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The Ferreus Musike Project, David Donar Jan 2004

The Ferreus Musike Project, David Donar

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

No abstract provided.


Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Jennifer Vaughan, Carol C. Harter, Richard Flaherty, Rebecca Mills Jan 2004

Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Jennifer Vaughan, Carol C. Harter, Richard Flaherty, Rebecca Mills

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.


Sociological Theories Of Career Choice: A Study Of Workers In The Special Events Industry, Kathleen Beard Nelson Jan 2004

Sociological Theories Of Career Choice: A Study Of Workers In The Special Events Industry, Kathleen Beard Nelson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to develop a greater understanding of occupational/career choice of workers in the special events industry and explore which social science theory(ies) might best explain the entry of those in this particular occupation. In this study, the following dominant factor about workers in the special events industry emerged: occupation as a reflection of self.


Ben Jonson's "Volpone": A Critical Variorum Edition, Michael Wayne Stamps Jan 2004

Ben Jonson's "Volpone": A Critical Variorum Edition, Michael Wayne Stamps

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Critical Variorum provides modern scholars with a comprehensive bibliographic reference work devoted to Jonson's early seventeenth-century dramatic comedy and its four hundred years of critical commentary. By joining together Jonson's Volpone and the work's full complement of editorial information and critical material, this Variorum edition illuminates the play's entire history of critical reception and literary interpretation within a format that allows readers and researchers to follow the evolving lines of influence peculiar to the work's critical tradition and to locate new areas of investigation. Based upon an authoritative copy of the 1607 quarto, the Variorum reprints …


Ideology And Interaction In Internet Action Video Games, Marshall David Smith Jan 2004

Ideology And Interaction In Internet Action Video Games, Marshall David Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is an analysis of how the play mechanics of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein videogame influence player cooperation and competition during play as well as an analysis of player chat as indication of cooperation and competition. While the premise of the game is competition the play mechanics of the game were found to induce intricate and extensive cooperation among players. In this study, player communication was primarily focused on achieving game goals, however there was also communication for cooperative efforts. The play mechanics of the game significantly influences the experience of players. Further research must be conducted to …


The Other Side Of The Curtain: The Power And The Potential Of Performance In Public Spaces, Nancy Dieckmann Matheny Jan 2004

The Other Side Of The Curtain: The Power And The Potential Of Performance In Public Spaces, Nancy Dieckmann Matheny

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This research study develops a greater understanding of alternative opportunities for performance majors extending beyond traditional theatre venues. The emphasis of this study is the use and application of environmental entertainment. The study examines and synthesizes the skill set, as defined by known executives and decision makers in the entertainment industry who are regularly utilizing the services of environmental entertainers. The resultant data reveals qualities required to successfully gain entrance to and maintain a career as an environmental entertainer.


A Model Of Presidential Power Adjustment During Wartime: "How Curious George Went To Washington And Has Been Detained Ever Since", Joseph Szewczyk Jan 2004

A Model Of Presidential Power Adjustment During Wartime: "How Curious George Went To Washington And Has Been Detained Ever Since", Joseph Szewczyk

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The President's power is in a state of constant flux. During times of war, the President is allowed an expanse of power normally not available during times of peace. After the war ends or becomes too unpopular, the President relinquishes the power gained. This effect, labeled in the thesis as "Expansion and Constriction", has occurred in the major war eras of the past and is predictable. It is the focus of this thesis to show the existence of the pattern and to use the pattern to discuss the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and …


Tropi Can Can: Race And Performance In '50s Las Vegas, Malcolm Womack Jan 2004

Tropi Can Can: Race And Performance In '50s Las Vegas, Malcolm Womack

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In 1955 the Jim Crow resort town of Las Vegas opened its first interracial hotel/casino, the Moulin Rouge, and staged its first all-black production show, the Tropi Can Can revue. On the Cafe Rouge stage were the wild antics Stump & Stumpy, bringing a sad reminder of the past; the romantic music of the Platters, bringing a hopeful note for the future; and the very non-traditional showgirls, bringing a host of audience expectations about the immediate present; This paper attempts to deconstruct and analyze that show and the theatrical elements of the resort, the differing experiences of white and black …


Aesthetic Representation Of Traditional Chinese Painting In Two Fifth-Generation Chinese Films, Yuliyana Gencheva Jan 2004

Aesthetic Representation Of Traditional Chinese Painting In Two Fifth-Generation Chinese Films, Yuliyana Gencheva

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


From The Shtetl To The Screen: The Development Of Yiddish Theatre In Performance, Adam Stuart Littman Jan 2004

From The Shtetl To The Screen: The Development Of Yiddish Theatre In Performance, Adam Stuart Littman

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This submission comprises a survey of Jewish drama as expressed through Yiddish Theatre in performance. It explores the origins, early trends, and significant works of Yiddish drama. The reader will gain an understanding of the ways in which the Jewish religion guided the emergence of Yiddish Theatre, the heights of achievement in the form, the decline of Yiddish Theatre, and some of the influences such development has had on the theatre world today.


