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The Artist’S Loving Hand: The Travel Letters Of Emily Eden, Isabella Bird, And Mothercatherine Mcauley Written To Their Sisters In 19th Century Britain And Ireland, Holly Elizabeth Ratcliff

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to observe the qualities of and techniques enlisted by British and Irish women travel writers corresponding with their sisters who remained at home. Some of the most vivid and telling works regarding the travels of extraordinary women are contained in the letters that they wrote to their families. These letters often involved brief factual commentaries; detailed descriptions of friends, other family members, or strangers encountered on a journey; advice and encouragement for life continuing on as normal back at home; and pictures or paintings that could serve as postcards to capture visions of people …

Gender, Coal Mining, And Appalachia, Adrianna Kalena Porter

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of women in Appalachian coal communities by utilizing both primary and secondary sources. The people of Appalachia have subscribed to patriarchal gender roles since the time of the earliest settlements within the region. Men dealt with the outside world while women's responsibilities centered around the home. Beginning around 1890, industrialization within the area intensified patriarchy as men became wage earners and women remained in the home with little access to formal wage employment. If wages were earned, they usually contributed to familial survival and not female independence. The feminist movement …

Civil Rights, Black Power, And Racial Tension In Cairo, Illinois : A Northern Powder Keg In Southern Clothing, Christopher W. Perry

Masters Theses

This thesis focuses on the period of civil rights activism in Cairo, Illinois between 1967 and 1971, particularly the interaction between the local African-American organization the United Front and two white activist groups, the White Hats and the United Citizens for Community Action. Cairo is unusual because it is a Northern town that systematically discriminated against African Americans long after many Southern towns abandoned segregation. Because Cairo's white power structure successfully denied black equality into the 1980s, I conclude that civil rights and black power both failed in Cairo. To fully understand the conditions that led to the struggles of …

Hunter S. Thompson's Gonzo Journalistic Coverage Of Richard Nixon, James Chandler Patrick

Masters Theses

This thesis explores Hunter S. Thompson's writings about Richard M. Nixon from 1960 to 1994. Thompson expressed strong animosity toward Nixon, but most of the more outlandish articles he wrote about Nixon were fabrications. Thompson's writings were often ambiguous and contradictory. Sources used for research included books written by Thompson, books of letters Thompson sent to family and friends, books about Thompson and Richard Nixon, and books about the Watergate scandal. This thesis addresses the questions of why Thompson was so fascinated by Nixon, and why he wrote on Nixon for almost 40 years. It also addresses the question of …

A Study Of Chinese Americans, Acculturation, And Gender In Willingness To Seek Professional Psychological Help, Connie K. Shih

Masters Theses

The components of acculturation, gender, and willingness to seek professional psychological help were examined in a group of Chinese Americans. In addition, references groups of European Americans and native-born Chinese were also used as comparisons. The Suinn-Lew Asian Self-Identity Acculturation Scale (SL-ASIA) was used to measure acculturation (Suinn et al, 1987). A shortened form of the Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (ATSSPHS) was used to assess the willingness to seek professional psychological help (Fischer & Farina, 1995). The sample for this study consisted of 100 participants drawn from two classes in Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, the East …

She's Right Up My Ally : Exploring Fandom And Social Difference In Five White Women's Perspectives On The Ally Mcbeal Television Show, Susannah Marie Iacovino

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore fandom and social difference through interviews with five young (23-35), white, middle-class, college educated, women who watch of the Fox television show Ally McBeal. Data was generated through three interviews focusing on certain themes with each of the participants. The first and second interviews were individual interviews and the third interview was a conference call involving all the participants. The participants identified on an emotional level with the characters and situations depicted in the show. For some, the emotional identification extended to a personal or professional level. All of the participants …

House Of The Soul, Victoria J. Raschke

Masters Theses

These poems, as the title suggests, are explorations of being both a physical being and a spiritual being. They are all equally autobiographical and fictitious in an attempt to search for the universal in the individual experience.

