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Title: "How to milk a coat": The effect of acoustic parameter and semantic sentence context on phonemic categorization and lexical selection.
Creator: Borsky, Susan, Florida Atlantic University, Tuller, Betty
Abstract/Description: This experiment investigated the role of sentence meaning in auditory language comprehension. Tokens from a GOAT-COAT speech voicing continuum were embedded in carrier sentences that were biased toward either a "goat" or "coat" interpretation and presented to subjects for a word identification task. The identification function showed a boundary shift in favor of the biased context, and an interaction localized to the ambiguous boundary region. Response times were largest in the boundary...
Show moreThis experiment investigated the role of sentence meaning in auditory language comprehension. Tokens from a GOAT-COAT speech voicing continuum were embedded in carrier sentences that were biased toward either a "goat" or "coat" interpretation and presented to subjects for a word identification task. The identification function showed a boundary shift in favor of the biased context, and an interaction localized to the ambiguous boundary region. Response times were largest in the boundary region and the interaction between the two factors was localized to the boundary region and the voiced endpoint. There was also a response time advantage for context consistent responses specifically in the boundary region. These results and those of earlier research (Connine, 1987; Connine & Clifton, 1987) are described in terms of interactive activation of potential response categories by acoustic parameter and sentence context.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15313
Subject Headings: Speech perception, Comprehension, Semantics, Psycholinguistics
Format: Document (PDF)

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)
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Title: "I don't see color - we're all just human beings": Phenomenology of students' online discourses on race, ethnicity and prejudice.
Creator: Kanata, Tamie., Arizona State University
Abstract/Description: This study provides a phenomenological inquiry of the way in which students of intercultural communication engage in online dialogues on issues related to race, ethnicity and prejudice. Particularly, it interrogates the structures of their preconsciousness (modalities) of their expressions on race, ethnicity and prejudice, as they are revealed through their lived experience in online dialogues. Students' specific manners of seeing (or not seeing) the meanings and significance of race and...
Show moreThis study provides a phenomenological inquiry of the way in which students of intercultural communication engage in online dialogues on issues related to race, ethnicity and prejudice. Particularly, it interrogates the structures of their preconsciousness (modalities) of their expressions on race, ethnicity and prejudice, as they are revealed through their lived experience in online dialogues. Students' specific manners of seeing (or not seeing) the meanings and significance of race and ethnicity are thus explicated., The study reveals the following four modalities of students' seeing of race, ethnicity and prejudice: (1) Primacy of the U.S. core values of freedom and individual choices structures students' ways of seeing and hearing racially/ethnically different others' experiences as real or not real; (2) Ahistoric and disembodied knowledge regarding self and others directs their understanding of race, ethnicity and others' experience of prejudice; (3) The U.S. assimilationist history creates an assumed absence of meaning on race and ethnicity; and (4) Experiencing others' different modalities of experiencing the world, through hearing others' lived experiences, facilitates one's reexamination of a taken-for-granted modality of existence. The implications of the study in the areas of whiteness studies and pedagogy are discussed, and directions for future research are also presented.
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Date Issued: 2003, 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40370
Subject Headings: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural, Speech Communication, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "I'm a feminist": Gender issues in selected short stories by Dorothy Parker.
Creator: Hahn, Lynne Barbara., Florida Atlantic University, Berry, Faith
Abstract/Description: Dorothy Parker made her "I'm a feminist" claim in a 1956 Paris Review interview with Marion Capron. This thesis proposes that Parker showed an acute awareness of women's issues. As a working woman who demanded equal pay for equal work, she was aware of gender influenced inequalities. Parker examined the cultural institutions that subordinated women by gender, class and race through her realist fiction. She anticipated the political feminist critique as we know it today. This thesis will...
Show moreDorothy Parker made her "I'm a feminist" claim in a 1956 Paris Review interview with Marion Capron. This thesis proposes that Parker showed an acute awareness of women's issues. As a working woman who demanded equal pay for equal work, she was aware of gender influenced inequalities. Parker examined the cultural institutions that subordinated women by gender, class and race through her realist fiction. She anticipated the political feminist critique as we know it today. This thesis will examine three of her works of short fiction which reveal her political feminist consciousness: "Big Blonde," "Clothe the Naked," and "Mr. Durant."
