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- Seminoles and settlers on the Florida frontier: using glass bottle analysis to reconstruct daily life at Stranahan’s trading post, Fort Lauderdale.
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- Geiger, Crystal, Fradkin, Arlene, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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The early economic and social development of Fort Lauderdale began in the late nineteenth century. Today’s well-known Stranahan House in downtown Fort Lauderdale was originally the Stranahan Trading Post and General Store, which was in operation from 1894 to 1906. Adjacent to this building was a campground, which was used by early Florida white settlers and Seminole Indians. This thesis presents a study of 204 whole glass bottles recovered from the Stranahan campground archaeological site ...
Show moreThe early economic and social development of Fort Lauderdale began in the late nineteenth century. Today’s well-known Stranahan House in downtown Fort Lauderdale was originally the Stranahan Trading Post and General Store, which was in operation from 1894 to 1906. Adjacent to this building was a campground, which was used by early Florida white settlers and Seminole Indians. This thesis presents a study of 204 whole glass bottles recovered from the Stranahan campground archaeological site (8BD259). The analysis confirms that a greater proportion of the bottles were used when the property was a campsite. Moreover, soda/mineral water, not alcohol, was the more common type of beverage consumed at the site during this time.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004371, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004371
- Subject Headings
- Fort Lauderdale Region (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century, Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida -- Fort Lauderdale Region, Seminole Indians -- History -- 20th century, Seminole Indians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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- Resistance is Never Futile: Un-sporting Surfing as Radical Female Behavior.
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- Schipper, Katherine E., Hinshaw, Wendy, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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Using the narrative imagery of Instagram and the cultural narrative of the Olympics, I explore the role of agency and autonomy in modern sport with a focus on the commercial and institutional arms of surfing. This project is an attempt to evaluate visual and cultural narrative from the perspective of a literary scholar and to root theory and philosophy in issues that go beyond scholarship and academics. In chapter one, I use sports sociologists Jennifer Hargreaves and Krista Comer as well as...
Show moreUsing the narrative imagery of Instagram and the cultural narrative of the Olympics, I explore the role of agency and autonomy in modern sport with a focus on the commercial and institutional arms of surfing. This project is an attempt to evaluate visual and cultural narrative from the perspective of a literary scholar and to root theory and philosophy in issues that go beyond scholarship and academics. In chapter one, I use sports sociologists Jennifer Hargreaves and Krista Comer as well as Jean Kilbourne and Rosalind Gill to illuminate and explore two surf-centric Instagram accounts, both of which imagine a story of surfing through a mostly visual medium. In chapter two, I turn to Elizabeth Grosz and Michel Foucault to help explore the institutionalized arm of surfing through its recent inclusion in the Olympic Games.
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- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004844, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004844
- Subject Headings
- Online social networks., Surfing for women., Sports--Sociological aspects--Criticism and interpretation., Olympics., Kilbourne, Jean., Gill, Rosalind--(Rosalind Clair), Grosz, E. A.--(Elizabeth A.), Foucault, Michel--1926-1984.
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- More branches on the oldest tree: tradition and experimentation through improvisation in the music of post-Katrina New Orleans.
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- Bethea, David., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
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On Monday August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Southeast Louisiana bringing with it destruction to much of the Gulf Coast. While New Orleans, one of America's most culturally and artistically significant cities, was spared a direct hit, the subsequent flood devastated much of the city, home to many musicians. The devastation and stress from the storm established a situation and a motivator for creative response, and this dissertation illustrates that the music these musicians...
