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Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird As Adapted By Christopher Sergel: A Thesis In Directing, Andrew Vastine Stabler Jan 2002

Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird As Adapted By Christopher Sergel: A Thesis In Directing, Andrew Vastine Stabler

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis describes the directorial process of a production of Christopher Sergels's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It follows the process of preproduction through rehearsals. It makes use of the influences of the prior history and the recent educational experience of the director. Throughout it accesses the choices made and concludes with conclusions on the final product.

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Liminal Recollection...Between Memory And Reality, Blake Jamison Williams Jan 2002

Liminal Recollection...Between Memory And Reality, Blake Jamison Williams

LSU Master's Theses

In the year I applied to graduate school, the objects in my life acquired a distinct preciousness after my grandparents passed away within three months of each other. I realized that the things we collect, and those that surround us, reveal our narratives and silently map our personalities. I discovered that material items triggered memories for me specific to their function and relationship to me. My grandmother’s set of ten figurines reminded me of the many times we would sit and drink tea together. I became acutely aware of material items that were results of human actions. A used teabag …

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These Things Add Up, Sara C. Hopp Jan 2002

These Things Add Up, Sara C. Hopp

LSU Master's Theses

These Things Add Up explores thoughts about time, accumulation and evidence. As time passes, there is a constant accumulation of tangible and non-tangible information which must be processed. Moments, conversations, thoughts, observations and sensations all contribute to this saturation of information and the creation of a layered space and time. Information which is consciously or unconsciously selected for notice becomes evidence of identity and personal history. In this same process, memory and the anticipation of the future are incorporated into the present.

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Know, Known, Knew, Sherry J. Lane Jan 2002

Know, Known, Knew, Sherry J. Lane

LSU Master's Theses

I have special appreciations for my education, the ability to read, comprehend, and communicate. These appreciations have led my curiosity to issues of education and how we sometimes take important necessities for granted. Advances in technologies are changing social interactions, perceptions, and the ways in which we communicate. I have become intrigued at how these changes affect the ways in which we are taught today, verses how we were taught in the past and I am especially concerned of how the future will be influenced by what we are learning. When I speak of how we are taught and what …

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Chinese Intervention In The Korean War, Harry Martin Crocker Jan 2002

Chinese Intervention In The Korean War, Harry Martin Crocker

LSU Master's Theses

In late October 1950, the People's Republic of China (PRC) committed approximately 260,000 troops to combat in North Korea. The initial Chinese decision to intervene in the Korean conflict was based on a misperception of American commitment to halt communist expansion. American actions seemed to communicate the desire to avoid confrontation. The withdrawal of U.S. troops and the limited equipping and training of the South Korean army implied Washington's lack of interest in the fate of Korea. Therefore, Mao endorsed North Korea's proposal for the military reunification of Korea. China stood to gain international prestige and access to Soviet equipment …

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Men, Women, And Children, Marie Dufour Goodwin Jan 2002

Men, Women, And Children, Marie Dufour Goodwin

LSU Master's Theses

All of my fiction has to do with relationships. I suspect this is true of most creative writers, but in my place this broad theme takes precedence over other creative aspects of writing, such as language. While I would not call my prose minimalist, I have tried to set down my short stories in a plain rather than an involved or noticeably poetic idiom. As for the three-tiered division into “Men,” “Women,” and “Children,” the stories themselves naturally fell into these three categories, depending on the main, point-of-view character. I found it enthralling to change the authorial voice to conform …

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The Chemistry Of Change: A Production Thesis In Directing, Anthony Greenleaf Winkler Jan 2002

The Chemistry Of Change: A Production Thesis In Directing, Anthony Greenleaf Winkler

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis is an account of the production process involved in directing The Chemistry of Change by Marlane Meyer. Particular attention is paid to the Suzuki and Viewpoint methods of actor training used in rehearsal; periods of discussion with the playwright regarding the script; negotiations with designers; and an evaluation of the audience reception of the public performances. These aspects of producing a play for the theatre are recorded from the point of view of the director and described with the intention of revealing the learning process for all involved in the collaborative process.

