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Perceptions And Realities: Contemporary Impressions Of Formative And Temporal Experiences, Holly Lee Brewer

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This thesis describes contemporary, non-traditional printmaking processes aimed at creating a metaphor for our perceptions of time and how the passage of time affects us both internally and externally in our attempt at constructing our self-identity. The language of this metaphor adopts the internal patterns of tree burls and altered pieces of manufactured wood in communicating the transience of time and mutability of memory. Texture is highlighted in many of the pieces for the exhibition, not only with that of irregular wood grain, but also in the series with skin-like handmade flax paper. In order to demonstrate how memory is …

Anna Karenina: A Full Length Play, Serena Mccarthy

Theses

Anna Karenina: A Full Length Play brings Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel to life on the theatrical stage. This classic addresses issues of gender roles, social hierarchies, and the nature of love in the Russia of the 1860’s. The unforgettable themes in Anna Karenina such as love and destiny have thrilled readers and audiences for years.

Technology In The Fashion Industry: Designing With Digital Media, Adima Cope

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The fashion industry has advanced new technologies in the twenty-first century that has made producing apparel more cost effective with faster time-to-market capabilities and greatly reduced steps in the manufacturing process. The reasons for these improvements can be linked to new apparel computer-aided-design (CAD) technologies that have come about in the market as computers have advanced and grown in processing power and reduction in size since the 1980s. Computers are revolutionizing many industries and the way business is conducted in today’s modern workplace. The fashion industry has yet to convert all processes to digital means but advancements have been growing …

The Sublime & The Picturesque In Art, James M. Chleboun

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Is it possible to create "classical'' landscape pictures of today? The genre of drawing and painting landscapes is the subject for this thesis. For comparing for relevancy, the binary topic is two aesthetic terms, the Sublime and the Picturesque. I will show what the art critics and artists say about those terms with several historical and contemporary artists a<; examples. I will explain what I did with some of my drawings and paintings in relation to the terms within the "classical" composition format.

The challenge for my work is to compose the contemporary landscape using the classical composing principles used by Old Masters. A contemporary German artist has succeeded very well in composing the '·classical·' landscapes of today with modern cultural attributes, but they …

Genealogical Interpretation: Applications Of Genealogy At Historic Sites, Foresta Hanson

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Historical sites protect and preserve sites of national importance and shared memories of its citizens (Lenz, 2011; Mackintosh, 2000). These sites document liberty, colonial history, slavery, wars, prominent figures, and more through museums, villages, homes, cemeteries, and battlefields (Utah Education Network, 2012). Interpreters tell the stories of the people who lived and died at the historic site connecting visitors to the resource. Genealogy answers the universal need people have to know who they are and where they come from (Bishop, 2008; Brough, 1995). Interpreters bring the ancestors to life and help the visitor understand what life was like in previous …

The Triangle Factory Fire Project Master's Thesis, Theresa Nigus

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T71e Triangle Factory Fire Project brin.gs to light one or the worst industrial accidents in the history of New York City. The lives of 142 young immigrant workers were lost in a literal inferno, greatly due to the lack of safety regulations within the factory. Witness statements and actuc:11 transcript from the trial of factory co-owners Max Blanck and Isaac Harris illustrate the events that brought about some of the greatest change in safety regulations in American history.