Savage Gulf : A Novella, William O. Maddux

Masters Theses

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The Desegregation Of Clinton High School : Then And Now, Valerie Marie Hulett Herd

Masters Theses

This study examines the turmoil and violence surrounding the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee and the subsequent bombing of the school in 1958. I draw from sociological theories in political economy, status politics, and social movements. By examining historic events occurring in the U.S. as well as Clinton, Tennessee prior to 1956, the impact of social and economic conditions is established thus explaining the social movements and countermovements that arose. This study incorporates media reports as well as interviews conducted with fifteen individuals who had lived in the Clinton area during the time of the integration …

Effacing The Blots From Their Otherwise Fair Escutcheon : Problems Of Public Health In Leicester 1849-1891, Scott Edward Roney

Masters Theses

This study concerns two public health problems in Victorian Leicester: sewerage and 'summer diarrhoea.' The problems are considered to have been constructed socially as well as materially. While neither problem was unique to Leicester, there were circumstances which made the town's responses to the problems unique. The methodological lens for the study is a quasi-Kuhnian conceptualization called an 'accepted remedy.’ It is posited that the existence or absence of a consensually-held accepted remedy for a specific public health problem was a significant factor in determining how a community would respond to the problem and how successful such a response might …

The Journalism Of Patrick F. Mcmanus : His Niche In Outdoor Humor, Tim Miller Strickland

Masters Theses

The role of Patrick F. McManus in the genre of outdoor journalism is examined. Methods and procedures included a biographical study; a personal interview with the subject; an analysis of the critical reception to his work; and an analysis of his literary style. The findings include: that McManus' childhood lifestyle prepared him for his success as a writer; that while McManus is opinionated, he works diligently to avoid controversial topics, including those about which he has strong opinions; that McManus has enjoyed a largely positive reception from book critics; and that McManus now stands alone in his position in a …

Anthropometric Variation Of The Cherokee, Choctaw, Kiowa, And Pawnee Amerindians, Richard P. Bigee

Masters Theses

This thesis provides an overview of Anthropometric variation among six groups of American Indians: The Eastern Band of Cherokees, the Eastern Band of Choctaws, the Western Band of Cherokees, the Western Band of Choctaws, Kiowas, and Pawnees. Anthropometric variation among these groups is analyzed using a combination of historical and statistical information.

The history of the study groups was analyzed to determine the general level of health during the period leading up the point when they were measured under the direction of Dr. Franz Boas. It is revealed that all the study groups experienced considerable stress, which effected anthropometric measurements …

Cherokee Death Customs, Laura Hill Hughes

Masters Theses

Cherokee death customs remain a vital part of Cherokee culture even though acculturation processes have been taking place for almost 200 years. Cherokee beliefs about death and dying are so deeply rooted in the traditional culture that they have survived without major changes since the early contact period. The influence of the dominant Appalachian white society has altered the rationale behind the wake, multiple soul concept, and perceptions of the afterlife. However, the rituals and omens associated with these beliefs have not changed. In spite of the fact that scholars have been predicting the demise of Cherokee culture, the subleties …

A Study Of White Spiritual Music And Twelve Related Concepts, Charles Douglas Barber

Masters Theses

As in other folk art, White spiritual music has not been welI-documented. In this particular case, there does not even exist a clear definition of this somewhat unknown and often misunderstood phenomenon.

The intent of this thesis is to present and justify a comprehensive definition of White spiritual music. To arrive at this goal, a two-fold approach was taken. The first chapter of the thesis does not deal precisely with White spiritual music, but rather with related and complementary concepts which are more familiar to the average person. This writer feels that what one may know or think he knows …

A Nutrition Field Experience With The City Of Houston Health Department, Houston, Texas, Sue Ann Neal

Masters Theses

This thesis relates observations and experiences during a seven-week nutrition field experience with the city of Houston Health Department during the spring of 1973. The field experience provided an opportunity for supplementing previous work experience and for evaluating developing capacities in the application of nutrition theory to the unique health needs of a community.

During this field experience the author primarily studied the diversified nutrition services available in the community and investigated the feasibility of developing a community nutrition organization to coordinate nutrition services within Houston and Harris County. Because the development of such an organization did not have the …

The Four Late Comedies Of Sean O'Casey, Roy W. Mehaffey

Masters Theses

“The Four Late Comedies of Sean O’Casey” investigates the varying types of comedy treatment in four of O’Casey’s late plays. These comedies, Purple Dust, Cock-a-doodle Dandy, The Bishop’s Bonfire, and The Drums of Father Ned, are examples of O’Casey’s later writing, which ranges from farce to symbolic fantasy.

Data for this study was gathered through the study of the above-mentioned plays, and the research of secondary sources, such as biographies on and critical texts about O’Casey and his works. The University of Tennessee Graduate Library was used as the resource center for this study.

