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Indian Agent Gad Humphreys And The Politics Of Slave Claims On The Florida Frontier, 1822-1830, Kevin D. Kokomoor

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project examines the intimate role slave claims played in the animosities which quickly developed from the acquisition of the Florida territory to the outbreak of the Second Seminole Indian War. By focusing on the Indian Agency and its first administrator, Gad Humphreys, this connection is made by suggesting that the territory's legislators were unwilling to allow the coexistence of Seminoles and blacks on the Florida frontier. The presence of these communities threatened developing Middle Florida plantations with significantly increased risks of both slave runaways and insurrection. In response, settlers and government officials pressed Humphreys to see not only that …

Mathematical Modeling And Analysis Of Options With Jump-Diffusion Volatility, Irena Andreevska

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Several existing pricing models of financial derivatives as well as the effects of volatility risk are analyzed. A new option pricing model is proposed which assumes that stock price follows a diffusion process with square-root stochastic volatility. The volatility itself is mean-reverting and driven by both diffusion and compound Poisson process. These assumptions better reflect the randomness and the jumps that are readily apparent when the historical volatility data of any risky asset is graphed. The European option price is modeled by a homogeneous linear second-order partial differential equation with variable coefficients. The case of underlying assets that pay continuous …

Capitalism, Consumerism, And Individualism: Investigating The Rhetoric Of The Secret, Carolina Fernandez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

I am investigating a New Age spiritual movement called the Law of Attraction that has been the source of recent media attention due to the recent publication of a self-help book called The Secret. The book investigates this phenomenon, which is a theory that takes positive thinking to the extreme. The theory states that reality can be literally manifested through one's thoughts. I am interested in this trend because it supports consumerist values, entrepreneurship, and self-actualization while using socialist rhetoric to promote capitalist values. I am also interested in the implications that this rhetoric holds for women and marginalized groups. …

Alvin Phillip Hendley

African American Funeral Programs

Service held in Sidney A. Jones & Campbell Funeral Home in Savannah, Georgia.

Fleischman, Adolf John, 1889-1987 (Sc 1632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1632. Letter, 8 November 1918, from Fleischman, Corbin, Kentucky to his wife, Edna, in Louisville, Kentucky. He inquires about the end of the war, declares that he is coming home and requests that his wife buy several items.

Hardin, Amanda Leeann, B. 1983 (Sc 1635), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1635. Copy of a diary kept by Amanda LeeAnn Hardin while a first-grade student at Bristow Elementary School, Warren County, Kentucky. Entries include comments about her pets, her family, and the Persian Gulf War.

Mcwherter, Henry Newton, 1858-1923 (Sc 1627), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1627. Copy of letter, 6 December 1918, from H. N. McWherter, Persimon, Monroe County, Kentucky to his son James M. McWherter, with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He mentions family, friends, the end of the war, and the influenza outbreak.

Bradley, Henry Walter, Sr., 1894-1988 (Sc 1624), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1624. Copy of a notarized statement by Henry Walter Bradley, Sr., 23 July 1969, giving information related to the Chaffin family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in support of an application to have Hugh G. Chaffin released from active military service.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Brass Choir, Huntington Horns, Trombone Choir, Backlash Quintet, Michael Stroeher, Stephen Lawson

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Ian Thornton, Guitar, Ian Thornton

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 45, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Day, Michelle. Western Relieved by Budget
• Hale, Marianne. Four Vetoed Projects Restored – Van Meter Hall, Preston Health & Activities Center, Ivan Wilson Hall, Parking Lots
• Robinson, Andrew. A Golden Opportunity – Ken McDonald, Basketball
• Rowell, Larry. Local Family Reels After Son, 15 Is Slain - Eros Berisaj, Shootings
• Rowell, Larry. Western Student Charged with Arson – Jordan Burchel
• Ulber, Emily. Western Seeks to Ease Stress of Transfer Students – 2+2 Program, Computer Science
• Day, Michelle. Board of Regents Approves New Graduate Certificate – English as Second Language, …

2007-2008 Master Of Music Recital - Daniel Padua (Piano), Daniel Padua

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

Fields, John W. (Fa 210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 210. Paper: [Oklahoma Life During the Great Depression: Interview with Bonnie G. Fields] written by John W. Fields for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Bullington, Mose (Fa 207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 207. Paper: "Personal Narratives Related to Natural Disasters" written by Mose Bullington for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Interview 3 Clarifying Interviews 1 And 2, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

No abstract provided.

