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Title: "Teachers' art" : a television program about art
Creator: Somers, Eric
Date: 1965
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Tell me about Auschwitz." : changing forms and perceptions of Holocaust testimony
Creator: Gohlke-Wickey, Jennifer
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Holocaust survivor testimonies are complex not only in their nature but also in their function and public perception. This notion is complicated even more as survivor testimonies and their function have significantly changed over time. In the immediate postwar years, Holocaust survivor testimonies served a strictly documentary purpose in order to document the Nazis' crimes. Over the course of different legal proceedings, such as the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, in the early to mid-1960s,...
Show more"Holocaust survivor testimonies are complex not only in their nature but also in their function and public perception. This notion is complicated even more as survivor testimonies and their function have significantly changed over time. In the immediate postwar years, Holocaust survivor testimonies served a strictly documentary purpose in order to document the Nazis' crimes. Over the course of different legal proceedings, such as the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, in the early to mid-1960s, testimonies were utilized to legally convict several Nazis of murder. Today, survivor testimonies can be found in more literary forms, giving voice to individual and personal experiences. Furthermore, scholars and the public perception have a crucial function in the formation of testimonies as well. The broader context that frames this thesis is the idea that the past is not only defined by events that already took place but that it is also shaped by the present. To elucidate this context, this thesis will be diachronic and comparative in nature, analyzing the function, motivation, perception, and reception of survivor testimonies. It explores the idea that it is the nature of the questions we direct at survivors concerning their testimonies that possibly make the difference between talking about and talking with survivors. In particular, this thesis will show that a more nuanced understanding of Holocaust testimony is only possible if we are aware that it is not only the survivor who gives shape to his testimony but that we as listeners, including our expectations, questions, and reactions, to a certain degree, shape the form and content of testimony as well."--Abstract.
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Title: "The Juchitecan seed of revolt" : the mobilization of place-specific identity and the creation of a tradition of violence in Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1834-1912
Creator: Ristow, Colby Nolan
Date: 1998
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The Negroes of our nation" : ambiguities of antiracism in West Germany, 1974-1984
Creator: Woesthoff, Julia M.
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The St. John's Psalter" : the style and dating of the miniatures in MS. K.26 in St. John's Library, Cambridge
Creator: Roll, Donald Royce
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The congressional history of the Wilson-Gorman revenue act of 1894"
Creator: Dunn, Willis James
Date: 1937
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The dignity of our character as rational beings" : images of women in American cookbooks, 1820-1860
Creator: Berg, Peter Iversen
Date: 1982
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The effect of time on the isothermal decomposition of retained austenite in case carburized low alloy steels in the range 450 to 800 degrees fahrenheit"
Creator: Bergh, Donald Adrian
Date: 1948
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The making of Americans" : language, plot, and being mistaken
Creator: Craig, Gavin, 1979-
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The object-person hypothesis", a dimension for interaction analysis
Creator: Gerstenhaber, Larry Marc, 1948-
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "The soul is the prison of the body" : freedom and autonomy in David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest"
Creator: Lauder, Maureen Elizabeth
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "They always wished to talk to everything" : recovering the border-walking mystics of Middle-Earth
Creator: Fontenot, Megan N.
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The stories of J.R.R. Tolkien overflow with references to the spiritual and the ecological. Often, however, scholars interpret these themes as inherently traditional: spirituality is boiled down to staunch Catholicism and an intellectual interest in paganism; radical environmentalism is translated into the conservative ideal of stewardship, an anthropocentrism that negates the vibrant co-dependency that enlivens Arda. This new exploration of Middle-earth's spirituality and materiality seeks...
Show moreThe stories of J.R.R. Tolkien overflow with references to the spiritual and the ecological. Often, however, scholars interpret these themes as inherently traditional: spirituality is boiled down to staunch Catholicism and an intellectual interest in paganism; radical environmentalism is translated into the conservative ideal of stewardship, an anthropocentrism that negates the vibrant co-dependency that enlivens Arda. This new exploration of Middle-earth's spirituality and materiality seeks to overcome these reductive tendencies by practicing a hospitable mode of critique: one which is open to a variety of voices, interpretations, and ways of being-in-the-world. In it, I deconstruct the term "intercessor" and rebuild it to refer to those persons who stand in the in-between, the gaps. I look at those persons who walk the borders and constantly call us to refocus our attention, to be accountable for our ethics of living. This reversal of our usual mode of attention is facilitated by a unique cast of characters, some of whom are quite popular among critics, and others of whom have often found themselves neglected or excluded. My purpose here is to provide an honest yet hopeful diagnosis of the communion of the spiritual and material, primarily through the lens of The Lord of the Rings, but also other texts as the need arises. Eventually we'll see that both the spiritualities and the environmentalisms represented in Middle-earth are not only often radical or confrontational, but also diverse, complex, and contradictory. In all, they call characters and readers alike into account: they demand a reassessment of the ethics of our being-in-the-world and aspire to a communion of all things, envisioning a riotous celebration of our entanglement in the great becoming-with of our world.
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Title: "They say wealth is in the soil" : local knowledge and agricultural experimentation among smallholder farmers in central Malawi
Creator: Hockett, Michele T.
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: For smallholders in central Malawi, farm management is complex and dynamic. Farmers' seasonal decisions are determined by a range of factors including resource availability, environmental changes, and farmer priorities. Moreover, management decisions are influenced by a combination of local knowledge and expert recommendations. Although local knowledge is developed over centuries of experimentation within volatile agroecological systems, smallholder experimentation processes are not well...
