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“What Do You Think Of Bleak House?”: Dickens’S Serial Novels And Victorian Literary Fandom, Susan Jane Ballinger
“What Do You Think Of Bleak House?”: Dickens’S Serial Novels And Victorian Literary Fandom, Susan Jane Ballinger
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The objective of this thesis was to explore the many ways in which original readers experienced Victorian serial novels. Because the novels were published in parts over an extended period of time, often more than a year, readers experienced events in the novels in what they perceived as real time. This produced in readers an emotional connection not only between the events and characters of the novels, but between the readers and authors. The intensity of readers’ involvement in these novels is illustrated by the letters they wrote to the authors asking for clues, offering suggestions and criticism, and pleading …
The Rhetoric Of The American Dream: Freedom, Democracy And American Exceptionalism, Donna Knudsen
The Rhetoric Of The American Dream: Freedom, Democracy And American Exceptionalism, Donna Knudsen
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
What is the American Dream? The American Dream, significant for its connection to American national identity, has eluded concise definition for more than two centuries. In spite of numerous failed attempts to encapsulate varied and diverse individual dreams within a singular definition, the notion of a common American Dream that rests within assumptions of shared experience endures. This study examines the rhetoric of U.S. Presidential inaugural addresses – George Washington through Barack Obama – combining word frequency searches with a contextual analysis that uncovers common principles associated with the American Dream that have been perpetuated by the nation’s leaders. Discussions …
Rivers Of Truth, Shores Of Myth And The Land Between: The Dawning Of Silvia Sunshine Upon Florida’S Frontier, An Annotated Diary, Dara R. Vance
Rivers Of Truth, Shores Of Myth And The Land Between: The Dawning Of Silvia Sunshine Upon Florida’S Frontier, An Annotated Diary, Dara R. Vance
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Traveling independently as a published author and a lady of stature, Abbie M. Brooks exceeded the boundaries placed around women in America’s Gilded Age. From 1872 through 1876, Brooks faithfully recorded her adventures as she traveled throughout Florida, Georgia and Cuba. The four years of nearly daily entries she wrote enable the reader to witness the emergence of Brooks nom d’ plume Silvia Sunshine as an opinionated and authoritative guide. The diary entries and travel notations were compiled into the Florida guidebook Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes, published in 1880. During the course of the diary Brooks attributed her own …
Framing Terrorism: How The Tampa Tribune And Tampa Bay Times Portrayed Sami Al‐Arian In 2001, Wendy Biddlecombe
Framing Terrorism: How The Tampa Tribune And Tampa Bay Times Portrayed Sami Al‐Arian In 2001, Wendy Biddlecombe
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This study examines the framing of Sami Al‐Arian in 2001 by the local, mainstream Tampa Bay press, and compares this portrayal to the outcome of Al‐ Arian’s 2005 trial. In the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, both the Tampa Tribune and Tampa Bay Times covered Al‐Arian in a negative and stereotypical manner, in sharp contrast with the outcome of a 2005 trial that acquitted Al‐Arian of the most serious charges of aiding known terrorists. The theoretical base of this paper is framing, stereotype, and the social construction of reality, and finds the way the press portrayed Al‐Arian had a direct …
A Multi-Scale Approach For Characterizing Habitat Selection Of Tidal Creek Fish In Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Renee M. Duffey
A Multi-Scale Approach For Characterizing Habitat Selection Of Tidal Creek Fish In Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Renee M. Duffey
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This study supplemented existing fish catch data by assessing habitat characteristics in four tidal creeks in Charlotte Harbor. Habitat and fish data were analyzed to determine spatial patterns at three different spatial scales; at the smallest mesohabitat scale, between segments within each creek, and at the largest scale between creeks. Fish abundance and diversity were calculated from fish catch data collected by Mote Marine Laboratory from 2005 through 2009. Twenty-three habitat variables were derived from data collected during field surveys and via GIS analyses. Field sampling methodology was adapted from the MesoHABSIM approach to delineate eleven habitat types at the …
Organic Carbon Burial Rates In Mangrove Soils: Global Context And A Preliminary Investigation Of The Coastal Everglades, Joshua L. Breithaupt
