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Following The Spirit Of The Law: Col. Eberhard P. Deutsch And The Legal Division Of United States Forces Austria, 1945-1946, Peter J. Casey

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

As World War II neared its end in Europe, the Allied powers faced a difficult situation with the occupied nation of Austria. Considering the complicated Austrian relationship with Nazism, the Allies had to decide how the nation would be liberated, occupied, and rehabilitated. Almost instantaneously, the United States, Great Britain, and France became at odds with a vengeful Soviet Union seeking to build a defensive shield of Communist European client states that included Austria. This study will show that as the head of the American Legal Division, Col. Eberhard P. Deutsch, United States Army, was instrumental in the reformation of …

Codofil's Ally: Local French Teachers In Louisiana, Natalie Ducote

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In 1968, in the midst of the Civil Rights Era, the Louisiana government created the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL). During this period of heightened ethnic awareness, CODOFIL aimed to rectify the damage done by prior Louisiana legislation, which prohibited French language on public school grounds. In an effort to revitalize the French language in Louisiana, the organization hired teachers from foreign francophone countries and advocated for a curriculum rooted in Standard French. According to historians, many locals felt Louisiana-specific French dialects were once again rejected. Alongside these foreign teachers were teachers local to Louisiana. Utilizing …

Grabbing Their Own Pussies: Reclaiming Trauma And The Female Voice In Toni Morrison’S Paradise And Kathy Acker’S Blood And Guts In High School, Chloe Froom

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Toni Morrison and Kathy Acker write their novels within the subversive feminist literary movement described by Helene Cixous in “Laugh of the Medusa”. Through Morrison’s Paradise and Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School they create a platform for women silenced by their bodily trauma to express and eventually liberate themselves from their traumatic pasts. These female writers are calling attention to the pandemic of misogyny-related violence and allowing assault survivors to speak through their pain.

The 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion At The Falaise Pocket, 1944: The Application Of Tank Destroyer Doctrine In The Field, Logan M. Gross

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

During World War II, the United States Army employed a new weapon on the battlefield in an attempt to defeat German armor tactics: the tank destroyer. Tank Destroyer Force was created to stem the tide of German armored attacks and form an opening for American tanks to make their own counter-attacks. Since the end of the war, tank destroyer battalions have been regarded as a failed experiment, despite the evidence that they effectively did their jobs. The negative feedback in the immediate post-war period lead to the dissolution of the Tank Destroyer Force. Many of the studies of tank destroyers …

Ripple, Tyler P. Haney

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

My work leverages the dynamic processes the brain uses to compute visual stimuli to influence how viewers experience my work. My aim is to create a ripple effect as the brain processes the visual information I provide.

My process begins with a camera. Focusing on the face, I see how much contextual information I can remove while still capturing the emotional expression of the subject. Before long, a photograph ends up next to a canvas where I will rebuild the image from the photograph using a myriad of expressionistic marks and colors to amplify the emotion.

Recognizing human emotion is …

Sea Stories, Robyn Hoskins

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Sea Stories is a collection of creative nonfiction essays centered around the growth of a young woman through her experiences with water and ships. The pieces trace the origins of the narrator's tie to water from a childhood involving boating with her dad to sailing a brigantine across the Pacific Ocean and then a six-year career as an officer in the U.S. Coast Guard. The narrator's relationship with her father, predominantly viewed through their shared intimacy with water, is a base theme for the whole collection. Other themes explored in individual essays include reckoning expectations with reality, explorations of the …

Lost, Nathaniel Kostar

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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The Process That Eats Itself, Brent Houzenga

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Chance and the found object set the stage for artworks that illustrate the clash between the everyman, popular culture and high art. The investigation of my process, surroundings and interests leads to an infinite amount of possibilities in a process that is beginning to eat itself.

Zig Zag Wanderer, Samuel S. Williams

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Narratives recollected from popular sources such as podcast and websites often inspire my animations, paintings, and drawings. My work serves as a pictorial manifestation of everything from visualized passages in literature to eavesdropping. I zigzag from one source to another, combining found images that are loosely associated with one another. I combine them in a simulated collage in order to form an interesting composition. My purpose is to create a magical moment that pulls us away from the monotony of life. Storytelling not only allows one to see oneself and how one relates to others, but it also can provide …

Playing His Own Game: Ernest 'Dutch' Morial's 1977 Mayoral Campaign For Citizen Participation In New Orleans, Eric Marshall

