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Rewriting The Frontier: The Impact Of Collective Memory On The Mythos Of Western Settlement, Kelly E. Kooper May 2025

Rewriting The Frontier: The Impact Of Collective Memory On The Mythos Of Western Settlement, Kelly E. Kooper

Theses and Dissertations

Using Paul Cohen’s methodological approach in History in Three Keys, this thesis examines the construction and debunking of the myths of manifest destiny, the rugged individual frontiersman, and the “noble savage” Native American in the writing about, experience of, and representation of the settlement American West. First, it analyzes the evolution of the historiography from Frederick Jackson Turner to William Cronon. Then it examines the experiences of four families (the Grices, Grahams, Deems, and McCormicks) who settled in Iowa and Nebraska from 1850 to 1880. Lastly, it surveys various popular cultural celebrations of the West. Through this triple lens, this …

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Searching For Enslavement In Viking Age Iceland: An Exploration Of Making The “Invisible” Visible, Caitlin Moore May 2025

Searching For Enslavement In Viking Age Iceland: An Exploration Of Making The “Invisible” Visible, Caitlin Moore

Theses and Dissertations

Enslavement was almost certainly a reality in Viking Age Iceland. However, the fields of Norse Studies and archaeology have traditionally used different lines of evidence to explore enslavement, and for archaeologists, the phenomenon has been left underexplored, and sometimes considered "invisible." While Norse Studies relies primarily on written texts, such as sagas and poems, archaeology focuses more on material remains, including burials and shackles. In Iceland, the archaeological evidence is more subtle - houses with annexes or pit houses, as well as signs of intensive farming and weaving, for example. The presence of any one of these could be otherwise …

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Tears, Blood, And Milk: Frida Kahlo's Depictions Of Maternity, Jenny Mushkin Goldman May 2025

Tears, Blood, And Milk: Frida Kahlo's Depictions Of Maternity, Jenny Mushkin Goldman

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes Frida Kahlo’s representations of miscarriage, childbirth, and breastfeeding as departures from idealized portrayals of womanhood in post-revolutionary Mexico. Drawing on Catholic and Mesoamerican imagery, Kahlo reframes the maternal body as a site of resistance, engaging mexicanidad (Mexicanness) to counter its patriarchal constructions of national identity and gender.

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Apocalypse As Utopia: The Exorcisms And Memorials Of Las Yeguas Del Apocalipsis And Queer Liberation In Chile, 1987-1997, Nicolas Poblete May 2025

Apocalypse As Utopia: The Exorcisms And Memorials Of Las Yeguas Del Apocalipsis And Queer Liberation In Chile, 1987-1997, Nicolas Poblete

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis provides a comprehensive history of the queer activist-art collective Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis (1987-1997) and their performance-based resistance to the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990), cultural homophobia, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. Through art actions blending ritual, protest, and queer poetics, the collective redefined public space and national identity, envisioning a utopian queer apocalypse rooted in memory.

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The Imposition Of A Narrative Line: The Bildungsroman As Form In Contemporary Art, Brianne Chapelle May 2025

The Imposition Of A Narrative Line: The Bildungsroman As Form In Contemporary Art, Brianne Chapelle

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the work of contemporary American artists and writers Moyra Davey, Chris Kraus, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms within the context of feminist art history, theory, and practice in the post-1970s artworld. While often read as autobiographical or self-referential, their work across media uses personal narrative as a means of engaging broader theoretical and institutional concerns. Through the literary form of the bildungsroman, these artists employ narrative, fiction, and memoir—often through new and time-based media, but also through interdisciplinary modes rooted in writing—to reflect on their ongoing education as artists within an increasingly globalized Euro-American artworld. By …

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“Bottom Nature”: Embodying History In Gertrude Stein’S The Making Of Americans, Yasmin Tehrani May 2025

“Bottom Nature”: Embodying History In Gertrude Stein’S The Making Of Americans, Yasmin Tehrani

Theses and Dissertations

This paper attempts to connect Gertrude Stein’s conception of being in The Making of Americans with her vision of the production of history. This paper then concludes that for Stein, historical subjects themselves, both individually and collectively, and the imbued qualities in their being, shape history.

