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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
Performing resurrection: upholding the spirit and legacy of El Salvador's Saint Oscar A. Romero through Bread and Puppet's and MECATE's radical theatre activism and liberation theology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Amidst death threats by the right-wing military for denouncing human rights violations during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvadoran priest Archbishop Oscar A. Romero (1917-1980), a proponent of liberation theology, declared ...
Queer affluence, popular media, and the matter of the openly gay spokesperson
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation looks at queer representation in the media and highlights a particular representational strategy that is used in a stereotypical fashion. My first chapter does two things. First, it centers on an exemplar ...
Evolution, transmission, and clinical impacts of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
viruses were highly prevalent in Central Missouri during the 2021-2022 flu season with differing rates between Delta and Omicron variants, and a link between influenza vaccination and reduced co-infections was also identified. Overall, these findings...
An investigation of African American socialization influences on gender satisfaction as measured by the Noel-Levitz Inventory at selected peer, regional universities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this study addressed the lack of information regarding satisfaction differences if any among African American students by gender, and college level. In order...
The mild reservationists and the League of Nations controversy in the Senate
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
"What if the United States Senate had approved the Versailles Treaty and permitted the country to join the League of Nations that was being formed after the First World War? Would the course of history have been so altered ...
The material politics of ivory in early modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation sets out to challenge the material history and biography of ivory in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800) and explores the mutable materialities of ivory as both a sculptural material and a vehicle of ...
"Sin mujeres no hay revolución" : transversal feminist politics in the digital mediated activism of the Argentine collective Ni una menos
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
and positionalities of activists and second by the structural features of the media platforms they employ. Political praxis, then, informs the uses of media, guiding activists' narratives and strategies in mediated spaces. This dissertation examines such intersections...
Ruling or being ruled? : the development of citizenship in the Cherokee Nation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
What does it mean to be a member of a tribal government in the United States? This dissertation answers that question with an analysis of Cherokee citizenship, both as a concept and as a legal condition. Previous work on ...
Characterization of novel bat influenza viruses and mammalian orthoreoviruses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Emerging and reemerging RNA viruses including both segmented and nonsegmented viruses cause significant threats to public and animal health. Segmented RNA viruses such as influenza virus and ...
Commerce des lumières : John Oswald and the British in Paris, 1790-1793
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
"My subject is the involvement of British intellectuals in revolutionary thought and action between the end of the American Revolution and the fourth year of the French Revolution. John Oswald, briefly famous as a herald ...
Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation reviews the life and political impact of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier ...
Beautiful phantoms British literature, political economy, and biopolitics from 1780-1855
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation explores the literary engagement with economics from 1780-1855. These years are critical to the development of both the novel and the discipline of political economy. This dissertation builds on previous ...
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
is not unique, but rather a manifestation of near-universal male preferences shaped by sexual selection in the course of human evolution....
Rick Santorum's Catholicism and wedge issues : a content analysis of religion coverage in major U.S. newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Little scholarly research has been conducted about how journalists report on religion during a political campaign. Even so, there is evidence to suggest religion plays a major role in voting patterns in an election. ...
The Musical Education and Involvement of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The first half of sixteenth-century England was a land permeated by religious
upheaval and political instability. Despite being a land fraught with discord, it was a time
of great advances in education, theology, and ...
El proyecto de recontrucción moral espiritista de Luisa Capetillo: de la edificación del individuo a la comunidad global
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Esta investigación examina el espiritismo como filosofía moral en la narrativa de Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922). Mi propósito es demostrar que la autora construye su discurso ético utilizando como base el trabajo del francés ...
Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-25)
Songs from Behind the Curtain is the story of Pascal Baur, a damaged composer
in 1980's Hartford, who, as the musical director of the Hartford Opera Company, is
encoding Soviet messages into his operas. Within the operas ...