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Opera and Sound as Interpretive Frames for a CBS and Warner Bros. TV Show: The Hundred
No full textThis thesis looks at a CBS and Warner Bros. (CW) television show, The Hundred, to examine prominent operatic themes and how it utilizes sound. The Hundred uses both its characters and plot to demonstrate a variety of dynamics, relationships and roles that are common opera staples. Todorov’s concept of the fantastic plays an essential part in the structure of the show, allowing a discussion of what qualifies as supernatural through the categorization of events under labels of the uncanny and the marvelous. Instances of sound are also highlighted through a lens of feelings such as fear. All examples are connected to the body and pertain to either the voice or objects and tools that must interact with the body to produce sound. Each case offers a unique perspective on how sound is a supportive element of television, with a young adult audience in mind, and communicates information in a range of ways
NOT ANOTHER CINDERELLA STORY: IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE STORYTELLERS IN CONTEMPORARY YOUTH LITERATURE
No full textThis thesis argues that immigrant and refugee youth protagonists in Erin Entrada Kelly’s The Land of Forgotten Girls, Tae Keller’s When You Trap a Tiger, and Daniel Nayeri’s Everything Sad is Untrue use storytelling to navigate trauma. In recent years, prestigious youth literature awards such as the Newbery and Printz have gone to diverse books, including books depicting immigrants or refugee children that use storytelling to cope with traumas such as poverty, abuse, grief, and displacement. In Kelly and Keller’s novels, the Asian American protagonists inherit the position of the family storyteller to heal the matriarchal family unit following the death of a maternal figure. Kelly’s novel is a reverse Cinderella story, and Keller’s adapts Korean folk tales. In Nayeri’s novel, the Iranian refugee protagonist tells stories to survive socially and psychologically. Nayeri adopts storytelling techniques from Middle Eastern folk tale collection One Thousand and One Nights. The conclusion examines the function of storytelling by displaced characters and the interrogation of fairy tale adaptations by the reader as a form of pedagogy
FLIGHT FOR SURVIVAL: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE FLORIDA GRASSHOPPER SPARROW (AMMODRAMUS SAVANNARUM FLORIDANUS)
No full textThe Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) is a highly endangered subspecies endemic to the dry prairies of south-central Florida. They have the capacity to act as an umbrella species for this shrinking ecosystem, wherein their conservation will protect the other species that share their habitat. They are currently threatened by habitat loss, fragmentation, degradation, and invasive species. Their populations continue to decline even in protected areas. There is no unifying cause for this decline. Currently a captive breeding program aims to revive the species and create stable wild populations. The US Fish & Wildlife Service’s recovery plan for these sparrows was last revised in 2019 and is therefore in need of an update. Through a review of the current literature and interviews with Florida grasshopper sparrow researchers, this thesis offers feedback and updated recommendations for the aforementioned FWS plan, including continued conservation efforts (both in situ and ex situ), more aggressive research to pinpoint the cause of decline, improved communication both within the scientific community and with the general public, and eventual removal from the endangered species list with a concrete management plan. Aside from lack of research and data about these birds overall, their vulnerability to climate change has been very briefly discussed in the literature; this thesis aims to remedy this absence by providing results of a Climate Change Vulnerability Index
BUSINESS PLAN FOR GAVIVONARX
No full textGaviVonArx is a luxury brand created by Adriana Gavilanes and Carlos Gavilanes. The brand offers Panama hats with an array of styles and colors. The target consumers are global but with an emphasis on creating a consumer base in Miami for upper class customers ages 16 and older. The future of GaviVonArx has the potential to look like many things, with the possibility of offering bags, shoes, clothing, and even furniture. What sets GaviVonArx apart from other businesses is that it connects its consumers directly with Ecuadorian culture through its products. All products sold for purchases by GaviVonArx are made by local Ecuadorian artisans. One of the core values of GaviVonArx is to uphold the integrity of culture and tradition. This brand can raise awareness of where products are traditionally crafted and ensures that the country of origin is included in the process of each sale. Once the business decides to branch out from just Panama hats, we will hold the integrity of providing products with culture and tradition from their country of origin to ensure that the local artisans that uphold that culture and those traditions are incorporated with every purchase
A STUDY OF CREATION STORIES: THE WAY THINGS BEGAN
No full textThis thesis will be examining, commenting on, and analyzing ten creation myths from various cultures. The first chapter holds a summary of each culture\u27s creation myth as well as a commentary on the myth itself. Each commentary tries to include some historical background regarding when, where, and who the myth came from. The second chapter is about analyzing the myths through the lens of their similarities and differences, focusing on themes shared and not shared, as well as comparing and contrasting what I observed in the commentaries. The final chapter of my thesis is in two parts. The first part is a creative writing story on my own take of a creation myth and the second part is a reflection on my creation story, where I will explain my inspiration and approach, focusing on both the relationship between my story and those seen earlier in the thesis as well as on my own biases that may have slipped into my writing
Understanding Perceptions of Fictional Depictions of Autism in the Media
