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Unlikely Heroes: Protagonists, Worldbuilding, And The Importance Of Diverse Fantasy, Cassandra Miller
Unlikely Heroes: Protagonists, Worldbuilding, And The Importance Of Diverse Fantasy, Cassandra Miller
Honors Thesis Collection
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The Dixie Chicks: A Case Study In The Racial And Gendered History Of Country Music, Michaela Rhile
The Dixie Chicks: A Case Study In The Racial And Gendered History Of Country Music, Michaela Rhile
Honors Thesis Collection
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Playing By The Rules: An Assessment Of Combat Atrocity During Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2005-2006, Lizamaria Arias
Playing By The Rules: An Assessment Of Combat Atrocity During Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2005-2006, Lizamaria Arias
Honors Thesis Collection
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Race, Authenticity, And Reclamation In A North Carolina Old-Time Scene And In The Music Of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Fiona Boyd
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'Spoiler' Violence And Other Myths: A Mixed Methods Study Of Paramilitaries’ Use Of Force In Northern Ireland, Claire Tam
Honors Thesis Collection
While many scholars have written about ‘spoilers,’ actors committed to the use of violence in an effort to undermine political negotiations, there have been few attempts to systematically test whether theories of spoiling behavior truly effectively explain armed nonstate actors’ use of force. Using a combination of GIS mapping, statistical analysis, and qualitative data gathered from interviews in Belfast, Northern Ireland, I examine the lines of division that formed within Northern Irish paramilitaries during the peace process of the 1990s. By focusing in particular on what I define as intra-movement violence, I examine the way divisions formed and test whether …
The Allincluding Language Of Ulysses, Hannah Degner
The Allincluding Language Of Ulysses, Hannah Degner
Honors Thesis Collection
Study of the text of Ulysses, Joyce's other major works, critical texts, biographical works and annotations to consider the manner in which Joyce's flexible, whimsical and almost always unconventional stylistic experiments tell a fuller story of life than established narrative styles. Joyce's inclusions and innovations make the novel an active process of engagement, puzzling, and probing--a process that brings the reader closer to the text, and the ideas within, through the reader's active engagement.
The Rag And Bone Shop Of The Heart: Tracking The Development Of William Butler Yeats’S Poetry Through Manuscript Materials, Kelly Anne Mccullagh
The Rag And Bone Shop Of The Heart: Tracking The Development Of William Butler Yeats’S Poetry Through Manuscript Materials, Kelly Anne Mccullagh
Honors Thesis Collection
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Merce Cunningham: The Accidental Icon, Jennifer Harris
Merce Cunningham: The Accidental Icon, Jennifer Harris
Honors Thesis Collection
In the summer of 1953, one could hardly call Merce Cunningham’s group of dancers “a company” in the formal sense of the term. At the time it was only one of many protean artistic experiments taking shape at Black Mountain College, a hotbed of intellectual activity where artists’ ideas circulated freely across the disciplines of music, dance, and the visual arts. Black Mountain fostered a collaborative setting for some of the most important creative minds of the second half of the twentieth century, yet during that summer their place in the American artistic pantheon was far from guaranteed. My thesis …