Show moreOn Monday August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Southeast Louisiana bringing with it destruction to much of the Gulf Coast. While New Orleans, one of America's most culturally and artistically significant cities, was spared a direct hit, the subsequent flood devastated much of the city, home to many musicians. The devastation and stress from the storm established a situation and a motivator for creative response, and this dissertation illustrates that the music these musicians produce is a manifestation and continuation of New Orleans' cultural atmosphere. The city's historical allowance and celebration of freedom of expression permits New Orleans' current musicians to be innovative and responsive to the events surrounding the disaster. This project, designed as a qualitative research study, identifies four professional musicians who are established in the musical environment of New Orleans. To illustrate the depth of tradition and experimentation that their music evokes, the music of post- Katrina New Orleans is given historical contextualization and set in comparison to music that was inspired by a past catastrophe, the 1927 flood. Through the holistic exploration of the present circumstances of these four musicians, it becomes clear that New Orleans remains a place that is extremely open to change and that experimental music flourishes at the same time that traditional jazz lives on through new performers, who walk in the footsteps of legends. From interviews conducted with these four individuals, as well as other on-site observations, the emotional, physical, and financial effects of Hurricane Katrina are identified and recorded., Central to this study is the author's own knowledge of music and experience in musical dialogue - it is through the interaction of the author and the subjects that important events and characteristics, which could be documented, actually emerged.This project reveals the influence that the storm has had on the individual musician and it demonstrates that while all four musicians are caught up in the whirlwind of recovery in New Orleans, their music remains rooted in the fundamental characteristic that is associated historically with New Orleans' music, improvisation. By the same token, it also shows that while each person may have had to suffer the same conditions, the musical response from each musician was unique.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2953204
- Subject Headings
- Improvisation (Music), Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Psychological aspects, Composition (Music), Psychological aspects, Arts and society, Social conditions
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- Document (PDF)
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- Multiple birth families, religion, and cultural hegemony: patriarchal constructions in reality television.
- Creator
- Cittadino, Emily M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
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Reality television programming chronicling the daily workings of multiple birth families within American culture has gained notoriety in recent years. Such programs, especially Discovery Health and TLC's 17, 18 Kids and Counting and TLC's Jon and Kate Plus Ei8ht, film, edit and broadcast the "everyday" life of these families. This research study focuses attention on hegemonic ideologies surrounding family values, motherhood, gender roles and religious faith, illuminated through textual and...
Show moreReality television programming chronicling the daily workings of multiple birth families within American culture has gained notoriety in recent years. Such programs, especially Discovery Health and TLC's 17, 18 Kids and Counting and TLC's Jon and Kate Plus Ei8ht, film, edit and broadcast the "everyday" life of these families. This research study focuses attention on hegemonic ideologies surrounding family values, motherhood, gender roles and religious faith, illuminated through textual and audience analysis. Working from an interdisciplinary approach combining feminist media and cultural studies, this study finds that hegemonic notions of family values, gender representations, religious faith and conceptions of motherhood are evident to varying degrees in the television texts and accepted by fans who negotiate their meanings online.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2684311
- Subject Headings
- Mass media and culture, Feminist theory, Popular culture, Women in popular culture, Reality television programs, Social aspects, Television program genres, Sex role in popular culture
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- Document (PDF)
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- Site Fidelity Assessment of Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Following Large-Scale Emigration of Sympatric Atlantic Spotted Dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the Bahamas.
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- Kuhn, Sommer L., Herzing, Denise L., Hughes, Colin, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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Two sympatric species of dolphins (Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus) have been long-term residents to Little Bahama Bank. This study assessed whether there was a change in residence patterns or diurnal foraging depths of bottlenose dolphins following a large emigration event in the resident spotted dolphin community on this sandbank. Photo-identification was used to identify individual bottlenose dolphins and compare pooled...
Show moreTwo sympatric species of dolphins (Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus) have been long-term residents to Little Bahama Bank. This study assessed whether there was a change in residence patterns or diurnal foraging depths of bottlenose dolphins following a large emigration event in the resident spotted dolphin community on this sandbank. Photo-identification was used to identify individual bottlenose dolphins and compare pooled years before (2010-2012) and after (2013-2015) the spotted dolphin emigration. The identified community size and overall residency of the bottlenose dolphins remained similar, although two bottlenose dolphins emigrated over deep water to the site spotted dolphins emigrated. Bottlenose dolphins diurnally fed in shallower water but remained in the same geographic foraging locations. Reasons remain unknown for this depth change, but potential changes in the productivity of primary bottlenose dolphin foraging habitats or reduction of spotted dolphins from shallower depths remain possibilities.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004927, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004927
- Subject Headings
- Bottlenose dolphin--Habitat--Bahamas--Little Bahama Bank., Bottlenose dolphin--Effect of habitat modification on., Atlantic spotted dolphin--Habitat--Bahamas--Little Bahama Bank., Dolphins--Atlantic Ocean--Geographical distribution., Social behavior in animals.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Christian Rock Goes Mainstream: Youth Culture, Politics and Popular Music in the U.S.
