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- VERDAD Y FICCIÓN EN EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS (1994) DE JULIA ÁLVAREZ Y VIVAS EN SU JARDÍN (2009) DE DEDÉ MIRABAL.
- Creator
- Coletti, Erin Melissa, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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This thesis investigates the case of the legendary Mirabal sisters, or the so called “Mariposas” [the “Butterflies”]: three young Dominican women who sacrificed their lives to end the tyranny of General Rafael L. Trujillo. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the portrayal of the Mirabal sisters in two different books, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Dominican-American writer Julia Álvarez and Vivas en su jardín [Alive in their Garden] (2009) by Dedé Mirabal, the only sister to...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the case of the legendary Mirabal sisters, or the so called “Mariposas” [the “Butterflies”]: three young Dominican women who sacrificed their lives to end the tyranny of General Rafael L. Trujillo. The purpose of this thesis is to compare the portrayal of the Mirabal sisters in two different books, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) by Dominican-American writer Julia Álvarez and Vivas en su jardín [Alive in their Garden] (2009) by Dedé Mirabal, the only sister to survive. Mirabal implements an important biographical component in her testimony while Álvarez utilizes the genre of historical fiction to describe the events leading to the sisters’ assassination in 1960. This thesis explores the concepts of “truth” and “fiction” in Mirabal’s memoir and Álvarez’s historical novel, arguing that the range of objectivity and subjectivity in these two genres are interchangeable in the representation of this tragic episode in the history of the Dominican Republic.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003612
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- Document (PDF)
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- Transcendental minds and mythical strings: the emergence of platonism in modern physics.
- Creator
- Gopman, Daniel B., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165336
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sexualidad, política y una narrativa queer de la Revolución cubana: El caso de Antes que anochezca (1992) de Reinaldo Arenas.
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- Varela, Fernando, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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Following the end of Fulgencio Batista’s regime and with the triumph of the Revolution in January 1959, the new government joined efforts to give voice to previously marginalized members of society. Examples of such marginalized groups included peasants, afro-Cubans, and other low-class citizens. But homosexuals did not fall under this social reform and were initially stigmatized with a conservative discourse. Reinaldo Arenas explores this issue in his autobiography Before Night Falls (1992)....
Show moreFollowing the end of Fulgencio Batista’s regime and with the triumph of the Revolution in January 1959, the new government joined efforts to give voice to previously marginalized members of society. Examples of such marginalized groups included peasants, afro-Cubans, and other low-class citizens. But homosexuals did not fall under this social reform and were initially stigmatized with a conservative discourse. Reinaldo Arenas explores this issue in his autobiography Before Night Falls (1992). The text tells his story as a young man that was initially enthusiastic about the Cuban Revolution, but who later grew resentful towards an oppressive political system that led to his persecution, his incarceration, and finally in 1980 his exile. This research study explores Arenas’ queer approach for an alternative interpretation of Cuban society that challenges the Revolution’s homophobic political discourse during its first couple of decades.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003662
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- Document (PDF)
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- La polâitica de la identidad y la universidad: el ejemplo de la literatura Hispâanica.
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- Currie, Caitlin., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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This project examines politicization of the university. Critics have long charged that politics, and specifically identity politics, has infiltrated the classroom via radical professors. Scholars who lament the decline of the western canon claim that a massive wave of new untested works - largely written by women and people of color - have replaced the works of dead white men leaving our students ill-prepared. While most of the scholarship in this area has been written in the area of English...
