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Honorslink, Issue 2018.1, University Of Dayton. Honors Program

HonorsLINK Newsletter

News and Notes from the University of Dayton Honors Program. Featured: FOCUS (Every Picture Tells a Story).

Soul At Hazard: American Violence And Landscape In Film Score, Joshua Smith

Theses & ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the development of the film score and its artistic effect, particularly from the Sci-fi and Western film genres. I discuss the beginning of film as an art form which incorporated sound with moving image. I examine the aspects of film scores, particularly of the two Western films that I discuss, which are able to establish narrative through composing music from landscape. The films which I explore from a musical background are Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Ethan and Joel Coen’s No Country for Old Men (2007), and Paul Thomas Anderson’s …

A Death In Venice, Mel Klenk

Theses & ETDs

By adapting A Death in Venice in the modern day, I re-center the work in the modern conversation about homosexual love while discussing parallels involving the divine and the human, the artist and their art, and views on homosexuality seen today and years ago in Ancient Greece. Thomas Mann’s work draws upon themes common in Greek tragic theatre to create a piece meant to serve as a warning to artists who might wish to over-indulge themselves in the pursuit of their work. Conceptualizing Aschenbach as both Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as discussing the practice of pederasty and its place …

Wittgenstein's Coffee: An Exploration Of Food/Art, Conceptual Art, And Context, Miranda Gale

Theses & ETDs

The philosophy of food is an expansive topic, but most people recognize it for its contributions to ethics rather than aesthetics. Examining the potential categorization of food as art leads to a fuller understanding of art on its own terms, especially within a twentieth/twenty-first century, post-Duchampian context. Conceptual art in particular builds on a framework that espouses the concept as a medium, rejects a purely visual aesthetic, and blurs lines of form and content. Emphasizing context, conceptual artists--some of whom work with food as a medium--reject most of the categories that exclude food from art. In sketching a philosophically-informed art …

The Evening Of Electras, Brianna Brand

Theses & ETDs

The Evening of Electras consists of the adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy, Electra by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus, that takes inspiration from video games, specifically interactive games or role-playing games. Like these games, the audience gets the power to shape the narrative through scripted choices presented on stage. The main focus of the process is to show that emotional immersion, the ability to empathize with the characters and the narrative, is at the same level of immersion as spatial immersion, the immersision containing to a space or location. The research includes sources on different forms of immersive theatre, like …

The Nature Of Relationships In Combat And Their Impact On Ptsd Outcomes, Matthew Came

Theses & ETDs

The aim of this study was to interrogate the widely reported link between close relationships and the development of PTSD and to contribute to the overarching discussion of PTSD among combat veterans. Participation was limited strictly to combat veterans. Participants were recruited through private combat veteran groups on social media, vetted combat veteran support groups in the Sarasota FL. area, and through the Sarasota VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post 3233, (n=65). Participants completed the Modified ECR, a 20 question survey based on the Experiences in Close relationship scale and answered questions regarding PTSD diagnosis and symptoms. On average, relationships …

From Overtown To Rosemary: Exploring Race And Space Through Oral Histories Of Sarasota’S First African American District, William Cooney

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is concerned with the development of the Rosemary District in Sarasota, also known as Historic Overtown. As a way of investigating the history of Overtown, namely the Black migration to Newtown and the ensuing gentrification, I conducted nine oral histories with local social activists who have ties to the neighborhood. I also analyzed historic and contemporary aerial photos to understand the spatial dimensions of Newtown’s segregation. Both forms of data are preceded by a theoretical framing and a background history of Sarasota to provide context. They are followed by a discussion of the intersection of race and space, …

Crash Land Falling Through Immersive Theatre: An Examination Of And Experimentation In Audience Engagement In Live Performance, Carlyle Styer

Theses & ETDs

Immersive Theatre is a relatively new movement that takes the conventions of Traditional Theatre and finds ways to break them. This thesis explores the conventions of Immersive Theatre and the different subcategories that make up this theatrical movement. It uses different pieces found in the genres to create these subcategories as well as the conventions. It also explores the uses of space, audience. and engagement that make this style of live performance unique. The Thesis takes the knowledge of this first chapter and uses it to adapt Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that Once was Her Heart: …

Living With/In Disaster: Interpreting Heritage Through Performance In The Time Of Climate Change, Rachel Lyn Ceciro

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the function of an ecological theater as a method of heritage interpretation through research and practice. My first chapter explores definitions of memory, heritage, and interpretation, detailing what a successful interpretive project looks like. I then go on to define what constitutes a production of ecotheater by detailing its goals of coalescing the divide of nature and culture, encouraging performances to center the more-than-human world rather than focusing on exclusively human stories. The chapter concludes with examining the 2016-17 production of Bear by the Unreliable Bestiary, exhibiting how a piece of ecotheater uses interpretive tools to achieve …

"Let's Make 'Em Squeal" And "Mitch, That's Not How You Hold A Gun": Allison Lundergrun Grimes And Joni Ernst's Faux Feminine Performance In 2014 Senate Ads, J. Scott Smith

Iowa Journal of Communication

This analysis examines gendered scripts used by U.S. Senate candidates Joni Ernst and Alison Lundergan Grimes in their political ads during the 2014 midterm election. Adapting Gibson and Heyse's (2010) approach to examining gendered scripts, this article found that both Ernst and Grimes relied on masculine scripts that undermined the feminine appeals they used and reinforced hegemonic ideology. While employing a similar mix of gendered scripts that included emasculating their opponents, the candidates differed in their electoral success. Ernst's political ads remained ideologically consistent with the Republican Party's ideals and she won her race by nine points. In contrast, Grimes's …

Harding Magazine Winter 2018 (Vol. 26, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

If Nonhuman Animals Can Suicide, Why Don’T They?, C. A. Soper, Todd K. Shackelford

Animal Sentience

An evolutionary analysis suggests that selection is unlikely to have tolerated the capacity for intentional self-killing in nonhuman animals. The potential to escape pain by suicide would have presented a recurrent and severe adaptive problem for an animal with a reproductive future to protect. If the potential for suicide arose in the evolutionary past, anti-suicide mechanisms may have co-evolved, as we believe they have in adult humans. Peña-Guzmán’s (2017) argument that some nonhuman animals can suicide is incomplete without an account of the defences that result in the vast majority opting not to.

