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Through Thick And Thin: Evolutionary Transitions Of Las Vegas Grandes And Its Pobladores, Anselmo F. Arellano
Through Thick And Thin: Evolutionary Transitions Of Las Vegas Grandes And Its Pobladores, Anselmo F. Arellano
American Studies ETDs
Near the end of the Spanish Colonial Period in New Mexico, Hispano and mestizo citizens from the Santa Fe and San Miguel del Bado area cast their eyes on some longed-for fertile grazing lands called las vegas grandes en el Rio de las Gallinas. Due to constant prevailing forays by Indians during this epoch, initial settlement efforts failed, but in 1835 a new thrust from San Miguel del Bado led to the permanent settlement of one of the last community land grants conceded in New Mexico during the Mexican Period.
This dissertation concerns itself with the history and culture of …
Sounds Of The Frontier: Music In Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Michael Lee Masterson
Sounds Of The Frontier: Music In Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Michael Lee Masterson
American Studies ETDs
This study describes, analyzes, and interprets music accompanying the varied acts m Buffalo Bill's Wild West show at the end of the nineteenth century. Wild West performances included reenactments of frontier battles, ethnic demonstrations, shooting acts, and the Rough Riders of the World. Specific music analyzed includes instrumental music from the main arena played by the Cowboy Band, Native-American music performed as part of the exhibition's "Phases of Indian Life," and popular music of the day including parlor songs and "coon songs" enacted by the Concert Company performers. This study connects musical elements to social meanings and cultural values, discovering …
Toward A Cultural Interpretation Of The Chinese Restaurant In The Mountain West, Li Li
Toward A Cultural Interpretation Of The Chinese Restaurant In The Mountain West, Li Li
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The history of Chinese restaurants in the American West shows that Chinese food became a part of the social and cultural realities for Chinese people, especially in the earliest years, partly because regional food helped maintain regional language and dialect. Beyond that, it also demonstrates how restaurants--even more than other service industries such as laundries--provide a living context in which Chinese met non-Chinese, and where the non-Chinese could become acquainted with Chinese art, eating customs, regional cookery, embroidery, and even family life. In other words, the Chinese restaurant became in time a bridge between the two cultures, and has therefore …
Corporate Hierarchies: Communities Of Women In The Fiction Of Sarah Orne Jewett, Jennifer Milsop
Corporate Hierarchies: Communities Of Women In The Fiction Of Sarah Orne Jewett, Jennifer Milsop
Honors Theses
The fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett is not traditionally classified with the 'greats' of canonical literature. Many feminist scholars and critics argue that Jewett's excommunication may be in part because her writing doesn't fit the pattern of most American classics, those novels that Nina Baym labeled, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood."l There is no search for the father, no hunt to kill, and no discernable plot. Instead, Jewett depicts the world of female rituals, female relationships, and female initiations, or rites of passage. Her atypical style and format may not fit the classic pattern of adventure and initiation, but she offers …
Steinbeck The Writer-Knight, William Scott Simkins
Steinbeck The Writer-Knight, William Scott Simkins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"What They Have Instead Of God": The Relationship Between Jake Barnes And Brett Ashley In Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", Stephanie Eileen Wardrop
"What They Have Instead Of God": The Relationship Between Jake Barnes And Brett Ashley In Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", Stephanie Eileen Wardrop
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Progress Of The Regiment: A Framework For Understanding Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge Of Courage", Timothy John Brotherton
Progress Of The Regiment: A Framework For Understanding Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge Of Courage", Timothy John Brotherton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
From Song To Silence: The Coding Of Music In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Melanie Dawson
From Song To Silence: The Coding Of Music In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Melanie Dawson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere
The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Make It According To Cezanne: The Influence Of Cezanne On The Development Of Hemingway's Sty, Randal Carson Hamilton
Make It According To Cezanne: The Influence Of Cezanne On The Development Of Hemingway's Sty, Randal Carson Hamilton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Song Of Myself" And The Divided Subject, Valerie Philbrick Gill
"Song Of Myself" And The Divided Subject, Valerie Philbrick Gill
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Marxist Allegory In Jack London's Alaskan Tales, Amy Elizabeth Tavidian
Marxist Allegory In Jack London's Alaskan Tales, Amy Elizabeth Tavidian
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
The Zen Of Stevens, Rebecca Dickens
The Zen Of Stevens, Rebecca Dickens
Masters Theses
Using comparative studies as background, I develop a Zen model for reading Stevens, arguing that his poetry works in the manner of Zen anecdotes and that it can be understood better by understanding Zen. Three critical studies of Wallace Stevens and Zen assert the Zen-like qualities of Stevens' poetry. Stevens has affinities with Zen writers in three areas: use of language, explorations into the nature of thought, and the structure of anecdotes and poems.
