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Defying The United States: General Douglas Macarthur, Luke G. Mueller Apr 2015

Defying The United States: General Douglas Macarthur, Luke G. Mueller

Honors Projects, History

General Douglas MacArthur continually disobeyed his superiors officers throughout his entire career, yet he never received any punishment. He eventually became one of the most decorated U.S. soldiers and rose to the rank of General by the time his career was over. However, as his career progressed, his defiance increased. It was not until President Harry S. Truman relieved him of command during the Korean War that MacArthur received any kind of reprimand. Because of this, MacArthur threatened not only U.S. security and democracy, but also world peace.


American Conservatism: The Evolving Role Of Social Issues In American Politics, Justin Rostad Apr 2015

American Conservatism: The Evolving Role Of Social Issues In American Politics, Justin Rostad

Political Science Theses and Capstones

In American society there are certain controversial issues that have been debated for the better part of the past century. Same-sex marriage, abortion, gun ownership laws, divorce laws, and the legalization of marijuana have all come under fire on the political stage. Yet the role of these issues in recent elections is far different than just a few election cycles ago. I analyze the role of social issues among different groups of conservatives to assess the continuing impact of them on their political behavior. To do so I have analyzed the GSS 2012 from the University of Chicago. I have …


"Era(C)Ing The South: Modern Popular Culture Depictions Of Southern History", Bryan Jack Apr 2015

"Era(C)Ing The South: Modern Popular Culture Depictions Of Southern History", Bryan Jack

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

There has been significant research on various interpretations of the American South, and the relationship between Southern and American identity. However, there has been little investigation into how modern popular culture depicts and constructs the Southern past and how this shapes Southern identity. This article interrogates the relationship between modern films, race, and Southern history to ask, has the challenge to codified Jim Crow segregation changed filmic portrayals of Southern history? How do these portrayals affect both Southern and American identity? Using race as a lens, the article argues that the end of the Civil Rights Movement has created a …


Strengthening Democracy By Increasing Youth Political Knowledge And Engagement, Laura Langer Apr 2015

Strengthening Democracy By Increasing Youth Political Knowledge And Engagement, Laura Langer

Political Science Theses and Capstones

Even though the United States had historically high voter turnout in 2008 and 2012, there remains troubling patterns pertaining to political engagement and knowledge among its least educated youth. The literature and theory suggests that if the United States educational systems increase the amount of civic education courses, extracurricular activity, and youth volunteering opportunities in high schools, especially among the most disadvantaged youth, it will lead to an increase in political knowledge and engagement. I test this idea with data from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) post-2012 election youth survey. The CIRCLE data …


Toward A Genealogy Of Americanist Expressionism, R. Arvo Carr Apr 2015

Toward A Genealogy Of Americanist Expressionism, R. Arvo Carr

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


“Ab-Soul’S Outro,” “Hiiipower,” And The Vernacular: Kendrick Lamar’S Rap As Literature, Tyler S. Bunzey Apr 2015

“Ab-Soul’S Outro,” “Hiiipower,” And The Vernacular: Kendrick Lamar’S Rap As Literature, Tyler S. Bunzey

Senior Honors Theses

Kendrick Lamar’s “Ab-Soul’s Outro” and “HiiiPower” employ complex patterns of Signifyin(g), testifyin’, and other classical African-American literary tropes in order to construct a nuanced style. Lamar creates a double-voiced text not only within his narrative, but also within the form itself. Lamar plays on rap's unique status in African-American literature as an oral text; it is an extension of the vernacular. Through this oral text, Lamar decentralizes the Eurocentric focus of classical interpretation and qualification of literature to a new Afrocentric perspective that privileges the oral text. These raps are complex, wrapped up in their current context along with a …


Conflict Behaviors: Religiosity, Culture, And Gender As Predictors For Conflict Management Styles Among First And Second Generation Arab Muslim Immigrants In The United States, Jamil Abed Al Hamid Al Wekhian Apr 2015

Conflict Behaviors: Religiosity, Culture, And Gender As Predictors For Conflict Management Styles Among First And Second Generation Arab Muslim Immigrants In The United States, Jamil Abed Al Hamid Al Wekhian

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Multiple studies have shown that culture, religiosity, and gender influence people’s behavior in managing their conflict; however, there has been little investigation of the impact of the acculturation process on these variables utilized by Arab-Muslim immigrants in the United States. My study follows a sequential explanatory model with a mixed methods approach, and specifically explores the conflict management styles utilized by first and second-generation Arab-Muslim immigrants in the U.S. and how their culture, gender, and religiosity contribute to these processes. Data was collected by conducting 257 online surveys and 24 face-to-face semi-structured interviews, with the sample population stemming from the …


“My Brain Database Doesn’T See Skin Color” Color-Blind Racism In The Technology Industry And In Theorizing The Web, Jessie Daniels Mar 2015

“My Brain Database Doesn’T See Skin Color” Color-Blind Racism In The Technology Industry And In Theorizing The Web, Jessie Daniels

