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  • Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

    Creator:
    Schefke, Brian R.
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    Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian R. Schefke for the degree of

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
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    , AND STONE: IMAGES AND MEANING IN MELVILLE Brian D. Martin

  • Comics in the classroom

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    Mosher, Brian S.
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    As the necessity grows for undergraduate English teachers to incorporate various multimodal texts into their course material due to the changing landscape of what is considered English studies, comics can be an increasingly viable source for such texts. This thesis introduces several formal qualities of comics available for teachers to...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian S. Mosher for the degree of Master of Arts in English on May 28, 2013

  • Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

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    Lopez, Kirsten M.
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    Textiles (including basketry, cordage, woven, knotted, or plaited products) make up a considerable portion of the perishable archaeological record in dry caves of the northern Great Basin region, much of which is created from plants and plant fibers. The archaeological study of precontact textiles greatly informs our understanding of how...
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    support allowed the analysis possible: Jesse Muriatli, Chris Russo, Alyssa Shiel, Brian Haley, and

  • Prehistoric patterns of economic and technological behavior reflected in the 2004 lithic assemblage of site J69E, Espiritu Santo Island, Baja California Sur

    Creator:
    Ferrell, Luanne R.
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    The La Ballena #3 site J69E is a shell midden located on Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California Sur. Archaeological excavations conducted in the summer of 2004 investigated a midden containing lithic and shell artifacts as well as faunal and human remains. Analysis of the debitage and formed lithic tool...
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    process; Anne Nolin, Carol Caughey, and Brian Tilt. I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my

  • Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

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    Greene, Wanda S.
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    This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
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    explore his "real" or "true" deeper experience. According to William J. Calvert in his book Byron

  • Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

    Creator:
    Green, Paisley
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    In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Peter J. Betjemann In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and

  • Bright lights, big city : electrified female desire in Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser

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    Larsen, Haley A.
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    This thesis explores the electrified female subject in two novels, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905). As cultural touchstones, two literary works that prominently feature electricity -- Henry James' story "In the Cage" and Henry Adams' biography The Education of Henry Adams --...
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    Theodore Dreiser Abstract Approved: Peter J. Betjemann This thesis explores the electrified female

  • David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

    Creator:
    Randlemon, Daniel E.
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    Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
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    : __________________________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David

  • The effect of void distribution on the Hugoniot state of porous media

    Creator:
    Creel, Emory Myron Willett
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    Shocked porous granular material experiences pressure dependent compaction. D. John Pastine introduced a model in which the degree of compaction is dependent on the pressure induced by the shock wave, the shear strength of the material, and the distribution of void sizes. In the past, the model could only be...
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    State of Porous Media Abstract approved. Davirl J. Griffiths Shocked porous granular material