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The Metropolitan Theatre In Grand Forks, North Dakota: The Years Of Decline, 1911-1933, John M. Bell

Theses and Dissertations

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This Great Fraternity: Nebraska's Grand Army Of The Republic, 1867-1920, Richard Evans Keyes

Student Work

America’s Civil War transformed the political, economic and social landscape of the nation. Nowhere did this transformation manifest itself so clearly as in the lives of the men who flocked to the Union colors. The world of combat created a landscape of death, dismemberment and disease, while destroying Victorian concepts of knightliness and romance. Veterans spent a lifetime in successfully reintegrating themselves into the nation’s mainstream, while constantly harkening back to the discipline and organizational skills learned in the war. Their efforts came to fruition with the establishment of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1866, which became the …

Selling The Southern Highlands: Tourism And Community Development In The Mountain South, Christopher Brenden Martin

Doctoral Dissertations

Focusing on Buncombe County, North Carolina, Blount County, Tennessee, and Sevier County, Tennessee as representative resort areas in the mountain South, this study recognizes tourism as a central factor in the historical development of the region's cultural identity, economy, and landscape. In studying the variant development patterns of resort communities in the southern highlands, it is apparent that tourism has simultaneously produced both continuity and change as well as positive and negative consequences. On the one hand, tourism has often served as a source of economic, cultural, and environmental preservation. Tourism has helped to maintained cultural distinctiveness, historical identity, and …

An Organizational Study Of The Christian Woman's Exchange And Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses, María Cristina Gaztambide

Arts Administration Master's Reports

An organizational analysis of the Christian Woman's Exchange and the Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses with an emphasis on the organizational structure, organizational history, programmmg, membership, and volunteerism at the organization. Includes an evaluation of organizational goals and objectives, an internship description with an impact analysis, and recommendations for the future.

Survival Strategies Of Black Kalamazooans: Migration, Kinship Networks And Work In A Midwestern Village, 1860-1900, Carson Jeanne Leftwich

Masters Theses

An investigation of the lives of African Americans in a small Midwestern village in the second half of the nineteenth century finds that paradigms vary significantly from that of urban Northern or rural Southern black lives. Three survival strategies are explored: work, migration, and kinship networks. Residential and home ownership patterns are explored, as is the structure of the village, neighborhood, and home. The work of men and women, education, state of birth and subsequent migrations, household structure, and kin relationships are analyzed.

The study uses only public records: manuscript census records from 1860, 1870, and 1880; Kalamazoo City Directories …

The Cross And The Cauldron: The Relationship Between Religion And Magic In Selected Medieval And Modern Arthurian Texts, Robert Todd Bruce

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

Music And War Throughout The Ages, Brent Thomas Yorgason

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

War has always had a powerful influence on music. At times it has the ability to motivate composers even more than love, religious belief, or money. Throughout the ages, both war and music about war have changed dramatically. The destructive power of war has reached its ultimate capabilities -- the potential to eliminate all life. As war has become more and more horrible, and has caused unprecedented amounts of needless deaths, the world's view of war has changed completely. This change in attitude toward war is evident also in the development of war music.

Toward An Authentically Anti-Racist Curriculum, Jeremy D. Dowsett

Honors Theses

Below I will address the failure of racial essentialist multiculturalism's approach toward combating racism, the confining and backward logic upon which identity politics multiculturalism is founded, the excesses of poststructuralist multiculturalism, and finally, in an attempt to show these theories in practice, I will move to the classroom and explore the ramifications of these strands of multiculturalism on the teaching of history and English. Part Two of this essay consists of a curriculum designed to address the shortcomings of the pedagogies mentioned above.

