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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)

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)

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: "Viens a la maison": Moroccan hospitality, a contemporary view.
Creator: Schwartz, Anita., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description: As a woman of Moroccan descent, I have been brought up surrounded by a rich culture that places great emphasis on the importance of hospitality and family traditions. This exhibit represents an exploration of porcelain ceramics vessels that have been produced over the past year. The work incorporates tagine forms, plates, tea cups and tea pots that are commonly used while entertaining guests in a Moroccan home. Moroccans welcome the opportunity to show their generosity and hospitality by...
Show moreAs a woman of Moroccan descent, I have been brought up surrounded by a rich culture that places great emphasis on the importance of hospitality and family traditions. This exhibit represents an exploration of porcelain ceramics vessels that have been produced over the past year. The work incorporates tagine forms, plates, tea cups and tea pots that are commonly used while entertaining guests in a Moroccan home. Moroccans welcome the opportunity to show their generosity and hospitality by welcoming guests into their homes to visit and share meals. The vessels are ornately painted and decorated so that meals served will feast the eyes as well as the palate. The porcelain is decorated with ornate finials, underglazes and china painting. The subject of the imagery is a combination of visual anthropology in which random images of people from today's society are contrasted with my own interpretation of ancient geometric design details that are found in North African Zillij cut mosaic tiles. This infuses the work with an imagined sense of time and place. The attempt to harmonize seemingly incongruent elements results in vessels that feel both familiar and eccentric. The layers of color areused to symbolize nature, purity, depth of life and spiritual abundance. The colors are placed randomly in contrast to the symmetry of the geometric designs. The work is displayed in a dining room setting where guests are always welcome to enter. My work as an artist enhances the experience I bring to my students in the classroom.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172699
Subject Headings: Symbolism in art, Ceramic sculpture, Jews, History, Ethnicity in art, Identity (Psychology) in art, Social life and customs
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Across the Empire: British women's travel writings and women's place in the British imperial project during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Creator: Wernecke, Katie., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Women in Britain in the nineteenth century were expected to fulfill the traditional roles of wife and mother as determined by British society. Over the course of the nineteenth century, these ideals evolved, but the core functions of wife and mother remained at the center. Woman's participation outside the household was limited. British women travelers during the nineteenth century found themselves in many different environments. By examining samples of women's travel narratives from various...
Show moreWomen in Britain in the nineteenth century were expected to fulfill the traditional roles of wife and mother as determined by British society. Over the course of the nineteenth century, these ideals evolved, but the core functions of wife and mother remained at the center. Woman's participation outside the household was limited. British women travelers during the nineteenth century found themselves in many different environments. By examining samples of women's travel narratives from various locations in the Empire, this study analyzes the daily lives of British women in the Empire and determines that, while maintaining their roles within the private sphere as wives and mothers, women's activities in the colonies were less restricted than they would have been in Britain.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361255
Subject Headings: Women authors, Feminism, History, Imperialism, History, Man-woman relationships, Colonies, History, Colonies, Administration, Colonies, Social conditions
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: All power to the people: the Black Panther Party as the vanguard of the oppressed.
Creator: Berman, Matthew., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers...
Show moreThe Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers quickly evolved into a revolutionary vanguard with a non-racial, class-oriented agenda.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77656, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77656
Subject Headings: African Americans, Politics and government, Civil rights movements, History, Black nationalism, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The analysis of Iraqi women's political participation, civil rights, and societal roles.
Creator: Longo, Gina Marie., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description: The effects that Women's political participation in the Middle East has on political parties and regimes have been investigated by the political science community. However, how women's political participation and changing societal roles affect women's lives has not received adequate attention. This is a comparative historical analysis that investigates how women's societal roles and political participation in Iraq changed from 1968 to the present. It examines how factors such as social...
