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RE: VISION - 20TH CENTURY POSTER MAKING IN THE SPANISH SPEAKING CARIBBEAN
No full textThis thesis project considers the power of reciprocity which exists between popularly reproduced imagery found in posters and signage of 20th century Spanish Speaking Caribbean. When an image is replicated frequently it can transform into an icon, motif, or symbol. As these images appear in daily life, they become representative of larger ideas or beliefs associated with the common application of the image. Thematically, the thesis is dictated by historical research and the henceforth local and internationally relevant practices of poster making which dominate the region. They involve three key applications of this art form: as a political took, as economically-motivated commercial marketing, and as representation of local culture and creativity. I draw inspiration from the goals of Culture Jamming where art takes on the role of activism and often comments on or questions the mainstream culture. The choices made in my own artworks have been guided by the works of other Spanish speaking Caribbean artists such as Lucia Hierro, Miguel Luciano & Alfredo Rostgaard, as well as other printmakers and workshops from the Islands. Through a revision on the importance of representations in this media, I hope that you, the viewer, can challenge popular ideas and knowledge about the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, while also being inspired to learn more about the region\u27s local history and culture
MAKING WAVES: BLACKNESS AND TRANSNATIONAL RACIALIZED SELF-FASHIONING BY SOUTH KOREAN HIP-HOP ARTISTS
No full textThis thesis examines a selection of songs by various mainstream Korean hip-hop artists to understand how they perform Blackness in a transnational context. This research employs a qualitative content analysis of song lyrics from twenty-four songs selected through both convenience and purposeful sampling. The songs examined are from thirty-nine hip-hop artists, both Korean and Korean-American/Canadian, who self-identified as Korean hip-hop artists. Along with supplemental theories, Marc D. Perry\u27s self-fashioning (2008) and Geoff Harkness\u27 situational authenticity (2012) are central theoretical frameworks in this thesis. The findings from the content analysis are organized into four themes: linguistics, culture/positionality, conventions, and class status. I argue that performances of hip-hop by South Korean artists exposes their complex racial & socio-cultural positionality, sometimes in conflict with itself. I argue that this is a transnational extension of “Asian-American” political identity within the United States that produces a racial triangulation of whiteness, Blackness, and Asianness, but also specifically a representation of Koreanness as its own site of complexities when coming into contact with whiteness and Blackness (Kim, Suk-Young 2020:90). Lastly, I argue that their “self-fashioning” (Perry:2018) as Korean hip hop artists demonstrates their conscious affiliation with Blackness and the sub-cultural capital it offers, and the potential to create “a space of radical openness” (bell hooks 1989:19) that transcends and redefines “authenticity” in global hip-hop
The Information Needed To Successfully Educate Florida Highschool Students On The Topic Of Artificial Coral Reefs
No full textThe purpose of this thesis was to create a lesson plan that teaches the importance of artificial coral reefs to high school students. There are no lesson plans designed to teach about artificial coral reefs to high school students that are publicly available for educators to use. To write a lesson plan about artificial coral reefs an extensive amount of background research was done. This included general information about corals and how they are impacted by climate change, analyzing existing artificial coral reefs, understanding the process of doing an artificial reef project from scratch, and analyzing lesson plans designed to teach about coral reefs. With all this information, a lesson plan was designed to teach the importance of artificial reefs to high school students. The lesson plan created includes information on why artificial coral reefs are important, presentation guidelines, and assessments for the instructors
The Future of Urban Agriculture: Community Gardening and Controlled Environment Agriculture
No full textUrban agriculture is the practice of cultivating and harnessing agriculture within cities, in order to provide for the people who live there. Our urban populations are sustained from the produce of industrial agriculture, grown far from where it is needed most. As urban populations expand many communities are being left behind, deprived of access to healthy and fresh produce. Urban agriculture offers a way to bring food production back to these communities and change urban landscapes into conduits for their own livelihoods. The act of growing and processing food within communities was the foundation of urbanization, and although cities today have abandoned urban agriculture, with new knowledge and technologies we can bring food to those who need it most. In this thesis, I consider two possibilities for urban agriculture, controlled environment agriculture and community gardening. While both offer opportunities for improving food distribution and community health, I suggest that the optimal solution might lie in a combination of the two ideas, an approach I call decentralized controlled environment agricultur