Johnson, Daryl, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Darryl Johnson is a professional DJ who goes by the name DJ Thoro. His story details the career path that one would take to success within the music industry.

Johnson was born in 1975 in Harlem. During his childhood, he shuttled between New York and Florida, as he had family in both states. He developed an interest in music after listening to a series of tapes which his brother made while attending park jams. Furthermore, he practiced skills as a DJ by listening to radio programs on KISS FM and WBLs. Johnson had to pursue his dream as a musician …

Unlv Percussion Ensemble Concert, Dean Gronemeier, Timothy Jones

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed

Sonneries Quintet: Faculty Brass Quintet, April 8, 2008, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
Tuesday Evening
April 8, 2008
8:00 p.m.

Interview No. 1399, Rodolfo Balderrama

Combined Interviews

Rodolfo Balderrama had some ranches in Satevó Chihuahua, México. He heard of the Bracero Program from a few ranch hands who had worked in the program. Coupled with curiosity and poverty, Rodolfo decided to try the program for himself. He experienced the lengthy entrance portion of the Bracero Program where his hands were closely examined for callouses, nicks and cuts; signs that proved he worked on a ranch/farm. Rodolfo was given x-rays to determine if he had tuberculosis and was searched in his head for lice. He traveled to many cities around the United States while working for the Bracero …

“Smole Trifeles“: The Itinerant In British North America, David Michael Davisson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The earliest attempt to form a confederation among the British colonies in North America occurred with the creation New England confederation in 1643. For the next one hundred thirty-four years various attempts would be made to organize British America colonies into a confederacy. "Smole Trifeles": The Itinerant in British America moves beyond traditional histories which analyze how the social and political elite worked to bring the colonies together. This work focuses on the peddlers, the hawkers, petty chapmen, and the itinerant preachers who roamed the primitive roads and highways of early America. These wanderers knit together a nation and helped …

“Pleasant Episodes” Of Gastronomy: Food And Drink In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S The Beautiful And Damned, Melissa Faith Dullaghan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the motif of gastronomy in Fitzgerald's critically undertreated second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. Within the discussion of the leisure class, Fitzgerald scholars often focus on Jay Gatsby's parties, but they seem to neglect Anthony Patch and company's fancy for food and drink in Ivy League supper clubs of Manhattan, vaudeville theaters, and houses of languor in Upstate New York. Building upon George J. Searles's article "The Symbolic Function of Food and Eating in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned," this thesis examines the meaning of Fitzgerald's pervasive "prandial allusions" and character psychology with …

The Spatial Distribution Of Geoprivacy Concerns In Florida: A County Level Analysis, Joshua W. House

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Certain types of spatial data maintained and distributed by counties at taxpayer expense can be used with powerful mapping and analysis software, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to compromise an indvidual's locational privacy. The kind of privacy at threat here is referred to as geoprivacy, which is concerned with the rights to prevent disclosure of the location of one's home, workplace, or daily activities. While the availability of accessible and accurate geospatial data has increased geoprivacy concerns in recent years, this threat remains virtually unknown to the general public.

Although previous research has explored various components of the geoprivacy …

An Evaluation Of Conduit Conceptualizations And Model Performance, Melissa Estelle Hill

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The karst research community has known that traditional numerical groundwater flow codes ignore the non-Darcian, dual-permeability components of flow that can occur in karst aquifers. In this study, the potential limitations of using such tools are quantified by evaluating the relative performances of 3 groundwater flow models at a test-site near Weeki Wachee, Florida, in the dual-permeability Upper Floridan aquifer. MODFLOW-2005 and MODFLOW-2005 Conduit Flow Process (CFP), a Darcian/non-Darcian, dual-permeability groundwater flow code recently developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, are used in this study.

