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A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
A Knowable World: America, The City, And The Thematics Of Book Five Of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson", Gaston De Bearn
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Virginia Woolf's Starving Artists, Beverly Ann Beyer
Virginia Woolf's Starving Artists, Beverly Ann Beyer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"I Rode Six Miles To Zion": The Experiences Of A Circuit Rider In Virginia, Joseph Servis
"I Rode Six Miles To Zion": The Experiences Of A Circuit Rider In Virginia, Joseph Servis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Wild, Wearable, And Seaworthy, Frances Evelyn Davey
Wild, Wearable, And Seaworthy, Frances Evelyn Davey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear
Censorship, Cyberspace, And Community Standards: American Responses To On-Line Obscenity, Laura Mame Spear
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Preserving Their Form And Features": The Role Of Coffins In The American Understanding Of Death, 1607-1870, Brent Warren Tharp
"Preserving Their Form And Features": The Role Of Coffins In The American Understanding Of Death, 1607-1870, Brent Warren Tharp
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is a study of the American coffin, its origins, forms, and meanings especially with regard to its role in the integration of death in American society before 1870. Coffins have generally been ignored by material culture studies primarily because of our society's cultural uneasiness with the topic of death. Current American funeral and burial practices seem bizarre and ahistorical and have often been characterized as the result of twentieth-century commercial greed. However, coffins have a long history as important artifacts which American society has used to legitimize death in subtly different ways for generations. This study examines the …
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions Of Silhouettes, Miniatures, And Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860, Anne Ayer Verplanck
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1807, Charles Fraser lauded fellow miniature artist Edward Greene Malbone's ability to produce "such striking resemblances, that they will never fail to perpetuate the tenderness of friendship, to divert the cares of absence, and to aid affection in dwelling on those features and that image which death has forever wrested from it." The explanations traditionally given for the commissioning of portraits--the perpetuation of family or institutional memory--correspond with Fraser's comments. Yet these explanations rarely incorporate the social context: the communities in which images were produced and the individual, familial, or group meanings of portraits.;"Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions of …
Bridging The Cultural Divide: American Indians At Hampton Institute, 1878-1923., Jon Larsen Brudvig
Bridging The Cultural Divide: American Indians At Hampton Institute, 1878-1923., Jon Larsen Brudvig
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Puritan Town And Gown: Harvard College And Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636--1800., John Daniel Burton
Puritan Town And Gown: Harvard College And Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1636--1800., John Daniel Burton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann
Issues Of Power And Centrality In United Methodist Ministers' Occupational Activities: Implications For Professional Education, Richard Bruce Osmann
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this interview based qualitative study was to explore the influence that a plurality of social contexts, represented through United Methodist congregations in the Virginia Conference, have on the formation of ministers' occupational activities.;The study used a typology developed by Larry Blazer (1987) to identify the occupational activities practiced by parish ministers. The investigation weighted clergy's professional practice using Judith Hackman's (1985) concepts of power and centrality in her study institutions of higher education's budgeting process. Congregational representatives identified occupational activities that were central and peripheral to their congregation's mission. Clergy identified the occupational activities that received more …
Sugar Chests In Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton Mcpherson
Sugar Chests In Middle Tennessee, 1800-1835, Anne Shelton Mcpherson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Beyond Telling The News: The Mission Of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Beyond Telling The News: The Mission Of Public Journalism, 1996, Pamela Sue Burton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
The John Page House Site: A N Example Of The Increase In Domestic Brick Architecture In Seventeenth-Century Tidewater Virginia, Dwayne Webster Pickett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Archaeological Assessment Of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman
An Archaeological Assessment Of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks
Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Education In Virtue: Didacticism And Audience In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" And Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir Of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
