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Faculty Recital, Tianna Harjo, Jae Ahn-Benton

Faculty Recitals

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Doctoral Lecture-Recital, Barron Coleman, David Skouson

Graduate Student Recitals

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Doctoral Recital, Jonathan Baltera, Spencer Baker, Jena Tracey, Winston Canilao, Noemi Luna, Jonnie Jo Williams

Graduate Student Recitals

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Nextet, Virko Baley, Chris Arrell

Chamber Music

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Junior Recital, Manuel Gamazo

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Junior Recital, Manuel Gamazo

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Master's Recital, Zhu Sun

Graduate Student Recitals

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Convocation, Diane L. Correa, Breanna Lesure, Jonathan Cannon, Jeremy Russo, Dalton Davis, Eliysheba Anderson, Brandon Denman, Min Jeong Seo, Barbara Finn, Bronson Foster, David Chavez, Kyle Overlay

Convocations

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The Cellists, Andrew Smith, Daniel Gaisford, Eddie Yue, Jeremy Russo, Maren Quanbeck, Tony Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson, Eric Lam, Lara Turello

Chamber Music

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Opera Workshop L, Linda Lister, Jae Ahn-Benton

Opera

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Morelli Quintet, Brandon Denman, Ben Serna-Grey, Guillermo Ramasasa, Michael Villarreal, Brock Norred

Chamber Music

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Faculty Recital, Bill Bernatis, Timothy Hoft, Janis Mckay

Faculty Recitals

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Unlv Brass Band And Unlv New Horizons Band, Zane S. Douglass, Keith Larsen, Dean Snavely, Ben Blasko

Chamber Music

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Junior Recital, Valerie Reives, Jae Ahn-Benton

Junior Recitals

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Junior Recital, Valerie Reives, Jae Ahn-Benton

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Guitar Ensemble, Brian Villaruel, Thomas Velazquez, Jayson Gailos, David Andersen, Issa Acosta, Patrick Worley, Hugo Maia

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Actresses Redefining Theater And Femininity In Eighteenth-Century France, Rebecca Anne Bolen

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Published in 1798 and 1800, the memoires of Hypolite Clairon and Marie-Françoise Marchand Dumesnil relate the experiences and values of individuals who lived through massive social and cultural, and eventually political, changes. How and when these two women felt the need to adhere to society's standards in comparison to those instances when they were confident enough to assert themselves illuminates the ways in which developing a public persona could open up a space for women to stretch the boundaries of feminine self-fashioning. This space was not unlimited and may have depended on actresses making concessions to societal expectations. It was …

Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The following stories represent what I have accomplished in my three-and-a-half years in the Master of Fine Arts-Fiction program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. They are all realist stories, most of them with a minimalist leaning. Together for the first time, they are more than a mere sum of the writing I've done in my time in the MFA program. They are the stories that, when I read them now, still occasionally delight me. Most of the stories that I wrote as an MFA candidate do not pass this test, and thus are not included here. If there is …

A Historical Comparative Analysis Of Executions In The United States From 1608 To 2009, Emily Jean Abili

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The death penalty has been a contested issue throughout American history. The United States has been executing offenders since Jamestown became a colony in 1608 (Allen & Clubb, 2008). Since that time, many issues have been raised about the death penalty including whether or not it is moral, discriminatory, or a deterrent.

