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Belief, Unbelief, And Rebelief In Santa Claus: A Theory Of Cyclical Belief Or A Belief Cycle An Introduction, Steven G. Merrell May 2022

Belief, Unbelief, And Rebelief In Santa Claus: A Theory Of Cyclical Belief Or A Belief Cycle An Introduction, Steven G. Merrell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Every single person, no matter who they are; what they look or sound like; where they are or come from in space and time; their sex, gender, and/or orientation; their age or maturity; their culture; and/or their background, has one or multiple belief(s) and/or belief system(s) of some kind. Such belief may be temporary, transient, fleeting, or long lasting. It/they may be superficial or deeply rooted. It/they may be (considered) or seem rational or irrational. It/they may be encouraged or discouraged, romanticized or pathologized. It/they may be conscious, subconscious, or unconscious; or, such belief(s) may exist somewhere in between. It/they …


“It Is Not Enough To Be In One Cage With One Self”: The Poetic Subject, Incarceration, And Envisioning Abolition, Emily Price May 2022

“It Is Not Enough To Be In One Cage With One Self”: The Poetic Subject, Incarceration, And Envisioning Abolition, Emily Price

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Beat poet Bob Kaufman was in many ways nearly destroyed by the state. Forcible electroshock therapy, repeated targeting by police, repeated brutalization by police, and frequent homelessness all threatened to snuff him out, but Kaufman refused to give in. He remained a political beacon of hope for his community throughout his life, asking those around him to envision a world where he could be free. Through his poems, through the poems of Etheridge Knight and Jimmy Santiago Baca, and through contemporary visions of abolition from Angela Davis and community organizers that become ever more relevant as the prison system …


American Fears: H.P. Lovecraft And The Paranoid Style, Bailey Marvel May 2022

American Fears: H.P. Lovecraft And The Paranoid Style, Bailey Marvel

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Why is H.P. Lovecraft still relevant? That is the one the questions put forward by this thesis. Lovecraft is known for his creation of Lovecraftian horror, also known as cosmic horror. However, his bigoted view on race and class muddies this legacy. What this thesis seeks to explore is how Lovecraft’s work demonstrates the fears and anxieties central to the America psyche. The paranoid style can be found in American discourse throughout history but it can also be found in the works of Lovecraft himself. Lovecraft was a prejudiced and paranoid man, and his prejudices and paranoia are a major …


A Claiming Of Kin: A Linguistic Analysis Of Southern Appalachian English In Melissa Range's Scriptorium: Poems, Jolee White May 2022

A Claiming Of Kin: A Linguistic Analysis Of Southern Appalachian English In Melissa Range's Scriptorium: Poems, Jolee White

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The research studies the Southern Appalachian dialect present in five poems in Melissa Range’s Scriptorium: Poems. The linguistic phenomena characteristic of Southern Appalachian English observed and analyzed in the poems include lexicon, grammatical features, and phonological aspects. The research seeks to bring attention to this Appalachian woman writer as well as to bring understanding of her reasoning behind incorporating the dialect in her poetry. It establishes that the five poems by Range contain the lexicon, grammatical features, and phonological aspects of the SAE dialect. It holds meaning both grammatically and pragmatically within the context of the poem and Appalachia.


An Analysis Of Charging Practices And Their Impact On Battery Degradation In North American Electric Vehicles Built Between 2010-2020, Douglas William Edward Ferrier May 2022

An Analysis Of Charging Practices And Their Impact On Battery Degradation In North American Electric Vehicles Built Between 2010-2020, Douglas William Edward Ferrier

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Electric vehicles (EVs) are emerging as a component of the global solution to combat climate change. However, in North America, particularly in the United States and Canada, the transition away from internal combustion engines (ICE) has been slow. North America faces unique challenges due to its geographical size and population in comparison to other continents. The good news is that EV adoption is increasing within North America. Along with increased EV adoption, governments and public companies are constructing charging infrastructure to support increased consumer EV purchases. Despite increased adoption, many future and current owners throughout North American society have concerns …


