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Disorienting Object Oriented Ontology: Queer Landscapes And Ecological Bodies In Richard Siken And Harryette Mullen., Andrew N. Hutto

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on a recent development within the study of metaphysics, known as object oriented ontology (OOO), and works out questions of being alongside contemporary poetry. Recognizing the post anthropocentric purchase afforded by OOO’s claim that everything is an object and that these objects are impossible to correlate with, this thesis will look at the use of objects in Richard Siken’s War of the Foxes and Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia. Drawing heavily from Sara Ahmed’s queer theory of disoriented objects and Timothy Morton’s ecological insights, this thesis will argue that despite OOO’s advancement, there are critical gaps to fill in …

Searching For Hades In Archaic Greek Literature, Daniel Stoll

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No single volume of mythological or philological research exists for Hades. In the one moment Hades appears in archaic Greek literature, speaking for only ten lines, Hermes stands nearby. Thus, to understand and journey to Hades is to reckon with Hermes’ close presence. As I synthesize research by writers from several different disciplines, may some light be brought into the depths. May we analyze Hades’ brief appearance in archaic Greek literature, examining how what I define as the “Hermetic” emits from his breath in the one moment he physically appears and speaks.

Ecologies Of (Domestic) Trauma, Ecologies Of (Domestic) Violence: A Rhetorical Procession Toward Mourning, Charlotte E. Lucke

All Dissertations

In this dissertation, I posit that intimate partner violence is entrenched in an often-overlooked historical and rhetorical legacy of patriarchal cultural, structural, and direct violences. Many scholars in and outside of rhetorical studies have analyzed and critiqued public representations of trauma and violence, including intimate partner violence. Joining this conversation, I focus on the limitations in the ways influential rhetorical domains both represent and respond to people who abuse their intimate partners. Often, mass media represents people who abuse their intimate partners as individuals void of contexts. Similarly, the criminal justice system holds individuals responsible through law enforcement and incarceration. …

Poetic Justice: Connecting The Modern American Prosecutor To Her Rhetorical Roots, Michael Caves

All Dissertations

Poetic Justice: Connecting the Modern American Prosecutor to her Rhetorical Roots explores the gap between rhetoric and the American prosecutor, to eventually advocate for a more creative, inventive trial practice for prosecutors that embraces the spirit and methods of narrative, poetics, and Ulmeric mystories, with the prosecutor’s unique ethical obligations forming the basis of a new prosecutor’s rhetoric. This research opens with an autoethnographic account of the author’s own path to criminal prosecution, to give the reader a sense of the author’s ethos, to identify the shortcomings of rhetorical training in law school pedagogy, and to outline the rhetorical …

Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes, Andrew Demczuk

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes examines the ways we encounter environments as readers/viewers of operas, literature, film, and sound recordings, and how each medium requires different detail-gathering techniques. Respective to the previously mentioned mediums, Sun & Sea (2017), Mount Analogue (1952), El Mar La Mar (2017), and Energy Field (2010) are analyzed by engaging with environmental media studies and invention. Reflecting the nature of each landscape—summits of mountains, aporias of deserts, and mysteries of waterscapes—an elemental approach is taken in investigating how these spaces may be noticed, internalized, recorded, and traversed by both the artist and viewer. …

Hannah Arendt And The Recreation Of The Public Space At The El Paso-Ciudad Juarez Border, Maximiliano Gutierrez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Arendt's philosophy is essentially phenomenological, especially her concept of the world of appearances in which everything manifests itself to human begins with those who share this space. Her phenomenological approach to philosophy enables us to shed light on the realm of public affairs, namely, being born, plurality, and specifically I argue, immigration. In this case I am referring to immigration in its most general meaning, that is, to the act of moving into another country and, thereby, leaving one's own private space in their former country. In order to best understand this phenomenological approach, it is necessary to understand Arendt's …

The Latin American Tragedy: A Qualitative Research Of How Culture, Media, And Gender Roles Lead To Femicide, Vanessa Gonzalez

Honors College Theses

This study aims to analyze how Latin American cultural values and popular media perpetuate harmful gender stereotypes that can subsequently contribute to the growing femicide rates happening across the region. Although violence against women is a global issue, Latin American femicide is characterized by cultural, systemic, and political factors that not only allow it to thrive but make it unique in a global context as it relates to the discussion around violence against women. Adherence to honor culture, gender-based stereotypes like that of machismo and marianismo, along with the overt sexualization of Latin women in popular media, create a domino …

Researcher-Participant Privilege: Confidentiality And Qualitative Criminology, Eric Michael