Show moreThis project examines politicization of the university. Critics have long charged that politics, and specifically identity politics, has infiltrated the classroom via radical professors. Scholars who lament the decline of the western canon claim that a massive wave of new untested works - largely written by women and people of color - have replaced the works of dead white men leaving our students ill-prepared. While most of the scholarship in this area has been written in the area of English literature departments, this project focuses on the field of Hispanic Literature. If identity politics has challenged the canon in the university, it is expected that within identity-based disciplines the infiltration of politics should be substantial. To test the politicization of the university, I examined 38 Hispanic Literature survey courses from a variety of American universities. I found a high degree of consistency among these syllabi and concluded that critics of the university have at best overstated their case.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165334
- Subject Headings
- Spanish literature, History and criticism, Ethnic groups in literature, Multiculturalism in literature, Interdisciplinary approach in education
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- Document (PDF)
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- La comida como crítica social en la picaresca española [= Food as a Social Critique in the Spanish Picaresque Tradition].
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- Hood, Caitlyn, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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This thesis examines the role of food as a social critique in the picaresque genre of Spanish literature. The picaresque novel of 16th and 17th century Spain revolves around the pseudo-autobiographical narrative of a rogue hero who survives life by any means possible, including thievery and deception. The genre demonstrates that only the upper classes of society were enjoying the fruits of Golden Age Spain. In particular, Lazarillo de Tormes and El buscón are the novels used in this analysis...
Show moreThis thesis examines the role of food as a social critique in the picaresque genre of Spanish literature. The picaresque novel of 16th and 17th century Spain revolves around the pseudo-autobiographical narrative of a rogue hero who survives life by any means possible, including thievery and deception. The genre demonstrates that only the upper classes of society were enjoying the fruits of Golden Age Spain. In particular, Lazarillo de Tormes and El buscón are the novels used in this analysis to reveal that food, especially the lack thereof, is used satirically in picaresque novels to draw attention to the starvation and suffering of Spanish commoners.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003644
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- Document (PDF)
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- L1CAM: a potential role in Alzheimer pathology.
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- Qureshi, Aater, Godenschwege, Tanja A., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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L1-type cell adhesion molecule (L1-CAM) is a synaptic membrane protein that is associated with L1 syndrome, which exhibits spasticity, intellectual disability and hydrocephalus Neuroglian (Nrg) is the invertebrate homologue of L1-CAM in Drosophila melanogaster. In vitro studies have shown L1-CAM is proteolytically cleaved and the intracellular domain (ICD) translocates to the nucleus. There it is involved in the upregulation of genes that are involved in DNA damage response, cell cycle...
Show moreL1-type cell adhesion molecule (L1-CAM) is a synaptic membrane protein that is associated with L1 syndrome, which exhibits spasticity, intellectual disability and hydrocephalus Neuroglian (Nrg) is the invertebrate homologue of L1-CAM in Drosophila melanogaster. In vitro studies have shown L1-CAM is proteolytically cleaved and the intracellular domain (ICD) translocates to the nucleus. There it is involved in the upregulation of genes that are involved in DNA damage response, cell cycle progression, apoptosis and cellular differentiation. In some forms of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) proteolytic cleavage of L1-CAM are enhanced. We studied the effects of expression of NrgICD in vivo. Our results indicate that ubiquitous expression of NrgICD like its vertebrate homologue resulted in upregulation of NBS1 and c-myc in Drosophila. We found that the ubiquitous expression of NrgICD resulted in reduced viability in various models of oxidative stress. This suggests that enhanced proteolytic cleavage of Nrg/L1-CAM contributes to the pathology of AD. Our results may provide new insights into the cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003688
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- Document (PDF)
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- Entre Nebrija y Valdâes: un diâalogo gramatical sobre el castellano renacentista.
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- Lewis, Ron., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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The two earliest grammars of the Castilian language are the Grammar of the Castilian Language by Antonio de Nebrija and the Dialogue of the Language by Juan de Valdâes. The former was published in 1492, a historically paramount year for Spain, while the latter was completed in 1535 but not published until two centuries later. Working with edited texts of both grammars, secondary sources regarding the lives of Nebrija and Valdâes, and information about the history of Spain, this thesis...
