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"...At the ear of Eve"
Title
"...At the ear of Eve": hearing, gender, and the physiology of the fall in John Milton's Paradise lost.
Creator
Pollari, Niina., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The organ of hearing, in John Milton's Paradise Lost, is inextricably connected with both the physical and the spiritual; it is the point of entry through which Satan's words enter Eve's brain, subsequently process, and lead eventually to the fall of mankind. Its symbolic importance is also indisputable, as it is a metaphor for the feminine passivity and penetrability that make Milton's Eve a particularly vulnerable target. There is, however, already a pre-existing connection between the ear...
Show moreThe organ of hearing, in John Milton's Paradise Lost, is inextricably connected with both the physical and the spiritual; it is the point of entry through which Satan's words enter Eve's brain, subsequently process, and lead eventually to the fall of mankind. Its symbolic importance is also indisputable, as it is a metaphor for the feminine passivity and penetrability that make Milton's Eve a particularly vulnerable target. There is, however, already a pre-existing connection between the ear and its role in Paradise Lost. The seventeenth-century medical texts of Milton's contemporaries gender the physiology of the ear and the process of hearing and therefore contribute to its importance in the pivotal temptation scene; that is, the rhetoric surrounding the physiology of the ear is the down fall of humankind in the epic poem. As a result of the dangerous connection between science and language, Milton's characters are already predestined to sin.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11583
Subject Headings
Symbolism in communication, Fall of man, Body, Human, in literature, Literature and science, History
Format
Document (PDF)
“A box of wires” a grounded theory approach to synthpop
Title
“A box of wires” a grounded theory approach to synthpop.
Creator
Suarez, Michael S., Graduate College
Date Issued
2013-04-12
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361361
Subject Headings
Synthpop (Music), Musical analysis
Format
Document (PDF)
"A Nation's Vibrant and Triumphant Incarnation in a Man": Personality Cults and Isolation in North Korea and Cuba
Title
"A Nation's Vibrant and Triumphant Incarnation in a Man": Personality Cults and Isolation in North Korea and Cuba.
Creator
Trifoi, Bianca, Steigenga, Timothy J., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
This paper argues that Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Fidel Castro of Cuba established personality cults of differing degrees of intensity due to the relative degrees of historical and political isolation present in each state. Although both states followed a similar pattern of dominance, resentment, nationalism, and socialism in their recent histories, their differing overall histories dictated the intensity of their leaders' personality cults. Korea's long history of self-imposed...
Show moreThis paper argues that Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Fidel Castro of Cuba established personality cults of differing degrees of intensity due to the relative degrees of historical and political isolation present in each state. Although both states followed a similar pattern of dominance, resentment, nationalism, and socialism in their recent histories, their differing overall histories dictated the intensity of their leaders' personality cults. Korea's long history of self-imposed isolationism in combination with xenophobia was continued in Kim's self-reliance ideology and allowed for a fanatical personality cult to develop. Cuba's only experience with isolation was that imposed by the United States through its embargoes, and the resulting hostility between Cuba and the United States actually helped legitimize Castro's regime and personality cult.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003658
Format
Document (PDF)
"A spirit of benevolence"
Title
"A spirit of benevolence": Manchester and the origins of modern public health, 1790-1834.
Creator
Boxen, Jennifer L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
This thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by...
Show moreThis thesis argues that the British Public Health movement did not begin in 1842 with Edwin Chadwick's publication, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842), or in 1848, with the subsequent passage of the Public Health Act. The beginning of the public health movement was instead the product of local initiatives such as the Manchester Board of Health, administered not by central government, but by members of the local community supported by predominantly philanthropic funding. The Manchester movement predated Chadwick's efforts by at least half a century and bore a greater resemblance to the modern idea of an organized public health system than that advanced by Chadwick and his contemporaries. This is because the Manchester movement emphasized not only those sanitary ideas ascribed to Chadwick but also included a broader spectrum of public health measures, including but not limited to ; preventative medicine, occupational health, and the reduction of contagious diseases.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3360766
Subject Headings
Public health, History, History, Social conditions
Format
Document (PDF)
“Americans all!” re-imaging ethnicity in America, 1939-1945
Title
“Americans all!” re-imaging ethnicity in America, 1939-1945.
Creator
May, Jacqueline S., Graduate College
Date Issued
2010-04-09
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3176831
Format
Document (PDF)
“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve” Green consciousness in the Hunger Games trilogy
Title
“As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve” Green consciousness in the Hunger Games trilogy.
Creator
Jenkins, Sarah Tucker, Graduate College
Date Issued
2013-04-12
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361313
Subject Headings
Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games, Ecofeminism
Format
Document (PDF)
“Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997)
Title
“Between my life that is over and my life to come”: Embodying Authorial Ambivalence in Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997).
Creator
Gifford, Sheryl C., Machado, Elena, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164529
Subject Headings
Authorship --Sex differences, Caribbean literature (English) --History and criticism, Caribbean Area --Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)
"Days of adversity", or, admonitions against disunion. A New year's sermon, preached in Concord, N.H., January 6, 1861
Title
"Days of adversity", or, admonitions against disunion. A New year's sermon, preached in Concord, N.H., January 6, 1861.