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Date Issued: 1992
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14876
Subject Headings: Parker, Dorothy,--1893-1967--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature
Format: Document (PDF)

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)

Title: "It is our duty to sing": a defense of the mythic method in David Jones's In parenthesis.
Creator: Snyder, Matthew J., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Great War veteran David Jones's poem about the war, In Parenthesis, has been attacked by literary critics Paul Fussell and Evelyn Cobley on the grounds that the poem, usually read as an instance of "literature of protest" against the war, indicates Jones's ideological complicity with the war through its extensive allusions to heroic Celtic myth, British literature, and Catholic liturgy. This thesis argues that Jones's intricate allusive network represents a mythopoetic method of endurance, a...
Show moreGreat War veteran David Jones's poem about the war, In Parenthesis, has been attacked by literary critics Paul Fussell and Evelyn Cobley on the grounds that the poem, usually read as an instance of "literature of protest" against the war, indicates Jones's ideological complicity with the war through its extensive allusions to heroic Celtic myth, British literature, and Catholic liturgy. This thesis argues that Jones's intricate allusive network represents a mythopoetic method of endurance, a way of making order amidst the chaos of the Western Front. Jones's mythopoetic method, which I call allusive "seeing," serves as both a psychological defense mechanism against the war's strangeness and horror and a protest against the perception that because of the industrial, unheroic nature of the Great War, the soldiers who fought and died in it cannot be considered heroes.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11580
Subject Headings: Jones, David, 1895-1974, Views on war, World War, 1914-1918, Literature and the war, War poetry, English, History and criticism, War and literature, History and criticism
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Title: "JULIA" CHARACTERIZATION IN THE PLAYS OF LILLIAN HELLMAN.
Creator: BELL, KATHLEEN T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Julia character, as depicted in the essay in Pentimento, provides a character model for Lillian Hellman's plays. Julia's strength of personal responsibility provides Hellman a measure by which her characters succeed or fail, a criterion upon which personal worth is judged. Julia's strength, compassion, and personal responsibility are depicted in varying degrees in the characters created in Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Searching...
Show moreThe Julia character, as depicted in the essay in Pentimento, provides a character model for Lillian Hellman's plays. Julia's strength of personal responsibility provides Hellman a measure by which her characters succeed or fail, a criterion upon which personal worth is judged. Julia's strength, compassion, and personal responsibility are depicted in varying degrees in the characters created in Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Searching Wind, and The Autumn Garden. As reflected in the plays, Julia is Hellman's model, her ideal; she is the vehicle for Hellman's strong personal and social statements.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14044
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, Theater, Literature, American
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Title: "KING HORN": A STUDY OF THEME AND STRUCTURE.
Creator: GLEASON, MARJORIE W., Florida Atlantic University, Greer, Allen W.
Abstract/Description: This study of King Horn, the earliest extant Middle English verse romance that has chanced to survive, includes a brief survey of the criticism, both historical and textual, that is available in English. It is also an attempt to extend the view that King Horn, aside from its historical value, is a poem in its own right , an artistic achievement possessing a shaped structure and unity. Three themes, those of exile and return, growth to maturity of the hero, and the restoration of order, are...
Show moreThis study of King Horn, the earliest extant Middle English verse romance that has chanced to survive, includes a brief survey of the criticism, both historical and textual, that is available in English. It is also an attempt to extend the view that King Horn, aside from its historical value, is a poem in its own right , an artistic achievement possessing a shaped structure and unity. Three themes, those of exile and return, growth to maturity of the hero, and the restoration of order, are discussed in order to reveal their importance to the structure and their contribution to the poem as a whole.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13665
Subject Headings: King Horn (Metrical romance), English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: “LEED”ERSHIP IN RESIDENCE HALLS.
