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Recruiting A Lady: The Depiction Of The Women's Army Corps, Amanda Rutherford
Recruiting A Lady: The Depiction Of The Women's Army Corps, Amanda Rutherford
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
The Women's Army Corps [WAC] proves to be an interesting topic for reading and analysis for students of the Army in WWII. One can see a good deal of patriotism in the examination of how WAC was formed and 'how women were recruited. Patriotism greatlyfueled all of the propaganda sun-ounding the Women's Army Corps. Patriotism was also at the root of most of the scholarship on the Women's Army Corps, thus it is at the heart of theArmy sanctioned story of the WAC. This Army sanctioned story is cemented most in Mattie E. Treadwell's The Women's Army Corps, which was …
Celebrity And The Spectacle Of Nation, Jason N. Goldsmith
Celebrity And The Spectacle Of Nation, Jason N. Goldsmith
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
A decidedly promiscuous brand of renown, celebrity has a bad reputation. That reputation was characterised by Daniel Boorstin, who coined what has become a near-axiomatic definition of the celebrity as 'a person who is known for his well-knowness'.1The tautological bent of Boorstin's definition seems to suggest the meretricious nature of celebrities, famous not because they have done anything to merit acclaim, but because their images have been widely publicised and promoted. According to this logic, celebrities are superficial personalities, bold-faced names, air-brushed faces; they are slick images manufactured for the moment. Celebrities signify all that is shallow about …
The Drift (2009), Butler University
The Drift (2009), Butler University
Butler Yearbooks
Butler University yearbook for year 2009.