The four comedies reveal many different …

An Appraisal Of The Cannon County Board Of Education, J. Paul Turner

Masters Theses

The Cannon County board of education had been operating as a fifteen-man board for twenty years when this study was begun. A Special act¹ of the Extra-ordinary Session of the General Assembly in 1929 made certain exceptions to the General Education Bill of 1925 in its application to counties the size of Cannon County. Among these exceptions were: an increase in the size of the board, from seven to fifteen members; a change in the method of selecting board members, from the county court to the qualified voters of the civil districts; and a shortened term of office, from seven …

The Use Of Stabilizers In Ice Cream, Herman N. Carringer

Masters Theses

This study was undertaken for the purpose of comparing the efficiency and characteristics of various stabilizers used in ice cream mix with a basic stabilizer, sodium alginate (or Dariloid), as the index to the study.

Some Social And Economic Phases Of Reconstruction In East Tennessee, 1864-1869, James Bernard Campbell

Masters Theses

Preface: The Reconstruction period in Tennessee was dominated by the Unionists of the eastern part of the state. It is the purpose of this study to show the results of this domination as reflected in social and economic conditions, education, and the status of the Negro in the home region of the East Tennessee leaders.

The writer is greatly indebted to Professor Stanley J. Folmsbee for many helpful suggestions and criticisms in the preparation of this study and for the use of a chapter in his unpublished history of the University of Tennessee. The librarians of the McClung Collection, Lawson …

A Southern Journal Of 1838: Its Historical, Social And Literary Backgrounds, Emmie Delle Mullen

Masters Theses

(From the Introduction)

The discovery and study of a journal of considerable age is not unique. Journals, both published and unpublished, written alike by the famed and the obscure, are legion. A recently compiled bibliography of American diaries before 1861, which includes only the published diaries, is a substantial volume. It is, therefore, with some trepidation that I undertake for my thesis the study and editing of the journal of an almost completely unknown Southern woman who wrote it more than a century ago.

Thackeray's Reading, Mary H. Jenks

Masters Theses

Introduction: Before one can hope to gain an understanding of any author's work, and certainly before one can make any valid criticisms or interpretations of his writings, one should learn as much as possible about his life and his literary backgrounds. In studying the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, one observes that the tremendous amount and variety of his reading had a proportionate influence on the quality and range of his work. To date no serious study has been made of Thackeray's reading, although there have been numerous publications on his style, critical ability, humor, satire, travels, and personal life.

History Of Disciples Of Christ In Upper East Tennessee, H. C. Wagner

Masters Theses

Forward:

Any student of Tennessee history is aware of the fact that from the beginning the churches have played an important part in the development of the life of the state. The Disciples of Christ have been especially active in East Tennessee in the last 125 years, yet nothing has been written of their work. The purpose of this study has been to make a beginning on the research necessary for a full history of the Disciples of Christ in Tennessee. As such, it is largely a study in local church history, with a view to preserving the data and …

A Study Of Methods, Scope And Results Of Demonstrations Of The Soil Conservation Service In Camp Tennessee S.C.S.-4 Work Area, Joe David Mcclure

Masters Theses

(From Purpose of Study)

It is the purpose of the writer to make a study of this problem of soil erosion and soil conservation in a representative area of West Tennessee with the aim of determining some of the more important factors causing erosion and soil depletion. It is also desired to make a study of the soil conservation practices which have been tried out by various farmers in this area, the results of these practices and the practices recommended and demonstrated by the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, through cooperation with farmers in this …

Factors Determining The Production Areas Of Each Farm Commodity In Tennessee, Dalson Henry Esry

Masters Theses

The purpose of the study made in this manuscript is to assemble and to present in a readily available form the factors that influence the choice of areas where each specific farm commodity of importance is produced or may be produced. An investigator wishing to find out what forces may or may not be favorable to the production of corn may turn to the discussion of corn and find the material already assembled. If he wishes to make a more exhaustive study of a particular factor, the bibliography will aid him in finding the published works in which he might …

A History Of The Know-Nothing Party In Tennessee., Murry Bryant Measamer

Masters Theses

This study is intended to acquaint the reader with the chief facts regarding a state wide secret political order to which approximately half the population of Tennessee ince gave its support. It is not the purpose of the writer to defend this movement, neither is it his purpose to condemn. An earnest effort has been made, however, to present a clear and concise account of its nature, the issues concerned, and the political activitists involved.