Sacred Earth: The Role Of The Natural Divine Within Wendell Berry's "Manifesto", T. Greyson Gurley Ma May 2022

Sacred Earth: The Role Of The Natural Divine Within Wendell Berry's "Manifesto", T. Greyson Gurley Ma

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Kentuckian writer and poet, Wendell Berry, is often associated with environmental literature and advocacy. However, often overlooked, much of Berry’s work is inherently religious in nature, specifically Christian. Berry’s poetry expresses many of his personal beliefs regarding life, spirituality, religion, interconnection, stewardship, and agriculture. In particular, Berry often uses characters to communicate these aforementioned personal ideas. This practice can be seen through his utilization of the character of the Mad Farmer within a great deal of his poetry, including poetry dedicated to the Mad Farmer himself. Although this character expresses many of the same beliefs as Berry, he is not …


Paranormal Investigators: Exploring A Positive Social Construct Through Paranormal Belief And Investigations, Meagan E. Oltman May 2022

Paranormal Investigators: Exploring A Positive Social Construct Through Paranormal Belief And Investigations, Meagan E. Oltman

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This thesis is a case study providing a more detailed look into how a local paranormal investigation team forms a community that cultivates social benefits beyond proving the supernatural’s existence. Folklore provides a path to understanding supernatural beliefs and fears, furthering the understanding of paranormal communities and any advantages of being a part of or receiving help from paranormal investigators and investigations. The paranormal or the supernatural defies standard explanation. For example, ghosts and UFOs, at times, are not explained away with traditional scientific theories and hypotheses. Paranormal investigators, also called paranormal researchers, choose to study the paranormal phenomena considered …


Patriotism, Polarization And War: The Consequences Of Divergent Meanings Of Patriotism In Russia And The United States, Jackson Galstad Apr 2022

Patriotism, Polarization And War: The Consequences Of Divergent Meanings Of Patriotism In Russia And The United States, Jackson Galstad

Political Science Theses and Capstones

From the knee taken by Colin Kaepernick in America, to the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the views and attitudes that lie behind these actions revolve around the concepts of patriotism and nationalism. With two of the world’s superpowers wrestling with conflict in their ideas of what these terms mean, I examine the meaning of these ideas within both countries. I do this after reviewing existing literature and analyzing the International Social Survey Programme: National Identity data (ISSP). The ISSP is an international social science consortium that has been conducting surveys since 1984. I find important differences in patriotism, …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Woods, A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900. by Maura Jane Farrelly; Mock, Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico. by Kristy Feldhousen-Giles; McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. by Thomas G. Nester; Shawhan and Swain, Lucy Somerville Howorth: New Deal Lawyer, Politician, and Feminist from the South. by Pamela Tyler; Kinser and Tarr, eds., Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations. by Anna Lillios; Mielnik, New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolinas State Parks. by Jack I. Hayes; Foglesong, …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

McNeill, Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. by Lynn A. Nelson; Juricek, Colonial Georgia and the Creeks: Anglo-Indian Diplomacy on the Southern Frontier, 1733-1763. by Matthew H. Jennings; Wayne, Sweet Cane: The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida. by Uzi Baram; Tuten, Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom. by Philip Mills Herrington; Slap, ed., Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath. by John David Smith; Clegg III, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. by Bruce E. Baker; Holsaert, Prescod, Noonan, Richardson, Robinson, …


In Marjorie's Wake: A Film Voyage Into Florida's Nature Consciousness, Leslie Kemp Poole Apr 2022

In Marjorie's Wake: A Film Voyage Into Florida's Nature Consciousness, Leslie Kemp Poole

Florida Historical Quarterly

As the premiere of the documentary ended and the lights went up, its filmmakers held their breath and wondered: Would In Marjorie's Wake accomplish the task they had hoped for-to bridge the new Florida with the old, linking the literary musings of one of the state's most celebrated authors with a true concern for its vanishing paradise? The audience's enthusiastic applause and subsequent comments- gave them hope.


