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Remembering Franco: Spanish Collective Memory from the Civil War to Today (thesis)
This work will engage four different bodies of literature: that of Franco and his regime, the history of the transition from dictatorship to democracy, the debate over historical memory in Spain, and the broader topic of ...
Catastrophic Colonialism
Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and its people and sadly exposed the neo-colonial structures that remain in American society that represent a disconnect between the mainland and the Caribbean archipelago. Without the ...
Rāvaṇa Reclaimed: The South Indian Dravidian Movement's Reclamation of Identity Through the Rāmāyaṇa (thesis)
The Rāmāyaṇa proves itself to be an inimitable and lasting artifact of cultural measurement. The variety of interpretations, filled with intertextual complexity and culturally-specific commentary as well as surrounding ...
Power, Perception, and Performance: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (thesis)
The courtships of Elizabeth I reveal the personal and political sides of the Queen. However, the separation between Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman is often difficult to discern; Elizabeth would agree, as she ...
The Trajectory of an Image: Che Guevara's Legacy in the Context of Cultural Memories (poster)
The proliferation of murals, posters, monuments, museums and tourist sites dedicated to Che speaks to the lasting cultural relevance of Che as a man, and Che as a symbol. The various permutations of Che -- seen in the ...
Germany's Free Democrats: Party Development and Post-Reunification Challenges (thesis)
The increased fragmentation of the German party system is not a crisis, although the Volksparteien may see it as such, but rather a symptom of the parties' failure to represent and serve German voters. The FDP attempted ...
The President's Other Half: Power, Politics, and America's First Ladies (thesis)
While traditional scholarly literature has neglected the office, the First Lady has tremendous power and plays a pivotal role during her husband's administration. In the public/private and masculine/feminine dualities, ...
The Evolution of Redemption: An Analysis of the Ideologies of Redemption of Rabbi Abraham, Isaac Kokk, Rabbi Tzvi, Yehuda Kook, and Gush Emunim (thesis)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, his son Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, and the contemporary Israeli settlement group Gush Emunim, for the purpose of tracing the evolution ...
Croatia, Serbia & the EU: The Legacy of Ethnic Nationalism in the Accession Process (thesis)
This paper addressed the legacy of ethnic violence in Croatia and Serbia, as representative of the former Yugoslav region, in relation to their potential membership to the EU . Serbia and Croatia, of the Western Balkan ...
Prussian Liberalism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Conservatism in Prussia was r etained and liberalism defeated. What caused this defeat? What were the weaknesses of liberalism which doomed it in Bismarck's empire? To me the most important factor was that the dichotomy ...