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Ernest “Dutch” Morial’s 1977 grassroots mayoral campaign disrupted the political status quo in New Orleans with his message of citizen participation. Morial’s citizen-driven campaign reached over the constituencies of established Black Political Organizations, capturing an eager audience with his message of political, social, and economic equality. With the help of volunteers and other community organizations, Morial created a grassroots campaign that focused on making city government more inclusive. Unattached to the traditional patronage structure, Mayor Morial empowered the black community, reducing the constraints of their political access. Although his legacy is difficult to discern in New Orleans current political realities, …

"Because Colored Means Negro" The Houma Nation And Its Fight For Indigenous Identity Within A South Louisiana Public School System, 1916-1963, Racheal D. Minchew

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In 1917, Henry Billiot sued the Terrebonne Parish School Board because his children, who identified as Houma Indian, were denied access to a local white school. The resulting case, Henry Billiot v. Terrebonne Parish School Board, shaped the way in which the community of Terrebonne Parish categorized the race of not only the Billiot family but also the Houma tribe over the course of fifty years. Through the use of Jim Crow legislation, the white community legally refused to consider the Houma tribe as American Indian, and instead chose the derogatory term Sabine as the racial classification of this …

The Killing Noise Of The Out Of Style, Bryon E. Reiger

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Navigating The Moral Pitfalls Of The Service Industry "The Book Of Snake", Paul S. Punzo

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis paper examines how I turned real life experiences and observations into a fictionalized screenplay that explores the potential for vice inherent in tip-based service industry jobs. After that, I move on to the preproduction process and touch on casting, location scouting, visualization, production design, budgeting and crewing. Next I discuss how the preproduction and on-set efforts of individuals were all critical to our production. Then I chronicle the ups and downs of postproduction. Finally, I conclude with an admittedly subjective analysis of the effectiveness of the movie itself.

Rust Belt And Other Stories, Rachel D. Slager

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Rust Belt and Other Stories is a collection of stories exploring characters in the bleak moments when social oppression challenge the perceived meaning of their lives. The disenchantments are influenced by distinctive settings, which set the tone for the stories. Place is an active force shaping the protagonists and adding to the nuance of character relationships, dialogue and philosophical outlooks.

Can't Blame A Girl For Trying, Emily Capdeville

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume Cxxxiv, Number 24, May 19, 2017, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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Pollution Of The Soil Of The Banks Of The Euphrates River And Its Basins With Salinity And Its Impact On Agricultural Production In The Rumaitha District, Najm Abdullah Rahim, Afrah Hashem Farhan

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The problem of soil salinity pollution is one of the main problems facing the soils of Al-Rumaitha district. In order to identify its locations and determine the affected areas, the research relied on field work in addition to laboratory work and on the experimental and descriptive approach. It was shown through the study that the soil of the region suffers from an increase in the percentage of salt pollution due to several factors, most notably irrigation with salty water, high temperatures, and evaporation in the summer, with the variation in agricultural service and the lack of drains and their suitability …

Religion And The Mechanisms Of Social Control An Analytical Study Of The Role Of Religion In Social Control And Structure, Falah Jaber Jassim Al-Gharabi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The entitled research (the role of religion in the social control and construction) includes the definition of religion and also the important definition’s that define it, of which: “it is the spiritual relationship between man and what is worship – ed and the practice of the rituals and rites related to that worship.”

Separation Anxiety In Children Attending Kindergarten, Nasser Hussein Nasser

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

At the study to identify the separation anxiety disorder of the children enrolled in kindergarten in Muthanna Governorate, and aims in the study variables depending on the variable sex (male-female), consisted of the sample study of (400) have a baby girl, of them (192) males, 208 females and (11.26%) of the community kindergartens and non-governmental organizations in the province of Al Muthanna, the academic year (2015-2016), and the application of the measure of the study (32) a paragraph describing the disruption of the concern containing the separation of children from the preparation of the researcher, having answered by mothers of …

Repetition As A Coherent Feature In The Speeches And Letters Of The Incident Of The Camel - A Study In The Light Of Text Linguistics, Mahmoud Abdul Hamad Al-Lami, Iman Ward Ghali

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

It is to reveal the influence of repetition as a feature of linguistic uniformity being clear within Al-Jemel Battle Speeches (the research sample). At the same time, we try to consider the old and modern features to absorb its function, features and clarification being used in the sample. The element of uniformity is clearly dominated due to less effect of briefing to strengthen texts all over.

The Formula (MafˆUl) Between The Arabic Language And The Spoken Semitic Languages, Shukran Hamad Shalaka Al-Maliki

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Praise be to Allah, praise without end, and I seek His help and guidance with what has no limit, and I seek refuge in Allah from error, and prayers and peace be upon the best of His creation, Muhammad and his pure and good family.