This study examines the history of executions, including lynchings, in the United States from 1608 to 2009 using a variety of sociological theories on law and society. Some of the research questions that guide this project are:

* What is the nature of change in the relative prevalence …

A Christian Mega Church Strives For Relevance: Examining Social Media And Religiosity, Kenthea Albert-Leigh Joan Fogenay

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between Facebook and Twitter uses and gratifications and religiosity. Non-denominational Christian mega churches focus their outreach programs on a "come-as-you-are" attitude with the hopes of making people feel comfortable. The interactive technology in our daily lives also infiltrates our experience at church. The congregation now has the ability to worship through technologies endorsed by leadership (Watson & Scalen, 2008; Bogomilova, 2004; Thomas, 2009). In order for churches to engage in effective communication, they must understand how people use social networking. Through survey methodology, the researcher takes an account of how …

The Ethics Glass Ceiling: A Historical Analysis Of Actions By The U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Ethics, Michael James Gordon

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The breaking of moral and ethical codes has been with humankind since history was first recorded. As such, the public wants to know that their elected officials are held accountable and cannot disregard enshrined legal rights without incurring broader personal and societal consequences. Within the hallowed halls of government, the "unrequested" House Committee on Ethics (HCE) provides the forum of accountability.

In this qualitative, historical case study, HCE documents are analyzed and both the internal and external motivating factors behind the actions of the HCE members are examined. Computer assisted qualitative data analysis software, namely ATLAS.ti, was used to look …

"What's In A Name?": Heteroglossia And History In Native Alaskan Names, Shannon Hannahs

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis examines Native Alaskan personal names and naming practices and how these names are being used to index cultural identity in Anchorage, Alaska. In order to do this, I follow Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of heteroglossia (1981), which states all words are populated with meaning from all of the contexts in which they have been used in the past. Native Alaskan personal names should be considered heteroglossic based on the Yup'ik/Cup'ik and Inupiaq beliefs that personal names are a type of soul that carries with it the characteristics of a person who uses it. When that person dies, the name-soul …

The Other September 11th: El Mercurio Media Coverage After The Chilean Coup Of 1973, Valeria Andrea Gurr-Ovalle

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis provides an exploratory overview of the role the El Mercurio newspaper played along with the military after the Chilean coup of 1973. The study reviews the contents of the newspaper's front pages, including their coverage of the events during the coup. The thesis will show how the paper revisited its coverage each year on the anniversary -- September 11th and 12th -- beginning with the years dominated by the military government, from 1973 through 1990, and continuing through the transition to democracy, from 1991 through 2007. The primary method used in the course of this examination is a …

Maps On The Backs Of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

A collection of poems related to places in the Mojave Desert and the Las Vegas area or in rural central Michigan. Most poems deal with history and memory and the overlapping nature of experience.

The Role Of Music-Specific Representations When Processing Speech: Using A Musical Illusion To Elucidate Domain-Specific And -General Processes, Christina M. Vanden Bosch Der Nederlanden

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

When listening to music and language sounds, it is unclear whether adults recruit domain-specific or domain-general mechanisms to make sense of incoming sounds. Unique acoustic characteristics such as a greater reliance on rapid temporal transitions in speech relative to song may introduce misleading interpretations concerning shared and overlapping processes in the brain. By using a stimulus that is both ecologically valid and can be perceived as speech or song depending on context, the contribution of low- and high-level mechanisms may be teased apart. The stimuli employed in all experiments are auditory illusions from speech to song reported by Deutsch et …

Master's Recital, Larry Aberman, Jeff Davis, Otto Ehling, Nate Kimball, Julian Tanaka

Graduate Student Recitals

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Doctoral Recital, Micah Holt, Carmella Cao, Laurie Swain, Maren Quanbeck, Jae Ahn-Benton, Kyle Overlay, Jordan Rush, Dylan Musso, Stephen Turner

Graduate Student Recitals

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Convocation, Xavier Brown, Daveon Bolden, Marlo Zermartis, David Crespo, Juanpablo Macias, Jordan Madagame, Heather Elise, Sharon Nakama, Ashlee Ruder, Christopher Fujiwara, Timothy Harpster

Convocations

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Unlv Symphony Orchestra Concert Singers Chamber Chorale, Taras Krysa, David Weiller, Lillian Roberts, Stephanie Weiss, William Mccullough, Nathan Arsdale

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Doctoral Recital, Otto Ehling, Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsev, Lindsay Springer

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