Publications and Research

In this article, I examine three interconnected notions about color-blind racism and the Internet. The first is the fantasy that the Internet as a technology is color-blind with regard to race; the second is the reality that color-blind racism operates in the tech industry. The third notion is the way color-blind racism shapes Internet studies of race and racism, in which race is contained as a “variable” or as an “identity” that inhere exclusively in people of color, but that leaves the way race is embedded in structures, industry, and the very idea of the Internet unexamined. To explore these …


Sister Act: Margaret Walker And Eudora Welty, Carolyn J. Brown Mar 2015

Sister Act: Margaret Walker And Eudora Welty, Carolyn J. Brown

Study the South

At the end of their lives, in the 1980s and ’90s, both Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty were recognized several times by their hometown and state for their long careers and bodies of work. The paths they traveled to reach this intersection of common recognition were quite different, however. Almost exact contemporaries -— Welty lived from 1909-2001 and Walker from 1915-1998 -— they share similar timelines and histories, both having lived through the Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement. But as one was white and one was black, their stories are very different, as are their paths …


Ecotones, Chas Schroeder Mar 2015

Ecotones, Chas Schroeder

CGU MFA Theses

My work explores the intersection of pastoral, urban and idiosyncratic visions. It may reveal the aesthetic and emotional possibilities inherent in the broad-ranging subjects I employ: game animals, advertising, colonialism, love, numerals, textiles, drugs, abstraction, competitive sports, displacement, architecture, gender-bending, civil-rights movements, transgressive literature, social media, indigenous peoples, graphic design, glamour, fashion, hip-hop, rock-n-roll, graffiti, cowboy, exhibitionism and other niche cultures in America. Pieces emerge intuitively via personal narrative and lodged memories as guides. The disjunctive compositions are a breed of contemporary formalism mated with abstraction.


Alive And Human: Situating Wallace, Lethem, And Russell In Contemporary Fiction, Carissa Kampmeier Mar 2015

Alive And Human: Situating Wallace, Lethem, And Russell In Contemporary Fiction, Carissa Kampmeier

Theses and Dissertations

This project will attempt to provide an outline of some of the most salient constructions of present-day literary fiction, where those constructions might overlap or conflict, and how various contemporary authors and their works might usefully fit within those constructions. This project will argue that fiction-writers following postmodernism are presented with a unique problem of how to write fiction in a way that acknowledges the problems of using language as a primary meaning-making structure without falling down a linguistic rabbit hole where a text ceases to be about anything other than itself. Beginning with David Foster Wallace, this project will …


Button - Cs4022, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Button - Cs4022, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Button / Virginia seal / gold plated / Jacob Gmender


Minie Ball- B1002, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Minie Ball- B1002, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Minie Ball / Impacted / 3 rings / .58 caliber


Minie Ball- B1005, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Minie Ball- B1005, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Minie Ball / Impacted / 3 rings / High Velocity


Toy Steering Wheel- B1007, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Toy Steering Wheel- B1007, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Post War / Toy steering wheel / 3 spokes


Musket Ball- B1008, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Musket Ball- B1008, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Musket Ball / Impacted / 3 dimples from Buck Shot / .65 caliber


Pocket Watch - B1009, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Pocket Watch - B1009, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Unknown / Personal Object / Circular Pocket Watch Part


Belt Tab- B1016, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Belt Tab- B1016, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Post War / Belt Tab / US Army WWI era for 1 Inch Strap


Undetermined- B1014, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Undetermined- B1014, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Unknown / Undetermined / Possible Artillery Shell Driving Band


Nail- B1019, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Nail- B1019, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Post War / Machine Cut / Square cut


Nail- B1018a, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Nail- B1018a, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Post War / Machine cut / Square cut


Undetermined- B1026, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Undetermined- B1026, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Unknown / Undetermined / Melted Lead


Minie Ball- B1030, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Minie Ball- B1030, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Minie Ball / Impacted / 3 rings / High Velocity


Powder Lid- B1031, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Powder Lid- B1031, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Post War / Powder Lid / Make-up / Description on top


Minie Ball- B1032, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Minie Ball- B1032, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Minie Ball / Impacted / 3 rings


Cleaner- B1033, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Cleaner- B1033, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Cleaner / 3 rings / Williams Type I / .57 caliber


Minie Ball- B1034, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Minie Ball- B1034, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Minie Ball / Ramrod Mark on Nose / .58 caliber


Button- B1037, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Button- B1037, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Unknown / Button / Plain / No Loop


Minie Ball- B1036, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Minie Ball- B1036, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Minie Ball / Impacted / 3 rings / .54 caliber


Cleaner - B1038, Morehead State University. History Department Mar 2015

Cleaner - B1038, Morehead State University. History Department

Petersburg National Battlefield Archaeological Recovery Project

Civil War / Cleaner / Impacted / 3 rings / High Velocity / Williams Type II