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    • The Rise and Fall of the Louisiana Muskrat, 1890-1960: An Environmental and Social History

    • The Rise and Fall of the Louisiana Muskrat, 1890-1960: An Environmental and Social History

    • Muskrat, Louisiana Fur Industry, Louisiana Trapping, Fur-Bearing Animals, Alligator, Nutria, and Edward Avery McIlhenny

    • As the nineteenth century drew to a close, people living in coastal Louisiana noticed that local rodents called muskrats were rapidly increasing and quickly becoming pests by digging up crops and into levees. Property owners soon demanded their...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Tattoos as Personal Narrative

    • Tattoos as Personal Narrative

    • Tattoo, Identity, Self as Narrative, Postmodern, Technology

    • This study explores the history of tattoos in the United States along with the role and significance of tattos today. The study's primary research question seeks to discover whether tattoos anchor an individual's personal narrative and help to...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

    • Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, and Creoles of Color in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

    • Henry Louis Rey, Grandjean, Dubuclet, Valmour, New Orleans, Spiritualism, Creoles, Crocker, Reconstruction

    • This thesis is a biography of Henry Louis Rey (1831-1894), a member of one of New Orleans’ most prominent Creole of Color families. During the Civil War, Rey was a captain in both the Confederate and Union Native Guards. In postbellum years, he...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Lei Feng: China’s Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s to the Present

    • Lei Feng: China’s Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s to the Present

    • Lei Feng, Cultural Revolution, Lin Biao, Chairman Mao, Chinese propaganda, Peoples Liberation Army of China

    • In 1962, very few people within the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) had ever heard of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in a tragic accident while driving a truck for the People’s Liberation Army. The following year, his name was known...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia

    • Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia

    • Saint Cecelia, the Second Nun, The Canterbury Tales, Augustinian humanism, Chrstine de Pizan, Geoffrey Chaucer

    • Perhaps due to its seemingly straightforward religious nature, the Second Nun’s Cecelia Legend in The Canterbury Tales is often dismissed by scholars and readers alike. However, through analyzing Chaucer’s earlier analogues, it becomes apparent...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the “Heroic Nazi”

    • Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the “Heroic Nazi”

    • Ernest Becker, Holocaust, Otto Rank, Escape From Evil, Denial of Death, immortality project, explaining evil

    • This paper examines the power and limitations of historical analysis in regards to explaining the Holocaust and in particular the widespread consent to the Nazi program. One of the primary limitations that emerges is an inability of historians to...

    • 2009-12-20
    • HOPE VI: A Racial Project for a Colorblind Society

    • HOPE VI: A Racial Project for a Colorblind Society

    • race, neoliberalism, colorblindness, HOPE VI, racial formation, racial projects

    • Being a low-income person of color trying to survive in a society that subscribes to a colorblind ideology can be more than difficult, it can be impossible. This thesis seeks to examine the racial implications of the racial project of HOPE VI. To...

    • 2009-12-20
    • A Bruised Sky Falling

    • A Bruised Sky Falling

    • Creative Non-fiction; Memoir; Memoir in Vignettes; Memoir in Essays; Literary Essays; Memory; Chaos Theory

    • The following thesis is a memoir in essays. The narrative is a reflection of memory as a chaotic system. Each essay stands alone as a single memory but also is part of the larger story of the writer‘s life. The fragmentation of the story lends...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Carved

    • Carved

    • acting, body, cave, childhood, creative writing, darkness, discovery, deer, farm, feminism, Kentucky, Mammoth Cave, M.F.A., nature, poetry, regional, self, silence, South, stalactite, voice, womanhood

    • The poems in Carved take the reader on a journey of self-discovery and explore the inequalities of human relationships: between being silent and the discovery of one’s voice. The collection also addresses humanity’s destructive imprint and the...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Armed With A Heart

    • Armed With A Heart

    • writing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound, technology, workflow, direction

    • This paper thoroughly examines the production of the thesis short film, Armed With A Heart, from conception to completion. Each area of the film’s production is carefully dissected, including the writing, production design,...

    • 2009-12-20
    • Interactive Optimization Programs for Initial Propeller Design

    • Interactive Optimization Programs for Initial Propeller Design

    • Propeller, Optimization, Wageningen, Nelder-Mead

    • This thesis presents two methods for initial design propeller optimization using constrained non- linear programming. The process uses the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm. The Wageningen B-series optimal propeller selection is presented along with...

    • 2009-12-20

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