Show moreThe two earliest grammars of the Castilian language are the Grammar of the Castilian Language by Antonio de Nebrija and the Dialogue of the Language by Juan de Valdâes. The former was published in 1492, a historically paramount year for Spain, while the latter was completed in 1535 but not published until two centuries later. Working with edited texts of both grammars, secondary sources regarding the lives of Nebrija and Valdâes, and information about the history of Spain, this thesis explores the linguistic substance of both works, evidence of the authors' personal attitudes and dispositions that influenced their works, and the political and social context surrounding all of these factors. The purpose of this investigation is to gain further insight into the Grammar and the Dialogue, as well as the history of Spain and the historical development of Castilian.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3335108
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Spanish literature, Criticism and interpretation, Language and culture, History
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- Document (PDF)
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- El domínico-japonés: expresiones culturales de la identidad japonesa en la república dominicana desde mediados de los años 50.
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- Lopez, Stephanie, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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As a result of General Rafael Trujillo’s desire to “whiten” the Dominican society during his regime (1930-61), various immigration incentives were placed into effect in order to attract Europeans and Asians to the small country in the Antilles from the 1930s to the 1950s. In a period when Europe was ravaged by wars, numerous Europeans accepted the refuge offered by the small country. However, it was not until the mid-1950s when Asians, particularly Japanese people, accepted to relocate to the...
Show moreAs a result of General Rafael Trujillo’s desire to “whiten” the Dominican society during his regime (1930-61), various immigration incentives were placed into effect in order to attract Europeans and Asians to the small country in the Antilles from the 1930s to the 1950s. In a period when Europe was ravaged by wars, numerous Europeans accepted the refuge offered by the small country. However, it was not until the mid-1950s when Asians, particularly Japanese people, accepted to relocate to the Dominican Republic. As a result, Trujillo accomplished repopulating the Dominican-Haitian border with people of non-African descent and growing the agriculture sector with the perseverance of the Japanese immigrants. In my research, I explore the process of assimilation and hybridization of this important community that counts for approximately 550 Dominican-Japanese.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003524
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- Document (PDF)
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- Discurso femenino de resistencia en la narrativa cubana antiesclavista: el personaje Teresa en Sab (1841) de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
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- Uribe, Alejandra, Cañete-Quesada, Carmen, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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This research study on the antislavery novel, Sab (1841), by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, explores issues of race, gender and social status in Cuban society during the 19th century. Avellaneda’s narrative establishes a difference between ethnic, gender and economic privileges portrayed through the most influential characters in the novel: the slave, Sab; the daughter of the landowner, Carlota; orphaned daughter of Carlota’s uncle, Teresa; and Enrique, a British landowner and Carlota’s...
Show moreThis research study on the antislavery novel, Sab (1841), by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, explores issues of race, gender and social status in Cuban society during the 19th century. Avellaneda’s narrative establishes a difference between ethnic, gender and economic privileges portrayed through the most influential characters in the novel: the slave, Sab; the daughter of the landowner, Carlota; orphaned daughter of Carlota’s uncle, Teresa; and Enrique, a British landowner and Carlota’s fiancé. This study pays particular attention to Teresa’s resistance to the patriarchal values in a colonial society ruled by Spain. I consider this character crucial to understand the antislavery discourse that Avellaneda incorporates in her novel to destabilize a hierarchical and prejudiced society. Furthermore, I will illustrate the major role of Teresa in the novel, whose presence has been shaded by the central female character, Carlota, and frequently underestimated by the critics.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003661
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- Document (PDF)
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- "Los pueblos, vibrantes y triunfantes en un hombre": Cultos a la personalidad y aislamiento en Corea del Norte y Cuba.
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- Trifoi, Bianca, Vázquez, Miguel Ángel, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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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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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00003659
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- Document (PDF)
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- "Is the world, then, so narrow?": the simultaneous need for home and travel in Hawthorne's The scarlet letter.
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- McGrath, Derek., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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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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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11605
- Subject Headings
- Criticism and interpretation
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- Document (PDF)