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With Love, Flint, Sharanna Polk
With Love, Flint, Sharanna Polk
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While With Love, Flint includes nine short stories that work together to tell the story of a slave woman’s descendants, each story is written so that it can stand separate from the entire piece. With Love, Flint begins in the year 1849 in Madison Mississippi, and travels through Memphis, New Orleans, Mobile and finally settles in Flint, Michigan, ending in 2013. The first five stories detail how each character eventually arrives in Flint, detailing some of America’s history along the way. The stories and characters are meant to reflect and offer exploration of Flint Michigan’s detriment. Through the characters, the …
Pontiffs Of Stone: Art As Propaganda In The Papal Tombs Of Avignon, Jared Hansen
Pontiffs Of Stone: Art As Propaganda In The Papal Tombs Of Avignon, Jared Hansen
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During its nearly eighty year sojourn in Avignon during the fourteenth century, the papacy experienced many threats to its legitimacy, both religious and secular. In an effort to maintain a powerful and dominant visual presence, the papacies in Avignon created magnificent funerary monuments that communicated claims of legitimacy. In contrast with the goals of previous popes to exemplify temperance and piety in their tombs, popes of the fourteenth century displayed power. The history of papal tomb sculpture is defined by a gradual, yet inevitable, trend towards propaganda and the pursuit of secular authority. The tomb of Pope John XXII represents …
Religious Affiliation As A Predictor Of Mental Health Outcomes Among Immigrants In The United States, Haley Medved Kendrick
Religious Affiliation As A Predictor Of Mental Health Outcomes Among Immigrants In The United States, Haley Medved Kendrick
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Previous research largely (but not conclusively) suggests that religious participation is positively correlated with good mental health, but it is unclear what effect religion has on mental health outcomes of racial/ethnic and religious minorities. Prior findings that non-Christian (e.g. Muslim, Buddhist, etc.) migrants have lower levels of religious participation than Christian migrants suggest that there may be a disparity in mental health outcomes between religious groups. This study aims to fill the gap by comparing mental health outcomes (measured by four DSM-IV-based diagnoses) of Christian immigrants with non-Christian immigrants. The study uses data from the National Latino and Asian American …
“A Thrice Told Tale”: William Wordsworth’S Chaucer Translations As Works Of Romantic Medievalism, Rachel Lee Landers
“A Thrice Told Tale”: William Wordsworth’S Chaucer Translations As Works Of Romantic Medievalism, Rachel Lee Landers
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Throughout the course of his career William Wordsworth created four translations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works. Although on the surface these translations appear to be nothing more than Wordsworth trying his hand at translating Chaucer, his compositions are far more complex. Within the body of all four of his Chaucer translations, Wordsworth makes changes to Chaucer’s language choices, spelling, the meter, and the poetic form so that his versions more closely resemble his own poetry. Additionally, he also adds extra content into his translations so that his works will sound more like his own poetry. By changing Chaucer’s texts in the …
They Pull Your Grown Up Card For This, Jamie Mcfaden
They Pull Your Grown Up Card For This, Jamie Mcfaden
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THEY PULL YOUR GROWN-UP CARD FOR THIS JAMIE MCFADEN MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH ABSTRACT They Pull Your Grown-Up Card for This is a collection of six nonfiction pieces. The majority of the pieces in the collection are personal essays with the exception of one written specifically as nonfictional prose and another that adheres to the memoir tradition. Major themes coursing through this body of work include notions of family, friendship, and self-awareness.
Examining The Relationship Between Driving Styles Of Teen Drivers And Their Parents, Shannon Michelle Oram Wittig
Examining The Relationship Between Driving Styles Of Teen Drivers And Their Parents, Shannon Michelle Oram Wittig
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Teenage drivers, ages 16 to 19, account for about 16.8% of motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) in the United States, even though teenagers only represent about 4.4% of the United States population. Several factors increase teenagers’ risk for MVCs including: lack of driving experience, poor ability to identify and anticipate hazards, lack of sensitivity to road complexity and conditions, and increased willingness to take risks. Research has also suggested the importance of parental influences on risky teenage driving. This study examined the effects of parental driving styles, behaviors, and history on teenagers’ driving style using self-reported measures. Overall, it was hypothesized …
Cash, Conscience, Corpse: The Culture Of Death In The Victorian Novel, Harvey Ragland
Cash, Conscience, Corpse: The Culture Of Death In The Victorian Novel, Harvey Ragland
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ABSTRACT This thesis discusses Victorian notions of respectability at death and burial as they are portrayed in Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and The Nether World. Because such notions are, by nature, fluid in that the death of an individual is spread across a canvas of public ritual, the novel provides a better way than newspaper accounts or diaries to bring together divergent and competing perspectives to form a more complete account of respectability's meaning for Victorians. Each of the four novels takes a different position on the idea of the respectable death and customs associated with it. From the …
The Business Of Forgetting: How Atlanta Became A Future-Oriented City, 1865-1895, Tyler Malugani
The Business Of Forgetting: How Atlanta Became A Future-Oriented City, 1865-1895, Tyler Malugani
