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El Choteo En Cien Botellas En Una Pared Y Raining Backwards: El Gracioso Disfraz De Las Circunstancias Trágicas Durante La Revolución Cubana Y El Período Especial, Kristin Nicole Lisenby Mar 2012

El Choteo En Cien Botellas En Una Pared Y Raining Backwards: El Gracioso Disfraz De Las Circunstancias Trágicas Durante La Revolución Cubana Y El Período Especial, Kristin Nicole Lisenby

World Languages and Cultures

This project attempts to explore the idea that the combination of tragedy and humor in Cuban and Cuban-American literature is a form of “choteo” or “no tomar nada en serio,” which demonstrates a coping strategy used by Cubans during hard times. In the case of Ena Lucía Portela's Cien botellas en una pared, and Roberto Fernandez's Raining Backwards, I believe that the two authors use his and her own personal insight into a Cuban's life during the Cuban Revolution of the 60's and the Special Period of the 90's, and that those personal experiences are reflected throughout the novels …


Popular Culture And The Feminist Ideal: A Feminist Critique Of Home Box Office's "Sex And The City", Koryna Zendejas Jun 2011

Popular Culture And The Feminist Ideal: A Feminist Critique Of Home Box Office's "Sex And The City", Koryna Zendejas

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.


Kiss The War Good-Bye, Hello Return To Normalcy, Marisa Francesca Benfanti Mar 2011

Kiss The War Good-Bye, Hello Return To Normalcy, Marisa Francesca Benfanti

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.


Women And Propaganda In America During World War Ii: Methods In Which The United States Propaganda Organizations Targeted Various Age Groups Of Women, Julia Puscheck Jun 2010

Women And Propaganda In America During World War Ii: Methods In Which The United States Propaganda Organizations Targeted Various Age Groups Of Women, Julia Puscheck

History

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Rhetorical Construction Of Gender: How Women Are Portrayed In Popular Music Today, Stephanie Colleen Yocum Jun 2010

Rhetorical Construction Of Gender: How Women Are Portrayed In Popular Music Today, Stephanie Colleen Yocum

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.


La Opresión Del Género Sexual Y La Expresión Sexual En Bodas De Sangre, Yerma, Y La Casa De Bernarda Alba Por Federico García Lorca, Janell Swick Mar 2010

La Opresión Del Género Sexual Y La Expresión Sexual En Bodas De Sangre, Yerma, Y La Casa De Bernarda Alba Por Federico García Lorca, Janell Swick

World Languages and Cultures

This paper includes a detailed analysis of the theater of Federico García Lorca. Special attention is paid to the gender implications and sexual oppression noted in his trilogy plays Bodas de sangre, Yerma, and La casa de Bernarda Alba.


The Housewife's Battle On The Home Front: Women In World War Ii Advertisements, Caroline Cornell Jan 2010

The Housewife's Battle On The Home Front: Women In World War Ii Advertisements, Caroline Cornell

The Forum: Journal of History

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Dickinson And Smith: Years Apart But Not So Different, Nicole Day Jan 2010

Dickinson And Smith: Years Apart But Not So Different, Nicole Day

English

Even though there were sixteen years separating them, Stevie Smith and Emily Dickinson had much in common. They both use death as a theme to explore and mock life. Their small poems have a lot to say about life and death.


Does Everybody Love Patriarchy?, Lyndsay Attebery Nov 2009

Does Everybody Love Patriarchy?, Lyndsay Attebery

Communication Studies

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