A Symbolist Melodrama: The Confluence Of Poem And Music In Debussy's "La Flute De Pan"., Laurel Astrid Ewell Jan 2004

A Symbolist Melodrama: The Confluence Of Poem And Music In Debussy's "La Flute De Pan"., Laurel Astrid Ewell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Composed by Debussy in 1913, as incidental music for Psyche , a dramatic poem by French symbolist poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey, the work for solo flute known today as Syrinx, has since become a standard of the solo flute repertoire. Anders Ljungar-Chapelon, editor of a new edition based on a recently recovered period manuscript, has challenged traditional conceptions of the work's compositional context. Debussy's original title for Syrinx was La Flute de Pan and appeared as a musical component of a melodrame within the play, just prior to the death of Pan. The recovery of a probable primary source …


Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing The Origins Of California's First Composer And The Early Mission Style; Part 2, Craig H. Russell Jan 2004

Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing The Origins Of California's First Composer And The Early Mission Style; Part 2, Craig H. Russell

Music

No abstract provided.


Dependence And Hierarchy Among Constitutional Theories, R. George Wright Jan 2004

Dependence And Hierarchy Among Constitutional Theories, R. George Wright

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.


Winter 2004 Jan 2004

Winter 2004

University of Richmond Magazine

No abstract provided.


Ay 2003/2004 Awards List, Elizabeth Bird Jan 2004

Ay 2003/2004 Awards List, Elizabeth Bird

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.


Subsemy: Using Subversion To Create Multiple Meanings In Rhetorical Texts, Kane Madison Click Jan 2004

Subsemy: Using Subversion To Create Multiple Meanings In Rhetorical Texts, Kane Madison Click

Masters Theses

This thesis focuses on the use of subversion to create multiple meanings in rhetorical texts. Subversion, an element focused on by Fiske (1986, 1987) and McKerrow (1988) in their early contributions to the rhetorical study of multiple meaning texts, has been an ongoing lacunae in the study of polysemic texts. I wish to provide a correction to this problem by offering the concept of subsemy. By examining the role of strategic ambiguity and irony in the functioning of subversion, the concept of subsemy provides a missing picture of how popular cultural texts, film in particular, can function subversively.


Kodak's Worst Nightmare Super 8 In The Digital Age: A Cultural History Of Super 8 Filmmaking In Australia 1965-2003, Keith Smith Jan 2004

Kodak's Worst Nightmare Super 8 In The Digital Age: A Cultural History Of Super 8 Filmmaking In Australia 1965-2003, Keith Smith

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This project charts the extraordinary history of the Super 8 film medium, a popular amateur home movie format first introduced in 1965 and largely assumed to have disappeared with the advent of home video technologies in the early 1980's. Kodak's Worst Nightmare investigates the cultural history of the Super 8 medium with an emphasis on its (secret) life since 1986. lt asks how (and why) an apparently obsolete consumer technology has survived some 35 years into a digital future despite the emergence of technologically-advanced domestic video formats and Eastman Kodak's sustained attempts since the mid-80s to suppress, what is for …


Balkan As A Metaphor In The Film Composition Of Goran Bregovic, Nela Trifkovic Jan 2004

Balkan As A Metaphor In The Film Composition Of Goran Bregovic, Nela Trifkovic

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The focus of this paper is the film composition of composer Goran Bregovic (born 1950) and the country of his birth Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia has undergone many major political changes over the past century and its ethno-political history over the past fifteen years could be considered as one of the most turbulent of our time. The aim of this thesis is to uncover the conceptual principles behind Bregovic’s unique approach to soundtrack music in order to create appropriate musical analogies in film composition. Bregovic’s musical career in the iconic Yugoslav rock band Bijelo dugme (White Button), his interest in the traditional …


Renaissance And Baroque Stage Technology And Its Meaning For Today's Theatre, Stan Kubalcik Jan 2004

Renaissance And Baroque Stage Technology And Its Meaning For Today's Theatre, Stan Kubalcik

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis seeks to address the understanding of the concept of old stage machinery. In addition, the research will determine the practical applications and meaning of old stage machinery for today's theatre. The approach to this topic will be more historical and practical than theoretical. A thorough examination of the history of theatre and stage technology is initially discussed. This is followed by an in-depth discussion of the practical component of this research and finally, the implications of this for today's theatre. Knowledge of traditional stage technology is a prerequisite for understanding the mechanics of stage technology today. A key …


Providing Education And Support For Rural Palliative Care Nurses In Western Australia: An Intervention Study, Ruth Mcconigley Jan 2004

Providing Education And Support For Rural Palliative Care Nurses In Western Australia: An Intervention Study, Ruth Mcconigley

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Rural palliative care nurses (RPCNs) in Western Australia (WA) are a small population, who have embraced the specialist palliative care role since the first palliative care service in rural WA began in 1990. However, there are some challenges involved with being a specialist nurse in a generalist health care setting. fu particular, there is a suggestion in the literature that RPCNs may be professionally isolated, may be prone to burnout, and may therefore experience decreased job satisfaction and may consider leaving the palliative care field.