I develop a terminology in order to construct my model, giving attention to the definitions and interrelations of terms such as logical thought, figurative thought, paradox, …
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Stylistic Analysis And Its Application To The Teaching Of Writing, Joseph Stanley Klepadlo
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Stylistic Analysis And Its Application To The Teaching Of Writing, Joseph Stanley Klepadlo
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
An Isolating And Repressive Force: The Image Of The Southern Lady In The Work Of Lee Smith, Deborah Rae Wesley
An Isolating And Repressive Force: The Image Of The Southern Lady In The Work Of Lee Smith, Deborah Rae Wesley
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
New Land Acquisition In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1660-1706: A Test Of The Malthusian And Staples Hypotheses, Bruce Chandler Baird
New Land Acquisition In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1660-1706: A Test Of The Malthusian And Staples Hypotheses, Bruce Chandler Baird
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Representation And Resistance: A Feminist Critique Of Jean Toomer's "Cane", Elaine Margaret Sisson
Representation And Resistance: A Feminist Critique Of Jean Toomer's "Cane", Elaine Margaret Sisson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
American Dream Screams: Success Ideology And The Hollywood Novel Between The Two World Wars, David Travers Garland
American Dream Screams: Success Ideology And The Hollywood Novel Between The Two World Wars, David Travers Garland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Quaker Influence On Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study, Anne Elizabeth Gaeta
The Quaker Influence On Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study, Anne Elizabeth Gaeta
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Reading As A Woman: Reynolds Price And Creative Androgyny In "Kate Vaiden" And "Good Hearts", Edith T. Hartin
Reading As A Woman: Reynolds Price And Creative Androgyny In "Kate Vaiden" And "Good Hearts", Edith T. Hartin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Milk Enough For All: The African-American Woman's Quest For Identity And Authority In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Amy Carol Ghaemmaghami
Milk Enough For All: The African-American Woman's Quest For Identity And Authority In Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Amy Carol Ghaemmaghami
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
William M Mcclaskey: A Tavern Keeper In His Community, 1834-1844, Lisa Gail Royse
William M Mcclaskey: A Tavern Keeper In His Community, 1834-1844, Lisa Gail Royse
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Organized Labor: The Past, Present, And Future Of Nurse-Midwifery In America, Amy Procter Matthews
Organized Labor: The Past, Present, And Future Of Nurse-Midwifery In America, Amy Procter Matthews
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Literature As A Tool For Cultural Analysis: A Post-Processual Examination Of The Ante-Bellum Tidewater Elite 1830-1860, Shirley Kathryn Holmes
Literature As A Tool For Cultural Analysis: A Post-Processual Examination Of The Ante-Bellum Tidewater Elite 1830-1860, Shirley Kathryn Holmes
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Search For The Body: L'Ecriture Feminine And Delta Wedding, Diane Truitt Nichols
A Search For The Body: L'Ecriture Feminine And Delta Wedding, Diane Truitt Nichols
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"I Would Not Begrudge To Give A Few Pounds More": Elite Consumer Choices In The Chesapeake, 1720-1785 The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage, Steven Edward Patrick
"I Would Not Begrudge To Give A Few Pounds More": Elite Consumer Choices In The Chesapeake, 1720-1785 The Calvert House Ceramic Assemblage, Steven Edward Patrick
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination Of The Evidence, Beverly Ann Straube
Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination Of The Evidence, Beverly Ann Straube
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hilton Village, Virginia: The Government's First Model Industrial Community, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Hilton Village, Virginia: The Government's First Model Industrial Community, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Landlords, Tenants, And Rental Property In Williamsburg And Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780, Emma Lou Powers
Landlords, Tenants, And Rental Property In Williamsburg And Yorktown, Virginia, 1730-1780, Emma Lou Powers
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Selective Methods Of Teaching Secondary English: The Scarlet Letter: A Study And Application Of The Collaborative And Mastery Learning Methods, Janine M. Kardas
Selective Methods Of Teaching Secondary English: The Scarlet Letter: A Study And Application Of The Collaborative And Mastery Learning Methods, Janine M. Kardas
Masters Theses
This study is about the relationship of content in teaching to the process in teaching for the purpose of helping students to become better readers of literature. This study investigates two selected teaching strategies supported by research to be effective, and applies them to the teaching of a canonical piece of literature, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This study employs literary theory in the development of the objectives and applies both cooperative learning and mastery learning methods to the teaching of this novel. Two sets of lesson plans are developed from the objectives and subsequently analyzed for their effectiveness …