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Louis-Léopold Boilly’S Toddler In Mamluk Costume, Circa 1803: Feminism And Orientalism In The Napoléonic Era, Jessie Polk May 2025

Louis-Léopold Boilly’S Toddler In Mamluk Costume, Circa 1803: Feminism And Orientalism In The Napoléonic Era, Jessie Polk

Theses and Dissertations

Privately held until it came into the Met collection, Toddler in Mamluk Costume by Louis-Léopold Boilly was not widely known and hasn’t been extensively studied. This thesis seeks place it in context and argues that it is likely a portrait of a girl, a niece of Napoléon I, Zénaïde Bonaparte.

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Who Are Singer-Songwriters In The 21st Century? A Case Study On The Role Of Digital Communications In Socio-Musical Activity., Miranda Commisso May 2025

Who Are Singer-Songwriters In The 21st Century? A Case Study On The Role Of Digital Communications In Socio-Musical Activity., Miranda Commisso

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis follows ten self-identified, singer-songwriters from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to identify commonalities, with special attention given to the ways they invest power and meaning in their music through use of social media. While these musicians are seeking capital gains through use of social media, they do it as a way to make music their livelihood, not out of a desire for excessive wealth or fame, which reflects this musical category more broadly.

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The International Art Show For The End Of World Hunger By Artists To End Hunger, Coty Heinz May 2025

The International Art Show For The End Of World Hunger By Artists To End Hunger, Coty Heinz

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the development of The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, organized in the 1980s by the New York nonprofit Artists to End Hunger and a broad network of volunteers. It also considers the exhibition’s context, lead organizer, and impact within an extensive international tour.

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The Economic Drivers Of Preferential Access, Kristie-Marie Sanchez May 2025

The Economic Drivers Of Preferential Access, Kristie-Marie Sanchez

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines how economic theory can explain differences in preferential access across products. Preferential access is the difference between the preferential tariff and the most favored nation (MFN) tariff. This research applies the theory from Bagwell and Staiger (1990) and the empirical findings from Bown and Crowley (2013) to tariff, import flow, import demand, and export supply elasticity data, where Chile is the reporting country. The two-way fixed effects linear regression estimates how changes in import growth, the volatility of import growth, and the inverse sum of import demand and export supply elasticities affect preferential access. The estimates indicate …

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Geraldo De Barros’S Fotoformas: Towards The Construction Of New Forms Of Legibility, Jay Bravo May 2025

Geraldo De Barros’S Fotoformas: Towards The Construction Of New Forms Of Legibility, Jay Bravo

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the legibility and reception of Geraldo de Barros’s Fotoformas within Western art institutions, using MoMA’s 2021 Fotoclubismo exhibition as a case study. It argues that the integration of Brazilian modernist photography into canonical narratives often hinges on strategic affinities with Euro-American frameworks. Drawing on institutional critique, postcolonial theory, and the concept of Anthropophagy, the study explores how Fotoformas challenges conventional photographic discourse and reveals broader dynamics of artistic legitimacy and representation.

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What Is Art Hungry For? Food And The Collective Performance Of Life, Sophie Kaufman May 2025

What Is Art Hungry For? Food And The Collective Performance Of Life, Sophie Kaufman

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines FOOD, the artist-run restaurant founded in 1971 SoHo, as a feminist, collective artwork. Centering overlooked figures like Carol Goodden and Tina Girouard, it explores how FOOD reimagined authorship, labor, and space, linking artistic, economic, and social experimentation through archival research, spatial theory, and feminist art history.