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Research institutions have the responsibility to comply with laws that govern the oversight of all research including research with human subjects. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) review research protocols and approve research based on the rights and safety of research subjects. When conducting qualitative criminological research, researchers must weigh ethical considerations around their methods. These methodological considerations are coupled with guiding ethical principles that are fundamental to human subject research. One major consideration regards breaking confidentiality which can bring about great risk to participants. The following thesis focuses on the ethics of researcher-participant privilege and issues that qualitative researchers have in …

Collective, Vulnerable, Nascent (Post) Qualitative Inquiry-Writing, Catherine Thiele, Stephen Heimans, Catherine Manathunga, Suzanne Barry, Benjamin Cherry-Smith, Kristy Farrelly, Terry Grogan, Robyn Kemble, Lisa Mcilwain

The Qualitative Report

As a group of multidisciplinary postgraduate research students and teachers emerging as a “we,” we read, discussed, and then, without planning to do so, responded in writing to the textual provocations of three post qualitative texts. We picture ourselves as a “classing,” a “becoming class” (Meirieu, 2020, para. 1.). We are a study-group-thinking-writing experimentation; vulnerable, wobbling and joyously grappling to (re)shape (our) post qualitative inquiries. The experiment offered a scholarly place to critically, creatively, and softly curate post qualitative questions and wonderings. The writings below offer a lure into our nascent post-qualitative vulnerabilities. The purpose of this paper is to …

Betwixt & Between., Xuanyi Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I will discuss the process of learning, borrowing, and exploring the fusion between styles that emerged from the exchange of Eastern and Western civilizations. I will also use the process of transformation and merging of motifs to evoke my thoughts on the identity of immigrants. In addition, the essay will also discuss the similarities between traditional Chinese and Western designs metaphorically. This thesis will also explain why I use IUDs for pattern creation and provide views on the body ownership of women in the East and West. I will also consider the evolution and reflection of the …

The Plague: A Contemporary Lens, Khawaja Ahmed, Delaney Collier, Will Plumb

Student Research

The Plague by Albert Camus bears witness to the town of Oran amidst the spread of the plague from the beginning to the end of the quarantine placed on the town. Although it is a direct comparison to the COVID-19 pandemic, Camus’s themes expressed in his novel resonates with other contemporary worldly issues that may or may not have an explanation. These other contemporary issues include war and the climate crisis. From our 2022 perspective, we have seen the COVID pandemic play out firsthand. We have witnessed from afar the threat of World War III and the current war in …

Attention, Reflection, And Contemplation: Approaching The Divine Through Romantic Poiesis, Katelynn Tyner

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

Often the techniques of the said and the unsaid work together. This paper will explore ways in which poets embrace iconophilic or iconoclastic postures toward divine poiesis. One objective will be to focus on the arrangement of an abundance of images into itineraries and poetic landscapes. Another objective will be to demonstrate how these patterns of cultivation can be related to a divine poiesis. Through poetry, there are ways of attending to, reflecting on, and contemplating divine images that can return us to forms of participation with the sacred. First examining poetic attention, I identify poets who demonstrate …

Narrative Inquiry Of Opt Workers In Manufacturing Engineering Fields, Marietta Joleen Watson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a highly valued and highly underutilized program designed to offer international students an opportunity to work in the U.S. and train in their field of study. This qualitative study collected and analyzed the narratives of three alumni of a Midwest university who completed OPT in the manufacturing engineering field. Four themes were identified in the narratives. These themes were inextricable to the premise that OPT is a deeply appreciated opportunity for F-1 students. The first theme is viewing the OPT experience as a system which includes the university, USCIS, and the employer and moreover a …

Impact Of Mentoring On Epistemic Cognition Of Higher Education Administrators: A Modified Explanatory Mixed Methods Study, Robert Levrant

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In today’s complex workplace, organizations have implemented mentoring programs to serve the needs of employees by providing career development and personal support. Mentoring relationships provide a variety of vocational, psychosocial and role modeling functions to protégés. Previous educational psychology research has examined the role of mentoring as it relates to self-regulation, self-efficacy, career promotions, motivation and other constructs. Epistemic cognition relates to the understanding of the nature of knowledge and knowing. Epistemic cognition relates to the development, in which one’s understanding of knowledge evolves from a belief that knowledge is finite, must be passed down by expert authorities toward an …

