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The Ritualistic And Theatrical Elements Of Ashura, Nooran Abdulkareem Fattah Al-Salihi Dec 2014

The Ritualistic And Theatrical Elements Of Ashura, Nooran Abdulkareem Fattah Al-Salihi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Ashura (also spelled Ashoura) takes place on the tenth day of Muharram when Shia Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Husayn that took place in 61 AH/ 680 AD. It is a socio-religious phenomenon that combines ritualistic and theatrical behavior. My objective is to shed light on the interaction between ritual and theatrical behavior and how these work together to form the overall event. The first section introduces the historical background of Ashura, the second section explores the ritualistic and theatrical characteristics of Ashura, and the last, concluding section talks about the relation between the two aspects and how they …

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Artifice, Aesthetics, And The Liminal Grotesque In Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, David Zachary Turchin Dec 2014

Artifice, Aesthetics, And The Liminal Grotesque In Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, David Zachary Turchin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Stanley Kubrick's oeuvre is characterized throughout by a distinct and unique interest in violence, sexuality, the uncomfortable, the eerie, the unknown, the beyond, and the grotesque. His aesthetic and conceptual approach achieves a special quality of calling attention to the liminal - those unspoken, unseen, uncertain, ungrounded, fleeting, and perhaps ineffable, moments and spaces in the visual and narrative presentation that occur between scenes, between characters, between images, and between the viewer and the film itself. In doing so Kubrick destabilizes the viewing experience and suspends the viewer in moments of uncertainty, discomfort, and ambiguity, achieving this effect even in …

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Collective Memory And Performative Reconquista: Action And Inaction In The Performance Art Of Regina Jose Galindo, Jasnira Lizbeth Zuniga Dec 2014

Collective Memory And Performative Reconquista: Action And Inaction In The Performance Art Of Regina Jose Galindo, Jasnira Lizbeth Zuniga

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Using Coco Fusco's notion of the Reconquista to read ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? of 2003 and Reconocimiento de un cuerpo of 2008, this paper investigates performance artist Regina José Galindo's conceptual approaches of action and inaction. Grappling with very specific histories of violence and repression in attempts to deal with the unresolved, Regina José Galindo's performances here concern themselves with permanence and impermance, confronting and reactivating the bodies of her viewers by restaging collective memory and trauma. Focusing on pieces conceived and staged in the Latin American context, this paper contextualizes Galindo's performance in Guatemala and Argentina as attempts …

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Place Self: Identity At The Crossroads Of Place And Time In Catherine Opie's Los Angeles Landscape Seires, 1988-2004, Kim Woltmann Dec 2014

Place Self: Identity At The Crossroads Of Place And Time In Catherine Opie's Los Angeles Landscape Seires, 1988-2004, Kim Woltmann

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Catherine Opie achieved success and notoriety during the 1990s for several controversial photographic series of herself and members of her LGBT community that explored themes of sexuality, gender, and identity. She also, however, built a contemporaneous body of work throughout the 1990s comprised of landscape series. These images embraced a cool stoicism and deadpan aesthetic that contrasted the intimacy and dissidence of Opie's portraits, as well as the early branding of her as a contemporary provocateur. They therefore received little scholarly attention. More recent renewed interest in Opie's landscapes is largely inspired, retrospectively, because images of place have now overtaken …

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Microplastics In Long Island Marine Estuaries, Jessica Steve Dec 2014

Microplastics In Long Island Marine Estuaries, Jessica Steve

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This study investigated the prevalence of microplastics in Shinnecock Bay and Jamaica Bay on Long Island in New York. Surface water samples were collected with a 200 μ m plankton tow net, filtered onto metal mesh screens, and examined under a dissecting microscope. A total of 517 microplastic particles were found in samples from Shinnecock Bay (0-0.58 particles m-3), and 1,005 particles were found in Jamaica Bay samples (0-3.93 particles m-3). Particles were visually sorted by size, color, and shape. Statistical analyses were performed to analyze microplastic particle diversity, evenness, and any spatial or temporal variation. Attempts to determine source …

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Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, Vivek V. Kulkarni Dec 2014

Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, Vivek V. Kulkarni

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

With the massive amounts of unannotated text available from myriad sources, learning representations useful for natural language processing(NLP) tasks is an increasingly popular research area. Using deep learning techniques, we learn distributed representations for words (word embeddings) using Wikipedia as the source of text for 40 languages. These distributed representations represent each word as a point in feature space and capture useful semantic and syntactic properties of words amd have been shown to be useful in NLP Tasks like Part of Speech Tagging(POS) etc. We have built 2 classes of word embeddings namely Polyglot and Skipgram for these languages. We …