The Rise And Fall Of The Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant In West Florida, Cody Scallions Apr 2022

The Rise And Fall Of The Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant In West Florida, Cody Scallions

Florida Historical Quarterly

To many scholars, the West Florida Revolt of 1810 served merely as a transitional period in American history. Referenced as a time when a few social elites rose to challenge Spanish colonial authority in southeastern Louisiana, the West Florida Revolt has been viewed as a necessary step in the annexation of the territory by the United States. Recent research suggests this perspective should be qualified. Much like the Republic of Texas, the Republic of West Florida exhibited characteristics common to more successful independent states, including a functioning written constitution, a judicial system, a treasury, an army, and important elements of …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Gallay, ed., Indian Slavery in Colonial America. by Heidi Scott Giusto; Belko, ed., America's Hundred Years' War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858. by Brent R. Weisman; Kolb III and Weir, eds., Captured at Kings Mountain: The Journal of Uzal Johnson, A Loyalist Surgeon. by Jim Piecuch; Kenny, Contentious Liberties: American Abolitionists in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, 1834-1866. by Susan J. Fernandez; Waters and Edmonds, A Small but Spartan Band: The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. by Daniel James Flook; Sharpless, Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960. …


Some Thoughts On Spanish East And West Florida, James G. Cusick Apr 2022

Some Thoughts On Spanish East And West Florida, James G. Cusick

Florida Historical Quarterly

As Andrew McMichael points out in Atlantic Loyalties, the eastern Spanish borderlands of Louisiana and the Floridas suffered constant upheaval in the 40 years between 1778 and 1818. During those years, some fourteen different episodes of conspiracy, revolt, or invasion shook colonial society, beginning with the raids of James Willing in 1778 and carrying on through the First Seminole War of 1817-1818 (see Table 1).1 Although several of these upheavals stemmed from general warfare in the region, many were instigated by fairly small groups of men who played upon the discontent of fellow settlers or who drew on a base …


The Origins Of The Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, The West Florida Revolt, And The No Transfer Policy, William S. Belko Apr 2022

The Origins Of The Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, The West Florida Revolt, And The No Transfer Policy, William S. Belko

Florida Historical Quarterly

Late in October of 1810, as citizens and statesmen throughout the United States focused almost entirely on an imminent conflict with Great Britain and apprehensively monitored Napoleon's armies in Europe, the president of the United States, James Madison, quickly convened an emergency session of his cabinet members. Great Britain and Napoleon were not, however, the reason for calling the secret cabinet meeting. What occupied the attention of the executive branch was a little recognized rebellion in a sparsely populated region south of the Mississippi Territory. Two days after secretly conferring with his cabinet, on October 27, Madison issued a pivotal …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Garrigus and Morris, eds., Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World. by Light T. Cummins; Evans, A "Topping People": The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Elite, 1680-1790. by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler; Ashton, I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. by Carmen V. Harris; Kennedy, Born Southern: Childbirth, Motherhood, and Social Networks in the Old South. by Blain Roberts; Pickenpaugh, Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. by Jeremy Taylor; Martin, Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980. by Michael Oriard; Keirn and …


Blue Water, Brown Water, And Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar And Personal Naval Conflict In South Florida During The Civil War, Irvin D. S. Winsboro Apr 2022

Blue Water, Brown Water, And Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar And Personal Naval Conflict In South Florida During The Civil War, Irvin D. S. Winsboro

Florida Historical Quarterly

As Florida's political leaders voted on January 10, 1861, to follow the secessionist lead of South Carolina and Mississippi, former Florida Territorial Governor Richard Keith Call observed the multiple and shifting solidarities of the state and warned the winning faction that "you have opened the gates of Hell." Call's premonition swayed few power-brokers in Tallahassee, yet his words proved prophetic. Only in recent decades have historians of Florida's Civil War probed past the traditional interpretations of the state's experience as a "trifling affair" to establish how disruptive and hellish the conflict was on and to the home front. Indeed, scholars …