Creator: Terry, Loren, O’Brien, William, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: What are the features of environmentally sustainable student housing? How might these features be reflected in the design of a new residence hall on FAU’s Jupiter Campus? As enrollment in the Wilkes Honors College expands, the necessity for more housing also grows. This new need brings the opportunity to construct a residence hall according to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, focusing on reducing environmental harm caused by new infrastructure. Toward this end,...
Show moreWhat are the features of environmentally sustainable student housing? How might these features be reflected in the design of a new residence hall on FAU’s Jupiter Campus? As enrollment in the Wilkes Honors College expands, the necessity for more housing also grows. This new need brings the opportunity to construct a residence hall according to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, focusing on reducing environmental harm caused by new infrastructure. Toward this end, I investigate best practices of sustainable residence hall design, considering features of existing LEED buildings on the Boca Raton campus and those at other colleges and universities nationwide. I compile a comprehensive list of design features that have been implemented as well as a list of the types of materials and practices that should be considered in designing the future Honors College residence hall and consider additional sustainable practices to incorporate on the Jupiter Campus.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012640
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Los pueblos, vibrantes y triunfantes en un hombre": Cultos a la personalidad y aislamiento en Corea del Norte y Cuba.
Creator: Trifoi, Bianca, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, 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/FA00003659
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Making Waves: Celebrating and Cultivating Discovery, Diversity, and Distinction".
Creator: Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued: 2012-03
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUAD00002
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Title: "Maldito amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust": Rosario Ferre between languages.
Creator: Martin, Angela F., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Since 1970, translation studies have broken the dichotomous mold of the "word for word" or "sense for sense" translation, shifting from a linguistics focus to a new approach that investigates the context and confluence of the social/political factors that form the cultural background of a language. In the light of this "cultural turn," this study comparatively investigates the apparent differences between the two versions of the novella "Maldito amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" by the...
Show moreSince 1970, translation studies have broken the dichotomous mold of the "word for word" or "sense for sense" translation, shifting from a linguistics focus to a new approach that investigates the context and confluence of the social/political factors that form the cultural background of a language. In the light of this "cultural turn," this study comparatively investigates the apparent differences between the two versions of the novella "Maldito amor" and "Sweet Diamond Dust" by the critically acclaimed Puerto Rican Rosario Ferre. To read Ferre's two versions taking into account translation theorist Lawrence Venuti's concepts of "foreignizing" or "domestication" of a text, evidences the need of new theoretical formulations to critically situate these rare cases of authors who "write between languages," and (re)create their work in another language.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15791
Subject Headings: Translating and interpreting, Ferre, Rosario--Sweet diamond dust, Ferre, Rosario--Translations
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The "mental crisis" of John Stuart Mill: The destruction of a mechanical consciousness.
Creator: Dhuwalia, Raj Kumar., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: In Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed...
Show moreIn Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed by Mill scholarship. I shall consider various aspects of Mill's life and thought before and after the crisis as a means of identifying the nature of this fundamental change in Mill. These aspects of Mill's thought include philosophy, economics, epistemology, poetry, and politics, and these aspects of Mill's life include education, his relationship with his father and Bentham, his early activism, his influences, and his perceptions of man and society.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15319
Subject Headings: Mill, John Stuart,--1806-1873--Autobiography, Consciousness in literature, Philosophy in literature, Authors, English--19th century--Biography--History and criticism
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Title: "None of us are androgynous": Androgyny in William Faulkner's "The Wild Palms".
Creator: Dawsey, Teresa Russell., Florida Atlantic University, Coyle, William
Abstract/Description: Androgyny in literature is not a new topic. In William Faulkner's The Wild Palms, however, the significance of androgyny as theme has been largely overlooked. Androgyny is defined as the harmonious balance derived from accepting those individual aspects defined culturally and socially as masculine and feminine beyond the physical and biological. In this novel, Harry Wilbourne, a doctor and scientist, denies his androgyny while Charlotte Rittenmeyer, his lover and a sculptor, finds comfort and...