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- Giagnoni, Silvia, Scodari, Christine, Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The dissertation analyzes Christian rock that goes mainstream and aims to explain such a phenomenon within the contemporary cultural, social and political context. This cultural study acknowledges the inherent tendency of Christian rock “to cross over” as part of the Evangelical ideology in which it is rooted. It also views it as a symptom of the augmented power of conservative Evangelical groups in today’s American political and social climate and of the current, increased presence of...
Show moreThe dissertation analyzes Christian rock that goes mainstream and aims to explain such a phenomenon within the contemporary cultural, social and political context. This cultural study acknowledges the inherent tendency of Christian rock “to cross over” as part of the Evangelical ideology in which it is rooted. It also views it as a symptom of the augmented power of conservative Evangelical groups in today’s American political and social climate and of the current, increased presence of discourses around religion and, specifically, Christianity in the public arena. Hence, the research offers an historical understanding of the social, cultural and discursive changes that have occurred within American Christianity in relation to politics, society and culture since Christian rock’s first appearance as an expression of the Jesus People movement of the 1970s, with the aim of better comprehending the nature of the contemporary crossover phenomenon. Additionally, the study considers rock as a discursive formation, interprets Christian rock as a primarily countercultural phenomenon and addresses the questions its crossover poses. Thus, it explores dimensions and issues highly debated in cultural studies concerning authenticity, resistance, generic labeling, lyrical content, pleasure, and experience. Specifically, it looks at Christian rock “fragments” as receptacles for a multitude of meanings that are constantly negotiated in public discourses. The research finally examines the music industry (marketing strategies, publications, distribution deals, and so forth) in relation to these phenomena, and reports on the interviews with emerging crossover Christian rock bands and other people operating in the industry. By investigating it as part of the larger endeavor of Evangelicals to impact and transform American culture and society, it is illustrated how Christian rock is able today to provide an alternative version of popular music to their own young people and to reach non-believers as well; this suggests further research and, specifically, the necessity of audience analysis, and concomitantly raises thought-provoking questions related to cultural theory. The study also demonstrates how Christian rock, an apparently oxymoronic manifestation of rock culture, is actually reproducing its very logic, thus catalyzing cultural change and symptomatically reflecting neoconservative cultural hegemony and ultimately supporting an emerging definition of rock.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000981
- Subject Headings
- Contemporary Christian music--United States, Popular culture--Religious aspects, Popular music--United States--History and criticism, Rock music--Political aspects, Popular music--Social aspects, Christian rock music--History and criticism
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- Ecoqueer: Moving Beyond Ecocomposition's Heteronormative Binaries.
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- Hoover, Megan L., Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University
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An examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that...
Show moreAn examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that definitions of masculinity need to be expanded to include gay males, and also highlights how sexual identity and setting interact to produce various interpretations of the self in one's writing. An expansion of ecocomposition results in a truly liberatory theory and pedagogy, one that encourages interactions that promote of all kinds of writing by all kinds of writers.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000929
- Subject Headings
- Human ecology in literature, Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Environmental literature--Authorship--21st century, Homosexuality and literature--United States, English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States
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- Document (PDF)
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- Politics, protest and propaganda in Hollywood's Golden Age.
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- Lozada, Robert Edmund., Florida Atlantic University, Lenz, Timothy
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This Master's Thesis examines movies of political and social significance during Hollywood's Golden Age. Significance is here defined as belonging to those films that have been singled out by historians and critics for their social "conscience" as well as films whose significance I have found in the course of my research and after a lifetime of watching movies. The films of this era included strong social and political analysis, contrary to a tradition of film study which depicts the Golden...
Show moreThis Master's Thesis examines movies of political and social significance during Hollywood's Golden Age. Significance is here defined as belonging to those films that have been singled out by historians and critics for their social "conscience" as well as films whose significance I have found in the course of my research and after a lifetime of watching movies. The films of this era included strong social and political analysis, contrary to a tradition of film study which depicts the Golden Age as either apolitical entertainment or basically a conservative defense of the status quo. The thesis describes how the politics of the Golden Age films began with a critical, anti-establishment outlook in the 1930's but evolved as a cooperative partner of the establishment by the Second World War. This change occurred in part because of the special relationship that Hollywood (led by Warner Brothers Studios) developed with the Roosevelt Administration. I shall further examine the consequences of this evolution for the film industry in the post-war era and cold war eras.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15290
- Subject Headings
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States, Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States, Motion picture industry--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century, Warner Bros Pictures--History
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- Document (PDF)
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- From Subaltern to President: Evo Morales, New Social Movements, and Regional Autonomies in Bolivia.
