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Remembering Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1990, Sally Hyer
Remembering Santa Fe Indian School, 1890-1990, Sally Hyer
American Studies ETDs
This dissertation is an ethnohistorical study of Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a boarding school for children from southwestern tribes in grades seven through twelve. SFIS was founded by the federal government in 1890 as a highly regimented, hierarchical institution designed to assimilate Indian students through education and isolation from their families. In 1976 control of Albuquerque Indian School shifted to the All Indian Pueblo Council, an ancient inter-pueblo coalition. The AIS program was transferred to Santa Fe in 1981. Under tribal control, first by AIPC and now by a Board of Education, SFIS has been …
A Literary Evaluation Of Black Female Interaction In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
A Literary Evaluation Of Black Female Interaction In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", "Sula," "Jazz", Carol Ann Davenport
English Theses & Dissertations
This Master's thesis consists of three chapters that examine the roles, circumstances and effects of racism and sexism on the black female characters in three of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved, Sula and Jazz. I propose that the elements of racism and sexism have left the female characters, Sethe, Denver, Ella, etc. in Beloved with few choices in life. Further, I suggest that the theme of "choice versus no choice" perpetuates hatred and self-hatred among black women and results in "metaphoric scarring." I explore in the characters, Sula, Eva, Hannah, Nel, and the black Bottom women, the damage inflicted on black …
An Historical Look At The Negro Baseball Leagues: The Legend Of The Black Knights, Terry Pierce
An Historical Look At The Negro Baseball Leagues: The Legend Of The Black Knights, Terry Pierce
McCabe Thesis Collection
This study hopes to fill in some of the gaps in the history of the Negro Leagues. More importantly though, this research is successful only if the readers can come away with a true sense of what the ballplayers of the era felt and why they played while enduring racism and humiliation.
This study was conducted to pull together the previously written facts and history of the Negro Leagues with obscure oral history and data found through interviews, videotapes, articles, and books from and about those who played and lived during the era.
"Ranchers Don't Sell, They Acquire": The Life And Legends Of Bartley Marie Scott, Julie Hartley-Moore
"Ranchers Don't Sell, They Acquire": The Life And Legends Of Bartley Marie Scott, Julie Hartley-Moore
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis examines the family history and life story of Colorado ranch woman Bartley Marie Scott. In addition to biographical information, it includes an examination of the folklore surrounding Scott's life, her role in the regional culture, and the theoretical implications of using folklore in biography.
A Toast To The Tavern: An Archaeological Study Of A 17th And 18th Century Tavern In Charlestown, Massachusetts, Christy Cathleen Vogt
A Toast To The Tavern: An Archaeological Study Of A 17th And 18th Century Tavern In Charlestown, Massachusetts, Christy Cathleen Vogt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Male Moral Irresponsibility In Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", Dana B. Castle
Male Moral Irresponsibility In Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy", Dana B. Castle
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Gender-Based Behavior In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Jordan Davis
Gender-Based Behavior In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Jordan Davis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison: Conflicting Masculinities, H. Alexander Nejako
Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison: Conflicting Masculinities, H. Alexander Nejako
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Does "Little Women" Belittle Women?: Female Influence In Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", Anjali Prasad
Does "Little Women" Belittle Women?: Female Influence In Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women", Anjali Prasad
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Cultural Determinism In "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Lynda Ann Thompson
Cultural Determinism In "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Lynda Ann Thompson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Popular Culture, Thomas Beer, And The Making Of "The Sound And The Fury", Lynn Dorsey Define
Popular Culture, Thomas Beer, And The Making Of "The Sound And The Fury", Lynn Dorsey Define
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
William Carlos Williams's "Spring And All": The Oneness Of Experience, Molly Elayne Jones
William Carlos Williams's "Spring And All": The Oneness Of Experience, Molly Elayne Jones
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Problem Of Time In Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel", Patrick M. Curran
The Problem Of Time In Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel", Patrick M. Curran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Idle, Lewd, Brabling Women:" Slander And Bastardy In Colonial Tidewater Virginia, 1640-1725, Anne Elizabeth Ward
"Idle, Lewd, Brabling Women:" Slander And Bastardy In Colonial Tidewater Virginia, 1640-1725, Anne Elizabeth Ward
