Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Amusement"”.
-
Reality Play: A Sociological Analysis of Amusement
… to learn how human beings provoke the emotion "amusement" within themselves or others. In the tradition of Georg Simmel, this task is undertaken through the distillation of that particular form of interpersonal relations which is employed invariably for the production of mirth. Literal conduct …
-
Amusement parks : a relevant form of public recreation.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
-
Forms of Amusement: Rousseau’s Lettre à d’Alembert and Julie
… among nonphilosophers in relation to forms of amusement and sought to exemplify appropriate action with his own pen.</p>
-
Analysis of Alternative Queue Systems in Simulated Amusement Parks
… alternative queueing systems on guest welfare in amusement parks. Many parks have implemented these systems, allowing some guests to skip the traditional lines for attractions. This project entailed building an amusement park simulation system, permitting analysis of five common alternative …
-
The Columbia Gardens Amusement Park: Company Sponsored Community in Butte, Montana
… Butte, on which he created the Columbia Gardens amusement park. Clark ran his park at personal expense, refusing to charge admission and regularly offering special deals so that Butte residents, particularly children, could enjoy the park. After Clark’s death in 1925, his estate sold most of his …
-
The Columbia Gardens Amusement Park: Company Sponsored Community in Butte, Montana
… Butte, on which he created the Columbia Gardens amusement park. Clark ran his park at personal expense, refusing to charge admission and regularly offering special deals so that Butte residents, particularly children, could enjoy the park. After Clark’s death in 1925, his estate sold most of his …
-
Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915
… grew as the first national, large-scale form of amusement in America. It attempts to locate the rise of this first form of mass entertainment within an era when powerful businessmen in many industries were beginning to market products and services to a national market as well.</p> <p>Furthermore, …
-
Amusement park crisis management and its effect on the crisis news life cycle
… of this thesis was to evaluate whether effective amusement park crisis management can shorten the crisis news life cycle. Twenty-two in-depth interviews with seasoned media, amusement park public relations practitioners, and park PR practitioners who formerly worked in media were conducted and …
-
The design of a multi-axis rotational amusement park ride coupled with architectural and thematic elements
… are made based on standards and guidelines for amusement park rides. Furthermore, a combination of sketches and diagrams are provided to assist in the visualization of the proposed design.
-
A Retrospective Study of Amusement Ride Restraint and Containment Systems: Identifying Design Challenges for Statistically Rare Anthropometric Cases
… project was to conduct a retrospective study of amusement ride restraint and containment systems’ failures to identify the challenges associated with existing design criteria to safely accommodate statistically rare groups that fall outside amusement industry standards. Innovations in ride …
-
Teaching developmentally disabled children to play by themselves
… Baseline data showed low levels of self-amusement. The generalization training procedure produced moderate increases in self-amusement when probes were conducted frequently. The same treatment procedure produced higher levels of self-amusement when probes were conducted intermittantly. …
-
The Dark Ride
… studies, "The Dark Ride" defines the standard amusement park attraction both generally within the contexts of horrific iconography and the history of amusement devices and structures, and also specifically within the contexts of five amusement park environments. As a "ride-thru Halloween," the …
-
Effectiveness and Cost of Litter (Trash) Removal in an Amusement Park as a Function of Incentive Procedures and Age of the Children
… designed to facilitate litter removal in an amusement park was evaluated in this study. Procedure. A constantly changing population of vacationing children of varying ages were offered complimentary tickets for amusement park rides contingent upon bags of litter picked up in the park. The per …
-
Women’s Internalization and Rejection of Sexist Humour
… proximal joke reactions, that is, ratings of amusement and inoffensiveness for sexist (aggressive or belittling) versus neutral (non-sexist) jokes, as well as to examine individual differences predicting these reactions. We found that women overall rated sexist jokes as less amusing and …
-
Changes in Emotion Drive Perceptual Level Shifts: Global vs. Local Processing
… how specific emotions, specifically fear and amusement, bring about perceptual level shifts in attention (global vs. local). The primary hypothesis is that fear will lead to more localized perceptual attention and that positive emotions like amusement will lead to more globalized perceptual …
-
Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850
… facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and amusement’, the African Journal was a hybrid newspaper and literary and satirical periodical aimed at an Anglophone immigrant readership in the period between the abolition of slavery and the granting of representative government to the Cape Colony.
-
Waterparks' Impact On Rural Communities In Eastern Kentucky
… 2004, p. 72). Also, waterparks, as well as amusement parks and theme parks, have become "motivators for tourism trips to many destination and core elements of the tourism product" (Raluca & Gina, 2008, p. 635).</p>
-
Utopian Expectations as Observed Using SWOT Analysis at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Virginia
… from that of a premier theme park to a themed amusement park. The research question was concluded on by indicating that there was no apparent sincere or consistent attempt being made to perfect the numerous venues at the park, and that no specific cause or reason was identifiable as to the …
Page 1 of 3