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The World in an Object Lesson: Visual Pedagogies in Children's Literature Produced for the 1893 Columbian Exposition
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The World in an Object Lesson addresses the ways in which nineteenth-century reading audiences of the United States were taught to make sense of the visual stimulus of worlds fairs. The Object Lesson was one visual method which was both promoted and critiqued in the material culture of the...
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Fall 2013
This paper explores the theatrical staging of genocide using Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to highlight the impossibility of understanding and fully comprehending genocide. Traditional staging methods typically use a cohesive narrative structure which limits and edits the event to provide...
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Representations of Women in Cree Legal Educational Materials: An Indigenous Feminist Legal Theoretical Analysis
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Indigenous laws are complexly gendered yet there is a lack of research on this subject. As the field of indigenous law is growing, and as indigenous laws are being revitalized, it is crucial that gender analyses be included given that law and decolonization politics are not disconnected from...
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Fall 2011
Representation of Self and Others is a wide-spread focus of research among scholars from many disciplines. This study approaches the phenomenon of Self and Other from a linguistic standpoint. The main goal is to reveal methods of creating images of Self and Others in the context of blogs and link...
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Representation and Public Engagement: A Study of the Experience of Non-Profit Leaders as Representatives of the Communities They Serve
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Public engagement has recently become increasingly important to local governments. Public engagement provides opportunities for relationship development and better informed and supported decision-making and policy development. To create better decisions and more informed policies, governments aim...
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Fall 2014
Given an algebraic group G over a field k and a k-algebra R, the role of maximal abelian k-diagonalizable subalgebras (MAD for short) of G(R) is the same as that the split maximal torus play in G(k). Let G be a reductive group such that the derived subgroup is simply connected and let Spec(R) be...
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Making Meaning in Modern Yoga: Methodological Dialogues on Commodification and Contradiction
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This study explores the meaning of commodification in modern yoga and finds that commodification often contradicts yoga’s ethical principles. Two different analyses of this phenomenon also produce contradictory accounts. One analysis attempts to understand how practitioners experience...
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Genre and the representation of violence in American Civil War texts by Edmund Wright, John William De Forest, and Henry James
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This dissertation investigates the relationship between genre and the representation of war-time violence in five texts written during and shortly after the United States Civil War (1861-1865). The texts are The Narrative of Edmund Wright (1864), John William De Forest’s Miss Ravenel’s Conversion...
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Spring 2011
A flag of a finite dimensional vector space V is a nested sequence of subspaces of V . The symplectic group of V acts on the set of flags of V . We classify the orbits of this action by defining the incidence matrix of a flag of V and show- ing that two flags are in the same orbit precisely when...
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Spring 2013
In this thesis, we establish some ergodic theorems related to Ap(G), the Figà-Talamanca-Herz algebra of a locally compact group G. This thesis is divided in two main portions. The first part is primarily concerned with the study of ergodic sequences in Ap(G) and with a newly introduced notion of...