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The Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902): Development Of The U.S. Army's Counterinsurgency Policy, Frank L. Andrews Jan 2002

The Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902): Development Of The U.S. Army's Counterinsurgency Policy, Frank L. Andrews

LSU Master's Theses

Counterinsurgency is one of the most difficult forms of conflict an army can face. After defeating Spanish forces in Manila during the Spanish-American War, a well-developed insurrection, led by Emilio Aguinaldo, challenged the United States Army for nearly four years. Although the army in 1898 was unprepared for a large-scale, two-front war, it conducted an extremely effective counterinsurgency campaign 7000 miles from home in inhospitable terrain. Despite lacking a formal, written counterinsurgency doctrine, the frontier experiences of the army, orally passed on from one generation of soldiers to the next, provided invaluable lessons that could be applied in the Philippines. …

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A Scenic Design Process For The Chemistry Of Change: A Production Thesis In Theatre Design And Technology, Stephen E. Haynes Jan 2002

A Scenic Design Process For The Chemistry Of Change: A Production Thesis In Theatre Design And Technology, Stephen E. Haynes

LSU Master's Theses

The scenic design for the Louisiana State University Theatre production of Marlane Meyer’s The Chemistry of Change was selected and approved as my thesis project in the spring of 2001. This document represents a written account of the scenic design as it was conceived, developed, and executed. Records include research, a description of the design process, photographic evidence, and a final evaluation of the result.

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The Role Of The Parisian Café In The Emergence Of Modern Art: An Analysis Of The Nineteenth Century Café As Social Institution And Symbol Of Modern Art, Karen Marie Dees Jan 2002

The Role Of The Parisian Café In The Emergence Of Modern Art: An Analysis Of The Nineteenth Century Café As Social Institution And Symbol Of Modern Art, Karen Marie Dees

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis analyzes the significance of the Paris café in Modern Art. In discussing the social and historical events of mid to late nineteenth century Paris, it establishes the atmosphere in which the first modern artists broke from the formal academy system. The primary focus is two-fold. First, how the café was established in Parisian culture as a social institution and the role this played as a replacement for the Ecole des Beaux Arts and in the formation of a new art movement. Second, how the new artists incorporated the café culture into their art as a representation of modern …

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Stefan Zweig And Russia, Lidia Zhigunova Jan 2002

Stefan Zweig And Russia, Lidia Zhigunova

LSU Master's Theses

The main purpose of this study is to examine and to evaluate the reception of Stefan Zweig and his works in Russia, as well as the perception of Russia by Stefan Zweig recorded in his recollections of his trip to Russia in 1928, when he took part in the festivities dedicated to the hundredth anniversary of Leo Tolstoy's birth. I will also analyze the meeting and the correspondence between Zweig and Gorky, as well as the correspondence between Zweig and Romain Rolland, in which the two of them shared their views on Soviet Russia. The study concurs that Zweig was …

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Concert Recording 2002-04-24b, Anesha Dexter, Nancy Maier, Shiori Yamaguchi, Frank Watkins, Claire Detels, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Collegium Musicum Jan 2002

Concert Recording 2002-04-24b, Anesha Dexter, Nancy Maier, Shiori Yamaguchi, Frank Watkins, Claire Detels, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Collegium Musicum

Concert Recordings & Programs

Toccata in D / Girolamo Frescobaldi -- Beate mie pene (Blessed be my sufferings) / M. A. Charpentier -- Prelude in G minor ; Passacaille in G minor / Jean-Henri D'Anglebert -- Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, BWV 1034. Adagio ma non tanto ; Allegro ; Andante / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Sonata in B minor for flute and obligato harpsichord, BWV 1030. Andante ; Largo e dolce ; Presto / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Les delices champestres (Pastoral delights) / Michel Pignolet de Monteclair

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Chronophobia: Doing Time, Rosemary Stoltz Hill Jan 2002