Organic Carbon Burial Rates In Mangrove Soils: Global Context And A Preliminary Investigation Of The Coastal Everglades, Joshua L. Breithaupt
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
The ecological and economic contributions made by mangroves have been well documented in recent decades, and these coastal forests have been the focus of increased attention in terms of conservation and restoration. One aspect that has recently drawn increased attention is the role of mangrove environments in the global carbon cycle, particularly for their high burial rates of organic carbon (OC), also known as “Blue Carbon”, that would otherwise contribute to increased atmospheric CO2 levels. Globally, the amount of available data has more than doubled since the last primary literature review of OC burial in mangrove sediments (2003). The objective …
Effects Of Hydrologic Changes And Precipitation On Tree Island Fire Frequency In The Everglades, Florida, Katie Laux
Effects Of Hydrologic Changes And Precipitation On Tree Island Fire Frequency In The Everglades, Florida, Katie Laux
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This thesis documents a 100-year history of fire in Water Conservation Area 2A (WCA-2A) in the Florida Everglades. Natural fire frequency in this area is not fully understood, and because the region has undergone dramatic anthropogenic changes since the early 1900s due to drainage, it is important to understand how fire frequency has been affected by drainage in order to properly plan restoration activities. Sediment cores taken from tree islands in WCA-2A were processed and examined microscopically for the presence of charcoal. Charcoal concentrations were compared to drainage and precipitation data to determine the impact of these factors on historical …
Trends In Linear Extension Rates For Over 100-Year Period In Three Coral Species From Dry Tortugas, Florida, Adis Muslic
Trends In Linear Extension Rates For Over 100-Year Period In Three Coral Species From Dry Tortugas, Florida, Adis Muslic
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Study on 3 coral species, Montastraea faveolata, Diploria strigosa, and Siderastrea siderea was done to determine the trends in coral linear extension and the impact of sea-surface temperature (SST) and other environmental parameters on a shallow reef system from Dry Tortugas National Park. The extension rates were species-specific. Montastraea faveolata had the highest average linear extension and variability (0.84±0.14 (n=165)), followed by D. strigosa (0.73±0.06 (n=54)) and S. siderea (0.42±0.06 (n=183)) respectively. Two cores of M. faveolata had significant correlation with each other (r=0.34, df=67, P=0.0043) and similar long-term patterns although one of them had a higher average linear extension …
Websites Vs. Mobile Apps : A Content Analysis Of Tampa Bay's News, Brittany Danielle Padley
Websites Vs. Mobile Apps : A Content Analysis Of Tampa Bay's News, Brittany Danielle Padley
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Due to changing technology news organizations now offer multiple platforms through which consumers can get their news. However, does having more outlets mean we are getting better news, or at the least, more news? A content analysis of 3,910 news stories from two news organizations local to the Tampa Bay area: WTSP 10 News and WFTS ABC Action News examined the content provided through each organization’s website homepage and compared this content to that published by the same organization’s news app. Stories were collected from each organization’s website and app in a 10 day time period. Results indicated that content …
The Good, The Bad, And The Garbage : The Making Of Modern Florida Solid Waste Policy, Andrew David Fairbanks
The Good, The Bad, And The Garbage : The Making Of Modern Florida Solid Waste Policy, Andrew David Fairbanks
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
In 2008, Florida enacted its Energy, Climate Change, and Economic Security Act (2008 Energy Act). Among its provisions was a new goal to recycle 75 percent of municipal solid waste, the highest statewide recycling goal in the U.S. at that time. Florida's previous goal was 30 percent, set by its Solid Waste Management Act in 1988. The 2008 Energy Act also modified how the state calculates its recycling rate by specifying that “any solid waste used for the production of renewable energy” would be counted. The 2008 Energy Act directed the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to develop a plan …
The Robles Family During The Civil War In Tampa, Karen E. Lucibello
The Robles Family During The Civil War In Tampa, Karen E. Lucibello
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Joseph Paul Robles emigrated to America from Spain in the 1830s, married and settled in Hernando County in Florida in the 1840s. The growing city of Tampa drew the young Robles family away from the primitive settlement at Bentenville. When the Civil War broke out, the father and three eldest sons entered into the service for the Confederacy. The oldest son served in the Army of Tennessee, the next two eldest joined the Cow Cavalry to protect the local beef needed to feed the Confederate army. Joseph Paul due to his age volunteered for the local home guard for the …