Transformation., Jingshuo Yang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My works mainly show my perception of life and my change of thought. The world is full of changes, and the pandemic has disrupted our lives. Many people, including me, are confused about the world. Philosophy and my observation and thinking about the world helped me to have a clearer understanding of the world. My paintings Licia, Butterfly Woman, and Live with Covid reflect my understanding of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's theory of empathy. Within my art, I also use another German Philosopher Theodor W. Adorno's theory of the culture industry to deepen my understanding of some social phenomena. My …

Nietzsche’S Will To Power As That Which Eternally Recurs, Joshua Aaron Ackerman

Institute for the Humanities Theses

Commonly believed to be a thought experiment to help us with life affirmation, a cosmological or metaphysical interpretation of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence seems to be gaining ground. I argue for a metaphysical reading of the eternal recurrence. In arguing for this position, I hold that Nietzsche’s view of the eternal recurrence can be traced back to his admiration for the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus. Specifically, I think Nietzsche draws on a few of Heraclitus’ cosmological doctrines which include continuous flux, a unity of opposites, and eternal strife. In Nietzsche adopting Heraclitus’ cosmological standpoints, my view is that Nietzsche’s Will to Power …

Cognitive Tribalism: A Social Doxastic Model, Robert Ragsdale

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

How are facemasks – seemingly innocuous artifacts of the biomedical industry – currently embroiled in cultural wars? What motivates popular rejections of scientific consensus and messaging about the reality and consequences of anthropogenic climate change or the COVID-19 virus and vaccine? The puzzle is that (a) despite its being in everyone’s rational interests to have a well-informed public and body politic about collective threats, and (b) despite the public availability of accurate and reliable information, scientific messaging and public discourse surrounding climate change, COVID-19, and vaccine hesitancy, nevertheless, tend to be hijacked by political interest. Yet, if belief is essentially …

The Foundation Of A Grand Unified Metaphysics, Jason R. Miller

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Philosophers from Leibniz to Parfit have tackled the problem of existence and the problem of arbitrarity. I divide the solutions to these two problems into three general categories: (1) infinite regress answers, (2) ex nihilo answers, and (3) self-caused cause answers. I show that the first two (infinite regress and ex nihilo) categories of answers either fail to answer the problem of existence or the problem of arbitrarity or fail to satisfy one or more reasonable assumptions about said problems. Believing it to be useful to a self-caused cause answer to the problem of existence and the problem of arbitrarily, …

Early Intervention And Prediction Of Risk Management Issues In Law Enforcement: A Phenomenological Study, Pamela Lynn Smith

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to research the Early Intervention Systems (EIS) and prediction of risk management issues in law enforcement. The following questions guided the study:

1. How do law enforcement personnel describe their experience with EIS programs as an intervention for officers with behavioral or conduct issues?
2. How do EIS programs affect law enforcement agencies as a whole?
3. What indicators could law enforcement supervisors look for in officers to circumvent misconduct (on or off duty)?
4. What interventions have been observed personally or with other officers regarding discipline, counseling, additional training, etc.?

The setting for this study was …

Makna Naketi Dalam Pandangan Masyarakat Dawan: Kajian Berperspektif Pastoral, Wasti Juningsi Benu

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This research aims to describe and analyze the meaning of naketi in the view of the Dawan community in Soe City. This research is motivated by the fact that Dawan people tend to practice naketi to overcome the crisis or ongoing problems experienced. The study employs descriptive research methods with qualitative approaches. Data collection uses interview methods and library studies. The data is analyzed using a pastoral theory of meaning and function. The results of the analysis show that the practice of naketi is a form functioning as pastoral counseling based on Dawan community culture. Naketi, in the view of …

Bts Army: Melampaui Narasi Stigmatisasi Identitas Perempuan Penggemar, Jasmine Floretta Vasthia Devi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Decades have passed, but female fans who like male idols are still stigmatized, judged, and reduced to exist in society and popular culture. This is also what happened to ARMY, fans of the male idol group BTS. The research uses a qualitative research methodology elaborated through a feminist perspective to discuss how ARMYs are stigmatized because of the perceived inferiority of women and the existence of male domination in society, and also their love for the male group, regarded as the subordinated male group within the circle of hegemonic masculinity. However, the stigma and gender stereotypes attached to them were …

Kalimat Interogatif Dialek Gyeongsang Dalam Reply 1997, Adinda Noviana Carlissa, Putu Pramania Adnyana

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The Gyeongsang dialect is phonologically and morphologically unique, yet current research generally focuses only on its prosody characteristics. Research related to language style and sentence-final ending in the Gyeongsang dialect has received less attention. Therefore, this study focuses on sentence-final ending or jeongyeol eomi in Korean interrogative sentences to fill the research gap. This research is qualitative research with a descriptive analysis method. Data is collected from the Korean drama Reply 1997 from the first three episodes. The result shows that a closed-ended interrogative sentence is the type of interrogative sentence most commonly used in the data, while the most …