Creator
Bouton, Nathaniel 1799-1878, Cogswell, Parsons B. (Parsons Brainard) 1828-1895
Abstract/Description
Includes verse. Includes bibliographical references.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f12
Subject Headings
American Civil War (1861-1865), Bible -- Ecclesiastes, VII, 14 -- Sermons, Church and state -- United States, Constitutional history -- United States -- Sermons, New Year sermons -- New Hampshire -- Concord, Poems, Poetry, Sermons, American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes -- Sermons, United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861 -- Sermons
Format
E-book
"Dear Mother"
Title
"Dear Mother".
Creator
Clarke Family
Date Issued
1859-01-09
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT3319391p
Subject Headings
Genealogy, Family History, Clarke Family
Format
Set of related objects
"Death is nothing in comparison to dishonor": Sarah Morgan’s diary and women’s roles in southern honor
Title
"Death is nothing in comparison to dishonor": Sarah Morgan’s diary and women’s roles in southern honor.
Creator
Radaker, Brooke, Strain, Christopher B., Harriet L.Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
In their studies of the code of honor in the Old South, historians such as Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Edward L. Ayers consider women incapable of possessing honor. However, the diary of Sarah Morgan, a young woman living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans during the Civil War, reveals the many ways that women actively engaged in the code of honor and even considered themselves to be honorable. In her diary, Sarah Morgan described her own reverence for any honorable gentleman and the ways in which...
Show moreIn their studies of the code of honor in the Old South, historians such as Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Edward L. Ayers consider women incapable of possessing honor. However, the diary of Sarah Morgan, a young woman living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans during the Civil War, reveals the many ways that women actively engaged in the code of honor and even considered themselves to be honorable. In her diary, Sarah Morgan described her own reverence for any honorable gentleman and the ways in which women like her preached the ideologies of the code of honor to men. Women reinforced the code of honor by urging men to die rather than dishonor their family names, punished dishonorable men with their disdain while they celebrated their honorable heroes, and even adopted a feminized version of the code so that they too could possess honor.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003531
Format
Document (PDF)
"Double sustainability" in Botswana and South Africa: the case of the san in the central Kalahari game reserve and Kgalagadi transfrontier park
Title
"Double sustainability" in Botswana and South Africa: the case of the san in the central Kalahari game reserve and Kgalagadi transfrontier park.
Creator
Nelson, Lindsay, O’Brien, William, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The question of land access rights for indigenous peoples is now a prominent theme in the management of large parks and game reserves in Africa. This comparative study addresses different government responses to this question regarding land dispossession of the San in Southern Africa. Ancestral lands of this unique and marginalized indigenous population had been rendered off limits by the creation of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (KTP) in South Africa and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve ...
Show moreThe question of land access rights for indigenous peoples is now a prominent theme in the management of large parks and game reserves in Africa. This comparative study addresses different government responses to this question regarding land dispossession of the San in Southern Africa. Ancestral lands of this unique and marginalized indigenous population had been rendered off limits by the creation of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (KTP) in South Africa and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana. In more recent years, the government of Botswana and the post-apartheid government of South Africa have pursued quite divergent approaches to addressing the question of renewed San access rights in the parks. Central to the comparative analysis in this study is the degree to which South Africa and Botswana have embraced the concept of “double sustainability” in park management, which emphasizes the protection of biodiversity and people’s livelihoods at the same time.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003527
Format
Document (PDF)
"Facts and figures for the hour" : speech of George May Powell, of Wisconsin
Title
"Facts and figures for the hour" : speech of George May Powell, of Wisconsin.
Creator
Powell, George May 1835-1906, McGill & Witherow
Abstract/Description
Speech of George May Powell. Delivered before the Lincoln and Johnson Club, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 1864. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy copy with untrimmed edges and unopened pages.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb21f47
Subject Headings
American Civil War (1861-1865), Campaign literature -- United States -- 19th century, Campaign literature, 1864 -- Republican, Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- 1861-1875 -- Sources, Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1864, Taxation -- United States -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Finance, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Format
E-book
"Fear not Abram"
Title
"Fear not Abram".
Abstract/Description
One pictorial envelope printed with an eagle carrying a branch on top of a shield and the words "Fear not, Abram, I am thy Shield, and they exceeding great reward" printed underneath
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/3357392
Subject Headings
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Union., United States --History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Pictorial Works., United States –History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Art and the war., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities--Pictorial works.
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
"For the great empire of liberty, forward!" : Speech of Maj.-Gen. Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin, delivered at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Friday evening, September 16, 1864.
Title
"For the great empire of liberty, forward!" : Speech of Maj.-Gen. Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin, delivered at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Friday evening, September 16, 1864.
