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Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque: Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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The Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program: Higher Education and the Second World War
Full text linkIn 1940 the United States faced the looming threat of another global conflict while still recovering from a debilitating economic depression. The American government acted quickly and established numerous federal programs designed to meet foreseeable needs of the nation across a wide spectrum of categories. One such program established in 1940 was the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program designed to rapidly produce scientific and technical specialists for crucial defense industries. A distinct attribute of the program was the diversity of its participants due to the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or age. This allowed for traditionally excluded groups such as women and people of color to participate in industries and educational fields in which they were historically not prevalent. This thesis explains both the impact of the program on its participants and the general war effort as well as federal involvement in education and training during the wartime years. This analysis is achieved through evaluation of official government publications, historical newspaper articles, past dissertations written on related subjects, and more recently published books providing supplemental information. Ultimately, this work aims to contribute to a more comprehensive account of the ESMWT program\u27s impact on its participants, the general war effort across the home front, and federal involvement within higher education
Collect, Collage, Critique, Repeat: An Analysis of the New York Times Sunday Edition
Full text linkA physical copy of the New York Times was picked up each week on Sunday for 15 weeks. This is a creative analysis of trends in news reporting, and how it is different from digital news today. The thesis is divided by week, with recording of the front page headlines, a scan of the collage made, identifiers to the collage pieces, and a reflection on how I took in the reports in the week\u27s issue
1The Hootenannies of East BerlinThe North American Roots of an East German Singing Movement
Full text linkThis work focuses on analyzing in further detail an East German singing movement that developed during the 1960s, the hootenanny movement as it was initially called and later the FDJ singing movement. This works focuses in detail on the North American folk music influences on the movement and the largest and most well-known group, the Hootenanny Klub Berlin or later the Oktoberklub. A brief introduction to aspects of East German music, and notably political music is provided before looking at the influences that North American artists had both indirectly and directly on the movement. The political environment of various musicians in the American context of the Folk Revival is also looked at as a way of understanding how North American folk music was imported into an East German context. Various conflicts within the movement with origins within political and musical themes in part brought by the North American influence, such as antiwar politics, are also briefly disused. The lasting legacy of the hootenanny movement on East German society and East German political music is also analyzed. Overall North American folk music deeply permeated the hootenanny movement in East Germany. From the initial performing artists, the songs covered and used as inspiration, as well as the world view of many club members. North American folk music deeply influenced the hootenanny movement. One reason for the importation of this largely American folk music tradition was some of the politics inherit in the initial American Folk Revival, most notably the early generation of American artists, who had had ties to left wing political parties and movements in the United States. There were difficulties and conflicts within the movement that had their origins, in part, due to some aspects of the political themes imported from North American folk music traditions. Most notably antiwar songs and pacifism orientated politics created friction within the movement and with party and government authorities. The lasting legacies of the North American influence on the hootenanny movement were the increase of interest in folk music in East Germany as well as the internationalization of East German political music
Thin endometrial lining during frozen embryo cycles: a case-control study of risk factors and natural history
Full text linkObjective: To identify predictors of thin endometrial lining in the first frozen embryo transfer cycles and to characterize the natural history of this condition over subsequent cycles.
Design: Retrospective case-control study
Conclusions: This study shows that prognosis after a diagnosis of thin endometrial lining is favorable. Lower weight and thinner fresh cycle lining are predictors of thin endometrial lining in FET cycles. Most importantly, women with a diagnosis of thin endometrial lining have similar live birth rates as those with adequate endometrial lining, although their time to achieve live birth is slightly longer