Representasi Kepercayaan Jepang Di Negara Virtual Inazuma Dalam Video Game Genshin Impact, Gusti Wisnu Pio Kusuma, Ilma Sawindra Janti

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Unsur-unsur budaya dewasa ini sering kali dimasukan ke dalam sebuah video game, hal ini dilakukan dengan beberapa alasan seperti misalnya untuk mempromosikan budaya tersebut, atau menggunakan budaya tersebut sebagai bagian dari konten untuk menambah daya tarik sebuah video game. Genshin Impact merupakan salah satu video game yang memasukan unsur-unsur budaya beberapa negara populer sebagai bagian dari kontennya. Budaya tersebut diwujudkan ke dalam negara-negara fiksi yang ada di dalam Genshin Impact, seperti misalnya Mondstadt yang merepresentasikan Jerman, Liyue yang merepresentasikan Cina, dan Inazuma yang merepresentasikan Jepang. Penelitian ini menganalisis bagaimana unsur-unsur kepercayaan Jepang direpresentasikan di Inazuma di dalam Genshin Impact. Penelitian …

Konsep Manunggaling Kawula Gusti Dalam Lirik Lagu Sugih Tanpa Bandha Karya Sudjiwo Tejo, Muhammad Feraldy Naufal, Darmoko Darmoko

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Manunggaling kawula Gusti adalah sebuah konsep dalam budaya Jawa yang diajarkan Syekh Siti Jenar, bahwa sejatinya Tuhan itu ada dalam diri manusia. Konsep ini menggambarkan berpadunya kawula (manusia) dengan Gusti (Tuhan). Sugih tanpa bandha adalah pemikiran Raden Mas Panji Sosrokartono, yang kemudian disajikan dan dipopulerkan melalui sebuah tembang oleh Sudjiwo Tejo. Artikel ini mengkaji konsep manunggaling kawula Gusti dalam lirik lagu tersebut. Penelitian dilakukan dengan analisis interpretatif pada lirik lagu dan dalam kerangka konsep etika (filsafat moral) dari Franz Magnis Suseno. Hasil pembahasan dapat dirumuskan bahwa syair lagu Sugih Tanpa Bandha memiliki keterkaitan dengan tahapan-tahapan untuk mencapai kemanunggalan (berpadunya pribadi …

Makna Kebebasan Dalam Eksistensialisme Sartre Pada Puisi Pulkkot 1-2-3 Karya Na Tae-Ju: Pendekatan Semiotik Riffaterre, Shafira Handoyo, Zaini Zaini

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Jean-Paul Sartre menyatakan kebebasan sebagai ciri manusia bereksistensi. Kebebasan manusia dicirikan melalui cara mengadanya. Meskipun ada kefaktaan-kefaktaan yang dapat mengurangi penghayatan kebebasannya, Sartre berpendapat bahwa manusia tetap dapat memilih untuk menghayati kebebasannya secara maksimal, tanpa menghiraukan kefaktaan-kefaktaan tersebut. Penyair Na Tae-ju melalui puisi “Pulkkot 1-2-3” mengajak para pembacanya untuk menghayati kebebasannya secara penuh tanpa memperhatikan kefaktaan-kefaktaan yang dihadapinya. Sehubungan dengan itu, penelitian ini berfokus pada analisis puisi “Pulkkot 1”, “Pulkkot 2”, dan “Pulkkot 3” yang diterbitkan pada kumpulan buku puisinya yang berjudul “Kkocheul Bodeut Neoreul Bonda”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis makna kebebasan dari ketiga puisi melalui teori eksistensialisme Jean …

Berbagi Informasi Tentang Layanan Perpustakaan Saat Pandemi Covid-19 (Systematic Literature Review), Bima Bijak Prasetyo

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Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk melihat bagaimana informasi terkait layanan perpustakaan saat pandemi covid-19 disampaikan kepada pemustaka dan masyarakat secara umum, sehingga dalam pelaksanaan layanan yang diberikan efektif dan efisien, dan menjadi salah satu indikator tata kelola yang baik ketika informasi penting disampaikan kepada pemustaka dan masyarakat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode tinjauan literatur sistematis (Systematic Literature Review), Pada metode SLR ini terdapat tiga tahapan dalam penelitian yang terdiri dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan pembuatan laporan. Proses pemilihan didasarkan pada judul, yang menghasilkan total 9 entri, artikel-artikel tersebut 7 menggunakan metode kualitatif, dan 1 merupakan penelitian rancang bangun aplikasi, 1 merupakan penelitian kuantitatif …