Show moreAndrogyny in literature is not a new topic. In William Faulkner's The Wild Palms, however, the significance of androgyny as theme has been largely overlooked. Androgyny is defined as the harmonious balance derived from accepting those individual aspects defined culturally and socially as masculine and feminine beyond the physical and biological. In this novel, Harry Wilbourne, a doctor and scientist, denies his androgyny while Charlotte Rittenmeyer, his lover and a sculptor, finds comfort and harmony in both her masculine and feminine traits. Harry faces a gender identity crisis when Charlotte, pregnant, decides to abort their child. Only after Charlotte dies of a botched abortion does Harry accept his memories--his responsibility for his past life with Charlotte (a masculine characteristic)--as well as his grief--over Charlotte's death and the loss of the grand passion he shared with her (feminine emotions). Harry, reborn, becomes a man: harmonious in his androgyny.
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Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15560
Subject Headings: Androgyny (Psychology) in literature., Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Wild palms
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Title: THE "OBLIQUE EFFECT" IN THE SPATIAL REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN FOR THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL PLANE.
Creator: HILTON, THOMAS FREDERICK, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The effect of stimulus plane orientation (horizontal vs vertical) on mirror-image oblique discrimination was investigated for children 5 to 8 years of age. A significant difference in learning rate favoring the vertical plane presentation was obtained. Tracing the stimuli had no effect on learning rate in either the horizontal or vertical plane. The results were explained in terms of egocentricity in the child's representation of spatial relations.
Date Issued: 1976
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13827
Subject Headings: Orientation (Psychology), Discrimination learning, Mirror images, Space perception in children
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Title: “Odd Apocalyptic Panics”: Chthonic Storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.
Creator: Nugent, Ashley Frances, Mason, Julia, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: I argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming...
Show moreI argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming centuries. By bringing the two texts into dialogue, one sees that Atwood’s novel constitutes the kind of story deemed necessary by Haraway for making kin in the Chthulucene. Various scenes depicting cooperation and interdependence among humans and other animals offer chthonic models of kinship; these relationships, as opposed to ideological and anthropocentric isolation, will serve as the means of surviving and thriving within an ongoing apocalypse.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013090
Subject Headings: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- MaddAddam trilogy., Haraway, Donna Jeanne., Atwood, Margaret, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
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Title: "On the vanguard of civilization": Slavery, the police, and conflicts between public and private power in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 1835-1888.
Creator: Brown, Alexandra Kelly., The University of Texas at Austin
Abstract/Description: Set in the context of an urban slave system in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador da Bahia, this dissertation focuses on the police as an instrument of social control over the urban slave population and the ways in which slaves turned those same mechanisms of control to their own advantage. In the two decades following independence from Portugal in 1822, members of the planter class struggled to counter the ensuing social turmoil by establishing new structures by which to govern the...
Show moreSet in the context of an urban slave system in the northeastern Brazilian city of Salvador da Bahia, this dissertation focuses on the police as an instrument of social control over the urban slave population and the ways in which slaves turned those same mechanisms of control to their own advantage. In the two decades following independence from Portugal in 1822, members of the planter class struggled to counter the ensuing social turmoil by establishing new structures by which to govern the population. A revolt of African slaves and freedmen (1835) in the city of Salvador had made Brazilian elites painfully aware of the danger the black population posed to the stability of the emerging state; fearful of another rebellion, lawmakers and prominent slaveholders ceded to Bahia's police forces the authority necessary to monitor the urban population of slaves and free people of color., Yet in the process masters sacrificed some of their own private power and came to resent police interference in their affairs. As agents of state authority, police interfered with the interests of individual owners when they arrested and beat slaves against their masters' wishes or investigated charges that slaveholders treated bondsmen with a degree of cruelty that violated the furthest accepted limits of castigation. Violence against slaves gradually emerged as a central point of contention among elites who, in the courts and legislatures, struggled to conciliate their demands for orderly slaves with newly adopted notions of humane justice appropriate to the kind of "civilized" society to which they imagined they belonged. And, by the 1870s, elites publicly voiced their condemnations of the "barbarism" and "immorality" of the men of color who made up Bahia's police forces., Such conflicts between masters and the police created a breach in the social order. Slaves used that division both when they appealed to their masters' social prestige to protect them in conflicts with police and when they relied on the police to launch legal challenges against their owners. Slaves thus turned to their own advantage an institution that had been designed to control them, until the final abolition of slavery in 1888.