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Pepperbox - May 2, 2025, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School May 2025

Pepperbox - May 2, 2025, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School

The Pepperbox

Volume 97, Number 6

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A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena: Exploring Post-War Ethics, Claire Marshall Watkins May 2025

A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena: Exploring Post-War Ethics, Claire Marshall Watkins

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

In my paper, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: Exploring Post-War Ethics, I explore the embodiment of care ethics and informed altruism through the novel’s protagonists, Akhmed and Sonja, respectively, who each care for a local girl Havaa whose home has been destroyed and whose father has been disappeared by the Russian Feds from their small Chechen village. Akhmed immediately takes her on as his own while Sonja is hesitant. As the novel progresses, Sonja and Akhmed each provide an even amount of time and effort into her care, though they approach it differently. Akhmed—Havaa’s neighbor and family friend—works together with …

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A (Loper) Bright Future?: How The Supreme Court Opened A Path For Drug Reform, Malich, Jack May 2025

A (Loper) Bright Future?: How The Supreme Court Opened A Path For Drug Reform, Malich, Jack

Santa Clara Law Review

We are witnessing a sweeping transformation of administrative law. The Supreme Court has taken aim at what it believes is a constitutional error: the power of the administrative state. All parts of the so-called “fourth branch of government” are undergoing shifts in the legal doctrines governing their structure. For those in favor of a strong administrative state, most of the Court’s new approach to agency action may represent a sinister effort to prevent the making of disfavored policy by the Executive. However, advocates of agency power would do well to remember that the administrative state can be oppressive. No agency …

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David Richardson V. Usa May 2025

David Richardson V. Usa

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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“Take This Job And Shove It”: How Black Women’S Fight For Economic Rights Informed Their Participation In The Broader Social Movements Of The Twentieth Century, Kyndle Diane Lee May 2025

“Take This Job And Shove It”: How Black Women’S Fight For Economic Rights Informed Their Participation In The Broader Social Movements Of The Twentieth Century, Kyndle Diane Lee

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the vital role of Black women in the American labor movement during the twentieth century, emphasizing how their leadership and union participation were central to both labor organizing and the broader fight for human rights. Black women workers navigated and resisted the effects of racism, sexism, and class exploitation in a century marked by industrial expansion, economic upheaval, and major civil rights struggles. Far from passive participants, they emerged as key organizers, negotiators, and strategists in their communities, labor unions, and national movements. Additionally, their work extended beyond their demands for better wages and safer working conditions. …

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The Mujahedeen E-Khalq Of Iran (Mek): Agents Of Democratic Revolution Or Cultic Oppression?, Molly Jones May 2025

The Mujahedeen E-Khalq Of Iran (Mek): Agents Of Democratic Revolution Or Cultic Oppression?, Molly Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (MEK), an Iranian oppositional group that has engaged in a decades-long effort to depose the Iranian government. The goal of this thesis has three parts. First, it examines if the MEK should be classified as a new religious movement/cult. It also addresses the implications of such status given the MEK’s claims that it functions as a democratic entity and that it can be trusted to govern Iran in democratic fashion. Secondly, it examines if Iranian disinformation has influenced the MEK’s reputation. Thirdly, it analyses how the MEK has been able to …

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Shifting Alliances: Are Black People Increasingly Identifying As Republican?, Clamont C. Mack May 2025

Shifting Alliances: Are Black People Increasingly Identifying As Republican?, Clamont C. Mack

Student Theses and Dissertations

This paper investigates claims that Black Americans are increasingly aligning with the Republican Party. Drawing on theories of party identification and political realignment, I compare competing perspectives to determine appropriate indicators of realignment within the Black community. Using quantitative analysis across several datasets, I find a modest rise in Republican identification over the past decade, but a more pronounced decline in Democratic affiliation. These findings suggest not a realignment toward the Republican Party, but rather a dealignment from the Democratic Party. This challenges popular media narratives of realignment and instead points to growing political disengagement among Black Americans.

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A Limit That Recedes, Chloe Wilcox May 2025

A Limit That Recedes, Chloe Wilcox

Theses and Dissertations

In "A Limit that Recedes", I discuss my art practice in terms of accumulation and techniques of reproduction, such as casting, printing, and repetitive actions. I contextualize my work among artists such as H.C. Westermann, Isa Genzken, and Paul Thek. The work featured in this thesis explores ideas of aspiration, longing, and failure, and explores themes of the fraught relationship of the human and nature.