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells
Social And Economic Aspects Of Eighteenth-Century Housing On The Northern Neck Of Virginia, Camille Wells
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is an attempt to discern what eighteenth-century houses--their forms, dimensions, internal organization, and external settings--have to contribute to scholarly understanding of colonial Virginia's society, economy, and culture.;Historic Virginia houses usually were built more recently than traditional scholars and popular writers have supposed, and standing eighteenth-century houses are, almost without exception, far larger and finer than the dwellings most colonial Virginians inhabited. Yet even lightly constructed and shabbily finished houses stood at the center of a complex of buildings where most of the planter's household and agricultural work was performed. Thus eighteenth-century Virginia houses were more mundane and unpretentious …
The Political-Domestics: Sectional Issues In American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867, Beverly Peterson
The Political-Domestics: Sectional Issues In American Women's Fiction, 1852-1867, Beverly Peterson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This is a study of five novels written by American women during the middle of the nineteenth century. The novels are Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852) by Mary Henderson Eastman, Northwood (1827 and 1852) by Sarah Josepha Hale, The Planter's Northern Bride (1854) by Carolyn Lee Hentz, Macaria (1864) by Augusta Evans, and Cameron Hall (1867) by Mary Anne Cruse. In advancing their authors' opinions on sectional issues like slavery and secession, these novels make overt political statements of a kind not usually associated with writers of domestic fiction.;All of the novels in this study conform in some ways to the …
Domestic Ideology And The Social Construction Of Mammy, Bridget Mary Brown
Domestic Ideology And The Social Construction Of Mammy, Bridget Mary Brown
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Putting Masculinity Into Words: Hemingway's Critique And Manipulation Of American Manhood, Timothy L. Barnard
Putting Masculinity Into Words: Hemingway's Critique And Manipulation Of American Manhood, Timothy L. Barnard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres And Culinary Arts, Katharine E. Harbury
Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres And Culinary Arts, Katharine E. Harbury
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran
Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Place Of Honor And Fruitfulness : World War One And The War Activities Of Women From The Elite Women's Colleges, Helen Grace Lafave
A Place Of Honor And Fruitfulness : World War One And The War Activities Of Women From The Elite Women's Colleges, Helen Grace Lafave
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Significant Affinities Between James Joyce's Ulysses And Saul Bellow's The Adventures Of Augie March, Jeff Smithpeters
Significant Affinities Between James Joyce's Ulysses And Saul Bellow's The Adventures Of Augie March, Jeff Smithpeters
Honors Theses
There is a story of a monk who is, against all odds, propositioned by a comely woman who has somehow gotten into the monastery. "No," he tells her. "I have taken a vow of chastity." With that, the woman leaves. There is no argument, no weeping, no shouting. It is that simple.
The next morning, at the communal breakfast table, the monk speaks to a grizzled, elderly monk sitting beside him. "Did you know a woman offered herself to me yesterday right here in the monastery? Can you imagine that?"
The long-lived monk turns to him and says, "What did …
The Concept Of The Local In Williams' Developing Poetics: The Poet's Perception And Representation Of The Poor, Jon Montgomery
The Concept Of The Local In Williams' Developing Poetics: The Poet's Perception And Representation Of The Poor, Jon Montgomery
Masters Theses
The present study serves as a thematic, critical perspective on William Carlos Williams' poetry on the poor; specifically, I address his representation of the poor in his poetry and his attitude towards them. From 1914-38, his attitude towards the poor goes through three significant stages of change. Roughly, the stage boundaries can be marked by decade: the 1910s, the 1920s and the 1930s.
In the first stage, Williams recognizes his empathetic and aesthetic distance from the poor, since his aesthetics rest primarily on his youthful fascination with Keats. The poet desires to reflect properly the lives of the poor. The …
Robert Frost And Maya Angelou: Poet-As-Rhetor In The Presidential Inauguration: Textual Symbols And The Symbol Of Enactment, Donna M. Witmer
Robert Frost And Maya Angelou: Poet-As-Rhetor In The Presidential Inauguration: Textual Symbols And The Symbol Of Enactment, Donna M. Witmer
Masters Theses
This criticism uses an organic approach to examine the rhetorical properties of Frost's and Angelou's inaugural poems and their individual enactments respective of the constraints and exigencies in the Presidential inaugurations of Kennedy and Clinton. Apparently responding to the constraints of television's sound bite as well as to exigencies of the traditional inauguration and the need to serve a new generation and a culturally diverse population, the Clinton Administration combined the poetic form, used to heighten an emotional response, with an enactment as a synecdochic symbol, used to assert sociopolitical ideology.