"Crise D'Identite": The Push To Preserve National Identity In France, 2012 Butler University
"Crise D'Identite": The Push To Preserve National Identity In France, Katherine Hammitt
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
In 2010, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a "Maison de l 'histoire de fa France," a heritage museum, as reporters began calling it, to be opened in Paris in 2015. President Sarkozy's speechwriter on issues of national identity has cast the museum as an answer to France's "identity crisis".' The project's aim, as President Sarkozy has articulated it, is to "reinforce national identity," warning as well, "It is always dangerous to forget your history.t" It is exactly this fear, the fear of forgetting France's rich history, which has spurred controversy and upheaval within the French republic.
The extent to which …
Latvian Folk Dance: Sustaining Cultural Heritage In The Context Of Christianity And Communism, 2012 Butler University
Latvian Folk Dance: Sustaining Cultural Heritage In The Context Of Christianity And Communism, Emilija Karina Grinvalds
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
In times of chaos and violence, brutality and oppression, one would not think of the arts as a guiding light for maintaining cultural identity and establishing peace and independence. However, the small country of Latvia serves as a prime example of how the arts, specifically folk dance, helped to maintain Latvian culture through centuries of oppression and war. As Swedish and German missionaries sought to spread Christianity throughout the pagan tribes in the 11th century, dance helped to sustain the cultural and religious beliefs of the ancient Latvians. Folk dance created a sense of unity within their communities, and the …
African Agency In The Rally Of French Equatorial Africa, August-November 1940, 2012 Western Kentucky University
African Agency In The Rally Of French Equatorial Africa, August-November 1940, Mark Reeves
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
From August to November 1940, the territories of French Equatorial Africa rallied to Charles de Gaulle’s self-proclaimed Free French government in London, rather than the Vichy government set up after the German defeat of France in June. While this episode concerns European actions in European-ruled colonies, African actors pervade the story, especially as soldiers. Africans constituted the indirect audience of all the rallies by living in the territories whose policies were affected. Africans served as actors in the role of soldiers. As soldiers, African actors exhibited agency both in actions taken during operations and by their presence in the colonial …
Taking Advantage Of Credit Default Swaps In European Markets, 2012 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Taking Advantage Of Credit Default Swaps In European Markets, Phillip Kosmitis
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
Credit default swaps are the leading indicators in bond and equity markets. The movement of credit default swaps can explain sovereign bond and equity market movements in distressed countries. Investors can take advantage of credit default swap volatility and movement in both sovereign credit and equity markets. In stable European countries, credit default swaps show little evidence of being the leading driver of sovereign bond and equity markets.
An Analysis Of The Life, Work, And Social Change Created By Author Stieg Larsson, 2012 Pace University
An Analysis Of The Life, Work, And Social Change Created By Author Stieg Larsson, Andrea Panichi
Honors College Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the life of Swedish author Stieg Larsson and how his career as a journalist and activist lead him to create the global phenomenon, The Millennium Trilogy. Through writing about international political themes, Larsson successfully tells a tale of a female heroine, Lisbeth Salander, who overcomes her tragic destiny. Originally written in Swedish, Larsson creates a cultural assimilation through writing about universal themes, such as computer hacking and crimes against humanity. The three novels, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the …
"Where Angels Fear To Tread": Tracing The Journey Of The Female Poet In Aurora Leigh, 2012 Liberty University
"Where Angels Fear To Tread": Tracing The Journey Of The Female Poet In Aurora Leigh, Dorcas Y. Lam
Senior Honors Theses
Through Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning explores the role of female poets as agents of social change in the Victorian society. During the Victorian period, the role of women was largely confined to the domestic setting. While women were allowed to write, female writers were limited to the realm of novels, which was perceived by the Victorian society to be the less distinguished genre. In writing Aurora Leigh, Barrett Browning challenged this gender stereotype by producing a "novel-poem" that unites the feminine voice with masculine authority and superiority. Like Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, in her fictional role as a …
Is The Plague An Existential Novel?, 2012 Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Is The Plague An Existential Novel?, Ethan Jacobs '12
2012 Spring Semester
Existentialism refers to a broad range of philosophical beliefs and related cultural phenomena. While its origins can be traced to the latter half of the 19th century, existentialism as a unified movement only gained serious traction, especially among literary circles, by the close of World Wars I and II, as writers contemplated the sheer man-made destruction and loss of life of these two wars. Though often confused with nihilism and absurdism, existentialism is a distinct philosophical movement that presents man as fundamentally unknowable through science, logic, or morality. Albert Camus, a French Algerian “Pied-Noir” settler, epitomized the sudden turn toward …
