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Social Protest In Three Novels Of Carlos Fuentes, Jane Hamilton Rule

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Carlos Fuentes is one of Mexico' s current fiction writers and to many he is controversial in that he delves into several of Mexico's great preoccupations: the Revolution, the search for lo mexicano and the future for this growing country.

This thesis is an endeavor to expose and explain Fuentes' views on these and other social topics as seen in three of his novels: La region mas transparents, La guerte de Artemio Crux, and Cambio de piel.

An Analysis Of The Affirmation Of Personhood In United Methodist Church Kindergarten Curriculum, Alice Ann Glenn

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

An analysis of the United Methodist Church kindergarten curriculum has been made in this thesis in an attempt to determine to what extent the curriculum affrims personhood, The study is limited to six years of kindergarten curriculum, fall 1967 through summer 1973.

The first objective is to examine the curriculum to discover the extent of affirmation of personhood in general. The second objective is to determine significant trends or changes over a six-year period of curriculum surveyed in terms of affirmation of personhood. The third objective is the recommendation of further changes in the curriculum so that it is more …

Britain's Colonial Administrations And Developments, 1861-1960: An Analysis Of Britain's Colonial Administrations And Developments In Nigeria, Efiong Isaac Utuk

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is to indicate the positive British role in developing Nigeria during the Colonial period to the point that effective self-government became possible. The study is approached analytically, utilizing information primarily from printed sources, but including conclusions from the author's experience and informal interviews from local chiefs who lived through much of the Colonial period.

Between 1849 and 1906, West African territories were occupied by several European powers who subjected the peoples to a new type of administration. In Nigeria, Britain was the Colonial master. The British unquestionably benefited economically from their control of Nigeria, but, to their credit, …

Analysis Of The Occupational Status And Choice Patterns Of Women, Terry L. Besser

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

There were two parts of this study. The first part involved a determination of the status of women. Occupation, education and income criterion were used and it was concluded that educationally and occupationally, women were increasing their status relative to men. But the income of working women in contrast to men employed in the same fields was at an all time low. The central locus of the low occupational status of women was seen to be in women's continual choice of pursuing traditional female jobs. This leads to the second part of this study which was concerned with why women …

A Study Of The Loss-Of-Innocence Theme In Selected Novels Of Robert Penn Warren, Beverly S. Fisher

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Using Mordecai Marcus's ''What Is an Initiation Story?" and R. W. B. Lewis's The American Adam to define the loss of innocence, this study follows the protagonists of three Robert Penn Warren novels-- Wilderness, World Enough and Time, and All the King's Men--through their steps from innocence to knowledge, initiation, or the loss of innocence. A similar pattern is seen in the lives of Adam Rosenzweig, Jeremiah Beaumont, and Jack Burden. Each is well beyond the age normally associated with initiation and has gone through experiences which should have caused the loss of innocence. Each has refused the initiation (at …

Trumpet Recital, Donavon Dale Gray

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

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Un AnáLisis PsicolingüÍStico De Algunas PoesíAs De AgustíN Acosta, Kathryn Ann Hansen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The object of this thesis is to illustrate the use of different psycholinguistic indexes to determine the personality of a writer. This is done through data collected from ten works by the Cuban poet Agustín Acosta; an in depth study of the most outstanding characteristics of the personality of Agustín Acosta is explored through the use of one of these indexes.

Otello: Rossini - Verdi, Kathryn Eckart

Music ETDs

All art, whether visual, plastic, written, or aural, is experienced and criticized through a process of conscious and unconscious comparison. Trends, advances, and styles exist only in their difference from what has passed before. The study of artistic evolution is sometimes made easier when works with the same subject, such as paintings of the madonna, nude sculpture, architectural style of churches, of settings of the passion, by different artists and from different periods can be compared. The similarity of treatment of subject matter or the lack of it in contrasted artists or periods often provides a basis for the beginnings …

Providence And Progress: Richard Price's Idea Of Progress, George Marshall Reynolds

History ETDs

This study examines the idea of historical progress of the eighteenth-century English theologian and revolutionary thinker Richard Price. Although Price has received only passing notice in the standard histories of the belief in progress, the popular English philosopher made a significant (and in some respects unique) contribution to the history of the eighteenth-century idea.

