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  • Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

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    Foster, Brad D.
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    This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
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    approved: ____________________________________________________________________ Jon Lewis This

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    : Artificial Intelligence and Cyberpunk. Abstract approved: Jon Lewis This thesis examines the ways in which

  • "Flying the plane as we build it" : a qualitative study of an organization's goals and actions toward the prevention of exploited female youth

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    Dubyak, Erin A.
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    Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted...
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    : _______________________________________________________________ Janet Lee Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

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    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    . Title: Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series Abstract approved: Janet Lee Books and

  • “Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

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    Graham, Devon E.
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    This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Janet Lee This thesis

  • Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

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    Divelbiss, John D.
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    This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
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    Critical Pedagogy in the Standards-based Classroom Abstract approved: Jon R. Lewis This thesis

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

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    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    Announces Itself: Terrence Malick’s Emersonian Cinema Abstract approved: Jon R. Lewis This

  • Truth, justice, and the American way : what Superman teaches us about the American Dream and changing values within the United States

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    Karp, Lauren N.
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    This thesis is a study of the changes in the cultural definition of the American Dream. I have chosen to use Superman comics, from 1938 to the present day, as litmus tests for how we have societally interpreted our ideas of “success” and the “American Way.” This work is primarily...
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    exciting thesis project. You have provided invaluable support. I would also like to thank Prof. Jon Lewis

  • Ecotourism, community development, and local autonomy : the experience of Shan-Mei aboriginal community in Taiwan

    Creator:
    Lee, Pei-Yao
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    Shan-Mei, a Tsou aboriginal village in Taiwan, is widely known as a legend of environmental conservation, where ecotourism has been successfully combined with integrated community development. Indigenous knowledge containing "ecological wisdom" and decision-making based on consensus are perceived to be the greatest contributors to this achievement. I conducted three months...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Pei-Yao Lee for the degree of

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

    Creator:
    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    , astronomer Maria Mitchell, naturalist Graceanna Lewis, and medical doctor Ann Preston, were all truth