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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Fourth of July"”.
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Competing Visions of America: The Fourth of July During the Civil War
By examining the celebration of the Fourth of July during the Civil War, this thesis will highlight the regional distinctiveness of both sides of the war. This work is divided into two main parts, one focusing on the Fourth of July in the Union, the other on the Fourth of July in the Confederacy. …
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From Self To Other In Oliver Stone's Vietnam Trilogy: Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July, and Heaven And Earth
… we can categorize Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and Heaven and Earth (1993)-Stone's so called Vietnam Trilogy-as the most direct depictions of the war and its aftermath, whereas The Doors (1991), JFK (1991), and Nixon (1995) examine the broader political and cultural …
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The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
… Citizens': Frederick Douglass and the Irony of Post-republicanism,"" revisits the tropes and literary performance of Webster's commemorative address at Bunker Hill by giving a close reading of Frederick Douglass's speech to abolitionists in Rochester, New York commemorating the Fourth of July …
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The Value of Holidays in World War I America
… which in turn impacted American celebrations of the Fourth of July and Christmas. These two holidays became patriotic ways to demonstrate unswerving loyalty to the U.S. government, with charitable pursuits, parties, and even meals altered due to the need for victory. These holidays impacted …
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Light In Rivers
This collection of poems is a sampling of my work from the past five years. It includes considerations of relationships, aging and the Ozark environment that have so influenced my life. Contents: Shadows in the hills -- Al Trotter thinks about the Ozark Mountain bypass -- Fire clogging with Newton …
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Vietnam Veterans and American Mass Media: The Politics of the Image
This is an interdisciplinary examination of the image of the Vietnam veteran as contested cultural and ideological terrain in recent America. Drawing on Gramscian theories of ideology and hegemony, as well as conceptualizations of semiotic appropriation and bricolage employed in cultural studies, …
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Festivals, Function and Context: An Ethnographic Study of Three Festivals at Holden Village
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how three festivals function together to meet the Mission Statement goals of Holden Village, an isolated Lutheran renewal center located in the Cascade mountains in Washington State. The Holden Village Mission Statement states that Holden Village is …
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Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay
<p>This dissertation explores the work of Christian Marclay, a Swiss-American artist whose multivalent practice encompasses sound, performance, installation, sculpture, photography and video. Influenced by the work of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Fluxus, Vito Acconci and the various underground …