Art Infested Water, December 2017 - January 2018, Nova Southeastern University Department Of Performing And Visual Arts

Department of Performing and Visual Arts Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Refashioning Newport: Reuse Of Textiles During The Gilded Age, Anna Rose Keefe

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

During the late-nineteenth century, descriptions of the fashions worn by the summer residents of Newport, RI appeared in magazines and newspapers all around the world. Though contemporary interpretation romanticizes the idea that Newport’s style leaders wore their ensembles once before discarding them, letters and diaries from the Newport Historical Society and the Preservation Society of Newport County detail how clothing was reused and remade across all levels of society during the American Gilded Age. While Newport’s belles sold and traded gowns with friends, remodeled afternoon ensembles into evening gowns, and re-cut and re-dyed their clothing to fit the latest styles, …

The Lévite Dress: Untangling The Cultural Influences Of Eighteenth-Century French Fashion, Kendra Van Cleave

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

During the final decades of the eighteenth century, France saw a massive vogue for women’s clothing styles that, while adhering to the fundamental norms of French dress, were directly influenced by Ottoman clothing. One of the most popular of these was the levite, a dress that was introduced in the late 1770s and continued in popularity through the late 1780s. Inspired by costumes worn in a staging of Racine’s play “Athalie,” which is set in the ancient Biblical era, the levite initially mimicked the lines of Middle Eastern caftans. Over time, the style developed into at least three different variations, …

Being Dorothy In Kuwait, Margaret Macinnis

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 109-117

Birmingham Poetry Review 45 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 227-245

Washington University Magazine, Fall/Winter 2018-2019

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

2018 Intersession Catalog, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Intersession Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Imbalance Between Speech & Health: How Unsubstantiated Health Claims In Secondary Effects Regulations Of Sexually Oriented Businesses Threaten Free Speech, Kyla P. Garrett Wagner, Rachael L. Jones

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

Kekal Abadi, Jilid 36, Bilangan 1, 2018, Library University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

2017 Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2017., Meredith Town Representatives

Meredith, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Indiana Department Of Education Pk-12 Social-Emotional Learning Competencies: Built Upon A Neurodevelopmental Culturally Responsive Framework, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

This document outlines the Indiana social-emotional learning competencies which expand on the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) five core social emotional learning standards.

Ilium 2018, Taylor University

Yearbooks (1898-Present)

The 2018 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Fairbrook, Paul Autobiography, Paul Fairbrook

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

No abstract provided.

The Peace Vs. Justice Puzzle And The Syrian Crisis, Paul R. Williams, Lisa K. Dicker, C. Danae Paterson

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Those involved in peace negotiations often face the dilemma of balancing demands for justice with the imperative of stopping the conflict as quickly as possible. There are abiding ethical and moral debates surrounding this tension between peace and justice.

A Directory Of Cartographic Inventors: Clever People Who Were Awarded A Us Patent For A Map-Related Device Or Method, Mark Monmonier, Adrienne Lee Atterberry, Kalya Fermin, Gabreille E. Marlzolf, Madeleine Hamlin

Geography and the Environment - All Scholarship

As its title and subtitle imply, this book is a collection of short biographies of people awarded United States patents for inventions intended to improve map use or map making. We say “intended” because, as with most patented innovations, their clever ideas seldom made it to store shelves, magazine ads, or mail order catalogs—a fate shared with most improvements proposed in cartography’s scientific-technical journals.

This collection is a spinoff of a project focused on inventions rather than inventors. The project’s principal product was Monmonier's book Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History, published in 2017 by …

Scholarworks And Digital Initiatives Annual Report, Maura Valentino

ScholarWorks Reports

No abstract provided.

Dancing Through Curricula: Integrating Dance Into Elementary Classrooms, Kristi Duvall

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Elementary students spend most of their day sitting, learning in passive ways, resulting in a lack of physical activity and creativity. By utilizing dance education in the curricula, students are provided opportunities to be physically active and creative throughout the school day. When students are active and using their creative minds, they can learn and perform better on academic tasks. This second-grade curriculum provides students with more active movement throughout the school day, in addition to employing their creative abilities. The curriculum was created based on current research on the benefits of physical education and dance in the elementary classroom …

Religion On The Dance Floor: Afro-Dominican Music And Ritual From Altars To Clubs, Angelina M. Tallaj

Publications and Research

In this essay, I examine the current New York scene and the emerging discourses surrounding the recent visibility of Dominican Voodoo (Vudú) and its music. When Dominicans migrated, they brought with them these marginalized genres of music including the music of Vudú, and, since the 2000s, this music (palo) has moved from the religious arena to the popular music world, in turn changing the nature of the religious rituals. In New York City, Vudú ceremonies can now publicly feature drumming and possession and are practiced in commercial venues rather than in private homes and altar spaces. While this move of …