No full textThe prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a developmental and neurological disorder that is characterized by repetitive behaviors and difficulty with social skills and communication, has been growing significantly in the last few decades. As this group expands, we need to know more about people with ASD, their needs, and their experiences. One way to learn more about these aspects of ASD is to investigate how characters with Autism Spectrum Disorder are perceived by people with and without ASD. Here we compared the responses of people with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder to questions about ASD and portrayals of fictional characters with ASD. We found that both groups agreed ASD behaviors were often misinterpreted, that fictional portrayals of ASD characters could raise awareness of ASD and benefit the public, and that writers of these characters should consult with people with ASD. In addition, both groups’ experiences of video clips of ASD characters were not statistically significantly different – possibly due to low sample sizes and variability of symptoms across the autism spectrum. There were some differences between ASD and non-ASD participants’ responses: ASD participants were less comfortable watching ASD characters in the media and less supportive of having ASD characters in shows than were non-ASD participants, perhaps because the ASD participants found character portrayal and educational value to be less positive than did non-ASD participants. In addition, there was variability in responses concerning whether or not actors portraying ASD characters should themselves have ASD. A benefit of this study was giving people with ASD a voice towards how they feel and perceive depictions of their own diagnosis in the media. It was beneficial to see the ways in which those with ASD either differed or were similar in their answers to those who were not diagnosed with ASD. Future research should also include a bigger population of individuals with an ASD diagnosis
THE SOUNDS OF YESTERDAY: AN EXAMINATION OF NOSTALGIC MUSIC AND ITS EFFECTS
No full textNostalgia has a long and complicated history since its first conceptualization. Originally a medical term in the 1600s, it has undergone a significant transformation to become a unique and malleable emotional experience. Through its long development, nostalgia grew a strong association to music as it became a more casual emotional encounter. Psychological research inquires on both the existence of nostalgia in daily life as well as its relationship to music. Such research uncovered many hidden purposes of nostalgia as a coping mechanism, revealing music to have the possibility to be a catalyst for emotional change through its relationship to nostalgia. The universality of nostalgia leads to its capability to maintain its presence both in isolation and in large social settings. In this thesis, I explore through a literature review the many forms of nostalgia and consider the role and effects of nostalgic music in day-to-day life
PLURALISM IN POLITICAL TIME: A THEORY OF POLITICAL TRANSITION
No full textThe Liberal Party of Canada has governed for 78 of the past 110 years. Current analyses of Liberal success tend to focus on the impact of population distribution, and fail to adequately explain how the Party has continued to succeed despite electoral losses and changes in electorate composition. To explore the origins of party success and failures, I form a theory that ties long-term success to cultural accommodation and electoral losses to conflict. I will use the implications of this theory to test two hypotheses with a regression analysis of electoral districts from 1997 to 2019. The results demonstrate that recent Liberal Party victories are due to the successful management of bilingual coalitions, and that past losses were caused by coalitional collapse
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES & THE NEUROIMAGING CORRELATES OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: AN FNIRS STUDY
No full textThe experience of trauma during childhood is not uncommon, and highly traumatic childhoods are associated with an increased risk of psychiatric and somatic disorders, as well as other adverse life outcomes. Some of the neurodevelopmental effects of childhood trauma are known, including reduced cognitive abilities and altered functional brain activity in regions important for cognition, memory, and emotional processing. However, the precise relationship between altered patterns of brain activity in traumatized individuals and cognitive dysfunction is not well understood. This thesis aimed to investigate the effects of childhood trauma on prefrontal cortex activity and executive functioning skills. Hemodynamic brain activity was measured in twenty participants using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during a Stroop color-word association task with incongruent, congruent, and baseline conditions. Participants then filled out a series of self-report surveys about their positive and negative childhood experiences. I hypothesized that participants reporting higher levels of childhood trauma would perform worse on the Stroop task, and also show less Stroop-related hemodynamic activity in the prefrontal cortex. Stroop interference was produced in all but 2 participants, but there was no overall significant relationship between functional hemodynamic activity in the prefrontal cortex and childhood trauma. Further, results did not show a relationship between childhood trauma and task performance in terms of response speed or overall accuracy. These results have implications for our understanding of the neural correlates of executive dysfunction caused by childhood trauma, which seem to be caused by widespread network abnormalities within the brain rather than abnormalities in discrete regions
“hummingbird” An Exploration into Personal Practice Habits
No full textFor all artists, progress in their areas of creation comes from time spent practicing the craft, honing both their skills and their personal style. Therefore, how artists spend their practice time can be expected to be the cornerstone of their artistic success. To that end, I decided to change the way I practice the guitar, with the ultimate desire to create music of my own. I first spent some time in research, understanding what previous studies had determined. I then used what I found to reshape my practice habits. The goal was to see how much of a difference giving careful attention to my practice would have on my progress. The best way to do that was to compare several demo recordings for each of the songs that I composed. In making these comparisons, I can demonstrate and communicate the progress that I have made over the course of this project, as well as the effect of the changes that I made to my practice habits. The resulting album, “hummingbird”, reflects an emerging personal style of playing and composition that is deeply rooted in careful instrumental practice