A Textual Analysis Of Media Frames: The Coverage Of The Shooting Of Trayvon Martin, Andrea K. Andrus
A Textual Analysis Of Media Frames: The Coverage Of The Shooting Of Trayvon Martin, Andrea K. Andrus
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
This study explores the media’s framing of the Trayvon Martin shooting incident, as well as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, the individuals involved. Grounded in framing theory this study uses a qualitative textual analysis to examine the employment of five identified news frames in the coverage of the shooting of Trayvon Martin: conflict, attribution of responsibility, human-interest, racial and legal. The analysis of articles from two television news websites, perceived conservative network foxnews.com and perceived liberal network cnn.com revealed that there are both inconsistent and consistent ways in which the stories were framed. Although the presence of the frames in …
Bat Species And Distribution In A Gulf Coast System At Fort Desoto Park, Florida, Jennifer Beltran
Bat Species And Distribution In A Gulf Coast System At Fort Desoto Park, Florida, Jennifer Beltran
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Determining the spatial distribution and species of bats in coastal habitats is a crucial step toward integrating bat conservation with local, state and national land management practices. Short-term acoustical monitoring with the Anabat SD2 detector was conducted at Fort DeSoto Park in Pinellas County, Florida from June 2010 to May 2011; excluding January, February, November, and December. Foraging activity by four species of bats was recorded. Echolocation calls by the Brazilian free-tailed (Tadarida brasiliensis), evening (Nycticeius humeralis) and the northern yellow (Lasiurus intermedius) were common; the Seminole (Lasiurus seminolus) was recorded only twice. Temporily, foraging activity was highest during the …
Finding Florida : The Guide To The Southernmost State, Revised, Cathy Salustri
Finding Florida : The Guide To The Southernmost State, Revised, Cathy Salustri
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
In the 1930s the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers Project hired unemployed writers to create driving tours of each state. Florida chose Zora Neale Hurston and Stetson Kennedy. They crisscrossed the state separately – Jim Crow would not allow black Zora to travel with white Stetson – carving out the routes immortalized in the Guide to the Southernmost State. Over seventy years later, I decided I wanted to go, too. I broke out my shiny, red Florida Gazetteer and tried to reconstruct twenty-two tours, studying towns and researching old route numbers. Often I could only recreate the Depression-era routes by …
George Snow Hill: A Wpa Artist And His Contributions To Florida And Tampa Bay, Diane M. Craig
George Snow Hill: A Wpa Artist And His Contributions To Florida And Tampa Bay, Diane M. Craig
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Artist and muralist George Snow Hill was St. Petersburg’s only known link to the Work Progress Administration’s Federal Arts Project, an innovative program that paid citizens to creatively chronicle 1930s America. Perhaps Florida’s most prolific New Deal muralist, Hill, and his many works, have remained virtually unknown to most Floridians, and to many in his adopted city. Undoubtedly defined by a charge of visual racism in 1966, Hill’s cultural contributions to the St. Petersburg’s art community have drifted into obscurity. Through a review of his work, especially his murals in Pinellas County, ephemera that included personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings, …
Historical Analysis Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Pesticide, And Metal Contamination In Clam Bayou, Florida, Renee A. Price
Historical Analysis Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Pesticide, And Metal Contamination In Clam Bayou, Florida, Renee A. Price
USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), pesticide, and metal contamination in estuarine sediments often results from runoff of residential and commercial developments that are adjacent to coastal areas. This study examines contaminants in surface sediments of Clam Bayou, St. Petersburg, Florida. The purpose was to examine the spatial distribution of contaminants, to relate contaminant concentrations to sediment type, to determine potential sources of contamination, and the history of deposition. Contaminant concentrations were compared with those in sediments from Terra Ceia Bay, which is part of the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve in Lower Tampa Bay. Terra Ceia Bay, therefore served as a control …