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- Barrero, Gabriela Ovando, Horswell, Michael J., Duno-Gottberg, Luis, Florida Atlantic University, Marin, Noemi
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This dissertation examines the processes of social, cultural, and political change that have taken place in Bolivia since the decade of the 1970s and how they have paved the way for the rise to power of indigenous people and the election of Evo Morales to the Presidency. It also addresses a growing trend toward more radical reforms to State structures after Morales' inauguration, which has created serious institutional chaos and a polarization of civil society. The reforms proposed by the...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the processes of social, cultural, and political change that have taken place in Bolivia since the decade of the 1970s and how they have paved the way for the rise to power of indigenous people and the election of Evo Morales to the Presidency. It also addresses a growing trend toward more radical reforms to State structures after Morales' inauguration, which has created serious institutional chaos and a polarization of civil society. The reforms proposed by the Morales administration and its political party (Movimiento al Socialismo) include a new constitution which aims to re-found Bolivia favoring its Andean ethnic groups, and an indefinite re-election of president Morales. At the same time, his party now in control ofthe muddled Constituent Assembly charged with writing the new constitution, intends to diminish the constitutional mandate of a 2006 referendum, whose results favored autonomias (an administrative and political descentralized State model, similar to Spain's or Peru's) in four provinces, which would allow a more efficient administration of the different geographical, cultural, and productive regions of Bolivia while preserving national unity. This dissertation investigates and recognizes the achievements of Bolivian indigenous movements (not only Andean, but also those from the Eastern lowlands, which in fact were the pioneers in the struggle to regain their rights and identity) and the need to reform a State that should accommodate their rights, values, and traditions along with those of the rest of Bolivians, the mestizos (mixed blood) and the nonindigenous, on the basis of consensus and national solidarity. To reach that goal it defends the necessity to preserve the guidelines of Western participative democracy and freedom in combination with the modalities of indigenous communitarian democracy. This basic concept, if applied, would lead the members of the current Constituent Assembly to write an all-inclusive constitution based on consensus and reciprocal solidarity, while opening the necessary space for national dialogue and development, even in the indigenous communities. This dissertation also proposes the promulgation of autonomias departamentales in accordance with the results of the 2006 referendum. Its thesis underlines that autonomias are the most coherent and viable way to descentralize the administration of the diverse regions of Bolivia in a near future. Autonomies represent a creative system that is capable of untying the asphyxiating knot imposed on the regions (departamentos) by a centrist and vertical State, founded in 1825, which pretended to extend its political and economic control over different historical realities, geographical contexts, and diverse cultural backgrounds whose representatives are today demanding fresh air. Methodologically, the panoramic review and analysis of different texts throughout this dissertation identifies the main causes of the actual social fracture in Bolivia, as well as proposes a set of possible solutions. Each chapter contains the analysis of a primary text, along with the discourse of indigenous leaders, constitutionalists, Bolivian public intellectuals, and my own voice. Among them are Marcial Fabricano, Alejo Veliz, Felix Patzi, Juan Carlos Urenda Diaz, Ana Maria Romero de Campero, Alvaro Garcia Linera and Victor Hugo Cardenas, whose ideological positions, theoretical contributions, and proposals are essential for my construction of a concise analysis and possible solutions to the perplexing challenges facing Bolivia today. This dissertation is based on the recognition that Bolivia is a culturally and geographically heterogeneous country, where coexistence between its diverse ethnic groups and regions -aggravated by profound ideological differences, a proverbial impossibility to govern the country, and the poverty of the majority of its inhabitants- has reached perilous levels of polarization and social unrest. A real change and a real de-colonizing revolution (which inspires president Eve Morales and vicepresident Alvaro Garcia Linera's ideological program) cannot be produced and be real without the implementation of regional autonomies (autonomias departamenta/es) and the strengthening of autonomic indigenous municipalities and territories, already legislated by the actual constitution. NOTE A Spanish version of this dissertation (which includes a Collocutio and three more chapters) follows the present text. Chapters V and VI are focused on the analysis of eastern Bolivia (where a parallel and no less controversial identity, facing the Andean, has emerged: e/ ser crucefzo) and autonomic proposals more in detail. Chapter VII presents the voices of Bolivian public intellectuals (indigenous and non indigenous) who, and for the reasons they explain, are not members of the present Constituent Assembly.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000980
- Subject Headings
- Morales Ayma, Evo,--1959-, Bolivia--Politics and government--21st century, Indians of South America--Ethnic identity, Politics and culture--Bolivia, Democratization--Bolivia--21st century, Marginality, Social--Bolivia
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- Document (PDF)
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- Hawthorne's play on gender and sexuality in "The Blithedale Romance".
