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You Are What You Eat: Gastronomy & Geography Of Southern Spain, Katherine F. Perry Oct 2017

You Are What You Eat: Gastronomy & Geography Of Southern Spain, Katherine F. Perry

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Using empirical and numeric data, this study explores the use of food as a proxy to understand the cultural-historical geography of southern Spain. After spending three months in Granada, Spain, I compiled the most commonly used thirty-five ingredients from a selection of Spanish cookbooks and contextualized them within the broader history of Spain. The elements of traditional Andalucían cooking fit into three primary chapters of Iberian history: Roman occupation, the Moorish invasion beginning in the 8th century, and the Columbian exchange, or the exchange of goods that took place between the Americas and Old World following European discovery of …


Political Rhetoric: The Modern Parrhesia, Jessica Townsend Oct 2017

Political Rhetoric: The Modern Parrhesia, Jessica Townsend

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The concept of parrhesia, or free speech, was explored by the philosopher Michel Foucault to describe the discourse between a person of high political power and a subordinate, wherein the subordinate is risking his own well-being or freedom in order to convey an unwelcome truth. In Foucault’s Discourse and Truth lectures, he briefly entertains a link between political rhetoric and parrhesia before dismissing the concepts as completely incompatible. According to Foucault, parrhesia requires a dialectic format and a real threat to the speaker, and rhetorical speeches lack both. However, the scholar of Greek philosophy, Laurent Pernot, hosted a lecture …


College Students’ Perceptions Of And Behaviors Regarding Facebook© Advertising: An Exploratory Study, Alexandra Bannister, Joelle Kiefer, Jessica Nellums May 2013

College Students’ Perceptions Of And Behaviors Regarding Facebook© Advertising: An Exploratory Study, Alexandra Bannister, Joelle Kiefer, Jessica Nellums

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The recent boom of social media has given marketers new opportunities to advertise to a targeted demographic -- specifically, tech-savvy young adults and students. This study examines the perceptions of and attitudes toward advertisements on one of the most popular social networking sites today, Facebook©. Results of an exploratory study show that while most college students are active Facebook© users, they are unlikely to click on Facebook© advertising or engage in purchase behaviors.