2010 Friends Of The Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming Of Judeo-Christian Religion To Florida, Michael Gannon Apr 2022

2010 Friends Of The Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming Of Judeo-Christian Religion To Florida, Michael Gannon

Florida Historical Quarterly

We are foregathered this evening in what I like to call the United States' City of Centuries- four and a half to be exact come 2015. Among this city's many claims is that it served as the American nation's cradle of Western religion. Here in 1565 was founded the first Christian parish, named after the fifth century North African bishop and theologian Augustine of Hippo. Here, too, in 1587, was established the first Christian mission, named Nombre de Dios, to the native peoples of North America north of Mexico. In turn, those religious institutions gave rise to our state's and …


Florida History In Publications, 2010, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Florida History In Publications, 2010, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

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"The Most Exotic Of Our Cities": Race, Place, Writing, And George Allan England's Key West, Philip Levy Apr 2022

"The Most Exotic Of Our Cities": Race, Place, Writing, And George Allan England's Key West, Philip Levy

Florida Historical Quarterly

In the late 1920s, a prominent American writer arrived in Key West. He and his wife came to this Florida backwater to escape chilly winters and to carve out time for writing. Once settled in town, the writer gradually eased into the rhythms of Key West life. He built personal connections and began observing local characters who, in time, would re-emerge in his stories. He liked boats and the outdoors life. He had an inclination toward dangerous adventures and enjoyment of killing animals as well as an ability to convey these sentiments to audiences through popular literature. While in the …


From Adventure Travel To Leisure Tourism: The Florida Letters Of William Drysdale In The New York Times, 1884-1893, Jesus Mendez Apr 2022

From Adventure Travel To Leisure Tourism: The Florida Letters Of William Drysdale In The New York Times, 1884-1893, Jesus Mendez

Florida Historical Quarterly

William Drysdale was a fixture in newspaper circles of New York City in the late nineteenth century, a reporter and writer whose powers of observation and social commentary made him equally at home covering famous legal battles of the time or describing his travels over many years in the United States, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe. Fortunately for Florida, some of Drysdale's best literary pages chronicled important decades for the young state that would eventually build its fortune and its future on tourism. For 24 years, he wrote, often under the thinly disguised pseudonym of "W.D.", more …


Introduction: This Incomperable Lande, Maurice O'Sullivan Apr 2022

Introduction: This Incomperable Lande, Maurice O'Sullivan

Florida Historical Quarterly

Taking their cue from Michael Gannon, Florida's historians are fond of pointing out that by the time Jamestown was founded, St. Augustine was ready for urban renewal. Our state's literary scholars add that long before the Virginia Company established Jamestown, Florida already had an extensive library of works in three languages. From the beginning, that linguistic diversity would mark the region's literary tradition. While many of the earliest works about Florida, from Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's La Relacion (popularly known as Naufragios) in 1542 to the Gentleman of Elvas' history of DeSoto's expedition in 1557, were in Spanish, other …


A Boy And His Fawn: Parallel Animals In A Trip To Florida For Health And Sport And The Yearling, Kathryn Seidel Apr 2022

A Boy And His Fawn: Parallel Animals In A Trip To Florida For Health And Sport And The Yearling, Kathryn Seidel

Florida Historical Quarterly

In Florida literature, the relationship between people and animals is ubiquitous and complex. Whether animals are hunted, eaten, despised, or cherished as companions and pets, animals express the authors' attempt to conceptualize nature and to understand the role of humans within the natural world of Florida.1 When the main characters of the novels are boys, the themes of nature interweave with those of the coming-of-age novel in which the maturation of the boy depends on learning the skills, responsibilities, and character traits associated with manhood.2


