcher's log with analytical memos. Open and axial coding as described by Strauss and Corbin (1998) …
Literature Based Discovery: Techniques And Tools, Ramalakshmi Sundar
Literature Based Discovery: Techniques And Tools, Ramalakshmi Sundar
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Literature Based Discovery (LBD) was initially proposed by Don R. Swanson in 1980 as a method to establish relationships between disease and remedy from disjoint science literature. Consequently, he established a link between magnesium and migraines. Since then literature based discovery has been a subject of research and development for discovery in online medical publications. It has further been investigated in both chemistry and mathematics; In this thesis, we give an overview of LBD and the software tools necessary to automate this technique. We further provide an implementation of this technique that is intended to be used for computer science …
Mary Shelly, Emily Bronte, And Christina Rossetti: The Literature Of Disability, Georgia E Standish
Mary Shelly, Emily Bronte, And Christina Rossetti: The Literature Of Disability, Georgia E Standish
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Many scholarly studies have examined illness, sickness, and invalidism in British nineteenth-century fiction. Few have explored these concepts in both fiction and poetry as "disabilities." This study traces the origins of the concept of disability in the poetic and fictional representations in three nineteenth-century key women authors: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and her poetry, and Christina Rossetti's "Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets" and "Goblin Market." Significant to the early development of the concept of disability is the emergence of the related concept of normalcy in the nineteenth-century. Along with the concept of normalcy are also the …
A Survey Of Artists And Literature Employing Extended Multiple Mallets In Keyboard Percussion: Its Evolution, Resulting Techniques And Pedagogical Guide, Timothy Andrew Jones
A Survey Of Artists And Literature Employing Extended Multiple Mallets In Keyboard Percussion: Its Evolution, Resulting Techniques And Pedagogical Guide, Timothy Andrew Jones
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This document aims to explore the evolution of extended multiple mallet performance from the first performers to employ the technique, including the general history of the craft and technical variations, to significant artists, composers and literature. A variety of performance techniques, and grips will be explored in accordance to the literature with pedagogical examples of how certain concepts function. Specific attention will be given to achieving complete independence with six mallets, as can be facilitated with the 'Gronemeier' grip.
Decapitation And Disgorgement: The Female Body's Text In Early Modern English Literature, Melanie Ann Hanson
Decapitation And Disgorgement: The Female Body's Text In Early Modern English Literature, Melanie Ann Hanson
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
My dissertation focuses on language and forms of expression for women in early modern English literature. In particular, William Shakespeare's character Lavinia from Titus Andronicus, Elizabeth Cary's character Mariam in The Tragedy of Mariam, and Isabella Whitney's narrative voice in her poem "The Manner of Her Will" are examined. French feminist Helene Cixous provides the theoretical framework for this project. Exploring manifestations of Cixous's crucial terms "decapitation" and "disgorgement" is the objective of the three core chapters. Privileging the female body's text and discussing the variety of means used to "speak" it is of central concern. The connection between silencing …
Political Ramifications Of Gender Complementarity For Women In Native American Literature, Patrice Eunice Marie Hollrah
Political Ramifications Of Gender Complementarity For Women In Native American Literature, Patrice Eunice Marie Hollrah
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This dissertation explores how a tribal construct of gender relations---gender complementarity---functions in the works of Zitkala-Sa (Yankton Sioux), Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), and Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene). Gender complementarity, or balanced reciprocity, acknowledges that the worlds of men and women are different but not generally perceived as hierarchical. If gender roles are not seen as unequal but simply different, the resulting political relationships do not necessarily result in power struggles for equality. Examining the political ramifications of gender complementarity for women in Native American literature is approached through the historical and cultural contexts of each specific …
Canons By Consensus: Critical Trends And American Literature Anthologies, Joseph Thomas Csicsila
Canons By Consensus: Critical Trends And American Literature Anthologies, Joseph Thomas Csicsila
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Scholarly researchers have seldom recognized the college classroom textbook as a valid document of literary history, presumably because it is such an ordinary, taken-for-granted fixture in the academic environment. Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies, however, examines in detail the evolving critical reputations of thirty American authors in the twentieth century as reflected in these assigned anthologies. A study of nearly eighty college-level collections of American literature marketed between 1919 and 1998 shows that scholarly trends have significantly shaped their editors' perceptions of American writers over the last eighty years, indeed that the shifting paradigms within the …
Walter Macken: Life In Literature, Megan Lyn Denio
Walter Macken: Life In Literature, Megan Lyn Denio
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Walter Macken: Life in Literature introduces Walter Macken, a Galwegian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and children's novelist, to an American audience in order to make his works better known. The themes in Macken's novels show common elements among Irish authors. The use of the common man and the use of Ireland's history are most prevalent in Irish literature. However, Macken's use of autobiographical elements in the midst of his presentation of life in the West of Ireland, in many ways, sets him apart from the other Irish authors. Few have chronicled the lives of the farmers and the fishermen in …
Las Vegas In Popular Culture, Edward E Baldwin
Las Vegas In Popular Culture, Edward E Baldwin
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Las Vegas in Popular Culture is a survey and analysis of the depiction of Las Vegas in American popular culture. The dissertation identifies themes and patterns of interpretations of Las Vegas, a city which has come to occupy a central position in popular American mythology. The primary emphasis is on nationally published novels, short stories, and magazine articles, with a brief section on films. The material is evaluated in chronological order so that the depictions of Las Vegas can be seen in their historical contexts. Since the 1930s, writers in each succeeding decade emphasize different aspects of Las Vegas which …
Developing Language Skills In Second Language Learners Through Literature Discussions, Ruth K. A Devlin
Developing Language Skills In Second Language Learners Through Literature Discussions, Ruth K. A Devlin
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study analyzed book discussions of primary aged ESL students and their teacher to examine the benefits to language development. Collected over one school year, data included transcribed audiotapes of the book discussions, class interviews, and personal journal entries of the teacher which described classroom events and interactions. Analysis of the transcripts resulted in the identification of seven categories which illustrated the diversity of types of talk. In addition, changes in the amount of student and teacher talk over time were noted, with student talk increasing, and teacher talk becoming less pronounced. Four students were highlighted to illustrate the benefits …
Character Education Through Secondary School Literature Classes, Mary Elizabeth Curfman
Character Education Through Secondary School Literature Classes, Mary Elizabeth Curfman
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Perhaps because of a lack of knowledge about American history and tradition, American youth are disconnected from society and feel little moral obligation or responsibility to others. While American public schools traditionally taught values and ethics, most no longer do so in any consistent or systematic fashion; This thesis will defend a synthesis of the thinking of certain influential moral philosophers and learning theorists on the nature of moral character and its development. Since its recommendations are for improving character education in public secondary school literature classes in the Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nevada, the thesis will also …