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- Rubin, Brooke J., Florida Atlantic University, Blakemore, Steven
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Feminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne...
Show moreFeminist critics have primarily concentrated on the character of Zenobia, Nathaniel Hawthorne's premier feminist in The Blithedale Romance, to unravel Hawthorne's stance on the emergent sexual politics of the time. This thesis not only examines the importance of Zenobia but also analyzes the significance of Hawthorne's allusions to gender and sexuality constructs in terms of his other characters: Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, Westervelt, and Moodie. In addition, I argue that Hawthorne's purpose is to experiment with societal constructs of gender and sexuality among his central characters, a literary experiment that inadvertently subverts his ostensible traditional, patriarchal perspective. In essence, my reading aims to reorientate the conventional presuppositions and gender conventions that have dominated Hawthorne criticism for the past 150 years.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13353
- Subject Headings
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Blithedale romance, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1864--Political and social views, American fiction--19th century--Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature, Sex role in literature
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- Document (PDF)
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- The spider woman rules no more? The transformation and resilience of Aztec female roles.
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- Rogers, Rhianna C., Florida Atlantic University, Cruz-Taura, Graciella
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Archival documents have shown Spain's attempts at Christianizing the Aztecs and illustrated Spanish justifications for the destruction of traditional Aztec beliefs and gender roles. Analyzing these documents, it becomes apparent that female roles were transformed along the lines of Spanish and Christian ideologies of a proper woman. An examination of the initial nature of Aztec-Spanish relations, with a specific emphasis on the religiosity and mentalities of both the conquered and the...
Show moreArchival documents have shown Spain's attempts at Christianizing the Aztecs and illustrated Spanish justifications for the destruction of traditional Aztec beliefs and gender roles. Analyzing these documents, it becomes apparent that female roles were transformed along the lines of Spanish and Christian ideologies of a proper woman. An examination of the initial nature of Aztec-Spanish relations, with a specific emphasis on the religiosity and mentalities of both the conquered and the conquerors, provides a direct correlation between transformation of native women's social status and initial contacts with European patriarchal customs. Focusing on the reciprocating system of duality existing between men and women in Aztec life and religion, Spain's persistence at adopting a patriarchal structure for all indigenous peoples, the andocentric mentality of Christianity, and the resilience of native women's roles in the post-Conquest era, this thesis illustrates the various factors contributing to the transformation and preservation of Aztec female roles.
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- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13173
- Subject Headings
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540, Aztec women--Social life and customs, Sex role--Mexico--History, Gender identity--Mexico--History, Aztec women--Cross-cultural studies
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- Document (PDF)
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- Soil of misfortune: Education, poverty, and race in a rural south Florida community.
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- Gonzalez, Juan Carlos., Florida Atlantic University, Kirsch, Max H.
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This dissertation addresses the structural components of education in the United States and how they have hindered the ability of a community's black and brown children to obtain the knowledge and resources needed to succeed and adapt to the changing circumstances of their region and beyond. It will do so through a case study of a small community in the American South, where the failure of education to provide access to the American dream has been clearly demonstrated in persistent poverty...
Show moreThis dissertation addresses the structural components of education in the United States and how they have hindered the ability of a community's black and brown children to obtain the knowledge and resources needed to succeed and adapt to the changing circumstances of their region and beyond. It will do so through a case study of a small community in the American South, where the failure of education to provide access to the American dream has been clearly demonstrated in persistent poverty and lack of opportunity available to its residents. Belle Glade, Florida is a rural community centrally located within the Everglades Agricultural Area. Fifty years after the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board decision, which outlawed school segregation and the separate but equal claims of Plessy vs. Ferguson, little has changed in this poor rural community. This study shows that this community, rather than representing an isolated case, is reflective of many small non-metro communities of the American South. Though integration initially intended to balance the great disparity that existed between the schools for black children and schools for white children in regards to facilities, materials, and curriculum, in Belle Glade and throughout the South those same disparities still exist today. This study argues that current state education policies, modeled after the federal government's "No Child Left Behind Plan," are a veneer for a separate and unequal educational policy and practice in the state of Florida. It seeks to explore and document why this has occurred, and place this case study within the larger context of structural inequalities on the local, national and global levels. How is it that the "freest nation in the world" with the largest gross national product has yet to fulfill its most fundamental promise to this community---equal opportunity and access to quality education? Thus, this dissertation asks why regardless of the policies, plans, curricula and tests the district and state adopt, at times with the best of intentions, nothing seems to improve the conditions of these black citizens? More importantly, when these issues are addressed, who speaks, under what conditions and for whom?
