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A thousand TV shows : applying a rhizomatic lens to television genres
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
One frequent technique for studying television is through genre. However, with the complex television environment of the 21st century, many genre studies do not adequately account for how generic television programs intersect ...
Talking turkey : visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Standing at the core of American culture, Thanksgiving is an invented tradition celebrated by millions of Americans. This dissertation examines contemporary representations of Thanksgiving in "the media of everyday life" ...
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961) lost his right arm during
World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to
Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano ...
Developing computational thinking competencies and natural selection understanding thorough unplugged algorithmic explanations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Technology and computing have permeated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, resulting in a need for a computationally ...
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
This thesis analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I ...
Picturing Dixieland : a qualitative analysis of early twenty-first century newspaper photojournalism in the American South
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The American South has long played a crucial part in the development of United States national identity. Since the 18th century, it served as a negative reference point against which to ground this greater national ...
Democracy and the failure of liberalism? : globalization and the reemergence of Orientalist essentialism in Hindutva's construction of fundamentalist Hindu identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation demonstrates the emergent character of nationalism in conjunction with economic liberalism and global capitalism. It demonstrates how globalization and right wing fundamentalist nationalisms are mutually ...
Have "right", be "right" a study of the religion of consumerism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] American society has evolved to equate the cost of a product with the status of a product. The current populace direct their attention to price as a ...
Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
(2014)
This interdisciplinary dissertation in statistics, economics, and social science
methodology derives a methodological approach for economics from philosophical
principles, identi es barriers to its adoption, and presents ...
Architectural coin types : reflections of Roman society
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Architectural representations on Roman coins are among the most intensely studied images on ancient coins. Scholars frequently use them as evidence ...
Vers une nouvelle colonisation : le Roman du dictateur Francophone Subsaharien et Caribeen
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
, codify within their texts the tactics of neo-colonial governmental leaders. Most compellingly, the authorial voices here invoked avail themselves, though here in literary terms, of methods and strategies notably reminiscent of their former masters...
Smoke in a Bottle: Adolescent Literacies and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in an Urban Catholic High School
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Increased standardization within adolescent literacy education leads to
dehumanization of students who become a demographic label, statistic, or problem to fix
(Blackburn, 2013; Freire, 1996; Gordon, 2009; Paris & Alim, ...
"Slaves to rum" : alcohol, temperance, and race in America, 1800-1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black men and women heralded the cause of the temperance movement, the organized push to ...
Irreverent Faith: Neoclassicism, Catholicsm, and Humor in Francis Poulenc's Sacred Choral-Orchestral Works
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) music, along with that of his early twentieth-century French contemporaries, occupies a unique place in the classical music canon. Its accessibility, and often its humor, led many scholars ...
When theories of psychology and composition intersect : a case study of Schoenberg, Dutilleux, and Lansky
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Although music had been understood for centuries to affect and even express certain psychological states, the method of observation and study essential to the evolving field of psychology and neuroscience in the twentieth ...
Displaced voices and accentscapes in French and Francophone Sub-Saharan cinema : recasting, reshaping, and restoring identity (-ies) in transnational films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study features notions of identity, language, integration, journeys of home seeking and homecoming, and the wanderings of homelessness. It explores displaced voices and the self-coined term "accentscape" in ten films ...
Into the forests (and fields and yards) : re-thinking rural development and local food systems with wild harvesters in the Ozark highlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Local food systems are regularly advocated as a strategy for community economic development focused on market-based practices. Two particular critiques of this strategy have emerged that underlie this study. The first is ...
The Philosophy of the Freedom of Expression: Speech and Press Examined Philosophically and Implemented Legally
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The First Amendment to the Constitution explicitly protects the rights to five things: speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly. Of those five, two of these, the freedoms of speech and press, have been hotly contested ...
#Languagemixing on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The influence of the English language on the world stage is such that it now constitutes a kind of global Lingua Franca. As such, English has supplanted French as the language of diplomacy, of culture, and of social prestige. ...