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The Diagnostic Utility Of Bronchoalveolar Lavage In Pulmonary Infections: Study From A Tertiary Care Hospital In Oman, Masoud Kashoub, Al-Baraa Al-Jabri, Mohammed Al Rashdi, Jamal Al-Aghbari May 2025

The Diagnostic Utility Of Bronchoalveolar Lavage In Pulmonary Infections: Study From A Tertiary Care Hospital In Oman, Masoud Kashoub, Al-Baraa Al-Jabri, Mohammed Al Rashdi, Jamal Al-Aghbari

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is an important diagnostic tool. Despite advancements in microbiological strategies, BAL's yield remains inconsistent. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the yield of BAL in terms of microbial detection and correlate these results with computed tomography (CT) findings and antimicrobial usage duration before bronchoscopy. Methods: This retrospective cohort study included all adult patients who underwent bronchoscopy with BAL at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, from January 2021 to December 2022. Results: A total of 203 patients underwent bronchoscopy. The primary indication for bronchoscopy was lung infiltrates in patients with haematological malignancies (49.3%). The …

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Epidemiology, Risk Factors And Clinical Outcome Of Candidaemia: A Decade-Long Experience At A University Hospital In Oman, Tasneem Al Salmani, Asmaa S. Mahdi, Abdullah Balkhair, Turkiya Al Siyabi, Hashim Ba Wazir May 2025

Epidemiology, Risk Factors And Clinical Outcome Of Candidaemia: A Decade-Long Experience At A University Hospital In Oman, Tasneem Al Salmani, Asmaa S. Mahdi, Abdullah Balkhair, Turkiya Al Siyabi, Hashim Ba Wazir

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: This study aimed to examine a decade-long epidemiology of candidaemia to explore the risk factors associated with it, and describe its clinical outcomes in hospitalised adult patients. Methods: This retrospective observational study was conducted at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman. Adult patients with candidaemia hospitalised between January 2007 and December 2016 were included. The hospital infection control department surveillance registry on bloodstream infections (BSIs) was used to identify Candida BSIs. Patients' electronic medical records were searched for demographic characteristics, clinical risk factors and outcomes. Results: Candida albicans was the most common Candida species among 152 …

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Gender Within 20th Century Lesbian Literature, Margaret A. Paulson May 2025

Gender Within 20th Century Lesbian Literature, Margaret A. Paulson

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

This paper examines gender identities within what is historically categorized as lesbian literature, focusing from 1928 to 1993. In The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, and Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, gender is portrayed in complex ways. In The Well of Loneliness, Stephen is labeled as an invert and often viewed as a masculine lesbian, but she also states that she loves women like a man loves women. For Orlando, the character of Orlando goes through a sex change and transitions from a man to a woman for Woolf to …

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Storytelling Or Telling Stories: An Analysis Of Disnarration In Music Videos, Victoria Garrett May 2025

Storytelling Or Telling Stories: An Analysis Of Disnarration In Music Videos, Victoria Garrett

Honors Theses

Music videos have grown in popularity in recent years and have begun to augment the stories being told by the lyrics of their songs. This is done by using narrative techniques, such as disnarration, to develop complex narratives that can conflict with the lyrical content. Through analysis of the videos "Willow" (2020 dir. Taylor Swift) by Taylor Swift, "The One That Got Away" (2012 dir. Floria Sigismoni) by Katy Perry, and "One Beer" (2020 dir. Justin Clough) by HARDY, the distinction between the plots of the videos and the lyrics can be brought into focus. This distinction in the stories …

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Enhancing Hospital Throughput With The Power Of Reminders: Implementing A Discharge Before Noon Strategy At An Urban Teaching Hospital, Jessie Ventura May 2025

Enhancing Hospital Throughput With The Power Of Reminders: Implementing A Discharge Before Noon Strategy At An Urban Teaching Hospital, Jessie Ventura