Creator
Schurz, Carl 1829-1906, Union Congressional Committee
Abstract/Description
Speech of Major-General Carl Schurz. Caption title. "Printed by the Union Congressional Committee." Imprint from colophon, page 16. Two columns to the page. FAU libraries' copy side stitched with cord.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb21f41
Subject Headings
Campaign literature -- 1864 -- Republican, Campaign literature -- United States -- 19th century, Campaign literature, 1864 -- Republican, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Slavery -- United States, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Format
E-book
"Forgive me my friend"
Title
"Forgive me my friend".
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/3357474
Subject Headings
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Union., United States --History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Pictorial Works., United States –History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Art and the war., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities--Pictorial works.
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
"He who noteth"
Title
"He who noteth".
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/3356318
Subject Headings
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Union, United States --History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Pictorial Works., United States –History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Art and the war., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities--Pictorial works.
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
"He who noteth"
Title
"He who noteth".
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3356321
Subject Headings
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Union., United States --History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Pictorial Works., United States –History –Civil War, 1861-1865 –Art and the war., United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities--Pictorial works.
Format
Image (JPEG2000)
"How does one remember thirst?"
Title
"How does one remember thirst?": phallic and matrixial memory in Chris Marker's La Jetâee and Sans Soleil.
Creator
Barr, Jeremy., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description
This thesis problematizes the notion of memory as a non-gendered mechanism by examining the construction of memory and subjectivity in Chris Marker's La jetâee and Sans soleil. Using the theoretical frameworks of Jacques Lacan, Bracha Ettinger, and Andrâe Bazin, the paper argues that La jetâee presents a model of phallic memory corresponding to a Lacan's understanding of desire and subjectivity, while Sans soleil offers a model of matrixial memory based on Ettinger's theorization of the gaze....
Show moreThis thesis problematizes the notion of memory as a non-gendered mechanism by examining the construction of memory and subjectivity in Chris Marker's La jetâee and Sans soleil. Using the theoretical frameworks of Jacques Lacan, Bracha Ettinger, and Andrâe Bazin, the paper argues that La jetâee presents a model of phallic memory corresponding to a Lacan's understanding of desire and subjectivity, while Sans soleil offers a model of matrixial memory based on Ettinger's theorization of the gaze. Bazin's work is used to address aesthetic issues, as well as providing a method for exploring how the phallic and matrixial frameworks impact the formal construction of the films. Ultimately, La jetâees model of phallic memory is shown to sever past from present in a manner corresponding to Lacanian notions of desire, castration, and loss, whereas Sans soleil demonstrates the potential of matrixial memory to establish a liminal relationship between past and present.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3166838
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Psychoanalysis and art, Psychoanalysis and motion pictures
Format
Document (PDF)
"I distinctly remember you!"
Title
"I distinctly remember you!": an investigation of memory for faces with unusual features.
Creator
Keif, Autumn., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
Many errors in recognition are made because various features of a stimulus are attended inefficiently. Those features are not bound together and can then be confused with other information. One of the most common types of these errors is conjunction errors. These happen when mismatched features of memories are combined to form a composite memory. This study tests how likely conjunction errors, along with other recognition errors, occur when participants watch videos of people both with and...
Show moreMany errors in recognition are made because various features of a stimulus are attended inefficiently. Those features are not bound together and can then be confused with other information. One of the most common types of these errors is conjunction errors. These happen when mismatched features of memories are combined to form a composite memory. This study tests how likely conjunction errors, along with other recognition errors, occur when participants watch videos of people both with and without unusual facial features performing actions after a week time lag. It was hypothesized that participants would falsely recognize actresses in the conjunction item condition over the other conditions. The likelihood of falsely recognizing a new person increased when presented with a feature, but the conjunction items overall were most often falsely recognized.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342207
Subject Headings
Face perception, Human face recognition, Facial expression, Physiological aspects, Recollection (Psychology)
Format
Document (PDF)
"Is the world, then, so narrow?"
Title
"Is the world, then, so narrow?": the simultaneous need for home and travel in Hawthorne's The scarlet letter.
Creator
McGrath, Derek., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and its preface, "The Custom- House," the author himself and Pearl Prynne are characters who engage in travel, escaping the restrictiveness imposed onto them by their hometowns and finding greater creative freedom elsewhere. Their journey, however, is not necessarily physical but rather creative. Hawthorne and Pearl employ writing and imaginative thinking, respectively, in order to characterize Salem and Boston as foreign locations through which...
Show moreIn Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and its preface, "The Custom- House," the author himself and Pearl Prynne are characters who engage in travel, escaping the restrictiveness imposed onto them by their hometowns and finding greater creative freedom elsewhere. Their journey, however, is not necessarily physical but rather creative. Hawthorne and Pearl employ writing and imaginative thinking, respectively, in order to characterize Salem and Boston as foreign locations through which they may tour. The two are what Hawthorne calls "citizen[s] of somewhere else," although they have not departed from their homes yet. By considering how "The Custom-House" relates to The Scarlet Letter based on the themes of travel and home, a new interpretation arises about Hawthorne's book as well as his definition of the American romance, which posits that a person may use creativity in order to find his or her place both within and away from the community.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11605
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)

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