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Greendm: A Versatile Tiering Hybrid Drive For The Trade-Off Evaluation Of Performance, Energy, And Endurance, Zhichao Li Dec 2014

Greendm: A Versatile Tiering Hybrid Drive For The Trade-Off Evaluation Of Performance, Energy, And Endurance, Zhichao Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

There are trade-offs among performance, energy, and device endurance for storage systems. These trade-offs become more complex in storage system comprising different storage technologies. Designs optimized for one dimension or workload often suffer in another. Therefore, it is important to study the trade-offs so as to be able to adapt the system to workloads. As different types of drives have different traits, tiering hybrid drives are studied more closely. However, previous tiering hybrids are often designed for high throughput, efficient energy consumption, or improving endurance--leaving empirical study on the trade-offs being unexplored. Past endurance studies also lack a concrete model …

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Learning To Read Recipes : Activity Diagramming With Narrative Event Chains, Ganesa Thandavam Ponnuraj Dec 2014

Learning To Read Recipes : Activity Diagramming With Narrative Event Chains, Ganesa Thandavam Ponnuraj

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this work, we generate activity diagrams of the recipe text automatically, with the help of narrative event chains. Cooking recipes, that have predominantly imperative sentences, present unique challenges in the form of frequent argument drops and co-reference resolution over evolving (or merging) entities. Here, we introduce an unsupervised approach to automatically recover the recipe flow graphs. Then we illustrate the usefulness of our learned models via narrative cloze task; for the automatic evaluation of our learned models, we make use of one of the oft-used task in Discourse analysis, namely the sentence re-ordering and illustrate their utility. To report …

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A Reconsideration Of Labor Supply Of Immigrants And Social Welfare Programs, Yi Zhang Dec 2014

A Reconsideration Of Labor Supply Of Immigrants And Social Welfare Programs, Yi Zhang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation contributes to the discussion of the labor market performance of immigrants and their economic assimilation in terms of welfare program participation. The composition of immigrant labor force in U.S. has been fluctuating dramatically. In 1980, for example, the immigrant share of persons aged 50--74 was 8.9% but in 2000, more than 14.5% of this older population group were from foreign countries. Then in 2010, this proportion dropped to around 13.2%. Part of this variation is due to the aging of previous immigrants residing in U.S. but many recent inflows also include a surprisingly high proportion of people in …

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Space Of Kã¤Hler Potentials On Singular And Non-Compact Manifolds | Space Of Kähler Potentials On Singular And Non-Compact Manifolds, Seyed Ali Aleyasin Dec 2014

Space Of Kã¤Hler Potentials On Singular And Non-Compact Manifolds | Space Of Kähler Potentials On Singular And Non-Compact Manifolds, Seyed Ali Aleyasin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Let H be the space of Kähler metrics in a fixed cohomology class. This space may be endowed with a Weil-Petersson-type metric, referred to as the Mabuchi metric, which allows one to study the geometry of H. It is now well-known that the geometry of the space of Kähler potentials, in particular, the geodesics in H, may be used for studying `canonical metrics' on the base manifold. In order to be interpreted as the potential of a Kähler metric, however, one needs to prove certain regularity for such solutions. In the first part, I shall discuss deriving of weighted estimates …

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Flex-16: A Large-Displacement Monolithic Compliant Rotational Hinge, Robert Mcintyre Fowler, Alex Maselli, Peter Pluimers, Spencer P. Magleby, Larry L. Howell Dec 2014

Flex-16: A Large-Displacement Monolithic Compliant Rotational Hinge, Robert Mcintyre Fowler, Alex Maselli, Peter Pluimers, Spencer P. Magleby, Larry L. Howell

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This paper describes the design, analysis, and testing of a large-displacement monolithic compliant rotational hinge, called the Flex-16. The Flex-16 achieves 90 of rotation from monolithic construction and is aimed for application as a compliant satellite deployment hinge. Five prototypes were fabricated from three different materials (polypropylene, titanium, and a carbon nanotube framework) on two different size scales (macro and micro). A parametric finite element model was created to rapidly analyze a variety of design identified during a configuration study. Prototypes were tested for their ability to reach 90 of rotation without failure or self collision, and for their nonlinear …

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The Role Of Parental Involvement In The Social Development Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Emile Mulder Dec 2014

The Role Of Parental Involvement In The Social Development Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders, Emile Mulder