Chronophobia: Doing Time, Rosemary Stoltz Hill

LSU Master's Theses

Chronophobia is the fear of time—characterized by panic, anxiety, and claustrophobia. Also known as prison neurosis, it may be the most common anxiety disorder in prison inmates. Sooner or later, almost all prisoners suffer chronophobia to some degree and become terrified by the duration and immensity of time. This is often called going “stir crazy.” The work in this installation subjectively explores interpretations of the passage of time through various multimedia experiences. Interactivity is a key feature of several installation components. There is also limited use of traditional print media graphics. References to time in music, literature and film are …

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Sport, And The Changing Definition Of Whiteness, Bradburn Virgil Buras Jan 2002

Sport, And The Changing Definition Of Whiteness, Bradburn Virgil Buras

LSU Master's Theses

This paper looks at the effects of professional basketball on white culture. Traditional scholarship focuses on the impact this has on the African-American community. Very little attention is given to its effects on white America. The focus of this paper is to examine whiteness and to understand how it is socially constructed. In addition, this paper will examine how some elements of black style have been appropriated by white America and changed the definition of whiteness in America. White America's appropriation of limited aspects of black style has been facilitated by the culture that is associated with professional basketball. The …

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"You Go Girl!" Nationalism And Women's Empowerment In The Bollywood Film Kya Kehna, Hope Marie Childers Jan 2002

"You Go Girl!" Nationalism And Women's Empowerment In The Bollywood Film Kya Kehna, Hope Marie Childers

LSU Master's Theses

This essay puts forth an analysis of the recent portrayal of an unwed mother in the Bollywood film, Kya Kehna! (Kundan Shah, 2000, henceforth KK). The title, which is readily translated to the rhetorical, "What can you say?" has additional significance here as a laudatory exclamation directed at the film's young heroine. Targeting a younger audience, the film was hailed as a challenging exploration of female sexuality and women's empowerment. The film in fact reaffirms traditional stereotypes of women in which their behavior is carefully controlled within a patriarchal framework. In spite of the awkward fact that the main character's …

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Idego, Christopher Michael Stanley Jan 2002

Idego, Christopher Michael Stanley

LSU Master's Theses

My thesis show is sort of a mock manifesto on the ephemeral making of art, especially my art. Automatic drawing and collage are major themes and redundencies that continue to find their way into what I do. I will show the dualities between what is past and what is present hoping to find the integral ingredient that caused the past to be present. I will make the viewer question what he or she believes in. We all know that the reason for the present is because of the events in the past, but do the events of the past hold …

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Explaining The Explanation: Byron's Notes To Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cristina M. Caminita Jan 2002

Explaining The Explanation: Byron's Notes To Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cristina M. Caminita

LSU Master's Theses

In this thesis, I show that Lord Byron's notes to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage are an integral part of the poem itself, not to be read as added material, but to be read as material that comments upon and deconstructs the poem. I examine the first two cantos of the poem, reading the notes as Byron's own answers and questions to the stylistic and political ramifications of the romance verse. By scrutinizing Byron's use of the romantic hero, the romance verse, the romantic quest and the text of romance for his reading public, I show Byron's own subversion and questioning of …

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The United States 1989 Military Intervention In Panama: A Just Cause?, William Harrision Huff Iv Jan 2002

The United States 1989 Military Intervention In Panama: A Just Cause?, William Harrision Huff Iv

LSU Master's Theses

American involvement in Panama dates back to 1903 when the United States helped bring independence to the Republic and soon after began construction of the Panama Canal. As the guarantor of Panamanian sovereignty, the U.S in the ensuing decades contributed to a non-democratic environment in Panama by supporting a series of dictators who promised stability in the region. The U.S. National Security policy just before Operation JUST CAUSE finally acknowledged the brutality of the Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega, forcing Washington to attempt numerous unsuccessful diplomatic maneuvers in an effort to avoid military intervention. Once combat operations commenced, the justification, necessity …

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Concert Recording 2002-10-16a, Theresa Delaplain, W. Warren Jan 2002

Concert Recording 2002-10-16a, Theresa Delaplain, W. Warren

Concert Recordings & Programs

The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Savannah River holiday / Ron Nelson -- Amazing grace -- Folk song suite. March-Seventeen come Sunday ; Intermezzo-My bonny boy ; March-Folk songs from Somerset / Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Concerto sopra Motivi del opera La Favoriata / Antonio Pasculli -- With pleasure (Dance hilarious) / John Philip Sousa -- Be Thou my vision / David R. Gillingham -- Awayday / Adam Gorb