Motif Pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang (農地改革Nōchi Kaikaku) Tahun 1946-1950, Muhammad Rafid Pratama, Ferry Rustam

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Penelitian ini membahas mengenai motif pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang (nōchi kaikaku) yang terjadi pada masa pemerintahan SCAP tahun 1946 – 1950. Pembahasan tersebut meliputi latar belakang sejarah terjadinya pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang, pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang, serta dampak dari pelaksanaan reforma agraria terhadap Jepang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan penjelasan disajikan dengan deskriptif. Pengumpulan data bersumber pada buku dan jurnal yang khusus membahas mengenai Reforma Agraria Jepang. Data yang telah terkumpul kemudian dianalisis menggunakan teori pelaksanaan reforma agraria oleh Warriner (1969). Hasil pembahasan dalam penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa pelaksanaan Reforma Agraria Jepang berhasil menghapus kekuatan tuan tanah dalam menguasai …

Analisis Resepsi Terhadap Fiksionalisasi Histori Tokoh Suleyman Al-Kanuni Di Dalam Sinetron Turki “Abad Kejayaan”, Ade Solihat

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Artikel ini mendiskusikan fiksionalisasi histori tokoh Sultan Suleyman, Khalifah ke-10 Dinasti Turki Osmani, di dalam sinetron Turki ”Abad Kejayaan”, yang menimbulkan kontroversi. Di dalam teks sejarah, Sultan Suleyman dikenal sebagai pemimpin Turki Osmani terlama dan yang paling berhasil membawa Turki Osmani ke puncak masa kejayaan. Sultan Suleyman yang memerintah pada 1520-1566 juga mendapat julukan Suleyman Al-Kanuni (Suleyman Law-giver) karena kemampuannya membangun undang-undang yang diterapkan di Kekhalifahan Turki Osmani selama berabad-abad. Namun, di dalam sinetron ”Abad Kejayaan” Sultan Suleyman digambarkan sebagai tokoh laki-laki yang disibukkan oleh istri dan selir-selir yang saling berkonflik memperebutkan perhatiannya. Sinetron ini juga menampilkan latar …

Memurnikan Ajaran Islam Dari Ideologi Radikal Melalui Hermeneutika Paul Ricoeur, Shafira Nurul Syifa, Naupal Asnawi

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Tulisan ini didasari atas kekhawatiran penulis terhadap berkembanngnya persepsi di masyarakat Indonesia bahwa agama Islam itu penuh dengan ajaran-ajaran radikal. Persepsi ini menjadi penting dibahas untuk mencegah pembenaran bahwa radikalisme adalah wajah Islam sesungguhnya. Untuk itu perlu ada upaya pemurnian terhadap persepsi-persepsi yang telah melekat pada Islam. Dalam melakukan upaya pemurnian diperlukan upaya pemahaman kembali terhadap persepsi yang berkembang, hingga faktor lain yang mempengaruhi perkembangan persepsi itu. Hermeneutika menjadi pendekatan yang tepat untuk mencapai tujuan pemurnian dan melakukan upaya pemahaman kembali terhadap persepsi yang berkembang terhadap Islam. Penulis menggunakan pendekatan hermeneutika dari Paul Ricoeur, karena bagi Ricoeur hermeneutika tidak hanya …

Sinergi Nilai-Nilai “Tiga Ajaran Besar” ( 三教 Sān Jiào) Dalam Film Kung Fu Panda 3, Andrea Saraswati, Rahadjeng Pulungsari

Multikultura

Produksi film animasi dengan alur berlatar budaya Cina telah tak terhitung jumlahnya. Salah satu film animasi dengan latar seperti ini di antaranya adalah film berjudul “Kung Fu Panda” (2008, 2022, 2016). Dilihat dari perspektif produksi, terdapat hal yang menarik dari film-film tersebut. Film Kung Fu Panda 1 dan 2 murni diproduksi oleh Disney, sedangkan untuk film Kung Fu Panda 3, pihak Cina terlibat dalam proses produksinya. Hal ini menjadi alasan penulis untuk meneliti film Kung Fu Panda 3 saja, guna menemukan jawaban tentang ada tidaknya unsur-unsur tradisi ajaran Cina dalam adegan-adegan film ini, dan dinamika apa yang terjadi di dalamnya. …