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by deficits in social interaction. Research with ASD children has dramatically underrepresented fathers, who have only recently been considered as targets for parenting interventions and research. Parenting research with typically developing (TD) children has found that parental involvement (of mothers and fathers) is associated with child social development. Extending such findings to the ASD field is important as social development is a primary concern within this population. The present study sought to do so through an internet questionnaire targeting mothers and fathers. Specifically, this study examined associations between mother involvement, father involvement and their …

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The Influences Of Interparental Conflict And Parenting On Children's Social Competence, Nadia Samad Dec 2014

The Influences Of Interparental Conflict And Parenting On Children's Social Competence, Nadia Samad

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Young children's social competence has profound effects on developmental outcomes (Diener & Kim, 2004). It has been well-established that children's home environments (i.e. | parenting, interparental conflict) are related to children's later social competence (O'Connor, Jenkins, Hewitt, DeFries, & Plomin, 2001; Parke et al. | 2001). A structural model was proposed that posited children's social information processing as a mechanism through which interparental conflict and parenting predict children's social competence. To test the proposed model, 397 families with at least one child between the ages of four and eight participated in the present study. The proposed model was analyzed and …

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Hollywood On The Tiber And Italian Cinema: Practices Of Transatlantic Stardom 1949-1965, Maria Elena D'Amelio Dec 2014

Hollywood On The Tiber And Italian Cinema: Practices Of Transatlantic Stardom 1949-1965, Maria Elena D'Amelio

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation aims to contribute to the emergent scholarly conversation on transnational stardom by examining the transatlantic career of the three male stars Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman, and Steve Reeves, as case studies to define specific transnational practices of film production, aesthetics, and reception between Italy and the United States. | 205 pages

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Piratical Designations: Power And Possibility In Representations Of Piracy, Michael D. High Dec 2014

Piratical Designations: Power And Possibility In Representations Of Piracy, Michael D. High

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation analyzes how designations and representations of piracy define, police, and challenge legitimate production and circulation. From antiquity through the present, the labeling of others as pirates has excluded the less powerful from the authorized distribution of tangible and intangible property. Such discursive exclusion not only defines piracy but also creates it, distinguishing it from other, sanctioned forms of appropriation. This exclusion generates political, legal, and cultural subjectivity, thereby allowing so-called pirates to affect the very discourses and processes from which they are excluded. The first chapter traces the term piracy from its linguistic origin in Ancient Greece to …

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Representations Of Gender In Young Adult (Ya) Literature, 1960-2010, Maria I. Cipriani Dec 2014

Representations Of Gender In Young Adult (Ya) Literature, 1960-2010, Maria I. Cipriani

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation focuses the lens of queer studies and trauma studies on YA literature published in the United States between 1960 and 2010 to demonstrate that authors embed cultural messages in YA texts. Those messages for YA readers intend to model behavior considered appropriate and teach about normative sex and gender roles. Individuals between the ages of 10 and 20 comprise YA readership, and the means of teaching these readers cultural norms include imagery and cautionary tales. The content of the literature inculcates views of acceptable behaviors with respect to sexuality and gender roles and generally conflates sex and gender. …

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El Code Switching En Las Redes Sociales: La Expansión De Lengua, Cultura E Identidad. | El Code Switching En Las Redes Sociales: La Expansiã³N De Lengua, Cultura E Identidad., Daniel Stephan Cueva Dec 2014

El Code Switching En Las Redes Sociales: La Expansión De Lengua, Cultura E Identidad. | El Code Switching En Las Redes Sociales: La Expansiã³N De Lengua, Cultura E Identidad., Daniel Stephan Cueva

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This study investigates why and how bilinguals speakers tend to code switch on social media such as; Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Bilingual speakers who were born in the US, who adapted English as their second language or who have learned Spanish as their second language in school, usually tend to combine the two languages, English and Spanish, in order to get across their point of view to others. For this reason, this investigation was created to analyze how code- switching can influence people when it's exposed on media. There were three social medias with the total of 37 participants who …

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Unmasking The Nation: Disputing Of National Myths In The Work Of Cristina García | Unmasking The Nation: Disputing Of National Myths In The Work Of Cristina Garcã­A, Jaimee Lyn Christinat Dec 2014

Unmasking The Nation: Disputing Of National Myths In The Work Of Cristina García | Unmasking The Nation: Disputing Of National Myths In The Work Of Cristina Garcã­A, Jaimee Lyn Christinat

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis examines the ways in which Dreaming in Cuban, Monkey Hunting and A Handbook to Luck, three novels by Cristina Garcia, contradict and deconstruct popular national myths. In each novel, characters move between nations at key moments in each nation's history. Tracking these individuals' movements within a larger geopolitical framework allows for a new understanding of subaltern migration patterns. In each chapter, a specific aspect of movement is studied illustrating ways in which subaltern people are motivated and/or coerced to move from one nation or another, how their story becomes coopted by the larger national myth and where their …

