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The Paper Repertoire Of The Students In One Elementary School, Ruby Rufty
The Paper Repertoire Of The Students In One Elementary School, Ruby Rufty
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This collection project is concerned with traditional paper objects made by students in fifteen classes in one elementary school in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Chapter I describes the school and classroom environments and the procedures followed during the collection project. Chapter II differentiates between the play and ornamental items collected, describes the different items and their variants made by the students, and attempts to show what persons (relatives, teachers, other children) or other factors (mass media, the students' environment) affected the paper items made by students. Chapter III statistically evaluates the collected paper items according to the sex, race, and grade …
Samuel Butler’S Way Of All Flesh As A Sociological Novel, David Carter
Samuel Butler’S Way Of All Flesh As A Sociological Novel, David Carter
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
To scholars of Victorian literature, Samuel Butler has always been a rebel who strikes out at society with wide-ranging criticism. After years of studying subjects as varied as music, art, biology, literature, and theology, Butler felt (like many Victorian writers) that he could make valuable social comments with his satires, travelogues, biological studies and one novel.
Critical studies of Butler have tended to treat in broad outline all facets of his life and work. This study, however, examines in depth Butler’s novel The Way of All Flesh, as the focal point of his critical analysis of Victorian society. It treats …
The Oral Folk History Surrounding The Life Of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson, Peggy Boaz
The Oral Folk History Surrounding The Life Of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson, Peggy Boaz
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The oral folk history of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson is unique in that Henderson himself has been a contributing factor in keeping the tales of his moonshining experiences in the oral traditions of distinct areas of Kentucky, especially Cumberland County. Interviewing Henderson and apprehended and non-apprehended moonshiners allowed speculation into the concept that Henderson was indeed a folk hero. Using Dixon Wector's requirements for heroes, the hero performing unselfish service, acquiring a nickname, obtaining sympathy for handicaps, struggles, and failures, and reaching hero status after death, and providing examples of Henderson's encounters with moonshiners, verifies Henderson's hero status, except …
A Study Of The Political Activity Of Mexican University Students, Angela Rodriguez Fernandez
A Study Of The Political Activity Of Mexican University Students, Angela Rodriguez Fernandez
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
An overview of the political activity of Mexican university
students during the 1968 disturbances in Mexico was compared with data
taken from a 1964 attitudinal survey conducted by the International
Research Associates, Incorporated of university students from nine
Mexican universities in an attempt to find possible trends and attitudes
that could have predicted the 1968 and subsequent riots. The population
for the analysis came from three of the nine universities based on the
levels of activity shown during the 1968 riots ranging from most active
to least active. Three main variables; activism as of 1968, ideological
self-designation as of 1964 …
An Interpretation Of The Florida Ex-Slaves' Memories Of Slavery & The Civil War, Dianna Zacharias
An Interpretation Of The Florida Ex-Slaves' Memories Of Slavery & The Civil War, Dianna Zacharias
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study is an analysis and interpretation of oral folk history preserved in the Florida Narratives, one state collection of ex-slave narratives from the larger Federal Writers' Project collection compiled in the 1930s. Fifty-four tales were extracted from this state collection and used as a basis for this study. These personal reminiscences, called memorates by folklorists, fell into two categories: slavery and the Civil war. The tales about slavery were compared to the theses and conclusions regarding slavery held by sociologists and The tales about the Civil War and emancipation were gathered by historians.
The comparison revealed that there …
The Carter Family: Traditional Sources For Song, Margaret Bulger
The Carter Family: Traditional Sources For Song, Margaret Bulger
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The recorded repertory of the original Carter Family was analyzed for traditional influences. Of the 119 songs examined, it was found that fifty-five, roughly one-fourth of their total repertory, have definite roots in one or more traditional sources. The Carters employed traditional texts within their repertory throughout their professional career. Three genres of song were analyzed: sentimental songs, religious songs, and ballads. Of these, sentimental songs was the largest category with 113 songs. These songs were found to be remarkably similar in thematic content and moral sensibilities to Victorian parlor songs (ca. 1860-1910). The religious songs were shown to be …