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Afrofuturism In Animation: Self Identity Of African Americans In Cinematic Storytelling, Dana Barnes
Afrofuturism In Animation: Self Identity Of African Americans In Cinematic Storytelling, Dana Barnes
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023
My work addresses the importance of self-identity within the Black culture of the United States of America through the depiction of an African American boy who must look into himself to overcome a difficult bullying situation. Animation as a medium is an ideal tool for interrogating the Western perspective of identity through cinematic storytelling. Using established animation methods, I created a visual narrative to portray the impact self-identity has on an individual's actions in certain social conditions. The film expands the medium of animation to subvert the narrative expectations of bullying and presents the idea of identity as a nonconforming …
The Sleepless Ouroboros, Grant Bohl
The Sleepless Ouroboros, Grant Bohl
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The poems in The Sleepless Ouroboros are about the obsessions which come to define a person. These obsessions are memories, dreams, objects or ideas that cannot be separated from the whole. Poems such as "Thinking of Big Moe" and "It Begins with a Fox" grapple with the limitations of memory, while poems such as "The Python" and "Heirloom" counterpoint memory's weakness with the supposed permanence of physical artifacts. Depression and anger, the anxieties of identity and displacement, and representations of the people and animals that leave lasting impact on a life are all addressed as vital components of the completed …
Interpreter Of Maladies: Analyzing Current Young Adult Indo-Caribbean Literature For Inclusion In Today's High School Canon, Reshma Ramkellawan
Interpreter Of Maladies: Analyzing Current Young Adult Indo-Caribbean Literature For Inclusion In Today's High School Canon, Reshma Ramkellawan
HIM 1990-2015
The high school English Language Arts curricula of Central Florida has faced increasing scrutiny during the past decade under often conflicting influences such as a rapidly diversifying student population, activism for and against multicultural curriculum reform, and pressure to streamline curricula and make it conform to state testing standards. Against this social backdrop, the question of how to introduce Inda-Caribbean literature at the secondary level presents unique intellectual and political challenges. On the one hand, first and second generation Inda-Caribbean migrants make up an increasingly significant percentage of Florida's student population. Like other first and second generation Caribbean migrants, Inda-Caribbean …
Freedom River: A Book For The Next Millennium, Melissa Walker
Freedom River: A Book For The Next Millennium, Melissa Walker
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature
No abstract provided.
Central Florida Future, Vol. 20 No. 40, February 9, 1988
Central Florida Future, Vol. 20 No. 40, February 9, 1988
Central Florida Future
[ Student Wellness] Center working to help students deal with stress; SG might loan students money; System gives quick look at picture; News clips; Parents to get new incentive to save; Dangerous drug XTC still· popular on U.S. campuses; Opinion: Reality, nonsense both have place in U.S. education; Health Bolt (presented by the UCF Student Health and Wellness Center); Sports: Four football· players named AH-American Ford, O'Brien, Slack and Coad receive honors; UCF only team with 4 players named (photos of Mike Coad, Ed O'Brien, Bernard Ford, Darin Slack).
Sandspur, Vol 89, No 17, May 10, 1983, Rollins College
Sandspur, Vol 89, No 17, May 10, 1983, Rollins College
The Rollins Sandspur
Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.
Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 09, November 17, 1972, Florida Technological University
Central Florida Future, Vol. 05 No. 09, November 17, 1972, Florida Technological University
Central Florida Future
Daylight assaults suspect arrested; FuTUre's Friday Girl: Nancy Rush (photo); Hours extension due for library; PAE Robin Hoods steal bell for Vaughn fund; FuTUre Editorials: Police ride saluted; Fall graduation set for Dec 8; SG [Student Government] sets drive for Bangladesh; Subsidy program increases made; 'Mephisto' spooky; Strength key to 'Bernarda' (with photo); Little 'Big Man' to orphans (with photo); 'Beyond the apathy' [Peace Corps and VISTA]; Art fair 'successful' (with photo); Future Sports: Archery team hosts Southeast; Soccer squad wins tourney (with photo); Yanovitch gives FTU age, experience (with photo); 1972-1973 Florida Technological University varsity basketball team (with team …
Sandspur, Vol. 66 No. 25, May 26, 1961, Rollins College
Sandspur, Vol. 66 No. 25, May 26, 1961, Rollins College
The Rollins Sandspur
Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.