An Education In Virtue: Didacticism And Audience In Elizabeth Gaskell's "Ruth" And Charlotte Yonge's "The Heir Of Redclyffe", Tayce Langley Clarke
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Work And Play: Recreation And Reality In A Southern Female Textile World, Beth Anne English
Work And Play: Recreation And Reality In A Southern Female Textile World, Beth Anne English
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"As If I Were A Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee And The Civil War She Waged In Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps
"As If I Were A Confederate Soldier": Mary Greenhow Lee And The Civil War She Waged In Winchester, Virginia, Sheila R. Phipps
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Tapping Hidden Talent: The Identification Of Culturally Diverse Students For Gifted Education Programs In The Southeastern United States, Priscilla Richmond
Tapping Hidden Talent: The Identification Of Culturally Diverse Students For Gifted Education Programs In The Southeastern United States, Priscilla Richmond
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to provide a profile of gifted education identification procedures for culturally diverse ethnic populations (African-American, Native-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic) in the southeastern region of the United States. In this research, data from educators was analyzed by means of surveys and in-depth inquiries to provide a profile of gifted education identification procedures. The objectives for this study were to determine with respect to the identification of culturally diverse students for gifted education: their proportional representation in gifted education programs, the utilization of multiple identification measures with these populations, the consideration given to their gifted and …
The Effect Of Chemical Dependency Counselors' Spiritual Well-Being On The Spiritual Well-Being Of Their Clients, Clifford Wilson Brooks Jr.
The Effect Of Chemical Dependency Counselors' Spiritual Well-Being On The Spiritual Well-Being Of Their Clients, Clifford Wilson Brooks Jr.
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact an inpatient substance abuse counselors' spiritual well-being had on chemically dependent patients' spiritual well-being over the course of two weeks in treatment.;Raymond Paloutzian and Craig Ellison developed the Spiritual Well-Being Scale which was utilized in this study along with the Rokeach Value Survey, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Profile of Adaptation to Life Scale. Pre and Post test packets containing the Spiritual Well-Being Scale and the Profile of Adaptation to Life Scale were administered to one hundred ten inpatient alcohol and drug patients. A total of forty-five alcohol and …
Mouth With Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, And Authorship In Charles W Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman", Kristin Margaret Edmonds
Mouth With Myriad Subtleties: Race, Gender, Audience, And Authorship In Charles W Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman", Kristin Margaret Edmonds
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Other Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, And The Commodity Of Experience, Jill Angela Mcnutt
The Other Faces Of Mount Rushmore: Tourism, Advertising, And The Commodity Of Experience, Jill Angela Mcnutt
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Marston Parish 1654-1674: A Community Study, Jane Dillon Mckinney
Marston Parish 1654-1674: A Community Study, Jane Dillon Mckinney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Ship Of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, And The Transformation Of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Ship Of Wealth: Massachusetts Merchants, Foreign Goods, And The Transformation Of Anglo-America, 1670-1760, Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines capitalism and cultural change in early New England. The research focuses on leading merchants in Boston and Salem, Massachusetts from the last third of the seventeenth century to 1760. During this period, merchants, royal officials, and professionals formed a prominent influential elite that refashioned the town landscape and social structure of colonial ports. Merchants adopted a new Anglo-American worldview that gradually supplanted Puritan spiritual and providential understanding of the world and, instead, emphasized visible, material characteristics as the source of value in science, commerce, and consumption. The resultant "world of goods," created a social marketplace where identity, …
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
"The Road To Ruins And Restoration": Roland W Robbins And The Professionalization Of Historical Archaeology, Donald Walter Linebaugh
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Roland W. Robbins helped to pioneer the profession of historical archaeology. as the discipline professionalized, he found himself increasingly excluded. This study analyzes Robbins's career within the context of the disciplines of archaeology and historic preservation and considers the professionalization process, current cultural resource management practice, the value of early data, and the importance of public archaeology.;The study also explores archaeology as Robbins's solution to his long personal crisis of vocation. He reacted to his coming of age during the Depression by searching for personal foundations and also responded to larger cultural needs, including a quest for the roots of …