Identity, Integration, And Assimilation Recorded In Manitoba's Polish And Ukrainian Cemeteries, 2012 Pedagogical University of Cracow
Identity, Integration, And Assimilation Recorded In Manitoba's Polish And Ukrainian Cemeteries, Lukasz Albanski, John C. Lehr
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Polish and Ukrainian rural cemeteries in southeastern Manitoba reflect the process of negotiating complex religious, geographic, and ethnic identities within Canadian society. Before 1914 the identities of Slavic immigrants from eastern Europe to western Canada were influenced more by religious affiliation than by geographic origins. This Slavic population, now assimilated into mainstream Anglophone society, retains elements of Polish and Ukrainian on grave markers as expressions of difference and acts of resistance against total homogeneity. In rural Manitoba grave markers record the process of exogamy and cultural blending, while cemetery landscapes replicate the social relationship between cultural groups from the same …
Les Curiosités : L'Analyse De La Fonction De L’Anomalie Dans Les Musées Français Du Dix-Neuvième Siècle, 2012 Trinity College
Les Curiosités : L'Analyse De La Fonction De L’Anomalie Dans Les Musées Français Du Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Alexandra A. Powell
Senior Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
Sexism In Teaching Spanish: Linguistic Discrimination Is Sometimes Unconscious, 2012 Quinnipiac University
Sexism In Teaching Spanish: Linguistic Discrimination Is Sometimes Unconscious, Aileen Dever
Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning
The Spanish language is becoming more flexible in creating feminine forms for occupational names that correspond with the already existing masculine terms. However, there has been some resistance among Spaniards with regard to using feminine forms like física to refer to a physicist who is a woman. Similarly, there have been objections to química (chemist, chemistry), música (musician, music), and others because, some say, such terms are ambiguous and confusing with regard to the professions. Do words and the way they are used significantly affect their meaning? The author discusses this question by highlighting linguistic discrimination in Spanish that is …
Union Royale Belge De Sociétés De Football Association Asbl V. Jean-Marc Bosman: The Evolution Of Labor Law In Professional Soccer And Its Implication, 2012 Pitzer College
Union Royale Belge De Sociétés De Football Association Asbl V. Jean-Marc Bosman: The Evolution Of Labor Law In Professional Soccer And Its Implication, Marvin Smith
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
Muñoz Molina, Sebald, Y La Identidad Desheredada De Europa, 2012 University of Iowa
Muñoz Molina, Sebald, Y La Identidad Desheredada De Europa, Luis Martín-Estudillo
Luis Martín-Estudillo
No abstract provided.
Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010): Historian And Anti-Nazi Activist, 2012 Brigham Young University
Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010): Historian And Anti-Nazi Activist, Mario Kessler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The life of Ernst Engelberg, historian and anti-Nazi activist, spanned over a century. Born in Imperial Germany, he witnessed World War I, became a political activist during the Weimar Republic, was a refugee during Nazism, and became a leading historian in Communist East Germany, He survived the collapsed of the DDR and he lived for two more decades in the Federal Republic of Germany. Engelberg's itinerary is, therefore, not typical for a professor of history in twentieth-century Germany.
Estudio Sociolinguistico De La Marca Diferencial De Objeto Directo (Dom) En Dos Variedades Del Espanol Contemporaneo, 2012 University of New Mexico
Estudio Sociolinguistico De La Marca Diferencial De Objeto Directo (Dom) En Dos Variedades Del Espanol Contemporaneo, Sonia Balasch Rodriguez
Spanish and Portuguese ETDs
This sociolinguistic-variationist investigation sheds light on two little-studied issues concerning Spanish DOM, or variable use of a before animate direct objects (DOs), in vernacular language: the complex interaction of co-occurring linguistic (type of verb; definiteness, specificity, grammatical number, topicality, type and syntactic position of DO) and social (speakers age, gender and occupation) features. The statistical analysis of over 1000 tokens of oral Spanish of Mérida, Venezuela, and Madrid, Spain, indicates that although a+OD is used more in Madrid (61% vs. 46%), both varieties show markedly parallel linguistic conditioning: the lexical effect of certain verbs (tener, ver, conocer, among others), as …
Front Matter, 2012 Brigham Young University
Book Review: Wenn Du Absolut Nach Amerika Willst, So Gehe In Gottesnamen!: Erinnerungen An Den California Trail, John A. Sutter Und Den Goldrausch 1846-1849, 2012 Brigham Young University
Book Review: Wenn Du Absolut Nach Amerika Willst, So Gehe In Gottesnamen!: Erinnerungen An Den California Trail, John A. Sutter Und Den Goldrausch 1846-1849, Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Graven Images, Amish Aesthetics, And The "Affirmative Lie", 2012 Brigham Young University
Graven Images, Amish Aesthetics, And The "Affirmative Lie", Laura Fair-Schulz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
"Can I take your picture?" The answer was obvious, but it was a plumb opportunity to observe how the question would be received, Mr. Yoder merely replied, displaying a typical posture- of humility -practiced among the Amish (head slightly bowed but cocked sideways to maintain eye contact): "...we wouldn't appreciate that." There was nothing angry in his voice, denouncing the "worldliness" of the question, but a soft, rehearsed and purposeful tone.
End Matter, 2012 Brigham Young University
Annual Report, 2012 Brigham Young University
Back Cover, 2012 Brigham Young University