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12161
- Subject Headings
- Social capital (Sociology)--United States, Segregation in education--Florida--Belle Glade, African Americans--Education--History--20th century, Educational change--Florida--Belle Glade, Race relations in school management--Florida, Discrimination in education--Florida
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- Document (PDF)
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- Rhetorical "Mosaicism" and Intractable Conflict: George W. Bush on Stem Cells.
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- Brooten, Gary, Marin, Noemi, Florida Atlantic University
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President Bush's 2001 speech on stem cell research showed unusual intermixing of rhetorical bits from past arguments of proponents and opponents, suggesting that such mixing is a distinct rhetorical strategy. Analyses revealed two communities that had engaged each other over reproductive biology issues for decades, developing distinct vocabularies and argumentative patterns in that interaction. The speech mixed fragments ofthese usages. Traditional textual analyses and analyses ofthe mixing...
Show morePresident Bush's 2001 speech on stem cell research showed unusual intermixing of rhetorical bits from past arguments of proponents and opponents, suggesting that such mixing is a distinct rhetorical strategy. Analyses revealed two communities that had engaged each other over reproductive biology issues for decades, developing distinct vocabularies and argumentative patterns in that interaction. The speech mixed fragments ofthese usages. Traditional textual analyses and analyses ofthe mixing itself showed that the mixing seems to reinforce traditional approaches to divided audiences by opening up many possibilities for the communities to draw different meanings from what is said. Analyses of responses to the speech showed such split understandings, and followup analyses to 2007 suggest that the speech helped freeze the character of the debate in the form Bush gave it. Mixing is a viable rhetorical strategy to help manage intractable issues with deeply divided audiences.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000902
- Subject Headings
- Bush, George W.--(George Walker),--1946---Political and social views., Medical genetics--Research--Moral and ethical aspects., Stem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspects., Rhetorical criticism., Mosaicism., Developmental genetics--Moral and ethical aspects.
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- Document (PDF)
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- The lived experience of health among older Guatemalan women.
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- Ordonez, Maria de los Angeles., Florida Atlantic University, Jett, Kathleen F.
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Older Guatemalan women living in farmworking communities represent a vulnerable population enduring extreme poverty, leading to decline of their health. A phenomenological approach was selected as the qualitative research methodology to describe their lived experience of health. Pender's (2002) Health Promotion Model was used as the conceptual framework guiding the inquiry. Nine women, living in South Florida, were interviewed using their secondary language, Spanish. The interviews were tape...
Show moreOlder Guatemalan women living in farmworking communities represent a vulnerable population enduring extreme poverty, leading to decline of their health. A phenomenological approach was selected as the qualitative research methodology to describe their lived experience of health. Pender's (2002) Health Promotion Model was used as the conceptual framework guiding the inquiry. Nine women, living in South Florida, were interviewed using their secondary language, Spanish. The interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and translated into English. A synthesized list of descriptive expressions emerged with seven themes. These were analyzed and a structural definition of the lived experience of health was formulated and compared to the concept of health as described by Pender (1982). Understanding the meaning of health among older Guatemalan women may influence policies, practice processes, and accessibility of health care while expanding nursing's body of knowledge. Specific recommendations to improve older Guatemalan women's access to health care were presented.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13340
- Subject Headings
- Women--Health and hygiene--Guatemala, Health status indicators--Florida, Nursing--Social aspects--Florida, Health attitudes--Florida, Transcultural medical care--Florida, Women immigrants--Florida--Cross-cultural studies
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- Document (PDF)
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- Diamonds and Ash: Class and Social Mobility in Seventeenth Century Cinderella.