Price was one of the most illustrious members of a small circle of English progressives--all Christian thinkers-- which also included the Anglicans David Hartley and William Paley and the Unitarian Joseph Priestley. These writers gave the idea of progress a strongly spiritual (Christian) imprint missing in …

The Prospector And The Pioneer: A Key To The Selected Short Stories Of Bret Harte, Emeline Beisman

English Language and Literature ETDs

My dissertation deals with the contrast between what I designate as the "prospector" and the "pioneer" or the transient and rooted elements of the frontier. The tensions between these two ways of life, I believe, provide an insight into Harte's fiction as indicated by the ten stories I discuss--"The Luck of Roaring Camp," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," "Tennessee's Partner," "Brown of Calaveras," "Miggles," "The Idyl of Red Gulch," "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar," "Wan Lee, the Pagan," "A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst," and “A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's." The opening chapter includes my …

The Numantian Theme In Spanish Literature, Jason M. Rogers-Rodriguez

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Numantia, after years of heroic resistance, fell to the Roman legions in 133 B.C. The conquest of Numantia was so costly that it played an important role in the internal politics of Rome and thus it was singled out and received the attention of the Greek and Roman historians who recorded and analyzed the conquest and colonization of Iberia.

Centuries later, when Spain had developed a sense of national unity, the Hispanic chroniclers found in the history of Numantia an authenticated record of Iberian will to resist foreign domination and evidence of a courageous and virtuous national character. The Hispanic …

The Fall Of The Bourgeoisie: Cuba, 1959-1961, Alfred L. Padula Jr.

History ETDs

This is an inquest into the demise of the Cuban bourgeoisie. How is it that, within the space of twenty-eight months, Castro's revo­lution was able to destroy this once powerful, talented and rapidly grow­ing class?

It is the thesis of this dissertation that the Cuban bourgeoisie was destroyed not only by pressure from without, by events beyond its control, but also that it disintegrated in considerable part from within. To an important extent, the bourgeoisie died of its own follies, its own failures.

This dissertation focuses on the process of internal disintegra­tion. Separate chapters consider the impact of Castro's revolution …

Myth And Reality In Hijo De Hombre, A Novel By Augusto Roa Bastos, David R. Gifford

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The essence of Paraguayan reality, cloaked in myths since the days of the Conquest, is an enigma which, for the most part, has been elusive to the writer's pen. There is, however, one man, Augusto Roa Bastos, who has succeeded masterfully in capturing that essence and who has done so precisely through the revelation of both Paraguay's myths and her reality. His work is the highly complex narrative Hijo de hombre, winner in 1959 of the esteemed Losada prize in Buenos Aires.

The success of Roa's novel stems from a deeply felt commit­ment to his fellow Paraguayans against man's …

The New Mexico Supreme Court, 1910-1970: Politics And The Legal Community, Susan Ann Roberts

History ETDs

This study examines the history of the New Mexico State Supreme Court and its role within the political process. As a political account, it focuses on the election and appointment of judges on a partisan basis, judicial personnel and their partisan activities, attempts to manipulate the judiciary for political purposes, political controversies litigated and subsequently resolved by the court, and the legal community and its influence on the state's judicial development. As a history, it proceeds chronologically, beginning with an exposition of the territorial precedent and of the establishment of the judiciary under the state constitution. The manuscript then recounts …

A Theory Of The Perception Of Character, Donna C. Brown

Dissertations and Theses

In this thesis, the critical term "character" is defined from a reader's perspective as a process involving three elements: (1) syntactical character, the printed words that delimit character in the order in which they occur; (2) spatial character, these printed words organized in the reader's mind into a pattern. These two together are called grammatical character; and (3) a mental image that results from reading these printed words.

Irony And The Savage Circle: A Comparative Study Of Things Fall Apart And Heart Of Darkness, Eric Giles Nwakuna

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Background To Banditry In The Lower Rio Grande Valley Of Texas: 1900 To 1912, Rodolfo Rocha

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The banditry in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas which began in 1912 and lasted until 1920 has been attributed to the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and prohibition. A fourth cause, the lawlessness that existed in the Valley prior to 1912, has been neglected by historians. The lawlessness was a result of the laxity and ineffective administration of law and order in the Valley. Criminal court records from Cameron, Hidalgo, and Starr Counties revealed that approximately 80 percent of all persons charged with cattle and horse theft, assault with intent to commit murder, or murder were exonerated. The …

An Existentialist Interpretation Of Paradise Lost, Nadia Tewfik El Sioufi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Artistic Vision And The Metaphysical Imagination: Toward A Phenomenology Of Aesthetic Consciousness, Audrey Benderman Joseph

Philosophy ETDs

This study treats the subject of aesthetic consciousness in terms of a phenomenological approach to modes of perception which can be said to constitute artistic vision. These include states of awareness variously described in the literature of aesthetics as empathy, aesthetic contemplation, reverie, or negative capability.