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Concert Recording 2002-02-26, W. Dale Warren, Lynn Klock, Wiff Rudd Jan 2002

Concert Recording 2002-02-26, W. Dale Warren, Lynn Klock, Wiff Rudd

Concert Recordings & Programs

The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- Eternal Father, strong to save / Claude T. Smith -- La carnaval de Venise / Jean Baptiste Arban -- Fayetteville bop / Donald Grantham -- Sapphire / Catherine McMichael -- Symphony no. 1 in G minor. Finale / Vassily Kalinnikov -- SThe stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa

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Mixed Feelings, Hillary Mcmahan Jan 2002

Mixed Feelings, Hillary Mcmahan

LSU Master's Theses

My thesis exhibition, entitled "Mixed Feelings," consisted of mostly figurative paintings and drawings. In this body of work I attempted to use fragments of the figure, separately and in combination with various objects and creatures, to create visual equivalents for a range of emotional states.

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Misguided By Experience: A Defense Of Custer's Actions At The Little Bighorn, Harold Douglas Baker Jan 2002

Misguided By Experience: A Defense Of Custer's Actions At The Little Bighorn, Harold Douglas Baker

LSU Master's Theses

At midday on June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer split his Seventh Cavalry Regiment into three elements and attacked an enormous village of hostile Indians situated along the Little Bighorn River in modern-day Montana. Custer and his immediate command of five troops, a total of 225 men, did not survive the fight. Immediately following the battle, officers-Reno, Benteen, Brisbin, Terry, Gibbon-began to recreate the history of the campaign's recent events in an effort to explain the disaster and clear themselves of responsibility. Their self-serving omission of facts and their convenient "remembrance" of things that had not happened fully …

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Backwaters, Tamika L. Edwards Jan 2002

Backwaters, Tamika L. Edwards

LSU Master's Theses

Backwaters is a novel heavily steeped in the supernatural. It chronicles the lives of a mother and son who have been disconnected from one another through a series of curses. Unaware of the other-worldly forces propelling their lives into chaos, each loses themselves to madness and isolation. Their only escape is in loving others too hard, and not each other enough.

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Aspects Of Jazz And Classical Music In David N. Baker's Ethnic Variations On A Theme Of Paganini, Heather Koren Pinson Jan 2002

Aspects Of Jazz And Classical Music In David N. Baker's Ethnic Variations On A Theme Of Paganini, Heather Koren Pinson

LSU Master's Theses

David Baker's Ethnic Variations on a Theme of Paganini (1976) for violin and piano bring together stylistic elements of jazz and classical music, a synthesis for which Gunther Schuller in 1957 coined the term "third stream." In regard to classical aspects, Baker's work is modeled on Nicolo Paganini's Twenty-fourth Caprice for Solo Violin, itself a theme and variations. From Paganini,it borrows aspects of melody, harmony, and articulation, not only of the theme but also the variations. In regard to jazz, Baker transforms most variations (including the theme, which in comparison to Paganini's is already a variation) into distinct styles related …

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Free Will And Responsiblity: Indeterminism And Its Problems, Troy Dwayne Fassbender Jan 2002

Free Will And Responsiblity: Indeterminism And Its Problems, Troy Dwayne Fassbender

LSU Master's Theses

This work is devoted to criticisms of libertarian philosophers who attempt to provide an account of agent freedom that relies solely upon indeterminism. First, the philosophy of Robert Kane is examined. I argue that Kane's account does not succeed as an intelligible libertarian account of freedom and at best makes compatibilist accounts more intuitive. I next examine objections to indeterminist accounts as lodged by Galen Strawson, Thomas Nagel, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Double before turning to an analysis of a debate among Peter van Inwagen, John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza. Van Inwagen argues that we are seldom able to …

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Projected Idol: A Madman's Obsession, Aaron Paul Hussey Jan 2002

