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Struck By Aesthetics: Recuperating Folk Drama, Amber L. Estlund Jan 2008

Struck By Aesthetics: Recuperating Folk Drama, Amber L. Estlund

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

As current scholarship has begun to revisit African American theater, there has been an important rediscovery of certain women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance. Coinciding with this rediscovery has been a tendency, however, to retain the often confusing and oppressive label that has haunted their plays and kept them from serious scholarly attention. Evoking categorizations like "folk drama" and "propaganda plays" oversimplifies the complexities of the terms themselves as well as what the individual women were doing in their writing. The primary focus of this study is to evaluate and recuperate the functions of the term "folk drama" as it …

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Transmutations, Transmigrations, Brandon C. Brasseaux Jan 2008

Transmutations, Transmigrations, Brandon C. Brasseaux

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The thesis proposed for my M.F.A in creative writing is a collection of vignette-length short stories with each story intended to be a self-standing narrative. Each short story in this collection will be dissimilar in narrative structure and contain characters of various age, gender, ethnicity, and geographies which do not intermix with the other stories. However, language style, mood, and tone will subtly overlap to provide glue, suggesting a kaleidoscopic whole. Thematically, the stories deal with a pattern of threshold moments: coming to terms with disillusionment, substance addiction, death, moral ambiguity, and futility.

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Validating Music Therapy And Its Effectiveness In Treating Brain Disorders, Kristin Renee Hurley Jan 2008

Validating Music Therapy And Its Effectiveness In Treating Brain Disorders, Kristin Renee Hurley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The success of the music therapy profession has been well established, though the healing properties of music are not yet fully understood. Clinical observations show the medicinal value of music therapy; however, it is challenging to quantify music's beneficial effects. Examining music therapy's effectiveness in treating neurological disorders can possibly help to better validate this profession. However, music therapy is a multidisciplinary field, and perhaps we must come to a better understanding of how the various disciplines relate to one another. Music has the power to modulate our emotions. Neurological studies involving music therapy might help to uncover the connection …

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Design Ofmosfet Ultra-Wideband Low Noise Amplifiers, Esteban Camacho Jan 2008

Design Ofmosfet Ultra-Wideband Low Noise Amplifiers, Esteban Camacho

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Ultra-Wide band (UWB) systems are a new wireless technology capable of transmitting data over a wide spectrum of frequency bands with very low power and high data rates. This technology has the potential to replace almost every cable at home or in an office with a wireless connection. In a UWB receiver, a radio frequency (RF) low noise amplifier (LNA) is one of the most important components. This thesis discusses the entire process involving the design ofUWB low noise amplifiers including a detailed stage by stage analysis of a computer aided design (CAD) of a MOSFET UWB LNA. Simulation tools …

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Gay-Centric Identity, Robert D. Beebe Jan 2008

Gay-Centric Identity, Robert D. Beebe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

For many gay men performing a gay-centric identity can be challenging. By adopting a set of expected behaviors known as the gay cultural script, many of these men are potentially met with discrimination from both heterosexual and homosexual communities. The gay cultural script is readily available as it is found within the gay ghettos and through various representations of gay men in the media. This research question examines how the gay cultural script when found within the gay ghetto and through the media's representation of gay men provides a lens to which the performance of a gay-centric identity may be …

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Happenstance And Circumstance: A Collection Of Short Stories, Winifred M. Storms Jan 2008

Happenstance And Circumstance: A Collection Of Short Stories, Winifred M. Storms

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This short story collection is a meditation on happenstance and circumstance as played out in each character's life often catalyzed through the introduction of an unknown element: whether that element be a new character, perspective, or knowledge. Stylistically, the voice of the narration is colorful and humorous though the subject matter may be of the melancholic or macabre variety. The point of view changes from first to third, depending on the story and main character; however, the unifying factors of this collection is that each character is changed because of a loss, whether metaphoric or literal.

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La Satire Comme Critique Sociale Chez Balzac, Galina Paramonova Jan 2008

La Satire Comme Critique Sociale Chez Balzac, Galina Paramonova

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

As one of the founders of the realist novel, Balzac is praised for having invented returning characters and interwoven chronologies that serve to challenge the decadent social mores of his time, but critical discussions of Balzacs's work continue to neglect his use of satire in social criticism. Different modes of satire occure in his LePere Goriot (1835), Le Bat de Sceaux (1829), Gobseck (1830), La Maison Nucingen (1837), Le Depute dArcis (1847), and La Femme abandonnee (1822), which together attest that Balzac achieves his ambition to become both the Rabelais and the Moliere of his era.

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Gender Stereotypes In Spanish Language Television Programming For Children In The United States, Carlo Andre Romo Jan 2008

Gender Stereotypes In Spanish Language Television Programming For Children In The United States, Carlo Andre Romo

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Children's television programming falling within the traditional Saturday morning time slot for four continuous Saturdays on five Spanish language networks in a southwest border city in the United States constituted the sample for this study. Each of the programs in the study was broken down and analyzed for character demographics, character behaviors and consequences received for those behaviors. Eight categories of behavior were scored, including four traditionally male behaviors (aggression, autonomy, construction, dominance) and four traditionally female behaviors (deference, dependence, harm avoidance, nurturing). The analysis of demographic data revealed male characters clearly outnumbered female characters and female characters were significantly …

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Discussing The Role Of The Business School, Stephen Dunne, Stefano Harney, Tony Tinker, Martin Parker Jan 2008

Discussing The Role Of The Business School, Stephen Dunne, Stefano Harney, Tony Tinker, Martin Parker

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

During the lead up to the publication of this Special Issue, we invited several figures to engage our original call for contributions in what ever way they saw fit. As these commentaries proliferated, it became increasingly apparent to us that it would be worth staging a virtual roundtable discussion – that being an online discussion co-ordinated and chaired by ephemera (in this case represented by Stephen Dunne) – devoted to the question of what today’s Business School is for. With this end in mind, contributors to this feature were asked to debate the Role of the Business School, with particular …

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Theatre Practicum, Steelman Library, Nickolas J. Dixon Jan 2008

Theatre Practicum, Steelman Library, Nickolas J. Dixon

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No abstract provided.

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John Zorn. The Gift; Songs From The Hermetic Theatre (2001). Chimeras; Masada Guitars (2003). Masada Recital; Magick (2004). Rituals (2005). Astronome; Masada Rock; Moonchild, Christian T. Asplund Jan 2008

John Zorn. The Gift; Songs From The Hermetic Theatre (2001). Chimeras; Masada Guitars (2003). Masada Recital; Magick (2004). Rituals (2005). Astronome; Masada Rock; Moonchild, Christian T. Asplund

Faculty Publications

Once the unruly upstart, John Zorn is now a MacArthur fellow, whose formidable catalog divides easily into early, middle, and late periods. The early period dates from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, when Zorn pioneered the practice of "comprovisation," a term used to describe "the making of new compositions from recordings of improvised material." Ultimately, Zorn's comprovisation blurs the lines between active listener and composer, since both create new works when they impose structure on found sonic material. His early structuralist-modernist approach to comprovisation produced esoteric, often severely pointillist music, and evolved into the game pieces of the late 1970s …

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