Rainer Maria Rilkes Musik Der KräFte (Rainer Maria Rilke's Music Of The Forces), Lilly E. Moore

Dissertations and Theses

Most of Rainer Maria Rilke's works leave a deep musical impression on the reader's mind. This impression stems first of all from the beauty of the tone and the rhythm of Rilke's poetical language and from the occurrence of many words that can be associated with music. In addition to this, his creative work was influenced considerably by his own experiences with a variety of musical sounds and by the many thoughts in which he tried to deal with the deeper meaning and function of music.

This thesis attempts to analyze Rilke's relationship to music within the framework of his …

The United States Naval Influence In South Russia, 1917-1922, Beverly A. Lowe

History Theses & Dissertations

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General Douglas Macarthur And The Philippine Army, James Allen Walker

History Theses & Dissertations

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Civil Rights In Northern Ireland, John F. Callan

History Theses & Dissertations

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"Art For Truth's Sake" : James A. Herne As Social Critic And Literary Artist, Nancy Hoyt Lecourt

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

James A. Herne, 1839-1901, is generally considered to be the best American dramatist prior to O'Neill. His dramas represent the first American attempts at dramatic realism. His early plays are melodramatic in tendency, but soon he began to eliminate villains, asides, stereotyped characters, and other trappings of that earlier dramatic form. When Hamlin Garland saw Herne's play dealing with the drinking problem, Drifting Apart, he was convinced that Herne could be groomed into a sort of American Ibsen. Garland soon introduced Herne to William Dean Howells, and the two authors encouraged Herne in his quest for realism. The result …

Irish Families In Portland, Oregon, 1850-1880: An Immigrant Culture In The Far West, Michael Kazin

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is an attempt to begin an examination of the social history of immigrant families in the cities of the West Coast. I chose to study Irish families in particular because they were the first group of migrants to come in large numbers to the United States from a primarily peasant culture, and because studies of Irish in the cities of the East have emphasized their resistance to assimilation into the dominant Anglicized Protestant society.

Labor Violence: The Centralia Case, The Iww And Its Enemies, Lawrence Skoog

Dissertations and Theses

Armistice Day 1919 was enthusiastically celebrated in Centralia, Washington. The Principle event of the day's activities was a parade organized under the leadership of the newly formed American Legion. But the parade was to be more than the simple affirmation of the victory in France, it was to be a reaffirmation of the patriotism of the newly returned sailors and soldiers and their home-town supporters.

Centralia was a troubled city in 1919. Organized labor of the most militant and extreme sort was challenging the oligopoly of the lumber trust. The Industrial Workers of the World had been successful in their …

The Historical Imagination Of Francesco Petrarch: A Study Of Poetic Truth And Historical Distortion, Sally Scholz

Dissertations and Theses

In the continuing debate among historians over the nature, if not the actual existence, of the Italian Renaissance, the life of Francesco Petrarch has played a major role. Petrarch was an outspoken critic and commentator on the state of fourteenth-century society. His opinions have been cited by all scholars interested in the origins of the "Renaissance Mind."

The concern of this paper will be to discuss the sources, development, and purpose of Petrarch's historical imagination. By tracing the course of Petrarch's life I have tried to expose the various factors bearing on his psychological development. His "exile" from Italy, early …

The Irish In Louisville., Stanley Ousley Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A pioneer study of Midwest ethnicity in a medium-sized city, "The Irish in Louisville- is a brief historical survey of Louisville's Irish-American community from about 1800 to 1973. Although some mention is made of individual Irish-Americans who have contributed to the city's life, the study concentrates on institutions (churches, neighborhoods, clubs and an ethnic newspaper) which created and maintained an Irish identity in Louisville. The study presents an account of the development of Limerick (an Irish neighborhood) from the Civil War to World War I, including the religious and social history of this Irish area. Other chapters concentrate upon the …

Memories And Dreams : A Freudian Look At Proust, Barbara Alexander Baroody

Master's Theses

Proust, born some fifteen years after Freud; was equally fascinated with the potential for the unconscious mind. He was obsessed by the desire to overcome the destructive force of Time and assure tor himself a place in eternity. He wanted to project himself into the future by creating a work of art, for he believed that Art, alone surpassed Time. His work of art would be a novel, but rather than simply recounting past experiences, he sought to actually bring them to life again by evoking in the reader the same sensations he experienced. Dreams and those memories which rise …

Relief Society Grain Storage Program, 1876-1940, Jessie L. Embry

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis will describe and interpret the development of this Relief Society wheat storage program from its inception in 1876 to 1940 when the program was transferred to the General Church Welfare Committee. Emphasis will be placed on the sisters' attempts to store grain and the problems they encountered. The thesis will also discuss the effects of outside forces on the program and the different ways the sisters used the grain. The final chapter will deal with the relationship between the movement and the history of the Relief Society and its parent organization, the Mormon Church.