United States' Trade Policy And The Exportation Of United States' Culture, Beverly I. Moran Jan 2004

United States' Trade Policy And The Exportation Of United States' Culture, Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The United States Trade Representative and the policies that he (or she) attempt to impose on our trading partners have the serious and perhaps unintended effect of destroying local culture particularly in the area of film production.


Jurisprudential Revolution Unlocking Human Potential In Lawrence And Grutter, Wilson R. Huhn Jan 2004

Jurisprudential Revolution Unlocking Human Potential In Lawrence And Grutter, Wilson R. Huhn

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The decisions of the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas and Grutter v. Bollinger, stripped to their bare holdings, have little immediate effect on existing law. After Grutter, colleges and graduate schools will continue to take race into account in admitting students to enroll a diverse student body, just as they have done for the past quarter century in conformity with Justice Lewis Powell's opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. After Lawrence, laws against gay sex may no longer be enforced, but only a handful of states still had these laws on the books at the …


Rationale For User Oriented Design Technique Selection, Susan M. Saeger Jan 2004

Rationale For User Oriented Design Technique Selection, Susan M. Saeger

Theses

This paper analyzes a set of guidelines for selecting a user oriented design technique. A fictional case study is used to illustrate the application of the guidelines.


Chinese Glove Puppets - An Interactive Experience Of Puppet History, Teaching And User Created Performance, Yu-Hui Tu Jan 2004

Chinese Glove Puppets - An Interactive Experience Of Puppet History, Teaching And User Created Performance, Yu-Hui Tu

Theses

Chinese Glove Puppets demonstrate the traditional Chinese performing art. It introduces the history, creation, and primal figure types of Chinese Glove Puppetry to provide users a basic understanding. Puppet education and puppet performance demonstrate the puppet movements. Basic puppet manipulation videos demonstrate the basic movements teaching users how the puppeteers control puppets. Real puppet show clips are also available. In order to create more fun, a changeable classic background would be used to replace the original stage and enhance the delight of creating the user's own show. This project is an educational CD-ROM for English users. By combining visual and …


Avatar, Sean Kirchhoff Jan 2004

Avatar, Sean Kirchhoff

Theses

AVATAR||Presents the artist's personal experience and background for the artist's thesis exhibit, the artist's work of previous quarters at RIT, influential artists, and the philosophy behind the artist's use of appropriation.


The Granite, 2004, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2004

The Granite, 2004, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-


Religious Institutions, The No-Harm Doctrine, And The Public Good, Marci A. Hamilton Jan 2004

Religious Institutions, The No-Harm Doctrine, And The Public Good, Marci A. Hamilton

Articles

No abstract provided.


American Verismo?: Insights Into The Padrone, And Opera By George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 - 4 April 1931), Jon Steffen Truitt Jan 2004

American Verismo?: Insights Into The Padrone, And Opera By George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 - 4 April 1931), Jon Steffen Truitt

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The contribution of George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 – 4 April 1931) to American music comes in many forms: composer, teacher, conductor, pianist and organist. A leading figure of the Second School of New England composers, Chadwick was also largely responsible for the effective reorganization of the New England Conservatory. He was arguably one of the most influential teachers in American music in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. This study deals with Chadwick’s last opera intended for professional production, The Padrone. The opera, an American example of Italian verismo, is …


Flesh And Spirit Onstage: Chronotopes Of Performance In Medieval English Theatre, Gregory Lee Cavenaugh Jan 2004

Flesh And Spirit Onstage: Chronotopes Of Performance In Medieval English Theatre, Gregory Lee Cavenaugh

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotope, which is the informing principle of one's experience of space and time, to explore different relations among space, time, actors, and audience in medieval theatre. Relations between the material and spiritual worlds as understood in the Middle Ages are considered in the context of relations between performers and audience members with two goals. First, I explore how the ontological status of the metaworld created through performance changed in the context of specific chronotopes. Second, I explore how diverse religious discourses affected medieval modes of representation. This study posits three chronotopes of performance informing medieval …


Examining The Built Environment Of Missoula's Central Business District., Jill M. Patrick Jan 2004

Examining The Built Environment Of Missoula's Central Business District., Jill M. Patrick

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.