Symbols Of The Dream Journey In Mahmoud Darwish's Mural, Bashir Abdul Zaid Attia

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Darwish is a poetic and humane model. Universal human values ​​were often the goal of his poems, and he is a creative figure in the history of Arabic literature. Academic studies have taken on him through criticism and analysis, due to his great poetic ability and cultural reference, which he presented in his poetry along with his beloved cause, Palestine. His talent was manifested as an intellectual outpouring and a psychological impact, with a penetrating vision of the world and life. Darwish delved deeply into the alienation of man due to his alienation from his homeland, so Palestine was manifested …

Separation And Connection: An Applied Study In The Ghadir Sermon, Khadija Student Generous

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study consisted of an introduction and two chapters. The introduction dealt with the concept of separation and connection and their status in Arabic rhetoric. As for the two chapters, the first chapter included the positions of separation and their applications in the blessed sermon, and included three axes. The second chapter included the positions of connection and their applications, and included two axes. Finally, there was the conclusion, which included the results of the study, followed by a list of sources and.

Angels And Devils In Pre-Islamic Literature And The Holy Quran A Comparative Study Between The Quranic Truth And Pre-Islamic Myth, Islam Al Dabbagh, Sayed Muhammad Redha Al-Khudary, Mohammed Ibrahim Khalifa Al-Shushtari

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This thesis is dealt with the subject of "Angles, Devils and Elf in Ignorance and Islamic Literature".

The Message In The Relationship By Mahmoud Al-Antaki (D. 1160 Ah) Investigation And Study, Montazer Abdul Hussein Mohsen

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Arabic and Islamic heritage especially the literary one is still rich in treasures of knowledge waiting for inspection and to be taken out of safes and manuscripts to the world of printing and publication so that students and art amateurs can make use of them. Our work investigates one of the manuscripts of this heritage, especially the rhetorical, and comments on it. It is the “Letter of Relation” by Mahmood AL-Antaki. It is a concise letter consisting of three research fields of Al-Bayan science (science of statement) which are “truth”, “metaphor” and “metonymy”. The author of this letter investigated …

The Development Of The Role Of Women In The Omani Coast 1945-1971, Hussein Kamel Jaber Al Shaher, Riad Sahi Mashkur Al\\\'Aeajibii

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The situation of women in the Arab Gulf in general and the coast of Oman in particular reflects the reality of our societies which have experienced great economic, political and social changes since the end of world war II and subsequent conditions especially after the discovery of oil in the region.

Tribalism In The Era Of The Messenger Until His Death (May God Bless Him And His Family), Riyadh Rahim Hussein Al-Safrani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Arabs were known for their tribal fanaticism and were famous for this trait, which stemmed from ignorance and intellectual immaturity. One of their sayings about this was, “Support your brother, whether he is an oppressor or oppressed.” They would support each other, whether they were oppressors or oppressed. This fanaticism sparked devastating wars in which a torrent of blood was shed. These were conditions that reflected dissolution, decadence, and humiliation. Other peoples were not more advanced in life and thinking than the Arabs. All nations were dominated by ignorance, misery, humiliation, and decadence. The Holy Qur’an eliminated the ignorance …

Stages Of Sheikh Bouamama's Revolution (1881-1908), Adel Madloul Ali, Nabil Shalal Alwan

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The Sheikh Bouamama Revolution is one of the most important popular revolutions that opposed French colonialism at the end of the last quarter of the nineteenth century (1881-1908). The first section includes the autobiography of Sheikh Bouamama, while the second section deals with the stages of the Bouamama Revolution 1881-1908. The first stage was the military stage 1881-1883. The second section dealt with the political stage 1883-1900. The third section dealt with the third stage, which was the stage of weakness and collapse 1900-1908.

Naqra Salman Prison 1958-1963, Mutaib Khalaf Jaber Al-Rishawi, Ahmed Abdul Hussein Hussein Karoo

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Enjoy the study (prison Click Salman) 1958-1963 AD of great to shed light on an era of the modern history of Iraq, where the prison was created by the British colonial citadel fortified to repel the Wahhabi attacks, and after 1949 was changed class building of the importance of the headquarters of the Southern Badia Police Directorate to a special prison of political prisoners run by the public prisons Service. And that this notorious prison sacrificed a large group of Iraqi militants.

Spatial Analysis Of The Phenomenon Of Poverty In Al-Muthanna Governorate For The Period (2012-2016), Raad Abdul Hussein Mohammed

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The aims of this study, to shed light upon the phenomena of poverty in Al-Muthanna governorate and special analysis to the variation of its indicators in the districts of this governorate. And to investigate the economic and social factors associated with poverty.