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Millennium Accidents, Breaking Narratives In Pedro Almodã³Var And Alejandro Gonzã¡Lez Iã±Ã¡Rritu | Millennium Accidents, Breaking Narratives In Pedro Almodóvar And Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anna S Shilova Dec 2014

Millennium Accidents, Breaking Narratives In Pedro Almodã³Var And Alejandro Gonzã¡Lez Iã±Ã¡Rritu | Millennium Accidents, Breaking Narratives In Pedro Almodóvar And Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anna S Shilova

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Millennium Accidents is an attempt to show the relation between the shattered, fragmented and decentralizing nature of contemporary, globalized reality and the texts it produces. In my research I aim to reveal the changes in the building and development of a story as a narrative and cognitive phenomenon. Economic globalization and the high-tech revolution have led to a modification of our mental, emotional and social functioning, converting the whole world into a huge network. Consequently, narrative-- be it verbal or iconic--shows the same metamorphosis as it generates multiple plots, neglects temporal and spatial conventions, and moves beyond national identities. Six …

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Gender, Number, Nouns & Adjectives: A Study Of Grammatical Agreement In Second Language Learners Of Arabic & Spanish, Anne-Marie Marguerite Poulos Dec 2014

Gender, Number, Nouns & Adjectives: A Study Of Grammatical Agreement In Second Language Learners Of Arabic & Spanish, Anne-Marie Marguerite Poulos

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis investigates the causes of gender and number agreement errors in learners of both Arabic and Spanish as second languages. Data was collected from each of these groups during beginner level language courses at a university. There were a total of eight tests. The first six were adjective selection activities focusing on a specific noun phrase or sentence structure. The last two were written tests, elicited by images, where students had to produce their own nouns and adjectives. The common first language (L1) of the majority of participants is English, which lacks adjective agreement and does not have the …

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Consuming Modernity: Photography In Pre-Colonial Korea, 1876-1910, Heejeong Sohn Dec 2014

Consuming Modernity: Photography In Pre-Colonial Korea, 1876-1910, Heejeong Sohn

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Postcolonial studies have successfully unveiled the cultural, social, and political networks of imperial and colonial representations embedded in visual documents of the non-Western world. Within this context, the early photography of Korea has been presented as a cultural force imposed on Koreans in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. This dissertation rethinks the representational politics of early photography during the pre-colonial period of 1876 to 1910 by problematizing the master narratives and suggesting alternative ways to interpret this historical material. Through analyzing the historical contexts of photographic materials and practices, this dissertation argues that photography, as a device of cultural expression, …

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The Dp Category And Serbian Nominal Structure, Ivana Laterza Dec 2014

The Dp Category And Serbian Nominal Structure, Ivana Laterza

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis investigates nominal structure in Serbian, focusing on the issue of DP paramaterization. Since the introduction of DP as a syntactic category in the late 1980s (Fukui and Speas (1986), Abney (1987)), various investigators have questioned its universality on the basis of " article-less" languages, such as Japanese and Serbian. Two proposals have emerged. The Universal DP-Hypothesis holds that all languages project DP (Progovac (1998), Rappaport (2001), Basic (2004), Cinque (2005), i.a.). The Parameterized DP-Hypothesis claims that languages without (definite) articles do not project DP (Fukui (1986), Corver (1992), Zlatic (1997), Boskovic (2005), Despic (2011), i.a.). The second view …

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A Teacher's Response To Response, Karen Larson Buechner Dec 2014

A Teacher's Response To Response, Karen Larson Buechner

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This study is an examination of instructional practices teachers implement during the drafting and revision process and contends that armed with knowledge of how a student responds emotionally and intellectually to these comments, a teacher can have a lasting impact on a writer's development. To that end, it is critical for the teacher to possess deep knowledge of response protocols and conferencing techniques in order for students to generate and refine their ideas. Areas of investigation include the relationship between response methods and writing improvement, the type and mode of comments that facilitate improvement, measurement of the effect of response …

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Crossing Borders - Women Agents Of Britain's Special Operations Executive (Soe) In The Second Wolrd War, Patricia Ann Delgiorno Dec 2014

Crossing Borders - Women Agents Of Britain's Special Operations Executive (Soe) In The Second Wolrd War, Patricia Ann Delgiorno