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- Diaz de Arce, Laura, Swanstrom, Elizabeth, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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This thesis discusses the intersections of class and the lack of social mobility in three versions of Cinderella from the seventeenth century. The works covered are are Giambattista Basile's "La Gatta Cennerentola" ["The Cat Cinderella"] (c.1634), Charles Perrault's "La Petite Pantoufle de Verre" ["The Glass Slipper"] (1697), and Marie- Catherine D'Aulnoy's "Finette Cendrone" ["Clever Cinderella"] (1697). The seventeenth-century versions of Cinderella all reaffirm the existing class system....
Show moreThis thesis discusses the intersections of class and the lack of social mobility in three versions of Cinderella from the seventeenth century. The works covered are are Giambattista Basile's "La Gatta Cennerentola" ["The Cat Cinderella"] (c.1634), Charles Perrault's "La Petite Pantoufle de Verre" ["The Glass Slipper"] (1697), and Marie- Catherine D'Aulnoy's "Finette Cendrone" ["Clever Cinderella"] (1697). The seventeenth-century versions of Cinderella all reaffirm the existing class system. In each of these versions the message is that the ruling elite must maintain or regain to their status. We can see this by the ways in which the characters gain and lose status in their respective narratives. Ultimately, the early modern Cinderella story is one that supports a hereditary class system.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004585, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004585
- Subject Headings
- Basile, Giambattista,--1575-1632.--La gatta cennerentola--Criticism and interpretation., Perrault, Charles,--1628-1703.--Petite pantoufle de verre--Criticism and interpretation., Aulnoy,--Madame d'--(Marie-Catherine),--1650 or 1651-1705.--Finette cendrone--Criticism and interpretation., Fairy tales--17th century--Criticism and interpretation, Social classes in literature--17th century., Elite (Social sciences )--17th century--History and criticism.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Speeches of Hon. Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania, Hon. Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Hon. O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the club : also the condition of the South, a report of special commissioner B.F. Truman.
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- Cowan, Edgar 1815-1885, Doolittle, James R. (James Rood) 1815-1897
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At head of title: National Union Club documents. Speeches of Honorable Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania, Honorable Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Honorable O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the Club. Notes: Cover title. On verso of title page: National Union Executive Club, 490 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C. ... Platform of the National Union Club. On last page, publisher's advertisement for the daily and...
Show moreAt head of title: National Union Club documents. Speeches of Honorable Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania, Honorable Jas. R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, Honorable Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of Treasury, letter of Honorable O.H. Browning, of Illinois, and an address by a member of the Club. Notes: Cover title. On verso of title page: National Union Executive Club, 490 Twelfth Street, Washington, D.C. ... Platform of the National Union Club. On last page, publisher's advertisement for the daily and weekly National Republican, with address of the publisher, W.J. Murtagh & Co. Two columns to the page. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: pages trimmed rough and too closely along bottom edges with some loss of text. Edges trimmed to 21 cm. Contents: Speech of Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, May 11, 1866 -- Speech of Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, delivered at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, May 19, 1866 -- Speech of Hon. Hugh M'Culloch, Secretary of the Treasury, on the night of the 23d of May, on the occasion of the serenade tendered by the National Union Club -- Letter from Hon. O.H. Browning, of Illinois -- Letter to Hon. Alex. W. Randall, President of the National Union Club -- The condition of the South : report of Special Commissioner Benjamin C. Truman.
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- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f1
- Subject Headings
- Freedmen -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Postwar reconstruction -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877), Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans, United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- New York's little Syria, 18810-1935.
- Creator
- Shibley, Gregory J., Sanua, Marianne R., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis argues that, from 1880 to 1935, Syrian immigrants, who comprised an enclave on the Lower West Side of Manhattan in New York City, sought to control the pace and extent of their assimilation into mainstream American society, by distancing themselves from their ethnicity, or by using their ethnicity to their advantage, or by combining both approaches to varying degrees, as they determined individually, rather than monolithically.
- Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004160, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004160
- Subject Headings
- Syrians--United States--Emigration and immigration--19th century., Syrians--United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century., Syrians--United States--History--19th century., Syrians--United States--History--20th century., Syrian Americans--Ethnicity--History--20th century., Arab Americans--New York--Social conditions--19th century., Arab Americans--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Micropolitics of transition in Yugoslavia: a local and global demise.
- Creator
- Marinos, Martin Y., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
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The thesis provides a cultural analysis on the micropolitics of Yugoslavia wars in 1992-1995, examining local and global media coverage along with grassroots and historical dimensions. The study offers an extensive overview of scholarly literature on the Balkans, arguing that often omitted local, cultural and historical narratives of the war events reveal complex perspectives on the rationales provided on civil war. Investigating the nationalist social movements in Yugoslavia (1992-1995), the...