A monitoring program consisting of discharge measurements and high frequency data from 2 springs and …

Parametric, Non-Parametric And Statistical Modeling Of Stony Coral Reef Data, Armando Hoare

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Like coral reefs worldwide, the Florida Reef Tract has dramatically declined within the past two decades. Monitoring of 40 sites throughout the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary has undertaken a multiple-parameter approach to assess spatial and temporal changes in the status of the ecosystem. The objectives of the present study consist of the following:

In chapter one, we review past coral reef studies; emphasis is placed on recent studies on the stony corals of reefs in the lower Florida Keys. We also review the economic impact of coral reefs on the state of Florida. In chapter two, we identify the …

Major League Baseball Franchises And Their Minor League Players, Maintaining A Relationship On And Off The Field, Michelle Keating

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In today's professional arena, organized sports have grown to become institutionalized and highly organized through corporations in a multi-billion dollar industry. Through the use of in depth interviews completed online, this study investigated the role franchise communication plays in the development of nineteen minor league players' relationships within the Major League Baseball (MLB) sports industry. Results found that players feel their organizations disproportionately help some players achieve success over others and withhold information. As players, they felt they have a limited voice regarding the direction of their careers. Despite a difficult working environment, the players' desire to achieve success and …

Movement And Distribution Of Juvenile Bull Sharks, Carcharhinus Leucas, In Response To Water Quality And Quantity Modifications In A Florida Nursery, Lori A. Ortega

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Movement, distribution, and habitat use of juvenile bull sharks were examined in two studies using manual and passive acoustic telemetry. Research was conducted in the Caloosahatchee River, which serves as nursery habitat for this species, and is highly impacted due to anthropogenic alterations in water quality and quantity via dams and locks. Manual tracking yielded fine-scale results for eight individuals on home range size, rate of movement, swimming depth, linearity, direction of travel, tidal influence, diel pattern, as well as correlation with environmental variables. Changes in salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and pH played a role on the distribution of …

Heat Fluxes In Tampa Bay, Florida, Kristin L. Sopkin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Meyers et al. (2007) Tampa Bay Model produces water level and three-dimensional current and salinity fields for Tampa Bay. It is capable of computing temperature but is presently run without active thermodynamics. Variations in water temperature are driven by heat exchange at the water-atmosphere boundary and advective heat flux at the mouth of the bay. The net heat exchange surface boundary condition is required for computations of three-dimensional temperature fields. Components of the surface heat budget were measured or derived at an observational tower in Middle Tampa Bay. Net heat exchange at the surface of Tampa Bay was computed …

Metropolitan Community Church: A Perfectly Queer Reading Of The Bible, Matthew D. Stewart

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the hermeneutical strategies that Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) has employed in interpreting the Bible. As a new religious movement (NRM) with an outreach to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals MCC interprets the text in light of its membership. The interpretive strategies and methodologies employed are in keeping with other denominations in the Christian tradition. This provides a possible avenue by which MCC can be classified within the Christian tradition.

The interpretation of the biblical text is given in light of the gay people who compose MCC's membership. Gays and lesbians have experienced social and religious stress. …

A Private Commodity Or Public Good? A Comparative Case Study Of Water And Sanitation Privatization In Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1993-2006, Erin Steurer

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The water privatization project in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 1993 and 2006 serves as the main case study in this investigation. The study begins by introducing background information on neo-liberalism and free market capitalism and their role in promoting private sector participation in the water supply and sanitation (WSS) services industry. A comparative case study analysis of the Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Dolphin Coast, and United Kingdom case studies has revealed that there are some key similarities between the case studies. In the conclusion, the key similarities are analyzed to make broader implications about the nature of private sector participation …

James Reddick

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.