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Legacy To The People: Community And The Orange County Regional History Center, Robert L. Beatty Ii

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The development and birth of the Orange County Regional History Center is perhaps unlike any other local history museum in the United States. Its story is worth telling because of its long gestation, the difficulties in bringing this center to life, and the goals of the people who made it possible. All of these elements are a vital part of the history of Orange County, Florida and should not be overlooked.

In this light, this thesis will discuss more fully three topics in relation to the creation of the new History Center. First, it will look at the American museum …

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Amendments Of 1997 And Implications For School-Based Administrators, Connie Woods Collins

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to review historical legislation relevant to the education of individuals with disabilities, examine the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Act and related case law, and to create a knowledge base from which school-based professionals can make legally sound policy and planning decisions and reduce liability for noncompliance with the applicable laws and regulations pertaining to the 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. In addition, the study provided insight into the law and increased the comfort levels of school-based personnel who deal with exceptional students, thereby increasing the likelihood of …

The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies And Posthuman Medicine, Stuart Murray

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Stuart Murray reviews Catherine Waldby's The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine (2000).

Haunting And Hunting: Bodily Resurrection And The Occupation Of History In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Justin Scott Coe

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Just before publication of Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon wrote a review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, in which he says that to assert the resurrection of the body [is] today as throughout history an unavoidably revolutionary idea (Heart's Eternal Vow). That this revolutionary idea is essentially a religious one is a fact that many Pynchon critics attempt to placate by identifying in his works a secularization of religious themes. Robert Hipkiss identifies, in place of religion, a search for an operative spiritual force in Pynchon's previous novels, which he assures us is …

Navigating The Starless Night: Strategies For Understanding Autobiogeography, Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Davin Heckman

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Ancient mapmakers relied upon the presence of celestial bodies for their conceptualization of the world, for their external knowledge-making tools, as if a far-off body could help to make sense of our terrestrial life/as if it couldn't. Cosmology, as a practice, relied on the construction of an external body of knowledge that the local meaning-maker could situate him- or herself into, and more broadly, their entire society and culture -- the interior is determined by its relationship to the exterior (or the exteriorized). For the ancient Greeks then, the font of Western culture, this cosmology works at once …

Autobiography And Geography: A Self-Arranging Question, Frédéric Regard

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The border between fiction and truth in autobiography has been the subject of numerous investigations, yet the question of what we might call the assignations to residence of the author remains largely ignored. Critics have written abundantly about autobiography in its relation to the origin of the author as living personality with his own story, but never truly treated the idea of the spatial modalities, the layout, of the author's writing self. In his relatively unknown 1967 article On Other Places, Michel Foucault, then on assignment in Tunis, saw in this thematic situation the stage of a …

Processes Of Embodiment And Spatialization In The Writings Of Paul Auster, Markus Rheindorf

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Processes of embodiment and the spatialization of interior categories such as thought and memory are defining characteristics of Paul Auster's novels, essays, and poetry, and a brief survey of these aspects can offer a new perspective on Auster's oeuvre as an organic whole. It is the underlying assumption of this paper that the transformation of interior into exterior constitutes a specific instance of the transpositional processes discussed therein. Within the theoretical framework of cultural studies -- as opposed to the more narrowly defined literary studies -- such transformations can be regarded as processes of embodiment, that is to …

Playful Attraction -- Examining The Nature Of Japanese Cruising, Phil Sawkins

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Much research has been done, in and out of the field of social anthropology, on courting and associated practices (especially in rural communities), such as yobai (literally night crawling -- entering a girl's house under cover of darkness in search of love), letter exchanging, wakamonoyado (literally young people's inn, a house where young people meet socially) omiai (arranged marriage), and so on. Most of this research has been done under the rubric of pre-marriage activities, or even, activities permitted because it is expected they'll lead to marriage [1]. The sheer volume of this research is undoubtedly a reflection …

Personnage Feminin Dans Les Romans D'Echenoz, Pennac Et Darrieussecq, Hassiba Maidi-Boualamallah

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Factors Affecting The Costs Of Fuels Management| An Analysis Of The Fastracs Database, Alison Berry

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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How The Top Five Automobile Manufacturers Reacted To The Events Of September 11, 2001 In Their Print Advertisements, Jessica Walrath

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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In The Presence Of Buffalo| Working To Stop The Yellowstone Slaugher, Daniel M. Brister

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Land-Use In The Crown Of The Continent Ecosystem| The Potential Disturbance Resulting From Coalbed Methane Production In The East Kootenay Coalfields Of Southeast British Columbia, Erin K. Sexton

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Movement And Resource Selection Of Recolonizing Bighorn Sheep In Western Montana, Nicholas J. Decesare

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Smashing The Tiger: Wildlife In Hong Kong., Tiffany L. Trent

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Fractionated Heirship: A Blackfeet Case Study, Justin B. Lee

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Effect Of Conservation Easements Upon The Price Of Adjacent Residential Properties: A Study Of Missoula County Montana, Jerome M. Grebenc

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Software Development As Applied To Java Create Report Project, Giap Thai

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Pennsylvania Politics 1854-1860, Oliver L. Pflug

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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"First You Talk About Love And Then You Talk About Wheat": Portrayals Of Female Community On The Western Plains, Randi Tanglen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Release : Three Seasons In The Wild With Peregrine Falcons., Clara Sophia Weygandt

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Exploring Community Forestry : An Examination Of The Collaborative Community Forestry Initiative In Ghana West Africa And A Methodology For Community Forestry Leadership, Robert G. Moler

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Focus Of Attention Need To Evaluate And Self-Monitoring In Social Anxiety Disorder, Stephanie M. Paidas

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Frequency And Severity Of Rickets And Osteomalacia Relative To Levels Of Skin Melanin, Jamie L. Elser

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Ecology Of Malayan Sun Bears (Helarctos Malayanus ) In The Lowland Tropical Rainforest Of Sabah Malaysian Borneo, Siew Te. Wong

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Local Distribution Of Brown-Headed Cowbirds Relative To Movement Of Livestock And A Comparison Of Cowbird Detection Techniques, Jennifer Jolivette Lair

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Gondwana Proposal: Transboundary Conservation Advocacy In Southern Chile And Argentina, Gary Graham Hughes

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Estimation Of Brook Trout Movement In A Beaver Pond Complex Using Multi-State Capture-Recapture Models : Examination Of Restricted Movement, Ryan L. Benson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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An Economic Analysis Of Transportation And Congestion In Yosemite Valley, Robert B. Ferguson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Surfing The Gray Embodying An Environmental Ethic, Melanie J. Kloetzel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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