Show moreFor smallholders in central Malawi, farm management is complex and dynamic. Farmers' seasonal decisions are determined by a range of factors including resource availability, environmental changes, and farmer priorities. Moreover, management decisions are influenced by a combination of local knowledge and expert recommendations. Although local knowledge is developed over centuries of experimentation within volatile agroecological systems, smallholder experimentation processes are not well documented in literature and are underutilized in agricultural development projects. This study aimed to examine the decision-making processes of experimenting farmers and explore the drivers of on-farm experimentation. A mixed methods design incorporated field observations, survey data, and in-depth interviews, where quantitative and qualitative threads had multiple points of interface. This study found that Malawian farmers across a range of socioeconomic characteristics are inclined to experiment. While experimental methods differ between farmers, there are commonalities in the drivers of experimentation, including climate change, income generation, and improving household nutrition. Farmers' current practices should be taken into account in the development and implementation of agricultural intervention projects so that such projects might work effectively with smallholders to improve Malawian farming systems.
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Title: "Unfinished business" : reading Virginia Woolf's The waves
Creator: Klockenkemper, Emily Marie
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "We go the extra mile for each other" : the construction of human-horse relationships in Natural Horsemanship
Creator: O'Brien, Kelly L.
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "In this paper, I examine how Natural Horsemanship participants perceive the human-horse relationship. This is based on a survey of 154 respondents in the United States aged 18-70, 82% women and 18% men. The responses centered on two major themes of human-horse relationships: leadership/partnership and the influence of gender. These themes are representative of the shifting relationships between humans and horses due to the Natural Horsemanship movement's focus on specific aspects of working...
Show more"In this paper, I examine how Natural Horsemanship participants perceive the human-horse relationship. This is based on a survey of 154 respondents in the United States aged 18-70, 82% women and 18% men. The responses centered on two major themes of human-horse relationships: leadership/partnership and the influence of gender. These themes are representative of the shifting relationships between humans and horses due to the Natural Horsemanship movement's focus on specific aspects of working with horses, such as attention to ground work, viewing the horse as an individual, and maintaining established routines. I find that these interactions place a premium on the horses' agency within the human-horse relationship and that the practitioner's belief in the horse's agency informs the human's sense-of-self beyond their interactions with horses."--Abstract.
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Title: "What one man can invent, another can discover" : music and the transformation of Sherlock Holmes from literary gentleman detective to on-screen romantic genius
Creator: Baumgart, Emily Michelle
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACT“WHAT ONE MAN CAN INVENT, ANOTHER CAN DISCOVER”MUSIC AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES FROMLITERARY GENTLEMAN DETECTIVE TO ON-SCREEN ROMANTIC GENIUSByEmily Michelle BaumgartArguably one of the most famous literary characters of all time, Sherlock Holmes has appeared in numerous forms of media since his inception in 1887. With the recent growth of on-screen adaptations in both film and serial television forms, there is much new material to be analyzed and discussed. However,...
Show moreABSTRACT“WHAT ONE MAN CAN INVENT, ANOTHER CAN DISCOVER”MUSIC AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES FROMLITERARY GENTLEMAN DETECTIVE TO ON-SCREEN ROMANTIC GENIUSByEmily Michelle BaumgartArguably one of the most famous literary characters of all time, Sherlock Holmes has appeared in numerous forms of media since his inception in 1887. With the recent growth of on-screen adaptations in both film and serial television forms, there is much new material to be analyzed and discussed. However, recent adaptations have begun exploring new reimaginings of Holmes, discarding his beginnings as the Victorian Gentleman Detective to create a much more flawed and multi-faceted character. Using Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original work as a reference point, this study explores how recent adaptors use both Holmes’s diegetic violin performance and extra-diegetic music. Not only does music in these screen adaptations take the role of narrative agent, it moreover serves to place the character of Holmes into the Romantic Genius archetype.
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Title: "While on routine patrol ..." : a study of police use of uncommitted patrol time
Creator: Cordner, Gary W.
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Whole house" performance criteria framework and its application
Creator: Swarup, Lori
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "You got a little bit of everything in you" : narration as resistance in Corregidora and Eva's Man
Creator: Rann, Christina Ann
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Narrative has the power to construct worlds both fictional and real—to carve out spaces for marginalized voices, to engage in the most intimately human conversations, and to open up new possibilities for expression and resistance. The narrative worlds Gayl Jones constructs in Corregidora and Eva’s Man betray “linearity, logic, and conventional realism,” as Trimiko Melancon states (140), in order to challenge our thinking about racialized gender discourses taken up in the law, the economy, and...
Show moreNarrative has the power to construct worlds both fictional and real—to carve out spaces for marginalized voices, to engage in the most intimately human conversations, and to open up new possibilities for expression and resistance. The narrative worlds Gayl Jones constructs in Corregidora and Eva’s Man betray “linearity, logic, and conventional realism,” as Trimiko Melancon states (140), in order to challenge our thinking about racialized gender discourses taken up in the law, the economy, and in literary representation. Using “unnatural” narratology—a theory that has attempted to grapple with postmodern texts such as Jones’s—as a mooring point, this project intends to explore how Jones uses disruptive narrative practices to write up against the boundaries of stereotype and positivist representations of black subjectivities. By radically shifting how she tells her protagonists’ stories, Jones invites her readers to question the many oppressive forces that shape Corregidora and Eva’s Man while giving her protagonists a way to resist these forces with the power of their own voices, or lack thereof.
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Title: 'Almost' real-time diagnosis and correction of manufacturing scrap using an expert system
Creator: Chesney, David Raymond
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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