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Modern Atlanta contains very few physical representations of its history. This stems from an ideal created by businessmen and New South boosters who placed profits and capitalistic endeavors above history and tradition. After the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman left the city of Atlanta in ashes, this ideal was put into practice. The emphases and style of both the physical and economic reconstruction show the beginnings of Atlanta’s future-orientation. Likewise, the urge to promote Atlanta and its economy through national and world expositions in the 1880’s and 1890’s illustrate how this ideal matured into second-nature. The three decades …
Effect Of Vigilance On Driving Performance In Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers, Ben Mcmanus
Effect Of Vigilance On Driving Performance In Commercial Motor Vehicle Drivers, Ben Mcmanus
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Driving is a complex task requiring constant information processing made possible by attention. Because there are 5.7 million commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers in the United States, it is imperative to investigate factors affecting driving performance as well as methods to reduce motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) with the primary goal of eliminating transportation-related unintentional fatal and nonfatal injuries. Vigilance is a cognitive processing component that may play an important role in CMV driving safety. Two experiments were conducted to examine the effect of vigilance on simulated driving performance in varying conditions. Experiment 1 focused specifically on the effect of vigilance …
Internet Use And Depression: The Roles Of Emotional Support And Online Support Groups, Aowen Zhu
Internet Use And Depression: The Roles Of Emotional Support And Online Support Groups, Aowen Zhu
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This paper explores the mediating mechanisms between internet use and depression among African Americans and Caribbean Blacks. The hypotheses are that emotional support and online support groups (OSGs) mediate the association between internet use and depression. Data come from the National Survey of American Life conducted between 2001 and 2003 that includes a nationally representative sample of African Americans and Black respondents of Caribbean descent (N=4771). Depression is measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale with 12 questions. Internet use is measured as frequency of use. Emotional support is measured by a scale of 3 questions. OSGs are measured …
Orientalism Redux: Inci Eviner’S Harem, Pinar Zararsiz
Orientalism Redux: Inci Eviner’S Harem, Pinar Zararsiz
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ORIENTALISM REDUX: INCI EVINER’S HAREM PINAR ZARARSIZ (ART HISTORY) ABSTRACT This thesis examines the 2009 video Harem by Turkish artist Inci Eviner (b. 1956). Eviner’s work centralizes issues of gender in Turkish culture, the history of colonialism, and how historical location informs society at large. Eviner lives and works in Turkey, but exhibits internationally. Harem has been exhibited in Turkey, France, and England. Harem is based on a series of nineteenth-century Orientalist engravings by Antoine Ignace Melling, entitled Intérieur d'une partie du Harem du Grand-Seigneur (Interior of Part of the Harem of the Grand Signor) (1803-1819). Melling’s Harem du Grand-Seigneur …
Ritual Behavior, Jason G. Walker
Ritual Behavior, Jason G. Walker
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Ritual Behavior is a collection of twenty-five poems. Each poem in the collection adheres to a particular form. The forms include the following: blank verse, haiku, syllabics, prose poem, villanelle, triolet, pantoum, and others. Rhythm plays a vital role in every poem, and most of the strongest poems in the collection employ meter and rhyme. The major themes include human loneliness and alienation, the absurdity of modern society, concepts of reality and memory, loss/discovery of spirituality, economic despair, death, and poetry itself.
Aping Nobility: Reinterpreting The Mma "Monkey Cup", Ruoxin Wang
Aping Nobility: Reinterpreting The Mma "Monkey Cup", Ruoxin Wang
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The “Monkey Cup” in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) exhibits a unique rendition of the monkeys robbing the sleeping peddler theme. Generally believed to have been created in the second quarter of the fifteenth century in Burgundian territories, the exact origin of the beaker is not known. Based on visual evidence and the socio-historical context, I propose that the “Monkey Cup” was created in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, and the attribution should be broadened to the greater circle of the Valois courts. In this thesis, I offer a new contextualized reading of the …
Just Past The Trestle, Gentry Chance Turner
Just Past The Trestle, Gentry Chance Turner
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JUST PAST THE TRESTLE GENTRY CHANCE TURNER MASTER OF ARTS ENGLISH ABSTRACT The fall of the Old South is the backdrop for this chronicle of one family's descent and resurrection throughout the violent upheaval of the twenty-first century. Several generations of Turner men are examined in this tale of power, hatred and the collateral damage of arrested development. The following chapters give a truncated vision of a lifetime of competing forces and the pain of escaping from "loved" ones.
When Age Is More Than A Number: The Effects Of Age And, Chenoia Bryant
When Age Is More Than A Number: The Effects Of Age And, Chenoia Bryant
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There is substantial evidence indicating that mechanisms of inequality negatively affect health, yet little is known about the health outcomes of transgender populations across the life course. Despite consistent evidence showing that transgender persons in the United States face overt and covert discrimination, discrimination as it relates to age remains unexplored. Age discrimination has implications for transpersons’ mental and physical health outcomes and warrants further exploration. This analysis uses data from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey to examine the relationship between age and discrimination, and to determine how this relationship may play a potential role in producing health disparities between …