The Social Construction Of Reality Among Black Disadvantaged Adolescents: A Case Study Exploring The Relationship Of Poverty, Race, And Schooling, Loretta J. Brunious

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Global Training And Education: An Examination Of Context, Cultural Toughness, And Minimum Necessary Change In Internationally Diverse Organizational Settings, Leslie E. Dennis

Dissertations

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The American High School Experience: A Cinematic View From The 1980s, Maria Moraites

Dissertations

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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 …

A Family Portrait: Domestic Dynamics In The Fiction Of Mary Lavin, Lisa Lorraine Montagne

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Mary Lavin (1912-1996) was fairly well-known in Ireland during her lifetime; however, there has been relatively little critical attention paid to her, especially in America, throughout her fifty-year career. This study focuses on the domestic dynamics of the family in Lavin's fiction, whose world is influenced by the more harsh realities of early twentieth-century Irish society: the Victorian expectations of traditional gender roles, a rigid social caste system, and, at times, misguided religion. It is the purpose of this study to explore whether Lavin's characters can find happiness and fulfillment by acting according to personal conscience within this closely-prescribed social …

An Historical Review Of The Experiences Of Eastern Washington University African-American Male Athletes From The 1960'S To The 1970'S, T. J. Ewing

Physical Education, Health and Recreation Masters Thesis Collection

This study provided an historical examination of experiences of Eastern Washington University African-American Athletes, as well as their Coaches, and Athletic Directors. The interviewees all attended Eastern during the 60's and 70's. Three African-American players, four coaches who coached them, and three Athletic Director's were interviewed in the study. This study examines how African-American athletes at Eastern were influenced by other African-American athletes or leaders from the 60's through the early 70's. The study also investigates whether or not the Cheney Community was directly affected by these changes that occurred in the 60's through the early 70's. This study shows …

Robert Francis Kelley And The Eastern European Division Of The State Department: 1917-1933, Agnes Eileen Olsen

Dissertations and Theses

This study traces the career of Robert Francis Kelley and his influence on American-Russian Relations during the nonrecognition period (1917-1933). The focus of this examination is Kelley's role in formulating, implementing, and sustaining America's anti-communist policy developed and solidified during the 1920s and 1930s. Particular attention is given to the senate recognition hearing of 1924, Kelley's training of future diplomats (George Kennan, Charles Bohlen, et al.), and his contributions to the preparations leading to the United States' recognition of Russia in 1933. Using Kelley's papers and personal correspondence, this study shows the growth of a man and the evolution of …

Child Abuse And Juvenile Delinquency: A Review Of The Literature, Charlotte Center Anthony

Theses Digitization Project

There seems to be common agreement among practitioners and researchers in Criminal Justice that youth who are abused often become participants in the juvenile justice system. The current literature finds considerable evidence to support this position. However, some questions concerning the relationship between child abuse and juvenile delinquency remain. Specifically, how direct, or casual, is the link between the two? Are different groups of youth, such as Hispanic famales uniquely affected?

Program Evaluation Of A Therapeutic Humor Training Workshop., Ernest E. Yonkovitz

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

No abstract provided.

The Experiences Of Language Minority Students In Mainstream English Classes In United States Public High Schools : A Study Through In-Depth Interviewing., John Gabriel

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

No abstract provided.

Folk Music In The Ouachita Mountains, Shayna Rachel Sessler

Honors Theses

The Ouachita Mountain Region of Arkansas, neglected in much formal research, has a rich and active heritage of folk music which should be made accessible.

North Carolina Revolutionaries In Arms: The Battle Of King's Mountain, David Scott Dildy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Prisoners Of War In The Twentieth Century, Victor Montejo

Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Copper Opera: The Butte Miners' Strike Of 1917: A Documentary, William Crosby Platt

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

"The Butte Miners Strike of 1917 was a defining moment in American labor history. With the onset of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution I Russia, radicalism and patriotic hysteria were at their height in Montana.

Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Closing The Door: A Roll Call Analysis Of Immigration Voting In The 99th And 104th Congresses, Murray Stewart Leith

Masters Theses

The research focus of this study is the voting behavior of the elected members of the United States House of Representatives on the issue of national immigration. This work specifically focuses on selected immigration roll call votes taken during the 99th and 104th Congresses. An examination of the voting behavior of the 435 elected representatives from each year will be examined by considering eight hypotheses that question the immigration voting behavior of various sub groups within congress.

During the 1980s and 1990s Congress took several major legislative actions in regards to the issue of national immigration. It was hypothesized that …