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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Jennifer Vaughan
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Jennifer Vaughan
Inside UNLV
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The Male Homoerotics Of Shakespearean Drama: A Study Of "The Merchant Of Venice," "Twelfth Night," And "Othello", Anthony Guy Patricia
The Male Homoerotics Of Shakespearean Drama: A Study Of "The Merchant Of Venice," "Twelfth Night," And "Othello", Anthony Guy Patricia
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study seeks to both challenge and complicate the assumed heteronormativity of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and Othello. Reading and analyzing these texts in such a manner provides the only means to access and interpret the homoerotics embedded deeply within them in a meaningful way that, in turn, enhances traditional understanding of Renaissance England.
Public Advocacy By The Roman Catholic Church And The United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops In The Twenty-First Century, Michele L Cannella
Public Advocacy By The Roman Catholic Church And The United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops In The Twenty-First Century, Michele L Cannella
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The Roman Catholic Church has engaged in moral criticism throughout history and continues to do so today through movie reviews published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The history of the Roman Catholic Church's censorship of moral content includes controlling the amount and type of media available. This rhetorical analysis of both the USCCB and New York Times movie reviews for the top ten grossing movies of 2006 discusses rhetoric as an expression of meaning that emerges through a texts' historical and cultural situation. Both sets of reviews are found on the Internet and this analysis argues …
Opihi Tales, Melissa L Llanes Brownlee
Opihi Tales, Melissa L Llanes Brownlee
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Opihi Tales began as a geographical and psychological discovery of the Big Island of Hawaii, and has evolved into an internal exploration of the conflicts between my Hawaiian heritage and American culture, including the hypnotic sway of the "American Dream" and the heavy hand of Mormonism. Also, permeating my collection are the influences of Plantation culture. Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Portuguese words and ideas are woven into Opihi Tales as the people themselves have been woven into the lives of the natives they lived and worked beside in the fields. Language is an essential element of Opihi Tales. In order …
The Treatment Of Minorities And Women By Southwestern Courts And Prisons, Donna Crail-Rugotzke
The Treatment Of Minorities And Women By Southwestern Courts And Prisons, Donna Crail-Rugotzke
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this work is to examine the role of race, ethnicity, and gender in the treatment of Native American, women, and Latino defendants and inmates by Southwestern courts and prisons from 1890 to 1930. This dissertation addresses issues such as the types of trials Native Americans, women and Latinos received from Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico courts and what types of sentences they received. This study explores whether late nineteenth and early twentieth-century attitudes about gender, race, and ethnicity influenced the sentencing of prisoners; It also describes the conditions at the Nevada State Prison, New Mexico Territorial Penitentiary, …