TRANSLATING THE UNTRANSLATABLE: RUSSIAN DIALOGIC PROFANITY IN THEATER PLAY “CAN I BUM A CIG?” BY OKSANA SAVCHENKO
No full textCan I Bum a Cig? is an English literary translation of a contemporary Ukrainian play written in Russian by Oksana Savchenko in 2019. The play is set in 1991 Soviet Ukraine and Russia and is a coming-of-age story about 15-year-old Ksala as she grows up in the turbulent period of the fall of the Soviet Union. I have adapted this play into the English language for the English-speaking audience which wants to learn about the history of the Soviet Union and what daily life was like for teenagers living through the major transitional period of the fall of the USSR. With the current war raging in the region where this play is set, it is more relevant than ever to share its reflections of history and culture. My translation is guided by Mona Baker’s In Other Words, and Mariia Onyshchuk’s comparative study “Rendering Stylistically Marked Units in the Novel Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan,” and includes an explanation of translation techniques used and other adequate translation solutions for slang and low colloquial language
FORGET ABOUT THE PRICE TAG: Using Modern Monetary Theory to Fund America’s Social Programs
No full textWelfare expansion and reform is a topic that is subject to extensive research, though child welfare is largely overlooked in these papers. This paper examines child welfare reform and expansion through the lens of Modern Monetary Theory. Through examining the history of welfare, the evolution of child welfare, and the rise of neoliberalism this paper hopes to show where we came from and how we have gotten to the present welfare system. Through a case study on the child welfare system in the state of Florida, this paper recognizes flaws in the child welfare system and applies Modern Monetary Theory to the idea of reform. Ultimately, this paper hopes to show the potential Modern Monetary Theory has for helping activists in effecting change on both the state and national level
A METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYZING AND IMPROVING COLOR MODELS
No full textWe investigate state of the art color models and color spaces for industrial color reproduction. We develop software tools to evaluate color reproduction performance. We review results obtained, using our tools for three leading color spaces
Censorship in Rome
No full textThis thesis covers the history of censorship during the Roman period. In this thesis, I ask what types of texts and people were censored, as well as how and why the censorship took place. The first chapter focuses on the cases of Republican era and Early Empire (451 BCE – 37 CE). The second chapter is about the Middle Empire and the apparent lack of cases (60 – 284 CE). Finally, the third chapter is concerned with the Late Empire and the rise of Christianity (303 – 438 CE). Even though concept of censorship did not originate in Rome, the process by which later governmental institutions would censor writings and people would have developed from the Roman state
I TOO CAN CREATE DESOLATION: TERROR AND CULTURE THROUGH FRANKENSTEIN
No full textAnne Radcliffe’s work “On the Supernatural In Poetry” put into words an idea based in the early 19th century’s focus on gothic horror of the difference between terror and horror as literary concepts. This difference reflects into the most prominent work to emerge from this gothic horror period, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Within Shelley’s work, terror is formed through depictions of loneliness. Shelley’s concept of the Frankenstein’s monster carrie’s over into other cultures as well, adapting the premise to demonstrate ideas of terror relevant within their differing social fears. Ahmed Saadawi’s novel Frankenstein in Baghdad uses the format to demonstrate terrors unique to late 2000s Iraq, demonstrating a struggle with Iraqi identity and a banality of violence
HIPAA POTTER AND THE PRIVACY CONSENT POP-UP OF SECRETS
No full textThis thesis describes a qualitative evaluation of a consent flow for a chatbot being developed by a large U.S. health insurance company. This chatbot’s use of a cloud service provider triggers a requirement for users to agree to a HIPAA Authorization. I interviewed 12 participants about their feelings and understandings regarding the chatbot, HIPAA, and online privacy. I observed that most users in my study, even healthcare privacy experts, missed important information in the authorization even after I asked them to review it again. I also show that many people have a limited understanding of how and where HIPAA protects healthcare data. Given these re- sults, I argue the need for research on alternate approaches to health data disclosures such as standardized disclosures; methods borrowed from clinical research contexts such as multimedia formats, quizzes, and conversational approaches; and automated privacy assistants