Projected Idol: A Madman's Obsession, Aaron Paul Hussey

LSU Master's Theses

My art work explores societal issues and the effects of accepted norms on the public and on myself. The baseline issue is security. People will go to extremes to feel secure! My goal is to create images that will start a dialog that addresses these issues and disseminates information that will cause social change. Projected Idol: a madman’s obsession is a sculptural installation that examines the theme of the ideal male body image in western culture and the mixed signals that are projected through mass media. These conflicting images play a direct role in the security or insecurity of people …

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The Strategic Bombing Campaign Against Germany During World War Ii, Julius Rigole Jan 2002

The Strategic Bombing Campaign Against Germany During World War Ii, Julius Rigole

LSU Master's Theses

Early attempts at strategic bombing led theorist to reason that it could offer a revolutionary new means of winning wars. Airpower visionaries such as Guilio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and Billy Mitchell advocated a Sherman - like strategy of attrition in which air strikes on the enemy’s vital economic centers would destroy his war – making capability and crush his will to resist. In the inner – war period the Air Corps Tactical School, occupied with formulating a strategic air doctrine, refined that idea, which was the central concept underlying AWPD-1, the basic statement governing strategic bombing elaborated by the Air …

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The New Orleans Press-Radio War And Huey P. Long, 1922-1936, Brian David Collins Jan 2002

The New Orleans Press-Radio War And Huey P. Long, 1922-1936, Brian David Collins

LSU Master's Theses

The introduction of radio in America in the 1920s was greeted with much fanfare by the general public and by newspapers and politicians as well. Its popularity soared as radio sets became cheaper and more accessible. Newspapers were eager to boost their circulations by featuring the latest craze; many newspapers even started their own stations as a means of publicity. As the country sank deeper into the Great Depression in the 1930s, the relationship between the country's press and radio worsened. The newspapers felt threatened that radio would take away their advertising revenue in addition to stealing their news dissemination …

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Concert Recording 2002-12-08, Jodie Franklin, Genet Cramlet, Steven Silvey, Ashley Watkins, Hibba Imendia, Desmond Ellington, Ryan Neighbors, Jonathon Kimbrough, Bijoux Ngundue, Brandy Middleton, Jackie Burke, Ashley French, Tangela Boykins, Jerald Sharum, Emily Baker, Christopher Harp, Brian Dell, Lindsey Duckworth, Aushua Jordan, Emma Conner, Natalie Bramwell, Colton Bramwell, Melissa Conner Jan 2002

Concert Recording 2002-12-08, Jodie Franklin, Genet Cramlet, Steven Silvey, Ashley Watkins, Hibba Imendia, Desmond Ellington, Ryan Neighbors, Jonathon Kimbrough, Bijoux Ngundue, Brandy Middleton, Jackie Burke, Ashley French, Tangela Boykins, Jerald Sharum, Emily Baker, Christopher Harp, Brian Dell, Lindsey Duckworth, Aushua Jordan, Emma Conner, Natalie Bramwell, Colton Bramwell, Melissa Conner

Concert Recordings & Programs

Fifes / James Lyke -- Canon in D / Johann Pachelbel -- Prelude op. 28 / Frederic Chopin -- Come dance the polka / Willard Palmer -- Surprise symphony -- Joseph Haydn -- Fur Elise / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Dumballah / James Lyke -- William Tell overture / Gioacchino Rossini -- Last day of autumn / Edwards -- Minuet in D minor / James Lyke -- Graceful skiiers ; Memory of Paris / William Gillock -- Pattern in color / James Lyke -- A little joke / Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky -- The luckiest / Ben Folds -- Scene from …

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Pink Paper And The Composition Of Flann O'Brien's At-Swim-Two-Birds, Samuel Kauffman Anderson Jan 2002

Pink Paper And The Composition Of Flann O'Brien's At-Swim-Two-Birds, Samuel Kauffman Anderson

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis is an analysis of the two surviving typescripts of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. After a brief overview of both typescripts, the thesis focuses on the earlier of the two, especially its use of pink paper, and suggests (based on subject matter, pagination, and stylistic patterns) that the pink pages were written before the typescript's white pages, and therefore that they represent O'Brien's earliest conception of the novel.

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