Show moreThe effects that Women's political participation in the Middle East has on political parties and regimes have been investigated by the political science community. However, how women's political participation and changing societal roles affect women's lives has not received adequate attention. This is a comparative historical analysis that investigates how women's societal roles and political participation in Iraq changed from 1968 to the present. It examines how factors such as social conservatism, party ideology, war, sanctions, religion, and international pressure during different periods in Iraq's modern history influenced changes in Iraqi women's roles and participation over time. These changes in societal roles and political participation are used to analyze the restrictions and expansions in Iraqi women's civil rights in areas such as family, work and mobility, political and cultural expression, health and sexual control, and education.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186681
Subject Headings: Women, Social conditions, Women's rights, Women in politics, Sex role, History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An aristocratic revolution?: the British reaction to the Decembrist Revolt of 1825.
Creator: Posner, Kenneth., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This thesis argues that in the wake of the Decembrist Revolt in Russia in 1825, the British Foreign Office was forced to address the tension between two conceptions of stability-one domestic and one international. It contends that the aristocratic ethos of the British diplomatic corps both magnified the fragile social condition of the Russian Empire and organized the political response which subordinated this concern to the international equilibrium of Europe. Ambassadors such as Lord...
Show moreThis thesis argues that in the wake of the Decembrist Revolt in Russia in 1825, the British Foreign Office was forced to address the tension between two conceptions of stability-one domestic and one international. It contends that the aristocratic ethos of the British diplomatic corps both magnified the fragile social condition of the Russian Empire and organized the political response which subordinated this concern to the international equilibrium of Europe. Ambassadors such as Lord Strangford and Edward Cromwell Disbrowe helped interpret the events of the Decembrist conspiracy while stationed in St. Petersburg and reported back to their Foreign Secretary, George Canning, who used the revolt as an attempt to realign British interests with Russia. In the end, elite Britons chose to protect the international balance of power in post-Napoleonic Europe instead of the traditional social hierarchies believed to be under siege in Russia.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2705079
Subject Headings: Secret societies, Decembrists, Aristocracy (Social class), History, History, Influence, Politics and government, Politics and government
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Beethoven: his nine symphonies and their influence on the development of the orchestra.
Creator: Padua, Daniel., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Music
Abstract/Description: Beethoven is widely considered to be one of the most influential composers of all time. His compositions denote a crucial turning point in the history of western music, and his influence can be discussed in numerous ways - musically, technically, theoretically and even philosophically. This treatise discusses one of the primary aspects of Beethoven's influence on later generations: the way that his symphonies contributed to the expansion of the genre and, consequently, to the development of...
Show moreBeethoven is widely considered to be one of the most influential composers of all time. His compositions denote a crucial turning point in the history of western music, and his influence can be discussed in numerous ways - musically, technically, theoretically and even philosophically. This treatise discusses one of the primary aspects of Beethoven's influence on later generations: the way that his symphonies contributed to the expansion of the genre and, consequently, to the development of the orchestra. Included is a detailed analysis of his nine symphonies, an overview of his personal life, and an exploration of the historical, social, and political time in which he lived. This thesis collects and examines relevant documents in order to inquire about and better understand the changes and innovations that transformed the standard orchestra of the eighteenth century, opening the doors to the symphonic music of the Romantic Era.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2978945
Subject Headings: Influence, Criticism and interpretation, Performance practice (Music), History, Music, Philosophy and aesthetics, Instrumentation and orchestration, History, Arrangement (Music), History
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 1 Number 1.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2415404
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 1 Number 2.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2415535
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 1 Number 3.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2415626
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 1 Number 4.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2415719
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 10 Numbers 1 and 2.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2417414
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 10 Numbers 3 and 4.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2417522
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 11 Numbers 1 and 2.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2417637
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 11 Numbers 3 and 4.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2417746
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 12 Numbers 1 and 2.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2417857
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 12 Numbers 3 and 4.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2417964
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

Title: Broward legacy.: Volume 13 Numbers 1 and 2.
Creator: Broward County Historical Commission
Date Issued: 1976, 9999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/2418068
Subject Headings: History, Periodicals, History
Format: Serial component

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