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hudson, Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South. by F. Evan Nooe; Schwartz, Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. by Barbara Krauthamer; Ramold, Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army. and Spear, Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans. by John David Smith; Roll, Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South. by Pamela C. Edwards; Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching. by Lauren B. Acker; Vickers, The Life of Ruth Bryan Owen: Florida's First …


Uninvited Guests: A Night At Cedar Point Plantation, Patrick W. Doyle Apr 2022

Uninvited Guests: A Night At Cedar Point Plantation, Patrick W. Doyle

Florida Historical Quarterly

In October 1817 a mariner's mistake at the entrance of the St. Johns River and a subsequent mishap proved fortuitous in preserving a rare glimpse of plantation life in Spanish East Florida in a time of turmoil. Documents describing these events reveal details regarding the humiliating dispossession of Spanish authority on Amelia Island and its town of Fernandina, first by filibusters led by Gregor McGregor and later by rogues headed by the pirate Luis Aury.


Cuban Exiles In Key West During The Ten Years' War, 1868-1878, Antonio Rafael De La Cova Apr 2022

Cuban Exiles In Key West During The Ten Years' War, 1868-1878, Antonio Rafael De La Cova

Florida Historical Quarterly

The upheaval of the Cuban Ten Years' War (10 October 1868-10 February 1878) prompted the largest number of refugees fleeing the island to settle ninety miles away in Key West, Florida, the southernmost point of the United States. Although the expatriates transformed the physical landscape of the coral and limestone reef and modified its social, economic, and political order, there has been no demographic study or precise statistics on the Cubans in Key West during that decade. Likewise, accurate statistical data is lacking for Cubans in the United States throughout the nineteenth century. In 1870, Key West had the second …


A Translation History Of Fontaneda, Peter Ferdinando Apr 2022

A Translation History Of Fontaneda, Peter Ferdinando

Florida Historical Quarterly

The captivity of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda by the Calusa Indians led to the creation of a series of documents that vividly depict the indigenous peoples of southern Florida. These writings clearly have proto-ethnographic qualities. Students of Florida history and archaeology have frequently utilized this information to better understand native peoples who lived on the peninsula.2 In the case of Fontaneda's writings, however, we must ask vital questions about translation. He wrote in sixteenth century Spanish, yet the current lingua franca of the academic and research community in the United States is the English of the twenty-first century. This paper …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Hall Jr., Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast. by Linford D. Fisher; Gragg, The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class. by Jennifer Lockard Connerley; White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic. by John Davies; Morrisey, Pirate Hunter, A Novel. by Edward C. Woodward. Marrs, Railroads in the Old South: Pursuing Progress in a Slave Society. by Richard Jensen; Bernath, Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South. by Martin P. Johnson; Brinkley, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. by Janie Gould; …


" … In A Strange Piace ... ": The Experiences Of British Women During The Colonization Of East & West Florida, Deborah L. Bauer Apr 2022

" … In A Strange Piace ... ": The Experiences Of British Women During The Colonization Of East & West Florida, Deborah L. Bauer

Florida Historical Quarterly

In April 1767, a young woman named Miss Row married a man who had proposed to her several times over the past year and a half despite the fact that he was not the same man with whom she had engaged in a torrid affair in British East Florida.1 When Miss Row married William Gerard De Brahm, a German who recently had been appointed as Surveyor General of the Southern Colonies, it ended a tumultuous period in her life that had begun when she immigrated to East Florida sometime between late 1764 and early 1766. 2 Within a few months …


Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society Apr 2022

Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Snyder, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America. by Tiya Miles; Schafer, Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida. by Judith F. Gentry; Huibregtse, American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935. by Thomas A. Castillo; Pacheco, Tales from the 5th St. Gym: Ali, the Dundees, and Miami's Golden Age of Boxing. by Andrew Smith; Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890 - 1940. by Darius J. Young; Winsboro, Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement. by Christopher B. …