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Date Issued: 1998, 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40886
Subject Headings: History, Black, History, Latin American, 0328, 0336
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Title: "One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!": twinship and doubling in Twelfth Night.
Creator: Puehn, Amanda M., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: This thesis considers the relationship between scientific advances, identity formation, and literature in an early modern print culture. As medical theorists made their discoveries and defended their work they did so within the literary world; turning to the printed word to cultivate their personal identity and rebut dissenting colleagues. Subsequently, playwright William Shakespeare employed common medical knowledge within his plays. Twelfth Night presents male and female twins within the...
Show moreThis thesis considers the relationship between scientific advances, identity formation, and literature in an early modern print culture. As medical theorists made their discoveries and defended their work they did so within the literary world; turning to the printed word to cultivate their personal identity and rebut dissenting colleagues. Subsequently, playwright William Shakespeare employed common medical knowledge within his plays. Twelfth Night presents male and female twins within the scope of a comedy that plays upon the issues of cross-dressing and mistaken sexual identity. During the Renaissance, it was believed that male and female seed was co-present in every person and through dominance a distinct sexual identity was developed. This thesis argues that while Shakespeare initially convoluted this by allowing one of the twins to cross-dress; he resolved the anatomical doubling by presenting both characters together on stage at the close of the play.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335455
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature, Literature and medicine, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Our fellows in mortality": kindness to animals in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.
Creator: Brockway, Jessica L., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: In Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy depicts characters who are especially sensitive to the suffering of all living creatures and thus engages his novel in the topic of animal rights. In this project I examine the human-animal relationships in Hardy's novel in terms of the ideas of two different philosophers: Peter Singer and Cora Diamond. I argue that, while Singer at first seems to provide a useful model for understanding these relationships in Jude, Diamond's account of these relationships is...
Show moreIn Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy depicts characters who are especially sensitive to the suffering of all living creatures and thus engages his novel in the topic of animal rights. In this project I examine the human-animal relationships in Hardy's novel in terms of the ideas of two different philosophers: Peter Singer and Cora Diamond. I argue that, while Singer at first seems to provide a useful model for understanding these relationships in Jude, Diamond's account of these relationships is ultimately a more helpful tool for understanding Hardy's ideas about animals. Diamond helps us see that Hardy believes people should help all living creatures in pain, no matter the cost to themselves, not because they recognize their suffering, but because they recognize a shared commonality with all sentient creatures.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3334248
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Animal rights (Philosophy), Human-animal relationships in literature, Symbolism in literature, Animals and civilization
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Title: “OUT OF FIXED PROPORTION, BEAUTY RISES”: A REVIEW OF MATHEMATICS IN FORMAL POETIC CONSTRAINT.
Creator: Nielander. Tiffany, Blue, Meredith, Florida Atlantic University, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: As Bertrand Russel once said, “The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry” (Russel 60). Poetry and mathematics are recognizably linked through aesthetics and counting at the most fundamental level, but these basic connections can be further extended to formal constraints in poetry. The link between mathematics and poetry, as well as formal poetic constraint...
Show moreAs Bertrand Russel once said, “The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry” (Russel 60). Poetry and mathematics are recognizably linked through aesthetics and counting at the most fundamental level, but these basic connections can be further extended to formal constraints in poetry. The link between mathematics and poetry, as well as formal poetic constraint based on mathematical structures and principles is inherently organic. The sestina and the sonnet are traditional poetic forms that contain intrinsic mathematical structures. The Fib, the S+7 algorithm, and computer-generated poetry are modern forms which have been explicitly based on mathematical structures.
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Date Issued: 2018
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUHT00036
Format: Document (PDF)

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