Doctoral Projects

The doctoral project deploys a "Discharge Before Noon" strategy at an urban teaching hospital to resolve discharge delays and improve patient throughput efficiency. Hospitals experiencing overcrowding must prioritize timely patient discharges to enhance clinical results and operational performance. The project adopted the PARIHS framework to steer implementation through its emphasis on evidence-based practices, contextual factors, and facilitation strategies. The research gathered discharge data and team coordination results before and after the intervention period. The findings revealed elevated discharge numbers before noon and substantial progress in interdisciplinary team collaboration. The initiative indicated an optimizing trend for discharge procedures, even though statistical …

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Doc 2023-05 (Amended) Use And Administration Of The Student Feedback Tool, University Of Dayton. Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate May 2025

Doc 2023-05 (Amended) Use And Administration Of The Student Feedback Tool, University Of Dayton. Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate

Senate Documents

The 2014 SET policy was to be reviewed after a period of five years. The Academic Senate in collaboration with the Learning Teaching Center and with robust consultation with faculty and students (including the Student Government Association) reviewed the policies related to the student evaluation of teaching from 2018 through 2023. This new policy is designed to replace existing policies, establishing one comprehensive policy related to student evaluation of teaching.

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Doc 2007-05 Processes And Procedures Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate May 2025

Doc 2007-05 Processes And Procedures Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate

Senate Governing Documents

These "Processes and Procedures" are intended to facilitate the smooth and transparent functioning of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

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Student Unrest And The Growth Of Repression On Campus: A Comparison Of Administrative Responses To Student Activism At The University Of Connecticut, Maryam Abu-Hasaballah May 2025

Student Unrest And The Growth Of Repression On Campus: A Comparison Of Administrative Responses To Student Activism At The University Of Connecticut, Maryam Abu-Hasaballah

Honors Scholar Theses

This paper sheds light on how university administrations have historically used instruments such as police, policy and punishment in order to deter and control student protests on campus. Students at the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus have an undeniable relationship with activism that integrates global issues at the local level, allowing them to play visible roles in international anti-war and anti-racist movements of different eras. The University of Connecticut (UConn) is used as a case study by assessing the ways the administration has responded to anti-Vietnam War and Civil Rights movements of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s in comparison …

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Williamsburg Hous. Preserv. Lp V. Khan May 2025

Williamsburg Hous. Preserv. Lp V. Khan

All Decisions

The court dismissed the landlord's non-payment proceeding, finding the rent demand defective. The demand merely referred to an attached ledger "riddled with fees and adjustments" rather than clearly itemizing the rent owed by month. This impermissibly shifted the burden to the tenant and court to calculate arrears, preventing the tenant from understanding the claim and formulating a defense.

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Mrn-Ctip, Exo1, And Dna2-Wrn/Blm Act Bidirectionally To Process Dna Gaps In Parpi-Treated Cells Without Strand Cleavage, Isabelle M Seppa, Mithila Tennakoon, Jessica Jackson, Celia D Rouault, Sumedha Agashe, Vladislav O Sviderskiy, Mangsi Limbu, Erica Lantelme, Alice Meroni, Priyanka Verma, Alessandro Vindigni, Et Al. May 2025

Mrn-Ctip, Exo1, And Dna2-Wrn/Blm Act Bidirectionally To Process Dna Gaps In Parpi-Treated Cells Without Strand Cleavage, Isabelle M Seppa, Mithila Tennakoon, Jessica Jackson, Celia D Rouault, Sumedha Agashe, Vladislav O Sviderskiy, Mangsi Limbu, Erica Lantelme, Alice Meroni, Priyanka Verma, Alessandro Vindigni, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) gaps impact genome stability and PARP inhibitor (PARPi) sensitivity, especially in BRCA1/2-deficient tumors. Using single-molecule DNA fiber analysis, electron microscopy, and biochemical methods, we found that MRN, CtIP, EXO1, and DNA2-WRN/BLM resect ssDNA gaps through a mechanism different from their actions at DNA ends. MRN resects ssDNA gaps in the 3'-to-5' direction using its pCtIP-stimulated exonuclease activity. Unlike at DNA ends, MRN does not use its endonucleolytic activity to cleave the 5'-terminated strand flanking the gap or the ssDNA. EXO1 and DNA2-WRN/BLM specifically resect the 5' end of the gap independent of MRN-CtIP. This resection process alters …

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