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

CROSSING BORDERS - WOMEN AGENT'S OF BRITAIN'S SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE (SOE) IN WORLD WAR TWO This thesis will explore the experiences of Odette Sansom Churchill Hallowes, a Franco-British woman recruited as a secret agent during World War II by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a branch of the British Foreign Office, to infiltrate German-occupied France for the purpose of assisting the French Resistance in disrupting vital German operations in the lead-up to the Allied invasion of the continent. It will address the highly gendered cultural, social and military borders that Sansom and other female SOE recruits crossed in order to …

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Improvising In The Writing Classroom: How Improvisational Acting Transforms Invention In Social And Collaborative Contexts, Lauren Esposito Dec 2014

Improvising In The Writing Classroom: How Improvisational Acting Transforms Invention In Social And Collaborative Contexts, Lauren Esposito

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

When mapped onto writing classrooms, improvisational acting provides students with an emphasis on communal ways of knowing that are not restricted to print alone. Improvisational theater promotes the use of multiple literacies, such as kinesthetic, visual, spatial, and aural intelligences, which supplement conventional print-based strategies in writing instruction. Through speaking, listening, and moving, students collectively produce a text--an improvised performance--that stems from the spontaneous interactions and multiple perspectives of an ensemble. In " Improvising in the Writing Classroom: How Improvisational Acting Transforms Invention in Social and Collaborative Contexts," I argue that employing improv techniques and principles in writing pedagogies advances …

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Haunting History: Melancholia And Specters Of Racialization In Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Naomi Edwards Dec 2014

Haunting History: Melancholia And Specters Of Racialization In Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Naomi Edwards

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The dissertation studies the prevalence of ghosts and haunting in contemporary Asian American fiction as a telling symptom of racial and transnational melancholia. Analyzing seminal novels from the past two decades by American writers of Asian descent, I argue that melancholia functions in these texts as a critical form of resistance to the untenable demands of national identity formation and cultural belonging. From Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts to Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging to Andrew X Pham's Catfish and Mandala, depictions of ghosts and haunting are prevalent across a striking range of recent Asian …

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Alcohol, Public Perception, And Narrative Design In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Kristin Boluch Dec 2014

Alcohol, Public Perception, And Narrative Design In Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Kristin Boluch

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Scholarship concerning alcohol representations in nineteenth-century American literature and culture has predominately focused on " temperance discourse" (meaning temperance ideology, an anti-alcohol moral culture, prohibitory laws and regulations, etc.). Generally, narratives understood to represent this discourse assume that the depicted consumers and producers of alcohol are excluded from the ideally imagined community. In Modern literature, by contrast, alcohol use is understood to represent cultural rebellion by individual characters (as seen in Hemingway's community of ex-patriots, or Fitzgerald's Jazz Age lost generation). The dissertation challenges assumptions of this chronological progression which begins in representations of alcohol's social banishment. Though nineteenth-century American …

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Teaching And Learning In Fourth Space: Embodying Praxis, Becoming Role Model, Nicole Galante Dec 2014

Teaching And Learning In Fourth Space: Embodying Praxis, Becoming Role Model, Nicole Galante

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

If 21st century students can ask their mobile devices questions and receive nearly instant answers, how then can 21st century teachers enact an engaged pedagogy? One possibility is by learning with and in front of students, thus creating <&ldquo>fourth space<&rdquo>--a space in which teachers embody praxis and become simultaneous models of and participants in education. This dissertation provides a new framework for English Teacher Education that centers on fourth space and the ways that teachers and students can engage in critical contact zones from within it. Drawing on critical pedagogy, combining various perspectives about identity formation and reflection theories …

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A Necessary Death In King Lear, Hyewon Jin Dec 2014

A Necessary Death In King Lear, Hyewon Jin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This paper looks at King Lear and its tragic ending. Shakespeare's King Lear is based on various accounts, but interestingly he changes from the happy endings of his sources into his own tragic ending by putting Lear and Cordelia to death. This tragic ending has been criticized, but no one could be certain why Shakespeare ends his play in the way he does, especially why he makes Cordelia die. As a result, many critics tried to discover why Cordelia dies in the end. This paper will analyze the various criticisms on Cordelia's death, and show the opposing views of critics' …

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American Masculinity And Home In Antebellum Literature, Derek Scott Mcgrath Dec 2014

American Masculinity And Home In Antebellum Literature, Derek Scott Mcgrath

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The conventional argument in literary and gender studies of nineteenth-century United States culture has been that the home was women's claimed sphere of influence, whereas men were excluded from the home because of their economic, cultural, and societal commitments to the public sphere. Even as Catharine Beecher, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and other adherents to a conservative domestic ideology closely associated the private sphere with women, these same writers identified specific roles and spaces that they expected men to occupy in the home. Hardly only a woman's domain, the home was a powerful force in motivating constructions of …

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