Show moreThe thesis provides a cultural analysis on the micropolitics of Yugoslavia wars in 1992-1995, examining local and global media coverage along with grassroots and historical dimensions. The study offers an extensive overview of scholarly literature on the Balkans, arguing that often omitted local, cultural and historical narratives of the war events reveal complex perspectives on the rationales provided on civil war. Investigating the nationalist social movements in Yugoslavia (1992-1995), the thesis articulates the need to revisit Deleuze and Guattari's framework of micropolitics to understand the cultural and historical dimensions operational in such movements. The study presents local media coverage in Nasa Borba, Borba, and Hrvatsko Slovo, focusing mainly on two major atrocities committed during the Balkan conflict, in order to shed light on the complex role of discourse emerging in war environments.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186298
- Subject Headings
- Political and social views, Political and social views, Yugoslav War, 1991-1995, Popular culture, Political aspects, Ethnic groups, Political aspects, History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Lenguaje, identidad y transculturaciâon en la literatura boricua: Rosario Ferrâe y Esmeralda Santiago.
- Creator
- Pelletier, Michelle., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The Jones Act of 1917 gave U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans, who were then able to move easily between the island and the United States. A constant transfer of people ensued and the process of transculturation accelerated. Puerto Ricans zealously strive to maintain their identity and to culturally set themselves apart, most visibly through the use of the Spanish language. Thus, some find it scandalous that Puerto Rican authors, such as Rosario Ferrâe and Esmeralda Santiago, would dare...
Show moreThe Jones Act of 1917 gave U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans, who were then able to move easily between the island and the United States. A constant transfer of people ensued and the process of transculturation accelerated. Puerto Ricans zealously strive to maintain their identity and to culturally set themselves apart, most visibly through the use of the Spanish language. Thus, some find it scandalous that Puerto Rican authors, such as Rosario Ferrâe and Esmeralda Santiago, would dare publish works in English. Both authors received university-level education in the United States, but their experiences have been very different, and their works provide a worthwhile comparison. Ferrâe had not written a novel in English until she published The House on the Lagoon in 1995, and she always translates her own prose work. Santiago writes exclusively in English and does not translate her own work. The second of her three memoirs, Almost a Woman, published in 1998, relates the story of her time in New York City until she is twenty-one years old. This thesis examines the transculturation of Puerto Ricans in U.S. society and their struggle to hold onto Spanish as a way of maintaining their identity as seen in The House on the Lagoon and Almost a Woman.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11587
- Subject Headings
- Spanish American fiction, Women authors, History and criticism, Group identity in literature, Social conflict in literature, Literature and society
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- Document (PDF)
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- Finding the rainbow connection: moving from toleration to human dignity and acceptance in American life and law.
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- Lange, Alex C., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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The surge in granting equal rights to gays and lesbians in the United States is remarkable. Yet with this surge comes a conflict : the civil rights of gays and lesbians against the rights of religious individuals, predominantly Christians, refusing to tolerate a behavior they think immoral. My thesis focuses on two hypothetical situations : a county clerk refusing to issue a marriage license to an engaged lesbian couple and an inn owner refusing a night's stay to a gay couple. In both cases,...
Show moreThe surge in granting equal rights to gays and lesbians in the United States is remarkable. Yet with this surge comes a conflict : the civil rights of gays and lesbians against the rights of religious individuals, predominantly Christians, refusing to tolerate a behavior they think immoral. My thesis focuses on two hypothetical situations : a county clerk refusing to issue a marriage license to an engaged lesbian couple and an inn owner refusing a night's stay to a gay couple. In both cases, the clerk and inn owner refuse service for religious reasons. Normatively, I argue that we must move beyond a framework of toleration to a system of equal respect and understanding of our fellow human beings. Legally, I argue that the rights of religious expression and exercise should not trump the civil rights of gays and lesbians in the public sphere.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359308
- Subject Headings
- Gay liberation movement, History, Religion and politics, History, Gay rights, Public opinion, Gays, Social conditions, Constitutional law, Religious aspects, Same-sex marriage, Law and legislation, Sex discrimination, Law and legislation, Gays, Legal status, laws, etc
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- Document (PDF)
